Playa Vista

YOGA TUNE UP® CORE IMMERSION

SEPTEMBER 12-15, 2019
Thurs-Fri 11am-6pm
Sat 12-7pm
Sun 12:30-7:30pm
$645 | $595 by August 22nd

18700 Ventura Blvd Suite 210, Tarzana, CA 91356
(818) 457-6900

 

 

Connect to your core from inside-out and integrate your whole body's tissue dynamics. Embody breath practices that restore, repair and recondition every aspect of yourself.

 

What do you learn in Yoga Tune Up® Core Integration Immersion Training?

 

We are a stressed culture that sits longer, commutes longer and looks down at our phones and computers way longer than we probably should. Stress and anxiety is at an all time high and we can all benefit from slowing down and taking better care of ourselves.

 

This program will provide you with a wider base of knowledge on how to create a healing and safe practice for your students. You will learn about anatomy and gain a deeper understanding about how the body moves. We will cover different injuries and special conditions in depth, how to modify and how to work with several injuries at once. This training comes with a detailed manual filled with the tools and inspiration needed to create an all-inclusive therapeutic experience for your students.

 

50-HOUR YIN YOGA TEACHER TRAINING

SEPTEMBER 15-19, 2019
Sunday-Thursday

8am-3pm (lunch daily 11am-12pm)

$895, $795 by September 1

YogaWorks Teacher Training Center
2301 Main Street Suite A (behind Samosa House, the TT Center is painted white)
Santa Monica, CA 90405
(310) 272-5641

What is Yin Yoga?
Yin Yoga is a style of yoga that typically incorporates longer, passive postural holds. Bodyweight and gravity apply gentle, sustained strain on joint tissues, eliciting a profound physiological effect that’s different from more dynamic (“yang”) styles of yoga.

What Can Yin Yoga Teach Us?
Yin Yoga is an ideal forum to explore both Eastern and Western approaches to the physical and energy bodies. It highlights the uniqueness -- as opposed to standardized “norms” -- of our bodies so that we can better understand our true potential for both movement and mindfulness. Yin classes may explore several avenues: myofascial patterning, stimulation of Chi meridians, preparation for meditation, nervous-system regulation.

How Will Yin Yoga Improve My Teaching Skills?
The Yin approach to anatomy empowers both newer and experienced teachers to move beyond rote verbal cues, by developing a sharper eye for different body types and a more spacious understanding of asana. Yin teachers learn how to create a meditative space that coaxes students to see beyond their habitual mental distractions, where most suffering originates.

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Yin Yoga is quickly becoming one of the most influential styles of yoga in the world. A much-needed counterbalance to Power or Vinyasa styles, Yin exercises our body and mind through longer, passive postures that apply gentle stress to our joint tissues via bodyweight and gravity.

Yin anatomy combines Eastern and Western perspectives by highlighting the unique potential – rather than standardized “norms” -- of our bodies. This course empowers teachers to move beyond rote verbal cues and “pretty” poses, by developing a sharper eye for different body types and a more spacious understanding of asana. We will learn how to develop a meditative classroom space that coaxes students to see beyond their habitual distractions, where most suffering originates.

In this 50-Hour Course, you will learn:

• Fundamental Yin Yoga Postures, Modifications, and Sequences
• Functional Anatomy Focused on Skeletal Variations, Proportions, and Connective-Tissue Research
• How To Understand Bodies, Instead of Memorizing Poses
• How To Integrate Mindfulness Into Asana and Meditation
• How To Integrate a Yin Approach Into Yang-style classes

A Senior International YogaWorks Teacher Trainer, David Kim (E-RYT500) teaches Yin Yoga in the style of his pioneering mentors Paul & Suzee Grilley. His ongoing anatomy studies include cadaver dissections with fascia pioneers Gil Hedley & Tom Myers, and research updates at international Fascia conferences and functional-movement workshops. David’s meditation practice is rooted in the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program.

 

In this transformational workshop, learn a simple yet powerful pranayama that is not typically taught in yoga classes, and yet can create positive and lasting shifts in your life.

 

By raising Prana in the subtle bodies, this breathwork technique releases physical and emotional blocks, as well as stubborn mental constructs, and takes you into the celestial realms of Pure Awareness.

 

Maggie and Stella will guide you into a deeply relaxed and expanded state in a reclined position, using spoken word and evocative sacred sound, including native drum & sound bowls. Leave feeling enlightened!

 

Please note: As this class involves breath retentions, it is not suitable if you are pregnant, have heart disease, or you are on prescription medication to balance emotional levels.

 

Experience your hips beyond classic hip openers, dig into spaces that go beyond your natural flexibility and allow you to deepen your personal relationship with this area of the body.

 

The autumn equinox is a powerful time of year! Join us as we use this energy to go on a journey of deep releasing, relaxing and replenishing.

 

You can look forward to:

KUNDALINI YOGA – a tradition what awakens the inner power that existing within all. It is a practice that meets you where you’re at and takes you where you want to go. Using breathwork, dynamic movements, chanting of mantras, and meditation.

 

POWERFUL BREATHWORK - Flow through the peaks and valleys of consciousness, breaking through old fears, dissolve limitation and dive into the vase ocean of awareness.

 

SOUNDBATH - Balance your chakras and release blocked energy. Relax and replenish every nerve and cell in your body. Using Tibetan & Crystal Healing Bowls, Chimes, a multitude of Gongs & drums. Sound healing has been clinically shown to support people suffering from stress related disorders and chronic pains as well as patients undergoing cancer treatment.

 

"Guru Mitar’s breathwork & heart opening workshops are a must! I feel so rejuvenated, elated, & ecstatic every time I work with her. The absolute healing love & joy she emanates is palpable. I cannot say enough about her energetic presence. The amount of time & energy she puts into her classes & workshops is beyond most. GuruMitar, is a divine gift & perhaps one the most genuine teachers I have ever met!” - Heather

 

This workshop is perfect for all levels of practice, except those who are over 3 months pregnant. It’s recommended to refrain from eating or drinking a large amount before coming to the event. Please bring a pillow from home.

 

In Iyengar Yoga, at its foundation, it is suggested we address the pelvis first. In this workshop, you will:

 

Whether you arrive with fatigue, low back trauma, abdominal problems, post-pregnancy imbalances, hip issues, prostate issues, or emotional issues, this workshop should serve you well.

 

At least six months of yoga practice is recommended. Previous Iyengar experience is also advised. Please note that this workshop is not appropriate for those experiencing menstruation or pregnancy.

 

“Healing is much more than straightening a scoliosis curve or curing a disease. It’s learning to love and nurture ourselves and trust our inner knowing to guide us to a vibrant state of being.” -Elise Browning Miller, author of Yoga for Scoliosis

 

Join us in learning how to stretch and strengthen the feet to improve your alignment, on and off the mat.

 

Heal your body and mind to embrace your highest potential for success. Emerge expansive, glowing, radiant, open to new possibilities, with a new connection to the Beauty of You. Attain a deeper connection to the Divine, and learn to lead your life from the heart for a happier life.

 

Transform your classes and practice from "one size fits all" approach to one that is custom tailored to each and every individual. Uncover the commonly overlooked elements that contribute to classes lacking sustainability, accessibility, and philosophical clarity.  Attendance for full weekend is encouraged as all information from prior sessions will be utilized to create new class plans that will start teachers on a road to long term implementation and change. Attendees will leave with concrete methods for developing unique, enjoyable classes for all students.  

Friday | 6:30-9 pm
Philosophy In Asana Classes: A Conundrum  

Teaching philosophy via a physical, asana-based technique can be a challenge. We will spend time devising ways to teach philosophical concepts by both using physicality as a tool, and without using physicality at all. We will look at what we are trying to teach and learn in asana-based yoga classes today, tying those concepts back to classical texts such as The Bhagavad Gita, The Yoga Sutras, and The Upanishads. 

You will:
o Learn how to create classes that are rooted in real time philosophical exploration with poses, activities and inquiry on finding the present moment
o Discover what blocks students from making choices from the present moment
o Determine how to remove blocks by making alternative choices from the present moment

Lecture, Discussion + Practice. 

 

There are some very clear factors causing classes to be less accessible and sustainable than we would like. In this workshop, we will look at a well-defined list of factors that Alexandria has spent years compiling and researching that are affecting current classes in ways that are less than optimal. Anatomy, biomechanics, classroom dynamics, verbal instructing techniques and more, will all be included and discussed in the lecture as contributing factors. 

Participants will be offered ways to develop practice and teaching techniques that face those factors head on while taking each individual into account. 

You will: 
o Be guided through physical practices comparing and contrasting the current posture teaching methodology 

o Explore new ways to approach asana and experiment with its components 

o Leave with clear ways to incorporate this information into your classes right away

Lecture, Discussion, Practice + Application.

 

 
Sunday | 1:30-6 pm
The Class Planning Rut: Evolving Your Teaching Style

For teachers, class planning can be tricky when met with information overload or when faced with insufficient resources to accomplish the task. Not to mention how scary it can be when introducing something new or different. And then there’s the wild creativity that can creep in just to get out of a perceived rut. 

In this workshop, we will:
o Discuss how to introduce new concepts from the philosophical to the physical
o Learn how to make small changes over time that add up to a huge transformation long term
o Explore a series of mini-practices that creatively approach introducing new information via adapted and more effective postures, progressive drills based on a theme, purposeful movement explorations and more

Lecture, Discussion, Practice + Application. 

 

 

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Join Seane Corn for this special event inspired by her new book, Revolution of the Soul. Seane will lead a yoga class that will explore spiritual tools for individual transformation that can lead to collective liberation, and she will discuss her life, work, and message of transformation, conscious action, and justice.

 

"What an intense and wild time to be alive. There is much conflict and division in our world, but as difficult as these times are, they are also exciting, invigorating, and rich with the possibility for collective freedom."—Excerpt from Revolution of the Soul