22hr Accessible and Chair Yoga Teacher Training
@ Union Yoga + Wellness
Ossington and Bloor, Toronto
**Wheelchair Accessible Studio**
Sustainable. Scaleable. Accessible.
Learn how to regress and progress teaching āsana (postures) and prānāyāma (breathwork) 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 meant 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 about an upcoming training offering, 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 of this Training
Build your self-efficacy as a teacher in order to suit any individual’s 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 We Will Cover
– Yoga Therapy (viniyoga / yoga cikitsā) frameworks for practice.
– The reality of teaching outside a studio or gym
– Review of anatomy and biomechanics basics.
– Embodied self-reflection on movement and āsana (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.
– Practicing doing pranayama (breathwork) through āsana (postures).
– Understanding pain and trauma from both the western medical lens and through the lens of the Yoga Sūtra-s
– Teaching in a trauma-sensitive way through an anti-oppressive lens.
– The ethics of being an unregulated movement instructor.
– 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 from the western medical model
–Common medical considerations and what to keep an eye on in your teaching
Schedule
Friday September 27, 2019 – 9am to 5pm
Saturday September 28, 2019 – 9am to 5pm
Sunday September 29, 2019 – 9am to 5pm
Length of training
24hr (22 contact hours) **Attendance of at least 22 of the 24 hours of in class time to receive your certificate. If you need to miss hours, we can discuss makeup time. This training is NOT registered with Yoga Alliance.**
Cost
– Early Bird (Before July 31, 2019): $400+hst
– Late Bird (Aug 1 and after): $500+hst Aug 1 and later
– 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 need
Learn how to regress and progress teaching āsana (postures) and prānāyāma (breathwork) 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 meant 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 about an upcoming training offering, 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 of this Training
Build your self-efficacy as a teacher in order to suit any individual’s 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 We Will Cover
– Yoga Therapy (viniyoga / yoga cikitsā) frameworks for practice.
– The reality of teaching outside a studio or gym
– Review of anatomy and biomechanics basics.
– Embodied self-reflection on movement and āsana (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.
– Practicing doing pranayama (breathwork) through āsana (postures).
– Understanding pain and trauma from both the western medical lens and through the lens of the Yoga Sūtra-s
– Teaching in a trauma-sensitive way through an anti-oppressive lens.
– The ethics of being an unregulated movement instructor.
– 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 from the western medical model
–Common medical considerations and what to keep an eye on in your teaching
Schedule
Friday September 27, 2019 – 9am to 5pm
Saturday September 28, 2019 – 9am to 5pm
Sunday September 29, 2019 – 9am to 5pm
Length of training
24hr (22 contact hours) **Attendance of at least 22 of the 24 hours of in class time to receive your certificate. If you need to miss hours, we can discuss makeup time. This training is NOT registered with Yoga Alliance.**
Cost
– Early Bird (Before July 31, 2019): $400+hst
– Late Bird (Aug 1 and after): $500+hst Aug 1 and later
– 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 need
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 or underserved by yoga studios. These 2-8 hours will peak interest so that your trainees can choose to delve deeper into accessible yoga or yoga therapy studies in their future.
What will we cover
• What the Yoga Sūtra-s say about yoga as a practice.
• 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 or underserved by yoga studios. These 2-8 hours will peak interest so that your trainees can choose to delve deeper into accessible yoga or yoga therapy studies in their future.
What will we cover
• What the Yoga Sūtra-s say about yoga as a practice.
• 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***
