A unique, 100% non-profit workshop for Ukrainian yoga teachers who want to study yoga therapy and restorative yoga approach to support students with trauma/PTSD.
This workshop is exceptional for many reasons:
A UNIQUE SOURCE OF KNOWLEDGE: Valeria Petrich is a teacher with more than 40 years of experience. She studied with BKS Iyengar in India in the 80’s. As she spent her life practicing, teaching and studying yoga with many great teachers, she became a unique source of knowledge for all of us.
A UNIQUE YOGA APPROACH: We will learn restorative yoga, which supports our mental health, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumas. Valeria’s workshop has been designed to expand teachers’ knowledge and show them how to adjust the level of asanas to the current needs of the students, especially those whose nervous system is overstimulated or out of balance after traumatic events. The positive impact of yoga on the brain and nervous system is already a scientific fact, but not everyone has the same access to it due to traumatic experiences. Restorative yoga will be the best starting point for such students.
A UNIQUE PURPOSE: Valeria’s workshop is 100% non-profit event: Valeria’s mission in Poland and Ukraine is to provide specific knowledge about how yoga and conscious work through the body and breath can support mental health after traumatic events, not only related to the war.
Valeria’s goal as a senior teacher is to convey the idea of restorative yoga to as many teachers as possible, so that they can work in Ukraine with all people who need yoga in a therapeutic dimension.
When and where?
- 4–6.09.2026
- Szkoła Jogi Aldony Florkiewicz, Al. Piłsudskiego 40/5c, Rzeszów
- Fee: none! This event is 100% non-profit, free of charge and available for all Ukrainian yoga teachers!
- Do you want to come to Poland from Ukraine and study with us? You do not know how to find accommodation? Contact me via e-mail — we will figure it out together!
- Ukrainian teachers who live and work in Poland are welcome too.
- Training will be translated from English into Ukrainian language.
If you have questions or want to book your spot, contact me at: kontakt@jogaterapeutyczna.com
About Val Petrich
Val Petrich (now based in Calgary, Canada) began yoga in 1975 and is a long time yoga teacher. She is the founder of The Yoga Studio College of Canada. Her early experiences training with BKS Iyengar in the 1980’s sparked a life time commitment to Iyengar yoga and also led her to do inner child work to reconcile perfectionism. She is a certified Psychosynthesis facilitator and yoga therapist using additional models such as voice dialogue and Gestalt to work with those in addiction, trauma and recovery.
Val visited Poland twice in 2025. She held yoga therapy workshops in Poznań, Gdańsk, Koleczkowo and Warsaw. I shared the stories related to her previous visits any my trip to Canada where I studied with her for two months on my Instagram account and Joga Yam Studio blog.
Val’s unique energy, charisma and personality bring exceptional value and depth. As a senior yoga and meditation teacher she shares her lifetime experience on the field. As a person she amazes with inexhaustible inner source of love, compassion, understanding, immense joy and captivating life force she keeps in her 70’s.
