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Are you interested in
developing your awareness of yourself as a teacher?
deepening your understanding of anatomy?
expanding your observation and teaching skills?
exploring a variety of perspectives to find your own approach to teaching yoga?
300 hour
embodied asana®
advanced teacher training program
led by Amy Matthews,
with Jill Satterfield and Leslie Kaminoff
curriculum:
Embodied Anatomy & Kinesiology:
Understanding asana from the perspective of various body systems & tissues
Integrating principles of anatomy & kinesiology in teaching asana & vinyasa
Using principles of anatomy & kinesiology to explore and adapt asana
Asana Analysis:
Developing observation skills in relationship to movement and stillness
Analyzing the effects of different choices in language, focus and orientation
Exploring different approaches to asana
Teaching Skills:
Finding precision and flexibility in your language
Becoming mindful of your own preferences and patterns
Valuing different approaches to transmission and learning
Distilling your values and principles of teaching
program components:
The full certification program will have four parts, and homework - if all parts are completed, there will be a total of 300 contact hours. These parts can be completed over a two-year period - it is not necessary to do them at the same time as the weekend workshops.
Part 1: Weekend workshops: 9 workshops x 15 hours per workshop= 135 hours
Each of these 15 hour weekend workshops will have a particular point of focus based in anatomy and kinesiology. In each weekend there will be advanced A&K classes, asana practice, structured explorations, teaching practice and feedback.
Amy Matthews will be the lead teacher for the majority of the workshops, with guest classes from Jill Satterfield and Leslie Kaminoff.
(Friday 6:30 - 8:30 pm, Saturday 11 am - 6 pm, Sunday 10 am - 6 pm.)
Part 2: Complementary training:80 hours
An additional 80 hours of training with senior Breathing Project teachers Leslie Kaminoff and Jill Satterfield is required. Classes can be taken in Leslie's Advanced Studies course at the Breathing Project, or in Jill's Vajra Yoga workshops. (Graduates of Leslie or Jill's program will receive credit towards a portion of these hours.)
Part 3: Assisting in asana class:55 hours
Assisting Amy, Jill and/or Leslie in asana classes will be an opportunity to observe different teaching choices and to witness the effects of those choices in class.
Part 4: Spectrum classes (variety of styles and teachers):30 hours
With the goal of understanding the value of a variety of approaches to teaching yoga, an additional 30 hours of asana class are required. These classes should be in at least 10 different approaches - possible choices include: Anusara, Astanga, Bikram, Dharma Mittra, Integral, Iyengar, Jivamukti, Kundalini, Sivananda, Viniyoga, Yin Yoga.
(The cost of these classes is not included in the program fees.)
Homework - two parts:
Book discussion: The final part of each month's workshop will be a discussion of a book from the reading list. Three or four students will lead the discussion of the book, and its relationship to yoga.
Spectrum class reviews: After attending the 'spectrum classes', program participants will be asked to write a review of the classes, focusing on the strengths of each style or tradition, and how each supports an embodied experience of asana.
schedule of workshops:
Sept 5-7, 2008 Opening: Embodied Mind
How do we see? How do we describe and name what we see?
How do our own preconceptions shape what we see?
Oct 24-26, 2008 Exploring the Container: Bones & Ligaments
How does the Skeletal System help us find clear pathways of support, and a sense of resilience and relationship between our limbs and spine?
How do we respond to feedback from our inner environment? The outer environment? How do we modulate between them?
Jan 23-25, 2009 Embodied Breathing: Breath as Shape Change
How is breath created through the changing relationships of space within us? How does changing our breath change our experience?
Feb 20-22, 2009 Starting from the Contents: Digestive System
What happens when we initiate movement from the organs? How do the digestive organs help us take in, integrate and release experiences?
Mar 20-22, 2009 Starting from the Contents: Lungs & Heart
What does the flow of blood through the tissues of our body give us? How do the heart and lungs give us fluid support for movement?
April 24-26, 2009 Starting from the Contents: Kidney & Bladder
How do we support and ground ourselves? How do we support the organs that provide our resources?
May 15-17, 2009 Shifting Consciousness: Embodied Breathing pt 2
What is cellular consciousness? How do the rhythms of breath in the lungs and the cells support movement on every level?
June 12-14, 2009 Embodied Mind pt 2: Transitions
How do you communicate your experiences? What has value to you? What has value for your students?
weekend schedule:
Friday: 6:30 - 8:30 pm, Saturday: 11am - 6 pm, Sunday: 10 am - 6 pm
prices:
Full 300-hour program: $4,800
(Graduates of Leslie Kaminoff's Advanced Study program receive a $1,400 discount,
and graduates of Jill Satterfield's Vajra Yoga TT receive a $400 discount.)
Individual workshops:
Single workshop: $400
3 or more workshops: $375 each
all 9 weekends: $3,000 (333.33 ea)
PAYMENT PLANS & WORK STUDY are available.
program pre-requisites:
Participants must have completed a 200 hr Yoga Teacher Training, or equivalent training in another discipline. This program is intended for people who have had basic training in anatomy and kinesiology, and have begun to teach.
application:
Please send an email to Amy Matthews at spiralamy@gmail.com, with the following information:
Name
Address
Phone number
Email address
Previous yoga training/experience
What do you consider your strengths as a teacher?
Where would you like to have more choices in your teaching?
Your choice of payment plan: Payment in full, three parts, monthly?
YOGA ALLIANCE:
This program is not certified through Yoga Alliance, though the paperwork will be made available for individuals to submit individual applications for registration.
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about Amy Matthews:
Amy has been teaching somatically oriented classes and workshops in dance and yoga since 1994. She is a Certified Laban Movement Analyst and a Body-Mind Centering® Practitioner. Originally a dancer and choreographer, Amy has been on the faculty of the Year-Long Certificate Program at the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies since 2000, and teaches embodied asana® classes and workshops at the Breathing Project, Movements Afoot, Bodycraft Pilates and the Society for Martial Arts Instruction in NYC. Amy is co-teaching the BMC & Yoga: Embodied Developmental Movement & Yoga course in NYC, and teaching with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen in the BMC & Yoga: Embodied Anatomy & Yoga course in Berkeley, CA.
Amy works privately as a movement therapist, integrating Laban Movement Analysis, Bartenieff Fundamentals, yoga and Body Mind Centering®. Amy's embodied asana® workshops and anatomy classes are a part of the Breathing Project's Advanced Studies Program, and she has taught in training programs in Philadelphia, California, Toronto, Tokyo and Nebraska. Amy recently collaborated with Leslie Kaminoff on the book Yoga Anatomy, published by Human Kinetics.
Certified as a yoga teacher by Heart of Yoga and Yoga Union and as a Motherhand Shiatsu practitioner, she is registered with ISMETA as a Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator, with IAYT (International Association of Yoga Therapists) and with Yoga Alliance as an E-500 RYT (Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher). Amy has participated in Gil Hedley's dissection workshops, and has studied kinesthetic anatomy with Irene Dowd and BMC™ with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. She has studied yoga with Mark Whitwell, Alison West, Genny Kapular and Kevin Gardiner, and karate with Sensei Michelle Gay.
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Questions? Comments? Requests?
Check out the website at www.embodiedasana.com,
email spiralamy@gmail.com, or call 917 843 9537.
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new & ongoingembodied asanaclasses:new class!
FEET ARE
FUNDAMENTAL
wednesdays,
10:30 - 11:30 am
Oct 1 - Nov 12
In this six week course we will begin with the basic anatomy of the foot, and then explore the movement patterns that support ease, comfort and efficiency in our practices.
(no class Oct 22)
@ The Society for
Martial Arts Instruction
www.sfmai.com
YOGA FUNDAMENTALS
tues & thurs,
7:45 - 9 am
begins Aug 21
@ The Breathing Project
www.breathingproject.org
new class!
ASANA CLASS
tuesdays,
6:30 - 8 pm
begins Sept 16
This evening asana class will be taught by the three
senior Breathing Project teachers: Leslie Kaminoff, Amy Matthews and
Jill Satterfield - rotating week to week between teachers.
@ The Breathing Project
www.breathingproject.org
BMC & YOGA CLASS
wednesdays,
12 noon
begins Sept 24
@ Movements Afoot
www.movementsafoot.com
EMBODIED ANATOMY & KINESIOLOGY
fridays,
1 - 3:30 pm
begins Sept 26
@ The Breathing Project
www.breathingproject.org
new class!
A&K ASANA
fridays,
3:45 - 5 pm
begins Sept 26
In response to requests, this class will be oriented around the material taught in the Embodied A&K class that day. You can come to the ASANA class without attending the A&K class beforehand.
@ The Breathing Project
www.breathingproject.org
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. . . and if you are planning for the long term:
in October 2009, the School for Body-Mind Centering will begin offering the Embodied Anatomy & Yoga program in NYC, co-taught by
Amy Matthews and Roxlyn Moret.
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