Las Vegas, NV August 2019 MBF Conference

YogaFit Seniors

This one‐day workshop offers ways to modify YogaFit classes to make them accessible to individuals over the age of 55, regardless of their fitness levels. You may take this workshop at any time that fits with your schedule, after completing Level One. 

Yoga as Primary Care

Primary care medical providers (PCPs) are generally the first experts people contact when they get sick. A PCP functions both as an educator and a guide to help patients find solutions to their health challenges. Unfortunately, too often conventional docs focus more on presenting the solutions than empowering their patients. Introducing yoga into the current primary care medical practices has the potential to create a shift in our healthcare system toward such empowerment. Healthcare professionals, as well as the yoga instructors and yoga therapists, will benefit from this one­-day intensive training.

YogaFit Yoga Nidra

Experience the restorative power of Yoga Nidra, a potent, yet simple guided visualization to induce deep relaxation, in this wonderful one‐day workshop. Sometimes called “yoga sleep” or “yoga nap,” Yoga Nidra brings participants into a state between waking and sleeping, resulting in a complete physiological and psychological reset.

YogaFit Kids

Using mindful movement, games, share circles, breathwork and visualization, this YogaFit Kids workshop demonstrates how to create an active, safe, and inclusive environment for kids and teens to explore their natural flexibility, develop more strength, and counter the stress of their daily lives. 

Note: YogaFit Kids fulfills the specialty requirement necessary for completion of your YogaFit 200-hour teacher training certification. You may take this program at any time that works for your schedule.

The Art of Storytelling: The Therapeutic Narrative

We all learn through stories, either listening to others or sharing our own. And the power of storytelling lies in the way it can help rewire the brain by bringing new images to life—of courage, hope, love and acceptance—to replace the old ones. In this one­-day workshop, discover the art of weaving stories through your teaching in a way that will support all your students, no matter what they’re going through, and enrich their classroom experience.

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YogaFit for Personal Trainers

Designed to help personal trainers incorporate yoga into one-­on­-one sessions with their private clients, the one-­day training will teach you the most effective ways to create a well rounded mind/­body experience. Highly recommended for trainers who use yoga as their primary method of training as well as those who want to incorporate it into their fitness conditioning sessions.

YogaBack

Did you know that 85 percent of all Americans suffer from back pain at some point in their lives? Created by a chiropractic physician, this dynamic and obviously essential one -day workshop will help yoga therapists and physical therapists understand the anatomy and kinesiology of the spine and explain how yoga can impact the health of the spine.

YogaFit HealthCare 2: Examining the Subtle Body (formerly YogaTherapy 2)

By introducing the ancient therapeutic practices of classic yoga and exploring cutting-edge scientific research that supports them, this four­-day workshop presents the concept of subtle body anatomy and demonstrates how modern­-day yoga practice can be a vehicle for optimal health and well being.

Note: This module is part of YogaFit’s 900‐hour HealthCare program and can be applied to your 300‐hour teacher training requirements; it can be taken prior to YogaFit HealthCare: Assessing the Physical Body.

Ayurveda I

Learn ways to adapt the principles of yoga’s sister science, Ayurveda, to your yoga classes and for your clients in this two-­day intensive. By taking into account health challenges, age, seasons of the year, times of day, and myriad other factors, Ayurveda can help you more effectively meet the needs of your students, your clients (and yourself) on and off the mat. Combines lecture, discussion and practice. 

Note: This course fulfills part of the requirements for the YogaFit 100-hour Ayurvedic Coaching Certificate as well as the YogaFit Healthcare 900-hour teacher training certificate.

YogaFit Pranayama

Changing the rhythm of our breath can literally change our minds and our nervous systems. This one­-day workshop on pranayama (yoga’s ancient breathing techniques) was designed by a respiratory therapist and a registered nurse/Ayurvedic practitioner. It offers an East-meets­-West approach to breath awareness practices in order to help yoga therapists, teachers, and healthcare practitioners understand how to use specific techniques to facilitate the healing process and promote well being.

Yoga for Upper and Lower Extremities

The upper and lower body extremities—shoulders, elbows and wrists, hips, knees, ankles and feet—are particularly susceptible to sports and over-use injuries. With its emphasis on integrating the latest medical treatments with therapeutic-oriented yoga techniques, this two­-day intensive provides yoga teachers, physical therapists, and personal trainers with a multi-faceted toolkit to help their clients manage and prevent acute and chronic injuries. 

Note: This course requires the completion of a post-­training project, in which you are asked to research a specific upper or lower extremity pathology. Project accounts for 6 no-­contact hours toward your YogaFit HealthCare certification.

YogaFit for Warriors (PTSD)

This trauma-­sensitive yoga workshop zeros in on Post-­Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Trauma Brain Injury (TBI), the long­term effects each one has on the mind, body, and spirit, and how yoga can bring relief. Anyone suffering from trauma—military men and women, and their families; first responders; victims of violence or abuse—as well as the mental health professionals working with them will benefit from this two-day intensive.

Note: YogaFit for Warriors intensive training hours count as an elective either for the 200­-hour or the 300­-hour training, but not both. This two­-day workshop also counts toward YogaFit for Warriors 100- and 140-hour certifications as well as YogaFit Healthcare 900-hour certification.

* If you are interested in hosting this training on your military base, please contact warrior@yogafit.com. 

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LEVEL FOUR: Tradition

Level Four continues where Level Three left off, exploring more challenging practices and the preparation for each of them. But the real emphasis is on how to weave elements of yoga's ancient tradition into your practice, your life, and your teaching. This four‐day intensive introduces the Yoga Sutra, the Bhagavad Gita, and some of the more esoteric elements of yoga, like the chakras, mudras (hand gestures), and sound.

Yoga for Fit and Focused Kids

Research has confirmed what yoga teachers already know: bringing yoga into the schools can reduce anxiety and stress, enhance focus and self-regulation, and promote compassion in young children and teenagers. This two-day intensive training will give you the tools you need to become part of this exciting, and burgeoning field of classroom yoga. 

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Anatomy and Alignment

This two‐day interactive module explores the musculoskeletal anatomy and biomechanics you need to know in order to safely and effectively teach hatha yoga classes. You may take this workshop at any time that fits with your schedule.

Thai Energy 1

Thai yoga, a hands­-on therapeutic technique, combines acupressure, gentle rhythmic massage, deep stretching, and gentle twisting to create a deeply meditative healing experience. In this one­-day workshop, you’ll not only learn how to offer these techniques to your students and clients, but you’ll get to experience them yourself.

LEVEL FIVE: Unification

Level Five brings together all that you’ve learned in your YogaFit 200‐hour teacher training, and shifts the emphasis from external accomplishments to internal growth. Applying the powerful practice of staying in the present moment, an integral tenet of the essence of YogaFit, this two‐day intensive may be the end of your official teacher training, but it’s just the beginning of your journey inward toward true integration.

Note: All participants are required to complete the Brief Strengths Test, authentichappiness.org, print individual results, and bring these results to the training.

Ayurveda II

Drawing on the concepts presented in Ayurveda I, this two-­day workshop delves a bit deeper into specific practices of Ayurveda, yoga’s sister science of holistic self­care, providing an opportunity to enjoy a weekend of personal practice that will enhance your own well being and give you the tools to strengthen your knowledge of yoga’s therapeutic benefits. 

Note: This course fulfills part of the requirements for YogaFit 100-hour Ayurvedic Coaching Certificate as well as the YogaFit Healthcare 900-hour teacher training certificate.

Anatomy and Alignment II

YogaFit's second interactive Anatomy & Alignment training dives deeper into the practice of hatha yoga through the lenses of Base of Support, Center of Gravity, Skeletal Anatomy, and the physiology of stretching. 

YogaFit for Chronic Pain

Chronic pain affects more people worldwide than diabetes, heart disease and cancer combined, and results in sleep disturbances, fatigue, emotional stress, muscular tension and more. Using a combination of ancient yoga practices and modern physiological treatment modalities, this two-day training will provide the yoga therapist the necessary tools to work with students and clients suffering from chronic pain.  

YogaFit for WarriorKids (Childhood Trauma)

With a focus on “developmental trauma disorder,” a new and vastly expanded tool for understanding early childhood trauma, this special therapeutically oriented workshop centers on the unique way a child’s nervous system and brain respond to traumatic events, including chronic emotional and physical abuse and neglect. We will address somatic gaps in current therapies available and the challenges inherent in treating children suffering from PTSD.  

Note: YogaFit for WarriorKids counts as an elective for either the 200-­hour or the 300-­hour training, but not both. This two-­day workshop also counts toward YogaFit’s 100-­hour and 140­-hour YogaFit for Warriors certification; the 100-­hour YogaFit for WarriorKids certification; and YogaFit’s 900­-hour YogaFit HealthCare certification.

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LEVEL THREE: Introspection

Directing the focus more inward, Level Three emphasizes the modern application of the philosophical and metaphysical aspects of yoga, paying particular attention to the seven chakras and how they foster a deeper sense of self‐awareness. In this two‐day intensive, you will then learn how to use your intuition as well as your anatomical knowledge to give your students effective hands‐on assists.

Sound and Mantra Healing

Sound and vibrational healing, as described in the yogic texts of old, has been practiced in the East for millennia. Come explore the ancient practice of sound healing in this two­ day workshop, learn the therapeutic healing power of sound and vibration, and discover why music, chanting, and toning continue to have a profound effect on our physical and emotional well being.