Events

Workshops:

YinKi® Night
Friday, February 10th, 6-8pm
@ Yogaview Elston
Fee: $25

Yin Yoga class (longer holds of poses to facilitate deep opening and greater flexibility) with Reiki Healing (healing energy that serves to promote stress reduction and relaxation). This special offering is meant to quiet the mind, relax the body and expand the heart.

What is Reiki? Reiki (pronounced ray-kee), the Japanese word for universal life force energy, is the practice of channeling this energy into the body to promote healing, stress reduction and relaxation. The word "Rei" means "high knowledge," and "Ki" means "life force energy". Reiki treats the whole person creating many beneficial effects that may include relaxation and feelings of peace, security and wellbeing. It is a natural and safe method for everyone.

Advanced Teacher Training Modules & Workshops:

As a faculty member for the Moksha Yoga Center 500-hour Advanced Teacher Training, I will be leading the following Pose & Technique Practicums. Please find my schedule below:

-Saturday, January 21, 2012- Demystifying and Accessing Yogic Chanting
4 hour workshop open to public
Chanting is a powerful tool for discovering and expressing the human spirit. Combined with yoga practice, we will discover and influence new connections between the body, mind, and breath, infusing our relationship to yoga with new vitality. Taught step-by-step through listening and response, pure sound and simple chants will be taught and then applied to asana, pranayama, and meditation.


-Sunday, February 19, 2012 - Arm Balances: Taking Flight!
9:30-2:30pm open to public (lunch break included), 3-5pm for advanced teacher trainees only
Learn to approach arm balances with fearlessness and learn to “float” through your asana practice. Discover what balancing on your hands really means and work every arm balance in the book with agility, and even experiment with new ones you’ve never seen before! This workshop is geared for all levels; beginners will learn the foundations and technicalities of leaving the ground and advanced practitioners will explore new entries, exits and variations. Come with questions, a playful attitude, and thirst for flight!


-Saturday, March 31, 2012 - Sanskrit for Yogis
4-hour workshop open to public
Sanskrit is more than just an ancient language; it is the key to higher states of consciousness in our yoga practice and beyond. Join Ingrid for a 4-hour workshop demystifying the use of Sanskrit, the language of yoga. Learn how to use Sanskrit to enrich your whole yoga experience and unlock a greater understanding to the practice of yoga. In the first two hours of this workshop, we will experientially explore yoga poses to remember the Sanskrit names with storytelling, root words and functional names. In the final two hours we learn root words to gain real functional access to the Sanskrit words and names used in our yoga practices. Join us for this fun and eye-opening workshop filled with plenty of asana, narratives and helpful mind-memory tricks you can use throughout your lifetime!


-Saturday, April 28, 2012 - Hips - Anatomy, Openers and Understanding
9:30-2:30pm open to public (lunch break included), 3-5pm for advanced teacher trainees only
Join Ingrid Yang, yoga expert and medical student with a mastery of anatomy and movement, for this amazing and exploratory workshop that will help you find peace and liberation in the body. The day will begin with a 2-hour class exploring hip openers and stabilizers, starting with a warming vinyasa flow before we move into some deep hip openers. We will explore both internal and external rotation, as well as learn therapies specifically for hips, even among those with long-standing pathology. The afternoon will include an in-depth study of the muscles of the hips and a break-down of how certain yoga postures can benefit the hips. The day will end with teacher trainees practice teaching with their newly-acquired clinical knowledge of hip strengthening and opening.


-Sunday, May 13, 2012 - Closing Poses /Restorative Yoga
9:30-2:30pm open to public (lunch break included), 3-5pm for advanced teacher trainees only
In our search for mastery of vinyasa flow and power yoga, we often forget to balance our practice and teaching with calming poses. Closing poses, restorative yoga and deep stretch is a critical aspect of our practice that balances the more obvious practices we typically seek in yoga. Restorative and deep stretch calm the nervous system and active the parasympathetic nervous system where we can truly relax and de-stress. Release tension and find optimal relaxation through a series of supported and deep-stretch poses that are held for several minutes. Open the body, quiet the mind and watch your tension disappear. This workshop is appropriate for yoga students of all levels, as well as yoga teachers who want to learn how to integrate restorative and closing techniques into their own classes.



For the Feb 18, April 13, and May 13th workshops the schedule will be as follows:
9:30-11:30am Practice Class
12-3pm Techniques
3:15 – 5:30pm Teaching Skills

Teacher Training:

200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training with Gerhard Gessner & Ingrid Yang
June 15 - July 1st, 2012

Certified by YOGA ALLIANCE, our 200-hour Yoga Instructor Training offers participants an in-depth understanding of Yoga as it has evolved over the years and as it is being taught at Prana Yoga Center today.

Whether you strive to become a Yoga teacher or would like to deepen your own practice, we invite you to experience the life-changing effects of this ancient practice and immerse yourself in our non-dogmatic training in traditional Vinyasa Yoga.

For more info, please visit: the Prana Yoga Center Teacher Training website.

Cancer Yoga Therapy Training with Ingrid Yang, E-RYT 500

@ Prana Yoga Center, La Jolla, CA
July 20 - 23rd, 2012


@ Moksha Yoga Center, Chicago, IL
January 18 - 21st, 2013

Certified Yoga teachers may attend this training where I will lead trainees in learning how to design and teach a yoga therapy class to cancer patients and survivors in a safe and therapeutic environment.

In this 4-day training you will learn:

• - Yoga postures appropriate for survivors of all types of cancer and their therapeutic advantages, contraindications, and modifications;
• - The science and physiology of cancer, its treatments and side effects, and how yoga can help to reduce pain, build muscle mass and bone, and foster a healthy lifestyle while undergoing chemotherapy, surgeries and/or radiation;
• - Develop and lead classes compassionately and competently to improve balance, flexibility, and strength and to relieve stress, anxiety and pain that is often associated with cancer.

Ingrid Yang, E-RYT, has been teaching yoga for the last 12 years. Ingrid founded and ran Blue Point Yoga Center in Durham, NC where she also worked as a clinical research associate in the lab of Dr. Kimberly Blackwell at Duke University Medical Center’s Morris Cancer Clinic. At Duke, she focused her research specifically on breast cancer and genetic and protein signatures demonstrated in chemotherapy treatment. Ingrid holds her teacher’s certification in Cancer Yoga Therapy from OM Yoga Center in New York City. Ingrid is currently a medical student at Rush Medical College in Chicago, IL and is the co-author of the recently published book, Hatha Yoga Asanas Having worked closely with cancer patients in the medical field and with extensive yoga expertise, Ingrid is uniquely qualified to inform and inspire teachers to lead cancer patients though the healing process of Yoga.

Upon completion, teachers will receive a certificate of completion that may be applied toward Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Units (CEUs): 35 total CEUs, including 30-contact CEUs.

Pre-requisite: 200-hour Teacher Training


Applicants must complete an application. Click here for PDF and submit it in person, via email or mail by September 1st. Accepted applications will be notified via email.