TIWL Self-Paced Foundations Bundle
A strength practice
built on trust,
not force.
17 hours of trauma-informed weight lifting training, self-paced and 100% online, plus two bonus research sessions most people would buy separately. One enrollment, three trainings.
Purchase for $298
Personal trainers & coaches
Bring nervous-system awareness and client choice into every session you program.
Physical & occupational therapists
Add an embodiment-based framework alongside the clinical work you already do.
Mental health clinicians
Explore weight lifting as a body-based tool for trauma-informed care and recovery.
Healthcare providers
Understand how strength training can support the patients and populations you treat.
Community members & advocates
Learn the framework behind TIWL's work. No professional license required to enroll.
New to trauma-informed practice?
This bundle builds the full framework from the ground up, so you don't need prior experience to start.
“Strength is not about overriding yourself. It is about building trust with yourself.”
Fitness culture often teaches people to push past their limits and ignore what their body is telling them. TIWL teaches something else: strength built through awareness, choice, connection, and consistency.
One enrollment, three trainings
The bonus sessions below aren't teasers. They're full trainings, included in your $298, not sold as upgrades.
THE CORE COURSE
Self-Paced Foundations of Trauma-Informed Weight Lifting
15 hours · Self-paced · 100% online
The full TIWL Foundations training, covering the five pillars of a trauma-informed approach to strength training: nervous-system awareness, embodiment, emotional safety, personal agency, and community connection.
Strength Training as Trauma Care: Exploring TIWL Case Studies
Real-world case studies grounded in current neuroscience, physiology, and trauma research, showing how weight lifting becomes a healing-centered practice inside everyday fitness spaces.
TIWL: An Adjunctive Intervention for PTSD in Youth
60 minutes · Self-paced · 100% online · Facilitated by Elizabeth Lee, MA
Pilot-study research on how weight lifting reduces post-traumatic stress symptoms and builds resilience for adolescents with complex trauma in residential treatment settings.
A NOTE ABOUT LEARNING VERSUS HEALING
This program is for professional development and learning. We recognize that although many of us may have experiences of trauma, the time spent learning will not be an intervention for our own individual healing. Talking and learning about trauma, even in the context of a training, can be triggering.
Your Trainers
Candace Liger
NASM-SPS, CE, USAW Level 1 Coach | Program Director | she/they
Mariah Rooney
MSW,LCSW/LICSW | Co-Founder | they/she
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