Continuing Education
Gentle Yoga Teacher Training, Stress Management Teacher Training, and more
Gentle Yoga TTC
Gentle Yoga is designed for teachers to teach students who need to have the basic yoga postures modified due to age, weight, illness, injury or limited flexibility. Due to poor lifestyles and chronic stress, many students come to yoga unable to safely practice the postures. In keeping with the principle of ahimsa (nonviolence), teachers will learn to teach how to modify the asanas so that their students can benefit from a physical practice as they build the strength and resilience to perform the full postures.
- Help yoga teachers evaluate limitations in their students and suggest modifications of the poses for them
- Include routines for those who need to practice in a chair
- Experience the modifications themselves in class as well as learn them in more detail in workshops
- Include discussions on the philosophy and psychology of teaching gentle yoga
Restorative Yoga TTC
Restorative Yoga is a very gentle yoga practice designed to calm the nervous system and create overall health in the body. It offers simple yet powerful postures that can be integrated into existing yoga classes, healing treatments, or used to teach restorative specific classes. Restorative Yoga is a regenerative healing tool that reduces stress by supporting the body’s innate responses towards homeostasis and health.
Through the use of supported yoga postures, breathing and meditative techniques, a profound sense of relaxation can infuse one’s entire being which leads to healing. Restorative Yoga techniques are helpful in the treatment of nervous system disorders, such as insomnia, hypertension, anxiety, and also with specific ailments such as cancer, although it often used for structural re-alignment and the healing of injuries. When the body is fully supported, it will naturally relax, releasing deeply held tensions.
Restorative yoga is the yoga of non-doing, and focuses on effortlessness and ease, using well-placed blankets, bolsters, yoga straps, and chairs to safely support the body in various postures. This process invokes a natural state of balance, regeneration, and healing rest.
Stress Management the Classical Yoga Way Teacher Training
Stress Management the Classical Yoga Way – Teacher Training Course empowers Yoga teachers with the skills and techniques to educate and support your students to create healthy coping mechanisms to manage stress and lead a more balanced life. This training is based on the time-tested, Classical Yoga practices and contemporary resources to better understand and develop skills to lead a healthy and holistic lifestyle.
This course qualifies for Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Credits for Yoga Teachers.
Topics Covered
The physiology of the stress response is illustrated and discussed. A basic understanding of the nervous system is presented, identifying sympathetic and parasympathetic response. The psychology of the “fight/flight/freeze” response is explained. Participants are encouraged to share personal experiences to help facilitate understanding of the stress response and the many ways that it presents itself in daily life.
Presentations on the benefits of Asana, Pranayama, Savasana, and Diet provide a comprehensive understanding of Yoga techniques to manage stress in a systematic way.
Emotional benefits of Yoga Meditation include gaining new perspective on stressful situations, cultivating new skills to manage stress, increased awareness of the mind’s tendencies, improved concentration (being present), and the reduction/regulation of negative emotions.
Yoga Sadhana for Self Healing
The process of what we call holistic healing is not just healing of the physical body and the mental body but it is seeing under a different light your own Self. The Self, the Atman, is compared to the shining radiant Sun, giving light and life to all around. Self- Healing is allowing your consciousness to enlighten yourself so that you understand that the body and the mind are your instruments, and you are not making the mistake that your body and your mind is your Self.
The Yogic and Vedantic approach to Self-Healing is based on the subtle understanding of a philosophical, consciousness-based interpretation of reality. Self-Healing is about treating the total person where the Self, the Atman, occupies the central role, governing the body and mind from within. From this perspective, we know what to do to discover, strengthen and protect the connection to Self. It is the complete spiritual path offered to ready spiritual seekers and health-conscious individuals in a nut shell.
Swami Sitaramananda condenses gems of wisdom from her 40 years of practice and teaching into 18 sessions and helps you to go straight to the goal, knowing what is important and what is not to be successful in life and in Self-realization.
The course, even though advanced, is open to Yoga students of all levels of practice. Join us for this 18 sessions with Swami Sitaramananda on Yoga Sadhana for Self Healing. Swamiji covers many topics in depth with wisdom and humor that are important for our knowledge and understanding on how to be healthy in body, mind, and spirit.
Upcoming Dates
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| Open Dates | Correspondence Course – Yoga Sadhana for Self Healing (18 Classes) | View Details | Register Now | |
| February 18 - 23, 2025 | Raja Yoga Sutras Study Course | $570.00 | View Details | Register Now |
| March 27 - 30, 2025 | Gentle Yoga Teacher Training | $475.00 | View Details | Register Now |