diff --git a/imaginairy/train.py b/imaginairy/train.py
index 6064e4d..8c1c584 100644
--- a/imaginairy/train.py
+++ b/imaginairy/train.py
@@ -13,7 +13,13 @@ from omegaconf import OmegaConf
 from PIL import Image
 from pytorch_lightning import seed_everything
 from pytorch_lightning.callbacks import Callback, LearningRateMonitor
-from pytorch_lightning.strategies import DDPStrategy
+
+try:
+    from pytorch_lightning.strategies import DDPStrategy
+except ImportError:
+    # let's not break all of imaginairy just because a training import doesn't exist in an older version of PL
+    # Use >= 1.6.0 to make this work
+    DDPStrategy = None
 from pytorch_lightning.trainer import Trainer
 from pytorch_lightning.utilities import rank_zero_info
 from pytorch_lightning.utilities.distributed import rank_zero_only
@@ -387,6 +393,9 @@ def train_diffusion_model(
 
     accumulate_grad_batches used to simulate a bigger batch size - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.00489.pdf
     """
+    if DDPStrategy is None:
+        raise ImportError("Please install pytorch-lightning>=1.6.0 to train a model")
+
     batch_size = 1
     seed = 23
     num_workers = 1