Midtown

• Lineage & Experience: We've refined our comprehensive curriculum over 25 years.

• Intelligent Sequencing: Learn the art and science of designing and delivering a safe, dynamic class.

• Learn to truly teach: Our program isn't about memorizing and reciting sequences. Instead an emphasis is placed on teaching principles for clearly instructing students bodies into alignment.

• Find Yourself: We give you the space and opportunity to find your own teaching style.

• Global Recognition: With a legacy that includes today's yoga leaders and over 10,000 alumni, YogaWorks teacher training is respected worldwide.

• Yoga Alliance 5 Star Rating Class Requirement

• We will begin with a discussion to help troubleshoot common pitfalls in handstand practice and identify key alignment and anatomical considerations.
• We will explore breath and bandha, and how to build your own “inner parachute” for floating transitions.
• We will brainstorm sustainable “exit” strategies.
• We will learn some “animal walk” exercises that bring weight into the shoulder girdle, increase mobility in the hips shoulders and back, and prepare the body for handstand.
• We will build a foundation that creates confidence, body awareness, and a more certain path in and out of handstand.
• Students will practice core exercises to identify and target the Transverse Abdominis, Pelvic Floor musculature, and Serratus Anterior that helps to support a strong handstand practice.
• We will move through sun salutations and hamstring stretches to prepare the body, interspersed with handstand work and partner exercises. Lily will introduce a three pronged approach to use the wall to move away from the wall in handstand on the path towards free flying in the middle of the room.
• Time towards the end will be given for deep stretches to open the chest, hips, neck, and shoulders..
• At the end of the workshop, students will receive a take home exercise protocol in their email inbox to continue the daily work of supporting the strong core that is needed for a more adventuresome inversion practice.
  
  

This workshop is open to intermediate level students who have an established handstand practice at the wall already.

Lily Dwyer Begg has been practicing yoga since 1999 and teaching since 2005. Her healing work is a labor of love has brought her to teach in yoga studios internationally, to work therapeutically with private clients, to teach for an NBA basketball team, an NCAA diving team, at the San Francisco Opera & Ballet and to offer yoga to homeless women and children. As a bodyworker, Lily’s practice is informed by her lifelong, embodied understanding of anatomy as a yogini and a dancer and is strong yet tuned-in, specific and therapeutic yet at the same time delightfully pampering. Her work is founded in the scope of Swedish, Deep Tissue, and Sports massage, utilizing techniques including Joint Mobilization, Trigger Points and Post Isometric Reflex. She seeks to help people increase body awareness, unravel long-held body tension patterns that are no longer of service, and discover possibilities for healing, pain reduction, and inner harmony.

Full payment is required to reserve a space in workshops. All workshops are non-refundable. Cancellations made two weeks or more prior to workshop start date will be issued store credit. No store credit will be given for cancellations made less than two weeks prior to workshop start date. YogaWorks is not responsible for any costs incurred for travel arrangements or accommodations related to this event.

• be introduced to the wheel
• experience a variety of poses and exercises
• learn how to incorporate this unique device into your practice
• explore new ways to challenge your body in familiar shapes. For example, back bending
• postures can be difficult, but the YOGA WHEEL can make back bending playful and effortless!

• We will explore mindful movement and breath techniques to help students learn to calm themselves down in the moment.
• Students will learn how to tell a story through yoga poses and will be invited to create their own yoga stories.
• By developing a sense of internal awareness while moving through space, students learn to better control their actions, improve concentration, filter out distractions, reduce stress, and make discoveries about themselves and others in a fun and positive way.

• Understand the anatomy and alignment behind the handstand posture
• Learn drills and techniques geared specifically toward strength-building
• Learn stretching techniques to help open your tight or overused shoulders
• Use myofascial release techniques to release muscle tension from inversions
• Build confidence to further your inversion practice as you equip yourself with tips and techniques for your home inversion practice 

Substantiate yourself, develop competency, and free up your imagination. From the esoteric ideas of Taosim, to the very pragmatic way of holding a right angle, we will move through techniques that articulate the Katonah Yoga theory that you may have heard, but have not yet made use of in your teaching or embodied in your practice.

Whether you are a teacher seeking theory in order to better mentor your students, a student searching to deepen your practice, a practitioner dealing with an injury, or a new practitioner seeking a way to integrate yoga into your life; our intensive will inform, inspire, and usher you on your path towards becoming a sphere of influence on and off the mat.

Abbie Galvin is the owner of The Studio, a NYC based yoga studio, teaching Katonah Yoga. She has been honing this practice for the past 25 years and has a strong student-base from all around the world. Abbie's instruction is informed by her own creative process as a filmmaker and from her exploration of the therapeutic process as a psychoanalyst. She has learned over and over that truly participating in any formal process of self-exploration leads to transformation whether it be physical, psychological or intellectual. Her goal is to engage students of yoga in the dialogue between their conscious and their unconscious selves because it is through that effort that we potentiate ourselves. It is her intention as a teacher to cajole each student in that most rigorous effort to be grounded, grow upwards, and to participate in the creation of their best self.

Alex Sharry has been teaching yoga for the past six years throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn. She uses movement, repetition and rhythm as driving forces in her class and believes that through the practice, students have the ability to turn their garbage into gold. Alex's practice at Katonah Yoga teaches her that when we explore our second, third, and fourth natures, we are better able to discern our blind spots and avoid being blindsided in our lives. Moving into the areas where we don’t go ultimately puts us where we need to be, and when we get closer to ourselves in these shapes we get closer to ourselves in our lives.

Full payment is required to reserve a space in workshops. All workshops are non-refundable. Cancellations made two weeks or more prior to workshop start date will be issued store credit. No store credit will be given for cancellations made less than two weeks prior to workshop start date. YogaWorks is not responsible for any costs incurred for travel arrangements or accommodations related to this event.

Week 1: April 13, 2019
Menu: The big bowl - make a salad / make a wrap / rethink your main meal
Movie: Forks Over Knives

Week 2: April 27, 2019
Menu: Noodles and soups
Movie: Cowspiracy

Week 3: May 11, 2019
Menu: breakfast - smoothies / green bowl / cereal bowl (start with hot lemon/ginger)
Movie: That sugar movie

Week 4: May 25, 2019
Menu: desserts and snacks - natural sweets
Movie: Dirt

Meet Martha McAlpine
Raised abroad in Africa and Saudi Arabia as the youngest of 5 girls, Martha is a homeschool mama to Maddox (14) and Lily (12). A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Graduate School of Education with a focus on experiential curriculum design and learning styles, her kids are her lifelong dissertation.

A teacher at YogaWorks with 20+ years of yoga and coaching experience, she is trained as a coach and facilitator to run workshops on movement and philosophy; to guide groups toward optimal wellness and how to live a Good Life.

Full payment is required to reserve a space in workshops. All workshops are non-refundable. Cancellations made two weeks or more prior to workshop start date will be issued store credit. No store credit will be given for cancellations made less than two weeks prior to workshop start date. YogaWorks is not responsible for any costs incurred for travel arrangements or accommodations related to this event.

In traditional Chinese medicine and culture, “Qi” is the vital life force or energy that exists within all living things. “Gong” roughly translates to practice or cultivation. Qigong, then, is an ancient Chinese healing practice that uses breath, posture, movement, and the mind to affect positive changes in one’s energy balance and internal strength. Qigong has been shown to improve health, vitality, and energy levels, increase mental acuity, reduce stress, and bring about a more tranquil state of mind.

Qigong is closely related to other traditional forms of Chinese medicine, including acupuncture and herbal medicine, except it involves no external tools. The practitioner only utilizes their own body, mind, and breath! Its self-healing effects are supported by modern science, in that it boosts blood circulation, has a positive effect on brain chemistry, and generates strong magnetic fields.

The concept of Qi roughly parallels that of Prana in the Ayurvedic/Yogic tradition. Yoga and Qigong are both Eastern spiritual practices that share similar concepts and goals, including optimizing physical and mental health, meditation, self-study, and a connection to the divine.

In the workshop, you will learn:

• The background and scientific foundations of Qigong
• The many health and healing benefits of Qigong practice
• The basics of Qigong standing, posture, alignment, movement, and breath
• The complete Qigong Level 1 Healing Form
• Powerful, meditative breath techniques to enhance the flow of Qi in the body

Joshua Craddock has worked in wellness full-time since graduating with degrees in Exercise Science and Sport Studies from Towson University in 2009. He is a Certified Exercise Physiologist and Strength and Conditioning Specialist who works regularly with a variety of populations in the health/fitness fields. Joshua has trained in the martial arts since the age of 6, which established his interest in Eastern traditions from an early age. In 2017, he passed his Level 1 Qigong Instructor certification through Supreme Science Qigong Center. He has also completed 200 hour teacher trainings through Charm City Yoga and Yogaworks. He is very proud and thankful to be a member of the Yogaworks community and for the opportunity to share his knowledge and passion with others.

Full payment is required to reserve a space in workshops. All workshops are non-refundable. Cancellations made two weeks or more prior to workshop start date will be issued store credit. No store credit will be given for cancellations made less than two weeks prior to workshop start date. YogaWorks is not responsible for any costs incurred for travel arrangements or accommodations related to this event.

• Yoga instructors and practitioners who wish to gain more knowledge about yoga asana, functional anatomy & kinesiology to use in a classroom setting with individuals or for self-practice.
• Health care professionals and body workers who want to deepen their knowledge and understanding of yoga to utilize in treatment or programming (physical therapists, nurses, Pilates, personal trainers, athletes, dancers, etc.)
• Individuals who have been diagnosed with physical conditions and injuries who want to participate safely in yoga classes.
• Healthy active, people who want to improve self-awareness and Injury prevention

(CECs- 2.5 or 3.0 contact hours, Anatomy and Physiology, YACEP)

The book based on the series topic, “Yoga Forma: A Visual Resource Guide for the Spine and Lower Back” ” (Romy Phillips, MFA, E-RYT500, C-IAYT and Z Altug, PT, DPT, CSCS, OCS). will be available for sale.

Yoga practitioners of all ages, levels and ability.

ROMY PHILLIPS, MFA, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT is a certified yoga instructor who has been teaching since 2001. In addition to workshops and retreats, she leads 200Hr and 300Hr teacher trainings for Yoga Works in Japan, China and Vietnam. Romy has a developed a 30Hr anatomy and yoga injury management intensive that is held exclusively at First Ship Yoga Academy, Tokyo. She is the author of “Yoga Forma: A Visual Resource Guide for the Spine and Lower Back.” (Plain Sight Publishing, 2018).

Full payment is required to reserve a space in workshops. All workshops are non-refundable. Cancellations made two weeks or more prior to workshop start date will be issued store credit. No store credit will be given for cancellations made less than two weeks prior to workshop start date. YogaWorks is not responsible for any costs incurred for travel arrangements or accommodations related to this event.

• sequence and teach a restorative yoga class
• seamlessly integrate restorative poses into other yoga styles (even hot vinyasa!)
• create a space where students can experience physical and emotional healing
• articulate the role of relaxation in achieving optimal health
• confidently provide hands-on assists
• use voice as a tool to invoke meditative mind states and bring students to deeper relaxation

Lorien Nemec, As YogaWorks Baltimore's Senior restorative teacher, EYT-500 Lorien Nemec brings her passion for the practice to every moment of her work with students and teachers alike. Over the years she has taught the restorative section of multiple 200 hour yoga teacher trainings, one five hundred hour training, and led a restorative training at Johns Hopkins University as well. With over ten years of restorative teaching under her belt, she is convinced that the practice is crucial to the evolution of the human species—one breath, one relaxed moment at a time.

Full payment is required to reserve a space in workshops. All workshops are non-refundable. Cancellations made two weeks or more prior to workshop start date will be issued store credit. No store credit will be given for cancellations made less than two weeks prior to workshop start date. YogaWorks is not responsible for any costs incurred for travel arrangements or accommodations related to this event.