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CE Workshop | We Are Not the Same: Working Practices for Engaging with LGBTQ2SIA+ and BIPOC Folks

Learn how to create a more comfortable and equitable yoga space for historically marginalized folks, particularly LGBTQ2SIA+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Two-spirit, Intersex, Asexual, plus) and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) folks. In this workshop, Teaching for Equity recipient Ameerah Craigg reviews the basics of how to offer radically anti-oppressive wellness spaces and provides a detailed How-To on leading a trauma-informed and inclusive yoga session.

CE Workshop | Trauma-Sensitive Yoga, Part 2

Yoga can be utilized as a healing tool for all. Understand how being trauma-informed can promote long-term healing for clients who have experienced trauma without triggering unwanted memories or sensations. This workshop will teach a trauma-informed approach to ensure that all students feel safe to experience yoga as an empowering, healing practice. Presenter Ivelise Castillo also answers questions from Part 1. Find Part 1 of this workshop and others on yourya.org.

CE Workshop | Keep it Fun, Keep it Yoga: Teaching for Children

Learn how to share yoga with preschool children appropriately and safely, along with specific techniques to help children relax and focus. Practice structuring a 30 to 45-minute class, and a guided relaxation using breath and visualization. This workshop also reviews guidelines for children with ADHD and Autism.

CE Workshop | Prenatal Yoga: Applications for Teaching and Safe Practice

This workshop explores some of the body changes that can occur throughout pregnancy and how yoga can support common challenges. Learn safe and simple modifications that can be incorporated into yoga practice to support both the parent and the baby during this sacred time.

CE Workshop | Yoga and the Path of Being Climate Awake and Proactive, Part 1

Understand how the practice of yoga fits into the landscape of constant change. Discuss how to live yoga in a meaningful way. The world seems like a never-ending landscape of suffering and injustice. At the same time there is also breath-taking beauty, raw magic, courage, kindness, and bravery. Climate change poses an imminent threat to all life. Explore how using yoga to educate and empower is one of the possible solutions for taking on the work of being climate awake and climate proactive. Along with the insight of fundamental yogic teachings, practical tools and ways forward are shared.

CE Workshop | Yoga and the Path of Being Climate Awake and Proactive, Part 2

Sometimes, the world can seem like a never-ending landscape of suffering and injustice. At the same time, there is also breath-taking beauty, raw magic, courage, kindness, and bravery. Climate change poses an imminent threat to all life, and this workshop explores how using yoga to educate and empower is one way to take on the work of being climate awake and climate proactive. Practical tools and a way forward are shared along with the insight of fundamental yogic teachings.

CE Workshop | Yoga and the Path of Being Climate Awake and Proactive, Part 3

Sometimes, the world can seem like a never-ending landscape of suffering and injustice. At the same time, there is also breath-taking beauty, raw magic, courage, kindness, and bravery. Climate change poses an imminent threat to all life, and this workshop explores how using yoga to educate and empower is one way to take on the work of being climate awake and climate proactive. Practical tools and a way forward are shared along with the insight of fundamental yogic teachings.

CE Workshop | Postpartum Yoga: Applications for Teaching and Safe Practice

Moving into a new body and a new life after giving birth can be challenging, exhausting, and exciting. Yoga can offer nourishment and support during the postpartum year of transition and new beginnings. Learn some common challenges and ways yoga can help in this sacred time.

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CE Workshop | Gentle Accessible Partner Yoga

Partner up, release tight tissue, gain core strength and have fun!  This workshop offers an accessible practice for any body and every body. Practice will be done seated for the opportunity to work with less “gravity,” making it more available to everyone and in order to gain deeper aspects of the partner asana. This session involves chairs without arms or wheels, and optional yoga block or small firm pillow. Viewers can practice or simply watch and take notes and pictures to develop your own duo yoga time!

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CE Workshop | Skill in Action: New Tools, Strategies, Consciousness, and Ways to Take Action

Author Michelle Cassandra Johnson shares her second edition of Skill in Action, which will be out on November 2nd, 2021. Skill in Action includes new tools, exercises, strategies, and reflections on how we can be skillful as we act and respond to all that is in the way of our collective liberation. In celebration of the launch of this new edition, Michelle is joined with her friend and colleague, Kerri Kelly. Together, they will discuss what Michelle has learned since the first edition emerged and the new offerings contained within the newest edition of Skill in Action. Connect, celebrate, and reflect on how you can truly radicalize your yoga practice to create a just world.

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CE Workshop | How to Cue Chair Yoga

This workshop explores effective cueing for teaching chair yoga online. Learn how to engage better when teaching online classes. There is a special focus on students with sensory impairments. This workshop is a mix of theory and practice.

CE Workshop | Chair-Based Yoga Sequencing

Maria Jones and Krista Marzewski teach you how to sequence chair yoga classes easily and effectively for less-able and chronically-ill practitioners. You will learn how to incorporate practices that can become tools for your students in maintaining independence and managing the daily challenges of chronic or age-related conditions.

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