This will be Harvey’s fifth year offering this training due to high interest! We have received great feedback from past students to improve this craft, and are ready for you to begin your therapeutic journey in 2019. This training will be a total of 150 hours, 115 contact hours and 35 non-contact hours for self-study over a spread of five months to accommodate the busy lives we lead! This course will add many of the missing and key elements to the yoga puzzle to deepen the understanding of how to use yoga as a healing modality. The teachings will be based on a sound scientific/therapeutic rationale with intuitive and artful overtones.

This training will be hosted in classic "salon-style," a conversational gathering inspired by your teacher where spirited discussion amongst your peers is deeply encouraged! Course work will be both didactic and experiential. We will study functional anatomy and biomechanics of the human body. We will learn about human physiology—how each system in the body works and how inter-related these systems are. Additionally, we will come to understand how to influence the healing of the body and mind to maintain or reach a level of homeostasis in our sacred vessel.

We will observe movement and alignment in our own bodies and have the opportunity to evaluate, treat and design a yoga-based exercise program for individuals from our community who will be part of our course of study!

Note: Upon completion of your registration, if you are interested, please send a note to Harvey on why you are interested and what you plan to do with the knowledge gained at yoga@redhawkpt.com.

 

Friday, 2:00–6:00pm
Saturday, 12:30–6:30pm
Sunday, 12:30–6:30pm

January 11-13
Yoga Therapeutics Intro, Anatomy & Biomechanics Review

January 25-27
Human Physiology & The Endocrine System as the Building Blocks

February 8-10
The Nervous System & its Relationship to the Body and Yoga

February 22-24
Muscles and Tissues, Disease vs. Dysfunction and Common Diagnoses Seen in the Yoga Room

March 15-17
The Respiratory System & Pranayama

April 12-14
Multiple Diagnoses, Treatment Ideas, Hands-on Labs

May 3-5
Advanced Manual Assists, Safety Progressing the Yogi, and Class vs. Private Session Organization

 

This schedule is a great scaffolding of what is yet to come. Due to this training’s fluidity, please be flexible in terms of topics going through the training. Feedback is always encouraged throughout the course 

  

Calling all movement enthusiasts! Whether you are a teacher of yoga or another movement practice, or simply a student who is curious about your own body, this 30-hour course will provide a framework for understanding human movement. Working from the inside out, we will take a look at the layers of the body while weaving in the philosophy, spirit, and purpose of Yoga.

 

Learn in a tangible way by feeling your own body in familiar asana and looking at other bodies to gain a more comprehensive understanding of posture, movement, and breath. Yoga Tune Up® Therapy Balls will assist you in creating a body map, increasing your proprioception of both individual muscles and movement patterns. This experiential approach allows clinical language and scientific concepts to become relatable, meaningful, and applicable to your practice and your teaching. You will build the skills that create mobility, flexibility, and versatility of body, mind, and spirit. These tools will help you get stronger, move more efficiently, and embody the spirit of yoga on and off the mat.

 

This course is an invaluable tool for yoga teachers and serious students alike. It will enrich your practice and inspire your teaching. Teachers will gain the awareness to see bodies more clearly, sequence more effectively, and offer more precise and accessible instructions. All participants will gain insights towards a sustainable movement practice and overall optimal health by improving posture, creating balanced movement, and more efficient breathing all while connecting the deeper meaning of yoga to your practice.

 

 

Required Text: The Trail Guide to the Body: How to Locate Muscles, Bones and More (5th Edition) by Andrew Biel

This course qualifies as continuing education for the 300/500 hour Yoga Tree training.

 

 

Stacey Rosenberg is a teacher of the both the art and technique of yoga—weaving both wisdom and play, she is a proponent of experiential alignment and passionate about educating people in how to be a student of their own bodies. Her style of yoga blends practical knowledge honed over years of experience, a deep spiritual awareness rooted in the everyday sacred, and a street-wise sense of humor. 

namastacey.com

 

 

ALL WORKSHOPS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE. 

**ENROLLMENT NOTE: The advance price for this workshop 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.

"Love people, feed them and remember God."
—Mahajji Neem Karoli Baba.

The calls of the day are loud and demanding; responsibilities pull us right and left. How can we honor the world around us and our blessed life without ever letting go of the divine cord of love? Of course we are all humans and we forget God a thousand times a day but don't worry. Let's start with baby steps and, through patience and grace, begin to see all life as an expression of the divine play.

For everyone who loves and practices kirtan (chanting the ecstatic songs of ancient India), this workshop will fuel your soul. Jai will share and demystify some of the secrets of kirtan. We can all can sing, lead, and share our hearts with others. The practice of chanting can become our teacher, guiding us home.

We will explore:
o The path of personal relationship to Spirit
o Connecting to the Divine
o Mantras & their meaning
o Music & rhythm
o Healing through singing

 

Immersion into the 5 Elements offers a profound introduction to the material and energetic forces that make up our world, our bodies, and our practice of living yoga.

This weekend will be an offering of Desirée and Andrew's latest discoveries, the mental and physical “food” that continues to sustain their practice and well-being, as they enter their seventh decade of life on the planet. 

 

We will explore:

o New ways to approach your work on the mat

o Questions that stimulate your thinking about your life and your relationships

o Ideas that may help you and/or your students move past your perceived limitations

o A deep remembrance of why you love Yoga or a newfound appreciation for the practice

 

This class is open to students and teachers of all levels and all ages, including Wisdom Warriors™ (yogis over age 50). We will practice a variety of poses along with exercises and explanations that create sustainable habits. Our mode of operation is to strengthen and heal rather than avoid. We prefer to step in more deeply than sit on the sidelines.

 

Release Tension with Hip Openers, Meditation and Pranayama 

The morning after this class it is not unusual for us to hear “My back never felt so good!” or “I slept like a baby”. Learn how to release stored tightness in the lower body and keep yourself feeling a lot lighter.

 

The mood after this class is always refreshed and renewed, and we recommend that you give yourself at least 90 minutes to digest your previous meal.

 

The purpose of the backbend practice is to keep you standing tall and confident throughout your daily life. If you don’t enjoy these poses, this class may help you shift your experience for good. If you love backbends, we will help you tap into an even deeper level of fullness.

 

This program is eligible for credit in the Yoga Tree Advanced Training Program. 

div>Friday 1:30-4pm & 6-8:30pm • Saturday 1:30-4pm • Sunday 1:30-4pm

 

 

 

Andrew Rivin is an Executive Leadership Coach with the Asian Leadership Institute. His natural affinity for this type of work has deepened with the training he has done with Desirée. On the special occasions when he co-teaches with Desiree, he creates a powerful fusion of his depth of knowledge about yoga with his understanding of the workings of the mind. 

 

 

 

Immerse yourself in the study of yoga for the childbearing year! This 45-hour comprehensive Level 1 training will include how to teach yoga to women in all stages of pregnancy and throughout the early stages of postpartum. The training will explore yoga as a tool in preparation for not only childbirth, but for motherhood!

Whether or not you have the goal to teach, this training is also a fit for you if you work with women in any capacity (doula, midwife, obstetrician + gynecologists, massage therapists, etc.). Also, mamas looking for ways to deepen their own practice will find a lot of benefit in this immersion as will yoga teachers from every discipline.

This training will include:
• The effects of pregnancy on the body
• The benefits of yoga in pregnancy and beyond
• Postures to aid common discomforts
• What poses are contraindicated (what to avoid)
• Appropriate pranayama practices
• Prenatal bonding
• Physiology of childbirth
• Yoga for labor
• Mom and baby yoga
• Postpartum issues
• Observation of classes

 

Qualifies for Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Credit, hours toward Yoga Tree's 500- and 1000-hour Certification Program, OR can be applied toward the 90-hour Yoga Alliance Prenatal Certification, but not both.

All participants must have completed a 200-hour basic teacher training or at least three years of yoga practice.

Your Self revealed! Your Self remembered! In Sanskrit, Kosha means “sheath” or “veil.” These sheaths are essentially our “outer coverings” that provide a format for us to understand and experience our individual-ness, as well as provide us with the physical, energetic, mental, and causal structures to help us evolve.

 

Whether you are a practitioner, teacher, or one who inspires, gain mastery over your physical and energetic bodies and clear your space for more effective transformation and transmission. Together we go to the heart of yoga by expanding your light so that you can ignite the light of others. Become more than a yoga teacher. Become an innovator so you can teach from a place of deeper “knowing.”  More advanced asana, pranayama, meditation, and healing techniques will be introduced, with an emphasis on the experiential aspects.

Topics include:

• Understand how the five sheaths of consciousness, the koshas, really work and take a journey from your ego to your soul.
• Learn how to unearth and purify the unconscious material stored in each the koshas through asana, pranayama, meditation, kriya, and yoga nidra
• Go to the deepest, most subtle, aspects of the koshas through Yoga Nidra (yogic sleeping) to allow power of soul to support all of your endeavors.
  
  

Required Reading
Yoga Nidra, Swami Satyananda Saraswati
Yoga Nidra, Richard Miller

Suggested Reading
At the Eleventh Hour, Pandit Rajmani Tigunait
Yoga for Transformation, Gary Kraftsow

This course qualifies for credit in the Yoga Tree Continuing Education Program.

Are you a yoga teacher interested in creative ways to support your students in their practice? Are you looking to build a foundation of courageous, compassionate assists? Or are you a yoga student seeking a deeper understanding of alignment within the flow of vinyasa?

Over her nearly 20 years of teaching, Janet has cultivated her powerful touch and ability to support alignment with focused and generous assists. In this workshop, her team of experienced assistants will also join her.

In this workshop you will:

• Learn to create a steady foundation for your own body while assisting.
• Explore the two-way communication of assisting, listening to your own and another’s energetic and physical cues.
• Develop confidence and ease in connecting with students of varying levels of experience.
• Connect with yogic principles such as ahimsa (non-harming), metta (loving-kindness), and svadhyaya (self-study).
• Experience the joy of giving and receiving assists with other experienced students and teachers.
• Learn how service to others can be an aspect of the yogic path.
• Bring renewed attention to the breath and the voice as tools for assisting students.
• Practice supporting advanced asanas, including arm balances and heart openers.

Open to certified teachers, those in teacher training and students interested in deepening their personal practice.

Students will receive 30 hours of Yoga Alliance continuing education credit: 22 contact hours and 8 hours of credit from your assigned self-study. This program qualifies towards the Janet Stone Yoga or Yoga Tree 300-hour, 500-hour, and 1000-hour Teacher Training Programs. Janet’s public classes during the week are included.**

Assisting Intensive
Janet Stone
May 17-19
Friday | 7 am-3 pm
Saturday | Noon-5 pm
Sunday | 8 am-2 pm
Yoga Tree Training Center, 175 De Haro St.
(415) 655–3936
$308 | $408 after May 3*
$208 for JSY and Yoga Tree teacher trainees**

Bring in the summer season on a wave of invocation and celebration of life with the ecstatic practice of chanting!

We work very hard in our lives, and while we may sleep, we rarely take time to rest. Restorative Yoga poses help us learn to relax and rest deeply and completely. During deep relaxation, all the organ systems of the body are benefited, and a few of the measurable results of relaxation are the reduction of blood pressure and the improvement of immune function, as well as improvement in digestion, fertility, elimination, and the reduction of muscle tension and generalized fatigue.

 

In this 30-hour Level 1 workshop, you will learn the art and skill of teaching Restorative Yoga. All aspects of the subject will be covered, including the physiology of relaxation, the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of Restorative Yoga, special poses for menstruation, pregnancy and menopause, and how to sequence and teach a class in Restorative Yoga. At this time, more than 900 teachers have been trained in Restorative Yoga in the United States, Japan, Canada and England.

If you are coming from outside of San Francisco, please arrange your accommodations well in advance. Conventions and other special events can book most of the city’s hotel rooms leaving few options for individual travelers. Each person has different expectations and budgets for a place to stay. We ask that you check the following links for places to stay:

• South of Market Hotels
• San Francisco hotels
• Hotel Reviews
• Sublets/Rooms to Rent

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 trainings and workshops globally.

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.

 

 

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
 

 

Spend a weekend immersed in the bhakti tradition of heart-centered practices, including chanting. We’ll explore the joyful and meditative journey of singing to the Divine through call-and-response, which creates a bridge between the individual and the eternal, opening the heart and welcoming the spirit. By singing these prayers, we unite our voices and join in a stream of consciousness and devotion that has been flowing for centuries.

 

Join Janet Stone and friends for an exploration of bhakti/devotion. We’ll chant, chant, chant and drink in the wisdom of many a guest musician who will share their experience and interpretation of bhakti.

We will explore:
• Mantra and meaning
• How to lead chanting
• Basic harmonium skills
• Stories of the deities/aspects of the self we invoke through chanting
• What devotion means in our own lives
• Expression through sound and voice
• English translations of Sanskrit chants
• Intention and sound

Each day will include a morning practice with musical accompaniment, followed by discussion, sharing, and lots of chanting.

Training option
Teachers receive 30 hours of Yoga Alliance Continuing Education credit (22 contact hours and 8hours of credit from assigned self-study). This program qualifies towards the Janet Stone Yoga or Yoga Tree 500- and 1000-hour Teacher Training programs.

Approximately 1 hour of homework or group work will be assigned after each session and follow-up reflections and writings will also be required.

YT Training Center, 175 De Haro St. 

 

Immerse yourself in the study of yoga for the childbearing year! This 45-hour comprehensive Level 1 training will include how to teach yoga to women in all stages of pregnancy and throughout the early stages of postpartum. The training will explore yoga as a tool in preparation for not only childbirth, but for motherhood!

Whether or not you have the goal to teach, this training is also a fit for you if you work with women in any capacity (doula, midwife, obstetrician + gynecologists, massage therapists, etc.). Also, mamas looking for ways to deepen their own practice will find a lot of benefit in this immersion as will yoga teachers from every discipline.

This training will include:
• The effects of pregnancy on the body
• The benefits of yoga in pregnancy and beyond
• Postures to aid common discomforts
• What poses are contraindicated (what to avoid)
• Appropriate pranayama practices
• Prenatal bonding
• Physiology of childbirth
• Yoga for labor
• Mom and baby yoga
• Postpartum issues
• Observation of classes

 

Qualifies for Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Credit, hours toward Yoga Tree's 500- and 1000-hour Certification Program, OR can be applied toward the 90-hour Yoga Alliance Prenatal Certification, but not both.

All participants must have completed a 200-hour basic teacher training or at least three years of yoga practice.

Mama Tree Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training: Level 2 is designed for those who are looking to continue to study the art of teaching yoga to mamas. This rich training invites participants to dive deeper into themselves to discover their authentic voices. 

This training is appropriate for those who have completed a 200-hour yoga teacher training and Mama Tree Level 1.

Upon successful completion of both Mama Tree’s Level 1 and 2 trainings, students will be eligible to register 85 hours toward a Registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher (RPYT) designation with the Yoga Alliance.

Training includes:
• Improving teaching skills/finding your authentic voice
• Practice teaching and assisting
• Sequencing classes Prenatal and Postnatal
• Working with Advanced students/modification
• Life in the Womb, understanding fetal development
• Ayurvedic perspective on the childbearing year 
• Birth choices/empowered birth
• Yoga for Labor, partner yoga and massage
• Intro to Yoga Sutra
• Understanding Pelvic floor function
• Postnatal Yoga and birth recovery
• The 4th trimester, for mom and babe
• Infant massage and developmental movement of babies

This training is limited to 30 students; register soon to secure your spot! Visit yogatreesf.com for complete information and schedule.

“You can’t always get what you want.”

Or can you?

In this training we discuss the four states of consciousness: Awake, Dreaming, Deep Sleep and

Turiya. By transcending Ego and limiting beliefs, you transcend your story and begin to live a life of resplendence right here, right now! Investigate how the mind works, storyboarding the movie of your life. Unearth the parts of us that sabotage (vikalpas) and learn how you can replace those parts with your heart’s desire (sankalpa). Experience technologies such as Yoga Nidra (yogic sleep) and why they are powerful tools in helping you manifest your more expanded reality, as well tools to help you reduce stress and gain clarity. Learn to walk your talk and take your yoga off the mat in a practical and realistic, resplendent way.

Topics include:

o How to manifest your intentions and break the cycle of self sabotage

o Karma and transcending your “story, aka “ego”
o The art of sankalpa/vikalpa: intention and manifestation

o Yoga Nidra, lucid dreaming, and the unconscious mind
o Discover your dharma—your life’s purpose
o Understand siddhis (fruit of your practice) and their application|

Required Reading
Yoga Nidra, Swami Satyananda Saraswati
Yoga Nidra, Richard Miller
The Path of Fire and Light, Volume 2, Swami Rama

Suggested Reading
The Four Desires (and supplemental CD), Rod Stryker
Finding the Hidden Self (Shiva Sutras), Roger Worthington, PhD

This course qualifies for credit in the Yoga Tree Continuing Education Program.

As the light dissipates, our bodies are called to slow down, even as the world outside keeps moving in frenetic laps. During this week, drop into the body, mind, spirit to find spaces between effort and surrender, allowing our systems to release into its great integrative power.

 

Join Janet for a nourishing and introspective week and explore:

• Ways to replenish the nervous system

• Practices to move out of the fight or flight cyclical response and learn to nourish adrenals

• Slow and fluid sequences to cultivate sustainable power from the inside out

• Restorative postures that can be woven into your practice and teachings

• Meditation to refill mind, body, spirit

• Pranayama to balance hormone levels

• Chanting to awaken your hearts longing

• Teach from a space of integration and ease

• Subtle body teachings

o Koshas: layers of the subtle body

o 5 elements: aspects of moving from grounding to spaciousness

o Prana Vayus: the movement of prana/energy through the body

• Ways to integrate introspective movement into personal practice and teaching.