Advanced Teacher Training - Continuing Ed Credits

You will have the opportunity to delve into the deep philosophical, spiritual and devotional underpinnings of your yoga practice. Your guides will invite you to:

• Explore the philosophy and practices of Vedic, Tantric and Bhakti traditions.
• Ground yourself in an understanding of the ancient language of yoga, Sanskrit.
• Dive deeper into the foundational Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, the great spiritual texts the Bhagavad Gita.
• Delight in rich mythology and storytelling.
• Joyfully learn to play the harmonium.
• Experience ritual and devotional chanting as practices that can transport you and transform your teaching.
• Learn about using Yoga Mudras, or seals in your teaching practice, tapping into their meaning to enhance mood, elevate awareness and concentration.

In this facet we will look at the science of “energy” through the prisms of Meditation, Ayurveda (Knowledge of Life), and Pranayama (breath work).

• Investigate what mindfulness is and practice myriad meditation techniques
• Study anatomy of breath and reimagine pranayama to free your vital life force.
• Explore classic breathing techniques; retain and redirect energy.
• Understand the qualities of Nature, how they impact us and are us. Utilize this understanding in guiding your students to find balance and renewal.
• Apply ancient lifestyle wisdom and everyday rituals to dance through life.

Transform your teaching with a deep dive into embodied anatomy and kinesiology. In this course, you’re invited to learn experientially and shift paradigms. Explore movement patterns and uncover new movement choices as you investigate relationships, organization and efficiency. Through lecture, discussion, and embodied experience:

• Understand the roles of bones and myofascial units.
• Discriminate and integrate joint and muscle actions in yoga asana.
• Learn to see and sense pathways through bones and myofascial meridians.
• Reimagine asana through the prism of balanced joint space.
• Gain insights into movement from embryology.
• Clarify your teaching language.

Join us to cultivate your capabilities in creating inspired and intelligent sequences. Enhance your classes with purpose and nuance. Develop sequences that serve the practitioners, not the poses. Open up new possibilities in class architecture, from solid foundation to flowing transitions. Build confidence. Elevate your teaching. Through study, practice and teaching experience we will:

• Cultivate inner play with creativity in warm ups and Surya Namaskar.
• Skillfully build a class from foundation to peak and resolution.
• Discover how transitions can determine destination.
• Explore myofascial and bony pathways in sequencing.
• View sequences through the prisms of chakras and Traditional Chinese Medicine.
• Understand and organize around anatomical movements and principles.
• Approach teaching as a practice.

An adept teacher adapts a yoga practice to the student. Broaden and deepen your skill set in serving diverse individuals and communities through our Adaptive Yoga Facet. Learn to:

• Facilitate a Gentle practice that can accommodate a range of abilities.
• Sculpt your teaching into an Accessible offering, even for those in a chair or bed.
• Expand your teaching tool kit through variations of poses and the use of props.
• Deepen your experience of Restorative Yoga and help your students cope with chronic stress.
• Hone your language skills, and create an inclusive environment.
• Customize your teaching to the individual, and discover the power of a personalized practice.

This invaluable course explores the relationship of teacher and student and what it means to assist and give feedback. We will consider the ethics, boundaries, and implications of touch. From hands-on to hands-off, subtle to intricate, discover principles and techniques to facilitate your yoga and teaching practice.

• Train your eye to see pathways of weight and flow in your students and yourself.
• Consider when hands-off is the most effective and safest approach.
• Regulate your own energy, internal organization, and quality of touch.
• Discover the power of light touch and moving from the inside-out.
• Learn skillful hands-on techniques that respect your student’s self-empowerment.
• Honor your students’ agency by giving resistance into which they can move.
• Develop your intuition and sensitivity.
• Communicate to inform and support your students.
• Learn ways to address bones, muscles, fascia, and skin.
• Study Reiki, a Japanese healing technique, using a gentle touch to promote relaxation and well-being.