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Trauma Conscious Certificate Program


  • Svälja Whole-Being 16 1/2 North 1st Avenue West Duluth, MN, 55802 (map)

40 Yoga Alliance CEUs Available

Payment plans & limited scholarship support available


Trauma Conscious

Certificate Program

Who Is This For?

This trauma-conscious certificate is designed for:

  • Certified Yoga Instructors
    Yoga Alliance Continuing Education credits (CEUs) available

  • Fitness Professionals

  • People in Helping Professions
    Including social workers, mental health providers, teachers, bodyworkers, and healthcare professionals
    CEUs available for most professional licenses

  • Individuals Impacted by Trauma or Secondary Trauma
    Whether you're seeking personal healing or tools to support others

The truth is, most people have experienced some trauma—even if they don’t recognize it as such.

The Bigger Vision

This program invites you to join a revolutionary movement —
a world where all people can belong and be whole.

We are grounded in the truth that we each carry within us:
• Ancestral, collective, and personal strength
• Innate resilience
• The potential for healing, transformation, and growth

This is for anyone seeking to enhance their own beautiful healing journey.

We delve into the research, reality, impact, and outcomes of trauma
while also widening our lens to reclaiming our wholeness.

Using our Whole-Being Well-being Approach, we reconnect to our embodied wholeness.
We focus on transforming trauma through a healing-centered, growth-oriented blueprint.

We don’t just study trauma — we move through it.


Meet Your Guide

Kyle Leia Heyesen, MSW, E-RYT 500, YACEP (she/her)

FOUNDER of SVÄLJA YOGA

Kyle Leia Heyesen is the founder of Svälja Yoga, specializing in Trauma-Conscious Yoga. With a Master of Social Work (MSW) and over 20 years in the field, she is deeply committed to diversity, inclusion, and dismantling systems of oppression. She has worked with trauma-impacted populations, including survivors of abuse, sexual assault, and substance use disorder.
View Kyle’s full bio here.

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