Teaching Back Extensions

Back extensions:  Teaching and Practice

Participants will get feedback on their teaching and gain confidence working with their students in a variety of situations.

Students will walk away with:

• An enhanced teaching tool kit – How to develop observation skills, deliver instructions, modify and correct your students with maturity. We will practice the art of adjustments and modifications especially looking at structural issues.
• A clear structure for understanding these specific asana and their sequencing.
• Self-study tools – practice sequences and a homework assignment will connect you to the source material, your colleagues and teachers.

This course is geared toward teachers who are not yet CIYT and have some experience teaching back extensions. It is open to serious students, teachers-in-training, teachers of yoga from any tradition and CIYT.

This weekend course is geared toward teachers who are not yet CIYT and have some experience teaching back extensions.  It is open to serious students, teachers-in-training, teachers of yoga from any tradition and CIYT.

“It is the duty of the teacher to know what to teach,

why to teach and how much to teach.” – BKS Iyengar

March 30 and 31
Saturday from 1 – 5 pm
Sunday from 12:45 – 3:15 pm
Please plan to attend the Sunday 9 am Public class with me

TUITION

$160 for the weekend includes the workshop sessions

Use your class pass or pay the $20 drop-in rate for the Sunday am class

Please pre-register – class size is limited and all registrants receive a homework assignment in the weeks prior to our meeting.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:

Heather Haxo Phillips is a certified Iyengar yoga instructor at the Junior Intermediate III level, among the highest certified Iyengar teachers in the East Bay. She is Director of Adeline Yoga and has been teaching for nearly 15 years.  Her additional certifications include:  Certified Yoga Therapist (c-IAYT), Relax and Renew restorative yoga teacher and Yoga Alliance E-500 level instructor. She has specialized yoga therapy training which includes scoliosis, musculoskeletal injuries and pain management.  One of her specialties is women’s health including pregnancy and menstruation. In addition to the being the director and lead instructor of the Adeline Sadhana Studies program, Heather assists senior teacher Carolyn Belko in San Diego.  Heather deepens her own practice by studying regularly with senior teachers including Carolyn Belko, Lois Steinberg and the Iyengar family in Pune. Heather is past President of the Board of Directors for the Iyengar Yoga Association of Northern California.  She is an active volunteer for the Iyengar Yoga National Association of the United States and currently a member of the Yoga Alliance Standards Review Process – Integrity in Yoga Advisory Working Group.  She is also Vice-President of the Lorin Merchants Association (LBA).