TEACHER TRAINING:
YOGA THERAPEUTICS
THEORY AND PRACTICE
20-hour Teacher Training Certification
Learning to apply the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of Yoga as a modality of healing is a highly specialized and difficult art. It includes the judicious application of scientific knowledge, intuition, psychological understanding and solid experience. We can teach the intellectual aspects of Yoga therapy, but the intuitive aspects come from one’s own consistent practice.
This teacher training course will introduce the basic concepts of Yoga Therapy, address “therapeutics” in the widest sense, and introduce such concepts as taking a history from the student, suggesting asana for specific problems and evaluating outcome, as well as learning to be present with the whole person asking for help. The course format will be based on asana practice, discussion, observation of others working as well as on hands-on application by each participant. Limited discussion with the most time spent utilizing hands-on application.
Teacher Training Intensive and Certification is for all interested students, and is designed to enrich dedicated practitioners, aspiring teachers, or those already teaching.
Certificates are included for participation in all contact hours.
REQUIRED READING:
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
MASTER CLASS
Freedom from the Hip Joint: Master class offering asana practice and discussion
THE MASTER CLASS
The hip joint is our key joint for standing and walking. It is also the key joint for most yoga poses. In this class we will discuss the basic anatomy of the joint, its normal range of motion, how individual differences shape our yoga practice, which poses are useful for stretching it, and what makes “opening the hip” difficult. Using movement principals, therapeutics and applied asana practice all students and teachers will begin to learn to approach personal practice and teaching with more knowledge and compassion. Bring all your questions.
This class will be geared more for advanced practitioners and teachers and those wanting to deepen their yoga practice and knowledge. Participants should have a minimum of one year active yoga practice.
TEACHER TRAINING:
YOGA THERAPEUTICS
THEORY AND PRACTICE
20-hour Teacher Training Certification
Wednesday, January 21 - Saturday, January 24, 2009
TIMES: 10:00am - 4:00pm (with one hour lunch break)
Master Class
Sunday, January 25, 2009
9:00am - 12:00pm
The practice of yoga is fundamentally an act of kindness toward oneself. This idea is often forgotten, but not by Judith, whose approach is warm, non-judgmental and responsive to individual differences and needs.
Judith H. Lasater, Ph.D., Physical Therapist and internationally known yoga teacher has taught yoga since 1971. She holds a doctorate in East-West psychology and is a physical therapist. Judith is president of the California Yoga Teachers Association, and serves on the advisory boards of Yoga Journal and the Yoga Research and Education Center.
Her yoga training includes study with B. K. S. Iyengar in India and the United States. She teaches ongoing yoga classes and trains yoga teachers in kinesiology, yoga therapeutics, and the Yoga Sutra in the San Francisco Bay Area. Judith also gives workshops throughout the United States, and has taught in Canada, England, France, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, Peru, and Russia.
She is the author of six books: A Year of Living Your Yoga, Yoga Abs, Yoga for Pregnancy, 30 Essential Yoga Poses, Living Your Yoga and Relax and Renew.
• sticky mat
• eye cover
• bolster
• five blankets
• two blocks
• one yoga belt, 6 feet long
For more information, contact us or phone 214-366-2217