The Yoga of Healing Yoga Teacher Training

What is The Yoga of Healing about?

As a Certified Anusara teacher for many years, I saw first-hand the ways in which alignment-based yoga helps us get out of pain, and stay out.

But I also saw the ways in which separating out different body parts and using our more analytical side to heal could make things worse.

The therapeutic principles morphed into the more holistic, feminine, softer five Ma Yoga^® alignment principles – or the Five Sacred Steps – that describe every co-creative act, from planting a garden to writing a poem.

We always work on multiple levels, never just biomechanics, always connected to how we’re feeling.

The “healing” and “therapeutics” denomination are not Yoga Alliance registered, but rather come through my Masters in Exercise Science as well as two decades of helping people out of pain.

The Five Ma Yoga Alignment Principles, or Five Sacred Steps  – We will dive into each step, and practice applying them , and how to apply them to our every day poses to get and keep students out of pain.  

Women’s bodies – We will address particular discomforts and injuries using women’s bodies as our model, as well as common challenges along the journey to including infertility, dyastisis recti, and back labor.

See energetic flow – Once you have these tools, you will be able to see where misalignments occur and help shift people in to a healing direction. By looking closely at specific issues related to pregnancy and postpartum, you will come to know intimately what the body needs physically and energetically to maintain ease and strength even in the most unstable and depleted times. 

And finally, you will be part of an ever-growing, global community of yoga teachers, birth practitioners, and mamas who use birth as our guru to find our own open, strong, creative center – no matter what challenges arise!

Your Itinerary

In this transformative online therapeutics training, you will become confident helping people out of pain on and off the mat.

You will learn simple but powerful alignment principles you can practice, teach, and live by, called the Five Sacred Steps.

These alignment actions work on all levels: physical, emotional, spiritual, and energetic, we will use them as our guide as you learn to:

• relieve discomforts in regular yoga poses like Chatturanga and Downdog
• address aches and pains desk, driving and sleeping
• support healing for chronic pain and disease
• address emotional/mental issues including anxiety and depression
• find a balance of stability and freedom in your body, mind, and heart.

Welcome Circle

• Understand the difference between teaching poses and teaching alignment
• Discover the Shiva/Shakti, feminine/masculine qualities that we will be using
• Learn the elements and where in the body they live

Teach Regular Yoga with Alignment

• Adjustments in Childs Pose, Down Dog Bridge, and many others
• Teaching each pose as an opportunity to step into optimal alignment
• Verbal and physical adjustments

Address Specific Physical and Emotional Conditions with Alignment

• Neck, low back, knee, and wrist issues
• Anxiety, depression, high blood pressure,
• Conditions related to the 18 months around birth, including fertility, diastisis recti, pelvic floor issues
• Postpartum Healing with the Chakras
• Core strength for women’s bodies
• Meditation, pranayama, and self-actualization