22hr Progressive Chair Yoga and Exercise Teacher Training
@ Union Yoga + Wellness
Ossington and Bloor, Toronto
**Wheelchair Accessible Studio**
Sustainable. Scaleable. Accessible.
Critically think about the function of what you’re teaching to regress and progress teaching asana (postures), pranayama (breathwork), and meditation, to students of all shapes, sizes, and mobility levels, including medically and functionally complex populations.
Who is this training for?
This training is open to Yoga Teachers, Pilates Teachers, Personal Trainers, Therapeutic Recreationalists, Conditioning Coaches, Occupational Therapists, and other Movement Class Teachers interested in making their classes and private sessions accessible to broader populations. This training will focus on the physical side of movement practices–modifying for conditions, pain, posture, etc. Some Social Workers and Group Workers may also find the programming relevant if they work with seniors or folks with disabilities. This training will not certify you as a yoga teacher, rather it is mean to supplement knowledge you are already using in your field. This training is not certified with Yoga Alliance though students have claimed the hours as CE.
**For more focus on the mental/emotional/spiritual side of this therapeutic chair-based work, including working in drop-ins, shelters, and with more severe mental health concerns, addictions and more, please be in touch with Kassandra at yogawithkassandra@gmail.com or sign up for newsletter at bottom right of this page, about an upcoming offering “Yoga Outside of Studio Settings”, launch TBA. This parallel offering will focus more deeply on breathwork (prānayāma), mindfulness and meditation, and yoga and Ayurveda philosophy and psychology to support clients and students.**
Goals
Build your self-efficacy as a teacher/practitioner in order to suit any individuals needs and abilities by practicing how to:
• Observe and respond instead of following a specific class plan.
• Modify or regress practices as needed.
• Increase challenge while staying safe as students progress in ability.
• Offer many options at the same time in order to meet the needs of a room.
• Know when to refer out to clinicians.
What will we cover
• Yoga Therapy (viniyoga) framework for practice.
• Review of anatomy and biomechanics basics.
• Embodied self-reflection on movement and asana (yoga postures). How to think critically around function over form, and creatively regress movement according to student needs and safely progress them with student improvement.
• Understanding pain and trauma from both western medical and yoga philosophy lenses.
• Teaching in a trauma-sensitive way through an anti-oppressive lens.
• The ethics of being an unregulated movement instructor.
• Using movement to do simple breathwork and meditation.
• The reality of teaching outside a studio or gym.
• Practice class planning for different populations and practice teaching.
Guest Faculty
Mary Ellen Baldner, Physiotherapist, Pivot Sport Medicine, and Pilates Teacher
Mary Ellen will cover:
–Understanding pain and the nervous system
–Common medical considerations and what to keep an eye on in your teaching
Dates
Friday October 12, 2018 – 4pm to 9:30pm (5.5hr)
Saturday October 13, 2018 – Saturday 10am to 6pm (8hr)
Sunday October 14, 2018 – 10am to 6pm (8hr)
**Attendance of at least 17 of the 18.5 hours of in class time and online quiz completion before getting your certificate**
Cost
• Early Bird (Before July 31, 2019): $400+hst
• Late Bird (Aug 1 and after): $500+hst
• Low income (ODSP, OW) seniors, trans* and queer, BIPOC, student etc: please email yogawithkassandra@gmail.com to inquire about sliding scale or free spots as well as with any access needs
Critically think about the function of what you’re teaching to regress and progress teaching asana (postures), pranayama (breathwork), and meditation, to students of all shapes, sizes, and mobility levels, including medically and functionally complex populations.
Who is this training for?
This training is open to Yoga Teachers, Pilates Teachers, Personal Trainers, Therapeutic Recreationalists, Conditioning Coaches, Occupational Therapists, and other Movement Class Teachers interested in making their classes and private sessions accessible to broader populations. This training will focus on the physical side of movement practices–modifying for conditions, pain, posture, etc. Some Social Workers and Group Workers may also find the programming relevant if they work with seniors or folks with disabilities. This training will not certify you as a yoga teacher, rather it is mean to supplement knowledge you are already using in your field. This training is not certified with Yoga Alliance though students have claimed the hours as CE.
**For more focus on the mental/emotional/spiritual side of this therapeutic chair-based work, including working in drop-ins, shelters, and with more severe mental health concerns, addictions and more, please be in touch with Kassandra at yogawithkassandra@gmail.com or sign up for newsletter at bottom right of this page, about an upcoming offering “Yoga Outside of Studio Settings”, launch TBA. This parallel offering will focus more deeply on breathwork (prānayāma), mindfulness and meditation, and yoga and Ayurveda philosophy and psychology to support clients and students.**
Goals
Build your self-efficacy as a teacher/practitioner in order to suit any individuals needs and abilities by practicing how to:
• Observe and respond instead of following a specific class plan.
• Modify or regress practices as needed.
• Increase challenge while staying safe as students progress in ability.
• Offer many options at the same time in order to meet the needs of a room.
• Know when to refer out to clinicians.
What will we cover
• Yoga Therapy (viniyoga) framework for practice.
• Review of anatomy and biomechanics basics.
• Embodied self-reflection on movement and asana (yoga postures). How to think critically around function over form, and creatively regress movement according to student needs and safely progress them with student improvement.
• Understanding pain and trauma from both western medical and yoga philosophy lenses.
• Teaching in a trauma-sensitive way through an anti-oppressive lens.
• The ethics of being an unregulated movement instructor.
• Using movement to do simple breathwork and meditation.
• The reality of teaching outside a studio or gym.
• Practice class planning for different populations and practice teaching.
Guest Faculty
Mary Ellen Baldner, Physiotherapist, Pivot Sport Medicine, and Pilates Teacher
Mary Ellen will cover:
–Understanding pain and the nervous system
–Common medical considerations and what to keep an eye on in your teaching
Dates
Friday October 12, 2018 – 4pm to 9:30pm (5.5hr)
Saturday October 13, 2018 – Saturday 10am to 6pm (8hr)
Sunday October 14, 2018 – 10am to 6pm (8hr)
**Attendance of at least 17 of the 18.5 hours of in class time and online quiz completion before getting your certificate**
Cost
• Early Bird (Before July 31, 2019): $400+hst
• Late Bird (Aug 1 and after): $500+hst
• Low income (ODSP, OW) seniors, trans* and queer, BIPOC, student etc: please email yogawithkassandra@gmail.com to inquire about sliding scale or free spots as well as with any access needs
2-8hr Introduction to Intersectional Accessible Yoga
Module for 200-300hr teacher trainings
Looking to invite your teacher trainees to consider teaching to a broader population in their classes?
This introduction to intersectional accessible yoga is structured to open teacher-trainees eyes to the huge populations often unserved by yoga studios. These 2-8 hours will peak interest so that your trainees can choose to delve deeper into accessible yoga studies in their future.
What will we cover
• Focussed time uncovering the function/purpose over the form of our practices in order to easily regress and progress.
• Offer many options at the same time in order to meet the needs of a room.
• The reality of teaching outside a studio or gym.
• Observing and responding instead of following a specific class plan.
• Anti-oppression basics around
– Disability and ableism
– Fatness and body positivity
– Gender, gender expression and transphobia
– Sexuality and homophobia
– Racism
– Trauma Sensitivity
– Consent
• Cultural Appropriation basics
All participants will go home with a document of resources to refer to going forward.
Cost
Please email me for a quote at yogawithkassandra@gmail.com
***50% of proceeds from this training will be put towards a scholarship fund for low income Indigenous, South Asian, queer and trans*, disabled, and POC teacher hopefuls to attend future trainings***
This introduction to intersectional accessible yoga is structured to open teacher-trainees eyes to the huge populations often unserved by yoga studios. These 2-8 hours will peak interest so that your trainees can choose to delve deeper into accessible yoga studies in their future.
What will we cover
• Focussed time uncovering the function/purpose over the form of our practices in order to easily regress and progress.
• Offer many options at the same time in order to meet the needs of a room.
• The reality of teaching outside a studio or gym.
• Observing and responding instead of following a specific class plan.
• Anti-oppression basics around
– Disability and ableism
– Fatness and body positivity
– Gender, gender expression and transphobia
– Sexuality and homophobia
– Racism
– Trauma Sensitivity
– Consent
• Cultural Appropriation basics
All participants will go home with a document of resources to refer to going forward.
Cost
Please email me for a quote at yogawithkassandra@gmail.com
***50% of proceeds from this training will be put towards a scholarship fund for low income Indigenous, South Asian, queer and trans*, disabled, and POC teacher hopefuls to attend future trainings***
2-4hr Practical Intersectional Accessibility Basics for Yoga and Other Movement Teachers
Conference or Workshop Presentation
This workshop is applicable to conferences and retreats, as well as for studios or gyms looking to support current teacher rosters.
Been teaching a while? Want to "level up" in your allyship? This introduction to intersectional accessibility is the space to ask your "bad questions", to not know the answers, and to be confused and unsure. Studios are a very privileged environments and often full of white, thin, and able-bodied teachers. It's part of our job to do the work of addressing our biases and ignorance and making others who don't look or move like us feel more welcome. We will cover a variety of topics and then make a gameplan of very practical ways to move forward in the world as a better ally and advocate.
What will we cover (depending on length)
• Active listening
• Accessibility basics around
– Disability and ableism
– Fatness and body positivity
– Gender, gender expression and transphobia
– Sexuality and homophobia
– Racism
– Trauma Sensitivity
– Consent
• Cultural Appropriation basics
• Why it's our own job to do our own research
• Where yoga and fitness happens outside of studios and why
• Teaching Practicals – language, content, scaffolding options, props, land acknowledgement, consent
• Outside the Studio/Gym – practical allyship
All participants will go home with a document of resources to refer to going forward, including other people and organizations you can turn to for more in depth trainings on all the topics we've briefly discussed.
Cost
Please email me for a quote at yogawithkassandra@gmail.com
***50% or more of proceeds from this training will be put towards a scholarship fund for low income Indigenous, South Asian, queer and trans, disabled, and POC teacher hopefuls to attend future trainings***
Been teaching a while? Want to "level up" in your allyship? This introduction to intersectional accessibility is the space to ask your "bad questions", to not know the answers, and to be confused and unsure. Studios are a very privileged environments and often full of white, thin, and able-bodied teachers. It's part of our job to do the work of addressing our biases and ignorance and making others who don't look or move like us feel more welcome. We will cover a variety of topics and then make a gameplan of very practical ways to move forward in the world as a better ally and advocate.
What will we cover (depending on length)
• Active listening
• Accessibility basics around
– Disability and ableism
– Fatness and body positivity
– Gender, gender expression and transphobia
– Sexuality and homophobia
– Racism
– Trauma Sensitivity
– Consent
• Cultural Appropriation basics
• Why it's our own job to do our own research
• Where yoga and fitness happens outside of studios and why
• Teaching Practicals – language, content, scaffolding options, props, land acknowledgement, consent
• Outside the Studio/Gym – practical allyship
All participants will go home with a document of resources to refer to going forward, including other people and organizations you can turn to for more in depth trainings on all the topics we've briefly discussed.
Cost
Please email me for a quote at yogawithkassandra@gmail.com
***50% or more of proceeds from this training will be put towards a scholarship fund for low income Indigenous, South Asian, queer and trans, disabled, and POC teacher hopefuls to attend future trainings***
