Balance is a moving target—and something every student at every age needs. In this workshop, geared to teachers from any background, you'll learn how to design and cue balance-focused yoga sequences and classes for all levels. Whether you use these sequences in the context of a gentle class, a faster-paced class, or a fully balance-focused class, your students—and your personal practice—will benefit.
This workshop includes a preassignment and follow-along classes to complete before we meet, so please budget at least five hours to prepare your homework in the weeks before the workshop.
Our in-person sessions will:
+ Examine the systems at play in acheiving balance in space:
nervous, vestibular, and musculoskeletal
+ Look at ways to progress and regress (spice up and sweeten)
balance poses in mixed-level classes
+ Include static and dynamic balance exercises appropriate for
everyone
+ Workshop the psychology and physiology of the student experience
in balance poses, so we can serve our students better
+ Prompt you to design new balance sequences and new approaches to
balance poses, freshening up your class planning; you'll also get
full class plans to use right away
+ Build your confidence in leading students of every age and level
of ability
+ Give you a warm, supportive environment in which to workshop what
you learn
Prior to COVID, offering hands-on
assists in a yoga class was commonplace. In the post-COVID world of
distance and space, hands-on assists got left out of YTTs and
became less commonplace in classes. But touch can be an important
way to offer support and relaxation, communicate compassion and
acceptance, and help your students find their full potential in a
pose.
In this weekend workshop with Carrboro Yoga's 200-hour lead teacher
trainer Alexandra DeSiato, we will:
+ discuss why assists are offered
+ explore the most common shapes to assist
+ practice the hands-on assists you learn
+ look at the concerns around assists, including consent and
students misunderstanding the purpose of hands-on yoga
You'll leave the weekend ready to offer safe hands-on assists,
confident in the value they add to your yoga teaching, and ready to
level up your classes.
We meet Saturday, 9 a.m.–12 p.m. and 1–4 p.m., and again Sunday, 9
a.m.–12 p.m. (There is no Sunday afternoon session, freeing you to
travel.)
This workshop, which is part of our 300/500-hour advanced studies
yoga teacher training, is also open to teachers from any movement
modality.
18 Yoga Alliance CEUs
$499/$449 early (through 11:59 p.m. February 1)
This workshop needs 6 people to run and has a max of 15, so sign up
now to ensure your spot!