workshops | Yoga Therapeutics Study Program
Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen |
Join us for these educational, inspirational and fully practical workshops! Each weekend is designed to deepen personal experience and provide tools for working therapeutically with your students.
The path of continuing to become a yoga teacher is endless and the rewards are huge! Increasing self-knowledge is the ground for seeing clearly as a teacher.
A deep inner-vision develops love and compassion and increases our useful in the community and the world.
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Patty Townsend |
Karen Miscall-Bannon
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“Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen is a visionary and a pioneer in the field of embodiment, movement and consciousness. Bonnie has a profound understanding of the yoga process and offers the depth of her fully embodied knowledge, with wisdom and love. Bonnie is a master teacher who transmits the core of her offerings through her presence, making each workshop a transformative journey for all involved. It is with tremendous gratitude that we welcome Bonnie back to the Yoga Center Amherst!” • Patty Townsend
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UPCOMING THERAPEUTIC WORKSHOPS |
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| with Doug Keller |
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We are excited to welcome Doug Keller a well-respected national teacher known for his thorough knowledge of Yoga Therapeutics.
October 30-31, 2010
Saturday 12-3 and 4-6
Sunday 10-1 and 2-4
$250 full rate
$225 early registration
Doug will present practical applications inYoga Therapeutics that are useful for teachers and dedicated students. This workshop will focus on the major joints in the body and the most common complaints that yoga students present: issues of the shoulders, hips, and lower back.
Doug draws upon a number of sources — from contemporary insights into bodywork, Ayurveda, and the insights and principles of the hatha yoga tradition itself.
Develop the ability to assess therapeutic problems and their likely causes, from an anatomical and myofascial perspective, breathing patterns, and the influence of imbalances in the doshas. Explore approaches to resolving these problems through
- Realigning the joints
- Restoring proper flow of circulation
- Reducing pain and nerve impingement
- Regenerate subtle energy flows that support healthy organ function
The aim is to provide the foundation for teachers to empower their students to achieve and maintain these therapeutic realignments for himself or herself through simple and manageable practices. |
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Doug Keller’s background reflects a lifelong commitment to the vast field of Yoga. After receiving degrees in philosophy from Georgetown and Fordham Universities, and then teaching philosophy at the college level, he pursued a practical experience of yoga at the ashrams Gurudev Siddha Peeth in India. He has produced three highly respected books on asana, pranayama, and yoga philosophy, and for three years, has been a regular columnist for Yoga+ Magazine, writing the ‘Asana Solutions’ column that addresses specific therapeutic problems. |
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PREVIOUS THERAPEUTIC WORKSHOPS |
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Ayurvedic Approaches to Pranayama
with Francois Raoult |
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COMPLETED! |
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“Pranayama removes the veil covering the light of knowledge and heralds the dawn of wisdom.”
B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on the Yoga Sutras |
Yoga and Ayurveda are complementary traditional sciences of India. The principles of Ayurveda serve to deepen our understanding of appropriate asana and pranayama for each individual. Appropriate Pranayama brings lightness and luminosity to the inner body and mind. As teachers we can learn to see differences in our student’s constitutions and better understand appropriate practice for each individual.
- Discover or confirm your own Ayurvedic constitution and learn to recognize differences in your students.
- Learn asanas to prepare the lungs and the diaphragm for reclining and seated pranayama.
- Explore seated and reclining pranayama techniques suited to specific constitutions.
- Map the vayus, experience deep relaxation, and explore the bandhas. Finally we will also explore the applications of the 3 bandhas in pranayama.
François Raoult M.A., R.I.Y.T. is dedicated to teaching yoga with awareness, integrity, and compassion. A graduate of the Ecole Nationale de Yoga in Paris, he started teaching in 1975 and began extensive training with Sri B.K.S. Iyengar. A certified Iyengar instructor, François also has studied meditation with Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, Ayurveda with Dr. Robert Svoboda, and anatomy with Thomas Myers.
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Embryological Development &
Yoga therapeutics| with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen |
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COMPLETED! |
June 5 – 6, 2010
Saturday – 12-3 & 4:30-6:30
Sunday – 9-12 & 1:30-3:30
Early Registration (by April 15, 2010) $245 |
Full Rate........................................... $280
Special Rate YTT Participants 2010 ....$225
Register and Pay Now! |
WORKSHOP TAKES PLACE AT SHINTAIDO FARM IN DEERFIELD, MA — DIRECTIONS
In exploring the embryological developmental process, we discover the primal roots of our structure, perception, respondability and presence. We visit the very heart of yoga.
It is during our embryological development that our body begins creating its form. As tissues and structures develop, some remain with us, some are transformed into other structures and some fade into the background, no longer existing or recognizable as the original structure. As with all development, these processes have left us with deep-rooted patterns and templates that affect our movement, mind, and spirit. The understanding and integration of these aspects of development give us a doorway into deeper self-knowledge.
We will explore:
- Development of Bones and Muscles: The Vertebral Column and the Spiraling of the Limbs
- Development of Kidneys, Bladder, and Sex Organs
- Spiraling of the Heart and the Digestive Tract
- Development of Breathing:
- Cellular (Inner Respiration)
- Lung (External Respiration)
- Embryonic Breathing (Fluid Breathing)
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with Karen Miscall-Bannon |
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COMPLETED! |
Join Karen for an exploration of how the frameworks of Chinese Medicine’s Five-Element Theory and Ayurveda’s Marma System support teaching the organs and glands in embodyoga™.
These two traditions offer a tremendous opportunity for weaving some of the more challenging aspects of embodyoga™ into your classes.
We will look at both systems in their theoretical frameworks, and see how to apply them to teaching the Organ and Glandular Systems, and to deepen our understanding of the relationship between the earth’s natural rhythms and our Embodyoga® practice.
Karen is a senior teacher ofembodyoga™ at the Yoga Center Amherst. She leads workshops in the Tri-State area, teaches Embody-Vinyasa™ at YCA, maintains a private yoga and bodywork practice, and is leading the first 200-hour embodyoga™ Teacher Training at Newington Yoga, in CT. She is a devoted student of herbal medicine, and passionately continues to explore the relationships between Yoga and traditional medicine systems. |
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Embodyoga Therapeutics | for scoliosis
cultivating comfort and ease with Marcia Monroe
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COMPLETED! |
Sunday — October 25, 2009 | 9 – 12 & 1:30 – 3:30 | $105 |
This workshop will emphasize restorative postures. Marcia Monroe is a Certified Iyengar Yoga teacher, a Body Mind Centering® Teacher, and a Feldenkrais® Practicioner. She brings a profound understanding of scoliosis and a wealth of knowledge to this workshop. She is the author of Engaging The Child Through Yoga, and the DVD, Yoga and the Fluid Patterns. Her upcoming book and DVD, Searching For The Spine, will be released in 2009.
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Embodyoga Therapeutics presents
Pelvic Strength and Stability with Alisa Wright-Tanny
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COMPLETED! |
Sun. Nov 8th | 10:00 - 1:00 | $40 |
In this Embodiment Exploration with Alisa, we will explore the foundational movement elements to creating a strong and stable pelvis. Using the navel yielding principal as our primary support, we will explore moving the spine through flexion, extension, lateral flexion and rotation from the GROUND of strength and stablity of the neutral pelvis.
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Yoga Therapeutics
for the Spine and Sacroiliac Joint with Patty Townsend |
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COMPLETED! |
Spine 1 – Sunday, February 1, 2009
Spine 2 – Sunday, March 22, 2009
Daily • 9:30 – 12:30 & 1:30 – 4:30 |
Yoga Therapeutics
for the hips and knees with Karen Miscall-Bannon |
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COMPLETED! |
Knees and Hips – Sunday, May 24, 2009
9:30 – 12:30 & 1:30 – 4:30
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Yoga Therapeutics
for scoliosis|Cultivating comfort and ease
with Marcia Monroe |
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COMPLETED!
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July 11–12, 2009
Saturday 12:00 – 3:00 & 4:30 – 6:30
Sunday 10 – 1pm
October 25, 2009
Sunday 9 – 12 and 1:30 – 3:30 |
Learn to assist scoliosis with the integrated tools of Iyengar Yoga, Body-Mind Centering®, and Feldenkrais. Workshop includes:
- An introduction to scoliosis and the importance of stability and spinal support
- The lower limbs: supine, standing, sitting postures and appropriate use of props
- The upper limbs: finding support in back bends and twists
- Finding fluid support of the organ body
- Savasana: supporting active rest in an asymmetrical body
Marcia Monroe is a Certified Iyengar Yoga teacher, a Body Mind Centering® Teacher, and a Feldenkrais® Practicioner. She brings a profound understanding of scoliosis and a wealth of knowledge to this workshop. She is the author of Engaging The Child Through Yoga, and the DVD, Yoga and the Fluid Patterns. Her upcoming book and dvd, Searching For The Spine, will be released in 2009. For information visit the site: www.marciamonroe.com |
Embryological Development & Yoga Therapeutics Level 1
with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen |
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SPECIAL PRE-WORKSHOP CLASS —
THE FLUID BODY AND YOGA
with Patty Townsend
Friday, September 25, 2009
5-6:45 pm
at yoga center amherst
$20.
Register and Pay Now!
Join us as we prepare to enter the deep inner world of embryology with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. Including an experiential guide into our Fluid Body, Patty will place our embryological origins into the context of Yoga and the Tantric embodiment of primal desire. |
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THIS WORKSHOP IS COMPLETELY FULL.
September 26–27, 2009
Sat: 12 –3 and 4:30–6:30
Sun: 9–12 and 1:30–3:30
Workshop will take place at the Shintaido Farm in Deerfield, MA.
(click here for directions to the Workshop)
It is during our embryological development that our body begins creating its form. As tissues and structures develop, some remain with us, some are transformed into other structures and some fade into the background, no longer existing or recognizable as the original structure.
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As with all development, though the original processes are no longer with us, they have left us with indelible patterns and templates that affect our movement, mind and spirit .
Discover the primal roots of our presence, structure, perception, and respond-ability.
Explore the ground of cellular-unity and cellular-breathing, and witness the inner and outer processes of relating to self and other.
Increase self-knowledge. Recognize subconscious preferences that are based upon our very earliest perceptions. Recognize similar templates of organization in your students and learn to address them with compassion.
Visit the very heart of yoga: Witness the development of our central vertical axis (notochord), and discover the profoundly healing experience of self-nurturance in the fluid wave of the autonomic rhythm. This is the embodied source of Ha – Tha Yoga.Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen is the developer of Body-Mind Centering® and the founder and Educational Director of the School. For over thirty-five years she has been an innovator and leader in developing this embodied and integrated approach to movement, touch and repatterning, experiential anatomy, developmental principles, perceptions and psychophysical processes. She is the author of the book, Sensing, Feeling and Action.
Bonnie is a Registered Occupational Therapist and a Registered Movement Therapist and is also certified in Neurodevelopmental Therapy, Laban Movement Analysis, and Kestenberg Movement Profiling. She has practiced occupational therapy and taught in university hospitals; helped to establish a school for occupational and physical therapy for the Tokyo government; practiced bodywork and movement in psychiatric settings; taught in the masters program in Dance Therapy at Antioch New England College; taught dance at Hunter College and at the Erick Hawkins School of Dance in New York; and presented workshops throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe.
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