Yogaah

• Just Breathe: a Stress man­age­ment workshop
• Well­ness and Stress reduction
• The Elu­sive Psoas
• Backbends/Twists
• Let Go of Fear and Gain A New Per­spec­tive: Going Upside down
• Ther­a­peu­tic Yoga Week­end Retreat
• Yoga for can­cer patients and their caretakers
• Inte­grated con­flict res­o­lu­tion pro­gram devel­oped for school admin­is­tra­tors and personnel
• Yoga Teacher training

Work­shops can be tai­lored to meet the needs of any group.

The length of a work­shop is rec­om­mended for 1–3 hours to a full week­end, how­ever adjust­ments are made to facil­i­tate the needs of var­i­ous group situations.

If you have an idea for an event or would like to bring yoga to your work place or orga­ni­za­tion to start a class or design a pro­fes­sional devel­op­ment day, please let me know.

These work­shops are applic­a­ble to yoga teach­ers inter­ested in apply­ing hours toward their yoga alliance reg­istry hours. An addi­tional fee and writ­ten assign­ment will be required for those inter­ested in this option. Please express inter­est by email­ing me prior to attend­ing the workshops.

Just Breathe: a Stress Man­age­ment Workshop

Empha­sis: stress man­age­ment
Rec­om­mended Length, approx. 2 hours

Move through those moments of feel­ing out of con­trol and into a place of quiet calm peace­ful heal­ing. Sim­ple tech­niques will enable you to change how you feel in less than one minute! Sim­ple enough to use when you need them most at any time of the day. Par­tic­u­larly use­ful for power meet­ings – or your trips to the physi­cians office.

Learn these easy tech­niques for your Self. Bring a loved one or some­one you know could ben­e­fit from learn­ing how to relax! Par­tic­i­pants Learn six sim­ple breath­ing tech­nique that offer mul­ti­ple ben­e­fits from reduc­ing hyper­ten­sion, clean­ing the mind, enhanc­ing con­cen­tra­tion, elim­i­nat­ing headaches, lower anx­i­ety and blood pres­sure, expel ten­sion end­ing insom­nia, and bal­anc­ing mood swings/hot flashes .

Well­ness and Stress Reduction

Per­fect for Cor­po­rate Strate­gic Learn­ing Retreats, Team Build­ing and Well­ness Days. Decreas­ing sick days increases the company’s bot­tom line.

No spe­cial equip­ment is nec­es­sary. Adap­ta­tions for the desk and work­sta­tion help com­bat carpal tun­nel syn­drome and relieve neck and shoul­der pain.

Empha­sis: Learn to rec­og­nize where you hold your stress and how to get rid of it! Take con­trol of your health with­out break­ing your piggy bank on med­ical cost.

Rec­om­mended length 1.5 — 2.5 hours.

Nur­ture your own and your staff’s over­all sense of well-being with stress man­age­ment tech­niques, includ­ing a blend of breath­ing exer­cises and stretches for eye fatigue and for the neck, shoul­ders, back and total body.

Par­tic­i­pants learn to man­age their own stress effec­tively and enjoy proven health ben­e­fits. Feel­ing bet­ter phys­i­cally leads to clearer think­ing and increased pro­duc­tiv­ity.
Cre­ativ­ity increases when stress is reduced.

An edu­ca­tional CD that teaches proper breath­ing tech­niques and a yoga video are avail­able for sale.

Design a work­shop devel­oped around one or more of the fol­low­ing area’s:

a. The Back : includes strength­en­ing and length­en­ing.
b. The hips: includes strength­en­ing and lengthening.

Tao Yin Yoga offers a vari­ety of meth­ods to open, lengthen and strengthen the lower back and/or the hips. Two com­mon areas where indi­vid­u­als hold dis-ease in the body. This is a work­shop appro­pri­ate for men and women who have never taken yoga as well as for those who have a reg­u­lar prac­tice and want to ven­ture deeper into themselves.

c. Neck and shoulders

Learn unique pos­tures inclu­sive to the Tao Yin style of open­ing the body by work­ing beneath the mus­cles. Pos­tures engage ten­dons from the fin­ger­tips through the arms, shoul­der, neck and cra­nium. Included in this work­shop are effec­tive pres­sure points for the face/head; learn how to reduce stress with points – helps min­i­mize and even elim­i­nate Migraines

More spe­cific work­shops include:

The Elu­sive Psoas

Empha­sis: Core
Rec­om­mended length 2.5 – 3.0 hours

The Psoas mus­cle is respon­si­ble for proper bal­ance and gen­eral body sup­port; it main­tains body struc­ture and body rela­tion­ships. It can well exert a vital influ­ence on bod­ily well being. Its close prox­im­ity to the diaphragm implies that imper­fect psoas func­tion reflects into the diaphragm and into the ribcage. Any­thing directly affect­ing the psoas also affects the pelvis and its contents.

Learn new pos­tures for devel­op­ing the psoas with unique pos­tures guar­an­tees to enhance core strength and mus­cle tone, bal­ance and sta­mina. We will move into a Taoist flow of pos­tures that incor­po­rate con­tin­u­ous smooth and cir­cu­lar motion that pro­motes ease, flu­id­ity and grace in the body.

Indi­vid­u­als who prac­tice Taoist Yoga pos­tures reg­u­larly dis­cover that the pos­tures open the space between the joints and over time, lengthen ten­dons. Stu­dents often remark they feel “taller” after class.

Backbends/Twists

Rec­om­mended length 2.5 – 3.0 hours

Back­bends reverse the aging process and fill the body and heart with vital­ity and joy. Many of us have lower back, shoul­der, or neck issues that limit our abil­ity to do back­bends or twists. Through a safe approach, Deanna will guide you through a series of back­bends and twists that in com­bi­na­tion will bring open­ness to your body, joy to your heart and enthu­si­asm to con­tinue this prac­tice for a life­time. No mat­ter what your age, issue, or expe­ri­ence level is, you can develop a sup­ple spine and recharge your life!

* Some props pro­vided. Con­tact the instruc­tor to dis­cuss the group and site needs.

Let Go of Fear and Gain A New Per­spec­tive: Going Upside Down

Rec­om­mended length: 3.0 hours

How do they do that? Inver­sions are the ulti­mate step toward reju­ve­nat­ing the body and revers­ing the aging process by reliev­ing pres­sure on the organs. Whether you are advanced in your prac­tice or curi­ous, par­tic­i­pants will learn meth­ods of expe­ri­enc­ing inver­sions even if you are afraid, or have phys­i­cal lim­i­ta­tions pre­vent you from “let­ting go” and float­ing upside down. Mod­i­fied inver­sions, bridge and shoul­der stand with vari­a­tions, fore­arm stand, pea­cock, and head stand with vari­a­tions are covered.

Ther­a­peu­tic Yoga Week­end Retreat

Jour­ney inside your Self while in pos­tures of still­ness pro­mot­ing growth, clear­ing ener­getic block­ages and enhanc­ing circulation.

Fri­day night will be devoted to assess­ing the ther­a­peu­tic con­di­tions of the stu­dents attend­ing the week­end. Stu­dents are encour­aged to come for the whole week­end but may attend Fri­day and Sat­ur­day only or Fri­day and Sun­day only. Retreat sites and accom­mo­da­tions vary. If you have a site and would like to host a tai­lored retreat to meet your groups needs, please con­tact Deanna.

Yoga for Can­cer Patients and Their Caretakers

Empha­sis: stress man­age­ment
Rec­om­mended Length: 2 hours
* this work­shop has been pre­sented in numer­ous hos­pi­tals around the tri-state area.

Devel­oped specif­i­cally for indi­vid­u­als mov­ing through can­cer treat­ment, chemo and radi­a­tion, this work­shop addresses how one can man­age ones stress and uncer­tainty while gain­ing a sense of con­trol over ones emo­tions and thoughts dur­ing a chal­leng­ing jour­ney as a per­son mov­ing through can­cer, or the care­taker. Work­shop for can­cer patients tai­lored to address the lim­i­ta­tions of move­ment. Suit­able for any can­cer diag­no­sis at any age.

Teach­ing the Whole Child: An Inte­grated Con­flict Res­o­lu­tion Pro­gram Devel­oped for School

Admin­is­tra­tors, Teach­ers, and Ado­les­cents.
Empha­sis: stress man­age­ment
Rec­om­mended Length, approx. 2 hours

Tai­lor this work­shop to address administrator’s, per­son­nel, or cre­ate a staff devel­op­ment for adolescents.

* Suc­cess­fully Field tested

Cog­ni­tive, affec­tive and psy­chomo­tor domains of learn­ing are addressed through visual and kines­thetic struc­tured activ­i­ties. Learn effec­tive con­crete stress man­age­ment tech­niques to increase aware­ness of how one can con­trol his/her emo­tional state, how to calm the mind and increase con­cen­tra­tion skills. Enable staff to be more effec­tive dur­ing prep times, help stu­dents learn how to Improve grades, reduce test anx­i­ety and anx­i­ety in general.

Field tested with A.D.H.D., emo­tion­ally and behav­iorally chal­lenged stu­dents ages 9 — 19… but appro­pri­ate for ALL pop­u­la­tions. Stu­dent pro­gram goals include the above plus:

• Intro­duces stu­dents to con­flict res­o­lu­tion by build­ing skills of tol­er­ance for one another and cel­e­brat­ing their uniqueness
• Helps student’s under­stand that human beings share the same feel­ings on the inside but how we express them makes us unique.

Pro­gram options include:
School­wide stu­dent and staff devel­op­ment pro­gram.
Mate­ri­als and props for teach­ers and staff.

Yoga Teacher train­ing — suc­cess­ful com­ple­tion enables par­tic­i­pants to apply for Yoga Alliance 200 hr. reg­istry. Cur­rently this pro­gram is offered only in con­junc­tion with reg­is­tered yoga schools

End­less Options is offer­e­ing a one-year, 200-hour, Yoga Teacher Train­ing Pro­gram. This pro­gram is in com­pli­ance with the stan­dards of the nation­ally rec­og­nized Yoga Alliance. Stu­dents who wish to deepen their prac­tice and under­stand­ing of the art and sci­ence of yoga, inte­grate the phi­los­o­phy into their daily life, and gain self-understanding are wel­comed. This pro­gram is rig­or­ous and designed to meet the needs of stu­dents who envi­sion deep­en­ing their prac­tice, learn­ing to teach and to expand aware­ness about Tao Yin prac­tice to those who already teach yoga. Ded­i­cated stu­dents and teach­ers work together—creating an inspired and inclu­sive learn­ing com­mu­nity. The pro­gram offers stud­ies with highly qual­i­fied, pas­sion­ate teach­ers, as well as a com­plete cur­ricu­lum encom­pass­ing over 200 hours of train­ing. Through­out the year, we will cover the basic, pro­gres­sive, and inte­grated study of Tao Yin yoga, incor­po­rate var­i­ous Hatha asana, pranayama, empha­size anatomy, learn and com­pare Tao Yin and Hatha yoga philosophy,while learn­ing how to teach dif­fer­ent ages and dif­fer­ent needs.

Cur­ricu­lum:

• Asana, Sequenc­ing, and Linking
• Expe­ri­en­tial Anatomy
• Tao Yin Yogic Phi­los­o­phy, His­tory, and Ethics
• Merid­i­ans and Cleans­ing Techniques
• Restora­tive Yoga
• Pranayama
• Assist­ing and Adjust­ing Ver­bally and Physically
• Devel­op­ment of Per­sonal Practice
• Devel­op­ment of Teach­ing Out­side of the Studio
• Use of props
• Video­tap­ing pos­tures as an edu­ca­tional tool

You will Learn to:

• Com­mu­ni­cate your knowl­edge effectively
• Give clear instructions
• Give direc­tions in cor­rect order
• Increase your aware­ness through observation
• Assess your­self as a teacher
• Exam­ine teach­ing ethics and the busi­ness of yoga
• Teach yoga for preg­nancy, men­stru­a­tion, and for peo­ple of dif­fer­ent ages and dif­fer­ent needs
• Inte­grate yogic phi­los­o­phy into your daily life