Simon Park - 30hrs Training: Awakening The Flow: Essential Alignment, Sequencing, and Touch

30hrs Training with Simon Park (Yoga Alliance Approved)

Join Simon Park for a 4 day training in practicing essential skills for teaching Vinasa - “ Awakening the Flow: Essential Alignment, Sequencing, and Touch ". This course is designed to empower yoga instructors and practitioners with the knowledge and tools necessary to enhance your practice and teaching. This comprehensive training focuses on the critical elements of alignment, the art of creative sequencing, and the therapeutic use of touch, ensuring a well-rounded approach to yoga instruction and practice. 

Highlights:

A. Essential Alignment Elements

• Essential elements of physical and energetic alignment: supporting a practice that is dynamic, effective, and injury-free.
• Explore common alignment mistakes and learn effective adjustments: ensuring safety while enhancing the benefits of each pose.
• Dynamic and Static Alignment: Understand the differences between maintaining alignment in static postures versus dynamic movements within a flow. Learn how to guide students to find stability amidst motion. 
• Breath and Energy Flow: Learn techniques to enhance the flow of prana through the body, supporting vitality and emotional balance. This will empower you to help students cultivate awareness of their energy as they move.
• Understand Modern Poses: Learn the purpose, alignment and effective integration of unique modern poses such as "Wild Thing", "Dragon Squat", "Funky Peacock" and many more.
• Learn effective verbal and physical cues: assisting your students in achieving both optimal physical alignment and energetic balance.
• Incorporate dynamic vinyasa flows: emphasizing proper alignment while encouraging awareness of energetic sensations in the body.

B. Creative Sequencing

• Explore the foundational principles of creative vinyasa sequencing: focusing on how to weave together poses into a seamless flow that enhances both physical practice and a spiritual journey.
• Integrating Themes, Peak Poses, and Anatomy: Learn how to create sequences centered around specific themes, intentions, or anatomical focuses, ensuring that each session resonates with your students on multiple levels.
• Building a Narrative: Discover how to tell a story through your classes, guiding students on a journey that connects their mind, body, and breath. Understand how to create an energetic arc that engages students from start to finish.
• Mastering Transitions: Learn ways to connect poses creatively and fluidly. Discover how to incorporate dynamic movements that keep the energy alive and foster a sense of playfulness. 
• Employing Variations: Understand how to use variations to accommodate different skill levels within the same class, allowing all students to experience the flow while feeling challenged.
• Deep Dive into Pose Categories: Examine different categories of poses, including standing poses, forward bends, side bends, backbends, arm balances, and inversions. 
• Counterpose Integration: Develop strategies for integrating counterposes to maintain balance and harmony within your sequences. This will ensure that students leave feeling refreshed rather than fatigued.
• A Consistent + Unique Style: Learn techniques for crafting well-thought-out templates that bring continuity to your classes without the pressure of constantly inventing new sequences.
• Counterpose Integration: Develop strategies for integrating counterposes to maintain balance and harmony within your sequences. This will ensure that students leave feeling refreshed rather than fatigued.

C. The Therapeutic Approach to Touch

• Unlock the transformative power of touch in your teaching: with comprehensive training on hands-on assisting techniques.
• Discover the principles of therapeutic touch and its impact on your students' practice: you'll explore the role of consent and communication in establishing trust, using touch mindfully to promote healing, relaxation, and well-being.
• Learn to read bodies in still postures and in-motion: Intelligently and intuitively apply the correct set of instructions and assists for each individual student.
• Work in pairs to practice various assisting techniques: receiving constructive feedback to enhance your effectiveness and sensitivity as an instructor.
• Corrective Assists: Gently guiding students to enhance bone + joint alignment, muscular engagement and energy flow.. in key poses like Mountain Poses, Downward Facing Dog and Standing Postures.
• Supportive Assists: Providing stability in challenging poses, helping students feel secure—such as in Arm balances and Inversions. 
• Deepening Assists: Using touch to deepen the experience of poses without imposing, unlocking new layers of awareness and facilitating relaxation.

D.  Zen Thai Shiatsu 

Explore the benefits of incorporating Zen Thai Shiatsu into your yoga practice—a unique blend of Zen Shiatsu, traditional Thai massage, and osteopathic techniques that offers exceptional therapeutic value. Discover how this modality complements your teaching and enhances your students' experiences by promoting deep relaxation and healing.



Conclusion -  

By the end of the “ Awakening The Flow: Essential Alignment, Sequencing, and Touch ” training, you will possess a robust toolkit that ensures a safe, effective, and enriching yoga environment for both instructors and students. You will gain practical insights into alignment and sequencing strategies, master hands-on assisting techniques, and integrate therapeutic practices into your yoga teaching.Join us for this opportunity to deepen your knowledge, refine your skills, and cultivate a supportive atmosphere in your classes—helping your students on and off the yoga mat.Simon has 20+ years of training teachers internationally. His enthusiasm for sharing the art and practice of Yoga is boundless!Who Can Attend?This workshop is open for yoga instructors who have a foundational understanding of yoga practice and are looking to refine their teaching techniques. It is also available to practitioners who have an interest in deepening their practice by developing the techniques and perspective of a teacher. Whether you're a seasoned teacher or a dedicated practitioner, this training offers valuable insights that will elevate your yoga practice, instruction and enhance you and your students' experience.

Welcome!

Don’t miss this chance to immerse yourself in the essential skills of alignment, sequencing, and therapeutic touch. Join us for "Awakening the Flow: Essential Alignment, Sequencing, and Touch" and take the next step in your journey as a confident and effective yoga teacher. Together, we'll explore the depths of yoga to create transformative, meaningful experiences for yourself and others. Thank you for considering this immersive workshop to deepen your practice and teaching skills! We look forward to welcoming you.