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I love working with yoga teachers who truly want to change lives.
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About Teacher Programs with Kaya
I utilize a holistic and systematic approach that allows teachers to engage all 5 senses in learning and addresses different learning styles - kinesthetic, tactile, auditory and visual! Teachers build depth of knowledge and confidence so they can successfully apply it to their personal practice or their work with others. Phone courses are designed as an adjunct opportunity to clarify and deepen experiential knowledge. Below is a listing of options (others can be created in partnership with yoga teachers or studios), contact to schedule or learn more! All studies with Kaya qualify as continuing education with the Yoga Alliance.
Teacher MentoringFor teachers, yoga therapists and teachers-in-training of any style
Ask your questions, boost your skills, trouble shoot, discuss clients and students, refine your marketing language and more! You choose the topic, or just run through your list of random questions. Mentoring is available in person or via phone or skype. Available as needed! Click here to schedule Therapeutic TwistsRestorative, Ayurvedic, Awareness-Based Approach to Twists
Contact Kaya for details Twists are perhaps, the most valuable (but subtle) category of yoga poses. They open the heart, help resolve emotional patterns, decompress the spine, massage the internal organs and prime the mind for deep meditation. Twists are the poses in which students of all levels get the easiest and most palpable experience of transformation and bliss, with very little effort. They can turn a new student into a long-committed lover of yoga and an experienced student into baby-like putty. This rich weekend empowers yoga teachers to work effectively and therapeutically to offer twists at a very high level of expertise in both group and one-on-one contexts. Learn to teach twists more deeply, more profoundly and more effectively.
February 13, 3pm-6pm - Stress Management Center of Marin The Hyper-Flexible Yogi
For teachers of any style
You may have students who move very far in poses but are living in pain or with a very busy mind (maybe one of those student is you!) Learn what's going on for them (or you!) and get important "dos & don'ts" for students with overstretched ligaments including specialized props and alignments. Gain insight into both the anatomical and emotional aspects of hyper-flexibility. When the joints are hyperflexible, the internal core layers are very rigid. Specialized angles and refined propping is required. Hyper-flexible students will transform their practice and teachers will learn to work with the many students dealing with slippery joints and tight spines. This course utilizes principles of spinal decompression, classical yoga, relaxation, ayurveda, tri-guna theory and bio-mechanics. 2015 course - Complete, next dates TBA Phone Course - Small, Therapeutic, High-End Yoga Classes
For Teachers with training in any restorative, therapeutic or slow-paced style
Learn Kaya's simple approach to make a small class deeper for students (and more profitable for you). In this course, you'll get important principles as well as easy implementation steps to make MORE money from small classes! This is great for teachers who like to offer "high touch" classes or who would like to do "semi-private" classes of small numbers (about 2-8 people). This 1 hour phone course is recommended to be followed by a 1:1 private follow up mentoring call with Kaya so that you can implement your plan and refine it according to your individual teaching style and student base. Phone courses are an opportunity to learn from home, and to connect with and cultivate community with other teachers - from the new, to the seasoned. 2 Hour Phone Course Fall 2015 Date TBA - contact Kaya to get on the waitlist Phone Course - Macro Sequencing
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"Kaya's presence is delightful, caring, easy to follow (through lecture & demonstration of poses.) The information is delivered in a way that allows for processing i.e. not too fast or slow and is filled with a light sense of genuine humor and deep wisdom. I appreciate the handouts to refer to later on with my extra notes from lectures. I can't think of anything missing at this time. Every training I take with you Kaya just gets better!"
LISTEN to a YTT lecture with KayaArticles for Teachers...Sequencing for the Mind {A Yoga Template for Everyone, and Why}
What Kind of Yogi Are you? {Assessing the level of a Student using yogic teachings} Is Restorative Yoga Remedial? {and Why Yoga Teachers Love it} Architecture of a Yoga Pose {looking at yoga poses through the lens of vāst} |
Shavāsana and the Art of the Guided Awareness
For Yoga teachers of any style
Learn and practice key alignments, propping and therapeutic hands-on adjustments in Shavāsana. Then delove into the experience and exploration of the path and purpose of deep relaxation awareness of yoga nidra. Learn how to create your own shavāsana script for classes or private sessions, based on the universal principles of yoga, and your individual style and the particular needs of your students.
Fall 2015 Date TBA!
Learn and practice key alignments, propping and therapeutic hands-on adjustments in Shavāsana. Then delove into the experience and exploration of the path and purpose of deep relaxation awareness of yoga nidra. Learn how to create your own shavāsana script for classes or private sessions, based on the universal principles of yoga, and your individual style and the particular needs of your students.
Fall 2015 Date TBA!
The Power and Practice of Hands-on Yoga Teaching
For teachers of any style
As a yoga teacher it is very important to work hands-on with students, to give them direct insight into where their bodies are in space and how to get the most out of a pose. However, while a teacher may be comfortable with this, many yoga students are surprised at first, and may even be survivors of physical or sexual abuse. Learn the value of hands on alignments and adjustments (regardless of your particular yoga style) as well as specific do's and don'ts. Discover how to be confident, effective, safe and supportive with touch as well as how to let go of attachment for students "get better" or "need" you in the process. Explore the difference between essential and "touchy-feely". This class combines lecture, discussion and partner work for direct experiential learning that you can bring to your own students right away!
Fall 2015 Date TBA!
As a yoga teacher it is very important to work hands-on with students, to give them direct insight into where their bodies are in space and how to get the most out of a pose. However, while a teacher may be comfortable with this, many yoga students are surprised at first, and may even be survivors of physical or sexual abuse. Learn the value of hands on alignments and adjustments (regardless of your particular yoga style) as well as specific do's and don'ts. Discover how to be confident, effective, safe and supportive with touch as well as how to let go of attachment for students "get better" or "need" you in the process. Explore the difference between essential and "touchy-feely". This class combines lecture, discussion and partner work for direct experiential learning that you can bring to your own students right away!
Fall 2015 Date TBA!
Upgrade Your Restorative Yoga Communication Skills
For Inward-Oriented Yoga teachers (who use restorative and relaxing approaches)
This workshop for teachers focuses on teaching and language tools that effectively communicate the value of release, relaxation and letting go new students - particularly those coming from the pilates, gyrotonic, athletics, or modern extreme yoga paradigms. This is a particularly important skill for teachers in communities or studios where incoming students have previously experienced other approaches to working with the body. In many cases you are interacting with students' attachment to a paradigm that is not benefitting them, OR a preexisting notion about what yoga is that prevents them from being open to something new.
This workshop for teachers focuses on teaching and language tools that effectively communicate the value of release, relaxation and letting go new students - particularly those coming from the pilates, gyrotonic, athletics, or modern extreme yoga paradigms. This is a particularly important skill for teachers in communities or studios where incoming students have previously experienced other approaches to working with the body. In many cases you are interacting with students' attachment to a paradigm that is not benefitting them, OR a preexisting notion about what yoga is that prevents them from being open to something new.
- Look at the mindset of those coming from those modalities and learn to work with it, rather than against it.
- Gain understanding of the physical impact of these other paradigms and what poses and adjustments will most effectively give them immediate experience of letting go.
- Develop great one-liners to use with new or doubtful in the classroom and your marketing materials.
- Learn the pitfalls in teaching and communication that may turn off new students comic from another paradigm.
- Explore why and how your yoga style is unique and different from other styles so that you can smoothly answer questions that arise in students from other styles without offending or criticizing.
- Learn to recognize the physical patterns of runners, Ashtanga Yogis, Iyengar Yogis, dancers and so on. This skill can give you the capacity to get right to the nub of things with a student.
- Expand your student base by attracting and maintaining a flow of new students who stay. Plus, when you communicate clearly, you train students to communicate with their loved ones more clearly about Restorative forms of yoga and your word of mouth student base grows.
Contact Kaya at 415-847-7084 or [email protected] for classes, workshops in sessions in Yoga Therapy, Yoga, Ayurveda, teacher Mentoring and Yoga Philosophy in the Bay Area (Emeryville), Northern California and by phone. With nearly 2,000 hours training in Svaroopa® Yoga, Kaya has also spent over a decade in deep formal study of classical Hatha Yoga, the Vedic Tradition, Ayurveda and Ayurvedic Yoga.
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