In today’s world, young people are just as prone to feeling the stresses and strains of modern day life as the adults around them. With this in mind, kids’ yoga is becoming a more and more important resource. By sharing yoga with kids, we can offer young people a tool-box bursting full of practical skills they can take out into their lives. We will learn to create spaces where young people feel strong, brave and able to be themselves.

This course has been designed as an introduction to sharing yoga with kids and young people. It will get you thinking about how you can use your existing skills as a yoga teacher to share creative, safe and fun classes with young people.

Course Outline
This course can be taken by any teacher wishing to improve their skills in this area as Continuing Professional Development (CPD). The course will run as five weekly sessions of three hours, and combine theory, practice and skills development.

1. The importance of play - learning the basic principles of kids’ yoga and how we sequence a class.
2. Childhood development - exploring different age groups and how we can meet their needs.
3. Managing the space - looking at different behavioural management skills and seeing how we can put them to use.
4. Meet them where there are - learning how to be creative and flexible in your teaching to fit the needs of the kids in front of you
5. The business of kids yoga - discussing practical ways of getting out there and sharing yoga with young people.

There are limited spaces available. As this course focusses on preparing you to share yoga with kids and young people, live attendance is required. You are able to miss one session and a recorded session can be provided for the missed module only at no further cost. If you need to miss the final week, which includes a teaching practice and feedback session, a catch up session may be be provided at the trainer's discretion, and will incur an extra charge.

Pre-requisites
This course is designed for those who have completed, or are in the process of completing a 200 hour yoga teacher training program.


About Becky:

Becky is a yoga teacher and kirtan leader who believes in the importance of play and silliness in life. She initially trained as a yoga teacher with AllYogaBali, and went on to complete further training with YogaGro, Nikki Slade and Rainbow Yoga.

Her work as an actor initially led her to get involved with theatre-in-education, sharing live performances with thousands of kids around the UK. She then began teaching performing arts with Stagecoach and has over 10 years of experience working with 3-18 year olds.

It was inevitable that her love of yoga and her experience of teaching kids would eventually be brought together. Her work is varied and sends her around Oxfordshire and Berkshire sharing yoga in a wide range of schools. Through her work she has come to understand the importance of play in our lives. She is constantly in awe at how kids are able to unashamedly be themselves and thinks we adults could learn a thing or two from them.

WHAT TO EXPECT
Join Harriet for a 75 minute class, more dynamic than yin/restorative, but less active than a standard vinyasa class. We'll explore movements which gently release stress & tension, build strength and help develop body awareness.

This class emphasises empowering you to embrace and nourish your body and mind, with a focus on embodied movement, cultivating intuition and fun.

We'll finish with a juicy rest and some form of relaxation/contemplation practice (could be breath, could be nidra, or even a meditation).

WHO THIS CLASS IS FOR
Suitable for beginners through to experienced practitioners and yoga teachers. Something for everyone with opportunities to tone up or down depending on your mood, energy levels and needs. This class will involve some prone (i.e. front lying) postures, so modifications will be offered if you are pregnant. Feel free to email harriet@nourishyogatraining.com if you have a specific question or concern you'd like to chat through.

WHAT YOU NEED
A yoga mat (maybe, a carpeted floor is also probably fine!), a strap/belt/scarf, a blanket, anything else you like to have for your yoga practise.

HOW MUCH
Single class - £8
5 Class Pass (Community Price) - £35
5 Class Pass (Standard Price) - £40
5 Class Pass (Supporter Price) - £45

In this in-depth course, we will unpack and explore what it means to practice asana in an embodied way. We'll interrogate our motivations and intentions for practicing asana, and begin to build an idea of how we can be guided deep into our practise via breath and movement.

We will develop, deepen and refine our asana practices, exploring the intuitive relationship between breath and asana; deepen our familiarity with key postures, and develop our understanding of breath as a tool within asana practice to achieve greater embodiment and awareness.

Week Overview
16 February: Welcome, Intention, Why Asana? Nighttime Asana Practice
23 February: Asana Practice, What does it mean to be embodied, Finding Ourselves in Asana
2 March: Following the Breath
9 March: Asana Practice, Language of Embodied Asana
16 March: Embodied Asana Teaching

Who is this course for?
For anyone looking to build their connection to their practice. It is of benefit to yoga practitioners and yoga teachers alike. Some previous experience of yoga is required as this weekend is not suitable for beginners. This weekend is offered as part of the 300 hour teacher training, but can be taken by any teacher wishing to improve their skills in this area as Continuing Professional Development (CPD).

Live attendance is required. You are able to miss one session and a recorded session can be provided for the missed module only at no further cost.

You will be provided with a reading pack and materials prior to commencing.

Sliding scale pricing: £139/£169/£199⁠ (no further discounts applicable)

Wednesdays, 1:30-2pm GMT, via zoom

Join Venetia for 30 minutes of grounding, juicy yin postures to help soothe and release. Perfect if you’re looking for a more restorative lunchtime.

Are you looking to deepen your understanding of your yoga practice? To explore a little more key concepts like anatomy, alignment, philosophy, breath & meditation? Join Harriet and Sarah for a 4-week series of exploratory, collaborative and community-focussed workshops.⁠
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Week 1. Understanding Alignment⁠
Week 2. Building Strength & mobility⁠
Week 3. Exploring breath and meditation⁠
Week 4. Self practice & intro to yoga philosophy⁠
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This course is for anyone looking to explore and develop their practice: great for students, teachers, trainees, and those thinking about diving into teacher training.⁠
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Each session starts with an hour of practice, then we have 90 mins of lecture/discussion. You are provided with a detailed mini-manual for the course, plus extra resources. The sessions are recorded, and once the course has completed you will have access to the recordings for 1 year.

Here is what a recent student had to say about the course:⁠

“Thank you so much for running the four week course! I have absolutely loved it and the time has flown by. I knew I wanted to learn more about yoga but wasn’t sure where to start and it can feel intimidating to explore books or teachings if you’re not a yoga teacher. I definitely had imposter syndrome, thinking ‘I can’t possibly do a yoga course, I have to rest in sun salutations and can’t do lots of poses!’ This course was fantastic for that: I felt really welcome, and have a much clearer idea of the areas I want to explore in more depth now, and some reading suggestions for them. I loved doing a yoga practice before each discussion, which was brilliant for switching gears to focus on the course, and enjoyed the varying practices depending on the topic (especially all the variations of movement in the strength and mobility week). It made the theory seem much more accessible and relevant.⁠

What I appreciated most though was being encouraged to unpick what yoga means to me – I was feeling a bit stuck before, especially in feeling resistant about home practice, but I’ve realised so much during the course about why I practise yoga and have a new perspective on it.”⁠

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Sliding scale pricing: £49/£59/£69⁠ (no further discounts applicable)

Thursdays, 1:30-2pm GMT, via zoom

30 minutes of inclusive & accessible chair yoga, join from your desk or your dining table. Find a pause to bring attention to your breath and body.

Leading students into a state of rest is a subtle, profound art. It is also a skill that can be learned. When we understand the roots, development and structure at the heart of practices like savasana and yoga nidra, we can hold a much safer, inclusive space to welcome our students into resting well together.

This training has been carefully designed to train yoga teachers in offering simple yoga nidras comfortably, confidently, and creatively.

Course Outline
This module is offered as part of the 300 hour teacher training, but can be taken by any teacher wishing to improve their skills in this area as Continuing Professional Development (CPD). The module will run as five weekly sessions of three hours, and combine theory, practice and skills development.

1. Recipes for rest – how rest is experienced, barriers to rest, getting creative to help our students find rest
2. History of yoga nidra – from pre-modern origins to recent techniques, and managing student trust and safety
3. The structure of yoga nidra – a simplified structure for creating safe and simple practices, and techniques for grounding and post-practice comfort
4. Mapping the territory – exploring koshas, tattvas, chakras, European holism and other maps that have been used to understand the nidra ‘landscape’
5. Getting creative – finding inspired and responsive ways to offer the practice without getting out of your depth

Nourish Yoga Training's 300 hour Advanced Teacher Training is registered with Yoga Alliance (International), and is completed as a series of standalone modules which can be taken over 3 years. More modules are forthcoming in 2021.

There are limited spaces available. As this course focusses on preparing you to deliver yoga nidra, live attendance is required. You are able to miss one session and a recorded session can be provided for the missed module only at no further cost. If you need to miss the final week, which includes a teaching practice and feedback session, a catch up session maybe be provided at the trainer's discretion, and will incur an extra charge.

Pricing
We believe in the importance and value of this training, and would like to offer a scaled pricing system, which enables attendees to pay which tier feels most appropriate for them. Please note there are NO further discounts available (i.e. no student discounts, etc).

Community price £139
Standard price £169
Supporter price £199

About Theo:

Theo Wildcroft, PhD is a yoga teacher, writer and scholar working for a more sustainable relationship between our many selves, the communities that hold us, and the world that nourishes us. She is currently registered with the IYN (RYT500) and Yoga Alliance (E-RYT® 500, YACEP®). Her research considers the democratization of yoga post-lineage, and the many different ways yoga communities are responding to concerns about safety in practice. She’s a lover of vulnerable people, of wild things and wild places, and of the simple miracle of life itself. Countless people have downloaded her yoga nidras, which are profound but gentle, take you on unexpected journeys, and are always spontaneously created. Drop in and listen for real.