Join the Yoga Service Council for its first Yoga Service Certification Training to learn appropriate skills for teaching in diverse communities and service settings.
Yoga teachers and yoga trainers may be accustomed to sharing yoga in private, gym, and studio settings, but many feel unprepared to offer yoga in schools, shelters, hospitals, refugee service centers, and other social service environments. To address the need for yoga teachers and trainers to receive proper training in yoga service, and to ensure that high-quality yoga is available to diverse communities in service settings, the Yoga Service Council offers its first Yoga Service Teacher Certification (YSTC) program this year.
This 80-hour program includes a 60-hour, week-long training intensive on the Omega campus, followed by 20 hours of optional, interactive virtual learning. The intensive portion of the training at Omega includes a daylong self-care retreat, as active wellness is essential to our cocreation of a healthy learning experience.
The YSTC program addresses the specifics of appropriate yoga service and trauma-informed yoga, as well as studying the physical, sexual, mental, emotional, historical, and cultural traumas and their effects on the lives of those dealing with poverty, homelessness, dysfunction, addiction, and incarceration. Key topic areas of study also include specialized yoga techniques, teaching methodology, anatomy to specifically work with individuals who have experienced trauma via the physical and energetic bodies, and a practicum spent observing another teacher lead a yoga service class. We also examine yoga philosophy and ethics, aspects of trauma and cultural sensitivity and diversity, and disparities based on race, gender, sexual orientation, and sexual identification, culture, and socioeconomics.
Schedule
Please note that there is a special schedule for this course. The tentative schedule below is subject to change at the discretion of the faculty. The final schedule will be available upon arrival.
| SUNDAY | |
|---|---|
| 4:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m. | Check In (Rooms available after 5:00 p.m.) |
| 7:30 p.m.–7:50 p.m. | Welcome & Orientation |
| MONDAY | |
| 8:00 a.m.–8:45 a.m. | Commuter check-in (if not checked-in the previous evening) |
| 9:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m | Workshop |
| 1:30 p.m.–6:30 p.m. | Workshop |
| 7:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m. | Workshop |
| TUESDAY | |
| 9:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m | Workshop |
| 1:30 p.m.–6:30 p.m. | Workshop |
| 7:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m. | Workshop |
| WEDNESDAY | |
| 9:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m | Workshop |
| 1:30 p.m.–6:30 p.m. | Workshop |
| 7:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m. | Workshop |
| THURSDAY | |
| 9:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m | Workshop |
| 1:30 p.m.–6:30 p.m. | Workshop |
| 7:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m. | Workshop |
| FRIDAY | |
| 9:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m | Workshop |
| 1:30 p.m.–6:30 p.m. | Workshop |
| 7:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m. | Workshop |
| SATURDAY | |
| 9:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m | Workshop |
| 1:30 p.m.–6:30 p.m. | Workshop |
| 7:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m. | Workshop |
| SUNDAY | |
| 9:00 a.m.–Noon | No formal workshop hours |
| Noon–1:00 p.m. | Check Out |
The Children’s Program will not be available for this workshop.
Dining Hall Hours (Meals begin with dinner on arrival day and end with lunch on departure day.):
Breakfast: 7:00 a.m.–8:45 a.m.
Lunch: Noon–2:00 p.m.
Dinner: 6:00 p.m.–7:15 p.m.
Daily Open Classes in meditation, yoga, tai chi, or movement (subject to availability):
7:00–8:00 a.m., 12:15–1:00 p.m., 5:30–6:15 p.m., 5:30–6:30 p.m.
Meet the Teachers
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[mk_image src=”https://yogaservicecollective.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/jacoby_ballard_19_web.jpg” image_size=”full” title=”Jacoby Ballard, social justice educator and co-founder of Bending Towards Justice” caption_location=”outside-image”]
[mk_image src=”https://yogaservicecollective.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/naru_amina_19web.jpg” image_size=”full” title=”Amina Naru, Co-Executive Director of the Yoga Service Council” caption_location=”outside-image”]
[mk_image src=”https://yogaservicecollective.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/lilly_mark_18_web.jpg” image_size=”full” title=”Mark Lilly, Director of Insight Communication and founder and president of Street Yoga” caption_location=”outside-image”]
[mk_image src=”https://yogaservicecollective.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/harper_jennifer_cohen_17_web_1.jpg” image_size=”full” title=”Jennifer Cohen Harper, MA, E-RYT, RCYT, founder and director of Little Flower Yoga” caption_location=”outside-image”]
[mk_image src=”https://yogaservicecollective.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/marlysa_sullivan_web_new.jpg” image_size=”full” title=”Marlysa Sullivan, MPT, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, yoga therapist and professor at the Maryland University of Integrative Health” caption_location=”outside-image”]
[mk_image src=”https://yogaservicecollective.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/barkataki_susanna_19_web.jpg” image_size=”full” title=”Susanna Barkataki, yoga therapist and founder of Ignite Yoga and Wellness” caption_location=”outside-image”]
[mk_image src=”https://yogaservicecollective.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/danielle_rousseau_2019_web.jpg” image_size=”full” title=”Danielle Rousseau, PhD, LMHC, certified yoga teacher and an assistant professor at Boston University” caption_location=”outside-image”]