West Hollywood

 

Ease tension in your body and mind through corrective movement and massage therapy balls.

 

The Yoga Tune Up® 40-hour Certification Program strikes a balance between the worlds of yoga and fitness, attracting trainees of all ages, body types, and movement modalities. It breaks down the nuts and bolts of human movement by using a yogic lens of awareness, conscious relaxation and proper breathing techniques. The  environment fosters trainees into a newly intimate understanding of their own architecture, diving deeply into integrated anatomy and body mechanics. You will go beyond formulaic instruction and truly learn how to think and teach creatively within your specific teaching environment, with both group classes and private clients. Trainees are presented with “template” Yoga Tune Up® classes that can be used to help jumpstart workshops and classes.

 

 

 

In this 40-hour training:

 

 

 

 

 

This 2-day workshop will place a strong emphasis on mindful alignment grounded in both modern human anatomy and the classical yoga concepts of abhyasa (practice) and vairagya (non attachment).

You will learn:

• How to balance the spinal curves through core stabilization.
• Optimal alignment for your standing poses.
• Safe and deep back bending.
• Open and stable shoulder girdle for inversions.

This intensive weekend is designed for experienced students, both new teachers and long-time teachers who want to re-inspire themselves and in turn their students. This 10-hour workshop qualify for Yoga Alliance CEUs plus credit towards your Advanced SmartFLOW certificate. These hours can serve as your prerequisite to Vairagya, if you haven’t completed Abhyasa.

 

 

 

 

Discover how to work with your body, rather than against it. Ellen will help you create a toolbox that will transform your practice as a whole. In this workshop you will discover smart and safe alignment customized to your body, to naturally realign.

 

This is an ideal workshop for anyone with scoliosis and back pain to learn how to use yoga to get out of pain.

 

In this workshop you will:
o Develop breath awareness
o Learn poses that lengthen your spine
o Strengthen back & core muscles
o Understand how to de-rotate your spine
o Realign your posture
o Reduce your pain

 

Vairagya is the ability to accept everything that arises with equanimity. It is the basis for the cultivation of community and the essence of every teacher who wishes to inspire his/her students.

As we delve deeper into the practices, we encounter everything on the spiritual path: strength and flexibility as well as weakness and pain; we find the greatest joy as well as fear and doubt. As spiritual aspirants and guides we gather and balance our energies and intentions to become the light embodied, beacons on this path.

Vairagya topics include:
• Advanced asana: bringing multiple movement principles together in a playful, balanced way
• Creative sequencing that encourages you to find your voice and vary your focus and themes
• Pranayama, guided meditation and philosophical themes as integral, inseparable elements of the practice
• Yoga for longevity: learn modifications for injury prevention and rehabilitation
• Cultivating clear languaging with its basis in structural awareness and thematic development
• Hands-on adjustments that educate your students
• Teacher student relationships: inspire without enmeshing
• Cultivating your life-long home practice: tools for deepening awareness and developing source material for teaching

This 100-hour intensive is designed for experienced students, both new and long-time teachers who want to re-inspire themselves and in turn their students. Eligible for Yoga Alliance CEUs plus credit towards your SmartFLOW hours.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fill your tool-kit with experiential anatomy practices and self-care strategies to heighten your understanding of the upper torso and its limbs. Improve strength, mobility and integrated body awareness. You’ll be guided through a variety of hands-on adjustments, assessments, injury scenarios and meditation. Gain insight on incorporating novel shoulder movements into your classroom (or personal practice) while improving your teaching performance.

 

Each day begins with a performance-focused workshop that incorporates self-massage techniques using a variety of Roll Model® Therapy Balls followed by a movement-based session loaded with out-of-the box moves. Master the multiple simple and complex articulations of the upper body to improve posture and performance while reducing pain.

 

This course is appropriate for students and movement educators who wish to deepen their knowledge and somatic understanding of the human body.


Yoga Tune Up® Shoulders Immersion
Jill Miller
March 20-22, 2020
Friday | 11 am-6 pm

 

 

 

 

Pregnant couples participate in a gentle yoga practice; learn breath work and relaxation, birth positions and also learn how to use a birth ball.

Join other couples in this fun and informative couples pregnancy yoga workshop. Gentle practices and techniques under Patricia’s expert guidance sets the foundation to cultivate awareness of your birthing body and enjoy connection with your partner.

Here's what to look forward to in this supportive and intimate workshop:

 

 

The Spring Equinox is such a potent time of birth & rebirth! As all life blossoms around us, so too do we blossom & awaken. Join us as we use the energy of the Spring Equinox to plant the seed of new life.

 

It’s time to say goodbye to the darkness the things that no longer serve us. It’s time to welcome the light the growth and renewal during this spring season.

 

We will explore:

 

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.

 

Recommended not to eat or drink a lot before coming to the event. Please bring a pillow from home.

 

 
YogaWorks Teacher Training Center, 2301 Main St., Santa Monica

Friday | 9 am-6 pm
Saturday-Sunday | 9 am-5 pm
For yoga & Pilates teachers, body workers, nurses, physical & occupational therapists and all caregivers or wellness experts. This is a two-part comprehensive training, good for those new to the practice as well as teachers who’ve been leading restorative classes for a couple of years.

For more information about this module, click here. (Coming soon!)

Level 1 Foundations

For more information about this module, click here. (Coming soon!)

Learn to create restoratives with 1-3 props.

 

 

This training will focus on incorporating slow, mindful flow yoga sequences into class warm ups, prior to meditation, and/or restorative practices.

For more information about this module, click here. (Coming soon!)

 

Jillian, author of Deep Listening, serves as the Director of the Restorative Therapeutic Yoga Teacher Training for YogaWorks, and is a guest teacher at Kripalu, the Omega Institute, and 1440 Multiversity. Her Calm Body, Clear Mind DVD and Relaxmore CD have garnered excellent reviews from Dr. Mehmet Oz, Yoga Journal, and many others. Jillian is a featured yoga expert for Yoga Journal, Yoga International and Prevention magazine and has been a student of Pema Chodron's work since 1998.

 

 

Surviving the loss or death of a loved one poses one of life’s most challenging situations. It is a uniquely personal and emotional journey many would rather not take. Yet when embarked upon consciously, intense growth and remarkable personal transformation are possible.

 

Join Joan Hyman in this three-day clinic for teachers and practitioners who want to increase their knowledge of asana. This workshop is specifically designed for yogis looking to understand alignment in the postures, and for yoga teachers looking to improve their knowledge of how to read bodies and give adjustments that meet student’s individual needs. This workshop will help you improve your confidence as a teacher by refining your touch skills.