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'
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
Sussex Yoga Training’s 30 Hour Restorative & Yin Yoga CPD course & is for established teachers or those working towards a level three diploma or 200 hours certificate. It is a two day training that will enable you to deliver two entirely useful methods of yoga to your students.
Course Outline
This special four-day training will consist of two days of practical explorations, presentations & discussions with senior teacher, Lucy Leslie.
Syllabus
Restorative: The anatomy & physiology of Restorative Yoga, nervous system regulation & the relationship with other body systems. The physiology of stress & relaxation, vagal tone & how to elicit the relaxation response. You’ll practice teaching, whilst considering environment, postures, props, modifications, progressions, intention, sequencing, theming, class planning, breath & language.
Combining Yin and Restorative Postures in a class: Guidance on sequencing, planning & delivery. The “Putting it all together – teaching from the heart” & Yin Yoga versus Restorative Yoga – what makes them different & why they work well together.
Yin Yoga: In context, it's purpose & benefits. The anatomy of Yin Yoga – “Yin tissues”, flexibility, fascia & the heart-mind connection. You’ll work on practical delivery of Yin Yoga postures whilst looking at intention & attention, the energetic body, duration, breathing, use of props, sequencing and themes.
Advanced Yoga Teaching Skills - Enhancing the skills that set us apart
This one-week module runs Monday to Friday, 9.15am - 5.15pm at the lake.
You may take this module at a time of your choosing, there is no set order for taking any of the 300 modules
Advanced Yoga Teaching skills does not mean teaching advanced yoga poses - of course it doesn't, unless of course that is what you are drawn to. Indeed, once we have settled into our teaching groove, have found our people & are connecting with our yoga community at large, we will want to learn more, we have come to know how vast this Yoga world is now. The 200 hours wetted our lips & our thirst for knowledge burgeons! It’s time to study again.
This week-long module will thoroughly dissect our communication skills & intensify our way of relating to ourselves & our students. Our own practice, still so important becomes the learning tool for us to become the kind of teacher that changes & transform the practice of our students. Only through introspection, self-awareness & humility can we begin to communicate our understanding to our students, that they may have the experience we have had.
“What is yoga by experience? Anusasanam means “let me have the experience my teacher had.”
TKV Desikachar
Advanced teaching is about listening, watching, feeling & asking questions, getting to know the students & learning by observing, offering rather than fixing & encouraging patience in a world that doesn't recognise patience anymore.
Practicing asana is still the best way for us to ground in the moment as the teacher & the student. Refining asana is a beautiful way to spend a week, thinking about the body, watching & following the breath, recognising our own innate power & fragility. There will be emotions & feelings & frustrations & all of it in a safe place.
Our mornings will be physical & we will look at:
Pose Analysis: Standing poses, forward bends, backbends, twists & inversions. Alignment, recognising form, lineage variations, pose modifications & adding props will be explored. We will talk alignment a lot!
Our afternoons will be theoretical & we will follow presentations with discussions & practicng languaging skills. Our topics will be:
Demonstrating Skills & Languaging: We will assess where it is appropriate to use disciplined & exacting language & where it becomes necessary to activate a more passive tone to bring about relaxation & letting go in pose. How to teach without doing it with the student, how to know when to demo & when to assist.
Theming & Sequencing: Scene setting & the weaving into class planning of mythology, history & philosophy.