Assisting & Adjusting

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The Art of Assisting & Adjusting

Yoga Alliance-Approved Advanced Yoga Studies and
Continuing-Education Yoga Teacher Training

 

Dates: February 23-25, 2024
CEC: 22 Hours (19 Contact, 3 Non-Contact)
Location: Lakeville

 
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How This Training Will Hone Your Skills

Offering assists and adjustments to yoga students is an art. It requires highly developed observation skills, awareness of body mechanics and movement, intimate familiarity of the poses, and strong communications skills. The goal is to assist and adjust so that students find their ultimate expression of poses  without becoming teacher-dependent. This carefully designed immersion into the art of assisting and adjusting, based on the observation of and work with thousands of students, will deepen your teaching skills to help your students to find an openness and mind/body connection that advances their practice. This training will differentiate you as a teacher.

The Foundation of the Training Rests on Proper Alignment

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  • The understanding that more is less when it comes to safe hands-on adjustments

  • How to use the various forms of assisting and adjusting from verbal cues to directional signals to physical manipulation

  • The role of props as tools in adjusting and assisting

  • How to empower students to find personal levels of self-adjusting

  • Assisting safely without developing dependency

  • We will cover dozens of key foundational poses and their modifications in the following families of poses in this training:

  1. Sun salutations

  2. Standing poses

  3. Backbends

  4. Twists

  5. Forward folds

  6. Core connection

  7. Inversions

  8. Surrender to gravity

Hands-on Practice: Our 22-hour assisting and adjusting teacher training and advanced yoga studies is offered in an intensive weekend of total immersion. As with all its training offerings, the cornerstone of the Green Lotus approach is to study assisting and adjusting not only by reading and engaging lecture and discussion, but also by practicing the adjustments over and over again.

Boundaries and Ethics: Our training includes a segment on ethics and boundaries so we as teachers can better understand our roles and impact and also to develop awareness of the different emotions that can be observed in the classroom - such as anxiety - and how assisting and adjusting can affect those emotions and feelings.

Wonderful course for newer yoga teachers and those looking for a course exclusive to assisting and adjusting. This was exactly the training I was hoping for and I'm so happy to have taken it.
~ Andrea

Assisting & Adjusting Teacher Training Faculty

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Merry Beth Freienmuth, E-RYT 500, YACEP
Merry Beth Freienmuth, E-RYT 500, YACEP

Merry Beth is director of Green Lotus' Yoga Alliance-certified school and a senior faculty member. She has been practicing yoga since 2000. She found the physical asana practice to be the perfect transition for her aging body that could no longer tolerate a classical ballet practice. She taught ballet for more than 15 years, then she began teaching Body Flow, Pilates, and yoga in 2002. Merry Beth also has experienced the more subtle benefits of yoga; it has given her the strength and balance to navigate a full-time career in corporate America and to raise her children into adulthood. Now she devotes her work time to being a Green Lotus partner and teacher. 

Required Books & Materials

  • Students will be required to read portions of Journey into Power by Baron Baptiste

  • Please bring a notebook or journal to capture notes, questions, and observations

  • Other materials, including a handbook and schedule for the weekend, will be provided

Optional but recommended:

  • Yoga Posture Adjustments and Assisting by Stephanie Pappas

Schedule

Green Lotus’ Art of Assisting and Adjusting held at our Lakeville center hours are as follows:

  • Friday: 5:30 - 9 p.m.

  • Saturday: 10 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

  • Sunday: 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

*No make-up sessions will be available. If students cannot attend for the entire weekend schedule, they will be able to complete the requirements the next time the training is held.

Fee $418

Green Lotus Alumni receive a 10% discount.

Because our training sessions frequently develop a wait list, refunds will be made to your personal Green Lotus account with less than two-weeks advance notice when you cancel.  Cancellations made with less than a 48-hour notice will not receive a refund. 

Chakra Yoga

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Chakra Yoga

Yoga Alliance-Approved Advanced Yoga Studies and
Continuing Education Yoga Teacher Training

Virtual attendance option added!

Dates: February 17 - 18, 2024
CEC: 17 Hours (15 Contact, 2 Non-Contact)
Location: Mendota Heights or Virtual

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We are beings made of energy.
This training explores the energy underlying the physical body, the seven vital energy centers know as the chakras. Delve deeply into yogic chakra theory and learn how the chakras affect us individually and universally.
 
The journey through each of the seven chakras includes understanding their properties and manifestations of imbalance. Through lecture and discussion, you will learn how the chakras operate in our bodies, in our lives, even in world history.  We will explore and practice asana (yoga postures), pranayama (breath practices), mudra (hand gestures), mantra (chanting), and meditation for each of the seven chakras with the intention of guiding prana ( life force) into a more balanced state. This allows us to come closer to true self-knowledge. We examine how to use our knowledge of the chakra system to create purposeful yoga sequences that can be applied towards many styles of yoga including restorative, vinyasa, hatha, and yin. 

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Chakra Teacher Training Faculty

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Tracy Hovde, E-RYT 200, RYT 500, YACEP
Tracy Hovde, E-RYT 200, RYT 500, YACEP

Tracy has a background in dance, bodywork, aromatherapy, martial arts, and personal training. After a dance injury led her to yoga for physical healing, she found that her yoga practice not only supported her body, but it also changed her perspective of the world and her connection to it. For her, yoga engenders peace and clarity, both on and off the mat, and gives her a way to balance her energetic anatomy. Inspired to share her perspectives with others, she completed her 200-hour training with Devanadi Yoga, 500-hour training with Green Lotus, and teaches workshops, classes, and trainings for Green Lotus.

Required Books & Materials

  • Chakra Yoga by Anodea Judith

  • Wheels of Life by Anodea Judith (Optional)

  • Please bring a notebook or journal to capture observations, ideas, and inspirations

Schedule

Green Lotus' Chakra Training held at our Mendota Heights center and virtually via Zoom. Hours are as follows:

  • Saturday: 9 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

  • Sunday: 10:30 a.m. - 6 p.m.

*No make-up sessions will be available. If students cannot attend for the entire weekend schedule, they will be able to complete the requirements the next time the training is held.

Fees $330

Green Lotus alumni receive a 10% discount.

Because our training sessions frequently develop a wait list, refunds will be made to your personal Green Lotus account with less than two-weeks advance notice when you cancel.  Cancellations made with less than a 48-hour notice will not receive a refund. 

The Study of the Yoga Sutras

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The Study of the Yoga Sutras

Yoga Alliance-Approved Advanced  Studies and
Continuing-Education Yoga Teacher Training

Dates: Dates coming soon
CEC: 8 Hours (6 Contact, 2 Non-Contact)
Location: Virtual

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This course delves into and digests the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali in “bite-size” chunks. In a book-club approach, we explore: the modern-day application of this timeless masterpiece; share how it applies to our personal lives, and discuss how to bring its words to life. Students learn to apply the concepts of the Sutras to the study of 8-limbed path, including asana, and to the art of living yoga. Offered virtually on Zoom, this course meets one evening for four weeks for 90 minutes , making it accessible to students near and far and creating new communities of exploration and connection.

The Study of the Yoga Sutras Faculty

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Tracy Hovde, E-RYT 200, RYT 500, YACEP
Tracy Hovde Author
Tracy Hovde, E-RYT 200, RYT 500, YACEP
Tracy Hovde Author

Tracy has a background in dance, bodywork, aromatherapy, martial arts, and personal training. After a dance injury led her to yoga for physical healing, she found that her yoga practice not only supported her body, but it also changed her perspective of the world and her connection to it. For her, yoga engenders peace and clarity, both on and off the mat, and gives her a way to balance her energetic anatomy. Inspired to share her perspectives with others, she completed her 200-hour training with Devanadi Yoga, 500-hour training with Green Lotus, and teaches workshops, classes, and trainings for Green Lotus.

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Required Books & Materials

Students will be required to read the following:

  • The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali translated by Sri Swami Satchidananda

Schedule

This training meets virtually on Zoom Tuesday evenings: 

  • 6:30 - 8 p.m.

*No make-up sessions will be available. If students cannot attend for the entire weekend schedule, they will be able to complete the requirements the next time the training is held.

Fee:  $132

Green Lotus Alumni receive a 10% discount.

Because our training sessions tend to develop a wait list, refunds will be made to your personal Green Lotus account with less than two-weeks notice.  Cancellations made with less than 48 hour notice will not receive a refund.