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800-Hour Yoga Therapy Diploma
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Book / Resource List
Please note: This ebook will be integrated throughout the program, starting in Fall 2026 
Collins, S., & Jay, M. (Eds.). (2025). Decolonizing Health, Healing, and Care: Embodying Culturally Responsive and Socially Just Counselling. Limited copyright © 2025 by Counselling Concepts.

300-Hour Trauma-Informed Yoga Psychology Certification
  • Embrace Yoga’s Roots by Susanna Barkataki
  • What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Dr. Bruce Perry & Oprah Winfrey​
  • Trauma-Informed Yoga for Survivors of Sexual Assault: Practices for Healing and Teaching with Compassion by Zahabiyah Yamasaki 
95-Hour Yoga for Kids & Teens Certification
  • Embrace Yoga’s Roots by Susanna Barkataki
  • What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Dr. Bruce Perry & Oprah Winfrey
  • H is for Healing Card Deck: 52 Everyday Practices to Strengthen Children's Emotional, Physical & Mental Well-Being by Zabie Yamasaki (Author) and Eve Andry (Illustrator) 
85-Hour Pre & Post-Natal Certification
  • Embrace Yoga’s Roots by Susanna Barkataki
  • What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Dr. Bruce Perry & Oprah Winfrey
  • Yoga for Pregnancy & Birth by Megan Sloan
Yoga Nidra Certification
  • Radiant Rest: Yoga Nidra for Deep Relaxation & Awakened Clarity by Tracee Stanley
​Please reach out if you have any questions about this resource list: [email protected] ​
​We believe wholeheartedly that community, social justice, decolonization, anti-oppression, and anti-racism are inherent to trauma-informed care. 
Trauma-Informed Yoga Psychology School is accredited by the Accreditation Committee of the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT). For more information, see IAYT.

Canmore Location:

109-705 10th Street Canmore, AB T1W2A3
We're next to Communitea & Vermelho, 
​on the corner of 10th St. and 6th Ave.

Established in 2014.
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Canmore Counselling & Trauma-Informed Yoga Psychology School is an Indigenous and Black-owned family business, co-created by Melissa Jay and Michael Yudcovitch. 

​Our team lives across Turtle Island, and we honour the Nations who continue to nurture these lands. Our primary office is located in Châ Ûpchîchîyen Kudebi (translated from Îyârhe Nakoda as “shooting at the willows”), colonially known as Canmore, on Treaty 7 territory and the current and ancestral lands of the Îyârhe Nakoda (Stoney Nakoda), Tsuut’ina First Nation, and Blackfoot Confederacy. These lands are also home to the Rocky View Métis District 4 within the Battle River Territory. 

We are grateful to be students, practitioners, and guides of yoga, an Indigenous wisdom tradition with roots in India and across South Asia and parts of Africa. We are committed to learning from and amplifying South Asian teachers and practitioners while continuing to learn alongside our own students, faculty, and alumni. We believe trauma-informed care requires an active commitment to community, social justice, decolonization, anti-oppression, anti-racism, reciprocity, and meaningful care for people and communities who have been intentionally and historically marginalized.

As a team, we are committed to uplifting Truth, language, culture, and relationship as essential to right relations and to our ongoing work of reconciliation and decolonization. Thank you for being here :)