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Yoga for Life Teacher Training

with Tucker Adams and Kira Ryder

Thursday, Feb. 7 thru Sunday, Feb. 10

Developing Understanding and Tools to Offer Yoga to our Elders

Inspiration for the Training
Dates and Times:
Help of Ojai is an amazing local organization that allows the elderly of Ojai to age gracefully in their own homes. Providing activities, adult day care, lifts to doctors, hospice, and more, the dedicated staff and volunteers of Help of Ojai have created an infrastructure in our community that cares for its own.

With the exciting development of the West Campus and the opportunity to create a dedicated wellness center, this training was born out of the desire to nurture a community of yoga teachers with the interest and skills to offer yoga to our town's elderly.

Working with older people is a joyous gift. The understanding, compassion and connection to the rhythm of life that the work offers is unmatched. The real meaning of yoga starts to be revealed.

 

We will gather for a total of 15 hours from:

Thursday, February 7 from 7:00 to 9:00pm

Friday, February 8 from 9:30am to 11:15am and 1:00 to 4:00pm

Saturday, February 9 from 10:45am to 12:00pm and 1:00 to 4:00pm

Sunday, February 10 from 10:00am to 11:30am and 1:00 to 4:00pm

We also reccommed observing 2 Help of Ojai Classes:

Wed., Feb 6 @1:30 Wed., Feb 13 @ 1:30.

 

 

 

 
   
Training Description
 
Over the course of our four days together we will focus on the following:
 

* Nurturing Compassion for and Understanding of the Older Yoga Student

* Dropping in and becoming relaxed with a slower pace of teaching

* Seeing and Understanding Older Bodies

* Theories of Connective Tissue and How to Work with Constrictions

* The Anatomy of Breath

* Theories of the Nervous System

* The Aging of the Spine

* Understanding of the Hips and Shoulders and Useful Sequences to Create Space and Support

* Balance and Standing Posture Work

* Considerations around health conditions common in seniors

* Appropriate Sequences and Practices

 
 
   
Balance of Practice and Training
 

The Friday, Saturday and Sunday Morning Sessions will give you an opportunity to practice with Tucker at Sacred Space and Kira at Lulu Bandha's.

The afternoon and evening sessions will be held at Lulu Bandha's and be a combination of lecture and practice.

 
   
About Tucker Adams
 

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Tucker has been practicing yoga since 1977 and teaching since 1981. When she came to Ojai in 1992, she studied with Suza Francina, Judy Flannery and Bryan Legere in the Iyenger style. Drawn to the precision and style of the practice, she continued her training with Felicity Green, Judith Lasater, Adail Palkhivala and Manuso Manos. She is profoundly grateful to all her teachers for sharing their wisdom.

Tucker teaches from the foundation of a strong personal practice and the belief that Yoga can provide tools for profound personal transformation and healing. Tucker's classes are about creating a safe, compassionate space in which to further the connection between movement, breath and individual need to more carefully develop a conscious awareness in the body, mind and the spirit.

 

 
About Kira Ryder
 

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Kira Ryder has been teaching since 1995 and is the owner of Lulu Bandha's. While she has only recently begun to work at Help of Ojai, one of her special talents is communicating the mechanical and subtle workings of yoga clearly and effectively to stiff new students.

Feeling blessed to live in the magnificent Ojai Valley, Kira continually draws her inspiration for the beauty of the valley and the people that show up. While she has many teaching guides including Paul Grilley and Patricia Sullivan, her primary teacher is Erich Schiffmann.

Kira is deeply grateful to Tucker for her guidance, support and initiation into this amazing work.

 

 
   
After the Training
Cost and Sign Up:

After the training, if you are interested in joining Help of Ojai's Group of Yoga Teachers, we reccomend assisting at least one 6 week session and then, if approved by Tucker, starting your own class.

The cost of the training is $150.

You can sign up online, at the studio, or ring us at 805.640.7868.

Questions may be directed to Kira, Tucker or Alana.