Continuing Education
Yoga Alliance Approved!
All Balanced Life Yoga Continuing Education offerings meet Yoga Alliance’s Continuing Education requirements at a 200 and 500 Hour level.
As well they are 100% Tax Deductible as we are a Registered Educational Institution with the Federal Government. Register today!
Living Your Dharma – The Applied Message of the Bhagavad Gita with Shasta
February 10, 11 and 12, 2012 | Register Now
Learn to embody the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita. Understand fully your own dharma and how your teachings contribute to your own personal fulfillment and those of your students and the world at large. Learn how to connect to the deeper teachings so you easefully fulfill your own dharma and teach from this place. We will also discuss the business of yoga and teaching.
Cost: $500
Pre-Natal Yoga Certification with Krista
Date: February 25, 2012 9:00 am-5:00 pm
Cost: $350
Fearless Teaching and Practice with Shasta
March 2, 3 and 4, 2012 | Register Now
What is your inner teacher yearning to say? In the first part of this module you will learn to find your own voice and bring your own truth into your teachings in a non-dogmatic and inspiring way. As well, you’ll learn to handle challenging students and your own inner critic. In the second half of this module we will look at teaching and assisting deeper backbends, inversions and arm balances to create a fearless class for you and your students.
Cost: $500
Yoga Therapy – The Healing Approach of Yoga with Shasta
April 13, 14 and 15, 2012 | Register Now
One of the most valuable contributions of yoga is in the field of healing. For centuries people have benefited from this timeless discipline, to heal themselves and others from many kinds of diseases – be it physical, mental, emotional or spiritual. Yoga has its own unique way of understanding the human body in multiple dimensions, its inter-connection, the reasons for illness and its unique self-empowering way to heal them. Yoga philosophy believes that the required resources to counter illness are already within each individual. The goal is to recognize and bring them forth. Learn how to use yoga therapeutically with its many subtle tools as well as assist your students through empowering their core – the heart and releasing habits of ego – the mind.
Cost: $500
Kirtan College with David Newman (Durga Das) & Mira – First time in Canada!
April 27, 28 and 29, 2012 | Register Now
Join David Newman (aka Durga Das) and his wife Mira for Kirtan College! This inspiring in-depth course will explore the many facets of kirtan (chanting sacred mantras) and Bhakti Yoga (the path of devotion). It is a concise and rich training that will deepen your understanding and practise of Indian devotional chanting. Gain the means and tools to make devotional chanting a more significant part of daily practise and to gain more confidence to facilitate kirtan for others. This program is open to everyone! A musical background is not required!
The course includes:
- Sanskrit mantra pronunciation, transliteration and translation
- Storytelling of the ancient myths of India and their mantric relevance
- Teachings and practices of the Bhakti Yoga tradition
- Support for creative chant composition and musical guidance
- Methodology for practicing and leading kirtan
Times:
- Friday, April 27 – 7:00-9:00 pm
- Saturday, April 28 – 10:00 am-5:00 pm
- Sunday, April 29 – 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Cost: $350
Dr. Yoga with Shasta
May 4, 5 and 6, 2012 | Register Now
Learn to apply your study of Yoga Therapy to assist with injury management and recovery in this practical module that teachers you how to use yoga to release mental and physical injury and suffering. We will also discuss how to effectively process student intake forms, perform effective evaluations and how to use your insight and intuition to ensure your student is safe and inspired.
Cost: $500
2UNITE Partner Yoga: Teacher Training Level 1 with Krista
Saturday, May 12 from 10:00 am – 5:00 pm | Register Now
Learn from one of the country’s most revered and masterful partner yoga teachers, Krista Bromfield. She shares her immense knowledge and skill in creating successful Partner Yoga classes. Immerse yourself in the yoga of connectedness. Learn to incorporate Partner Yoga poses into your classes and/or create a practice for two using the principles of safety, grounding, balance, trust and touch. This workshop will also include the concepts of Skillful Assisting, Mirrored Postures, Bone Stacking, Counter Balancing, and Partner Vinyasa Flow. This is a great immersion for those with experience teaching yoga and/or P.E classes. Discover the true meaning of yoga: UNION!
Inspiring Individuals and Creating Unparalleled Well-being One-on-One – How to Have a Successful Private with Shasta
June 1, 2 and 3, 2012 | Register Now
Working one-on-one is an amazing means to helping students deepen their practice, overcome pain and suffering and embody unparalleled well-being but few teachers are well prepared to meet the needs of their private students. In this module we will learn how to assess individuals from a physical, mental, emotional and spiritual perspective and create classes and practices to meet their particular needs. As well professional practices and establishing relationships will be discussed.
Cost: $500
Restorative Yoga Training Certification with Shasta
Friday, August 10, 2012 from 10:00 am-5:00 pm
Restorative yoga is a powerful healing practice that regulates the nervous system by slowing it down, naturally relaxing both the mind and body. It is a simple, gentle yoga practice that reaches a wide range of people in their health and abilities.
This course will focus on a more gentle, supported yoga practice for our students. Learn the principles of teaching this method as well as how to adapt each pose. The Restorative Yoga course is a great first addition to any teacher’s repertoire and a key aspect of teaching therapeutically and privately. This is an interactive, experiential training that can be taken by teachers of all yoga disciplines, healing practitioners, and all yogis who want to expand their personal practices.
In this course you will learn:
- The effects of stress and how it relates to restorative practice
- Introduction to restorative yoga, its benefits & approach
- How to effectively support the body in each posture with props
- How to increase health in the body, allowing people with injuries, stress or chronic pain to regulate and heal
- Restorative Yoga as a standalone practice
- How to effectively integrate Restorative Yoga postures into other Yoga practices
Knowing how to teach restorative yoga will give you the tools to welcome beginner students of all ages and physical states, and allow them to experience yoga in the safest way.
Date: Friday, August 10, 2012 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Cost: $300
Teacher: Balanced Life Yoga Director, Shasta Townsend (graduate of Judith Hanson Lasater’s Restorative Yoga teacher training program)
The Deeper Dimensions of the Yoga Sutras with Shasta
Dates: October 19, 20 and 21, 2012 | Register Now
No study of yoga is complete without the study of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. The Yoga Sutras forms the basis of all yoga teachings. This profound text has offered guidance to many masters over time, and continues to serve as the most authoritative text on the subject. Patanjali masterfully presents what can be considered as the world’s first psychology study. A deep study of this text reveals just how much yoga concerns the understanding and disciplining of the human mind. A serious study of this also reveals how beautifully Patanjali understands and addresses the human condition in a holistic manner towards health, healing and spiritual transformation. We will learn to apply the Yoga Sutras in the classroom, daily life and for healing. In particular we will study the 3rd and 4th book of the Yoga Sutras and learn how to release and overcome conditioning and samskaras so we can connect to who we truly are and allow students to do the same.
Light in the Heart – An Exploration of Ayurveda, Chakras and Energy Bodies with Shasta
November 23, 24 and 25 | Register Now
The way the ancient yoga masters understood our human body is quite different from the way we understand it in modern times. They conceived a very detailed and precise anatomy of the human body, which is very subtle and symbolic, rather than just physiological. This model was used as the foundation to understand and interpret the way our system functioned, or mal-functioned. In this module you will:
* Explore the foundations of understanding our subtle human structure.
* Understand the concepts of Nadi-s, Cakra-s, Agni and Jalam, which are important to understand the subtle anatomy and functioning of human body.
* Learn how the tools of yoga address this anatomy to deal with sickness or/and health.
* Discover how Ayurveda and doshas influence practice and well-being
Cost: $500
Meditation and Transformation: Embodied Practice and Living with Shasta
Dates: November 30, December 1 and 2, 2012 | Register Now
One simple truth is becoming clear to Yoga practitioners worldwide… For answers to life’s most profound questions we must look beyond Asana to Yoga’s more meditative teachings. This module offers a unique opportunity to experience the deeper wisdom of traditional yogic meditation and transformation. This module will explore Yoga’s more meditative aspects for spiritual transformation.
Cost: $500
Applied Anatomy for Yoga with Krista
Dates: January 11, 12 and 13, 2013 | Register Now
In this module Krista Bromfield will review and deepen your understanding of anatomy and physiology as it applies to the human body directly relate it to the practice of yoga. Learn to feel each asana from the inside out and teach safe and appropriate alignment so you and your students can do yoga injury free for life. We will start from the ground up and explore the bones, joints, muscles and supporting tissues of the feet/ankles, knees, hips, spine and shoulders and discover how this anatomy applies to practicing, teaching and assisting yoga postures intelligently and confidently. Universal anatomical terminolgy, as well as skeletal and muscular anatomy will also be reveiwed. This applied anatomy module is a deepening of 200 hr. training and may be taken by serious students and teachers who want to deepen their understanding of anatomy, the body and yoga. For those interested in yoga therapy, this module is a valuable resource which demonstrates how, with knowledge of applied anatomy, yoga can be used effectively as a therapy. Required Textbook: Ray Long’s “The Key Poses of Hatha Yoga” (http://www.bandhayoga.com/) or Chapters/Indigo
Cost: $500
Asana and Adjustment – Hands on Assisting and Deepening the Practice with Duncan
Dates: February 8, 9 and 10 and 2013 | Register Now
Making great assists is not only an essential aspect of teaching; it allows your students to receive the benefits of alignment, energy flow and connection. Hands on touch is also a deeply healing and therapeutic means of allowing students to move past their own limitations. In this module you will learn how to:
* Assist beginners and common misalignment issues
* Assess anatomy versus misalignment
* Deepen the practice through deeper assists that release tension and blockages
* Feel confident and solid in your assisting skills
Cost: $500
Living Your Dharma – The Applied Message of the Bhagavad Gita with Shasta
March 1, 2 and 3, 2013 | Register Now
Learn to embody the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita. Understand fully your own dharma and how your teachings contribute to your own personal fulfillment and those of your students and the world at large. Learn how to connect to the deeper teachings so you easefully fulfill your own dharma and teach from this place. We will also discuss the business of yoga and teaching.
Cost: $500
Fearless Teaching and Practice with Shasta
April 12, 13 and 14, 2013 | Register Now
What is your inner teacher yearning to say? In the first part of this module you will learn to find your own voice and bring your own truth into your teachings in a non-dogmatic and inspiring way. As well, you’ll learn to handle challenging students and your own inner critic. In the second half of this module we will look at teaching and assisting deeper backbends, inversions and arm balances to create a fearless class for you and your students.
Cost: $500
Yoga Therapy – The Healing Approach of Yoga with Shasta
April 26, 27 and 28, 2013 | Register Now
One of the most valuable contributions of yoga is in the field of healing. For centuries people have benefited from this timeless discipline, to heal themselves and others from many kinds of diseases – be it physical, mental, emotional or spiritual. Yoga has its own unique way of understanding the human body in multiple dimensions, its inter-connection, the reasons for illness and its unique self-empowering way to heal them. Yoga philosophy believes that the required resources to counter illness are already within each individual. The goal is to recognize and bring them forth. Learn how to use yoga therapeutically with its many subtle tools as well as assist your students through empowering their core – the heart and releasing habits of ego – the mind.
Cost: $500
Yoga Alliance Approved!
All Balanced Life Yoga Continuing Education offerings meet Yoga Alliance’s Continuing Education requirements at a 200 and 500 Hour level.
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Prenatal Teacher Training Testimonials
Krista and Amy made learning enjoyable, fun and it was easy to learn from these two. This is a course I would recommend every Yoga Teacher to take, so we will all be ready when someone comes into our class that is expecting. It was so nice to have an open group to learn with, we went so much deeper than just postures, so much to learn and I thank you both for making it a day that I will sure tell other Yoga Teachers this is a course that they need to have even just for them to learn more. Personally I thank these two for opening my eyes and body up to more of our Yoga Life. Thank you both. - Charlene Bateman, Stouffville, ON.
I felt that we were guided by two people who truly know their pregnant women, with a true understanding of a women’s changing body during pregnancy. This course is good for both those who wish to work specifically with pregnant women, and for teachers who wish to have the extra knowledge to assist a pregnant woman taking a traditional yoga class. The class is great and the manual is extremely week laid out with great information. Thanks so much wonderful job! - Brandy McIlmoyle Sang, Uxbridge, ON
Thank you so much for the excellent Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training! I really appreciate the amount of preparation that went into the day and thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge with us. I feel much more confident now about working with pregnant clients. - Katia Grodecki, Markham, ON
I really enjoyed the course. I loved the mix of info coming from the expertise of the both of you, I thought it was very thorough. I also really enjoyed the guest speaker – I thought she had a beautiful and peaceful energy and some great insights about pregnancy and child birth. Also, I loved the manual! You guys did an amazing job with that, it was very in depth and thorough and nice to read. Overall, great job!! Thanks so much for everything. -Angela Toccalino, Barrie, ON
Thank you Krista & Amy for wonderful training. Loved the anatomy part & understanding the mind of pregnant woman. The way you have planned the session is awesome! Very informative & Practical. I totally recommend this training, As a Yoga Teacher I can use all these skills not only to teach others but also for my personal benefit in helping my family & myself when I go through Pregnancy!! -Manika K, Markham