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Yoga and Ayurveda for Detoxification and Rejuvenation
Scott Blossom - Course ID: AMBLOS

Monday, April 16 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Monday All-Day Intensives
Therapeutic / Mixed Levels

Both the Ayurveda and yoga traditions view life as a continual search for physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual food. Our health is based as much on being able to digest, assimilate, and utilize the ingredients of our lives as it is on regular elimination of metabolic, energetic, and psychological waste products and toxins. We'll focus on yoga practice and Ayurveda for guidance on making wise dietary choices, maintaining seasonal cleansings, and living a life that nourishes us on all levels.

Yoga practice and lecture.

Mind-Body Flow: Crafting a Therapeutic Vinyasa Practice
Bo Forbes - Course ID: AMFORB

Monday, April 16 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Monday All-Day Intensives
Therapeutic / Mixed Levels

Yoga is inherently therapeutic as a form of mind-body medicine. Yet our mind-body network includes the nervous, immune, and limbic systems as well as the mind, body, and pain pathways. When we use yoga's most therapeutic elements to address many parts of this network, we enhance its healing impact. This all-day intensive will highlight several therapeutic "infrastructure interventions" that increase the transformative power any yoga practice. We'll experience simple pranayama techniques, postural adjustments, mindful transitions, block work and isometrics for fascial expansion and release, and restorative poses. Our therapeutic journey will also target the enteric nervous system--our belly brain--through postures that empower the foundational elements of core body strength and awareness. We will integrate these infrastructure interventions into a practice that will create space in the body, calms the mind, stimulates lymphatic flow, expands and releases fascial gluing, and builds inner awareness and integration.

CE credits are offered for psychologists and social workers
Elemental Yoga is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Elemental Yoga maintains responsibility for this program (AMFORB) and its content. This program offers three (3) CE hours for psychologists. This program is also approved by the National Association of Social Workers (Provider #886459124) for six (6) continuing education contact hours.

What to bring: You will benefit more from this workshop if you bring a blanket, a strap, an eye pillow, and two blocks.
Asana, pranayama, restorative yoga, lecture.

Muscle Imbalances and Back Pain
Julie Gudmestad - Course ID: AMGUDM

Monday, April 16 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Monday All-Day Intensives
Continue Your Education / Therapeutic / Mixed Levels

Muscle imbalances around the hips and spine can contribute to back pain and injuries. We'll study the anatomy of important antagonists, including the hamstrings versus the psoas, and the abdominals versus the erector spinae. Then we'll practice yoga poses and sequences to help correct imbalances, improve pelvic and spinal alignment, and relieve back pain.

Discussion and asana practice.

Viniyoga Therapy for Emotional Well-Being: Focus on Anxiety and Depression
Gary Kraftsow - Course ID: AMKRAF

Monday, April 16 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Monday All-Day Intensives
Therapeutic / Mixed Levels

Viniyoga Therapy for Emotional Well-Being: Focus on Anxiety and Depression Discover the yoga therapy perspective and methods for working with anxiety and depression, exploring psychological aspects of the human system, models of the integrated personality that emerge from Vedic teachings, and the science of meditation that the ancients developed for reducing suffering and cultivating our higher human potential. In the morning we'll focus on working with anxiety, and in the afternoon we'll focus on depression.

Discussion and asana practice.

Stressful Times and a Peaceful Life
Aadil Palkhivala - Course ID: AMPALK

Monday, April 16 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Monday All-Day Intensives
Therapeutic / Mixed Levels

Stress and tension seem to fill most aspects of our relationships and our lives. Come learn about the nature of stress and how to alleviate it using a systematic Purna Yoga approach: We release the tension in our bodies through the practice of carefully designed series, release the tension in our minds through meditation techniques, and release the stress in our relationships by learning how to take responsibility for our choices. Prepare to work hard, relax, and feel the fulfillment of a balanced practice geared toward reducing stress and connecting with your intuition.

What to bring: Bring a mat, blanket, block, and strap.
Mostly asana.

OM Yoga Cancer Survivor Teacher Training
Tari Prinster - Course ID: AMPRIN

Monday, April 16 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Monday All-Day Intensives
Continue Your Education / Therapeutic / Mixed Levels

Yoga teachers need specialized knowledge and methods to design a healing class for cancer survivors. Come explore specific benefits to cancer patients and survivors, and learn how yoga heals on a cellular level. We'll discuss different cancers, the long-term side effects created by Western treatments, and what it feels like to be in the body and mind of a cancer survivor. The day includes a typical OM Yoga cancer survivor class; discussions on contraindications, modifications, use of props, and safe and healing breathing exercises; and learning appropriate language that provides emotional support.

What to bring: Blankets, blocks, and a bolster.
Discussion and asana practice.

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