30-hour Pre & Postnatal Yoga Teacher Training
This training is for qualified yoga teachers who have a calling to work with mums, bumps & babies. This course would also allow you to confidently teach pregnant womnen safely & insured, in your regular classes. Most importantly, you’ll need to be able to teach yoga to bodies that don’t feel like yours. Having had your own children or being female is not a necessity but being able to listen & have empathy for the body’s multiple changes & a real desire to alleviate the aches & pains of building a baby are.
Prerequisites:
Level 3 Diploma in Teaching Yoga/Certified 200 Hours or 'working towards'
Improve Your Balance - a practical workshop to explore why so many of us feel we are terrible at standing on one leg!
Join Lucy for 2.5 hours of improving our balancing poses
This practice is for anyone who wants to improve their ability to balance, also their mental focus & to quieten their inner yoga-critic when practicing any kind of balances, bearing in mind we balance on arms, hands, feet, knees, shoulders & heads in yoga!
Whilst the practice will contain some fairly unpopular poses, take that as a sign they're needed. We'll address powerful muscles of the core, legs & hips & so it's only right that the practice will end with a nice restorative rest.
Balancing is not about stillness, its about riding the uncertainty with trust & skill - just like life!
This workshop will be a led class; you practicing & experiencing whilst Lucy shares as many tips, tools & wisdom as she has garnered in her last 25 years of practice. Q&A at the end & lots of adjustments & observing along the way.
An in-depth immersion in the classical origins of Yoga, its true meaning, its original purpose and how we can adapt these profound teachings to serve ourselves and society in the modern world.
We will explore the earliest classical definitions of Yoga and how the teachings we have available today developed from these ancient texts.From the first textual reference to Yoga through the first definitions of Yoga, looking at models of the human system and how to use Yoga to establish wholistic health and allow each of us to realise our very highest potential!
Day 1 - Reference to the Upanisads to explore and discuss the first textual reference to Yoga in the Taitirriya Upanisad and the first definitions of Yoga in the Katha Upanisad and the Maitri Upanisad.
Day 2 - Explore the role of sound in Yoga, how mantra was used to transmit the teachings orally for millenia before the teachings were written down. Also, how sound can be used to develop the breath, initially lengthening the exhalation and then stimulating the inhale as a result. Finally, the use of sound/mantra in meditation
Day 3 - Meditation in theory based on the teachings of Patanjali, Yoga Sutra chapter 3. Sutra 1-4. Presentation on the classical yoga model for meditation and the relationship between asana, pranayama and meditation. Purpose and application of meditation classically and in the modern context.
Each day begins with an hour of Yoga taught by Andy, which will be open to the public.
8 Hour Adjustments Workshop for Teachers
The healing power of physical touch can be measured; Doctors have found, through tests such as MRIs, that there are evident changes in the patterns of brain activity during touch. Certain types of endorphins are released, which combat stress hormones, resulting in a sense of relaxation and peace.
When you receive a confident, safe adjustment from a teacher you know to be experienced & knowledgable, their hands & breathing help us to visit poses in greater depth with more profound understanding of the the energetic dierection & purpose of the pose.
If you are unlucky enough to receive an unwanted, inexpertly applied adjustment, possibly where boundaries are crossed, it can put you off yoga for life & even be construed as physical abuse.
In this workshop we'll look at the more accessible & common adjusts that are useful to us as teachers & discuss the pros & cons of touch after covid & the me too movement.
The following topics will be covered:
Observing first, why would we adjust?
The intended energy of the pose - having a clear intention
Length & stability
Rules of adjusting for the teacher & the student - boundaries & lawsuits
Supporting students breathing
Limits
Whole class adjustments
Demoing
Language
Physical practice
8 Hour CPD Teaching Vinyasa Flow
Vinyasa Flow is a popular yoga method & is often the first form of yoga found by those who came to yoga through the gym. Like all yoga, it practiced with the breath as the guide, an oft forgotten but necessary component if it is to be called yoga at all.
Sequences of poses are linked together, generating heat, flexibility, strength, coordination & stamina.
We'll look at warm-up, Surya Namaskar variations, peak poses, themes & using the warmth we build, for the best outcome.
Important areas such as the method's accessibility to the many or the few will be carefully thought about. We will breakdown the classical transitions & consider modified transitions for increased accessibility & what to do with knees & shoulders, as well as how to language a class that moves on the breath, whilst demoing & observing the students.
This training immersion will be an experiential opportunity for you to find your own style of teaching for the clients who trust you already. As with all our trainings you will receive the support of your lead teacher whilst your skills are developing.