Take Your Teaching to the Next Level

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Are you ready to teach yin or take your teaching skills deeper? Maybe you just want to learn more about yin as a student. You will learn how to  teach a safe, accessible yin class for all levels. Focus is on the asana and cueing. 

About the teacher: Sarah DeFoor is an E-RYT-500 and YACEP.  She has taught at least a thousand yin classes over the last 7 years. In 2023 She did a 60 hour Yin Training with Sarah Powers. Then in 2024 she expanded her knowledge of yin by studying with Bernie Clark for 50 additional hours.

If you register before November 15th you can attend a two hour yin event for FREE ($40 value) on November 17th. 

9 am - 5 pm with an hour for lunch each day. 

14 CEU's

Investment = $350

This is not your grandmother's chair yoga. This is active chair yoga. Sarah fell in love with chair yoga when she realized that the chair allowed her to go deeper into the poses. Your hamstrings may never feel as loose as when you progress through 4 levels of Pyramid in the chair. Come see how you can use the chair to deepen your yoga practice and make it more accessible for your students. 

9 am - 5 pm with an hour for lunch each day. 

14 CEU's

Investment = $350

Through the practice of asana, we begin to learn that there are so many other, subtle, energies moving throughout our bodies. This weekend covers these Subtle Body Systems. 

In this weekend with Hannah we will dive deeper into:

The Chakras

Sequencing for the Chakras

Chakra Meditation

The Psychology of Chakras

The Koshas

The Nadis

How to Bring Energetics to Your Classes

9 am - 5 pm with an hour for lunch each day. 

14 CEU's

Investment = $350

Yoga for Osteoporosis and Osteopenia. This course contains critical information for students with Osteoporosis or Osteopenia. Since 55% of women over 50 and 25% of men over 50 have some sort of bone density issues it is also critical for yoga teachers who teach to this population.We will review the contraindications when teaching students with bone density issues. Then we will review Dr. Fishman's three sequences of poses that have been proven to build bone strength. You will learn multiple ways to teach each pose and you will practice teaching the poses.About the teacher: Sarah DeFoor is an E-RYT 500 yoga instructor. She is certified in yoga for Osteoporosis by Dr. Loren Fishman MD. Over the years of teaching his proven yoga poses for strengthening bones several of her regular students have been downgraded from Osteoporosis to Osteopenia others have been downgraded from Osteopenia to normal bone density.

9 am - 5 pm with an hour for lunch each day. 

14 CEU's

Investment = $350

Ayurveda, the sister science of yoga, is over 5000 years old with so much knowledge to share and so many different paths to explore. 

In this weekend with Hannah we will dive deeper into:

Ayurvedic Flow for the Season

The history of The Science of Life

Basics of Ayurveda

Concepts Purusha and Prakriti

Gunas, Tattvas, and Doshas

 Prana, Mahat, and Ahamkara

 Prana/Tejas/Ojas

The 7 Dhatus & 6 Tastes

The Sense Organs 

Dinacharya

Personalized plan, based on their own prakriti and vikriti, to find a way to bring you back to sattva

9 am - 5 pm with an hour for lunch each day. 

14 CEU's

Investment = $350

Do you love restorative yoga? Would you like to learn how to add restorative in your home practice or maybe you would even like to teach it. 

Sarah DeFoor was Certified Level 2 a Relax & Renew Restorative teacher by Judith Hanson Lasater who literally wrote the books on restorative yoga. 14 Yoga Alliance Continuing Education (CE's) will be awarded upon the completion of this training. 

9 am - 5 pm with an hour for lunch each day. 

14 CEU's

Investment = $350

*Class size will be limited by props available to teach the ultimate variations of the poses. If you are able to bring props please advise how many of what props so that we will have an opportunity to add more people to the training. 

Meditation is the 7th limb of the 8 limbed yoga path. It is a practice that must be tended to, and cultivated. AND everyone can do it! 

In this weekend with Hannah we will dive deeper into:
Movement and Meditation
What is meditation?
Why do we need meditation?
Types of Meditation: zazen, yoga nidra, autonomic, single point focus, metta, kundalini, breath awareness, Progressive Relaxation, yoga nidra
Mudras, visualizations, and concentration
Writing Scripts & Practice
Chanting

9 am - 5 pm with an hour for lunch each day. 

14 CEU's

Investment = $350

Did you know there are 8 limbs of yoga? Most people don't, but as yoga teachers it is imperative that we understand the roots of yoga and where they come from. 

In this weekend with Hannah we will dive deeper into:

A Brief History of Yoga
The 8 Limbs of Yoga: what each limb means,  how to bring the 8 limbs to our own practice, how to bring it to your classes, how to bring it to the world

The Yoga Sutras as an ego-transcending spiritual practice 

The Bhagavad Gita and how it applies to our daily life

9 am - 5 pm with an hour for lunch each day. 

14 CEU's

Investment = $350

Breath gives us life, but we often forget how much more it can give us. This weekend we will practice many different forms of breathwork and how we can benefit form each. 

In this weekend with Hannah we will dive deeper into:
Movement & Breath

Anatomy of Breath & Nadis

Theory of Breath & Preparing for Breath

Pranayama and Their Effects

Embodiment Breath Practice

Vayus & Breath Evaluation

9 am - 5 pm with an hour for lunch each day. 

14 CEU's

Investment = $350

Every asana has a story, but do you know it? Do you know how to safely teach these asanas to your students? 

Telling the stories of each asana, what muscles are used in each, and how to safely get into the postures for everyBODY (prep work and the many different forms of the asana).

In this weekend with Hannah we will dive deeper into:
Learn the stories of select asanas

Anatomy of these asanas

Safely preparing the body for these asanas

Different forms of the asanas for everyBODY

9 am - 5 pm with an hour for lunch each day. 

14 CEU's

Investment = $350