For ten years, Melanie taught weekly yoga classes to cancer patients through HappyTree's partnership with
Cedar's CanSupport. She also taught gentle and chair yoga classes and workshops in hospital settings for 13 years. And in her 15 years (and counting) as director of HappyTree Yoga, she has taught over 15,000 hours of studio, private and corporate classes to students with a wide range of abilities.
This course, which she developed in 2015 and has since refined, draws from her rich experience in the field, as well as her studies with teachers, Nischala Joy Devi (author of
The Healing Path of Yoga), Barrie Risman (author of
Evolving Your Yoga: Ten principles for enlightened practice) and Nubia Teixeira (Bhakti Yogi and author of
Yoga and the Art of Mudras).
Through lecture, practice, group work, interactive games, case studies, teaching practice and feedback, you will learn how to serve a growing population who would like to receive ALL of the benefits of Yoga - in a gentler way.