BROADENING YOUR FOUNDATION MODULE #4: 6 weekends
WYC Continuing Education Program presents:
BROADENING YOUR FOUNDATION
300 hr Advanced Teacher Training: Module#4, with the WYC Faculty
Join us for hours of bliss in the company of other teachers as we unfold this series of six powerful weekends. Each five-hour weekend is complete in itself. You can elect any one of them or all six of them, as you choose. For those of you building to 500 hour RYT status, the six weekends are a required 30 hours towards the 300 hour Advanced TT curriculum. Broaden Your Foundation was created to enrich our teaching with the more subtle dimensions. We will engage with the energies of classical Pranayama practices, Restorative yoga and the ancient healing wisdom of Ayurveda. We will also receive training in teaching special populations including the elderly, the young and the pregnant. Module #4 is designed to expand the foundation of your teaching and give you greater confidence. All levels of teaching experience are welcome and you will receive support in your sadhana, your inner development and your ability to serve.
THE SCHEDULE:
Sept 12-13- Seniors/Aging Populations
with Jackie and Jana
Sept 19-20- Kids and Teens
with Sarah and Christine
Sept 26-27- Fertility and Prenatal
with Tracy and Julia
Oct 17-18- Restoratives and Pranayama Part 1
with Danielle and Julia
Oct 24-25- Restoratives and Pranayama Part 2
with Danielle and Julia
Oct 31-Nov 1- Ayurveda
with Marjorie and Jackie
HOURS FOR EACH WEEKEND:
Saturday 2-4pm
Sunday 1-4
TUITION:
$475 for all 6 weekends!
$125 per weekend
REGISTRATION:
Register here for the full series,
Register here for a single weekend,
or Register at the school.
These 30-65 hour modules, spaced over two years, are available in succession and can be taken individually. All levels of teaching experience are welcome. Teachers not seeking 500 RYT status and practitioners not actively teaching are also invited to participate and enjoy the benefits of focused study by permission of the trainers.
Cultivating a Full yoga Practice for Seniors and Aging Populations
This weekend workshop for Yoga teachers offers a comprehensive guide to teaching seniors, our country’s fastest growing population. There is much inner growth for teachers in learning to serve and support their graceful aging using the healing power of our sophisticated yoga therapeutics and teachings. Seniors manage a broad spectrum of health challenges natural to the elder years, some more active than others. We will study a broad range of therapeutics to creatively navigate a mixed level class of seniors through well balanced class sequences that support individual needs.
Ayurvedic solutions for general health and well-being throughout the aging process will be given both in theory and through direct experience.
The workshop includes:
• A general template with a wide variety of sequences for teaching Chair Yoga as well as classes on the mat
• How to design custom home-practice sequences
• Application of the Universal Principles of Alignment in chair-based practice
• Developing appropriate meaningful heart opening themes for this cycle of life
• Round robin teaching experience
• Hands on coaching in offering effective, gentle assists
• Transmitting an authentic practice of meditation for seniors
• Comprehensive review of medical conditions that could restrict practice, contraindications, and modifications of poses to support those challenges
• Overview of Anatomy and Physiology from the viewpoint of the special needs of seniors.
Close to Source: Teaching Yoga to Children and Teens
Our beloved children hold the future of humanity. Each and every child can make a difference in the world. When we draw forth the greatness and nobility in a child, we are answering one of life’s most important callings.
Most adults come to Yoga searching to handle stress, emotional turmoil, physical injury, or fill their yearning for their own self. What if our first taste of love for our bodies, quiet for the mind, and all we now enjoy in our yoga practice had happened when we were young?
This weekend will offer an inspired, comprehensive study of how to transmit to the young yogis in our lives the abundant rewards of our yoga practice. Learn the different ways that yoga can be made accessible to children ages five through the teen years through child-friendly poses, child-accessible language, and uplifting expansive classroom structure. We will learn how to interpret the different behaviors you may encounter in classes and techniques for helping our little yogis ground themselves in their own core self. All of the practices, including pranayama, meditation, and mantra, are available to children when we meet them where they are in their development knowing they carry unlimited potential for love, creativity, and power.
Sarah and Christine will share their rich experiences of teaching children’s and teenagers’ yoga in various settings and help participants brainstorm how to get started teaching this wonderful population. The ability to work with children—who are so close to source—is an extraordinary, heart-opening gift for teachers, as it heals their own inner child, deepens their own practice, and empowers their service in the world.
Women- Fertility through Postnatal
Yoga teachers have a strong responsibility to serve women through their reproductive years. It is womankind’s unique destiny to know directly through their own bodies, the dignity and joy inherent in the miracle of childbearing. They need support to open to the full transformational impact of this journey and meet it with reverence and courage. The cycle includes fertility and conception, pregnancy, childbirth, nursing and postpartum bonding.
On Saturday, Tracy will offer practical wisdom gleaned from her 10 years teaching and supporting women struggling to conceive offering a better understanding of the deepest levels of common fertility issues, and how to support your students throughout a natural or medicated cycle. Study includes asana sequences that enhance conception as well as specific poses to modify, emphasize or avoid.
On Sunday, Tracy and Julia, will clarify how yoga practices alleviate common challenges and discomforts of pregnancy, and how to consciously prepare for healthy pregnancy, labor, and postpartum. Study includes the woman’s changing body during each trimester the growing relationship with the baby in utero, and the development of spiritual vision through childbirth. Ample material will be given to create a yoga class with appropriate modifications so each student can adapt her poses to her specific needs including hands-on experiential yoga practice.
Weekend #4 and #5:
Oct 17-18 and 24-25
Expand your Offering with Restorative Yoga and Pranayama
Restorative Yoga and Pranayama are a life long study. This mini-training will offer you a clear understanding of how Restorative Yoga and Pranayama bring balance and depth to an active hatha yoga practice and enhance overall wellbeing. In this fast paced world, daily penetration into our subtle inner worlds is essential to our quality of life.
The two-weekend workshop trains teachers to effectively transmit these transformative, in-drawing practices with depth and clarity.
Saturday: Restorative Yoga Study of the conditions necessary to trigger the Relaxation Response and the use of props to amplify the flow of healing energy in restorative postures and deep relaxation.
Sunday: Pranayama
Study of the mechanics of the breath, and the variety of Pranayama techniques that have come down to us through the ages that align us with our life force. Pranayama practices are capable of healing and shifting our state of mind.
Oct 17-18: Weekend 1
Study of Western scientific concurrence with students’ direct experience of pranayama and restorative yoga as capable of bringing us into our inner realms.
Oct 24-25: Weekend 2
Study of the esoteric sciences of the subtle body and the Koshas which serve as a bridge to perception of the deeper layers of our being.
Incorporate Ayurveda in Your Teaching
Ayurveda is Yoga’s ancient sister science of healing and has its origins in the Vedic culture of India. At least 5000 years old, it has evolved into a modern day system of natural healing currently enjoying a major resurgence throughout the world.
Beyond treating illness, it offers a body of wisdom designed to help people stay vital throughout life living in balanced dynamic interaction with the environment.
In this mini workshop, we will learn how to offer our students fundamental Ayurvedic principles of self care giving them health enhancing home practices. We will cultivate special themes for our classes on healing and vitality. We will study how to teach our students to recognize and deepen their relationship with their own vital life flow.
Through the Ayurvedic perspective, participants will learn:
• The core philosophy of Ayurveda and how it applies to our modern lives
• The quality of the elements: Space, Air, Fire, Water and Earth
• The daily rhythms to optimize health and well-being: Dina Charya
• Understanding one’s Dosha (body type) and the body type of ones students
• Appropriate sequences to support a student’s unique and natural constitution
• How to calibrate specific asana sequences to the time of day and to the season
• How to awaken students’ capacity for conscious eating and deep, replenishing sleep
• Practical seasonal directives and tips for your students to stay healthy, vibrant and balanced in all areas of their being
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