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.
