Training & Retreats

Yoga Therapy Teacher Training – Healing Hearts Together

Healing Hearts Teacher Training is designed for those who desire to work at a therapeutic level with yoga, to offer yoga to those in treatment for addiction, suffering from depression, dealing with PTSD, anxiety or other psychological disorders.  Our training will guide you to a deeper understanding of yoga practices, philosophy and methodology. You will utilize that knowledge to assess the needs of students, to facilitate healing, and create your own vision of yoga therapy.
Through this training you will attain:

Awareness: An understanding of the universal symptoms, the physiology and neurology of addiction, depression, stress, trauma, and other psychological disorders.  Identify the models of addiction and treatment and unite yoga within those models.  Examine our own biases, prejudices, limiting beliefs, and patterns for our own healing in an effort to assist others with the same.

Connection: Study the sutras, yamas & niyamas, 12 steps, Buddhist philosophy, chakras, bandhas. Outline the benefits of meditation, pranayama and asana on the physical, energetic, emotional and spiritual levels.  Learn to assess the needs of students, use breath and movement as a tool for healing.  Make connections to link health and wellness to a daily practice of yoga.

Integration: Teach specific meditation, pranayama and asana.  Design themed sequences that work on a therapeutic level.  Create a safe, supportive, compassionate space for an experience of healing.

Synthesis: Strengthen your intuitive nature through energetic practices.  Obtain a deeper awareness, greater understanding and acknowledgment of your authentic self.  Teach from a compassionate, open hearted space and create extraordinary possibilities in the world.

Dates:  February 23 – 26;  March 23 – 25 Thursday/Friday 7:30 -9:30 pm; Saturday 10:00 am – 9:00 pm; Sunday 12:00 – 6:00 pm.

Tuition:  $425                         $50 discount if paid in full by February 10

Who should attend:  Yoga teachers, health care professionals, counselors, seekers of open hearts and healing!

Open the door to extraordinary possibilities through yoga

Carrie Coppola, M.Ed., E-RYI / Mudita Yoga – Be Joy / 1550 East 3300 South / 801.699.3627

BEING IN BALANCE

Women’s Yoga Retreat

April 27 – 29, 2012

Eden, Utah

Come together with other women to draw on our collective power, create balance in our lives, open a space to feel connected and centered. Our retreat will be filled with yoga, pranayama and meditation, to center, connect and create a vision of life in balance.  There will be time for reflection, rest, and rejuvenation as we nestle among the mountains and trees.  Our soul’s will be nourished and our heart’s desire brought to life.
This experience is not be missed!
Accommodations are:  private room, three person room, dorm-style shared room, ranging from $325 – $400.
Space for this retreat is limited to 12 women.

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away