Mar
26
2:30 PM14:30
Adaptive Yoga, Yoga, Breathing, Functional Movement, Somatic Movement

Finding YOUR Breath: A Somatic Breathing Exploration

Your breathing is a lot like your fingerprint; it's uniquely yours. In this workshop students will explore how spinal movement affects our breathing, why certain breath reactions occur and how to get out of our own way and allow our natural breath to be dynamic and sustaining. If exploring your body without the need to get it "right" speaks to you, please consider this workshop.

What to wear/bring:

  • Comfortable clothes

  • Water

  • Notebook if you'd like

  • Open mind ;-)

Investment: $50 Early Bird Pricing till 3/19; $60

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Jul
15
to Jul 17

The Principles of Adaptive Yoga

The Principles of Adaptive Yoga

*Come as a curious student or this module counts towards your Center for Integrative Yoga Studies 300hr certification or Yoga Alliance accredited CEU's.*

Meets:

Friday: 5:30p - 9:00p

Saturday: 9:00a - 6:30p

Sunday: 8:30a - 4:30p

 

Learn how to offer your students grounding, spinal awareness, strength building, and ease in the body and breath in this Adaptive Yoga workshop with Carey Sims.

 

“When adapting postural yoga techniques, teachers often get stuck on how to modify this or that shape. My philosophy is if we move in the right ways, the shapes will appear. I am interested in bringing peoples’ awareness to their breath and experience and focusing on functional movements they can use in their daily lives. To me, that is much more useful than mastering some arbitrary shape.”

 

What to expect:

  • Adaptive Yoga practices led by Carey each day

  • Explore ways to adapt functional movement and breathwork to make them accessible

  • Embrace creative ways to make movements and sequences fun

  • Explore ways to adapt your teaching cues to make them more direct and inclusive

  • Deconstruct asanas and discover ways to think about postural modifications

  • Discuss some common contraindications/considerations for Seniors and Adaptive students

  • Learn from and share with your peers through case studies and small group teaching

 

Due to this training being held online and the material being covered, there are required and suggested props needed as outlined below.

Required Props:

  • 2 blocks

  • 1 blanket

  • 1 yoga strap OR 5 ft *Thera band (*recommended)

  • 1 chair (folding or other, one that allows the feet to touch the ground)

Suggested Props:

  • Bolster(s)

  • Sand bags OR weighted blanket

 

For students not in The Center for Integrative Yoga Studies program, this workshop provides 18 Yoga Alliance accredited CEUs

 

Investment: Early Bird $375 (30 days prior to start); Full Price $425

Working towards your 300hr certification? We have an option to pay in full and receive a discount. Learn more on our website: https://www.nodayoga.com/yoga-trainings

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Nov
7
to Nov 14
Chair Yoga, Adaptive Yoga

The Principles of Adaptive Yoga

The Principles of Adaptive Yoga (Two online weekend modules)

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*This workshop counts towards the Center for Integrative Yoga Studies 300 Hour Advanced Therapeutic Yoga Teacher Training Certification, OR join us as a curious student looking to advance your practice!

Meets 11/7-11/8 AND 11/14-11/15

Saturdays AND Sundays: 9:00a - 2:00p

Learn how to offer your students grounding, spinal awareness, strength building, and ease in the body and breath in this Adaptive Yoga workshop with Carey Sims.

“When adapting postural yoga techniques, teachers often get stuck on how to modify this or that shape. My philosophy is if we move in the right ways, the shapes will appear. I am interested in bringing peoples’ awareness to their breath and experience and focusing on functional movements they can use in their daily lives. To me, that is much more useful than mastering some arbitrary shape.”

What to expect:

  • Adaptive Yoga practices led by Carey each day

  • Explore ways to adapt functional movement and breath work to make them accessible

  • Embrace creative ways to make movements and sequences fun

  • Explore ways to adapt your teaching cues to make them more direct and inclusive

  • Deconstruct asanas and discover ways to think about postural modifications

  • Discuss some common contraindications/considerations for Seniors and Adaptive students

  • Learn from and share with your peers through case studies and small group teaching 

For students not in The Center for Integrative Yoga Studies program, this workshop provides 18 Yoga Alliance accredited CEUs

Your Investment:

Early Bird Pricing offered through October 26, 2020: $375

October 27 - November 6, 2020: $425

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Working towards your 300 hour certification? We have an option to pay in full and receive a discount. For more program details (Terms & Conditions, Cancellations & Refunds, Certification Requirements, etc.) visit our website:https://nodayoga.com/300hr!

Meet Your Teacher:

Carey Sims E-RYT500, NASM-CPT lives in Charlotte, NC. His mission is to help students explore their bodies and breath in an accepting and non-judgmental way. He teaches “Gentle Back Care” at NoDa Yoga and offers Chair/Adaptive Yoga classes at various senior living centers and gyms in the Charlotte area. Carey has studied extensively with Adaptive Yoga pioneer Matthew Sanford of Mind Body Solutions and Leslie Kaminoff of The Breathing Project. He is an Accessible Yoga Ambassador, a Love Your Brain Ambassador and leads continuing education workshops on Chair Yoga and Adaptive Yoga. Carey holds degrees in Psychology from Winthrop University and Religious Studies from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte teaches modules on Yoga History and Ethics for several 200Hr Yoga Teacher Trainings.

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Oct
9
to Oct 11
Adaptive Yoga, yoga

Accessible Yoga Confrence Online

Carey is leading a practice session at this year’s AYC Online entitled “Moving with Compassion”

When inquiry and compassion are the foundations of our practice, the outcome of a shape or movement is not as important as what the technique reveals about our mind body relationship. My hope is for you to connect to more of yourself and the spaces around you in this practice session. I am not dogmatic about my personal practice and this will be reflected in my teaching methods. This practice is a combination of asana, gentle breath work, and mindful movement. As we put our bodies in different positions and move with intention, I will encourage you to become curious about the sensations and spaces that your body and breath are uncovering. Where is the resistance or relief? Where is the ease or discomfort? What places are off limits? What new places can be discovered? I simply wish to be the compass to your exploration and safely lead you to places of possibility. You decide what, if anything, you wish to investigate.

Check out the contributors and schedule here

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Chair Yoga - A Workshop for Teachers
Feb
29
to Mar 1
Chair Yoga

Chair Yoga - A Workshop for Teachers

Chair Yoga - A Workshop for Teachers


It is often challenging to find safe and grounded practices for students with mobility or balance issues. In a traditional postural yoga class, the typical starting point is standing, kneeling, or lying on a mat on the floor, but these positions are not always accessible for many potential yoga students. Chair Yoga utilizes the same mind-body principles as mat practice, but from the safety of a chair. Learn how to offer your students grounding, spinal awareness, strength building, and ease in the body and breath through Chair Yoga in this workshop with Carey Sims.


“When adapting yoga classes to a chair, teachers often get stuck on how to modify this or that shape.  My philosophy is if we move in the right ways, the shapes will appear. I am interested in bringing peoples’ awareness to their breath and experience and focusing on functional movements they can use in their daily lives.  To me, that is much more useful than mastering some arbitrary shape.”

What to expect:

 - Chair Yoga practices led by Carey each day

- Explore ways to adapt functional movement and breathwork to make them accessible

- Embrace creative ways to make movements and sequences fun

- Discuss theming, cueing, and ways to approach your Chair Yoga classes

- Deconstruct asanas and discover ways to think about postural modifications

- Discuss some common contraindications for Seniors and Adaptive students

- Learn from and share with your peers through small group teaching

- A handout and website link with sequencing ideas, an overview of discussion points, and visual references for postures

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This workshop provides 12 Yoga Alliance accredited CEUs 

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Chair Yoga Workshop
Jun
29
to Jun 30
yoga

Chair Yoga Workshop

Workshop Description:
It is often challenging to find safe and grounded practices for students with mobility or balance issues. In a traditional asana class, our typical starting point is standing, kneeling, or lying on a mat on the floor. Chair Yoga utilizes the same mind-body principles as mat practice but from the safety of a chair. Join Carey Sims for a workshop exploring the benefits of Chair Yoga. Learn how to offer your students grounding, spinal awareness, strength building, and ease in the body and breath through Chair Yoga.

What to expect:
- Practice Chair Yoga each day
- Explore ways to adapt asanas and breath work to make them accessible
- Discuss theming, cueing, and ways to approach your Chair Yoga classes
- Deconstruct asanas and discover how to get creative with postural modifications
- Learn from and share with your peers through small group teaching
- A handout with sequencing ideas, an overview of discussion points, and visual references for postures

Workshop Details:
-This workshop provides 12 Yoga Alliance accredited CEUs
-Saturday and Sunday 9-4
-Open to the public
-$229.00

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Accessible Yoga Conference – St Louis 2019
May
31
to Jun 2

Accessible Yoga Conference – St Louis 2019

Join us for the

Accessible Yoga Conference – St. Louis

We will come together to connect, share and support yoga teachers that want to expand access to Yoga teachings for people with disabilities, chronic illness, seniors or others who may not feel comfortable in a regular yoga class.

May 31-June 2, 2019

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Where:
St. Louis University – Il Monastero
3050 Olive St, St. Louis, MO 63103

Who:
Presenters include Michelle Johnson, Amber Karnes, Jivana Heyman, Jules Mitchell, Susanna Barkataki, Kelley Carboni-Woods, Molly Lannon Kenny, Kathy Randolph, Lori Pierce, Carey Sims, Dara Brown, Camella Nair, Ryan McGraw and many more!

See the full list of presenters here

Schedule:
Friday, May 31st- 4:00-8:00pm
Saturday, June 1st- 7:30am-5:30pm
Sunday, June 2nd- 7:30am-2:30pm

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Exploring the Principles of Adaptive Yoga
Apr
27
1:00 PM13:00

Exploring the Principles of Adaptive Yoga

Exploring the Principles of Adaptive Yoga
with Carey Sims & Sarah Henderson

“The principles of yoga don’t discriminate. Yoga postures do.” Matthew Sanford

Join Mind Body Solutions trained yoga teachers Sarah Henderson and Carey Sims for an exploration into the universal principles of yogasana—grounding, rhythm, balance, and expansion.

These principles are applicable to all bodies, those with and without disability or disabling conditions related to illness, injury, or the aging process. Join us to deepen your own personal practice and your students’ by unpacking the potential of these core sensations.

All proceeds benefit the Adaptive Yoga Program at Mind Body Solutions, St. Louis Park, MN, a non-profit founded by Matthew Sanford with a mission to serve people living with trauma, loss, and disability.

This workshop is for students and yoga teachers alike.

Investment: $35 || $45 to obtain Yoga Alliance accredited CEUs

Mind Body Solutions transforms lives of people living all over the world by opening yoga to everybody. Through their work, and the teachers they train to teach adaptive yoga, MBS shares the gift of yoga with US Military Vets, people with disability, survivors of sexual assault, the elderly and people living with chronic pain.

Meet Your Instructors:

Sarah Henderson, RYT, OYI, believes the yoga mat is a good place to explore what it means to be fully human. She began teaching yoga in 2010 and has over 1500 hours of yoga training, including specializations in adaptive and accessible yoga, kids yoga, yoga for larger bodies, chair yoga, gentle yoga, therapeutic applications of yoga, and yoga for trauma. Known for her soothing voice and encouraging meditations, Sarah teaches a slow style designed to allow inner reflection while experiencing outer engagement. Find her on Instagram @sarahhendersonyoga and Facebook at Sarah Henderson Yoga.

Carey Sims RYT500, E-RYT200, YACEP, teaches at NoDa Yoga and offers Chair Yoga at various senior living centers in the Charlotte area. He is a student of Adaptive Yoga pioneer Matthew Sanford at Mind Body Solutions. Carey’s mission is to use Yoga to help students explore their bodies in an accepting and non-judgmental way.


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Chair Yoga - A Workshop for Teachers
Jan
26
to Jan 27

Chair Yoga - A Workshop for Teachers

Located at NoDa Yoga Annex

Jan. 26 8:30AM-4:30 PM & Jan. 27 9AM-12:30PM

It is often challenging to find safe and grounded practices for students with mobility or balance issues. In a traditional asana class, our typical starting point is standing, kneeling, or lying on a mat on the floor. Chair Yoga utilizes the same mind-body principles as mat practice but from the safety of a chair. Join Carey Sims for a workshop exploring the benefits of Chair Yoga. Learn how to offer your students grounding, spinal awareness, strength building, and ease in the body and breath through Chair Yoga.

What to expect:

  • Practice Chair Yoga each day

  • Explore ways to adapt asanas and breath work to make them accessible

  • Discuss theming, cueing, and ways to approach your Chair Yoga classes

  • Deconstruct asanas and discover how to get creative with postural modifications

  • Learn from and share with your peers through small group teaching

  • A handout with sequencing ideas, an overview of discussion points, and visual references for postures

This workshop provides 10 Yoga Alliance accredited CEUs

Investment: $125 Early Bird Pricing through 1/15, after which will be $150.

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The Many Faces of the Bhagavad-Gita
Dec
2
9:30 AM09:30

The Many Faces of the Bhagavad-Gita

**Please note this workshop is held at our NoDa Yoga Annex. Check your email following registration for more information.**

Date: Sunday, December 2

Time: 9:30AM-4:30PM (Lunch 12-1)

The Bhagavad-Gita (“Song of God”) is a two-thousand year old Indian classic that has been translated into 50+ languages. In this workshop, our discussion of the text will be framed by several questions:

  • What is the eternal message(s) of the Bhagavad-Gita?

  • Does it inspire devotion to God and self-realization?

  • Or castism/racism and sexism?

  • Or holy war and divinely sanctioned violence?

  • Is there a single, correct interpretation?

Join Marcy Goldstein, Ph.D. and Carey Sims E-RYT for a fascinating exploration of the many faces of the Bhagavad-Gita. Includes analysis of the text and art, chanting, and a Bhagavad-Gita-inspired asana practice.

No prior knowledge is required, but for a richer experience, read a translation (or two) in advance.

Please bring a journal, yoga mat, and open mind/heart.

This workshop provides 6 Hours of CEUs from Yoga Alliance.

Suggested translations: Bhagavad Gita: The Beloved Lord's Secret Love Song by Graham Schweig, The Bhagavad-Gita: Krishna's Counsel in Time of War by Barbara Stoler-Miller, The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi, Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation by Stephen Mitchell

Investment: $110 OR $99 Early Bird Pricing (Ends 11/25) 

Meet your Instructors:

Marcy Braverman Goldstein, Ph.D. received doctoral training at University of California, Santa Barbara and in India and has taught at UC Riverside, Davidson College, UNC Charlotte, and the Center for Peace and Social Justice at Queens University of Charlotte. As founder of Sanskrit Revolution, she teaches Sanskrit, yogic speech, history, and philosophy at yoga studios and festivals nationally. Drawing upon her academic background and yoga practice, Marcy creates classes that illuminate the language and culture of yoga, deepen people’s knowledge, and inspire personal growth. www.sanskritrevolution.com

Carey Sims RYT500, E-RYT200 has degrees in Psychology from Winthrop University and Religious Studies from UNC Charlotte. He teaches at NoDa Yoga and offers Chair Yoga at various senior living centers in the Charlotte area. He is a student of Adaptive Yoga pioneer Matthew Sanford at Mind Body Solutions. Carey’s mission is to use Yoga to help students explore their bodies in an accepting and non-judgmental way.

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