5-Week Mini-Courses to Deepen Your Practice
In today’s curtailed studio practice, there is often little time to explore yoga in all its aspects in a significant manner. These 5-week mini-courses are designed for students and teachers of all levels who would like to gain a deeper understanding of the history and theory behind physical and meditative practice and its application to the modern world in light of scientific knowledge. All courses provide an experiential component where the material discussed can be explored and tested in own’s own body through practice. (Each course is available for 10-CEUs for teachers through Yoga Alliance at an extra cost of $25/course).
Yoga 102: Modern Yoga, Theory and Practice (10 CEUs for teachers available)
This 5-week mini-course will explore 5 of the most popular orthodox styles which lie at the foundation of Western yoga practice. In particular, the theoretical foundation and historical connections to Tantric philosophy and the more recent evolution of each practice will be explored. Includes reading materials discussion and a traditional PHYSICAL practice. Styles Include: Iyengar Yoga, Ashtanga Vinyasa, Bikram Yoga, Kundalini Yoga, Yin Yoga
($100 for 20 hours/2 hours per week-CEUs $125) TBA
Advancing Your Practice: How to Develop and Progress through Home Practice (10 CEUs for teachers available)
This 5-week mini-course will introduce the foundational principles important for developing a home practice. Key elements and strategies needed to progress in home practice will be presented as a way to encourage exploration and continued advancement. Physical practice elements will include: asana (physical practice), pranayama (breathwork), dhyana (meditation) and svadhyaya (self study)
($100 for 20 hours/2 hours per week-CEUs $125) TBA
Yoga Body: The Mechanics and Energetics of the Body in Stillness and Motion (10 CEUs for teachers available)
This 5-week mini-course will explore the principles of functional anatomy through yoga practice. Focus will be on the holistic mechanics of the body as a source for understanding alignment in both moving and stillness. Similarities and differences between moving (vinyasa) and holding practices will be explored. This is a great course for those wanting practice with or teach alignment which is founded on kinesiology and theories of embodiment. Topics include: kinesiological principles, levels and applied force, gravity and resistance, dynamics of breath
($100 for 20 hours/2 hours per week-CEUs $125) TBA
Embodied Philosophy: What’s Asana Have to Do with It? (10 CEUs for teachers available)
This 5-week mini-course will explore the foundations of yoga philosophy through pivotal texts: the Baghavad Gita, the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali, and the Hatha Yoga Pradipika. The centrality of the body as an instrument for philosophical understanding of the nature of reality presented in these texts will be explored in PHYSICAL practice through embodied experimentation. Philosophical concepts include: nonattachment, meditative absorption, kundalini awakening, vayus.
($100 for 20 hours/2 hours per week-CEUs $125) TBA
Yoga 101: Teaching Yoga for Real Beginners
This 5-week mini-course explores the teaching of the foundations of yoga practice through a progressive 5-week sequence for beginners. You will learn the basic principles of the somatic practice of yoga including breathing techniques and movement fundamentals. Emphasis is on safe, modifications and explanation of anatomical and movement principles. Ideas for course construction and expansion. Weeks 1-5: Seated postures, standing postures, breathing and balancing, “clean-up week” (backbends and lunges), Vinyasa technique.
($100 for 20 hours/2 hours per week-CEUs $125) TBA