Education
Yoga Alliance Teaching Certification and Continuing Education Provider
I currently hold certification with the Yoga Alliance as an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher with over 500 hours of training (E-RYT500). I am also a Senior Trainer for one of Yoga Alliance’s Certified Schools and North America’s largest yoga school, YogaFit Training Systems Worldwide. Whether it is for your own personal growth and knowledge in yoga or if you wish to bring the joy of yoga to others, YogaFit provides modular and self-paced programming.
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Enhance your Yoga or Become a yoga teacher
I take great pride in providing education to current and up & coming yoga teachers with the highest quality of curriculum through YogaFit with both online and in-person training options. Start with YogaFit Level One and see where the journey takes you. Through YogaFit Training Systems Worldwide it is possible to complete your 200hr and 300hr yoga training certification. In addition, YogaFit provides specialty or enhanced certifications in many categories such as Athletes, Trauma-Informed yoga practices, Holistic Health, Women’s Health, Active Adults for Older populations, Ayurveda and more.
YOGA FIT: My up-and-coming training
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What you will learn:
How athletes train, what mental and physical challenges they face, and what impact their training has on their minds as well as their bodies
How the science and philosophy of yoga can enhance an athlete’s experience of any other discipline
To analyze yoga poses for strength and demand, to refine alignment, and develop mind-body awareness in a particular movement
To analyze yoga poses to address use and overuse issues in sports that can cause developmental imbalance in the body
How yogic breathing techniques, meditation, and visualization can help prevent injuries and over-training, improve athletic performance, and lead athletes of any persuasion on a path toward success
Principles and practices of yoga that can supplement any athletic training program
Yoga’s inverse and complementary relationship to athletic performance and training cycles
To facilitate the discovery of the inner athlete in your students as well as increase your own athleticism
The tools you’ll need to break into the business of providing yoga for athletes, whether professionals, amateurs, or weekend warriors.
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No one likes to get injured. But for an athlete, an injury can constitute a major setback and even hinder or end a professional career. Unfortunately, once an injury does occur, the likelihood of recurrence or additional problems increases. With its dual focus on recovery and prevention, this two-day intensive shows you how to help athletes return to their game post-injury and, perhaps more important, help them prevent injuries in the first place so they can stay in the game. Ideal for sports professionals who work with athletes—yoga teachers, personal trainers, physiotherapists, and strength and conditioning coaches.
What you will learn:
To identify and assess risk factors for the most common sports-related injuries
To navigate the complex world and unique challenges of athletes, whether they’re professional, diehards, or weekend warriors
How conventional medicine manages sports injuries and how yoga complements conventional treatment options
How adding yoga to an athlete’s training regimen can promote wellness, enhance performance and longevity, and prevent injuries
How yoga can be a corrective and strengthening exercise for all-around elite performance and longevity
How to create a yoga program that will enhance strength, flexibility, balance and focus for both professional and casual athletes
How to create an individualized, therapeutically oriented yoga program using sequencing, breathing techniques, meditation, and other yoga-based methods that focus on intervention, activity modification, and rehabilitation
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With a focus on developmental trauma disorder, a new and vastly expanded tool for understanding early childhood trauma, this special therapeutically oriented workshop centers on the unique way a child’s nervous system and brain respond to traumatic events, including chronic emotional and physical abuse and neglect. We will address somatic gaps in current therapies available and the challenges inherent in treating children suffering from PTSD.
Note: YogaFit for WarriorKids counts as an elective for either the 200-hour or the 300-hour training, but not both. This two-day workshop also counts toward YogaFit’s 100-hour and 140-hour YogaFit for Warriors certification; the 100-hour YogaFit for WarriorKids certification; and YogaFit’s 900-hour YogaFit HealthCare certification.
What you will learn:
How early childhood trauma dramatically affects brain function and neurological development and impacts a child’s ability to learn, manage stress, and develop relationships later in life
How too much or too little sensory input damages the wiring of a child’s nervous system and brain development and can cause myriad childhood and teenage problems, including ADHD, bipolar disorder, and addictions
How to create a trauma-sensitive yoga program that is safe and effective for a variety of age groups—from newborns and toddlers to preteens and adolescents
The importance of engaging the senses in any yoga program specifically designed to help heal childhood trauma
How to incorporate visualization, storytelling and imagery, grounding and centering exercises, as well as breathing and specific yoga poses for each age group
How to use YogaFit’s transformational language specifically for this population to facilitate a deeper release of stress
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With a focus on developmental trauma disorder, a new and vastly expanded tool for understanding early childhood trauma, this special therapeutically oriented workshop centers on the unique way a child’s nervous system and brain respond to traumatic events, including chronic emotional and physical abuse and neglect. We will address somatic gaps in current therapies available and the challenges inherent in treating children suffering from PTSD.
Note: YogaFit for WarriorKids counts as an elective for either the 200-hour or the 300-hour training, but not both. This two-day workshop also counts toward YogaFit’s 100-hour and 140-hour YogaFit for Warriors certification; the 100-hour YogaFit for WarriorKids certification; and YogaFit’s 900-hour YogaFit HealthCare certification.