The Art of Teaching Yoga is a new semi-private mentoring program for yoga teachers at Yoga Journal LIVE San Francisco. Get ready to dramatically refine your teaching skills in three days, so you can step into any classroom and teach yoga with more knowledge, intention, and confidence.
You’ll take classes with master teachers at the main YJ LIVE event and join seasoned mentors Alexandria Crow and Giselle Mari for breakout sessions with an intimate group of fellow RYTs. With one-on-one feedback and candid group discussions, you’ll build on your strengths, improve areas of growth, and develop your unique teaching style.
The experience includes a full curriculum at YJ LIVE San Francisco, a pre-event assessment, live coaching sessions within an intimate group of RYTs, and connections you'll establish as you advance your career.
Friday, Jan 13
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Monday, Jan 16
SuperYogi's Schoolhouse Teacher Training
Friday Jan 13-Sunday Jan 15 9am-5pm each day
Introducing Superyogis’ Schoolhouse, Rina Yoga’s pioneering yoga-inspired curriculum for kids and teens that teaches them life skills, coping mechanisms, movement, values and most importantly, fun!
Superyogis’ Schoolhouse Mission:
To help kids empower themselves by teaching them life skills like:
1. how to focus
2. healthy coping skills
3. how to communicate better
4. tangible yoga practices for daily life challenges
ALL WITH A LOT OF LOVE and TONS OF FUN!
We are pleased to announce our first ever three-day kids yoga training with Rina Jakubowicz—Super Yogis Schoolhouse Training: a 3-day program for school teachers, yoga teachers, moms, dads, and anyone who wants to more fully connect to kids. At Yoga Journal LIVE San Francisco, you will be in an intimate group of students focusing on Super Yogis Schoolhouse Mission: To help kids empower themselves by teaching them valuable life skills as taught by the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and Rina’s teacher, Swami A. Parthasarathy.
Training Includes Lecture, Interactive Discussions, Some Asana and Play Time
1) Learn techniques and lesson plans built around helping kids develop greater focus, healthy coping skills, improved communication, and tangible yoga practices for daily life challenges--all with a lot of LOVE and tons of FUN!
2) Understand the fundamentals of class management and how to guide a class efficiently.
3) Learn the importance of assessing the different age ranges and how to target them differently according to their capacity.
4) Explore fun games, stories, and poses to teach the kids in order to make learning fun and relevant.
5) Connect to your deeper self and your own inner child so that you can better understand kids and ultimately serve them with authenticity.
6) Discover truths about yourself that you might never have expected by taking this course.
What to Expect
This 3-day training is Part One of your certification process. If you choose to become a certified teacher through the Yoga Alliance then you have to follow through with Part Two of the training. This requires additional work and contact with Rina after this weekend training is completed. You will have one year to finish the assignments and program in order to become a Certified Children’s Yoga Teacher. If you choose to not do Part Two then you can teach Kids Yoga with whatever you’ve learned but you won’t become certified.
Private Facebook Group Community + Coaching
Upon enrollment you will be admitted to the private Facebook group where we will build community, share our thoughts, and talk with the group as we come closer to the live event. We will also keep sharing after the training for those who are continuing the process to becoming certified teachers.
Curious if this is the right program for you? Yoga Journal and Rina would love to connect with you.
$750 for 24 hours of in-person training over three days followed by two webinars and a personal one-on-one session with Rina. Additional work required to complete certification process.
With so much information available to teachers, it can seem overwhelming to create meaningful classes that feel like your own. You don’t have to rely solely on the formulas you learned in teacher training to get out of that teaching rut. Join The Art of Teaching Yoga mentors, Alexandria Crow, and Giselle Mari, for a full-day workshop for teachers that will demystify the process of creating classes that are effective and inspiring for you and your students.
By leading 30-minute practices leading to one pose, Alex and Giselle will show you that their different teaching styles have similar and basic common principles. Through in-depth group discussions and workshopping your questions throughout the day, you’ll discover how to apply these principles to design solid sequences, understand how to offer verbal cues and hands-on assists, handle injury prevention and management, and integrate philosophy more fully. Don’t miss this opportunity to simplify and unpack the process of developing your unique teaching style and creating balanced classes that keep students coming back to learn more.
**This class has been approved by American Council on Exercise (ACE) for CECs.**
Join Seth for an inspiring flow sequence that will stretch and strengthen the body. More importantly this mindful practice, will help create the space needed to set an intention in the present and clear the path towards your brightest future.
Join us for free community classes in our beautiful Sangha Space and Yoga Market, located in the Market Street Foyer in Grand Ballroom B. Stop by early for Happy Hour, and irresistible shopping with artisanal local artists and unique yoga brands.
Come with a playful state of mind and have your third eye opened wide as Ultra Spiritual JP steps out from the video screen onto the live stage to force feed enlightenment to you. His Enlightenedness will shine the comedic light of Ultra Spiritual wisdom onto the most perplexing spiritual questions and life riddles so that you can achieve higher states of spiritual superiority like never before!
Following the enlightened amusement, the man behind the Ultra Spiritual character, JP Sears (the regular version of him), will share his heartfelt perspectives on how to live from a place of fierce authenticity.
Turn Up the Heat: Rejuvenate Your Sun-Salutations
all levels
Sun Salutations are the heart of Vinyasa flow classes, opening limitless possibilities for the body and mind. With power and grace, they draw us in from outside distractions, heightening concentration and presence. The cleansing heat increases flexibility in the hips, hamstrings, and shoulders, while simultaneously strengthening the abdominal area. The sequence as a whole offers many of the benefits of inversions. In this workshop, we will have fun deconstructing the key poses within Sun Salutations, and exploring variations and modifications. Putting it all together with breath and movement, we will practice key poses to build a strong foundation of understanding so that shoulders and lower back are safe and happy.
**This class has been approved by American Council on Exercise (ACE) for CECs.**
This class will be assisted by experienced yoga teachers who have trained intimately with Amy, so expect ample hands on adjustments (if you’d like them)!
**This class has been approved by American Council on Exercise (ACE) for CECs.**
Hip-Opening: slow and deep
all levels
Something extraordinary happens when we do hip openers! Whether we are stiff or open, the practice of hip openers produces deep feelings of release and relief. In this class, we will work progressively through a sequence designed to dissolve tension in the hips, while building a solid understanding of how to open the hips safely so that our knees consistently benefit. We will identify specific actions in standing, supine, and seated poses that will bring relief and ease to our pelvis and hip area. Be prepared to go deep, but don’t worry! We will also explore several variations and modifications that will ensure your continued progress.
**This class has been approved by American Council on Exercise (ACE) for CECs.**
This class will be assisted by experienced yoga teachers who have trained intimately with Amy, so expect ample hands on adjustments (if you’d like them)!
**This class has been approved by American Council on Exercise (ACE) for CECs.**
Yoga (Flow). Vinyasa-based Yoga has become increasingly popular in recent years. The origins of vinyasa may be traced back to the Ashtanga system. David has been practicing and teaching this method for over 40 years. Through his insights, explorations and observations he has developed a very unique, and user-friendly way of presenting the dynamics of vinyasa. Through partner work, sharing and practice, participants will gain greater ability to flow freely and enjoy the powerful tapestry of movement and breath that form the foundation and freedom of vinyasa flow. All levels of practitioner are sure to find this fun and educational class to be rewarding and incredibly useful to refining their personal practice. Come and Experience the Joy of Flight!
**This class has been approved by American Council on Exercise (ACE) for CECs.**
Part asana, part discussion. All levels welcome.
**This class has been approved by American Council on Exercise (ACE) for CECs.**
Yoga & Pranayama. Breath is our most elemental form of life and unites all of humanity yet we think little about it. The ancient yogis dedicated great thought to it and in so doing developed intricate methods of harnessing breath to gain control of the mind and to see the world with greater clarity. This class will delve into the unseen realms of mystical yogic breathing and the magical internal energy valves known as bandhas. There is much confusion surrounding these powerful tools and the part they play in the regulation and control of pranic flow. David will share information he gained directly from K. Pattabhi Jois as well as a series of practical exercises he has developed himself. Through partner work, discussion and specialized techniques participants will gain new insights and useful tools for personal practice and daily life. David will end the class by leading a session of classical pranayama and breath control. The prana is awaiting your arrival!
**This class has been approved by American Council on Exercise (ACE) for CECs.**
In this workshop, we will explore using our inner vision and desire to create a life of peace and purpose on and off the mat. Vigorous Vinyasa sequences with a focus on deep hip opening work and will ‘soften our edges’ before we dive into guided visualization and intention setting. Strength and balance in the body and the mind will come from the ‘inside out’. A funky and fun soundtrack of music that inspires love and fearlessness will energize and inspire the practice. This is the perfect class to begin the New Year right!
**This class has been approved by American Council on Exercise (ACE) for CECs.**
Every January, for the New Year, there is an opportunity to let go of the old and bring in the new. This class is about both physically detoxing the body, as well as the mind and heart, letting go of old patterns and beliefs, and creating space for new creativity to enter in, while setting intentions and clearing a new pathway towards heart-filled purpose. The yoga sequences in this workshop will utilize three internal components for cleansing-abdominal compression, decompression and twists, and will include Sun Salutations A and B, detox standing sequences, inverted poses, breathing exercises and a restorative cool down. This intensive is designed to help us identity, reconcile and heal restrictive emotional patterns and physical imbalances in our mind/body. It is for all levels, but will be challenging, provocative and create heat. Some discussion/mostly asana.
**This class has been approved by American Council on Exercise (ACE) for CECs.**
This class will be assisted by experienced yoga teachers who have trained intimately with Amy, so expect ample hands on adjustments (if you’d like them)!
**This class has been approved by American Council on Exercise (ACE) for CECs.**
Hands-on assists can be a potent tool for teachers to communicate alignments and refinements in their students’ asana practice. One of the quickest ways for students to understand and embody the mechanics, depth, and beauty of an asana is through touch, which will also enriches their experience of your teachings. We will dive into the more common asanas assists with partners. We will focus on how to observe form, breath, alignment, energetics of asana, and ultimately how to assist. As the assister, we will explore the imperative of preserving our bodies through leveraging bandhas, breath, and our connection to the earth while providing the practitioner with safe assists that support and deepen their experience and understanding of asana.
**This class has been approved by American Council on Exercise (ACE) for CECs.**
Inner Peace ( Discussion ) Life, Love, and Living With Purpose: Seeking A Path, Building Dreams and Finding Peace. David will share stories, anecdotes and insights gained over his more than 40 years of yoga practice and pursuits of spiritual life, love, health and adventure. David is a witty, humorous and inspiring storyteller. His life is filled with colorful, sometimes wild, sometimes sad, sometimes hilarious and always entertaining pursuits of knowledge of the world around him and the wonders that reside within us all. Within his tales of travel, fasting, chanting, seeking, studying, laughing and crying there is always a thread of sincerity of purpose that anyone seeking greater meaning of life can relate to and possibly even gain tools of insights of their own from the mistakes, successes, failures, triumphs and bumps along the road of life that David shares with honesty and heart-felt sincerity.
Buckle Up It’s a Wild Ride!
**This class has been approved by American Council on Exercise (ACE) for CECs.**
Yoga Alliance grew to over 75K members in 2016. Basically they got HUGE. They also took some controversial positions; i.e. The policy on Yoga Therapy and Yoga Regulation. 2017 promises to be a year with new regulatory challenges to the yoga industry in California. This is your chance to speak directly to Yoga Alliance's Chief Ambassador Andrew Tanner. Ask questions and get answers about issues that are important to you. Also to find out about resources that YA has to support your teaching, business or non-profit. Local yoga hero Darren Main, Director of Yoga Tree teacher trainings will be here to moderate.
The Shoulder Girdle Mantra: Unlocking the power of the upper body
For Teachers/ mixed levels
Strong shoulders and proper shoulder alignment are essential to a healthy Vinyasa Flow practice. Think of how often you find yourself in chaturanga, upward-facing dog, and downward-facing dog. Focusing on these key poses, we will examine common patterns of misalignment in the shoulders and use our practice together to imprint strong alignment habits that protect the shoulders from injury. Creating a solid new foundation, learn powerful mini-sequences that you can do every day in order to strengthen and open your shoulder girdle, deepen your sun salutations, and revolutionize your entire practice. Notes: Discussion and asana.
**This class has been approved by American Council on Exercise (ACE) for CECs.**
This class will be assisted by experienced yoga teachers who have trained intimately with Amy, so expect ample hands on adjustments (if you’d like them)!
**This class has been approved by American Council on Exercise (ACE) for CECs.**
Having a pain-free, healthy lower back is paramount not only to a strong yoga practice, but to a healthy lifestyle in general. In this workshop for teachers and students, we will focus on the key principles of alignment for a healthy lower back, and learn how to heal, strengthen, and protect the lower back using a variety of poses (and modifications), including standing poses, simple backbends, and seated and supine poses. Learn effective ways to address this common issue in your daily practice as well as with students at every level.
Notes: Mostly asana. Bring a block and a strap.
**This class has been approved by American Council on Exercise (ACE) for CECs.**
