Doug Keller
Health & Emotion Yoga Teacher Training & Workshop with Doug Keller - May 16-17th
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Join Doug Keller ERYT 500 in an exploration of Health & Emotions in Yoga Practice
Explore the relationship between your emotions, your body and your yoga in this thoughtful series of sessions exploring the role of yoga as a mindful lifestyle and therapuetic modality.
Enjoy contemplation, experience and disucssion on the practices of pranayama, meditation and asana with a focus on Yoga as Therapy and the Emotional Diet.
Doug invites you to Awaken your own Practice in a series of focused yoga sessions. Each session offers options for all level of students to open your practice more deeply and gain tools for therapeutic answers to physical limitations and injuries through the use of proper alignment yoga therapy techniques.
Advanced Therapuetics for Lower & Upper Body Issues The body has a few basic postural patterns that are showing up with greater frequency in our contemporary world. These are easily recognizable as well as the imbalances they typically create. There are well defined sets of exercises and asanas that directly address these imbalances. Beginning with simple principles for 'seeing' and evaluating strutural problems and their casues against the framework of our somatic sturas. We will work with these series of stretches, releases and strengthening exercises designed to resolve the problem. We will explore yoga as therapy reviewing some of Dougs' teaching in Oct and take it to the next level, looking at more advanced therapies and applications. These sessions will be useful to all yoga students, teachers, bodyworkers, and anyone interested in the wellness of their own body and how to find resloution to these imbalances. |
Friday 16th 9am-12pm $55
An In-depth look at specific muscles of the sutras in the lower body; their function, therapuetic problems in the sacral, hip and lower back areas. The training is 'advanced' in the sense of a greater depth of study in the anatomy and function of key muscles, the therapeutic problems in which they play a role, assesment, and specific sretches or modifications of asanas for targeting these muscles.
Students with any lover body injury or limitation will benefit from this training as well as instructors of yoga, pilates, personal trainers and bodyworkers.
Friday 16th 2 - 4:30pm $38
An intermediate to advanced hatha yoga practice completing with meditation. The theme of Rasa Sadhana or watching your emotions through the practices of yoga, will bring anew dimension of mindfulness to your asana practice.
Appropriate for students with a minimum of a year steady practice who want to explore how to open more fully in their practice of self awareness and enjoy a fun and challenging asana practice! Includes Urdhva Dhanurasana and inversions.
Friday 16th 6:30-9pm $38
Rasa Sadhana - Watching your Emotional Diet
The role of the Rasas, or emotions in Yoga and yoga therapy. The nature of emotion, its relationship to your own individual constitution, recognizing and understanding the factores that influence your ematioinal state and how you can incorporate this awareness into your practice for a deeper and more fulfilling experience of yoga.
Therapuetic issues related to the emotions will be touched upon. We will end with some stretches and a meditation practice.
Sat. 17th 9am - 12pm $55
An in-depth look at specific muscles of the sutras of the upper body and shoulders; their function, therapuetic problems in which they play a role, assessment, and specific stretches or modifications of asanas for targeting these muscles. Special in-depth focus on shoulder assessment and problems related to the rotator cuffs. Specific stretches for the houlders as well as applications in the full range of asanas.
The session has proven to be helpful to all levels of students with many types of neck and shoulder issues! Appropriate for instructors of yoga, pilates, personal trainers and bodyworkers of all types.
Sat 17th 2-4:30pm $38
Incorporating Rasa Sadhana into your practice
Incorporating the principles of Rasa Sadhana into your pranayama and mediation practice will be explored by means of visualization and other mediation techniques. We will cover a number of intermediate pranayama techniques including Swara Yoga and identify effective means of practicing Dharana; the art of focusing the mind to more easily move into states of mediation.
Full weekend discount $200 Individual Sessions as shown above, register for any combination, |
NOTE:
A minimum of 25 students are needed to run the workshop. Please pass this onto anyone you think may be interested so we all can benefit from the teachings of such a highly skilled instructor.
Doug Keller
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Doug Keller is an ERYT 500 and is registered with the international Association of Yoga Therapists.
His home base is The Health Advantage Yoga Center in Herndon Virginia where he teaches upper level classes and co-teaches a year long teacher training program.
Doug is author of numerous books and cds covering all aspecsts of the practice of yoga and is well known for his Yoga As Therapy manual, an extensive look at applying the structural alignment principles, asanas, exercises and the energetics of yoga to healing the physical body.
Registration Information
Friday May 16th 9am-12pm $55
Friday May 16th 2pm- 4:30pm $38
Friday May 16th 6:30-9pm $38
Sat May 17th 9am - 12pm $55
Sat May 17th 2-4:30pm $38
Teacher Training only $100 - Friday & Sat 9am-12pm sessions
Yoga Workshop only $100 - Friday 2-4:30pm, 6:30-9pm & Sat 2-4:30pm
Full Weekend discount $200
Location: Earth Heart Yoga
653 Main St. Laconia NH 03246
Register – call EHY at 603-524-1515
Register by Email or Printable Registration Form below
Mail to: Earth Heart Farm 532 Union Road Belmont NH 03220
Checks, Cash & Credit Card accepted
Refund Policy – payment is refundable in full less $25 processing fee up to 7 days prior to workshop.
With less than 7 days notice payment is non-refundable.
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