200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training
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Benessere!
First of all, thank you to so many of my dear and generous friends who contributed to the first steps, twenty hours, in my yoga teacher training. I have already been able to share some of my learning from the wall strap/healthy backs seminar I did in San Diego.
Notwithstanding my mother having been a yoga teacher for nearly 40 years, and still practicing at age 93, I have a different motivation for wanting to be a yoga teacher.
Having attended classes with my mother at her Senior Center, I saw that the instructors tended to be more "gym minded" or focussed on their stated curriculum and not on the people in the actual room, their needs, their bodies, their abilities. This group complained of being injured because the teacher was not actually observing or instructing THEM, but perhaps some ideal (younger, more limber, more flexible) student. Outraged, I called out the teacher during class (this went on for a couple of weeks before I blew my stack), and resolved to become a teacher so that I could serve the less flexible, less assured, less limber communities, and others who need and deserve appropriate kind and gentle instruction.
The next phase is the 200 hour teacher training, which will allow me to actually teach classes and private lessons. Thursday nights and weekends until the end of June I will start the next phase of my yoga teacher training lasts from end of February until the end of June.
I am already thinking up my own kinds of classes:
— Buttered Toast Yoga: come melt with us and enjoy the delicious feeling of some good stretching
— Yoga for Gardeners: learn stretches, positions, and postures to support you while digging and planting, etc.
— Welcome to Your Body: personal assessment of your abilities and limitations, getting to what your capabilities
and slowing expanding them
As I said, seniors and other creaky types are not always served by much of the standard yoga classes offered. I am particularly interested in helping to bring movement, easy, and some kind of bodily joy to those who might have forgotten, or indeed never learned how to move, breathe, and generally take care of themselves. In this Western culture, there is little information and instruction towards keeping our mobility, working with our encroaching physical limitations, and realizing we can learn to enjoy the slow.
My mission is to spread well-being, benessere, in Italian.
I appreciate your kind consideration.
Many thanks to those who have contributed before. Everything helps!
First of all, thank you to so many of my dear and generous friends who contributed to the first steps, twenty hours, in my yoga teacher training. I have already been able to share some of my learning from the wall strap/healthy backs seminar I did in San Diego.
Notwithstanding my mother having been a yoga teacher for nearly 40 years, and still practicing at age 93, I have a different motivation for wanting to be a yoga teacher.
Having attended classes with my mother at her Senior Center, I saw that the instructors tended to be more "gym minded" or focussed on their stated curriculum and not on the people in the actual room, their needs, their bodies, their abilities. This group complained of being injured because the teacher was not actually observing or instructing THEM, but perhaps some ideal (younger, more limber, more flexible) student. Outraged, I called out the teacher during class (this went on for a couple of weeks before I blew my stack), and resolved to become a teacher so that I could serve the less flexible, less assured, less limber communities, and others who need and deserve appropriate kind and gentle instruction.
The next phase is the 200 hour teacher training, which will allow me to actually teach classes and private lessons. Thursday nights and weekends until the end of June I will start the next phase of my yoga teacher training lasts from end of February until the end of June.
I am already thinking up my own kinds of classes:
— Buttered Toast Yoga: come melt with us and enjoy the delicious feeling of some good stretching
— Yoga for Gardeners: learn stretches, positions, and postures to support you while digging and planting, etc.
— Welcome to Your Body: personal assessment of your abilities and limitations, getting to what your capabilities
and slowing expanding them
As I said, seniors and other creaky types are not always served by much of the standard yoga classes offered. I am particularly interested in helping to bring movement, easy, and some kind of bodily joy to those who might have forgotten, or indeed never learned how to move, breathe, and generally take care of themselves. In this Western culture, there is little information and instruction towards keeping our mobility, working with our encroaching physical limitations, and realizing we can learn to enjoy the slow.
My mission is to spread well-being, benessere, in Italian.
I appreciate your kind consideration.
Many thanks to those who have contributed before. Everything helps!
Organizer
SallyAnne Syberg
Organizer
Santa Fe Springs, CA
