Learn to facilitate the Leading Yoga Program For Eating Disorder Prevention and Recovery
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.
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.”
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.
Admission Requirements
The Eat Breathe Thrive Facilitator Training is a continuing education program designed to enhance the skills of helping professionals. Applicants are considerered on a case-by-case basis based on professional experience, facilitation skills, community involvement, and leadership abilities.
To become a Facilitator, you must:
Examples of professionals who may qualify:
Health Professionals
Doctors, nurses, nutritionists, dieticians, occupational therapists, physical therapists, eating disorder professionals, etc.
Educators
Teachers, faculty, school counselors, coaches, parents, etc.
Mental Health Practitioners
Psychologists, psychiatrists, therapists, social workers, counselors, etc.
Complementary Health Professionals
Yoga teachers, massage therapists, chiropractors, acupuncturists, life coaches, etc.
Be a helping professional.
Our facilitators come from a wide array of professional backgrounds. Some are yoga teachers, others are mental health professionals, and many have a background in medicine and education. The training includes supplementary coursework on group facilitation, mental health support, and how to lead basic mindful movement practices. You do not need to be a yoga teacher to apply, but we do recommend that non yoga-teachers have an established yoga practice of at least one year.
Complete the Eat Breathe Thrive Immersion.
Prior to applying to Facilitator Training, you must first complete the Eat Breathe Thrive Immersion. This course allows you to experience the program you will learn to lead in its entirety before learning to teach it.
Already completed the Immersion? Apply now for the Facilitator Training.
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.
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.