The Principles of Adaptive Yoga (Two online weekend modules)

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*This workshop counts towards the Center for Integrative Yoga Studies 300 Hour Advanced Therapeutic Yoga Teacher Training Certification, OR join us as a curious student looking to advance your practice!

Meets 11/7-11/8 AND 11/14-11/15

Saturdays AND Sundays: 9:00a - 2:00p

Learn how to offer your students grounding, spinal awareness, strength building, and ease in the body and breath in this Adaptive Yoga workshop with Carey Sims.

“When adapting postural yoga techniques, teachers often get stuck on how to modify this or that shape. My philosophy is if we move in the right ways, the shapes will appear. I am interested in bringing peoples’ awareness to their breath and experience and focusing on functional movements they can use in their daily lives. To me, that is much more useful than mastering some arbitrary shape.”

What to expect:

• Adaptive Yoga practices led by Carey each day

• Explore ways to adapt functional movement and breath work to make them accessible

• Embrace creative ways to make movements and sequences fun

• Explore ways to adapt your teaching cues to make them more direct and inclusive

• Deconstruct asanas and discover ways to think about postural modifications

• Discuss some common contraindications/considerations for Seniors and Adaptive students

• Learn from and share with your peers through case studies and small group teaching 

For students not in The Center for Integrative Yoga Studies program, this workshop provides 18 Yoga Alliance accredited CEUs

Your Investment:

Early Bird Pricing offered through October 26, 2020: $375

October 27 - November 6, 2020: $425

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Working towards your 300 hour certification? We have an option to pay in full and receive a discount. For more program details (Terms & Conditions, Cancellations & Refunds, Certification Requirements, etc.) visit our website:https://nodayoga.com/300hr!

Meet Your Teacher:

Carey Sims E-RYT500, NASM-CPT lives in Charlotte, NC. His mission is to help students explore their bodies and breath in an accepting and non-judgmental way. He teaches “Gentle Back Care” at NoDa Yoga and offers Chair/Adaptive Yoga classes at various senior living centers and gyms in the Charlotte area. Carey has studied extensively with Adaptive Yoga pioneer Matthew Sanford of Mind Body Solutions and Leslie Kaminoff of The Breathing Project. He is an Accessible Yoga Ambassador, a Love Your Brain Ambassador and leads continuing education workshops on Chair Yoga and Adaptive Yoga. Carey holds degrees in Psychology from Winthrop University and Religious Studies from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte teaches modules on Yoga History and Ethics for several 200Hr Yoga Teacher Trainings.

Carey is leading a practice session at this year’s AYC Online entitled “Moving with Compassion”

When inquiry and compassion are the foundations of our practice, the outcome of a shape or movement is not as important as what the technique reveals about our mind body relationship. My hope is for you to connect to more of yourself and the spaces around you in this practice session. I am not dogmatic about my personal practice and this will be reflected in my teaching methods. This practice is a combination of asana, gentle breath work, and mindful movement. As we put our bodies in different positions and move with intention, I will encourage you to become curious about the sensations and spaces that your body and breath are uncovering. Where is the resistance or relief? Where is the ease or discomfort? What places are off limits? What new places can be discovered? I simply wish to be the compass to your exploration and safely lead you to places of possibility. You decide what, if anything, you wish to investigate.

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