Compassionate Bereavement Care-Yoga Provider®
Certification Training 2025
NEW Hybrid Schedule ~ Online and In-Person
Bringing together the ancient teachings of yoga with the most current research in traumatic grief.
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Grief has distinct physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual effects. Western society and allopathic practices focus on curing painful human emotions. In this Western model, grief is viewed--and treated--as pathology rather than a natural, normal response to profound losses. Holistic and non-pathologizing approaches, have tremendous potential for helping people cope with and integrate traumatic grief.
The practice of yoga in all its forms is a very powerful holistic approach. Yet many yoga instructors have little to no training in how to support those who have experienced trauma or traumatic grief. The Compassionate Bereavement Care-Yoga Provider (CBC-Y®) training teaches the skills and framework for reducing potential harm to vulnerable clients and guides professionals in the use of the practices of yoga in working with the traumatically bereaved. 
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Our CBC-Y® certification program brings together the ancient and time-tested teachings of yoga with the most current research in traumatic grief to help yoga teachers and professionals who want to work, mindfully and gently, with the traumatically bereaved. In this 60 hour intensive course, taught by researcher Dr. Joanne Cacciatore and yoga and grief therapist Karla Helbert, LPC, you will learn how to coalesce the science of grief counseling with the art of yoga and mindfulness practices to truly help clients reconnect, safely, with the world around them and with themselves. |
Training dates include live online training via Zoom in September and October and an in-person retreat at the Selah Carefarm October 15-19, 2025.
Compassionate Bereavement Care Yoga Provider (CBC-Y®)
Hybrid Course Online Schedule 2025
This hybrid course includes both in-person and online components including 30 hours of live online training and practice with both of your instructors, and 30 hours of in-person experiential and instructional training at the Selah Carefarm during your participation in a Selah Griever’s Yoga Retreat.
Throughout the retreat portion of the training, your CBC-Y cohort will interact with, learn, and participate alongside grieving participants attending the retreat. The training addresses concepts, philosophy, and practices of yoga from Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, and all the branches of yoga including Jnana, Bhakti, Tantra, Karma, Raja, Hatha and Japa yoga.
You are not required to be a yoga teacher, but must have your own established practices of yoga and meditation and be a professional provider working with those in trauma and the traumatically bereaved.
The online portion of the training for 2025 is scheduled for 4 consecutive weeks, meeting via Zoom, prior to the in-person retreat portion of the program.
All on-line and in-person hours are required to receive the CBC-Y certificate.
The 2025 schedule is as follows:
Wed. 09/17 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. (EST) 30 min break (2.5 training hours)
Sat. 09/20 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (EST) 1 hour break (5 training hours)
Wed. 09/24 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. (EST) 30 min break (2.5 training hours)
Sat. 09/27 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (EST) 1 hour break (5 training hours)
Wed. 10/01 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. (EST) 30 min break (2.5 training hours)
Sat. 10/04 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (EST) 1 hour break (5 training hours)
Wed. 10/08 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. (EST) 30 min break (2.5 training hours)
Sat. 10/11 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (EST) 1 hour break (5 training hours)
7.5 training hours weekly = 30 hours total online training
Wednesday October 15, arrival at Carefarm for in-person retreat, check-in is 3:00-5:00 p.m. local time; departure on Sunday, October 19, 12:00 p.m.
The in-person retreat portion of the training is a required portion of this program.
Hybrid Course Online Schedule 2025
This hybrid course includes both in-person and online components including 30 hours of live online training and practice with both of your instructors, and 30 hours of in-person experiential and instructional training at the Selah Carefarm during your participation in a Selah Griever’s Yoga Retreat.
Throughout the retreat portion of the training, your CBC-Y cohort will interact with, learn, and participate alongside grieving participants attending the retreat. The training addresses concepts, philosophy, and practices of yoga from Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, and all the branches of yoga including Jnana, Bhakti, Tantra, Karma, Raja, Hatha and Japa yoga.
You are not required to be a yoga teacher, but must have your own established practices of yoga and meditation and be a professional provider working with those in trauma and the traumatically bereaved.
The online portion of the training for 2025 is scheduled for 4 consecutive weeks, meeting via Zoom, prior to the in-person retreat portion of the program.
All on-line and in-person hours are required to receive the CBC-Y certificate.
The 2025 schedule is as follows:
Wed. 09/17 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. (EST) 30 min break (2.5 training hours)
Sat. 09/20 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (EST) 1 hour break (5 training hours)
Wed. 09/24 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. (EST) 30 min break (2.5 training hours)
Sat. 09/27 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (EST) 1 hour break (5 training hours)
Wed. 10/01 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. (EST) 30 min break (2.5 training hours)
Sat. 10/04 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (EST) 1 hour break (5 training hours)
Wed. 10/08 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. (EST) 30 min break (2.5 training hours)
Sat. 10/11 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (EST) 1 hour break (5 training hours)
7.5 training hours weekly = 30 hours total online training
Wednesday October 15, arrival at Carefarm for in-person retreat, check-in is 3:00-5:00 p.m. local time; departure on Sunday, October 19, 12:00 p.m.
The in-person retreat portion of the training is a required portion of this program.
CBC-Y® TRAINING YOGA OBJECTIVES
Participants will:
- Understand grief, including traumatic grief, as a non-pathological and normal response to death, loss and trauma, and how the multiple branches of yoga are particularly suited to support those in traumatic grief and bereavement
- Differentiate between yoga based therapeutic interventions and bio-medical/allopathic models
- Understand and explain the basic concepts of the studied branches of yoga (Jnana, Bhakti, Tantra, Karma, Raja, Hatha) and how they complement and support current grief and trauma research
- Understand and explain the yogic model of the Koshas, how grief impacts the koshas, and how this is supported by Mind/Body integrative medicine and current science
- Explain the concepts of the Chakras and the use of the Kosha model therein Understand the yogic concepts of the gunas (universal qualities of energy) and how this model is reflected in grief and trauma particularly in terms of post-traumatic stress and current understanding of traumatic grief.
- Differentiate/compare concepts of grief in Western and Eastern conceptualizations
- Demonstrate/explain ways to integrate the learning and techniques into student/teacher and client/professional interactions
- Demonstrate clear understanding of how the Eight Limbs of Patanjali’s Ashtanga yoga supports the ATTEND grief model
- Demonstrate ability to apply the use of learned yoga techniques including specifically asana (postures), pranayama(breathing), yoga nidra (guided relaxation) and other yogic practices with the goal of reducing Sympathetic Nervous System dysregulation and other post-traumatic stress symptoms with scripts and practice settings
The in-person portion of this training is held at the Selah Carefarm, in Cornville AZ, near Sedona and is a required portion of this program. In order to receive the CBC-Y certificate, participants must complete both the online and in-person portions of the program.
Registration cost for the program is $1595.00. Cost includes materials, course fees and Yoga Alliance continuing education units.
Clinical CBC continuing education credits are priced separately, as needed.*
Lodging is priced separately. Travel costs are not included.
The MISS Foundation does not provide a refund for any reason after the stated cancellation date nor do we offer a refund for cancellation or withdrawal once a program has begun.
*Alliant International University is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Alliant maintains responsibility for the program and its content. Alliant is approved by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences to provide continuing education for MFTs and LCSWs (provider # PCE234). Alliant is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing to provide continuing education for Nurses (provider # CEP11235).
Registration cost for the program is $1595.00. Cost includes materials, course fees and Yoga Alliance continuing education units.
Clinical CBC continuing education credits are priced separately, as needed.*
Lodging is priced separately. Travel costs are not included.
The MISS Foundation does not provide a refund for any reason after the stated cancellation date nor do we offer a refund for cancellation or withdrawal once a program has begun.
*Alliant International University is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Alliant maintains responsibility for the program and its content. Alliant is approved by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences to provide continuing education for MFTs and LCSWs (provider # PCE234). Alliant is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing to provide continuing education for Nurses (provider # CEP11235).
Your Instructors:
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Dr. Joanne Cacciatore is a bereaved mother and the founder of the MISS Foundation, an international NGO that serves families whose children have died. She is also a tenured research professor and senior Wrigley Institute of Sustainability Scholar at Arizona State University, spearheading the Graduate Certificate in Trauma and Bereavement. Her best selling book, Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief, is a national award winning best seller that has helped revolutionize the way our culture thinks, and feels, about grief and is a primary text for this training.
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Karla, bereaved mom of Theo, is a licensed professional counselor (LPC), internationally certified yoga therapist, (C-IAYT), registered yoga teacher (RYT), award winning author, and a certified Compassionate Bereavement Care Provider. Counseling and supporting those living with traumatic grief and bereavement is her main focus of work. Her award winning book Yoga for Grief and Loss is a primary text for this training. Her book, The Chakras in Grief and Trauma is the first and only book on energy medicine that focuses on grief and trauma.
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