Training in TRAUMA FOCUSED BODY-Psychotherapy YoPT®
The YoPT® training Israel 2026 is dedicated especially to psychotherapists who work with children and adolescents. (In 2027 a training for psychtherapists who work with adults is in preparation).
After an introductory day in Nov 2025 and Jan 2026 we continue with four modules in trauma focused body psychotherapy
The YoPT® training Israel 2026 is dedicated especially to psychotherapists who work with children and adolescents. (In 2027 a training for psychtherapists who work with adults is in preparation)
After an introductory day in Nov 2025 and Jan 2026 we continue with four modules in trauma focused body psychotherapy.
MODULE ONE ( Feb / March 2026) teaches the most important body and yoga techniques to stabilize and center our clients, to open a “window of tolerance”, to create body resources with breathing techniques, hand positions, body postures, movement and inner imaging). We learn how to work in a mirror neural way (what also gives the therapist a state of “calm aliveness” or “alive calmnes” (the “sattvic state”). We continue to create “yoga-resources” of power to help the children and adolescents to energize themselves and using their body as a tool of self confidence.
MODULE TWO (April) is dedicated to process and stabilize difficult emotions and relational wounds. We continue with the bodily felt and incorporated self confidence figures of MODULE ONE, and let them integrate “inner parts” of fear, shame, pain, sadness which we have first “externalized” into an object to work with. We use our body and yoga techniques to change the state of the “inner part” (“inner child”) till it becomes a strenghtens part of the power figure and the child / adolescent has integrated the way to transform his “ego-states” and difficult emotions. Then we incorporate “virtues” and “powerforces” instead of the “ego-states” to help the “little me” which is hidden behind all layers of protection. Our client becomes a “hero” and learns how to deal with difficult and stressful situations. We also use mindfulness and meditation as “tools” to self-regulation and building up awareness for one’s own state.
MODULE THREE (Juni / July). Now we are ready to for trauma-confrontation: When all earlier resources are ready and our clients can stabilize themselves also in difficult situations, we can prepare step by step a save and trauma exposure with new ways of experiencing what happended. We help them to finish what coud not be finished, could not be done, could not be felt, could not be expressed with “triumph actions” and using BMDR, so the process of letting go in body, mind and heart can happen and the soul can slowly find a path to heal.
MODULE ONE - Bodywork of the YoPT®
MODULE ONE lays the foundations of yoga psychotherapy and teaches a set of breathing techniques, body positions and hand postures from yoga. The focus is on integrating the “yogic tools” into one’s own psychotherapeutic work, mirror neural processing and building up the “sattvic body resource” to give safety and self esteem integrated in body awareness. The child shoul learn to regulate his hypo- and hyper-arousal and to get a set of body techniques to be able to take care of him self in stressful situations.
PART ONE lays the foundation for the coming process work: We combine body positions, hand gestures, work with voice and movement, inner images and story telling into a safe and energized, joyful body state, which we call the “yoga-resource”. It will be the start of the healing process.
MODULE TWO - Healing Work of the YoPT®
In MODULE TWO we start the work with “inner parts” (Ego-states) to transform patterns of self sabotage, self criticism, self loss and eventually to connect with the “inner child” (for children the “little me”). We learn the child how to transform the “ego-states” becoming a hero who uses better helpers: We impement the “superpowers” of the inner hero, which are now the “helpers” in difficult situations (qualities of the positive psychology of Maslow). We integrate them with inner images and body work in the body centers, so they are always available – instead of the not helpful “ego-states” of submission, anger, fight or flight or self-critic.
We also implement mindfulness and meditation as “tools” of self-regulation and awareness on the path of the “hero”. Goal of MODULE TWO is to protect and heal the “little Me” from a safe and more integrated state of body and mind.
MODULE THREE - Trauma Healing BMDR®
MODULE THREE is dedicated to trauma-work, after all resources are known and stabilized. If our clients can stabilize themselves even in difficult situations, they are ready for a safe confrontation with trauma. In the “window of tolerance”, in a state of power and self-regulation (“yoga resource”) with integrated “superpowers”, the incorporated “virtues”, and knowing how to calm and protect “the inner child”, our clients can dare to look at, feel and process the most painful memories step by step (“titration”). The aim is to overcome trauma memories by ending what could not be completed, what could not be done, what could not be felt, what could not be expressed – by first introducing “acts of triumph” and finally letting go of the “unprocessed”. When it becomes possible to feel what should have been felt, but has been buried in terror, shock and pain, the healing process can take place.
Advanced courses
YoPT® Group Self-Experience Retreat
Experience YoPT® - the development of one's own "sadhana" (Self-practice)
Every year, the YoPT® offers a retreat in group self-experience that can be attended repeatedly. Each time, a different focus of YoPT® is in the centre: the yoga practice, meditation, mindfulness, own transformation, potential unfolding, working with the “Great Heart”, with one’s own creativity, opening of the “transpersonal consciousness” etc.
The retreat takes place in beautiful places in nature and combines rest, relaxation and self-experience in YoPT®. We build up our own “sadhana” (practice) which accompanies us into everyday life. The path of yoga is without end – it is the maturing process of the human being, which becomes more and more differentiated, rich and comprehensive as we grow older.
In addition to self-practice, the retreat is also dedicated to socialising and networking with colleagues and can be attended instead of the self-experience classes required for certification.
Immersion Days in YoPT®
Updates, supervision, intervision and networking with colleagues - stay on the cutting edge of YoPT®!
The YoPT® offers immersion days each year, which provide the opportunity to deepen or update one’s learned knowledge, meet with colleagues to clarify questions, and share super- and intervision.
The immersion days have a thematic focus, each oriented towards one of the FOUR PARTS of YoPT®.
Immersion days are planned for 2027 in Jerusalem/Israel.