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.

 

 

 

 

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.

In addition to the in-studio sessions, approximately one hour of homework will be assigned each evening and follow-up reflections and writings will also be required.

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

Students will receive 25 hours of Yoga Alliance continuing education credit (19 contact hours and 6 hours of credit from your assigned self-study). This training also qualifies for credit towards the Janet Stone Yoga or Yoga Tree 500-hour and 1000-hour teacher training programs.

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

 

 

Are you ready to take your yoga teaching to the next level with an experiential and practical program? 

 

Open to yoga teachers of all levels from all backgrounds and lineages, the Lighting the Path 300-hour Advanced Teacher Training is taught across four independent 50-hour modules and offers a unique blend of intensive yoga asana practices, practical teaching experience, and an in-depth focus on sequencing, assisting, alignment and business principles. 

 

Morning yoga and meditation intensives from 7:00am-10:00am are a required part of each module, and help students connect into their own practice as a platform for growth as a teacher. 

 

Afternoon sessions help students create a vision for their life and teaching career, and build the support system for success. Each module focuses on the foundations of this support, as well as the physical and emotional aspects of the yoga practice, giving teachers necessary tools to teach and work with a wide range of student populations.

 

These four modules (or only the morning yoga and meditation intensives) can be a part of anyone’s 300-hour journey with Yoga Tree.  Students are invited to register for single modules or for all four modules in the series. 

 

The core curriculum of the LTP 300 is spread across four 50-hour modules for a total of 200 hours. Each module is five days in duration and focuses on a different aspect of advanced teaching and asana. You must be a graduate of a 200-Hour Teacher Training program in order to attend.

 

This foundational module is deeply rooted in sequencing and in building strong, thorough skills in assisting, alignment, and yogic business. Students will leave the five-day program with a toolkit for sequencing safe and dynamic classes, effective cueing for common alignment concerns, and tools for confident teaching, and professional communication and marketing. Ideal for teachers of all levels who are looking to refine the way that they create, teach, manage, and market their classes.

 

(415) 655-3936 

 

Pete Guinosso (E-RYT 500) helps students connect with their hearts. His gentle guidance and intuitive assists allow students of all levels to step out of their comfort zones and find their own authentic path in the practice. His passion to guide students into their role as skilled, authentic yoga teachers led him to create his signature Lighting the Path teacher training. Pete tours internationally for workshops, festivals, trainings and retreats and has been a featured presenter at Wanderlust, Bhaktifest, Asia Yoga Conference, Yoga Alliance and Yoga Journal. Whether his classroom is the studio or a desert floor, Pete’s heart-centered style offers students a strong vinyasa flow with room to breathe and feel. Pete draws inspiration from his work with Ana Forrest, Rusty Wells, Annie Carpenter, and Jason Crandell, his study of Buddhist meditation and his background in competitive running and cycling. For more about Pete and his community, visit www.petegyoga.com. 

This course is about yoga for women’s health and vital energy. Learn techniques to feel, nurture and build the feminine energy of Shakti for the practical healing and benefit of women in all stages of life. This approach is founded upon the understanding that conscious respectful awareness of the menstrual cycle, and of all cycles in women’s lives are crucial to female vitality, self-respect and spiritual empowerment.

 

The Well Woman Yoga Therapy Training (also known as Womb Yoga) is for yoga teachers and experienced yoga practitioners who sense that yoga could be of more practical use to all women in managing health, vital energy and well-being. It is also suitable for holistic health-care practitioners with a sound yoga background who are working in the field of women’s health and would like to integrate the healing benefits of yoga with their own therapeutic practice.

 

o Menstruation + pre-menstrual tension

o Fertility, subfertility, optimal fertility + assisted conception

o Feminine sexuality

o Perimenopausal mood swings, headaches, hot flushes + post-menopausal health concerns including osteoporosis

o Health issues related to the female pelvic organs, including postnatal recovery + prolapse

o Other issues such as low self-esteem, depression, anemia + eating disorders

 

These issues are addressed within the context of a yoga therapeutic understanding of feminine emotional life, lunar cycles and the play of the elements in the female body. This course encourages you to think and feel for yourself, and aims to provide practical tools from yoga therapy and Tantric philosophy to help create programs suited to the needs of women seeking full vitality and well-being. 

 

o Asana, pranayama, mudra, and bandha

o Deep relaxation + profound meditation (including yoga nidra, sound meditations + moving meditations) 

o Visualizations + chants to the deep feminine

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.

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

Training Option
Teachers receive 25 hours of Yoga Alliance Continuing Education credit (19 contact hours and 6 hours of credit from assigned self-study). This training also qualifies for credit towards the Janet Stone Yoga or Yoga Tree 500-hour and 1000-hour teacher training programs.

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.

 

 

Weave your passion and purpose into your teaching. Learn practical skills for theming classes, sequencing towards an intention, and creating workshops and retreats. This module will use process work, discussion, and teaching exercises to explore and expand your authentic voice and gifts as a teacher and help refine how you share your unique offerings with your students.

 

(415) 655-3936 

 

Pete Guinosso (E-RYT 500) helps students connect with their hearts. His gentle guidance and intuitive assists allow students of all levels to step out of their comfort zones and find their own authentic path in the practice. His passion to guide students into their role as skilled, authentic yoga teachers led him to create his signature Lighting the Path teacher training. Pete tours internationally for workshops, festivals, trainings and retreats and has been a featured presenter at Wanderlust, Bhaktifest, Asia Yoga Conference, Yoga Alliance and Yoga Journal. Whether his classroom is the studio or a desert floor, Pete’s heart-centered style offers students a strong vinyasa flow with room to breathe and feel. Pete draws inspiration from his work with Ana Forrest, Rusty Wells, Annie Carpenter, and Jason Crandell, his study of Buddhist meditation and his background in competitive running and cycling. For more about Pete and his community, visit www.petegyoga.com. 

 

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.

 

 

 

Janet Stone’s studentship began at 17 under a meditation teacher whose reverence for simplicity and finding joy in the rise and fall of life live on in her practice and teaching today. In 1996, she traveled to India, the birthplace of her grandfather, and became dedicated to the path of yoga. Janet blends the alchemy of her own practice with decades of studentship. Her teachings emanate from her own practice, allowing awareness to blend with movement and breath. Based in San Francisco, she leads trainings, immersions, retreats, workshops and more. For more information, visit:

 

 

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.

**ENROLLMENT NOTE: Advance price purchases are not available on the Yoga Tree mobile app. Please visit yogatreesf.com or contact Yoga Tree Potrero at (415) 655-3936 to enroll at the advance price.