Potrero Hill

 

Join in as we honor the shortening of our days. As we usher in autumn, we reap the harvest of your dreams set at the beginning of the year and start the process of letting go to make more space for the New Year to come.

In this workshop, we will enjoy an internalizing yoga practice, breathwork, and Yoga Nidra to honor our personal process of birth, life, and death for each passing year!

 

Preksha is a beautiful Sanskrit word that means "seeing, beholding, reflecting." In this advanced module we will explore ways of seeing clearly: Our own practice and lives, and the practices of our students. We will seek out blockages and patterns and look to create clarity and fluidity.

Much of this training will be on gaining skills at seeing your students clearly both physically and in all three planes of motion. And also skillfully seeing the flow of prana, and seeking out and clearing blockages that may be present. With this clarity, both clear cueing and hands-on adjustments can be created for the student. Additionally, you’ll learn to create action plans that will inform and inspire your students to see themselves clearly, with patience and light.

o Assess: See where you and your students have patterns of holding, blockage and avoidance
o Assist: Make hands-on-adjustments & modifications to poses and the practice as a whole
o Activate: Form and inspire clear intentions and practice plans for you and your students

Morning practices will be strong and highly specific.

Afternoons will be labs of assessing and learning new hands-on adjustments, as well as building action plans for releasing habitual patterns.

“Everything is magical when you see it with your heart.”
―Mooji

Upon completion, this week-long Teaching Skills Advanced module qualifies for 50 hours towards Yoga Tree Advanced Certification OR SmartFLOW Advanced certification.

Preksha: Clear Seeing, Adjusting and Activating
SmartFLOW Advanced Teaching Skills
Annie Carpenter
September 21-27
Sat-Fri | 11 am-6:30 pm
$1,100 | $1,250 after August 21*

Yoga Tree Training Center, 175 De Haro St.
(415) 655-3936

Regarded as a “teachers’ teacher”, Annie Carpenter is the creator of SmartFLOW Yoga, an intelligent marriage of mindful movement with compassionate, wakeful alignment. Based in northern California, Annie creates practices that are at once advanced and challenging, yet safe and playful. An influential teacher trainer since 2003, Annie leads 200-/500-hour trainings and workshops globally.

 

Website: anniecarpenter.com

 

With online registration, you are reserving one spot in the workshop. To reserve for additional students, please contact the studio where the workshop will be held.

ALL WORKSHOPS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE.

*Advance price registration for this training is not available through the mobile app. Please visit YogaTreeSF.com or call Yoga Tree Potrero at (415) 655-3936 to enroll at the advance price.

 

On the equinox, when the light of day and the dark of the night are equalized, a special 'window' opens up. It is a moment in time that is ideal for deep meditation, for cultivating clarity, intuitive power, and heightened energy.

 

The pineal gland is the access point to what the yogis call the "10th gate, a gateway to the flow of heightened consciousness. Under normal circumstances, this 10th gate remains sealed. Through ancient yogic technology, the life-force in the body can be awakened, the 10th gate unseals, and a beautiful flow of love-intelligence can be experienced through your own body and mind.

 

Yogis have understood this mystical science for thousands of years. Throughout history, it has been kept 'hidden' as esoteric knowledge. In our current age, it is important that these 'hidden secrets' are demystified and made available to the people. 

In this special Bay Area equinox workshop, you'll experience the invigorating yogic exercises, ancient teachings, and transporting meditations to activate your body’s life-force and plug into your source of deep purpose.

 

 

Yoga can be a valuable tool to support birthing mothers and their partners in staying present, focused and relaxed through the intensity of birth and beyond. This workshop offers couples an opportunity to go deeper in their connection to each other, their babies and their own intuitive wisdom. Together you’ll learn how to confidently navigate all phases of labor with breath awareness, massage and partner poses. Furthermore, partners will learn skills for self-care and creating a safe and calm environment for birthing.

 

 

 

Lighting the Path Teacher Training prepares you to be an authentic and heart-centered yoga teacher, offering compassionate and accessible vinyasa classes for all levels of students.

 

Vigorous morning yoga intensives guide you deeper into your own practice and life purpose, while afternoon instructional sessions cover an extensive yoga teacher curriculum, including cueing, sequencing, hands-on assists, working with injuries, demonstration techniques, vocal presence, yoga philosophy and history, the business of yoga, ethics, and anatomy.

 

The LTP program includes a variety of teaching methods so that you can learn, practice and embody the material. This includes demonstration, lecture, talking circles, group processes, and partner practice. You will receive personalized attention, guidance, and feedback directly from Pete Guinosso and his highly qualified assisting staff and senior guest faculty.

 

Process work helps you to connect to your own heart’s wisdom and find your authentic voice as a teacher. Deep connection with the community of trainees and trainers gives you the support you need during and after the training to be successful in establishing yourself as a teacher and throughout your yoga career.

 

LTP trainees begin teaching on day one, initially teaching to other students and gradually building up to teach a group public class under Pete’s guidance. The program’s teaching focus helps trainees become adaptable and knowledgeable teachers for a wide variety of students.

 

This training is ideal for serious students of yoga and aspiring teachers, as well as current yoga teachers looking to add additional skills to their teaching.

 

Upon completion of this training, you are eligible to register with Yoga Alliance as an RYT-200 teacher. You will also be able to enroll in Lighting the Path’s 300-hour teacher training course and/or the LTP mentorship program.

 

Over the course of six months, you will learn how to:

• Inspire students by teaching from your own heart’s wisdom
• Be emotionally intelligent and present with your students
• Effectively sequence for, and safely adjust, an all-levels class
• Incorporate themes and intentions into your teaching and practice
• Cue and instruct so your students stay present in their practice
• Feel confident working with common conditions and injuries
• Create a supportive and caring environment in your classes

 

Take your personal practice and understanding of yoga and meditation deeper with Pete's Morning Intensives. The power of his series is that each class is designed and sequenced to build on previous classes. You will experience profound growth and meaningful connection of your mind, body and spirit. Or maybe you are looking for a quick, effective jump start to your practice that needs a bit of spark and inspiration. Either way, Pete’s mix of vinyasa and Forrest yoga, taught with heart and compassion, will make you sweat, smile and leave feeling restored and grounded.

 

 

*SCHEDULE

September 2019
28–29

October 2019
12–13 and 26–27

November 2019
9–10 and 23–24

December 2019
7–8 and 14–15

January 2020
11–12 and 25–26

February 2020
8–9; 22–23; Saturday, February 29

 

Sunday, March 1

 

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We thrive with rest. In this fast-paced age where being busy, exhausted, overstimulated and stressed are the norm, the nurturing stillness of restorative yoga can be the remedy.

 

Surrender into comfortable, supported poses while you enjoy easy breath awareness and simple meditation techniques infused with soothing sonic interludes. This widely accessible practice resets the nervous system to restore health, vitality and ease within all levels of your being. Relieve the aches in your muscular body with this deep medicine. Expand your natural capacity to heal, sleep, digest, conceive, build immunities and show up in your life with a clear mind and open heart. Drop in and listen to your body’s wisdom.

 

Restorative Yoga is accessible to everyone, regardless of fitness level, age, ability or experience with yoga. This deep medicine can be incredibly useful for everyone, including pregnant women, new parents, people with anxiety, chronic illnesses, headaches and discomfort. All you need is the willingness to be still and present with yourself.

 

 

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With online registration, you are reserving one spot in the workshop. To reserve for additional students, please contact the studio where the workshop will be held.

ALL WORKSHOPS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE.

 

 

"What an intense and wild time to be alive. There is much conflict and division in our world, but as difficult as these times are, they are also exciting, invigorating, and rich with the possibility for collective freedom."—Excerpt from Revolution of the Soul

 

 

Join Susan for a "back" to school special that helps your back release old patterns of stress and tension using the Yoga Tune Up® therapy balls.

 

 

Join Seane Corn for this special event, where she will discuss her upcoming book Revolution of the Soul, a book about her life, work, and message of transformation, conscious action, and justice. Inspired by her new book, Seane will lead a yoga class that will explore spiritual tools for individual transformation that can lead to collective liberation.

 

6:30-7:30 pm: Yoga class

7:30-7:45 pm: Break

7:45-9 pm: Speakeasy chat & book signing

 

"What an intense and wild time to be alive. There is much conflict and division in our world, but as difficult as these times are, they are also exciting, invigorating, and rich with the possibility for collective freedom."—Excerpt from Revolution of the Soul

 

 

 

 

This 40-hour course is intended for those who wish to teach Yin Yoga, as well as for anyone who wishes to be immersed in the profound benefits of this meditative, therapeutic and philosophically-rich practice. This course includes an 8-hour, supervised, personal project (in accordance with Yoga Alliance specifications). 

Combining Indian Yogic, Chinese Taoist, and Indian/Tibetan Buddhist philosophical lineages, Yin Yoga encompasses a vast, holistic approach to health and well-being of body, mind, and spirit.

Topics:

• Modern & ancient roots of Yin Yoga
• Yin Yoga practice & sequencing
• Meditation & Pranayama
• Anatomy (including Paul Grilley's Anatomy DVD series)
• Yogic, Taoist & Buddhist philosophy
• Meridian & Chakra theories from ancient Chinese medicine
• Nadis, Chakras, and Koshas of the Ayurvedic Indian system
• Therapeutic applications
• Injuries & Special Needs modifications
• Teaching practice
• The Business of Yin Yoga

 

"I have complete confidence in Christy's sensitive and skillful ability to teach teachers the nourishing practice of Yin Yoga."
—Sarah Powers, internationally-renowned yoga teacher and author of Insight Yoga
 

 

 

Deepen your practice with a weekend of inquiry into the body, mind and heart. Through yoga practice, sitting practice, dynamic meditation and study of yoga philosophy, we will explore and challenge the habits of the body and mind, and attune to what is most authentic in each of us.

Open to all. No previous training is required.