Events
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Teacher Training
Teacher Trainings held in Des Moines through
Yoga North International SomaYoga Institute. https://www.yoganorthduluth.com/classes/teacher-training/
500 hour Therapeutic Yoga Teacher Training begins October of 2023
https://www.yoganorthduluth.com/classes/teacher-training/advanced-program/
200 hour Therapeutic Yoga Teacher Training begins October of 2024
https://www.yoganorthduluth.com/classes/teacher-training/essential-program/
PAST EVENTS:
200 hour Therapeutic Yoga Teacher Training - Fall of 2022 with Yoga North
200 hour Therapeutic Yoga Teacher Training - Fall of 2021 with Yoga North
SomaYoga and Somatics Intensive with Yoga North
January 17-19, 2020
Learn how SomaYoga Therapy and Somatics can help us work toward smarter muscles, and why two very conscious cycles with curiosity are better than 10 fast repetitions. Explore how Somatics involves the brain, muscles, and the nervous system. Learn how to incorporate it into yoga practice to help students improve posture and get out of chronic pain. We will share with you how our studio has successfully integrated Somatics and SomaYoga into our classes, workshops, and teacher training.
Great for yoga and movement instructors wanting to deepen their teaching in therapeutic yoga and gain CEUs. Wonderful for the curious yoga student who wants to deepen their body awareness and physical practice. Fantastic for bodyworkers & healers such as PTs, OTs, Chiropractors & Massage Therapists to add a Somatic dimension to their professional skill set. If you have been curious about SomaYoga Therapy and Somatics, this is the all-inclusive workshop to get you more acclimated to its powerful affects.
Register here: https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/ASP/main_enroll.asp?studioid=5070&tg=&vt=&lvl=&stype=-106&view=day&trn=100000002&page=&catid=&prodid=&date=01%2f17%2f20&classid=0&prodGroupId=&sSU=&optForwardingLink=&qParam=&justloggedin=&nLgIn=&pMode=0&loc=1
Held at Sacred Health, 4123 University, Des Moines, Iowa
Learn Yoga the Somatic way, Beginners or to Deepen Your Practice -
Starts January 8, 2020
Have you thought about starting a yoga practice but not just wanted to go to a yoga class when you don't know the poses? Have you been doing yoga but not sure you're doing it right? Maybe you're having pain during yoga? This 6 week series will introduce the practice of yoga in a supportive environment, and you'll learn the foundations of yoga, breath work, and the yoga poses.
We’ll focus on how to build the poses from the inside out, using the principles of Somatics. We will learn how to move in and out of poses safely and to how get the most benefit from each pose.
Each 90 minute session will focus on different poses as we explore how to come into each pose and what qualities each pose has. We’ll end each class with a flow of what we have learned. Each week will build,so that by the end you’ll be prepared to enter any yoga class, know the poses, and do them safely and with confidence.
This series is so much fun and so rewarding to teach! I can't wait for the next class in this new space! Join me in making yoga part of your life!
$180 - price includes handouts to help build your individual yoga practice at home. Contact Pam@athasomayoga.com to register. Link coming soon.
Wednesday evenings 7-8:30 PM, January 8, 15, 22, 29, Feb. 5, and 12, 2020.
Sign up here: https://sacredhealthllc.sites.zenplanner.com/event.cfm?eventId=22827C79-DCF4-4B78-9755-4A2EE400329D&fbclid=IwAR3hhFcvUPzG-C4i_XUHbt8EGOGaPIofHVSK2z3qrsaobo0klIbCVwEXiq8
Held at Sacred Health, 4123 University, Des Moines, Iowa.
Find Your Path to Wellness: A Fall Retreat, October 18-20, 2019
Spend your weekend with Kathy Butler-Klein and I in NW Iowa! You can choose from rooms with a King bed, a Queen, or 2 Queen beds. Rent a room by yourself, or lower your cost and share a room with a girlfriend, or 3! (all rooms have their own bathroom) Everything will be provided from Happy Hour on Friday night with wines from the vineyard next door, all meals and snacks (provided by the amazing Rita Schau) and Sioux Food Center), and of course, lots of SomaYoga and Yamuna! Learn practices to release tension and stress, balance yourself from the inside and “reprogram” patterns in your body that aren’t serving you,. We’ll make our Saturday night meal together, using and learning Ayurvedic principles along the way! Contact Atha for pricing, more information, and to reserve your spot!
Intro to SomaYoga Workshop - December 17, 7-9pm
We all develop patterns in our bodies, that in time, can develop into harmful postures that we aren’t even conscious of. If we aren’t aware of them, we can’t change them! Because our brain doesn’t get a lot of sensory motor input from our core muscles (shoulder girdle, spine, pelvis) we will work on specific, small movements in these areas to bring greater awareness of them and then work to change the our movement patterns to become more efficient, balanced, and free.
In this workshop, we'll learn about the 3 basic reflex patterns and explore which of these each of us has a tendency toward. Then we'll learn gentle, easy techniques to help bring greater awareness to these in our bodies and begin to change these patterns as we experience a 75 minute SomaYoga session. Handouts will be provided to continue the practice at home.
Held Sacred Health, 4123 University, Des Moines, Iowa
SomaYoga Self Care Sunday at EDEN in the East Village - June 23, 10am-12pm
Come relax and take care of yourself on this Sunday morning workshop! We’ll use some amazing products from Eden, while we learn abhyanga (Ayurveda self massage/oiling) techniques. These massage techniques soften the skin, stimulate the lymph system to help decrease inflammation, and show you how to give yourself some self love. We’ll also do a 75 minute SomaYoga session to release stress and tension in the shoulders, back, and even into the hips. We’ll use a therapeutic spinal strip (and will have them available for purchase if you wish) and you’ll take away a simple home practice for SomaYoga that YOU can do anytime to help relieve tension and find more balance, from the inside out. We’ll talk about other simple ways to do self care in your home, on any given Sunday! Make June 23 about taking care of YOU as you transition into the Summer Solstice.
Held at Eden, 418 E 6th, Des Moines, Iowa.
Learn to use the Spinal Strip Workshop - August 18, 12-2pm
This workshop will focus on learning to use the Therapeutic Spinal Strip, used exclusively by SomaYoga trained yoga instructors.
The Spinal Strip was invented to bring greater awareness and space to areas of the spine, the shoulder blades, and the pelvis. Learn different ways to use the Strip and add it to your toolbox for relieving pain and tightness throughout your trunk. You will receive written instructions for the practices learned in the workshop. Spinal Strips will be available for purchase ($25). Cost is $40.
Intro to SomaYoga is recommended that Intro to SomaYoga be taken prior to other workshops but not necessary.