The next group series begins 12 October 2026.

Settle Into Rest is an eight-week online Trauma-Sensitive Yoga program designed to support those experiencing PTSD-related sleep disturbance, hyperarousal, and insomnia.

When you've experienced trauma, sleep can become difficult.

PTSD can leave the nervous system feeling on alert, making it harder to settle into rest. You may experience difficulty falling or staying asleep, heightened alertness, nightmares, or a sense that your body can't fully switch off.

Settle Into Rest is an online, trauma-sensitive programme for people experiencing PTSDrelated sleep disturbance or insomnia. The programme supports you to notice cues of safety and settling, and to practise accessing the body's natural rest-and-settle response.

This therapeutic program combines Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY), yoga therapy, and CBT-I informed sleep education. Through gentle movement, breath, mindfulness and practical sleep education, you will have opportunities to learn more about your nervous system, practise settling and rest, and develop greater confidence and trust in your body's responses.

What the program includes:

Each weekly session includes:

• Trauma-sensitive yoga and gentle floor-based yoga therapy forms

• Breath, grounding and relaxation practices

• Body awareness and nervous system education

• Developing cues and resources for safety and rest

• Sleep education informed by CBT-I principles

• Practical strategies to support healthy sleep

• Simple weekly sleep experiments to explore at home

Each 90-minute session includes:

Sleep & rest education

Simple, practical psychoeducation informed by CBT-I principles, exploring sleep, trauma, hyperarousal, sleep supportive habits and compassionate ways of relating to sleep.

Trauma-sensitive practice

TCTSY-informed yoga therapy movement practices that invite awareness of the nervous system and opportunities to experience settling and rest. This includes approximately 45 minutes of floor-based movement and 15 minutes of sleep resourcing.

Reflection & integration

Quiet time to notice your experience, with optional sharing or questions. You might simply share one word in the chat box.

Sleep experiments

Each week, you'll also be offered a simple sleep experiment to explore at home - an invitation to notice what supports your sleep and rest, rather than another task to get “right”. This may include exploring embodied sleep statements, such as “I allow myself to rest,” and noticing what happens in the body.

Audio or video recordings and weekly handouts will be available to support home practice between sessions.

Why Body-Based Practices for Sleep?

Trauma theorists including Bessel van der Kolk, Peter Levine, and Judith Herman have highlighted the importance of body-oriented approaches in trauma recovery.

When trauma impacts the nervous system, rest can become difficult because it has learned to remain alert in order to survive.

Body-based practices can help gently retrain the nervous system toward safety, regulation, and rest.