The Yoga of Healing Yoga Teacher Training
Alignment principles help you take healing into your own hands
In this Therapeutic Yoga Teacher Training, you will:
Get comfortable with physical and verbal alignment adjustments so you can help students get out of pain on the mat
- Delve deep into the physical and emotional conditions common in the18 months around birth
- Learn how to incorporate therapeutic alignment instructions to make sure all students stay out of pain on the mat
- Explore powerful Ma Yoga principles that heal us on every level
- Use breathing, meditation, and poses to help address anxiety, infertility, and much more
- Discover your own power to get yourself out of discomfort and feel great in your body again
What Yoga of Healing participants are saying…
How The Yoga of Healing came to be
But it wasn’t until I discovered a form of alignment-based yoga called Anusara that I got my answers: it’s not which pose you’re doing, it’s what you’re doing inside the pose. After 10,000 hours of studying therapeutic alignment principles, I became a Certified Anusara teacher in 2006. Over the decades of working with pregnant women, I saw how important alignment is for pregnant women not just biomechanically but on all levels.
Aches and pains like neck, back, knee and wrist are common with the ever-changing pregnant body, and anxiety is becoming more and more prevalent.
Myths like “I can’t engage my core” make it difficult for women to heal after pregnancy, and can put women at risk for conditions like diastisis recti, abdominal wall splitting.
The pressure to keep pushing through our lives the same way we were is strong, and yet when we do the sometimes subtle actions of the Ma Yoga alignment principles, or what I call the “Five Sacred Steps”, we enjoy a whole new depth of power, wisdom, and nurturing energy.
Complete healing involves shifts on every level, and The Yoga of Healing is about understanding how to align with our highest Self – physically, mentally, energetically and spiritually. I hope you’ll join us for this transformative experience!
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
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