If you are a yoga teacher in-training or already a teacher looking to add tools to your Teacher's Mat, consider joining us for our Educational Workshops.
Creative Sequencing
Have you struggled with creating sequences that you are passionate about? Is it hit or miss when trying to come up with new sequences for your yoga classes? If you answered yes to either of these questions then this Creative Sequencing workshop is for you.
Creative Sequencing is a three part investment in strengthening your ability to hold the Seat of the Teacher in a way that both resonates with the spirits of your students and feeds your soul as a yoga teacher. It is time to take the energy of your classes to a higher vibration with creativity and intention. You can spark a light within your students and help them illuminate the inner parts of the heart with the energy that is cultivated by your sequencing. Take this workshop and give your students the excitement that will come from your inner creative! As a dancer, choreographer, yogi, stepper and lover of all things movement, Asia Vianna is the one to help you dive deeper into the creative mover within you! Sequencing is to yoga as choreography is to dance as songwriting is to music!
This training is 10 Continuing Education Credits.
Course Objectives
Gain an understanding of the poses that you typically teach and explore how you usually sequence them.
Through improvisation and introspection, determine what elements you would like to add to your sequencing repertoire.
Learn or get a refresher on the questions to ask yourself, as you develop a new sequence.
Understand that approaching sequencing through your own creative lens will impact your ability to remain fresh and present in your teaching practice.
Create at least one new sequence that you can take with you into your next class.
Next Offering:
October 18, 2024 6:30pm-8:30pm
October 19, 2024 2:30pm-5:30pm
October 20, 2024 2:00pm-7:30pm
Teaching Trauma-Sensitive Yoga
Have you found yourself being turned off by the commanding and demanding nature of some yoga classes? Are you searching for a way to make your yoga offerings more trauma sensitive? Do you need support in understanding why yoga is divinely aligned to support those recovering from traumatic experiences?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, then Teaching Trauma-Sensitive Yoga is the training for you!
The purpose of teaching yoga in a trauma-sensitive manner is to help students tune into what their bodies are telling them, while holding space for them to clear the chitta vritti that may be impending their practice. Yoga is ideal for holding space for those dealing with trauma as it helps to improve self-regulation and strengthens the connection between the mind and the body. Through the intentional use of asana, pranayama and pratyahara students can cultivate curiosity and mindfulness. Teaching Trauma-Sensitive Yoga is a ten hour investment in strengthening your ability to teach in a trauma-sensitive manner. This training will help you learn to do this intentionally, while increasing your level of comfortability and confidence in holding a space, trauma-sensitive space for your students.
This training is 10 Continuing Education Credits.
Course Objectives
Acknowledge what you currently know about trauma, how it affects people and how yoga can be a useful tool.
Delineate between what teaching manners are trauma-sensitive and which are not.
Learn strategies on how to sequence and format a trauma-sensitive yoga class.
Learn and practice how to use invitational cueing within your trauma-sensitive yoga classes.
Practice teaching, two 45 minute trauma-sensitive yoga classes.
Next Offering:
TBD
Yoga Immersion
All Yoga Immersion programs are available as continuing education credits and are usually worth 24 CEs.
See further details on the Yoga Immersion page.
Tuning With(Y)in Yoga Training
This 10 hour training in yin yoga is for both yoga teachers and others interested in deepening their yin yoga practice. This is the training you need to cultivate the missing part of your practice!
A slow, meditative asana practice that focuses on actively stretching connective tissues to strengthen and lengthen them. Come learn the essential elements of practicing and teaching the contemplative practice of yin yoga in this three part training.
Part 1: History & Theory + Embodied Experience
Part 2: Anatomy & Physiology + Asana Exploration
Part 3: Benefits + Teaching Methodology + Embodied Experience
Course Objectives
Participants will gain an understanding of Yin Yoga's history and understand the complementary relationship of the practice to other forms of yoga.
Participants will learn the theory of Yin Yoga including the underlying tenants and the practicing principles.
Participants will learn how the Theory of Exercise aids in understanding what is safe and appropriate in a Yin Yoga practice as well as fascia physiology and how Yin Yoga affects this tissue.
Participants will gain clarity on how to safely practice and teach the essential Yin Yoga poses and their variations, operating from the foundations of the five archetypes of Yin Yoga.
Participants will learn about how a Yin Yoga practice produces physical, energetic, mind and heart benefits.
Next Offering:
TBD
Teaching Perinatal Yoga Workshop
Have you felt nervous at the thought of teaching prenatal or postnatal yoga? Do you feel unprepared when a pregnant or recently postpartum person shows up for your class? Are you ready to learn how to welcome and accommodate the needs of the perinatal body? If you answered yes to any of these questions then this introductory workshop to teaching perinatal yoga is for you. This four hour training is designed to support the skills you already have within the Seat of the Teacher, in order to boost your confidence and elevate your competency within this area!
Next Offering: October 26, 2024 10:00am-2:00pm