This Level 1 Orthopedic Yoga Therapy program is a Vinyasa training. The word vinyasa means to connect. A Vinyasa flow class is one in which the poses are connected and move rhythmically from one to the next. This enables the joints to be bathed in synovial fluid, the internal, healing lubricant of the body. In this course, all levels of flow are taught so students will be able to teach in every situation, to all students. Students leave fully prepared to teach all levels of classes ranging from power style, sweaty and exhilarating classes, to gentle, slow therapeutic flows. The best part is, all students will graduate knowing how to support themselves deeply, as well as their students, even those working with constraints or injuries. You will never have to say “If this pose doesn’t work for you, feel free to come into Child’s Pose.”; instead you will have the knowledge to modify those postures in safe and effective manners.

All participants will graduate this course with:

• An ability to teach informed, safe and inspiring yoga classes ranging from slow, gently and therapeutic to fast, sweaty and exhilarating; to students of all levels and all degrees of experience, in person and online.
• The neurology tools needed to rewire the brain out of the stress response and into a deeply connected and centered place of joy.
• The knowledge needed to keep every student in your classes safe, and always moving towards optimal balance and alignment even if they are working with a restriction or injury
• A deep understanding of the physical and energetic anatomies
• A functional perspective of how the joints move, take stress and are to be aligned; and the ability to feel that in their own bodies and see it in their students.
• The ability to 'body read' which will allow participants to look at their students and know what adjustments that student needs to make where, and why, to bring student into better alignment, out of pain and away from the risk of injury.
• The experience and knowledge to create a unique yoga practice that is right for you; as well as to know when and how to modify that practice as appropriate.
• An in-depth understanding of the often misunderstood 'Fascia' of the body, and how it relates to yoga and orthopedics.
  Experience of offering therapeutic hands-on assists in a safe and effective manner
• An amazing, growth filled and fun experience within an outstanding community of people.
• A life-changing, transformative educational experience that will benefit participants and the lives of the people around them.

Please be aware of the following weekend dates for the training:

We meet in studio Wednesday evenings from 6:00-9:00 pm at Be the Light Yoga, 482 Shirley Street, Winthrop MA. With a summer vacation between June and September, continuing September 3 - 24th to graduate!

Fridays evenings of weekend events are (mostly) on Zoom 6-9 pm

Saturdays and Sundays are mostly 9:30 am to 5:30pm (with breaks) in studio at:

• Be the Light Yoga, 482 Shirley Street, Winthrop MA and at
• Shine On Yoga and Wellness at 60 Adams Streets in Milton for our larger classes

(All course work is also recorded in the event a session must be missed.)

Weekend Dates TBA