Yoga for Grief Teacher Training
$400.00
This 10-hour training is open to all currently certified yoga teachers, yoga teachers-in-training, and those who have a steady yoga practice who would like to integrate Yoga for Grief into their personal or professional lives.
*Institute Members and Institute Circle subscribers receive 50% off of tuition. Simply enter the membership or subscriber code upon check out.
Description
Sundays
September 13, 27, and October 4 & 18
3-5pm Eastern
Would you like to learn a gentle and simple yoga flow, deepen your grief education,
and strengthen your heart to hold space?
This online training is open to all currently certified yoga teachers, yoga teachers in training, and those who study yoga and wish to integrate Yoga for Grief into their personal or professional lives.
*The Yoga for Grief teacher training will be recorded for participants.
You do not need to attend live to complete the training.
In the Yoga for Grief Teacher Training, you will learn the basics of leading a gentle yoga class focusing on three main aspects of flow:
- Introductory seated postures and meditation
- Standing movement postures focusing on balancing and strength
- Concluding postures that open the hips and heart, concluding with corpse pose
Along the way, you will study how to successfully integrate simple aspects of grief education, silence, meditation, and make space for emotion and tears, as well as gratitude and love.
The Yoga for Grief Teacher Training supports you to craft gentle, transformative, and integrative Yoga for Grief classes wherein it is safe to breathe, feel, and move through grief. We know grief and love are intertwined; we can embrace both with breath and mindfulness. We emerge more whole and open.
The Yoga for Grief Teacher Training includes:
- 8 hours of module time
- 1 hour of practice teaching, wherein you will lead a Yoga for Grief class and receive feedback
- 1 hour of personal study and written reflection
At the conclusion of your ten hours of training, you will be equipped to teach this class online or in person and can integrate hour-long Yoga for Grief classes into the work you do as therapists, birth/death doulas, yoga teachers, midwives, etc.
The Certificate of Completion, which will be earned at the end of our eight hours together, indicates that you are trained to teach an hour-long Yoga for Grief class, guiding people gently through movement and offering reflections along the way through poetry, prose, and silence.
With each class, we hold space for the grief that lives in body and mind and heart.
And the gratitude
And love.
This is a transformative teacher training.
The Yoga for Grief Teacher Training is taught by Amy Wright Glenn, certified Kripalu Yoga teacher and founder/director of the Institute for the Study of Birth, Breath, and Death.
Joanne Cacciatore’s book Grieving is Loving ~ Compassionate Words for Bearing the Unbearable is central to our study.
Whatever comes, we let it be as it is. When we do this, we come to see, in this moment or the next, our emotions always moving… Our emotions move in us, move through us, and move between us. And when we allow them to move freely, they change, perhaps scarcely and perhaps gradually ~ but inevitably. This is grief’s most piercing message: there is no way around ~ the only way is through.
~Joanne Cacciatore, PhD