Advanced Yoga Training
Our 300 hour Advanced Training Courses
~ Thai Based Yoga Adjustments for the Upper and Lower Body ~Begins TBA
~ Prenatal Yoga and Side Line Thai Massage ~100 hours Begins Dec 4th
~ Online course in living your purpose/ A course in Spiritual Development ~100 hours Begins FEB 1st 2009
Dec 4th - Dec 12th 2008
The Reflections Yoga Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training is more then just a course in asanas. It is our deepest intention to teach you how to care for the burgeoning mothers that will come to your classes.
Many mothers come to yoga for the first time during pregnancy. Often they are afraid of what they are experiencing in their bodies and worried about their future journey toward motherhood.
We will prepare you to guide them through this process and to help them to foster a love for the miracle that their body is preparing for. Through this practice of yoga we will awaken their innate wisdom and move them through this precious time consciously and with appreciation and understanding for the beauty of childbearing.
Enjoy 8 days of Training at the Pousada Casa do Ceo, Praia do Rosa : a small village beach resort in the South of Brazil, (Santa Catarina region) a magical place with diverse landscapes and great natural beauty. Perfect for the connection to nature we will be needing. A great place to nurture yourself, allowing time for your own retreat and spiritual growth.
This Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training is part of our advanced training course. During this course you will gain the skills needed to teach:
• Prenatal and postnatal Asanas (Poses) and Pranayama (Breathwork)
• Contra-indicated poses during pregnancy and dispelling the myths
• Asana modifications for pregnancy and alternative poses including how to use props to help modify asanas for pregnancy
• Therapeutic flying for expectant mothers
• Sideline and seated Thai massage
• Guided meditation and mother/child bonding techniques
• Study of the Gita
• Relaxation techniques
• Childbirth preparation exercises and labor support skills
• Anatomical and physiological changes during pregnancy and how it relates to yoga
• Explanation of fetal positions.
Requirements:
•Attendance of all course workdays
•Attendance on all bridge line conference calls
•All homework assignments
•10 hours of community teaching and project
•Complete reading list
•Written essays on various childbirth related topics
•Final examination: written examination and teaching a final class
Schedule:
•80hrs of training in our Brazil location
•10hrs of teaching and project preparation
•10hrs of blog and bridge line conference calls
Total hours: Approximately 100 hours
Pre-requisite: Applicants must already have completed a 200-hour yoga teacher training.
Upon completion of this course you will have 100 hrs toward your advanced training hour with yoga alliance.
Tuition and Refund Policy;
All prices quoted in US dollars
Travelers full package - $1600 (Book before October and pay $1400 and $1300 usd if you reserve with a friend. A $200.00 non-refundable deposit is due no later than October 14, 2008).
Residents of Brazil full package - $1600 (Book before November and pay $1400 and $1300 if you reserve with a friend. A $200.00 non-refundable deposit is due no later than November 14, 2008).
Residents of Brazil
Training & Food only package (no accommodations)- $700 (Book before November and pay $600 and $550 if you reserve with a friend. A $200.00 non-refundable deposit is due no later than November 14, 2008).
Full payment is due before Nov 25th
We accept cash, checks, Visa or Master Card through paypal (there will be a transaction fee)
We charge a $25 application fee.
Application: Please contact us for more information and an application by Email: ptursi@reflectionstionsyoga.com
Walk the path you were meant to walk, free from what no longer serves you. Discover what it is that stops you from living to your truest potential and blossom into your true beautiful self!
Vedic lore—which presents the divine with many faces and qualities as manifestations of the One who has no name—speaks of an elephant-headed god called Ganesh who places obstacles in our path so we can learn the lessons we need to learn.
The purpose of this five week course is to be your Ganesh (longer for advanced training hours ). It will invite you to bring consciousness to what is standing in your way and clear a new path.
Imagine what life would be like if you stopped living someone else’s script and began living your own. Recall the last 24 hours. Were you acting consciously? Doing what you most want to do, with people around you who are supportive and living to the fullest themselves?
It needn’t be a fantasy. For the first time ever, Reflections Yoga is opening a core section of its advanced teacher training to the public, allowing yoga teachers, students or anyone with the desire to really look into their patterns and the sources of those patterns to take this journey too.
Each week you will be asked to journal about something integral to finding your true purpose in life and to think about the obstacles that have held you back. Using an online blog to set assignments and create a virtual student community, the course begins with a segment devised to assist students in finding their inner voice. Questions and homework are designed to require introspection and soul-searching in order to bring awareness to the obstacles and fears holding so many of us back from reaching our fullest potential. Smaller group calls are also required and provide support and “witnesses” for each student in his or her process. The result, after a five-week course, is a powerful feeling of freedom and healing.
Students attend weekly larger group conference calls which include led meditation and receive periodic check-ins from Paula, who offers her wealth of experience, extensive knowledge and intuitive understanding of each student’s needs to assist in her or his evolution. As challenging as the training can be, Paula inspires her students to persevere, in the knowledge that living one’s personal truth is the path to true liberation.
Meaningful, lasting change is an ethereal concept that can seem hopelessly unattainable. With patience and trust in the process, however, meaningful change becomes not just possible but very real - it is tangible. The Reflections Yoga spiritual development course is like no other and comes highly recommended by the students who have had the joy of participating in it.
Here is what students are saying:
"The series is set up in such a way that you can’t help but dive deeper and deeper into yourself to heal old wounds, leave old patterns behind and shine brightly towards a future of strength and balance."
"For me the capstone of this course is the unveiling of my true self. Through deep forgiveness and self love, we can be truly free; this is the part of the course that brings us inside our vulnerability and allows us to release the cycle of tension and shame that keeps us from feeling the power and joy that each of us rightfully deserves."
"Is there a part of you that you feel isn't being set free? For me it felt like it was hiding, but after a series of work on myself with an amazing community to support me, i found it!"
"With the compassionate and sure guidance of Paula Tursi, the founder and director of Reflections Yoga, students are led to their truest consciousness. The effects of the training are profound and remain long after the completion of the course."
After we have been teaching for a while we begin to feel a natural need to adjust our students so that they better reflect our directions.
Adjusting itself is an energetic exchange. It can be a very healing and informative part of the practice. In this workshop we will learn to perform adjustments that give direction, feel good but are not punitive. We will use Thai massage and Yoga therapy techniques as the basis of our work together.
This will be a two part workshop that will:
~ Teach adjustments of the upper and lower body
~ Explain the anatomy necessary to give an intelligent adjustment
~ Offer plenty of time to practice on a variety of bodies
~ Look in to some therapeutic concerns around adjustments
Because this is a two part class there will be time go out and apply what you learned and return to class with specific questions in order to make each adjustment your own.
