Mentor Offerings

Tempo

Much of the Power in Power Yoga comes from the steady balance of effort with ease. Tension and release. As power teachers we can set a tempo and tone that invites each practitioner to their personal edge and through intentional timing, tempo, and pacing, they will arrive at that edge fully grounded in their power.

This offering is two 90-minute meet ups where Suzanne will share the whats and whys of breaths, breaks, and holds both within postures and in transition to maximize burn as well as release in leading a Power Yoga practice.

Total Investment: $180

Anatomical Sequencing

Yoga is a practice that peels back the layers of every day life to reveal and connect us to our truest nature. The practice of asana can simultaneously speak to our physical body and our subtle, or energetic, body. As teachers we can craft a powerful offering that focuses on a given physical and/or energetic part of our being to create a deep sense of balance for our students.

Want to teach a class that promotes emotional stability? Let’s dive into the physical structure of the psoas and it’s connection to our root chakra that can help promote this. The opportunities are truly endless! This is two 2-hour sessions.

Total Investment: $240

Specialty Populations

From teaching yoga to expecting persons, ESL students, and infants and adults with diverse physical and intellectual disabilities, bringing yoga to specialty populations has been a major focus of Suzanne’s teaching since she started in 2013.

Whether you’re looking to brush up on prenatal yoga asana alterations or crafting a class that is accessible to all abilities, Suzanne is eager to share her experiences and class structures as taught to her by her teachers to assist in making your class a success. This starts as one 2-hour session.

Total Investment: $120

Teaching with a Theme

Theming our yoga classes can feel overwhelming and sometimes mechanical or inauthentic. However, we can use what is right in front of us to theme a yoga class and speak to what is happening in the body and the mind. This offering is an opportunity to further explore how to theme your class by exploring who you are and how you want to share yoga. Some topics we might explore together include: how to choose a theme, how to use spiritual cueing to deepen the physical practices and vice versa, how to invite inquiry into your class and ways of being in your teaching to deepen your theme. This offering can be tailored to 1 - 3 hour sessions.

Total Investment: $60 - $180

The Ten Tenets

The Ten Tenets of Baptiste Yoga are a unique way to be intentional as an instructor and a member of community outside of the studio. They help to create the student/others as the most important person in the room. Quite frankly, the Tenets help us remove our own ego to make space for others to grow. Are any of the Tenets elusive to you? Do you question how to bring them into your teaching or incorporate them into your daily life? Beginning with Come From We Are Connected to Create The Listening For Contribution and everywhere in between we will journey into a formula for increasing the impact you have and increasing your class sizes. Choose from 1 to 4 hours of training.

Total Investment: $60 - $240

Journey Into Power

The Journey Into Power is not only the sequence that informs every class at Humble Haven Yoga but is also the roadmap to your own power as an instructor. Know this roadmap like a tattoo on your heart. Through personal inquiry related to each of the individual segments understand the reason for this "scaffolding". The Journey Into Power has meaning for mind, body and spirit. Learn it's purpose for yourself and transfer that knowledge skillfully to students. Choose from 1 to 2 hours of training.

*Come prepared to repeat the segments in order and each pose in the segments to the complete sequence. We will grow from there!

Total Investment: $60 - $120

Wisdom Themeing

Each of us has a unique path with unique learning along the way. Wisdom Theming is not repeating a chosen word over and over or speaking to what you're currently working on in therapy. It is also not physically creating a twist in every section of the journey into power to speak on "twisting out that which no longer serves you". Learn how to theme a class from your own experience of healed space, from your own path and from your own Wisdom. Offer up what no one else can. Choose from 1 to 4 hours of Training.

Total Investment: $60 - $240

Curating a Playlist

Curating a playlist for class is a skill that takes time to master. Most people think “I’ll put a bunch of songs that I love on a playlist and because I like them, they’ll all fit well together.” Sadly, that is a formula for a disjointed offering, where the flow of the class starts and stops like an inexperienced wedding DJ using an IPod. A great playlist supports the intention and natural progression of the class, while also supporting the atmosphere and energy of the room. A well thought-out playlist also gives your students a closer glimpse into who you are (beyond the yoga-teacher you that they know) therefore allowing them a deeper level of connection to you. In this workshop, Camille will guide you through the process of sourcing, choosing, then artfully arranging your music to support whatever format of class you are teaching. Learn how to “mix” your songs, and to develop your ear to hear what musical transitions do and do not work. Camille asks that you send her 1-2 playlists ahead of time, that we will work on together as a group. Please send these playlists “as is” without any pre-editing. This is a 2 hour offering.

Total Investment: $120

Hearing the Beat

Do you have trouble “hearing” the beat when you teach build or beat-based formats? Camille has two decades of group fitness instruction under her belt and will train you to hear the 8-count in any song. This offering will focus on cueing to the beat of songs that have 32 counts per phrase. You’ll learn when, during the musical phrase, to cue the next move at the exact right time. Come prepared with at least one playlist of “workout” tunes to work with. This is a 2 hour offering.

Total Investment: $120

Hands-on Assists

This specific offering calls for a pair! The two yoga buddies will work with Marge to review, refresh, and practice the full span of hands-on assists in the context of a Power Yoga practice. Though we will use the JIP sequence as a guide, of course this knowledge will serve you well in any yoga style you happen to be teaching. This program is offered to pairs only and requires a commitment of 5.5 hours for each participant.

Total Investment: $250 / mentee

Power Down: Behind the Scenes

Join Marge for a behind-the-scenes look at the Power Down practice. In our discussion together we will brainstorm ways to soften the practice and make the sequence more accessible. Let’s review modifications, use of props, and sequencing possibilities. Finally, we will look how to deliver a sweet and magical meditation/Nidra to round it all out. This is a 2.5 hour offering

Total Investment: $150

JIP: But Make It Yours

Journey Into Power - we know it, we love it, we can recite it in our sleep. But does the sequence feel like YOURS when you lead it? How can you put your own spin on it and sprinkle your individuality into the practice you teach? Join Marge as she offers up various ways to tweak, shift, theme, drag-and-drop, shuffle around, and re-sequence while staying true to the core themes, postures, and energies of JIP. Let’s find the joy of infusing our own artistry into the Baptiste sequence - the practice that has brought us ALL into this space together. This is a 2.5 hour offering

Total Investment: $150

Ayurveda 101

Got a taste of Ayurveda in your 200 hour teacher training or from Google and want to know more? Maybe you took a “What’s my Dosha?” quiz online and now have more questions than answers.

Join Parham for an interactive workshop to learn what’s up with these Doshas, how the elements interact, what routine best supports your body, and more! This is a 90 minute offering.

Total Investment: $150