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From postures to principles: what yoga teaches us about trauma-informed movement

Our Fourth Webinar of 2026

We’re excited to invite you to our upcoming session with Maya Jacinta!  

🖌️ Topic:  From Postures to Principles: What Yoga Teaches us about Trauma-informed movemen
🗓️ When: Monday May 25th at 3:00 PM AEST
🌐 Where: Online (details upon registration)

By the end of this webinar, attendees will have learned the following:

  • Summarise the current evidence base for trauma-informed yoga, including the strength, limitations, and generalisability of existing trials across diverse trauma-affected populations. (understand/analyse)
  • Apply established best-practice principles and implementation guidelines for trauma-informed movement to their own clinical, community, or research context.
  • Disaggregate the active therapeutic ingredients of trauma-informed yoga and evaluate how these can be translated into other physical activity and movement modalities, including structured exercise, rehabilitation, and sport. (analyse/evaluate)
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    This event is free for ASTSS members, $45 for non-members, and $30 for students! 

    🔗 Register now: https://events.humanitix.com/yoga-and-trauma

    From postures to principles: what yoga teaches us about trauma-informed movement

    When:

    25th May 2026

    Time: 3:00pm AEST

    Speakers:

    Jacinta Brinsley

    Where:

    Online

    About our speakers...

    Jacinta Brinsley
    Dr Jacinta Brinsley is a Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide and Accredited Exercise Physiologist whose research centres on lifestyle interventions for mental health and wellbeing. Her PhD established the evidence base for yoga as a mental health intervention, with her systematic review in the British Journal of Sports Medicine achieving an Altmetric score of 933. Her current work spans large-scale policy interventions, co-designing novel translation tools to promote wellbeing in schools through play, and a Delphi study to establish consensus-based mind-body core competencies for exercise professionals working in mental health settings, contributing to efforts to standardise the delivery of trauma-informed movement practices across clinical and community settings. Her clinical background spans private practice and inpatient mental health, informing an implementation-focused research program at the intersection of exercise science, mental health, and health equity.

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