Movement Lab with Sara Hess and Melissa McLaughlin
Feb
29
9:30 AM09:30

Movement Lab with Sara Hess and Melissa McLaughlin

Movement Lab - Your path to an inspired practice

Take your practice to new dimensions.

Movement Lab is an all day exploration of angles, gravity, props, progression, play, and so much more! This extended workshop is designed to get you thinking outside of the rectangle of your yoga mat to find new possibilities of movement in your body. We’ll cover everything from spinal mapping to progressive load to uncover sustainable, accessible and creative practices that work for all bodies.

We’ll begin the day with an extended practice mapping the whole system of the body. We’ll compare passive and active ranges of motion, learn about progressive load, and highlight your body blindspots. We’ll use props both to support the practice and to develop strength and a greater sense of engagement in your whole body.

In the afternoon we’ll focus on progression and sequencing. Working together to deconstruct poses down to their basic foundational components and learn to rebuild the pose from the ground up with adequate preparation, mindful sequencing, and creative play.

Movement Lab will inspire you to see your both and others in a new way. You’ll leave feeling super charged and inspired. The creative tools you build in this workshop will give you more variety of movement and greater options to support your body, your practice, and your student’s practices.

This workshop is for anyone who feels stuck in their practice or in their teaching. This workshop is for anyone who’s experienced a shift in their practice after an injury. This workshop is for anyone curious about 'different'. This workshop is for anyone who wants to find joy in movement and feel better in their body.

Come explore with us!

Schedule for the Day:

Morning Session 9:30-12:30pm

Lunch 12:30-2:30pm

Afternoon Session 2:30-5:00pm

Price: $180

About your Teachers:
Sara and Melissa share a passion for offering the tools of yoga practice in an accessible, fun, and inspiring way. Both are deeply committed to bridging the classical teachings of the yoga tradition with modern movement science. Sara is known for her seamless and creative sequencing which comes from her training as a dancer and a long time yoga student. She first began practicing here in the Bay Area at 13 years old. Melissa draws on her study of Kinesiology and experience as a personal trainer to guide students through an uplifting, sustainable, and mindful practice. Both Melissa and Sara believe that expressing your body through movement can be a key to unlocking a deeper awareness of Self and hope their teaching inspires students to find joy and freedom in body, mind, and spirit.

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Attune + Align Teacher Training with Marisa Lavalette
Feb
1
to May 30

Attune + Align Teacher Training with Marisa Lavalette

Attune + Align yoga teacher training immersion is for currently certified 200 or 300-hr trained yoga teachers looking to earn a living teaching yoga while honing in on their signature style. 

Attune + Align yoga teacher training immersion is in a class all by itself. It’s energetically geared towards women, is woman-taught, and is hosted at The Space, a woman-owned yoga school.

Attune + Align immersion is unique, because YOU will teach extensively throughout the seven weekends. You’ll learn Attune + Align Signature Sequencing, you’ll make it your own, and then you’ll share it back to the group in your own way. You’ll also plan at least one anatomy lesson, one philosophy lesson, and one workshop on any topic you’re passionate about, and you’ll share it with the group. You’ll get real-time feedback on your content, delivery, and supporting materials from a room full of certified yoga instructors.

Sound great? We think so, too. Can’t wait to have you join the Attune + Align community. 

Visit marisalavalette.com for details on early bird pricing plus inspiration for how you might use your 4 hours of 1:1 optional mentorship time.

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Attune + Align New Year's Workshop
Jan
25
12:00 PM12:00

Attune + Align New Year's Workshop

Join us on Jan. 25 from 12-2:30pm for community, yoga flow, and Attune + Align approach to New Year’s Resolutions. Come dressed for yoga with your best girlfriends, bring your yoga mat, water bottle, notebook, and pen for 2020 goal setting. Reflect on resolutions from your past and move forward with a fresh perspective. You’ll leave the workshop with an approach that aligns with your dharma, your heart’s purpose.

The New Years Workshop can be purchased on its own or bundled with Attune + Align 7-week Online Course for a Decade of Dharma Discovery.

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200-hr Teacher Training in the Maze Method with Nichol Chase
Oct
26
to Jan 19

200-hr Teacher Training in the Maze Method with Nichol Chase

Learn to teach what you love!

200-hour teacher trainings take you on a journey of self-discovery and education into all things yoga. This foundational training (200–hour) program is ideal for serious students of yoga, aspiring yoga teachers, and teachers with varying levels of experience. Students with injuries and health issues are encouraged to attend. Our curriculum combines detailed alignment and intelligent sequencing with vinyasa theory, and provides you with sound knowledge and skills to teach safe and effective yoga classes. This training is recognized by Yoga Alliance and focuses in three areas of study: The Theory and Practice of Yoga, Yoga Philosophy, and The Art of Teaching. Graduates may register with Yoga Alliance at its RYT-200 level upon successful completion.

In this training, you will study and deconstruct asana (yoga poses), pranayama (breath work), meditation, applied anatomy, therapeutics, yoga theory & practice, yoga history & philosophy, basic Sanskrit, ethics & boundaries, and you will master the skills required to teach. With great precision and clarity, your trainer will cover the primary tools needed to teach yoga to others. In addition to studying the fundamental yoga postures, topics will include:

  • How to improve your own yoga practice

  • How to teach a yoga pose

  • Actions and alignment

  • Purpose and use of props

  • Restorative poses

  • Observing and understanding bodies

  • The art of teaching

  • When and how to modify yoga poses

  • How or whether to touch students and when to use adjustments

  • How to effectively sequence a class

  • Introduction to meditation

  • Functional anatomy and physiology

  • Meaning behind asana systems

  • History of Yoga – major schools and movements

TUITION

Pay In Full by July 26: $3,000
Pay In Full After July 26: $3,400
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Pay in 4 installments: $3,600
$900 deposit to hold your space
$900 due October 12
$900 due November 2
$900 due November 30
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DATES

Module 1: October 26-November 3 2019
Module 2: January 11-19 2020

TIMES
9 hours per day, generally 10am-7pm

Complete participation is strongly recommended. However, life events and circumstances sometimes take priority, and we are as flexible and reasonable as we can be with our students. Makeup options are available. Please see our Makeup Policy for more information.

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Applied Yoga Integration with Jory Serota
Oct
19
to Oct 20

Applied Yoga Integration with Jory Serota

Applied Yoga Integration is a master education for yoga teachers and advanced students.   Participants are taught a mobility system that uses both yoga poses and remedial exercises for assessment and treatment of range of motion and musculoskeletal pain

Applied Yoga Integration teaches you treat and integrate yoga and functional movement into your classes and private treatments.  It is a yoga training that gives you critical information about human biomechanics, joint alignment and the introduction of breath work into your practice.   AYI helps you thrive as a teacher, trainer or movement educator.    

If you have ever:

  •  Had questions about how to work with injuries and create functional joints…

  • Wished that you had more understanding of alignment and human biomechanics

  • Sought a way to systematically assess mobility and figure out where someone’s lack of motion or pain is coming from…

  • Had a private student that doesn’t do their homework

  • Noticed that perhaps there is (or should be) more to yoga than just asana…

  • Wanted more training in Breath Work, Diaphragm Mechanics and Yogic Breathing…

During this in-depth seminar, you'll learn about:

  • Using movement as assessment and therapy

  • Creating Functional Motor Control

  • Alignment principles for all yoga poses

  • Spinal segmentation techniques

  • Treating SI joint dysfunction

  • Posterior chain strengthening for back pain

  • The necessity of both active and passive stretching

  • Treatment for the rotator cuff and other shoulder injuries

  • Proven strategies to work with knee pain

  • Diaphragm mechanics and Yogic breath work

Saturday + Sunday, 9am-5:30pm

Early Registration (Until September 19): $495

Regular Tuition: $595

Register Here: https://appliedyogaintegration.securechkout.com/sfoct2019

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Attune + Align Mentorship with Marisa Lavalette
Sep
7
to Nov 23

Attune + Align Mentorship with Marisa Lavalette

During this elite six month holistic lifestyle mentorship program, Bay Area women gather twice monthly for connection, creativity, and collaboration with the potential to build a new business, brand, or blog.

For women asking What’s Next? With Whom? And How?, we’ll work to uncover your dharma—your heart’s highest purpose. Work with Marisa 1:1 to attune to and affirm the heart’s desires as both valid and powerful. Take actionable steps to begin shifting into a lifestyle where your heart serves as your compass. We’ll work real time to align your innermost wishes with how your life plays out on a daily basis. Your journey towards actualization is buoyed by wellness and lifestyle tools such as yoga, mindfulness, holistic nutrition, and brand development strategy.

The goal of this mentorship and workshop series is to empower women to live a life that provides a reflection of the most authentic self. By the end of the program, mentees will create a website, map out a social branding strategy, and will be ready to teach a workshop about their area of specialty.

To guide them along the way with insight and experience, mentees will meet with a collection of female creatives and business owners in a series of workshops to hone in on every woman’s unique voice and passion. You’ll hear from fashion designers, boutique travel vendors, nutritionists, and a marketing exec-turned-world champion salsa dancer.

Check out our monthly schedule overview and workshop offerings here.

The mentorship kicks off on September 7, 2019. Upon acceptance, you’ll be assigned preparatory assignments, and Marisa will send you everything you need to begin.

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$4,805 — $995 deposit + (6) $635 monthly payments — by July 1 EARLY BIRD

$5,405 — $995 deposit + (6) $735 monthly payments — after July 1

+ REFER A FRIEND for $500 off : )

deposits are non-refundable


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Saturday Sessions with Alison Smith
Jun
8
to Aug 24

Saturday Sessions with Alison Smith

Saturday Sessions: The Wisdom Body

During this series, we’ll weave the myths and metaphors of the Yoga Tradition, with modern bio-mechanics, intelligent alignment, and powerful action. This synthesis of east and west, to bring both magic and meaning, is called Wisdom Body.

Curriculum:

Saturdays, 10am-12pm

6/8- Session 1: Koshas: Understanding the Layers of Being

6/22: Session 2: Centered: Susumna and the Spine

7/20: Session 3: the Dance of Opposites: Sun/Moon, Ida/Pingala, Backbends/Forwardbends

8/10 - Session 4: Mula: the pelvic floor and kundalini

8/24 - Session 5: 1000 petaled lotus: the crown/head/neck and consciousness

Register Here for Drop-Ins ($50/session): https://AlisonSmithYoga.as.me/SaturdayDropIn

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