The trainings offered through the Always-At-Aum Yoga School are open for anyone to attend and qualify as CE’s with the Yoga Alliance. For more information or to register please contact Robin at robin.appel@always-at-aum.com or call (631)235-5307.
200hr YTT
Facilitate By:
Robin Appel Maida, Regina McGowan, Nick and Audreyrose Viscovich, Jude Levy, Jenna DiPaolo, Nicole Morris, and Donna Rovegno
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300hr YTT
Facilitated By:
Robin Appel Maida, Regina McGowan, Nick Viscovich, Jude Levy, Lisa King, Nicole Stumpf, Cathleen Deutscher, and Chris Olstrom
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Aerial YTT
Facilitate By:
Cassandra Severns
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Ashtanga YTT
Facilitated By:
Robin Appel Maida
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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
Barre TT
Facilitated By:
Cathleen Deutscher
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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.
Crystal Healing
Facilitated By:
Jude Levy
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Crystal healing is about so much more than chakras and intention setting! Until you have successfully worked with crystals to manifest your dream goals, release trauma, or direct energy around a person’s body for healing, then you have not fully discovered their power! Journey far beyond the crystal healing skills and into a world of spiritual awakening and energetic empowerment. You’ll love being guided on an immersive journey into the science, spirituality, energetics and metaphysics of crystals.
Learn how to skillfully use crystals for healing while experiencing a profound inner shift This newly added training is a fully-immersive online crystal healing certification. At the end of this course you will feel confident as a professional crystal healing practitioner.
Join us in this training and learn:
- History and philosophy of crystal healing
- Crystal healing formations & what they’re best used for.
- How to properly cleanse, program and store crystals.
- Discover popular crystals and their healing benefits.
- How to choose the right crystals to heal with.
- How to support and balance the Chakra centers in crystal healing.
- Discover effective crystal healing methods.
- Learn all the aspects of building your own Crystal Healing business as a practitioner.
- Real-life crystal healing techniques to relieve stress & anxiety and promote cleansing, self-love & more
- Explore your spirituality, improve your intuition and learn how to sense & understand energy
Ancestral Healing
Facilitated By:
Chris Olstrom
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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
Kids YTT
Facilitated By:
Lisa King
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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
Nidra YTT
Facilitated By:
Jude Levy
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Yoga Nidra, a.k.a. the psychic sleep, is an ancient meditation technique. When we practice Yoga Nidra, our brain waves slow down so that we can connect the space between our conscious and subconscious mind. Tapping into that space gives us the tools we need to not only overcome obstacles; mental, spiritual, and physical, but it brings us closer to the understanding of our true nature.
Join us in this training and learn:
- History and Philosophy or Yoga Nidra
- States of Consciousness
- Types of Sleep
- Creating a Successful Yoga Nidra Practice
- Leading Your Nidra Effectively
Prenatal YTT
Facilitated By:
Lisa King
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As expectant mothers, fear, anxiety, excitement, joy and instability are just some of the emotions that can arise daily. During our Prenatal YTT, students learn to support mothers-to-be on their journey both physically and emotionally, all while creating a safe nurturing space of community.
- learn techniques that support the changing pregnant body comfortably
- create a community of like minded moms-to-be
- learn safe adjustments, modification, and variations of yoga poses that help expectant mothers feel healthy
- learn to facilitate a group of expectant mothers with different needs and contraindications
Restorative YTT
Facilitated By:
Robin Appel Maida, Nick Viscovich, and Jude Levy
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Join us in this medicinal training and learn:
- The basics of restorative yoga
- Benefits of restorative yoga
- Physiology of relaxation
- How to effectively and efficiently use props and poses
- Sequencing to incorporate restorative poses in a vinyasa class
- How to teach a full restorative practice
- The importance and juiciness of savasana
This training is appropriate for:
- Yoga Instructors
- Mental Health Professionals
- Classroom Educators
- Parents
- Anyone and everyone with a pulse!
Sound Healing TT
Facilitated By:
Robin Appel Maida and Cassandra Severns
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SUP YTT
Facilitated By:
Robin and Phil Maida
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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.
Yin YTT
Facilitated By:
Jude Levy
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Join us in this training and learn:
- What is Yin Yoga
- History of YIn
- Benefits of Yin
- Principles of Yin
- How to Sequence Yin
- Difference between Restorative and Yin
- Intro to Meridiens
- Principles in sequencing and teaching Yin