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Date: Friday-Sunday, November 7-9Time: 9:00am-5:00pm
Cost: $495
Learn to teach with trauma awareness. Join Certified Yoga Therapist Annie Okerlin, one of the nation's leading experts on Adaptive Yoga, for a weekend training that will change the way you hold space for your clients dealing with chronic stress and the emotional, psychological, and physical effects of trauma. Upon successful completion of the course participants are eligible for 24 hours CE with Yoga Alliance and IAYT.
This training will guide you to:
Support your students with any type of trauma and chronic stress.
Create a secure space for your students to experience themselves in a gentle and supportive manner.
Deepen your sensitivity to your student's needs.
Understand the way the body and mind hold their experiences.
Do your own work to be able to care for others.
Cultivate a self-care practice to better support your students.
Safely adapt yoga postures for any injury.
Teach grounding meditation for anyone with trauma.
We will also use Yoga Nidra techniques throughout the weekend for our own self-care and to develop an expanding tool bag to draw from to support our clients.
Daily trauma-aware movement practices.
Understand the way the body and mind hold their experiences. Somatic experiencing exercises.
Ways to support your students with any type of trauma and chronic stress.
Safe adaptations of yoga postures for any physical challenge.
Creation of a secure space for your students to experience themselves in a gentle and supportive manner.
Deepen your sensitivity to your students' needs using self-care techniques. Cultivate and deepen personal practice.
About Annie Okerlin
Annie Okerlin, C-IAYT has been a yoga teacher since 1999. Her passion for helping the wounded warriors of today’s wars led her to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Washington, DC in 2006 where she has worked with the traumatically injured, including amputees, burn victims, those with orthopedic poly-trauma, traumatic brain injuries, spinal-cord injuries, as well as unseen injuries such as PTSD and moral injury. Annie founded Yogani in Tampa and was the owner of this successful yoga studio for over 18 years. As one of the nation's leading experts on Adaptive Yoga, Annie teaches nationally and internationally with The Exalted Warrior Foundation, a non-profit organization she founded in 2010 to support wounded warriors with the seen & unseen issues of traumatic injury.
In addition to her extensive yoga training and experience, Annie is a Certified iRest® Instructor and created the Exalted Warrior Practice Guide for Veterans: Yoga & Meditation practices for Strength, Comfort & Ease.
Certfications:
C-IAYT - Certified International Association of Yoga Therapy #48741456
E-RYT 500 Yoga Alliance® ERYT (Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher)
YACEP Yoga Alliance® Continuing Education Provider
C-iRest® - Certified iRest Meditation Instructor
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
3015 7th St N, Saint Petersburg, FL, United States, Florida 33704, 3015 7th St N, St Petersburg, FL 33704-2062, United States, St. Petersburg
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