Teaching Safe Back Bends

This module is designed for teachers who have already completed a 200-Hr yoga teacher training, and wish to accumulate 300 credits toward their 500-Hr certification. Or for the curious practitioner who simply wishes to deepen his or her knowledge of yoga.

This Backward Bending course will cover the following topics through lecture, discussion, and hands-on/verbal practice:

• 2.5-hour workshop that will provide tools and techniques on how to practice and teach backward bends safely and correctly
• Anatomy lecture and discussion with a physical therapist on muscular awareness and structural integrity in backward bends
• How to insert backward bends into a regular flow class in a way that is safe, energetically balanced, and accessible to your students
• How to construct a backward bending workshop that is appropriate for both beginner and advanced practitioners
• Study of the chakras that are energetically relevant to backward bends
• Teaching mindful awareness and inner peace through backward bending
• How to avoid the pitfalls of over-trying or attachment to asana
• Practice teaching backward bends

Schedule:

• Friday 4/5/19, 6:00pm – 10:00pm
• Saturday 4/6/19, 11:30am – 4:00pm
• Sunday 4/7/19, 11:30am – 3:30pm

Price of this module: $335