Summer 2008 Workshops at IYISF

Iyengar Yoga Practitioner's Training
w/ Lois Steinberg
July 7 - 10, 2008
12:00 - 4:30pm | Studio I
members: $395 for all 4 days or $105 per day
nonmembers: $475 for all 4 days or $135 per day

Advanced Studies can obtain eighteen hours of credit by attending all sessions and writing a paper.

Lois will teach all categories of asana including utthita and viparita sthiti (upright and reverse steadiness) and purva pratana sthiti (backwards steadiness). Pranayamic breathing exercises will include digital variations ( please cut your nails!). In addition, Lois will teach asana modifications, sutra study, "learning to see", and going beyond technique.

This workshop is open to those with 4+ years of Iyengar Yoga practice.

LOIS STEINBERG, from Urbana, Illinois, holds an advanced level certification in the tradition of B.K.S. Iyengar. As a scholar, author, nutritionist and Iyengar yoga teacher with 30 years' experience, she brings a unique variety and wealth of personal understanding to her presentation. Lois' current writing project is Geeta Iyengar's Guide to a Woman's Yoga Practice (vol. 2 forthcoming). In her teaching, she emphasizes and exemplifies the whole-body transformation of the practitioner through the joy of regular immersion in practice.

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Basics of Teaching Iyengar Yoga
w/ Jaki Nett
July 16 - 20, 2008 | Studio I
Daily Schedule TBA
members: $510 for full session or $120 per day
nonmembers: $575 for full session or $150 per day

Advanced Studies can obtain eighteen hours of credit by attending all sessions and writing a paper.

When we study in Pune, classes are taught on a monthly basis.  The teachings focus on different types of postures each week during the month.  The first week standing poses are emphasized, the second week is forward bending, third week back bending and in the fourth week Pranayama.  

Teachers often find themselves in a quandary on how to structure an entire class or workshop around a particular group of poses. By mirroring the approach taken in Pune, this 5-day workshop will concentrate on how to introduce, teach and link actions within poses to understand these types of poses as a whole.

Day 1: General class  
Day 2: Standing asanas 
Day 3: Forward bending asanas  
Day 4: Backward bending asanas
Day 5: Twisting asanas

Within each class we will study how to teach basic inversions.   
The class will be open to questions, and specific poses requested by students.

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Yoga for Scoliosis
w/ Elise Miller
August 4 - 8 , 2008
12:30 - 4:30 | Studio I
teachers: $550 members | $625 nonmembers
students: $450 for full session or $100 per day

Advanced Studies can obtain eighteen hours of credit by attending all sessions and writing a paper.

This 20 hour teacher training program will include information on scoliosis,
Elise’s approach to yoga for scoliosis, and a sequence of beginning and
intermediate poses designed to reduce pain and create better postural alignment
of the body.

Teachers will have an opportunity to learn and identify the more common
patterns of scoliosis in students with scoliosis. Elise will also demonstrate how
to adapt the yoga asanas for scoliosis and how to use props and adjust students
with scoliosis. In addition, well renowned chiropractor Steven Katz, will present
the anatomy of a scoliosis spine. The physical and psychological causes and
effects of scoliosis will be presented as well.

Students of all levels are also welcome to attend, and teachers attending are
invited to bring their students. This will be a great opportunity to learn how to
apply yoga to a student’s particular scoliosis.

To become a Yoga for Scoliosis Trainer, it is necessary to attend all class sessions
during the week, submit a paper which will be assigned in the workshop and
submit two case studies within 3 months of completing the workshop. There is
an additional fee upon submission.