Y12sr Peer support GUIDE training
Our signature training to lead Y12SR meetings in your community
Y12SR Peer Support Guide Certification Training Overview
The Y12SR Peer Support Guide Certification Training is a 36-hour comprehensive program designed to equip individuals with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to bring Y12SR (Yoga of 12-Step Recovery) meetings to their communities. This program combines online self-study and live interactive components, structured into two key units: Understandingand Application.
Understanding Unit
This unit explores the interconnected roots of addiction through self-paced modules, readings, and multimedia materials. Topics include the biology of addiction, the 12 steps, yoga philosophy, and trauma healing. All course materials are online, including approximately 21 hours of recorded sessions. Optional live "office hours" with instructors are available to provide additional guidance and support.
Application Unit
This unit focuses on applying the knowledge gained in the Understanding Unit. Participants learn to design and lead Y12SR meetings, develop themed, trauma-informed practices, and create self-sustaining recovery groups. After completing the required online components, participants must register separately for an interactive completion session—offered live online or in person. This session, which totals approximately 15 hours, includes a simulated Y12SR meeting and provides practical, hands-on experience in holding space and facilitating recovery-focused practices.
Certification Requirements
To earn Y12SR Certification, participants must:
Complete all course materials on the online platform (approximately 21 hours, a prerequisite for registering for the completion session).
Successfully pass an online assessment.
Register for and attend the live completion session (approximately 15 hours, offered online or in person).
By the end of the program, certified Y12SR Peer Support Guides will be fully equipped to integrate Y12SR practices into their local recovery ecosystems, fostering healing, connection, and reintegration for individuals and communities.
become a Y12SR PEER SUPPORT GUIDe
36 hours
Combined online self study and live interactive components
Become a Certified Y12SR Peer Support Guide upon completion
TRAINING deTAILS
Curriculum overview
This training investigates yogic and 12-step principles as a foundation for recovery and healing of all addictions and as a foundation to create a more just and equitable society that supports the health and well-being of everyone.
Through lectures, practice, breakout groups and group conversations, practice teaching, experiential exercises, and Y12SR meeting simulation, this training dives deep to:
Identify the symptoms of unresolved trauma and nervous system dysregulation.
Discover sustainable ways for self-regulation and ‘trigger’ management that support and enhance physical, mental, and spiritual health on an individual and collective level.
Explore yoga and somatic tools to support brain repatterning.
Distinguish the traps of projection, transference, countertransference, boundary violations, and spiritual bypass.
Develop a network of professionals, including trauma experts and others in the addiction and recovery field.
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