Ayurveda translates as “the science of life.” It helps us discover who we truly are, and guides us toward becoming our happiest, healthiest, most effective, and most fulfilled self. Whether as an introduction if you or new to Ayurveda, or as a refresher if you are interested in taking other workshops, this session will:

- Describe the elements that make up our individual body/mind constitutions
- Give examples of how they manifest in our bodies and minds, at ease and under stress
- Explain the fundamental principles of Ayurvedic healing through opposites
- Discuss how diet, lifestyle, times of day, seasons, and more affect each constitution

Note: This introductory workshop is recommended, but not required, as a pre-requisite to Ayurveda for your Career, Ayurveda for Friends and Lovers, and Ayurveda for Parenting. It will be required for some of my other workshops coming later in the year.

This workshop will meet online; Zoom meeting links to the workshop will be sent out before the workshop begins. Please enroll at least 12 hours in advance.

Menstruating bodies deserve a little extra care, extra support. This workshop is designed to teach you about and to practice yoga poses that may help your body to ease through the stormy seas of your menstrual cycle. Gentle stretch and Restorative poses come together for your comfort. Every body and everybody that menstruates is welcome. This is an all levels practice.

You will need a few props:

• 2 yoga blocks or 2 large books
• 3 blankets or 3 full size towels or 3 toss pillows from your couch
• 1 bolster or 1 couch cushion or 2 bed pillows wrapped in a towel or throw blanket (to create firm support)
• 1 yoga strap or 1 belt or 1 long scarf or 1 necktie
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This workshop will meet online; Zoom meeting links to the workshop will be sent out before the workshop begins. Please enroll at least 12 hours in advance.

Join Penny for a workshop series to explore the how our doshas express in areas that may challenge the various relationships in our life. Our constitutions can affect how we relate to and approach decision making, planning, organization, and time management; careers and finances; affection, love, fidelity, sex and more.

Introduction to Ayurveda would be helpful, but is not required, for the following workshop sessions.

This workshop series will meet online; Zoom meeting links to the workshop will be sent out before the workshop begins. Please enroll at least 12 hours in advance.

Restorative poses designed for your comfort, rest and stress relief. Every body and everybody is welcome. This is an all levels practice.

You will need a few props:

• 2 yoga blocks or 2 large books
• 3 blankets or 3 full size towels or 3 toss pillows from your couch
• 1 bolster or 1 couch cushion or 2 bed pillows wrapped in a towel or throw blanket (to create firm support)
• 1 yoga strap or 1 belt or 1 long scarf or 1 necktie
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This workshop will meet online; Zoom meeting links to the workshop will be sent out before the workshop begins. Please enroll at least 12 hours in advance.

Some of our students' deepest experiences of yoga happen when we can give them the opportunity to stop working to control their body and mind and instead help them rest with support, awareness, and intention. The deep, purposeful kind of resting possible with restorative yoga can eliminate fatigue, expedite recovery from injuries, ease experiences of anxiety, and develop resistance to the impact of stress on physical and mental health, among other things. This online teacher training will provide the tools you need to teach restorative poses with confidence and ease, both in a group setting and to one-on-one clients.

You will learn:

- detailed alignment and propping instruction of at least seven restorative postures
- the benefits, applications, and energetics of restorative yoga asanas
- when and how to use props to initiate a relaxation response
- how to address injuries, limitations, and special conditions during restorative practice
- ways to identify physical and energetic misalignment in restorative poses
- skills for physical and verbal adjustments during restorative practice

This training is ideal for:

- new and experienced yoga teachers who want to expand their teaching skills
- anyone currently enrolled in an immersion or yoga teaching training program
- anyone interested in deepening their understanding and experience of restorative yoga


This training is eligible for 12 hours of continuing education credits with Yoga Alliance and, after completion, there are opportunities to join Tara's apprenticing program.

Cost includes a PDF copy of Tara's 30-page Restorative Yoga Teacher Training Manual.

Restorative Yoga is a prop-heavy practice. This is one of the things which differentiates it from other styles of practice. As such, you will need the follow props to participate in this training:

- 6 yoga blankets: At minimum 1 yoga blanket and 5 yoga blanket substitutes such as towels or small throw blankets. At least two of these substitute items should be identical.

- 4 4-inch yoga blocks: At minimum 2 4-inch yoga blocks and two other 4-inch high stacks of sturdy books (such as dictionaries/encyclopedias/textbooks).

With the disruption that currently surrounds us, it’s easy to feel stressed and overwhelmed. Yoga Nidra, a guided meditative practice, can help you find a source of internal stability and resilience. It can ease tension and fatigue, calm the nervous system, and restore energy.

In this workshop you’ll:
- Learn centering and relaxation techniques
- Practice gentle asana stretches for joints and muscles
- Explore yoga breathing techniques
- Be guided through a complete Yoga Nidra practice.

Yoga Nidra is practiced in a comfortable lying or seated position. No prior experience needed — everyone welcome.

This workshop will meet online; Zoom meeting links to the workshop will be sent out before the workshop begins. Please enroll at least 12 hours in advance.

Learn the philosophical foundations of tantric yoga, as well as the methods and purposes of the various practices that have emerged from the tradition. Explore the integrated use of breath-centric asana, pranayama, and mudra to bring awareness into the central channel (sushumna) and the journey along the path to liberation. You’ll learn to activate mantra in the chakras through central channel breathing and use the power of meditation to affect deep inner transformation.

Note: this workshop will occur in real-time online.

After the intensive, Gary leads two subsequent sessions: Yoga Therapy for Emotional Healing. Please note that these events require separate registrations.

This workshop will meet online; Zoom meeting links to the workshop will be sent out before the workshop begins. Please enroll at least 12 hours in advance.

***This training meets online via Zoom. Please register by Friday, September 11th to receive all meeting information prior to the first session date.

In this workshop, Gary Kraftsow will present the Yoga Therapy perspective and methods for working with anxiety and depression. We’ll focus on psychological aspects of the human system, explore models of the integrated personality that emerge from Vedic teachings, and discover the science of meditation that the ancients developed for reducing suffering and cultivating our higher human potential.

Emotional health is fundamental to the maintenance of overall health. The ancients understood emotion as the complex interaction between our mood (feeling uneasy or overwhelmed), our cognitive processes (worry or obsession), our behavior (addiction or compulsion), and our physiological responses (sleeplessness or digestive distress). As a result, they developed practices to reduce troubling emotional states and cultivate positive ones.

We’ll explore the interaction of these four aspects of emotion and the practices used to transform states of anxiety and depression. Recognizing the direct influence of thought and emotion on biochemistry and knowing that positive states have a deeply restorative impact on the entire system, we are able to develop certain practices to transform negative qualities of mind, promote general well-being, and manage the symptoms of anxiety and depression.

Gary will present Yoga Therapy methods for working with negative emotions, including leading an integrated practice that provides an example of how to transform states of anxiety and depression and promote a deeply restorative impact on the entire system.

Note: this series will be held in real-time online.

Tuesday, September 8, prior to this workshop, Gary leads a teacher intensive: Foundations of Tantra. Please note that these events require separate registrations.

Session Times & Topics

Tuesday, September 15, 5:30-8:30p: Yoga Therapy: Managing Anxiety
Tuesday, September 22, 5:30-8:30p: Yoga Therapy: Managing Depression

This workshop will meet online; Zoom meeting links to the workshop will be sent out before the workshop begins. Please enroll at least 12 hours in advance.

Enjoy a break from your daily routine to recharge with this guided meditative practice of deep relaxation that eases tension and fatigue, calms the nervous system, helps heal the body, and restores energy and well-being.

Yoga Nidra helps:
- Relieve stress and anxiety
- Cultivate an underlying sense of ease and well-being
- Develop resilience and clarity in the face of life's challenges
- Become more responsive and less reactive to what's happening in the world around us.

In this workshop, you'll:
- Learn centering and relaxation techniques
- Practice gentle asana stretches for joints and muscles
- Explore yoga breathing techniques
- Be guided through a complete Yoga Nidra practice.

Yoga Nidra is practiced in a comfortable lying or seated position. No prior experience needed - everyone welcome.

Osteoporosis is a silent disease that weakens bones, often resulting in fractures. Recent studies indicate that Yoga, practiced the right way, can build bone mass and prevent fractures without undesirable side effects. You’ll learn a safe and enjoyable practice to improve bone and muscle strength, posture, and balance.

This workshop provides an overview of osteoporosis:
– Definition, prevalence, testing, risk factors, remediating factors, physiology
– Consequences: fractures, falls, bone health
– How yoga can counteract weakening bones without undesirable side effects.
– Do’s and Don’ts: movements which are safe and movements to be avoid.

We guide you through carefully selected yoga poses to build muscle and bone, improve posture, balance, and overall strength as recommended by Dr. Lauren Fishman.

For men and women of all ages; appropriate for those who’ve never done yoga, experienced students, and yoga teachers.

Suggested props: yoga mat, blocks, strap (substitute: belt, necktie), folding or straight-back chair

This workshop will meet online via Zoom. Please enroll at least 24 hours in advance. The Zoom meeting link as well as handouts with PowerPoint slides and photos of the poses in the yoga practice will be sent to you prior to the workshop.

Whether you’ve been practicing for a few months or many years, these workshops will help you break through the fundamentals and develop an intermediate and beyond practice. Internationally respected for his straightforward and accessible teaching, Jason’s method will improve your arm balances, inversions, backbends, transitions, and more by breaking these postures down into progressive steps that everyone can do.

These weekend workshops will advance your practice by addressing the most common challenges that students face in every posture group—and teaching you how to move into the next phase of your practice. These workshops are equally valuable for teachers who want to learn how to help their students continue to make progress in their practice.


The Space Between: Creative Transitions
Friday, October 9th, 6–9p

Vinyasa yoga is rooted in dynamic, transitional movements that incorporate posture and breath. This workshop will freshen up your practice by exploring creative sun salutations, standing pose transitions, and arm-balance combinations. Once you’ve refined the fundamental transitions in sun salutations—including how to jump back and jump forward with greater levity and skill—you’ll make the following progress:

- Develop new, creative transitions in your salutations that strengthen your spine and shoulders.

- Learn standing pose and standing balance combinations that build confidence and advance your practice.

- Begin incorporating arm-balances and inversions into your salutations and standing posture combinations. Newer students will learn all of the necessary steps.

- Deepen you backbends, twists, and forward bends by focusing on the transitions into these postures.

- Start combining basic arm-balancing postures.

Air Time: Handstand + Forearm Balance + Headstand Variations
Saturday, October 10th, 1–4p

Learning handstand, forearm balance, and headstand takes time—even more when you want to bring these postures into the middle of the room and include variations. Once you’ve warmed up and refined the basics, you’ll make the following progress:

- Learn to transition more confidently and gracefully into handstand, forearm balance, and headstand. You’ll go up with one leg, two legs, and lay the foundation for “pressing” into these poses.

- Work on “timed” versions of these postures to develop greater strength, focus, and orientation while upside down.

- Just in case things get ugly, you’ll learn how to safely fall out of these poses without hurting yourself or impaling your neighbor.

- Explore a classic progression of headstand variations that will compliment your handstands + forearm balance practice.

Still stuck or scared? You’ll build strength and confidence for these postures with a step-by-step approach that you can do on your own at the wall!


The Best Arm Balances You’ve Ever Done
Saturday, October 10th, 5–8p

Many students struggle with arm balances because they simply haven’t learned the necessary techniques. Breaking these postures down into logical, progressive steps that everyone can do is the key to making progress in these poses. Once you’ve warmed up with core-strengthening postures, hip-opening, and a bit of vinyasa flow, you’ll make the following progress:

- Learn how to practice the entire crow/crane family, including one-legged and twisting variations. Lay the foundations for jumping into these postures from down dog and transitioning into them from handstand. You don't have to be able to do this right away, but it’s time to take a step in this direction.

- Learn the entire side-plank family, including how to transition directly from these postures into standing poses.

- Develop the steps for twisting arm balances like astavakrasana and eka pada koundinyasana.

- Learn how to prepare your hips for grasshopper, tittibhasana, and visvamitrasana.

- Begin combining multiple arm-balances.

Think you’re not ready for these? Don’t worry, there are reasonable options for everything we do.


Demystifying Lotus + Splits
Sunday, October 11th, 1–4p

This workshops is for everyone that finds lotus and splits elusive but wants to make progress in these key postures. You’ll unwind tension in your hamstrings, outer-hips, quadriceps, and hip-flexors in a wide range of postures. You’ll explore the fundamentals of hip-opening before making the following progress:

- Learn the most common causes of restriction in your hips and how to work more effectively with these joints.

- Learn the secret to keeping your knees safely aligned in lotus.

- Deepen your standing split variations and standing lotus pose variations.

- Explore several different seated split variations and seated ½ lotus variations.

- Experiment with inverted split and lotus postures.

Think your not flexible enough? There’s no pressure and it’s not a contest. This is just an opportunity to experiment and explore.

Whether you’ve been practicing for a few months or many years, these workshops will help you break through the fundamentals and develop an intermediate and beyond practice. Internationally respected for his straightforward and accessible teaching, Jason’s method will improve your arm balances, inversions, backbends, transitions, and more by breaking these postures down into progressive steps that everyone can do.

These weekend workshops will advance your practice by addressing the most common challenges that students face in every posture group—and teaching you how to move into the next phase of your practice. These workshops are equally valuable for teachers who want to learn how to help their students continue to make progress in their practice.


The Space Between: Creative Transitions
Friday, October 9th, 6–9p

Vinyasa yoga is rooted in dynamic, transitional movements that incorporate posture and breath. This workshop will freshen up your practice by exploring creative sun salutations, standing pose transitions, and arm-balance combinations. Once you’ve refined the fundamental transitions in sun salutations—including how to jump back and jump forward with greater levity and skill—you’ll make the following progress:

- Develop new, creative transitions in your salutations that strengthen your spine and shoulders.

- Learn standing pose and standing balance combinations that build confidence and advance your practice.

- Begin incorporating arm-balances and inversions into your salutations and standing posture combinations. Newer students will learn all of the necessary steps.

- Deepen you backbends, twists, and forward bends by focusing on the transitions into these postures.

- Start combining basic arm-balancing postures.

Air Time: Handstand + Forearm Balance + Headstand Variations
Saturday, October 10th, 1–4p

Learning handstand, forearm balance, and headstand takes time—even more when you want to bring these postures into the middle of the room and include variations. Once you’ve warmed up and refined the basics, you’ll make the following progress:

- Learn to transition more confidently and gracefully into handstand, forearm balance, and headstand. You’ll go up with one leg, two legs, and lay the foundation for “pressing” into these poses.

- Work on “timed” versions of these postures to develop greater strength, focus, and orientation while upside down.

- Just in case things get ugly, you’ll learn how to safely fall out of these poses without hurting yourself or impaling your neighbor.

- Explore a classic progression of headstand variations that will compliment your handstands + forearm balance practice.

Still stuck or scared? You’ll build strength and confidence for these postures with a step-by-step approach that you can do on your own at the wall!


The Best Arm Balances You’ve Ever Done
Saturday, October 10th, 5–8p

Many students struggle with arm balances because they simply haven’t learned the necessary techniques. Breaking these postures down into logical, progressive steps that everyone can do is the key to making progress in these poses. Once you’ve warmed up with core-strengthening postures, hip-opening, and a bit of vinyasa flow, you’ll make the following progress:

- Learn how to practice the entire crow/crane family, including one-legged and twisting variations. Lay the foundations for jumping into these postures from down dog and transitioning into them from handstand. You don't have to be able to do this right away, but it’s time to take a step in this direction.

- Learn the entire side-plank family, including how to transition directly from these postures into standing poses.

- Develop the steps for twisting arm balances like astavakrasana and eka pada koundinyasana.

- Learn how to prepare your hips for grasshopper, tittibhasana, and visvamitrasana.

- Begin combining multiple arm-balances.

Think you’re not ready for these? Don’t worry, there are reasonable options for everything we do.


Demystifying Lotus + Splits
Sunday, October 11th, 1–4p

This workshops is for everyone that finds lotus and splits elusive but wants to make progress in these key postures. You’ll unwind tension in your hamstrings, outer-hips, quadriceps, and hip-flexors in a wide range of postures. You’ll explore the fundamentals of hip-opening before making the following progress:

- Learn the most common causes of restriction in your hips and how to work more effectively with these joints.

- Learn the secret to keeping your knees safely aligned in lotus.

- Deepen your standing split variations and standing lotus pose variations.

- Explore several different seated split variations and seated ½ lotus variations.

- Experiment with inverted split and lotus postures.

Think your not flexible enough? There’s no pressure and it’s not a contest. This is just an opportunity to experiment and explore.

Whether you’ve been practicing for a few months or many years, these workshops will help you break through the fundamentals and develop an intermediate and beyond practice. Internationally respected for his straightforward and accessible teaching, Jason’s method will improve your arm balances, inversions, backbends, transitions, and more by breaking these postures down into progressive steps that everyone can do.

These weekend workshops will advance your practice by addressing the most common challenges that students face in every posture group—and teaching you how to move into the next phase of your practice. These workshops are equally valuable for teachers who want to learn how to help their students continue to make progress in their practice.


The Space Between: Creative Transitions
Friday, October 9th, 6–9p

Vinyasa yoga is rooted in dynamic, transitional movements that incorporate posture and breath. This workshop will freshen up your practice by exploring creative sun salutations, standing pose transitions, and arm-balance combinations. Once you’ve refined the fundamental transitions in sun salutations—including how to jump back and jump forward with greater levity and skill—you’ll make the following progress:

- Develop new, creative transitions in your salutations that strengthen your spine and shoulders.

- Learn standing pose and standing balance combinations that build confidence and advance your practice.

- Begin incorporating arm-balances and inversions into your salutations and standing posture combinations. Newer students will learn all of the necessary steps.

- Deepen you backbends, twists, and forward bends by focusing on the transitions into these postures.

- Start combining basic arm-balancing postures.

Air Time: Handstand + Forearm Balance + Headstand Variations
Saturday, October 10th, 1–4p

Learning handstand, forearm balance, and headstand takes time—even more when you want to bring these postures into the middle of the room and include variations. Once you’ve warmed up and refined the basics, you’ll make the following progress:

- Learn to transition more confidently and gracefully into handstand, forearm balance, and headstand. You’ll go up with one leg, two legs, and lay the foundation for “pressing” into these poses.

- Work on “timed” versions of these postures to develop greater strength, focus, and orientation while upside down.

- Just in case things get ugly, you’ll learn how to safely fall out of these poses without hurting yourself or impaling your neighbor.

- Explore a classic progression of headstand variations that will compliment your handstands + forearm balance practice.

Still stuck or scared? You’ll build strength and confidence for these postures with a step-by-step approach that you can do on your own at the wall!


The Best Arm Balances You’ve Ever Done
Saturday, October 10th, 5–8p

Many students struggle with arm balances because they simply haven’t learned the necessary techniques. Breaking these postures down into logical, progressive steps that everyone can do is the key to making progress in these poses. Once you’ve warmed up with core-strengthening postures, hip-opening, and a bit of vinyasa flow, you’ll make the following progress:

- Learn how to practice the entire crow/crane family, including one-legged and twisting variations. Lay the foundations for jumping into these postures from down dog and transitioning into them from handstand. You don't have to be able to do this right away, but it’s time to take a step in this direction.

- Learn the entire side-plank family, including how to transition directly from these postures into standing poses.

- Develop the steps for twisting arm balances like astavakrasana and eka pada koundinyasana.

- Learn how to prepare your hips for grasshopper, tittibhasana, and visvamitrasana.

- Begin combining multiple arm-balances.

Think you’re not ready for these? Don’t worry, there are reasonable options for everything we do.


Demystifying Lotus + Splits
Sunday, October 11th, 1–4p

This workshops is for everyone that finds lotus and splits elusive but wants to make progress in these key postures. You’ll unwind tension in your hamstrings, outer-hips, quadriceps, and hip-flexors in a wide range of postures. You’ll explore the fundamentals of hip-opening before making the following progress:

- Learn the most common causes of restriction in your hips and how to work more effectively with these joints.

- Learn the secret to keeping your knees safely aligned in lotus.

- Deepen your standing split variations and standing lotus pose variations.

- Explore several different seated split variations and seated ½ lotus variations.

- Experiment with inverted split and lotus postures.

Think your not flexible enough? There’s no pressure and it’s not a contest. This is just an opportunity to experiment and explore.

Whether you’ve been practicing for a few months or many years, these workshops will help you break through the fundamentals and develop an intermediate and beyond practice. Internationally respected for his straightforward and accessible teaching, Jason’s method will improve your arm balances, inversions, backbends, transitions, and more by breaking these postures down into progressive steps that everyone can do.

These weekend workshops will advance your practice by addressing the most common challenges that students face in every posture group—and teaching you how to move into the next phase of your practice. These workshops are equally valuable for teachers who want to learn how to help their students continue to make progress in their practice.


The Space Between: Creative Transitions
Friday, October 9th, 6–9p

Vinyasa yoga is rooted in dynamic, transitional movements that incorporate posture and breath. This workshop will freshen up your practice by exploring creative sun salutations, standing pose transitions, and arm-balance combinations. Once you’ve refined the fundamental transitions in sun salutations—including how to jump back and jump forward with greater levity and skill—you’ll make the following progress:

- Develop new, creative transitions in your salutations that strengthen your spine and shoulders.

- Learn standing pose and standing balance combinations that build confidence and advance your practice.

- Begin incorporating arm-balances and inversions into your salutations and standing posture combinations. Newer students will learn all of the necessary steps.

- Deepen you backbends, twists, and forward bends by focusing on the transitions into these postures.

- Start combining basic arm-balancing postures.

Air Time: Handstand + Forearm Balance + Headstand Variations
Saturday, October 10th, 1–4p

Learning handstand, forearm balance, and headstand takes time—even more when you want to bring these postures into the middle of the room and include variations. Once you’ve warmed up and refined the basics, you’ll make the following progress:

- Learn to transition more confidently and gracefully into handstand, forearm balance, and headstand. You’ll go up with one leg, two legs, and lay the foundation for “pressing” into these poses.

- Work on “timed” versions of these postures to develop greater strength, focus, and orientation while upside down.

- Just in case things get ugly, you’ll learn how to safely fall out of these poses without hurting yourself or impaling your neighbor.

- Explore a classic progression of headstand variations that will compliment your handstands + forearm balance practice.

Still stuck or scared? You’ll build strength and confidence for these postures with a step-by-step approach that you can do on your own at the wall!


The Best Arm Balances You’ve Ever Done
Saturday, October 10th, 5–8p

Many students struggle with arm balances because they simply haven’t learned the necessary techniques. Breaking these postures down into logical, progressive steps that everyone can do is the key to making progress in these poses. Once you’ve warmed up with core-strengthening postures, hip-opening, and a bit of vinyasa flow, you’ll make the following progress:

- Learn how to practice the entire crow/crane family, including one-legged and twisting variations. Lay the foundations for jumping into these postures from down dog and transitioning into them from handstand. You don't have to be able to do this right away, but it’s time to take a step in this direction.

- Learn the entire side-plank family, including how to transition directly from these postures into standing poses.

- Develop the steps for twisting arm balances like astavakrasana and eka pada koundinyasana.

- Learn how to prepare your hips for grasshopper, tittibhasana, and visvamitrasana.

- Begin combining multiple arm-balances.

Think you’re not ready for these? Don’t worry, there are reasonable options for everything we do.


Demystifying Lotus + Splits
Sunday, October 11th, 1–4p

This workshops is for everyone that finds lotus and splits elusive but wants to make progress in these key postures. You’ll unwind tension in your hamstrings, outer-hips, quadriceps, and hip-flexors in a wide range of postures. You’ll explore the fundamentals of hip-opening before making the following progress:

- Learn the most common causes of restriction in your hips and how to work more effectively with these joints.

- Learn the secret to keeping your knees safely aligned in lotus.

- Deepen your standing split variations and standing lotus pose variations.

- Explore several different seated split variations and seated ½ lotus variations.

- Experiment with inverted split and lotus postures.

Think your not flexible enough? There’s no pressure and it’s not a contest. This is just an opportunity to experiment and explore.

Join the Accessible Yoga Movement!

Accessible Yoga is an international advocacy organization focusing on sharing yoga with all. The Accessible Yoga Training focuses on how to make the yoga teachings available to everyone, regardless of their level of physical ability. We'll focus on creating integrated Accessible Yoga classes where all students can practice together. We’ll explore the many ways that yoga practice can be variated to suit students with disabilities and physical challenges as well as seniors.

We'll consider how to make our classes welcoming to everyone, and to approach students in a trauma-informed way. You'll learn sample Accessible Yoga classes, chair yoga classes, and even bed yoga classes. We'll also look at ways of bringing the yoga teachings and meditation into your classes, and how all of yoga can be used to support health and healing for every body. We'll review some common medical conditions so that you have a basic understanding of these issues.

This course includes 9 additional hours of required pre-course homework that is to be completed before the start of the course. Graduates of the program become Accessible Yoga Ambassadors and connect with a network of Accessible Yoga teachers and students around the world. Participants who have completed a 200-hour yoga teacher training will receive 30 Yoga Alliance CE hours.

Limited scholarships are available; apply here. Application deadline for scholarships is September 1, 2020.

This workshop weekend is for movement educators as well as the general public.

It includes four workshops taught over the course of two days and will include the exercises and sequences from Trina’s new book, Yoga Deconstructed®: Transitioning from rehabilitation back into the yoga studio. Participants may sign up for one or all of the workshops. However, it is highly recommended that you attend the first three workshops in preparation for the fourth one.

All four workshops are all-levels and qualify for Yoga Alliance CEC’s.

Workshop 1: Incorporating Somatics and Rolling Patterns in Classes
Saturday, January 23rd, 12:30–3:30p

Somatic exercises serve as regressions for traditional yoga poses and allow us to teach osteokinematics in a way that is embodied and down regulates the nervous system. This workshop will teach you how to select and sequence somatic exercises in supine, side lying, and prone to help your students improve movement patterns and prepare their bodies to navigate external load and asana.

You will learn how to:

- Incorporate somatic exercises into different styles of yoga classes, such as vinyasa and hatha.

- Create mini sequences that include non-linear movement in the transverse plane and rolling patterns that transition from lying down to seated.

- Prepare the body for seated, kneeling, and standing poses.

- Use feedback from the ground to improve proprioception for students who are hypermobile, experience joint discomfort, or struggle to sense where their joints are in space.

- Reduce feelings of stiffness or tightness through neuromuscular re-education.

Workshop 2: Using Primal Sequencing to Evolve Passive Postures into Active Movements
Saturday, January 23rd, 4:30–7:30p

Traditional asana involves many passive kneeling and seated positions. While this alone is not an issue, many of our students are not well adapted to sit on the floor and find it difficult or uncomfortable to assume these postures and transition to kneeling or standing. This workshop will give you strategies and mini sequences to incorporate into your classes to improve mobility, strength, and power in a way that is fun and challenging!

Learn how to:

- Use primal movement to reestablish better motor patterns by incorporating exercises that move through the early motor development stage.

- Flow together primal postures that relate to classical yoga asanas, including Sukhasana, Virasana, Ardha Matsyendrasana... and more!

- Use mobility drills and preparatory exercises to self assess for joint limitations and prepare the body for loading in end ranges of motion.

- Utilize bands, blankets, and blocks to adapt traditional kneeling and seated poses from passive to active ranges of motion.

- Incorporate animal locomotion movements, such as beast pose and gorilla hops into your classes.

Workshop 3: Applying Progressive Load and Control to Standing Transitions
Sunday, January 24th, 12:30–3:30p

Many standing poses involve holding one position at your end range of motion for a sustained period of time. While this may promote isometric strength at your end range, it doesn’t build strength in the transitions. This workshop will explore how to apply strength training principles, such as progressive overload to standing poses and transitions.

This workshop will teach you:

- How to prepare the body to transition through common vinyasa sequences, such as Warrior 2, Extended Side Angle Pose, and Half Moon with fluidity, stability, and ease.

- Preparatory exercises using resistance bands, cork blocks, and blankets as external load to build strength in standing transitions.

- Strategies to improve control and coordination in single leg balance movements.

Workshop 4: An Interdisciplinary Movement Approach to Yoga Sequencing
Sunday, January 24th, 4:30–7:30p

Are you struggling to connect the dots between yoga and all of the movement modalities that you’re studying? This workshop will teach you how to incorporate everything you’ve learned in the previous three workshops into full length classes. It will draw on the sequences outlined in my book Yoga Deconstructed®: Transitioning from rehabilitation back into yoga studio.

During this workshop, we will also create sequences as a group and you will have the opportunity to collaborate with other teachers to create and practice teaching your own sequences.

Learn how to:

- Develop your critical thinking skills for sequencing your classes and private sessions.

- Expand your problem solving abilities when creating sequences and planning classes.

- Teach from a skills-based approach that prepares your students for asana and real life.

- Incorporate progressions and regressions to meet the different levels of the students in the room.

*Please note: it is highly recommended that you attend the first three workshops in preparation for this one.