Upcoming Yoga Teacher Trainings & Certifications
Orthopedic Yoga Therapy
Core Curriculum
I want to take my practice deeper and heal on all levels. Do you love yoga and want to learn how to make it a safe and sustainable practice that can nourish your body and mind for now and the rest of your life? Maybe you have some pain or injuries that need some healing? Perhaps your posture isn’t as great as it used to be, and you want to learn how to combine fascial release and therapeutic yoga to realign your body and put some more pep in your step? Maybe depression or anxiety has been creeping up on you and you want to work on changing your mindset to move forward with a positive outlook. Our core Curriculum is a great way to dive deep into the healing practices.
Here's How:
Join us in paradise for an in-person immersion this Winter on a pristine beach where baby turtles hatch for an unparalleled healing experience.
Join us online, either live or at your own pace with our recorded classes!
Orthopedic Yoga Therapy Level 1 Yoga Therapy Certification: Transformational Vinyasa
Next in person and live online sessions begins January 2024 6-month program, one evening per week and one weekend per month. At our partner studios, live online and by recording. See below for start dates in 2024!
Are you ready to delve deeper into our world of truly holistic health and discover your true potential? Our Level 1 Orthopedic Yoga Therapy Certification: Transformational Vinyasa is a carefully curated program that not only refines your potential but also provides profound insights into the philosophy, history, and anatomy of yoga. You will gain the experience and knowledge to create a unique yoga practice that is right for you and your students; as well as to know when and how to modify that practice as appropriate. Whether you're a dedicated practitioner aspiring to teach, an experienced teacher wishing to deepen your skill set, or wish to nourish yourself and gain profound understanding, this program is your gateway to growth.
Here's How:
In person: A 6-month program in the Boston area starting in January with one evening a week and one weekend a month at Be The Light studio in East Boston and Shine On Yoga in Milton.
Dates of Note:
January 12-14 We begin, Clearing the Way with Fire Salute and Functional Anatomy for Yoga Teachers
February 2-4: Introduction to Energetic Medicine with Ray Crist and Vanessa Pattison
March 15-17 Yin Yoga, Philosophy and History of Yoga with Chip Hartranft
April 27-29: Rewiring Our Neurology and Restructuring or Forms using Yoga Therapy with Michelle Fleming and Vanessa Pattison
May 17-19: Intro to Therapeutic Touch and it’s Applications for Yoga Therapy
June 7-9 Intelligent Sequencing: The How and Why with Michelle Fleming
Get Your 200 Hour Certification Online!
Learn at your own pace by combining our live online courses with lifetime access to the recordings.
In Person Trainings start January 9th, 2024!:
Be the Light Studio in Winthrop, MA
Dive in with our 40-Hour Retreat in Nicaragua, March 2-9, 2024*
*Join us in paradise this Winter for an in- person immersion into our Core Curriculum on a pristine beach where baby turtles hatch for an unparalleled healing experience then join us online for the remainder of the program. March 2-9th, 2024!
Advanced Trainings: 300, 500, 1,000 Hour Certifications
Our collegiate style yoga therapy program allows students to deeply investigate the subject matter that interests them most while going at the best pace suited for their lifestyle.
Our unique, in-depth curriculum allows our graduates to pursue meaningful work and study in locations ranging from clinics to beach side with our flexible schedule including In-person intensives in tropical locations, mentorships with respected professionals, online and hybrid courses.
With Your 200 hour training completed, you are ready to move deeper into the practices that propel us forward in deep and profound ways. This is where our program really differs from other Yoga Therapy schools. We want you to put your energy into what makes YOU excited to learn about and what best suits YOUR goals.
I Finished My 200 Hour OYT, and I want to know what is next!
I didn’t take the 200 Hour YTT yet, so I'll catch up!
Our Next 500 Hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training, Yoga Therapy Intensive and Mentorship in Nicaragua Winter 2024 open for registration!
Attend Live:
Earth Immersion in Nicaragua from April 1-10
Attend Online:
Stream the Trainings in Nicaragua from your home!
Upcoming Classes & Workshops
Learning to Protect and Heal the Spine
October 20 & 21, 2023, sign up for the whole workshop, or join us for a section or two!
Join Michelle Fleming, IAYT Certified Yoga Therapist, ERYT-500, IASI Board Certified Structural Integrator, Founder of Orthopedic Yoga Therapy and Transformational Yoga Teacher Trainings and you will leave with the understanding and tools to keep your back feeling great for years to come.
All are welcome! Appropriate for beginners, advanced students, people in pain, yoga teachers, fitness enthusiasts and anyone else looking to learn about their amazing bodies and how to care for them!
Click below for more info.
Innovate Bamboo: Design / Build Workshop
The next workshop will be held from March 9- 16, 2024 in Playa el Coco, Nicaragua
In this workshop we will explore bamboo as a sustainable material for innovative structures. Bamboo is a natural composite with high tensile and compression strength and grows in a cylindrical form that is optimal for carrying longitudinal forces. Students will look at historic and contemporary precedence of bamboo as engineered products and as structural construction using simple poles. We will play with ways to connect, assemble, and build with this natural material. Finally, we will build large-scale models and prototypes of several simple structural designs. The goal is to explore the wide range of design and engineering potential of this natural, often overlooked, structural grass.
Past Trainings and Courses
Touch Your Parts: Embody Your Organs
An Embodied Anatomy and Self-Care Class
With Holly Krebs, Certified Rolfer™ and Body Educator, Adjunct Faculty of Evolution Trainings
Sunday, March 12th, 2023
12PM - 5PM EST
Online
Our organs are the root of your life force. They produce your energy, pump your blood, and clean your tissues. They also make up most of you! They also occupy the vast majority of your torso, which means they determine structural alignment in your spine, shoulders, and pelvis, and they provide your deep sense of self. Join Holly to learn about your organs, how to connect with them, and how to better care for them.
This online class gives you a 3D tour of your insides. As you learn your organs’ locations, shapes, functions, relationships, and qualities, you will learn to sense them internally. This will support your organs’ health, let you embody more of your parts, and expand your sense of self, ease, and fullness.
- The fundamentals of your heart, lungs, stomach, liver, small intestine, large intestine, and kidneys through anatomy images, lecture, and exercises
- How to perceive your organs through self-palpation and interoception (sensing your internal sensations)
- About each organ's emotional experience
- How to mobilize your organs through manual manipulations and movement exercises to improve their functioning.
CLASS MATERIALS:
- 11-page hand-out on additional supports for each organ, including diet, herbs, lifestyle approaches, emotional practices, exercises, and more!
- Hand-outs with detailed instructions and pictures for some of the exercises taught in the class. (Delivered via email after the class.)
- Class outline of all the exercises, provided for note-taking purposes.
- vocabulary list of important anatomy terms.
- Bibliography of recommended books on a diverse collection of related topics if you want to learn more after the class.
Energy Medicine: A Day of Shamanism and Tai Chi with Ray and Nina Crist
Saturday, April 1, 2023
10AM - 5PM EST
Live Online
Fire Salute and a Journey through the Chakras
Sunday, April 2nd, 2023
2pm - 5PM EST
Live Online
The brain is designed for stress, if you want to be happy, peaceful, joyous, that is something you work for, not something that just happens to you.
100-Hour Yoga Therapy for Brain Disorders
Led in partnership with Neuro-Psychologist Dr. David Callahan, Addiction Specialist Dr. Kristen Anderson, and Trauma Specialist Elisha Fernandes Simpson, LMSW, this 100 hour Yoga Therapy certification is where yoga and neurology intersect. Learn to treat mood disorders such as depression and anxiety; degenerative diseases like Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, Alzheimer’s, and MS; substance abuse, PTSD, and TBIs. Combining yoga therapy and trauma sensitive education, with neurology and psychiatry this truly holistic training provides a full spectrum approach.
A Transformational Flow Class with Michelle Fleming - All donations going to help women and people in need.
This introductory evening into Orthopedic Yoga Therapy starts with a Transformational Vinyasa class in the Orthopedic Yoga Therapy style complete with guided meditation and is followed by an informational session and Q /A exploration of what is means to be part of the Orthopedic Yoga Therapy curriculum.We will discuss our upcoming 200 hour OYT Level 1: Transformational Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training program in collaboration with Ignite Barre and Fitness in Plymouth starting October 18, 2023 as well as our Advanced 500 hr OYT Level 2: Ritual Vinyasa Training and the 1,000 hour Orthopedic Yoga Therapy Certification.
$25-50 suggested donation for class. All proceeds benefit women in need for scholarship fund.
You can Register Now by clicking here.
Once you land in the Book Now page of Ignite Barre Fitness Studio please click on the day of the event (April 26th) on the top of the page. You'll then see our class when scrolling all the way down.
Info session about our upcoming 200 hour Transformational Yoga Teacher Training.
We are excited to announce that in October we will be offering a Yoga Teacher Training with acclaimed Yoga Therapist Michelle Fleming. Michelle has directed over 45 yoga teacher trainings and yoga therapy trainings and continues to love her work.
She prides herself on teaching in a way that is accessible to all bodies and levels of fitness; and for making human anatomy, neurology and physiology easy to understand for her students.For over two decades she has educated thousands of students on how to use the therapeutic benefits of yoga to heal their bodies, their minds and their souls. Since 2005 she has trained hundreds of yoga teachers to be authentic, well-rounded, knowledgable, confident and experienced teachers. This is not a book club, it is not a collection of dharma talks and yoga classes, this is a professional training that turns out some of the best yoga teachers in the world. This is a place where people come to heal themselves and learn to teach healing medicine. Learn to share what you love, and learn to do it in an exceptional way.
You can Register Now by clicking here.
Once you land in the Book Now page of Ignite Barre Fitness Studio please click on the day of the event (April 26th) on the top of the page. You'll then see our class and you can book it there.
Release and Repair: Healing Our Collective Trauma with Kathryn Jarrett, PT, DPT, MS
Sunday April 22nd, 2023
10AM - 4 PM
Pembroke, MA (exact location provided upon registration)
Or reach out to Kathryn with questions at kathryn@aprettybalance.com
30 Golf Dr. Plymouth, MA 02360
3372 Canton Rd
Marietta, GA 30066
Students: $395
What You Will Learn in these Seminars:
Globally:
• To “See” Under the Surface
• To Listen and to Integrate All the Bodies Tones
• Why We Touch Lightly and Compress Deeply
Locally:
• A New Approach to Tibiotalor Alignment
• A Neural and Osseuos Approach to Carple Tunnel Syndrome
Registration:
Contact Endique @ 805-433-3594
Pay via VENMO “@endique” to hold your spot
Orthopedic Yoga Back Care Program (Spring 2023)
This course focuses on spinal care, as well as the rehabilitation of spinal injuries and conditions such as herniated disks, stenosis, scoliosis, spondylolisthesis, pinched nerve and generalized back care. There is a microcosmic focus on the anatomy from the perspective of the joints, and a macrocosmic focus from the perspective of fascial tensegrity. These focuses allow us to both home in for a detailed view of the injurious site as well as to pan out, capturing a holistic perspective in an effort to both discover and alter the factors that are contributing to that injury. It teaches a combination of manual, movement and neuro therapies designed to re-balance and rehab the body from a holistic perspective. It focuses on treating individual clients to help them rehab from current and past injuries and educating groups on how to restructure and reorganize to prevent future injuries.
300
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∞
Healing
Orthopedic Yoga Therapy
Orthopedic Yoga Therapy
Ritual Vinyasa
Ritual Vinyasa
With Your 200 hour training completed, you are ready to move deeper into the practices that propel us forward in deep and profound ways. This is where our program really differs from other Yoga Therapy schools. We want you to put your energy into what makes YOU excited to learn about and what best suits YOUR goals.
I Didn't Take the 200 Hour OYT!
Orthopedic Yoga Therapy
Transformational Vinyasa
This comprehensive training guides participants into a deep embodiment of the practices, philosophy and anatomy that is the core of our program. We work with each participant as an individual and their unique bodies, histories and goals. Whether you are looking to use our courses to find your own balance, or to help others find theirs, there is a place for you in our community. You will learn to deeply understand yourself as well as have the experience and knowledge to guide students through multi-level yoga classes that nourish the soul, align the body and release tension at its deepest level for a truly holistic healing experience.
How?
In person: A 6-month program in the Boston area starting in January with one evening a week and one weekend a month at Be The Light studio in East Boston and Shine On Yoga in Milton.
Be the Light Studio in Winthrop, MA
Retreat option: Join us in paradise this Winter for an in- person immersion into our Core Curriculum on a pristine beach where baby turtles hatch for an unparalleled healing experience then join us online for the remainder of the program.
Dive in with our 40-Hour Retreat in Nicaragua, March 2-9, 2024
Online option: Learn at your own pace by combining our live online courses with lifetime access to the recordings.