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:

Retreat Option

Join us in paradise for an in-person immersion this Winter on a pristine beach where baby turtles hatch for an unparalleled healing experience.

Staycation Option

Join us online, either live or at your own pace with our recorded classes!

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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!:

Shine On Yoga in Milton, MA

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!


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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!

with Orthopedic Yoga Therapist Michelle Fleming 
Live online via Zoom & by recording
In Person: @ Elevated Adventures
8a Court St
Plymouth, MA 02360

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.


Find Out More About Our Learning to Protect the Spine Workshop
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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.


Find Out More About Our Innovate Bamboo Workshop

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. 

YOU WILL LEARN:
  • 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 DETAILS:
Exercises: mobilizing your upper back by moving from your heart, increasing your lung capacity by stretching the sac around your lungs, regulating your brain and heart with positive emotions, manually stretching your stomach and esophagus, pumping your liver, twisting your kidneys, manually mobilizing your small and large intestines, moving your abdomen to improve your guts' blood and lymph circulation, and aligning your posture to optimally position your organs and create more ease in your body.

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.
Cost is $149 and includes detailed notes and a recording that is good for 60 days. Reach out to Michelle and Venmo @Michelle-Fleming-64 to sign up and the online link will be sent to you.


 
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Energy Medicine: A Day of Shamanism and Tai Chi with Ray and Nina Crist

Saturday, April 1, 2023 
10AM - 5PM EST
Live Online

Morning Session: 
-Practice: The common threads of yoga and Tai chi
-Lecture: The luminous body

Afternoon Session. 
The Shaman’s Journey: -Meeting your power animal and your spirit ally. -Creating an altar and living a spiritual life in the modern world.

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. 

Participants will find their “Sankalpa”, their personalized mantra, as well as learn powerful neurological techniques to rewire stress pathways and make more more room for joy and peace. There is an interactive lecture on the Chakra system and how it relates to the nervous system and then move into an all levels flow. Come burn away that which no longer serves you!

As someone who has survived, molestation, rape, abuse, rape and trauma, who grew up with family members in the IRA on one side and the Sicilian mafia on the other, Michelle teaches from a place of experience and wisdom about the hard earned efforts of finding joy. 
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100-Hour Yoga Therapy for Brain Disorders

 
Next in-person and live session begins April 13, 2022 
3-month program, one class per week, and one weekend per month (April 22-24; May 20-22; and June 10-12)
At our partner studios, live online, and by recording

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.

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A Transformational Flow Class with Michelle Fleming - All donations going to help women and people in need.

With Michelle Fleming
April 26th
6:30 pm EST
Ignite Barre and Fitness Studio, Plymouth MA

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.


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INFO SESSION

Info session about our upcoming 200 hour Transformational Yoga Teacher Training.


With Michelle Fleming and Janna Morrissey
April 26th
7:45 pm EST
Ignite Barre and Fitness Studio, Plymouth MA

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


Register Here

 

 

 

 

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Happy Hips & Lower Back
at Ignite Barre & Fitness

30 Golf Dr. Plymouth, MA 02360

Sunday April 23rd, 2023 10:30am-12:30pm 

To Register Please Call : (508) 283-9702
You can also Register Now by clicking here.
Investment: $65

Utilizing precise fascial release techniques to open tight tissue and adhesions, combined with therapeutic flow and corrective exercises to strengthen weak areas, this workshop is designed to relieve pain and tension and to give students a simple, yet highly effective practice to restore optimal structural balance. Class will end with guided relaxation. YOU WILL LEAVE FEELING GREAT, and with the knowledge to keep healing!
 
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 tools to keep your back feeling great for years to come.
 
All are welcome! Appropriate for beginners, advanced students, people in pain, yoga teachers, and fitness enthusiasts.
 

Dynamic Integration

Listen to the Body via ORTHOPEDIC and OSTEOPATHIC Techniques with DR. KATINA MANNING and MICHELLE FLEMING

Fri July 21:   7pm-9pm   Philosophy Lecture
Sat July 22:    10am-6pm   Seminar Part 1
Sun July23:    9am-4pm    Seminar Part 2

Iron Dragon Martial Arts Studio
3372 Canton Rd
Marietta, GA 30066

Philosophy Lecture is FREE for all
Students: $395          
Doctors: $495 

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

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Orthopedic Yoga Back Care Program (Spring 2023) 

Next in person and live online session begins April 2023. 3-month program, one class per week and one weekend per month. At our partner studios, live online, and by recording.

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. 

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Healing

Orthopedic Yoga Therapy

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 Finished My 200 Hour OYT!

I Didn't Take the 200 Hour OYT!

 

Attend Live or Online:

Earth Immersion in Nicaragua from April 1-10

Other Elements to be announced!

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.

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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.

Shine On Yoga in Milton, MA

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.