Ashtanga yoga is the vinyasa process as created by K. Pattabhi Jois. The Primary Series is called yoga chikitas, meaning yoga therapy, because of the cleaning and toning effect it has on the body and mind. Come to learn more about this eight-limb process of traditional yoga using method of synchronizing the breath with a progressive series of 41 asanas, and the use of drishti. These 3 elements being used together form the trinity of yoga in Sanskit called the tristhana.

Items to be covered in the training:

• Opening Mantra
• History
• Sun salutations Surya Namaskar A & B
• Standing Series
• Seating Series
• Closing Series
• Back-bending Series
• Overview of Primary Series
• Asana Adjustments
• Transitions
• Cueing of Ujjayi Breathe
• Timing to complete in 1 hour 30 minutes

This training empowers students to:

• Deliver a results-driven, challenging barre class for any level
• Sharpen your skills for cuing, correcting, and giving adjustments
• Embrace your strengths and passions to design a class that is authentically to keep your classes motivating and fun
• Experience each exercise through a new perspective with an overview of the amazing fascial system.
• Transform the health and lives of your students and yourself through the understanding of the human energy system.
• Become more grounded and stand in the knowing you are of service to each student in your class
• Deepen your own barre or movement practice, even if you don’t desire to teach.

Join us in this medicinal training and learn:

• The history of hot yoga
• Benefits of hot yoga
• Hot 26 sequence
• Hot vinyasa sequencing
• How to modify and intensify
• Injury management and prevention
• Alignment cues and physical adjustments
• Pranayama
• Timing
• Proper climate control
• Guidelines for pregnancy

During the course of this training you will:

• Learn fun and effective ways to teach yoga to children at home, in school or a yoga studio
• Develop more confidence in holding space while setting healthy boundaries to enable mindfulness and supportive learning
• Engage in appropriate asana and lesson plans
• Participate in role-playing for different ages
• Become connected to a yoga community and be empowered to take the next step in your journey

This training is appropriate for:

• Anyone wanting to bring yoga to children
• Yoga Instructors (no prior kids required)
• Physical Education Instructors who want to incorporate yoga into their curriculum
• Volunteers who go into the schools with existing yoga instructors and “mirror” poses for students or learn some tools for their own children
• Teachers who want yoga tools to relax, focus and/or energize children in the classroom

Stand Up Paddleboard (SUP) Yoga has taken the community by storm! It combines traditional poses with the fun twist of executing them while balancing on a floating paddleboard.  SUP yoga adds an exciting new and challenging experience that isn’t available in an indoor yoga studio.  Enjoy the sun on your face and match the rhythm of your breath with the ebb and flow of the water. Join Robin and Phil for some fun in the sun!!

In this training participants learn:

• paddleboard technique, handling and maneuvering for the SUP beginner
• basic water safety, seamanship and rescue procedures to ensure the safety of all
• how to develop and modify sequences that are SUP yoga friendly
• industry insight on the SUP yoga business including how to market and purchase products and equipment

Training Requirements:

• Participants must be able to swim and have a 200hr YTT certificate.
• Yoga instructors receive 7 CE’s with the Yoga Alliance
• In the case of inclement weather the training is pushed back in the day or moved to Sunday. Safety must come first!
• Participants are responsible for supplying their own board or they be rented from the launch sites.

Learn How to Read Tarot

An Immersive Online Series

Become a certified tarot reader and learn tarot in a clear & manageable way while sharpening your intuition. This 4-part virtual series is being held on Wednesday from 7p-9p on March 8, 15, 22, & 29.

Items to be covered in the training:

• Investment: $450
• 300hr YTTs: 350

Venmo: @alwaysataum

Must have Rider-Waite Tarot deck.

This training is a celebration of life and an opportunity to reclaim vitality. Participants learn trauma sensitive yoga techniques to support them while moving through grief.

Welcome to the Ākāsá (uh-kuh-shuh) yoga class with the Always-At-Aum Yoga School. This class has been created as a safe place for survivors of any type of abuse or assault and for people who struggle or have struggled with any type of addiction or trauma to their body, mind, or spirit. The purpose of the class is to practice yoga together and to have any opportunity to share our reflections with one another while keeping the focus on ourselves. Through yoga, we yoke (join) our mind with our body to assist with healing empowering participants to live full lives.

Ākāśa is 1.5hrs consisting of a 45-minute yoga practice suitable for all levels and fitness levels, followed by the opportunity to share on a topic that was chosen by a qualified instructor at the beginning of the class.