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Transformational Vinyasa:
200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training with
Orthopedic Yoga Therapy
Transformational Vinyasa:
200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training with
Orthopedic Yoga Therapy
Ready to dive deeper into the physical, emotional, and spiritual benefits of your yoga practice?
This training will bring you from loving your practice to loving your work.
Bring the gift of healing to your students and loved ones.
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.
2024 Winter Series 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
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, and 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 or with a group, by combining our live online courses with lifetime access to the recordings.
All participants will graduate this course with:
- An ability to teach informed, safe and inspiring yoga classes ranging from slow, gently and therapeutic to fast, sweaty and exhilarating; to students of all levels and all degrees of experience, in person and online.
- The knowledge needed to keep every student in your classes safe, and always moving towards optimal balance and alignment even if they are working with a restriction or injury
- A deep understanding of the physical and energetic anatomies and how they apply to yoga
- How and when to employ the “bandhas”, or energetic locks of yoga
- A functional perspective of the joints move, take stress and are to be aligned with regards to yoga; and the ability to feel in in their own bodies and see it in their students.
- The ability to 'body read' which will allow participants to look at their students and know what adjustments that student needs to make where, and why, to bring student into better alignment, out of pain and away from the risk of injury.
- The experience and knowledge to create a unique yoga practice that is right for you; as well as to know when and how to modify that practice as appropriate.
- An in-depth understanding of the often misunderstood 'Fascia' of the body, and how it relates to yoga and orthopedics with a teacher who has been certified in “fascial Release” for more then a decade
- An ability to practice and offer the “un-doings” needed to bring ourselves and our students from misaligned posture back into balance
- Experience of offering therapeutic hands-on assists in a safe and effective manner
- A deep exploration into yoga philosophy with one of the foremost experts in the country
- An amazing, growth filled and fun experience within an outstanding community of people.
- A life-changing, transformative educational experience that will benefit participants and the lives of the people around them.
Why train in Orthopedic Yoga Therapy?
Yoga is so much more than exercise.
Orthopedic Yoga Therapy is a distillation of ancient wisdom, modern movement science, and customization that can be suitable for all persons - regardless of their history, ability, or limitations. Every single person is different - and their yoga practices should be, too!
If you have ever wished that you could get the big picture on life, then this is the path for you! From the best practices of Physical Therapy to the ancient wisdom of Breath, Body, and Energy Work, everything is connected. Once you can see those connections clearly, you will be able to take the best possible care of yourself and the people you love.
TESTIMONIALS
TESTIMONIALS
Experiences with Orthopedic Yoga Therapy
Experiences with Orthopedic Yoga Therapy
Meet Your Teachers
Michelle Fleming
Michelle is a Yoga Therapist, a Thai Bodyworker, a Nerve and Artery specialist and a Board Certified Structural Integrator in the lineage of Ida Rolf. It was through these complementary practices of wellness that she healed her body - and from there Orthopedic Yoga Therapy was born.
Michelle has spent thousands of happy hours teaching yoga classes and private sessions everywhere from hospitals to schools to Gillette Stadium. She has taught in conjunction with Johns Hopkins Medical School on Yoga for Brain Disorders. She was on staff at Spaulding Rehab Group working with orthopedic patients and has spoken at Grand Rounds hospitals on the "Applications of Yoga in Clinical Settings". For more than 10 years she ran summer camps to bring holistic healing to young women with anxiety and mood disorders.
Michelle was the owner of Sanctuary Studio in Massachusetts, the founder of Transformational Yoga, Ritual Vinyasa and Orthopedic Therapy. She is a Board Certified Structural Integrator having studied with the acclaimed Tom Myers of "Anatomy Trains" fame, as well as a Thai Massage practitioner, a Neurovascular Bodyworker and the author of the upcoming book "Orthopedic Yoga".
She has been teaching and studying the science behind yoga for almost 20 years. She now teaches internationally, bringing her unique style of yoga to students of all levels, ages, shapes and sizes. She has taught thousands of yoga students and believes it is a blessing to be able to bring people the gifts of a strong body, a quiet mind and a blissful spirit.
Ray Crist
Ray Crist, of Jaguar Path, has spent the last three decades immersed in shamanism, various styles of yoga, Chinese medicine, martial arts, and Reiki. He has been offering workshops and trainings at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, NY Open Center, Yoga Journal, Blue Spirit, Boddhi Tree Yoga Resort and around the globe for over 15 years. Ray’s trainings focus on how to use shamanic tools and yoga as technologies that assist us to reach an optimal state of being in order to to live a balanced, empowered and extraordinary life.
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Chip Hartranf
Chip Hartranf, PT (Yoga, Insight Meditation, Yoga-Sutra) bridges the traditions of yoga and Buddhism. He is the founding director of The Arlington Center, dedicated to the integration of yoga and dharma practice, and has taught a blend of yoga movement & insight meditation in the Boston area since 1978.
An independent scholar of yoga and early Buddhism, Chip is the author of "The Yoga-Sutra of Patanjali: a new translation with commentary" (Shambhala). His work has also been included in "The Wisdom of Yoga" by Stephen Cope, "Freeing The Body, Freeing The Mind" by Michael Stone, the Shambala Sun, and many other publications.
Chip teaches the origins, evolution and practices of yoga and Buddhist traditions at Lesley University and at teacher trainings and retreats across the country.
Vanessa Pattison
Vanessa Pattison lives and passionately teaches meditation and yoga in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua where she built and runs the only yoga and meditation studio in town. Originally from California, she traded the golden handcuffs (they're real and shiny) for a more authentic life which includes a surfboard. The surfboard is her husband's (he tricked her into moving) but the yoga studio and the people it serves are what keep her connected, inspired, and growing.
A forever student she has acquired over 3,000 hours of yoga certifications in Hatha, Prenatal, Vinyasa, and Yin since 2005. Vanessa has trained with many teachers in various styles of yoga but two of her first and most influential teachers were Peter Sterios, founder of Manduka, and James Bailey an Aryuvedic Doctor. She co-founded Nicaragua Yoga Institute which hosts and runs Yoga Teacher Trainings and Wellness retreats year-round. Being a mother to three boys herself led Vanessa to support other women as a birth doula and she has assisted and/or delivered over 20 babies in Nicaragua and the United States.
Trained and certified by The Chopra Center in Primordial Sound Meditation Vanessa will take you through a series of sessions to ignite or deepen your meditation practice. You will walk away with not only your very OWN mantra based on your place, date, and time of birth in Vedic astrology but also a greater understanding of your pure potential through this ancient yet relevant practice of meditation. We will explore the practical aspects of how and why we practice, what gets in the way, and practice using our personal mantra as well as open ourselves up to higher states of consciousness.
30
Trainings Completed
5,000
year old tradition
Why choose us?
Why choose us?
How is Orthopedic Yoga Therapy Different?
How is Orthopedic Yoga Therapy Different?
Yoga is much more than exercise.
Orthopedic Yoga Therapy is a distillation of ancient wisdom, modern movement science, and customization that can be suitable for all persons - regardless of their history, ability, or limitations. Every single person is different - and their yoga practices should be, too!
If you have ever wished that you could get the big picture on life, then this is the path for you! From the best practices of Physical Therapy to the ancient wisdom of Breath, Body, and Energy Work, everything is connected. Once you can see those connections clearly, you will be able to take the best possible care of yourself and the people you love.
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