Mentor Offerings
Suzanne Burns
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
Margo Buchanan
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
Jennie Ray Hart
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
Camille Heller
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
Parham Neal-Pishko
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