Trauma Informed Hands on Adjustments (30Hr CEU)

Empower Yourself Through Touch

30 Hour Trauma Informed Training
Yoga Training - La jolla (San Diego)
January 23rd - 26th

Empower Yourself Through Touch

Step into a powerful exploration of connection, healing, and empowerment through mindful, trauma-informed touch. In this transformative course, you’ll learn the art and science of hands-on adjustments that honor the lived experiences and boundaries of every body. Designed for yoga teachers, bodyworkers, and wellness practitioners, this training delves deep into how we can use touch as a compassionate tool to foster safety, trust, and healing within trauma-sensitive environments.

Trauma informed Hands-On Training Overview

What will you be learning and experiencing?

Develop a profound understanding of trauma’s impact on the body and nervous system.
Learn how to create a space where touch is consensual, supportive, and deeply empowering.
Cultivate intuitive hands-on techniques that nurture a sense of grounding, ease, and embodiment.
Explore methods to enhance alignment, comfort, and relaxation without triggering past trauma.
Empower yourself and others by fostering meaningful connections through safe, respectful touch.

By the end of this journey, you will feel confident in your ability to offer hands-on adjustments that heal, empower, and honor the resilience of each individual you work with. This is more than a course—it's a call to reclaim the transformative power of touch with integrity, awareness, and care.

Training Schedule:
Begins Thursday, January 23rd - 26th
Thursday - 5:30pm-9pm
Friday 5:30pm-9pm
Saturday - 8am - 4pm
Sunday - 8am-4pm

What you will need?
A journal, something to write with, AND an open heart + mind.

Facilitator - Gabrielle blachley

E-RYT 500+ with yoga training certifications and continuing education degrees in India, Guatemala, Chicago, and San Diego.
Lead facilitator of over 35 yoga teacher trainings, intensives, and yoga mentorship programs in San Diego, California.
Gabrielle has been teaching yoga full-time for 20+ years and owned a donation-based yoga school - devoted to and passion-filled about her yogic path.

Gabrielle believes that yoga is limitless in its potential to transform and heal our lives. Her approach to teaching is holistic, intuitive, playful, and therapeutic, in which she encourages students to turn inward to the constant fluctuations and transformations taking place with each breath and recognize that each time you step onto the space of your mat, you can begin again.
Gabrielle was born and raised in Chicago, where she was trained to be a professional ballerina, blessed to have her mother as her mentor for many years. This experience set the stage for her affinity and passion for physical expression and the artistry of movement.
An unfortunate injury intercepted her lifelong dream and dedication to becoming a ballerina. But, through this humbling life experience, she found yoga, which would forever change and heal her life, and her relationship to her physical body and mind.
After receiving a BA in Fine Arts and Communications from Loyola University of Chicago, Gabrielle’s free spirit led her to many faraway places like Hawaii, Europe, India, and Morocco, where she lived, studied, and trained for several years exploring the vast world of yoga and the healing arts. It was on this journey, that she heard the calling and first realized she might just be...a teacher, like her Mother (something she denied for years)?!?!
These life experiences and a series of life-altering events challenged, humbled and encouraged her to spread her wings and begin her donation-based yoga school, Monarch Yoga Shala, in Chicago, IL. Founding a donation-based yoga school, was a dream, and through this dream, Gabrielle realized her potential to help and transform people's lives was endless. It was also during this time in her life, as a young mother and business owner that again life challenged her physically, and after a traumatic spine injury, was faced with the reality and challenge of rebuilding her relationship with her body. This new reality as well as several other injuries over time would give her priceless insight and influenced her to pursue a different path as a teacher, one which forced her to fully focus on the importance of biomechanics and alignment. After doing a few online trainings with Sadie Nardidni and working at Catalyst Physical Therapy and Wellness as Yoga Director, her style of yoga is more "anatomy-enhanced," with attention to intuitive alignment.
Being raised by a strong-willed, free-spirited artist and force of nature, Gabrielle always envisioned doing something for women's empowerment. Rise By Ritual is a women’s healing circle and collaboration of women empowering women which began as a dharma project that turned into a monthly gathering at yoga studios in San Diego.
Gabrielle is a Transformative Coach and teaches yoga daily at numerous studios in San Diego, leads yoga teacher trainings, facilitates workshops, and hosts international retreats.

Her motto: Show up, forgive, unconditionally love, and fly fearlessly - believing you can always begin again.

FACILITATOR - DOMINICK COLE

E-RYT 500+ through a Trauma-Informed Lens
Lead Facilitator of International workshops, festivals, and retreats

There are many options for health and wellness and for Dom, yoga has been a foundation for body awareness, presence, and psychological transformation. In 2013, he embarked on an adventurous bicycle tour from Texas to California and shortly after, completed multiple yoga trainings here on the West Coast. Dom loves showing up in authentic ways and his passion for teaching yoga continues to flourish in ways that he could have never imagined.

Everyone has unique ways that they represent the greatness of life and Dom considers it his job to invite you into your specialized process of figuring out what works well for you and your body. He loves teaching a strong yoga flow that lights up the body and the nervous system but also understands the value of guiding the receptive practice of letting be. The information of self-regulation is so available but connecting to it with dedication is all that matters. Dom believes in the beauty of the human experience and loves to support everyone on their path of being present through all that arrives.