Watch Melanie explain the relationship between stress and illness, including her personal experience. She’ll also share what to expect in the Gentle YTT. ❤️
💜 Principles and tools to teach yoga for anxiety and depression
💜 Creative posture variations that address limited mobility.
💜 Gentle practices to rebuild strength and confidence after illness, depression or burnout.
💜 Tried and tested gentle yoga sequences.
💜 Chair yoga workshop with Barrie Risman
💜 Confidence in effectively using language and imagery for students experiencing mental and physical health challenges.
💜 Lifetime access to the video syllabus with over 100 gentle yoga postures, breathing and centring exercises.
💜 Nourishing connections with a group of like-hearted people.
For ten years, Melanie taught twice-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 17 years 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.
💚 going through - or supporting someone with - heart disease, autoimmune disease, limited mobility, depression, anxiety or burnout.
💚 a yoga teacher who wishes to feel more confident adapting your existing classes for students with special requirements.
💚 interested in teaching chair yoga, yoga for beginners or yoga for seniors
💚 a yoga teacher who wants to be more versatile trauma-sensitive and serve a more diverse population.
💚 a parent, school teacher, therapist or health care professional looking for new tools to serve your kids, students, patients or clients.
💚 Come as you are! No prior yoga teaching experience is necessary.