+ Expanded Practice & Sequencing with Farzaneh Noori

• March 24-26
• Friday March 24, 6-8pm
• Sat/Sun March 25/26, 2-6pm

In this course, students will learn how to incorporate the use of chairs and wall ropes in their practices for optimal alignment and deeper understanding of the pose. We review sequencing principles and expand on how to adapt a practice to current conditions of the students, developing a more cohesive experience. You will learn the principles of Karama and gain the knowledge to cue your classes into an intelligent step-by-step sequence.

+ Breathing: A Yogic Model of Relationship with Leslie Kaminoff

• Friday-Sunday April, 14-16, 2023

We start Friday evening with a breathing workshop, introducing you to your most important relationship- “The Breath”. Leslie will enhance this connection to the breath through the practice of yoga and the bandhas on Saturday and Sunday.

+ Yin Yoga with Melissa Christensen

• Friday-Sunday May, 19-21, 2023

We will spend the weekend exploring the postures of yin yoga, the physical, mental, and energetic benefits of this style of practice, and the anatomy necessary to understand how different bodies create different shapes. We will look more closely at Paul Grilley's "Functional Approach to Yoga" and how it works with the teachings of both yin and yang asana.

+ Advanced Asana & Sequencing with Ashleigh Doede

• Friday-Sunday June 16-18
• Friday, 6-8 pm
• Sat/Sun, 2-6 pm

A series of advanced asana will be studied in the context of issues that may confront a yoga teacher. The concept of “yoga in real time” incorporates aspects of a musical performance into teaching a yoga class.

Topics include:

• Setting the tone and establishing the foundational structure of the class.
• Starting your planning from the inside-out to bring an elegance to your classes.
• Demonstrating poses with confidence as a fundamental teaching modality.
• A full range of teaching enhancements, from adding refinement in asana, transitioning and pacing your classes and an enhanced understanding of the psychology of teaching.
• The integration of philosophical teachings and poetry into your classes.

Hands-on adjustments are a profound way to aid students in their practice. Whether the adjustment is to deepen, align or relax a pose, a non-verbal communication can transform a yoga practitioner. Skillful adjustments communicate clearly, are firm or gentle as situations require, but should always offer deeper insight into the higher potentials of the body as well as the form and essence of the practice. You will hone your ability to read bodies as a guide to selecting an appropriate method of assisting, be introduced to a wide variety of adjustments in key asana and learn how to protect students from injury while adjusting. You’ll also enhance the confidence and skills necessary to offer the transformational power of hands-on adjustments to others with clarity and confidence.

+ Yoga Philosophy: Samkhya Yoga with Rene Quenell

• Friday-Sunday, July 14-16
• Friday, 6-8pm
• Sat/Sun, 2-6pm

This module is designed to give students an overview of the history and lineage of yoga, important foundational knowledge for teaching and placing the contemporary practice within its historical perspective. You will be introduced to meditation and chanting, mantra and mudra as ways to access and quiet the mind. Students will gain the ability to do a guided meditation focused towards a specific practice.

+ Assists & Props with Farzaneh Noori

• Saturday-Sunday, August 5-6, 2-6pm

How, as teachers, can we safely and effectively assist our students in their yoga practice? This practicum will provide ethical and strategic foundation for delivering assists and provide clarity around verbal, demonstrated and hands-on assists. In addition, this session will review key anatomical and postural markers that can help teachers figure out when and how to provide a physical assist to a student. Teachers will have the option of practicing both “hands-on” and “hands-off” assists based on their comfort level at the time of the session.

+ Trauma-Informed Yoga with Paul Cabanis

• Friday-Sunday, September 22-24
• Friday 6-8pm
• Sat/Sun 2-6pm

According to yogic teachings all experiences are retained somewhere. At the individual level they are said to be deposited in the personal mind/body field, and at the cosmic level they are said to be recorded in the collective consciousness. Trauma can be characterized as experiences that are perceived as damaging and fear-inducing. As one aims to be present in ones life, these impressions may enter into the conscious mind causing disorientation. Or they may be inaccessible due to repression and therefore present somatically. In either case one is prevented from perceiving things as they are. 
Yoga practice may assist in making an inventory of persistent imprints, and train one to distinguish between helpful and harmful interpretation of memories.

Individuals who suffer from trauma-related symptoms could benefit from the mind-body practice of yoga—or have their symptoms reactivated by it, depending on the approach chosen. We will discuss how to create a safe, tailored practice for students to learn how to respond, rather than react, to symptoms and circumstances.

+ Introduction to Ayurveda with Farzaneh Noori

• Friday-Sunday, October 20-22
• Friday, 6-8pm
• Sat/Sun, 2-7

A unique and all-encompassing path to self-knowledge, Ayurveda means “the science of life.” Ayurveda uses the fundamental principles of nature to help promote and maintain health by keeping the body, mind and spirit in a state of balance. You’ll learn the foundations of Ayurveda, including a greater understanding of Prakruti and Vikruti as well as basic theories of gunas, doshas, agni and ama. You’ll also learn how to incorporate Ayurveda in your teaching of yoga and create sequences based on specific doshas and the seasons, balancing the doshas and energies in the body.

+ The Practice of Teaching & Apprenticeship

• Flexible schedule, on line

As a yoga teacher, you know the importance of experiential learning. In this module, you’ll have opportunities to practice teaching with feedback and guidance from your lead instructor. You’ll also be required to observe the teaching of others and learn to use each engagement with your colleagues—and your students—to enhance your own development as a teacher. The Practice of Teaching is essentially an in-depth study of the dynamics of the yoga class and how that dynamic shapes both what and how you teach.