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CE Workshop | Creating Inclusive Yoga Spaces, Part 3: Best Practices in Yoga Classes

Creating an inclusive space in yoga means that all feel welcome to the practice, regardless of race, gender, or physical ability. Fostering this environment requires intentional action, including self-reflection and openness to unlearning many societal assumptions.

We've partnered with The Driven Yogi for this three-part series, hosted by The Driven Yogi Founder and Emmy Award-winning journalist Keisha Courtney (E-RYT 500). She's joined by Aisha Yusuf (E-RYT-200), an executive leader in social justice reform and Teacher Trainer at The Driven Yogi. This series of workshops introduces the critical work of creating more inclusive yoga spaces for people from marginalized communities. The final part of this series ties together what we’ve learned to provide best practices to cultivate a truly inclusive yoga class.

Discussion topics include:

· Intersectionality
· Avoiding common microaggressions
· Best practices in classes and studio spaces

CE Workshop | Developing Effective Strategies for Teaching Yoga Online

The global pandemic undoubtedly effected the yoga industry – specifically how students and educators approached online teaching and distance learning. Join our informative workshop designed to help yoga teachers and educators launch and nurture a successful online career. Gain essential strategies and tools to confidently transition to online teaching or continue to enhance the online experience for your students.

During this workshop, we’ll discuss ways to:

· Provide an overview of the current online yoga teaching landscape, including the different platforms and tools available.
· Help yoga teachers develop a strategy for marketing their online classes and building a client base. This includes client acquisition tools, personal app overview, and global collaboration.
· Provide guidance on how to create engaging online yoga classes and content that keep students motivated and connected.
· Provide practical training on how to use online teaching tools, such as video conferencing platforms, to deliver high-quality classes.
· Help yoga teachers create a sustainable and profitable online yoga teaching business.

CE Workshop | How to Develop an Effective Workshop

Attending and hosting workshops is a valuable way to share knowledge and experience with one another as yoga teachers and trainers. If you're interested in offering your own workshop, you may struggle to determine exactly what it is you can offer to students. It's common to get caught up in developing the content; however, the key to designing an effective workshop is to take a systematic approach to solving a problem that really matters to your students.

You’ll come away from this "workshop on workshops" with practical tools for focusing on your intended results and making sure that your students get everything they’d hoped for.

You’ll learn:

· How to know what kind of workshops you should offer (they may not be the ones you think)
· A systematic approach to workshop development and marketing
· Three kinds of benefits you should hardwire into every workshop

CE Workshop | Email Marketing Your Students Will Actually Read (and Buy From!)

Join our digital workshop event and discover the secrets to email marketing success! Learn how to avoid the promotional folder auto-sort and build meaningful connections with your students, without relying on algorithms or expensive advertising. Don't miss this opportunity to master the art of effective email communication and take control of your content's reach.

Some of the things you will learn:

· How to develop a successful content creation strategy that adapts to your marketing goals
· Writing compelling headlines and openings to hook your audience’s attention
· Creating content "series" with loops that will keep them wanting more
· The surprising way to display content that drives up open and click rates

CE Workshop | Adapting Yoga for Pregnancy: Creating an Uplifting and Supportive Environment for Pregnant Students

This event is designed to equip yoga instructors with the necessary knowledge and skills to effectively support and empower pregnant students in their yoga classes.

During this workshop, we will delve into the following essential topics through engaging lectures and informative slides:

· Prenatal Yoga Benefits and Contraindications: Understand the numerous benefits of practicing yoga during pregnancy and identify potential contraindications to ensure the safety and well-being of pregnant students.
· Trimester-by-Trimester Anatomy and Physiology: Gain a comprehensive understanding of how the pregnant body changes throughout each trimester and learn how to modify yoga sequences accordingly.
· Addressing Pregnancy-Related Discomforts: Explore common discomforts experienced by pregnant individuals, both on and off the yoga mat, and discover techniques to support and alleviate these issues effectively.
· Empowering Pregnant Students: Learn strategies and approaches to create a nurturing and inclusive environment that empowers pregnant students to feel strong, confident, and secure during your yoga classes.
· The knowledge acquired during the workshop will be immediately applied as we move our bodies through a series of prenatal adaptations of commonly practiced yoga poses. By experiencing these adaptations firsthand, you will gain the confidence and skills needed to integrate them seamlessly into your regular yoga classes.

Please note that this workshop is designed to educate instructors on basic teaching methodologies to support pregnant students attending non-pregnancy specific yoga classes. If you are interested in creating specialized classes tailored to pregnant students, please consider exploring a Registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher (RPYT) credential.

CE Workshop | Yoga For Adolescent Mental Health: Understanding The Developing Brain

Globally, one in seven 10-19 year olds experiences a mental health condition, accounting for 13% of the global burden of disease in this age group.

Adolescence is marked by a number of changes in the brain that can cause the onset of many major mental health conditions. When identified, resources and accessible tools, like yoga, can be provided to help them navigate this difficult developmental period. Offering meaningful yoga classes, workshops, and events can positively impact the physical and mental health of our adolescents and provide them with life-long skills for a better mind-body connection.

In this workshop, we will discuss how to teach a class or workshop to help foster adolescent development, including lesson planning tips and classroom techniques. This will include digestible information on the science of brain development, paired with practical applications.

In this workshop, we will explore the adolescents':

· Social focus shifts from home life to their peers
· Increase in self-consciousness and the impact on wellbeing
· Building skills of identifying intentions of others
· Moving from a ‘generalist’ brain to a ‘specialist’ brain through neurological pruning
· Drop in level of dopamine and the impact on mood and why we see an Increase in risk taking behavior and the need to help adolescents find ‘meaningful risk’
· Developing Identity Formation
... and more!

Join us for this workshop filled with digestible information and practical guidance for those interested in creating a nurturing and safe environment for adolescent aged children and teens in their classes.

CE Workshop | The 3 Biggest Mistakes Yoga Teachers Make in Sequencing (and How to Avoid Them)

Whether you’re struggling to plan inspiring yoga classes, or worried about how to teach multi-level classes to progress your students safely, this 75-minute continuing education event brings forward a science-based solution to help yoga teachers avoid making common mistakes in sequencing classes.

In this session, Hayley Winter reveals 'The 3 Biggest Mistakes Yoga Teachers Make in Sequencing and How to Avoid Them’. With 20 years in development and 7 years of research, Hayley, founder of the Institute of Yoga Sports Science®, shares her evidence-based game plan on the science of sequencing movement.

Hayley covers:

Your Missing Intention
As teachers, we encourage our students to set intentions for their practice, but how often do you, as their guide, set your clear intention for their movement journey? Your sequence intention is your science-based foundation. No intention means no plan, no evaluation, less confidence, and limited growth.

Overlooking the Peak Pose
A peak pose is a key part of a yoga sequence, but how often do you look to the peak pose as your movement focus? Not knowing how to unlock the power of the peak pose can leave you wondering how to safely progress your students. Making Mixed-Level Assumptions

You may find yourself categorizing students as beginners, intermediates, or advanced. However, this can lead to misplaced assumptions about their capabilities, making it challenging to create accessible sequences for mixed-level classes. Whether you're a brand new or seasoned yoga teacher, and regardless of the style you teach, you’ll leave this session with invaluable insights, plus a workbook designed to help you advance your yoga sequencing skills.