Description
Please note: Registration closes 14-days before start date.
Furthering your skills as a teacher and wellness provider with somatic awakening and therapeutic touch. Somatic means through the body. Within our time together we learn how to provide specific movements and postures to uncoil the deeper levels of tension we carry. Learning to seamlessly bring these practices to your Yoga classes and with your one on one clients. We couple these teachings with physical adjustments and gentle massage with a trauma-informed lens, honouring the power of touch and the offerings we can provide for our students.
This training is included in the 300-hour YTT certificate, to become a certified 500-hour Yoga Teacher.
What you will learn:
- What is somatic awakening and how it benefits a movement practice.
- Movements and postures to help release chronic tension.
- The power of touch through a trauma-informed lens.
- How to safely provide physical adjustments.
- Therapeutic touch techniques to offer your students.
- Self-massage techniques for yourself and your students.
Required Reading:
- Therapeutic Yoga in Practice Training Manual (provided on the first day of training)
- Core Awareness by: Liz Koch
Pre-Requisites:
- 200-hour YTT certificate
- Yoga for Wellness +/or Become Trauma Aware or another Trauma-Informed certificate.
- Established Yoga practice.
Each session will open and close with meditation. We will have a master class each day with an opportunity to practice somatic awakening postures, receive physical adjustments and gentle massage. Time will be spent each day to dissect these techniques and to practice within small groups. A final assignment will be given in order to receive your certificate of completion.
Therapeutic Yoga in Practice Module can be taken on its own, or can be included as 22.5-hours towards your 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training Certificate. Within the 300-hour YTT track, training modules can be taken in any order.
22.5 Yoga Alliance CECs +/or 4 canfitpro CECs
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