TEACHER SKILLS TRAINING

BEGIN WITH THE BODY, HEAL WITH THE MIND
Restful yoga for stressful times
Mental health in troubled times
Yoga therapeutics and complimentary therapies in rehabilitation and for the treatment of body, emotional and mental disorders.Shanti Yoga is a deeply personal and experiential inquiry into our own body, heart, mind and life. It helps us develop sensitivity to our present conditions and offers clear methods that work across the entire spectrum of human experience. It encourages release from our habitual ways and cultivates a stability of awareness that enables us to rest in the open ground of our essential nature.

Shanti Yoga practices encourage an intimacy with our own immediate, felt experience. By exploring embodiment, grounding and energetic alignment we can deepen awareness, self understanding and self healing. This creates a space for our deepest life to unfold. Increased physical vitality, emotional stability and clarity of mind are a natural consequence of regular practice.

The harmonious functioning of all aspects within an individual is essential for balanced health. Health and disease result from the complex interaction of many factors, including physical, mental, emotional, genetic, spiritual, environmental and social. When Yoga and Ayurveda looks at the treatment of any condition, eighty percent of any improvement will result from changes in diet, routine, breathing and how we respond to stressful environmental influences. Once these factors are in place, herbs and therapies can help speed the process, allowing the mind-body’s natural ability to make the necessary and appropriate positive changes.

DESIGNED TO MOVE
Ideo-kinetic Yoga Movement Education
• Basic movement principles of classical and Shanti Yoga
• How to live in your vertical, horizontal and diagonal axis
• Body proportion needs depth - front to back, left to right
• Sensing, feeling and action: the experiential anatomy of body-mind centering
• Understanding balance: taking root to fly • Elastic resistance
• Pelvic power in strength, flexibility, posture and balance
• Joint structure and function • Enjoying sitting, standing and walking
• The thinking body and human movement potential
• Emotional anatomy • Inside motion and moving from within
• Developing balance and flexibility, building strength and stamina.
• Body proportion needs depth - front to back, left to right
• Sensing, feeling and action: the experiential anatomy of body-mind centering
• Understanding balance: taking root to fly • Elastic resistance
• Pelic power in strength, flexibility, posture and balance• Joint structure and function• Enjoying sitting, standing and walking• The thinking body and human movement potential
• Emotional anatomy • Inside motion and moving from within
• Developing balance and flexibility, building strength and stamina.

FACILITATING ASANAS
Modifications, basics, adjustments and assisting
Learn the foundations, cautions, safety features, stances, body positions, pressure, appropriate duration and what you might say to help the process in giving and receiving yoga posture adjustments and assistance. Students experience a huge improvement in their range of motion, ability to relax in the posture, balance better and stretch much further after being assisted. The body remembers where it has gone with the help of the teacher and later the student goes even deeper into the postures. Many students feel nurtured, acknowledged and grateful for the extra attention. You need to know how to protect you yourself and your student when you’re working with someone else’s body. Prerequisite: Asana, Pranayama, Vinyasa, Drishti
Props: non-slip yoga mat; strap; shawl; cushion; blanket; blocks

YOGA FOR A STRONG, HEALTHY BACK
Program to heal backpain without surgery
Change your posture and the way you breathe, feel, function, think
• Spinal awareness • Backcare basics • Avoid a ‘back attack’
• Relax your neck • Reduce shoulder tension and liberate your shoulders
• Undo knots, unblock energy, optimise back strength and stability
• Improve your range of movement
• Spinal segmenal stabilization to reduce lower back stress
• Pain free posture
• Healthy hips, knees and ankles
• Solutions for Back Trouble. Rehabilitate and prevent injury
• Stand tall. Feel revitalised and refreshed