Trauma-Informed Yoga: A Facilitator’s Guide to Sequencing, Cueing, and Adaptive Practice is a practical resource for anyone seeking to make yoga more accessible, responsive, and healing-centered. Developed from Prison Yoga Project’s decades of experience serving people impacted by incarceration, trauma, addiction, and systemic harm, this guide moves beyond prescribed postures to explore how we create spaces rooted in choice, curiosity, dignity, and connection.
Through adaptable sequences, trauma-informed cueing, accessible movement options, program-development tools, and PYP’s progressive sequencing methodology, facilitators are invited to deepen not only what they offer but how they show up for the people they serve. Whether you facilitate in correctional facilities, recovery and reentry programs, behavioral health settings, community spaces, or traditional yoga environments, this guide offers a framework you can return to, adapt, and make your own.
Trauma-informed yoga is not about finding the perfect sequence—it is about learning to meet the people in front of us where they are.
