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Teaching Yoga for Beginners (Continuing Education for Certified Yoga Teachers)

  • 283 E Center St, Manchester, CT, United States, Connecticut 06040 · Manchester
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Teaching Yoga for Beginners (Continuing Education for Certified Yoga Teachers)
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🧘 Teaching Yoga to Beginners
🔸Taught by Sharon Shanti E-RYT500 YACEP
📍November 13-15
📍Friday: 6pm-9pm
📍Saturday: 12pm-7pm
📍Sunday: 8am -5pm
(Ample breaks and mealtimes will be allotted)
⭐️ 20 CEs Available ⭐️
Teaching Yoga to Beginners can be the most challenging teaching situation. Learn how to design accessible, empowering classes for new students, building strong foundations in breath, movement, and awareness. This course will focus on how to plan, structure, and lead yoga classes specifically for new practitioners, focusing on fundamental poses (asana), clear and accessible instruction, safe alignment and modifications. basic breathing techniques (pranayama). Key elements include creating a welcoming environment, using simple language, offering appropriate variations for different bodies, and providing guidance on establishing a consistent and progressive yoga practice.
This advanced training is focused on teaching yoga to beginners is designed for certified instructors who want to deepen their skills for working with new students. Refine your ability to create a safe, accessible, and inclusive environment.
🔸You will learn 🔸
🌱Sequencing for accessibility: Learning how to build a beginner series that introduces fundamental poses and concepts progressively over several weeks.
🌱Peak pose preparation: Understanding how to break down a more challenging pose into manageable steps, with the modification taught first as an entry point for all students.
🌱Creative variations: Moving beyond standard modifications to develop creative ways to help students build strength and stability, such as modifying Sun Salutations
🌱Refined verbal cueing: Practicing concise, inclusive, and empowering language that avoids confusing jargon and helps new students connect with their bodies.
🌱Instructional observation: Training your eye to watch students as they move and adapt your instruction in real-time, rather than just leading a scripted flow.
🌱Effective use of props: Learning to effectively incorporate blocks, straps, blankets, and bolsters to make poses more comfortable and accessible for different body types and abilities.
🌱Hands-on assists (when appropriate): Developing advanced techniques for providing gentle, supportive physical adjustments that prioritize student consent and safety.
🔸Sharon Shanti is a certified Kripalu & Pranakryia Yoga Teacher, Kripalu Restorative Yoga Teacher, and Reiki Master. Sharon teaches passionate yoga classes, delivers dynamic and motivational Workshops and Retreats and has for years developed and led both 200 hour and 300 hour Yoga Teaching Training Modules. She is passionate about empowering and encouraging people to honor their bodies, to go within and to continue to grow and heal with the time honored teachings of yoga. As a lifelong student of Yoga, Sharon has studied with some of the most esteemed, knowledgeable and distinguished teachers, including Yoganand Michael Carroll, Stephen Cope and Sudha Carolyn Sundeen, Sharon has shared the teachings of these ancient wisdom traditions for the past 19 years.🔸
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*Arrive with your Beginner's Mind.
*Handouts will be given.
*Please have a notebook and/or a journal available.
Standard Card Payment: $355 + tax
Cash/Check Discount: $345
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