LEARN TO FACILITATE THE LEADING YOGA PROGRAM FOR EATING DISORDER PREVENTION AND RECOVERY.

 
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Start your training to become an Eat Breathe Thrive Facilitator today.

This training prepares to lead the Eat Breathe Thrive Seven Week-Series, an integrative yoga-based program for eating disorder prevention and recovery. It was developed by Chelsea Roff, a yoga therapist and researcher who recovered from an eating disorder in her late teens. Over the last ten years, it has helped more than 10,000 people in 58 countries to eat mindfully, build emotional resilience, and find ease in their bodies.

The Eat Breathe Thrive program is the only yoga intervention for eating disorders that has been extensively studied in scientific research. It has been shown to reduce eating disorder symptoms, shape/weight concerns, loneliness, anxiety, PTSD symptoms, and depression. It has also been shown to increase body appreciation, interoception, positive coping, and self-compassion.

This training will provide you with the knowledge, resources, and support you need to successfully lead the Eat Breathe Thrive program in schools, treatment centers, yoga studios, virtual spaces, and your community.

This training includes:

 

Live sessions, on-demand videos, and manual

Our training approach is hands-on and experiential. You will receive a comprehensive manual, access to an online course with 30+ hours of video, and ten live coaching sessions with a supervisor.

 
 

practice FACILITATION with supervision

Connect directly with a skilled and experienced supervisor as you move through the training and practice leading your first course for participants.

 
 

SUPPORT From a professional community

As a Facilitator in Training, you’ll receive ample opportunities to meet other facilitators and learn from their experience. We host regular meet-up events and continuing education webinars, which you have full access to during your training.

 
 
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Learning Objectives

By the end of the training, you'll be able to:

  • Lead a seven week yoga and peer support program designed to prevent and help clients recover from eating disorders.

  • Help your clients use yoga to eat mindfully, cope with difficult emotions, and foster appreciation for their bodies.

  • Create a safe and supportive space for a small group to share their experiences with food and body image challenges and support one another on a path to growth.

  • Lead yoga practices that help clients build interoceptive awareness, connection with self and others, body appreciation, and emotional coping skills.

  • Support anxious and ambivalent clients to find ease, get to know one another, and come away with a meaningful sense of connection with the group.

  • Lead exercises that help your clients build skills for mindful eating, emotional resilience, and self-care.

  • Support your clients to foster a sense of meaning and purpose through pro-social actions in their local community.

  • Create a community where people with eating disorder challenges can access support, connect with peers, and make positive changes in their lives.

 
Facilitation is an incredible experience; leading others through a process of self-discovery, learning to love their bodies, and developing a healthy relationship with food has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my career as a psychologist. To see each group member take something special and find the healing they were looking for has been more powerful than I could ever have imagined.
— Whitney Owens, Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Whitney Owens
 
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 Steps to Becoming a Facilitator:

 

Experience the entire Eat Breathe Thrive intervention in a single weekend. This weekend training is offered virtually and includes both on-demand and live components.

Learn to lead the standard Eat Breathe Thrive intervention with guidance and support from a supervisor. 50 hours, online.

Learn to lead an adapted form of the standard Eat Breathe Thrive intervention, aimed at the more acute phases of eating disorder recovery. Includes supervision. 30 hours, online, optional.

 
 

Because the program includes many different modalities, we encourage facilitators to work with a co-facilitator when possible. We recommend you select a co-facilitator who has a complementary professional background and skill set. Our best co-facilitator teams include both a yoga teacher and a mental health professional. Both facilitators must participate and complete the training in order to be considered for admission.

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Tuition

Tuition includes up to ten coaching calls with a supervisor, access to the online course, a facilitator manual and participant workbooks (digital), and a one-time license to lead the Eat Breathe Thrive Seven-Week Series. Upon successful completion of the training, you receive a one-year license to run the program and may represent yourself as an Eat Breathe Thrive Facilitator.

We offer an early-bird rate to students for one month after completion of the Eat Breathe Thrive Immersion. We also have limited partial scholarships available. Apply for a scholarship here.

Early Bird

$199 / month
for six months

Apply now


Regular

$249 / month*
for six months

Apply now


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