Next Teacher Tune-up: Yoke Women's Retreat, Valle Crucis Conference Center in Banner Elk, North Carolina, Sept. 29-Oct. 2, 2024.  In addition to retreat (bring your friends), there will be breakout workshops for yoga teachers.  This retreat experience satisfies the in-person Teacher Tune-up for the 300-hr. certification.  If you are a part of the 300-hr. training & paying via monthly payment plan, you WILL need to register for retreat. Please reach out to Kristin for your 300-hr. YTT coupon code.

Cannot travel? No problem, we have an online Teacher Tune-up, self-paced course for those who are unable to make the in-person experience.

Who's the Teacher Tune-up for? Already certified yoga teachers looking for in-person training with amazing teacher community, or yoga teachers seeking Christ-centered perspective on teaching yoga.

What certificate will I receive?
30 hours of Yoga Alliance CEUS or credit towards your 300-hr. training.

Sample Schedule: Over the course of a few days, you will be immersed in Christ-centered, life-giving community and incredible workshops including:

• Teachers come enjoy daily practices, meditations, and workshops including: 6 hours of pre-recorded course content plus in-person workshops on Yin Yoga Teaching Methodology, Hands On Assists & Touch, Sequencing to Anatomical Focus; Illuminating the Practice w/Props; Cueing for Longevity & Sustainability, Mastering "All-Levels." (30 CEUS)

Teacher Tune-up Schedule:

Arrival Day (4:00pm - 8:30pm, dinner provided)

Day 2 (8am - 6pm, meals provided)

Day 3, (8am - 6pm, meals provided) 

Day 4 (8am - 11:00am, Final practice, breakfast & vision casting)

Reach out to [email protected] with questions about in person training.

Ask me not where I live ... or what I like to eat ... Ask me what I am living for ...and what I think is keeping me from living fully for that. - Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude

Starting fresh in 2025! 4 Live Workshops + Restorative Yoga Self Paced Online Course

In this module we will learn rhythms of work and rest through sacred rhythms inspired by biblical scripture, seasonal rhythms for life and leadership, and nature's rhythms through Ayurveda. 

Exploring life rhythms allows for you to ask the question: How do I want to live so I can be who I want to be?

Ruth Haley Barton said in her book Sacred Rhythms, "I have come to enjoy the language of rhythms because it provides relief from some of the more heavy-handed and rigid approaches to the spiritual life and instead draws upon the beauty and delight of the natural rhythms in the created order. Spiritual transformation takes place as we embrace the challenges and opportunities associated with each season of our life... I cannot transform myself, or anyone else for that matter. What I can do is create the conditions in which spiritual transformation can take place, by developing and maintaining a rhythm of spiritual practices that keep me open and available to God." 

• Live Zoom Workshop on Sacred Rhythms: Katie Pearson will lead a workshop helping us craft a Be New rule of life for 2025 that prioritizes wholeness over busyness. 
• Live Zoom Workshop on Ayurveda: Maggie Lightner will lead us in a workshop called Living Ayurveda.  In each week of this January course, you will put into practice ways in which you can balance your specific dosha for more vitality in 2025.  We will look at nutrition as well as practices (i.e. dry-brushing) that help you reduce your toxic load.  
• Live Zoom Workshop on  Mindfulness + 12-Day MBSR Reset (short mindfulness teachings and meditations each day) with Tracy Cunningham
• Live Zoom on Sacred Rhythms with Spiritual Director, Kristin Gibowicz discussing what we've learned from the month and how can live by our rule of life in 2025.

Required book:

Restorative Yoga by Caren Baginski   

Registration will be available in December 2024.  Reach out to [email protected] if you want to join the 300-hr. training!

Growing Your Business/Ministry: a 3-Part Workshop Series

• Marketing Success w/Katie Barnhart, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025, 4pm - 6pm MST
• The Next Right Step to Realizing Your Dream - w/Christian Life-coach, Katie Pearson, March 9th 4pm - 6pm MST
• Nuts & Bolts of Retreat Planning w/Leslie Skundberg, Living Soul Retreat Planner. April 27th, 4pm - 6pm MST

Registration for separate module will be available in January 2025.  If you'd like to to join the 300-hr. training, please contact [email protected].

Why Breath of Life?

• What will you learn? The anatomy (the breathing team and how it works), physiology (the process of cellular respiration, the impact on the nervous system, and optimal breathing techniques) and spirituality (creator, counselor, & consoler breath study in scripture) of breath.  You will be equipped to coach people through powerful breath techniques. learn how to write breath meditations, and up-level your own breathing experiences on and off the mat.
• The Breath of Life Course was designed for you to learn more about the power of breath practice and how it can be an embodied-rhythm in your life to return to God's presence. In the presence of God we "catch our breath," slow down, build self-awareness, find our center in stillness, seek counsel, release holding patterns, and reduce stress for better health. Our prayer is that this course isn't just informative, but that it is transformative in your own spiritual formation and how you share it with others. 

When:

• Pre-course content available February 1, 2025
• Live calls begin Tuesday, February 18 - March 25, 2025 11am-1:00pm MST

Materials: Breath as Prayer: Calm Your Anxiety, Focus Your Mind, and Renew Your Soul by Jennifer Tucker 

Registration will be available in January 2025.  If you would like to join the 300-hr. training, please contact [email protected].

The Unity Study is offered in Fall & Spring semesters.

10 weeks Online, 11am - 12pm MST (only 1 hour Live Zoom)

Next LIVE Unity Study starts

• Starts Thursday, October 10 - December 12, 2024 from 11:00am-12:00pm MST.  One chapter + 1-hr. Live Zoom book & bible study/week.

What is the Unity Study?

• The Unity Study is a transformative book and Bible study that blends yoga philosophy's ethical lifestyle with Christ-centered spirituality and practices. Each week we will embody our call to be peacemakers through yoga, meditation, devotionals, and authentic community. Trainees will also explore how to invite these principles into our yoga classes and theme-weaving.
• Who should sign up? Anyone interested in putting their faith into action, those interested in a cross-cultural study to deepen their faith, yoga teachers and students in their communities who want to "let their life speak" love. 
• The Unity Study is a requirement of both the 200-hr. and 300-hr. Living Soul certification programs. LSI 200-hr. Alumni can repeat the course at the 300-level (at no cost = alumni perk) OR submit a 10-week class series plan & teach it to your community for Unity 300-hr. completion.

Registration will be available August 2024 for the Fall Unity Study Module. If you'd like to join the 300-hr. path, contact [email protected].

Self-paced, online course that includes four 2-hr. Zoom workshops, plus videos on how to incorporate mobility movement for each major joint within your yoga sequences.

• Advanced Anatomy & Mindful Mobility - Fascinating Fascia 
• Advanced Anatomy & Mindful Mobility - Foundational Feet & Knockout Knees 
• Advanced Anatomy & Mindful Mobility - Happy Healthy Hips 
• Advanced Anatomy & Mindful Mobility - Supple Spine 

• Energy: A Journey Towards Wholeness

  Over the course of 6 weeks online, we will look enneagram wisdom for stress, balance and transformation. We will then study the wisdom of our bodies emotional processing through Chakra theory and energy anatomy. Finally, we will explore Ephesians 6, and how the Armor of God scripture helps us live emotionally victorious in Christ.

• Starts with a pre-recorded course called Enneagram Harmony for Leaders that focuses on True Self/False Self, the Centers Three of Intelligence (Head HQ, Heart EQ, Gut GQ), how to move towards harmony in each Enneagram type, as well as the harmony triads & spiritual practices for growth. This course includes meditations, journaling exercises, and Christ-centered yoga practices to help you find the "sound of the genuine" in you! 

  • Next live module starts September 10 - October 8, 2024
  • Live Zoom on Tuesdays from 11am-1pm MDT (all recorded)

  All live classes recorded.

   

Schedule:

• Motions of the soul through Enneagram Trinitarian model and the centers of intelligence (HQ, IQ, GQ).
• The 7-Chakra System & the Armor of God 
• Belt of Truth & Journeying Through the Lower Chakras with Christ 
• Journeying Through Upper Chakras 
• Throat Chakra, Finding Your Voice, & Sword of the Spirit
• Energetic Intelligence: Teaching and Leading with the Mind of Christ with Katie Pearson

Everyone has experienced trauma. If the fight/flight/freeze/fawn response is blocked or if we are prevented from taking action, we become deeply wounded, left with a sense that our own body has betrayed us by failing to get us to safety. The brain then continues to send signals to the body to respond to the stressor instead of resolving the stress and gradually returning to homeostasis. Which means that long after an actual event has passed, the brain may keep sending signals to the body to escape a threat that no longer exists. In this course, we will become equipped to teach trauma sensitive yoga through learning about the neuroscience of trauma through polyvagal theory, how trauma impacts the body's tissues and nervous system, TSY teaching methodology, exploratory language, and somatic exercises to create safe spaces, the power of teaching Yoga Nidra, and ways in which we can customize what we've learned to serve special populations (those experiencing mental health challenges, veterans, youth, cancer survivors, and more). 

Required Reading: Strong Like Water by Aundi Kolber

Optional additional reading: Anatomy of the Soul by Curt Thompson