West Hollywood

 

Yin Yoga is a practice to create equilibrium through opening the body as it surrenders into long-held mostly supported floor postures. In this practice the body and mind are invited to stretch, become quiet and inquire within. It is a compliment to any yang (strengthening) style practice, focusing on targeting meridians through soft tissue, joint mobility & calming of the mind.

In this four weekend training we will cover the purpose of Yin Yoga and how it can be an indispensable tool to balance a busy lifestyle.

You will learn:
• The archetypal, fundamental Yin postures, targeted benefits and modifications.
• To deepen your awareness on anatomy, focusing on the spine, hips & shoulders
• The vital difference between "tension" and "compression" and how it shows up in postures.
• The difference between "function" and "aesthetics" within poses.
• The "Three Mindful Vitamins" to help deepen your meditation practice.
• Yin Teaching and Sequencing through the "Three Layers of Awareness".

This training is for students, yoga teachers wanting to deepen their knowledge of Yin Yoga & qualifies for continuing education credits for those registered with the Yoga Alliance.

Yin Yoga Training: 50 Hour Module
Bianca Amelie Fearon
June 8th-June 30th
(Please note the below correct start-/end-times)
Saturdays | 1:30-6:30pm
Sundays | 12:45-6pm
$895 | $795 before April 10th*

Bianca Fearon is an E-RYT 500 and YogaWorks teacher trainer. She has studied Yin, under her beloved mentors, Yin anatomy experts Paul & Suzee Grilley, and modern Buddhism pioneer Sarah Powers. She teaches Yin Yoga with a functional anatomy approach, steeped in mindfulness practices. She leads 200- and 300-hour Yoga Alliance Certified Teacher Training programs, alongside 50-hour modular workshops. Bianca lives and shares from a place of appreciation for yoga, an how powerful it can be as a means and refuge to dwell in a state of inner balance.

 

 

Instagram: @biancafearonyoga

 

 

 

It’s about time we looked at the practice in new ways.

 

This workshop is for students and teachers alike who are ready to be inspired and leave behind the things that aren’t working. Whether you’ve stagnated on your mat, or just been away for awhile, this experience will the perfect way to reinvigorate your yoga for the new year.

This week-long series will take an honest look at some of the stuff we’ve been doing in modern yoga and offer ways to improve upon it. There is so much current research happening around yoga and movement. We will be using some of this new information to inform and refine what we are doing with our bodies. It will be a very physical week so be prepared for a challenge.

 

Abhyasa means practice, or the effort towards aligning and re-aligning one’s attention to the present moment. This training establishes you in the roots and rituals of Yoga through practice and presence.

We will employ the yogic practices of asana, pranayama (breath work), chanting, and various methods of meditation as our elemental practice. You will gain a profound understanding of the foundational asanas as alignment tools for safe physical practice, and for yoking the mind to the moment. Asanas are presented as elemental, sustaining, and deepening as well as a means to return to center to illuminate the path of creative sequencing.

In addition, we will consider various ethical observances to inform and sustain our choices on our mats, with our students, and in daily life.

This training includes includes:

• Asana practice engaging body, mind & spirit
• The deconstruction of asana into primary movement principles for clarity of alignment & sequencing
• Functional Anatomy & Physiology: short segments to support movement & breath principles with relevance & meaning
• Movement inquiries for evolving a keen and subtle awareness of Proprioception that you can awaken in your students
• History & Philosophical concepts of classical Yoga
• Pranayama practices to refine attention & shift vital energy
• Dharana: multiple paths to focus your mind for contemplation
• Basic Sanskrit pronunciation for key concepts
• Yama & Niyama: learning & living the yogic ethical observances, on & off the mat

Program Dates
June 22-23
July 6-7
July 20-21
July 27-28
Aug 10-11
Aug 17-18

Program Hours
Saturdays
11a-7p Training Center

Sundays
9a-5p Training Center

Tiffany Russo is a Los Angeles based dedicated yoga teacher and practitioner and lead trainer of Annie Carpenter’s SmartFLOW yoga methodology. While her classes are rooted in classical yoga asana, Tiffany’s teaches a modern approach into the journey of asana. It is clear there is a community of support within each classroom setting; and an understanding that the physical practice is a way to stay curious and pay attention with how we are in relationship to the world. Tiffany has graced the cover of Yoga Journal and has been featured in both Yoga Journal magazine and their online content. She travels internationally to lead Yoga & Surf retreats and join in the Wanderlust Festivals

*Part 1 of the SmartFLOW 200 Hour Teacher Training. SmartFLOW® Yoga is an intelligent marriage of mindful movement with compassionate, wakeful alignment. A SmartFLOW® practice is at once physically and mentally challenging, rooted in classical yoga, yet safe and playful, tempered by modern anatomy and community connection.

 

Join us for an afternoon highlighting the physical benefits of yoga with recommendations for practicing yoga to address lower back pain as featured in the book, Yoga Forma: A Visual Resource Guide for the Spine and Lower Back. Anatomy and biomechanics (kinesiology) will be highlighted as participants explore the nuances of traditional yoga asanas through lecture, observation and practice. Emphasis will be placed on injury prevention for healthy practitioners, rehabilitation of previously diagnosed injuries and refining your practice. Conditions related to lower back pain, such as sciatica, lumbar sprain, herniated discs, scoliosis, spondylosis and more will be discussed.

 

Meditation is for everyone. Have you always wanted to meditate, but don't know where to begin? Or, did you start a meditation practice but quickly fell off the wagon? All you need is a little instruction on how to train your brain and before you know it, you'll be harnessing the power of your mind and improving your life.

 

Meditating has been proven to help reduce anxiety and depression, boost energy, and increase clarity and joy. As yogis have known for centuries and scientists have more recently discovered, the benefits of meditation are profound!

 

Meditation can help you:

TRAUMA-INFORMED YOGA TRAINING

 

JUNE 24-28, 2019
Mon-Tue 9am-5pm

Wed-Thu 9am-6pm

Fri          9am-1pm

$650 **see below for additional pricing options

2301 Main St. Suite A, Santa Monica, CA 90405
(310) 272-5641

A training for yoga teachers, clinicians, social workers, medical personnel and/or individuals working with communities with trauma.

This 5 day training, is designed to offer a physiological framework of shock and complex trauma and how they manifest in the body and mind. We will give you tools from the growing field of trauma research, yoga, and mindfulness to manage and even resolve symptoms of trauma. Our goal is to equip yoga teachers to teach to students with trauma, and to offer tools to those working with those with trauma in other capacities.

Anxiety, depression, behavioral issues, relationship stress, and health issues are often the result of unresolved trauma. The goal of a trauma informed yoga practice is to build resiliency and establish greater self-regulation. It is about feeling safe and at home in our bodies so that we can feel stable, have good self-esteem, and healthy relationships. A trauma informed yoga practice is sensitive to the needs of a participant with trauma symptoms, and offers them tools to feel safe, empowered and self-regulated

Along with addressing individuals, this training will explore how systemic patterns of trauma, at the heart of social justice issues such as poverty and racism, impact entire communities of people.

This training is for yoga teachers who would like to work with individuals or communities with trauma. It is also for clinicians, social workers, medical personnel, or anyone else who would like to integrate basic yoga tools into their work to support greater health and well-being.

This 40 hour training covers the following essential information for teaching trauma informed yoga:

• Shock, developmental, complex, and collective trauma
• The stress response and the nervous system
• Somatic therapy tools for resourcing and discharge
• Yoga postures, breathing techniques, and meditations that support greater self-regulation
• Trauma informed cueing and sequencing
• Practice teaching
• Social Justice basics
• Self-awareness (how our personal life experiences inform our work)
• Vicarious trauma and Self-care

This training differs from the 3 day training in that much more time is dedicated to practice teaching, creating sequences and curriculum, and exploring the main topics in depth.

Discount Rate: $500; Workshop Rate: $650; Supporter Rate: $800

*We are using sliding scale pricing to make this workshop affordable for those who cannot pay the full fee. We know that many people interested in this work volunteer their time without pay. We ask that you pay what you can afford. Those of you who can pay the Supporter rate allow us to offer the discount rate as well as scholarships.

Hala Khouri M.A., SEP, E-RYT, has been teaching yoga & the movement arts for over 20 years. She is trained in Somatic Experiencing, a body-based psychotherapy that addresses trauma & its symptoms. Hala is a co-founder of Off the Mat, Into the World, which bridges yoga & activism within a social justice framework. She leads trauma informed yoga trainings nationally and her own 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training in Los Angeles.

Kyra Haglund, LCSW, SEP, E-RYT is a clinical social worker, Somatic Experiencing practitioner & yoga teacher based in Los Angeles. She is a co-creator of the Santa Monica Yoga Teacher Training Program & the Trauma Informed Yoga Program. Kyra completed her graduate studies in social work at USC focusing on mental health, military social work, family systems & public policy.

Join UZIT Instructors Tracy Griffiths and Lisa Thompson for an afternoon of pure joy and bliss!

 

This workshop will start with a 25-minute warm-up and then will begin working on different handstand drills, including wall drills, press drills, as well as flexibility drills. We will also work on different transitions into and out of handstand and various yoga poses.

 

YOGA OF 12-STEP RECOVERY

 

JULY 19-21, 2019

Fri 11am-7pm

Sat & Sun 12pm-7pm

$550; $495 if paid before 6/21

 

YogaWorks West Hollywood

1067 N Fairfax Ave, West Hollywood, CA 90046

(323) 654-2125

 

The Y12SR program presents a framework for addiction recovery that includes the cognitive approach of 12-step programs, the trauma healing approach of Somatic Experiencing and body-based approaches of yoga and mindfulness.

Using material from ancient texts, trauma research and modern neuroscience studies, we’ll learn how combining cognitive and somatic approaches can support changes in brain patterning. Y12SR training equips participants with the knowledge, understanding and application of yoga and the 12 steps. Participants will gain the tools to offer weekly Y12SR classes in their communities.

In this 3 day training we will:

• Investigate yogic and 12-step principles as a foundation of recovery
• Recognize the symptomology of unresolved trauma and nervous system dys-regulation
• Discover sustainable ways for self-regulation and stress management that enhance physical, mental and spiritual well-being
• Recognize the traps of projection, transference, counter-transference, boundary violations and spiritual bypass
• Develop a network of professionals including trauma experts and others in the addiction recovery treatment field

This is a combination of the Y12SR Intensive and the Leadership trainings. This training results in full Y12SR certification.

An accomplished teacher, speaker, and founder of Y12SR: The Yoga of 12-Step Recovery, Nikki Myers is a Yoga Therapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and ARISE Interventionist Intern. Based in its theme ‘the issues live in the tissues’, Y12SR is a relapse prevention program weaving the art & science of yoga with the practical tools of 12-step programs. Nikki’s work has been featured in the NY Times, Huntington Post, Yoga Journal, and Origins Magazine. She received the 2014 NUVO Cultural Visionary Award. Y12SR meetings are available throughout the U.S. and internationally. The curriculum is features in many addiction treatment centers. www.y12sr.com

 

The Wee Yogis Kids Yoga Teacher Training is a 16-hour training that focuses on teaching kids ages 2-12. It is open to anyone who wants to teach and inspire kids through yoga, whether you’re looking to teach yoga to children as a career, incorporate some of these practices into your current work with children, or just to pass on to your own kids.

Through the use of imagination, stories, music, games, poses, breathing exercises, and more, this training will pass on tools to help children develop a mind-body connection, release stress, gain confidence, and learn to express themselves. All trainees will receive the Wee Yogis Play Teaching Manual and a certificate of completion.

Wee Yogis introduces kids of all ages to yoga and mindfulness through fun, interactive, and effective learning environments and transformational media. We help kids stay connected to their child-like freedom through the use of yoga, mindfulness, music, art, and interactive play.

 

 

 

Inspired to travel? Ready to explore your practice alongside a sapphire ocean or the golden-sand beaches? Reconnect with yourself in Paros, Greece or Sri Lanka as you deepen your practice, learn how to teach, and make life long friends from all over the world! Meet David Kim & Anna Zorzou and get an overview of the 4-Week, All-Inclusive, Destination Teacher Training program curriculum. The complimentary session begins with an hour-long practice taught in the YogaWorks method followed by a Q&A session.

 

 

 

Deepen your yoga practice in a unique and immersive way with sound, breathwork, and vibrations. This experiential workshop invites you on a deeper discovery of your body, mind, and soul.