Yoga Teachers

This course is for you! Svadhyaya (Sutra II.44), or spiritual study, encourages us to regularly practice and engage in scriptures.  In our modern world, “scriptures” is often meant to include books or writings that support or deepen a yoga practice. 

Our course includes in-depth study about the use of violence on an international stage and the potential moral injurious effects of that violence, exploring the process of ahimsa through this lens to build compassion and understanding towards a community that you may have previously had little knowledge.

Additionally, through the included practices of breath-work, asana, and meditation, you will gain skills to share with any future students who may suffer from a moral injury- whether they are part of the military community, first responders, or others.

Active Duty Military, Veterans and their families

This course does not only focus on “yoga” (although, as we hope you’ll learn, there is a lot more to yoga than what people assume, and there’s a greater military connection to yoga than most people realize!) 

As stated by Dr. Joe Thomas of the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership at the United States Naval Academy, knowledge about moral injury is a, “professional development responsibility. It’s all of our jobs to understand symptoms of moral injury, implications of moral injury, and the history of moral injury.” 

This online course is not simply videos of yoga postures, it includes in-depth discussions of experts in the field of moral injury to make you a better leader and to give you great understanding into any unresolved feelings you or your teammates experience.

It will give you the tools necessary to develop a program to understand potential moral responses before any potential moral injurious experiences happens and/or research-based tools to help overcome any symptoms after an incident.  

First Responders

Though TRIBE is a non-profit that focuses on bringing the tools of yoga to the active-duty military community, we also know that military members are not the only ones that serve.

We understand that First Responders are also put in situations that have potential moral injurious effects. 

This is especially true as the COVID-19 crisis continues.

In addition to learning the symptoms of moral injury, you will still benefit from the practices in this course. We have included breathwork, physical practices, meditations, and other self-care tools that you can also use to develop your own strategies for moral injury

Concerned Citizens

This course is for you!  As is stated in Soul Repair, “To engage veterans’ struggles without recognizing our society’s responsibilities for war is disingenuous, self-serving, and ultimately futile....The fact that many veterans live in anguish because of moral injury while most citizens still sleep comfortably at night is not evidence of a collective clean conscious. It is evidence of a lack of awareness and accountability.”

If you are an active citizen of your country, you participate in choosing officials that may send your fellow citizens into the battlefield.