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Teacher Trainings offered at Yoga Ananda
Yoga Ananda is pleased to host the following teacher training programs for adults and children's yoga...
 

Christ Centered Yoga Teacher Training
Dates: Fri,Sat   3/5/2010 - 3/6/2010  
Time:  8:00 AM - 6:00 PM 
TUITION $269      ENROLL

Christ Centered Yoga 16 Hour Teacher Training Intensives 

Christ Centered Yoga believes in sharing what God has so graciously shared with us by training instructors who then impact their communities. Training Intensives are for teachers and students and are open to believers and seekers alike. They are designed to impart ways for participants to bring themselves and their students into a personal connection with Christ by studying God's word and allowing its truth to lay the mental and spiritual foundation by which we add the physical practice of yoga. We discover the seven elements of a Christ Centered Yoga class, the four components of prayer, the benefits of yoga, faith and prayer on health, uncover God's call and our need to serve others, discuss pose form and alignment, practice cueing and review the modifications for the most common yoga poses. Discussion surrounding each topic is encouraged as participants grow by sharing experiences of God's living word among the group. Training Intensive participants receive a Christ Centered Yoga illustrated manual which includes class formats utilizing scripture and examples of scripturally based guided visualizations, a Christ Centered Yoga Teacher Training Completion Certificate and a Christ Centered Yoga logo t-shirt. Participants also receive YOGA ALLIANCE Contact Hours, ACE Continuing Education Credits and AFAA Continuing Education Units.  

TO REGISTER CONTACT: Becky Martin, E. R.Y.T. (770) 861-8420; becky@christcenteredyoga.com  Christ Centered Yoga™; www.christcenteredyoga.com   

Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training
Dates: Fri, Sat, Sun   4/16/2010 - 4/18/2010
Dates: Fri, Sat, Sun   5/14/2010 - 5/16/2010   
Time:  9:00 AM - 5:00 PM 
Tuition: $725    ENROLL

Prenatal Yoga Center is thrilled to bring its Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training to Yoga Ananda. This comprehensive 48 hour/ 2 weekend training is for those who want to dive into the world of prenatal yoga and work with this very specialized population. This Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training course offers the skills to teach prenatal and postnatal yoga, meditation, relaxation techniques, labor support skills and conscious birthing. Our goal is to reawaken a woman's innate wisdom by dispelling cultural fears of childbirth and enabling her to make educated, empowering choices about how she want to birth her baby.

Curriculum:
* Anatomical and physiological changes during pregnancy and how they relate to yoga

* Principles of alignment

* Appropriate Asanas (Poses) and Pranayama (Breathwork)

* Contra‐indicated poses during pregnancy

* Exploration of the emotional and physical changes in all 3 trimesters of pregnancy

* How to use props to help modify asanas for pregnancy

* Strengthening the abdominal and pelvic floor muscles during pregnancy

* Class observation and sequencing including how to conduct “circle time” and introducing themes for group inquiry

* Yoga therapeutics for pregnancy

* Childbirth Preparation Exercises

* Explanation of fetal position. What poses are beneficial and what poses should be avoided during later pregnancy

* Common discomforts of pregnancy and how to work with them using asana

* Childbirth Education class which

* Partner Yoga and Massage Class

* A prenatal Yoga Teacher’s responsibilities and boundaries.

* Postnatal yoga – rebuilding the pregnant body, including poses to discourage and encourage.

* Practice teaching prenatal yoga classes with the pregnant students

* Discussion of current childbirth practices in our country

This certification training is open to Certified Yoga Teachers, Teachers in training. Teacher Trainees are expected to already have obtained the knowledge of how to sequence a basic hatha yoga class, an understanding of alignment and be able to proficiently explain it, properly apply hand on adjustments and comfortably take the seat of a teacher. We are also opening participation in the course to Labor Support Doulas. However, the doulas will not receive a certification in prenatal yoga and will not participate in teaching the open class to the pregnant community.
 
Debra Flashenberg, CD(DONA), LCCE, E-RYT 500
(Director of the Prenatal Yoga Center, Prenatal & Postnatal)

Debra is a graduate of the Boston Conservatory of Music with a degree in Musical Theater. She has spent most of her life performing and was introd uced to yoga through a choreographer in 1997. After several years as a yoga student, she decided to continue her education and became certified as a Bikram Yoga instructor. In 2001 Debra headed out to Seattle to study with renowned prenatal yoga teacher Colette Crawford, R.N., at the Seattle Holistic Center. Debra has received a certificate for Vinyasa Yoga from Shiva Rea, with whom she continues to study. Debra has also studied the Maternal Fitness Method with Julie Tupler. In 2004, Debra completed the OM Yoga advanced teacher training with Cyndi Lee. Debra currently studies with Cyndi Lee, Genevieve Kapular, and Susan "Lip" Orem.

After being witness to several "typical" hospital births, Debra felt it was important to move beyond the yoga room and be present in the birthing room. In 2003, Debra attended her first birth as a DONA certified labor support doula. In that short period of time, Debra has attended about 75 births. She is continuously in awe of the beauty and brilliance of birth.

In 2006, Debra received her certification as a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator. In September of 2007, Debra completed a Midwife Assistant Program with Ina May Gaskin, Pamela Hunt and many of the other Farm Midwives at The Farm Midwifery Center in Tennessee. Most recently, Debra had the incredible experience of helping one of her clients give birth on the bathroom floor. Luckily, the EMS arrived seconds before the baby did!

Drawing on her experience as a prenatal yoga teacher, labor support doula and childbirth educator, Debra looks to establish a safe and effective class for pregnancy and beyond.

Nikita Maxwell
(Prenatal, Postnatal)

Originally a dancer, Nikita discovered yoga in 1997 and very quickly realized there was more to this practice than just physical fitness. Through the combination of breath, sound, movement and consciously working with the mind she glimpsed the potential for more space, ease and calm in the mind and body. After leaving the dance world in 2004, she began teaching yoga, training at OM Yoga Center with Cyndi Lee, Jennifer Brilliant, Dana Strong and Joe Miller. In 2005, she had an overwhelming sense that she should teach prenatal yoga. In June of that year, she completed Janice Clarfield's prenatal teacher training and, already eight weeks pregnant, started teaching pregnant women. Her son, Mars, was born in February 2006 and daughter, Echo, was born in November 2008. Having practiced yoga through both pregnancies and beyond, Nikita is amazed at the extent to which yoga has the capacity to give us strength, confidence, and freedom in an ever-changing body as well as help us find a little peace, calm and perspective as we create, birth and mother our children.

Nikita is a member of the teacher training faculty at the Prenatal Yoga Center and assisted Deb Flashenberg in creating the teacher training curriculum. She is also trained as a doula, but has put that on hold until her children are older.

Testimonials
“Through this training, not only did I learn a lot of pertinent information regarding pregnancy and birth, I also rediscovered a love of teaching that I have been able to apply to all of my classes”. - Karen Langan, Prenatal Yoga Teacher

“Deb and Nikita have constructed a comprehensive training that will allow a teacher to truly "teach the people, not just the poses" with an understanding of all of the intricacies of the pregnancy, labor and birth processes. I would HIGHLY recommend this training to any yoga teacher”. - Aimee McCabe, Prenatal Yoga Teacher  

“I appreciate a structured and well thought our curriculum for the program. Your expertise is very precise”. - Dina M. Giugliano, LMT, CD(DONA)

 
Foundations Training: November 2010

The original program that revolutionized the way yoga is taught to children. This groundbreaking work introduces the YogaKids approach to asana, breathing, teaching and relaxation. You’ll ground in the concepts and methods as developed by award winning yoga for children pioneer, Marsha Wenig, during her 25 years of study, research, practice, and teaching.

Benefits:

·                              *  Achieve understanding and fluency in the benefits of yoga for children

·                               * Gain the tools to empower children through yoga

·                               * Awaken the YogaKid within you

·                               * Certificate of completion for 32 hours of YogaKids training.

·                               This prerequisite course prepares you, should you choose, to participate in the YogaKids Teacher Certification Program which includes the Home Study Practicum and “Transformations” the 7 Day Advanced Intensive to earn the designation of Certified YogaKids Teacher (CYKT).