Iyengar Yoga Therapeutics

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Please join us for this important series of workshops. Oct 11: Yoga for Breast Health Oct 18: Yoga for Breast Cancers Survivors Undergoing Chemo or Radiation Oct 25: Yoga for Breast Cancer Survivors Post Surgery

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This workshop will be of benefit to a wide range of students from 50 plus to 90s young! Doing yoga in the chair allows the practitioner to safely explore the benefits of yoga, including developing greater mobility. Eric Small began doing and teaching Chair Yoga over 50 years ago. Now 87, he continues to use this practice on a daily basis. ... Eric holds a Senior Intermediate Level II Iyengar Yoga teaching Certificate and, in addition to his expertise in yoga for seniors, he is a renowned authority on Iyengar Yoga for MS. See more

Join us in July for a series of great sessions with Bobby Clennell: July 11, 12, 18, 19, 25, 26. A total of 12 hours - six two hour classes, all from 12PM-2PM Pacific.

We are happy to be able to offer our Yoga for Trauma workshop live via Zoom online. Yoga teachers will learn to better understand trauma and develop skills to help support students with various forms of trauma to become empowered through the practice of Iyengar Yoga. Social worker Susan Hess will give a presentation on the causes and manifestations of trauma and how to help those with trauma build resilience. We will examine the impact of trauma on the individual and how it a...ffects a student in a yoga class. Yoga teachers will also learn the principles for creating a trauma-informed safe classroom. Iyengar Yoga Therapeutics offers free yoga classes to at-risk communities throughout Southern California. This workshop is designed to both provide tools for yoga teachers working in this context as well as all teachers working with students for who the impact of past trauma arises in daily life. Teachers will learn how to help students feel safely engaged through yoga. This workshop is eligible for IAYT continuing education credit.

Marla Apt, our co-founder, is leading a 21-day virtual retreat with three weekly live sessions (asana, pranayama, philosophy). Next best thing to being there...