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Upcoming Workshops and Courses
Coming in 2012 Yoga Mom, Buddha Baby
Join Jyothi Larson, author of Yoga Mom, Buddha Baby, for this weekend program that will prepare yoga teachers to conduct classes in Postnatal Yoga. These are classes that involve both parents and babies. Postnatal Yoga poses help the mother's body get back into shape in an easeful way. The curriculum will focus on posture, abdominal muscle and pelvic floor work, breathing practices, and relaxation. Jyothi developed this program especially with post-partum mothers in mind. It's also a great way for parents to bond with thier child while realizing that they don't have to compromise their yoga practice because they have a new baby. In this training, you will learn special poses and exercises that integrate the baby right into the mothers' practice. This course will give the teacher the confidence to work with this population - giving the new mother tools that will help her to be strong and vital in her new role. This is a joyous and fun class to teach! Curriculum includes:
Jyothi Larson has been practicing yoga for over 30 years, and has been teaching yoga since 1992. She is a certified Integral Yoga teacher, specializing in pre-natal and post partum, restorative and theraputic yoga. Jyothi leads pre-natal and post partum teacher training programs and teaches private and group classes throughout New York. She has taught hundreds of moms (and dads, too) and babies in her well-known Mom & Baby classes. Her book, Yoga Mom, Buddah Baby (Bantam) was published in 2002 and is in its second printing. Jyothi is the proud mom of two teenage daughters.
Radiant Child Yoga Teacher Training
Radiant Child Yoga Program (RCYP) is a comprehensive training program designed for anyone who is interested in teaching children yoga. The vision is to create a world of peace through the union of yoga and children. Founded by Shakta Kaur Khalsa, RCYP began in 1999, and is one of the very first traning programs for teaching children yoga ever offered anywhere in the world.This course will cover:
Learn More about RCY - watch this video Dates: Friday, March 23rd, 8:30am - 6:30pm; Saturday, March 24th, 1:00pm - 9:00pm; and Sunday, March 25th, 8:30am - 6:30pm Shakta Kaur Khalsa, E-RYT 500, AMS Montessori, published author and founder of Radiant Child Yoga, has been an internationally recognized teacher of yoga for both adults and children for the past 35 years. She was recognized by Yoga Journal Magazine as one of the top five Kundalini yoga experts on their 2008 Who's Who List, and is one of the founding mothers of the children's yoga movement. Call (646)638-1444 to reserve your space. To learn more about Shakta, check out her website at www.childrensyoga.com. Click here to download course flier. Click here to learn how to create a children's yoga alter.
Mindfulness & Meditation for Children
Every day children are told to pay attention, yet we never actually teach them how to do this! This course offers you ways to introduce children to a mindfulness practice that engages them, and gives them space to listen to their own thoughts and feelings. Includes both still and moving meditations.Help children tune in, focus better, make sense of their emotions, make good decisions, and experience a richer and more fulfilling day to day experience of life. Date: Saturday, March 24th, 1:00pm - 5:00pm Jennifer Cohen Harper is a leading voice in the children's yoga community and dedicated to making yoga accessible to all children regardless of circumstance. She is the founder and director of Little Flower Yoga. Based in NY, Little Flower directly serves over 700 children per week in NYC schools, and reached many more through a world wide network of trained teachers and school consultations. Jennifer leads the well respected Little Flower Yoga Teacher Training for Children program and frequently collaborates with other organizations to bring yoga for children to places as diverse as tent cities in Port-au-Prince and FAO Schwartz in Manhattan. Jenn is a faculty member at the Omega Institute for holistic studies, is a founding member of the Yoga Service Council, and an active member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists. Children love Jen's willingness to engage in mutual silliness, while also appreciating the genuine respect that she has for her students of all ages.
Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training - Level 1
Focusing on the anatomy and physiology of the female body during pregnancy, you will explore how the changes that affect the body and mind during this time need to be incorporated into an essential exercise routine to avoid injury, stress and exhaustion. Beyond modifying Asanas, the goal of this course is to provide the tools to intelligently adapt anything (from a walk to the grocery store to a challenging inversion) to fit the needs of the pregnant student. We will focus on understanding the female pelvis and core, the deep changes they go through, and how these changes affect the body as a whole. We will also discuss childbirth and how we can help women have a birth experience that is free of trauma and suffering. It is a fundamental part of the Yoga practice to be present in the moment. Helping women achieve this during pregnancy, labor and delivery can be both immensely challenging and overwhelmingly gratifying. LEVEL I – 25 hours What you will learn:
Dates: Friday, May 4th, 9:00am - 6:00pm; Saturday, May 5th, 9:30am - 7:30pm; and Sunday, May 6th, 9:00am - 6:00pm at Karma Kids Yoga. Call (646)638-1444 to reserve your space for this wonderful workshop. Juliana Secches, RYT, Exercise Physiologist, Childbirth Educator, Doula, and Pre/Post Natal expert, created this very informative workshop to share her experience. She developed a true fascination for understanding the movements of the human body from very early in her life. Pregnancy and childbirth were just topics she grew up discussing with her father, who’s an OB/GYN and apprenticed her into a lot of the work she does today. Juliana is also mom to Bruno.
CircusYoga Levels 1 Immersion Teacher Training
WHO takes CircusYoga Teacher Trainings? Anyone who works with groups of people to facilitate learning or healing can benefit from this training: parents, yoga instructors, classroom teachers, circus educators, group counselors, occupational therapists, recreation directors, and any human inspired to embrace the principles of inclusion, connection and play. The current age range of CircusYoga teachers is 13 - 73 years old. WHY CircusYoga? After twenty years of practicing circus and yoga we naturally combined them and found the result was exponentially greater than the sum of its' parts. Both traditions offer a veritable feast of practices, and when blended formed a rich and safe container to explore the expansion of the self and the inclusion of the other. HOW will I learn? We will learn about CircusYoga through the kinesthetic and experiential practice of CircusYoga. Our culture is based on the circle, with each person in that circle holding an essential part of the whole. The principles of inclusion and connection guide us on our journey together. WHAT will I learn? Opening new realms of vocabulary for play, we will explore: mandala yoga, partner yoga, flying yoga, partner acrobatics and human pyramids, juggling scarves, balls, rings, clubs, diabolo, devil sticks, poi, spinning plates, hula hoops, push sticks, clowning and physical comedy, balance on poles, wires and slack lines, thai yoga massage, creative movement and lots of group games. And most importantly, we will examine and reveal our own unique teacher's journey. TEACHER'S JOURNEY CircusYoga Level 1 Immersion
Upcoming Date: Level 1 Immersion - Friday, April 13th - Sunday, April 15th. The weekend kicks off with a CircusYoga Community Workshop, which is included in the tuition. Friday, April 13th, 6:30 - 9:00pm; Saturday, April 14th, 9:30am - 6:00pm; Sunday, April 15th, 9:30am - 1:00pm. Tuition is $295 which includes the manual. Payment is required to reserve your space (partial or full). Click here to download registration form.Tuition is refundable up to 14 days prior to the training minus a $75 processing fee. For cancellations under two weeks, refunds will not be issued, instead the fees paid can be applied to another training within one year of the original training dates.CircusYoga is making space in their trainings at a 50% tuition scholarship for folks who are doing good things in the world or fresh out of college and ready to make the world a better place. Check out the Social Change Scholarship and the Young Adult Intern Scholarship. Call (646)638-1444 to reserve your space for this wonderful workshop. To learn more about CircusYoga, check out their website at www.circusyoga.com.
Every Kid's Yoga: Teaching Yoga to Children with Special Needs
Discover the many ways that yoga can promote the healthy development of children, ages 4-12. Find out how the practice of yoga parallels and supports other therapeutic modalities in addressing difficulties with attention, self-regulation, speech and language, learning, and high and love muscle tone. This experiential workshop will provide a strong foundation to teaching yoga to children with the following special needs:
Diagnoses to include:
The primary focus of this training will be upon working with groups of "higher functioning" children with special needs, who are essentially "physically able". This training will not address working with severely physically, developmentally, cognitively, or emotionally challenged children. Basic information will be provided through the training to assist participants in understanding the needs and challenges of the population outlined above. Professional therapists may benefit from this training by learning creative, developmentally appropriate, fun ways of engaging and supporting children with special needs in the practice of yoga. This program is appropriate for yoga teachers and parents, teachers and therapists wtih a personal yoga practice who are interested in incoporating yoga into their work with children. As a result of taking this program, participants will be able to:
Date: Friday, July 20th, 6:00pm - 9:00pm; Saturday, July 21st and Sunday, July 22nd, 9:00am - 6:00pm. Call (646)638-1444 to reserve your space for this wonderful workshop. Craig Hanauer is a New York State Certified Creative Arts Therapist, a Kripalu Certified Yoga Teacher, and a Yoga Alliance 500-hour Registered Yoga Teacher. Committed to the health and empowerment of children, Craig has developed "Every Kid's Yoga", a unique and successful program for children with special needs that integrates the creative arts, yoga, and play. He specializes in training yoga teachers, special educators, occupational therapists and parents in this theraputic and fun-filled approach to working with kids. Craig maintains faculty positions at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health and The Parkside School, a non-public special education elementary school located on New York's Upper West Side, and is developing yoga-related products and materials for special educators and parents. Zenergy Kids Foundation Teacher Training
Discover the privilege and opportunity of touching the lives and making a difference for children. You will learn all the components that make up a great children's yoga class (movements, specific exercises, meditations, relaxations and more), the skills to be a good, engaging and inspiring yoga teacher (designing, planning and structuring great classes, focusing on aims and outcomes, being flexible and adaptable, establishing boutndaries and rules, additing variety, delivering with passion and enthusiasm, varying pace and tone, utilizing positive reinforcement); teaching and designing classes that leave each and every child feeling happy, empowered, and believing in themselves. The Zenergy Kids Teacher Training Program will:
Date: Friday, July 27th, 3:00pm - 7:00pm; Saturday, July 28th and Sunday, July 29th, 9:00am - 6:00pm.
Zenergy Kids Advanced Teacher Training After completing the Zenergy Foundations course, the next step in your training as a Children's Yoga teacher will be to participate in the Zenergy Advanced course. In this course you will learn how to:
Date: Monday, July 30th, 1:00pm - 6:00pm; Tuesday, July 31st, 9:00am - 6:00pm; and Wednesday, August 1st, 9:00am - 5:00pm. Special offer: Register for both Foundation and Advanced courses and save $200! Register early for both and save $400 ($1190 for both courses).
Zenergy Yoga Therapy for Kids
Discover the privilege and opportunity of using Yoga Therapy to touch the lives and make a difference for children and teens. Learn to treat common ailments and issues that they are facing today. Yoga Therapy is a specialized discipline of Yoga that corrects and treats ailments and conditions. It can be utilized to effectively treat issues as simple as the common cold to major diseases such as cancer. Yoga Therapy works by bringing the body back into balance. Combining specific exercises, movements, postures, relaxation and breathing, the body and its systems are cleansed, strengthened and rejuvenated. This unique style of yoga provides the benefit of being able to diagnose, target and fix issues relating to organ function, energy flow and body structure. This course is for Yoga Teachers who wish to specialize in or expand their knowledge of working with children and teens. It is for educators that want to bring Yoga Therapy into their classroom, for parents who want the benefits for their own children, and it can be utilized anywhere. You will learn:
Date: Saturday, August 4th and Sunday, August 5th, 9:00am - 6:00pm Loraine Rushton is an international expert in children's yoga and the founder of Zenergy Yoga in Australia. She has worked with thousands of individuals throughout the world on their health and well=being. She is a master in health, nutrition, wellness, yoga therapy, and helping people achieve and maintain optimal health. Loraine's philosophy is that all children are perfect beings with gifts to share. Her mission is to unlock that potential in every child, so they believe in themselves and shine their light out into the world. Special offer: Register for all three courses and save $300! Register early for all three courses and save $600 ($1685 for Foundations, Advanced, and Yoga Therapy courses).
The Business of Kids Yoga Now that you have your Children's Yoga Certification, or may be in the process of obtaining it, what do you do next? There are different ways you can begin, depending on your goals.In this new course from Karma Kids Yoga, you will learn all the necessary steps to getting started. From finding jobs to opening your own studio; from setting up and naming your business, to promoting it and ethically nurturing it's growth, to every last detail for setting up a children's yoga program.We'll discuss setting up rates and schedules, insurance and legal parameters, policies and customer relations, business ethics and yoga, marketing, advertising and pr strategies, and everything else you can do to get your name out there.Don't miss this purely business workshop where you will be overloaded with important information and key marketing tips and tricks, as well as an opportunity for Q&A from the founder of Karma Kids Yoga.There is nothing more rewarding than introducing children to the world of yoga! But you have to be able to manage the business end, too! Date: coming in 2012! Inversion Workshop with Jodie Rufty
Inversions make us stronger. They improve strength in our spines and upper body as well as mental and emotional courage. Inversions invite us to gently confront our fears and therefore move through them. Through constant discipline and practice, inversions can soon become as effortless as standing on one's own two feet. When we can stand tall in our power, anything is possible and therefore there is nothing we cannot achieve! Join Jodie in this fun-filled, empowering and courageously uplifting afternoon. You will explore your fears and how to finally let them go with love. To learn more about Jodie Rufty, visit her website at www.awakeningtothetruthofyoga.com.
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