Adaptive Yoga Part 2 Online: Create Accessible Yoga Classes for All
with Darcie Clark
Fridays, 6 – 8pm
Saturdays & Sundays, 11 – 1pm
Spring 2022 dates TBA
15 hours – $300
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Learn how to teach yoga classes to students of all ages, abilities, body sizes, and experience.
This course teaches you how to structure your classes in a way that includes everyone, how to offer variations and modifications to your students in a succinct and non-judgemental way, and the importance of using inclusive language that supports your student’s personal learning.
COURSE CONTENT:
• Overview of what is Adaptive Yoga, why it’s important, and general guidelines for ways to make your classes inclusive, accessible, and welcoming for all.
• How to design your classes using progressive sequencing with the use of pose maps that help to break down each asana into simpler movements.
• Understand the value of props and ways to use both traditional yoga props and regular household items to enhance and support the practice.
• Considerations for people with abundant bodies such as ways to modify the sun salutations, twists, inversions, forward bends, and prone positions to suit their body type.
• Learn the difference between action-specific cues versus awareness-specific cues and when and how to use either in class.
• Why kinesthetic learning is important and how to foster your student’s body awareness.
• Reasons for common injuries and guidelines to avoid them.
• Appropriate ways to modify all of the major yoga asanas with the use of props.
• Learn modifications to make the Sun Salutations more accessible.
• Guidelines for how to teach beginners.
• Understand your scope of practice as a yoga teacher and when to refer your students to health practitioners.
WHAT’S INCLUDED:
• 100+ page teaching manual – PDF format.
• Private Facebook group for Adaptive Yoga Teachers.
• Free Class Passes to two of Darcie’s online yoga classes.
• Access to downloadable recordings of each teacher training session.
REQUIRED EQUIPMENT:
• A yoga mat.
• One yoga belt (or scarf/tie).
• Two blankets or pillows.
• Two yoga blocks.
• One bolster.