Yoga Workshops
Yoga for Weight Control, Weight Loss & Health – Starts Jan.4, 2010
Being unhappy with our body is a major block to happiness often held in limited thinking such as “It’s too hard to lose weight!” or “I’ll never be thin!” or “It’s my Genes.” We call this self talk “limited beliefs or saboteurs.
Suzette Scholtes teams up with Registered Dietitian Laura Last to provide a fun and motivating eight-week session on yoga for weight loss.
Now in its ninth year, many who commit to these weeks realize their weight-loss goals and begin to adopt the healthier Life style that serves their wellness for life. You learn the yoga that:
- burns fat
- builds strength
- stimulates the thyroid
- tightens the skin.
Detailed handouts provided each class from Jan 4 to Feb. 22. Laura is available for private consultation for a fee and personal weekly guidance.
Each Monday at 5:45 PM and Friday 11:30 am during January and February. Same costs as regular class costs. Click here for a PDF download with more information.
Who is eligible? Level one and up; no injuries or special needs, please.
Required Anatomy for Certification (200 and 500 Hour)
Perspectives of Alignment and Teaching Skills: Becoming an Exceptional Teacher of Yoga - Friday and Sat., July 16 and 17, 2010 with Renee DeTar, E-RYT
The Yoga School’s Anatomy Workshops led by Renee DeTar, E-RYT, are created with a unique approach to the fascinating study of anatomy and structural alignment. She presents the principles of yoga in an interactive and enjoyable way to deepen your foundation of yoga asana practice.
Our program is completely experiential and hands-on, allowing the precise details of anatomical alignment to instantly be applied directly into your postures, assists and yoga therapeutics.
Renee has studied yoga over 20 years. She has the eye of a well-trained master, prescribing yoga poses that heal the injured shoulder, hurting hips, and much more. Her teaching offers clear information and practical tools suitable for yoga teachers, physical therapists, and those with an evolving personal practice.
Anatomy need not be a lot of abstract information that is dry, confusing, or overly intellectual. Our program is dedicated to being completely relevant to all aspects of yoga, easily applicable, and fun! We present sophisticated material with the simplicity that allows the concepts to incorporate immediately into your asana, right as you are learning them! And, understanding how the body functions will create the deep respect and heightened spiritual awareness that we are seeking from our practice.
You will come away with confidence and a clear understanding into the biomechanical principles of yoga. It will impact on your practice or teaching like nothing you have experienced before.
Renee presents four modules which address the anatomy of a healthy spine, pelvis, low back, shoulders, arms and legs. The principles you learn will be directly applied into the body so that you can master the concepts in relation to the yoga postures.
Module #1: (we start late on Friday for out-of-towners to arrive)
Friday, 1:30 to 4 pm: Learn important insertion points for hamstrings, rotator cuff, and which postures are often mis-understood for safe movement. Learn from your text basics on medial, distal, lateral, inferior, anterior, posterior, ventral and dorsal movement. Know skeletal bones. Understand the vertebral column and key muscles. Learn about common weakness in new students and anatomy of pelvis, thighs, knees and feet. Learn a sequence to protect the knees and technique to avoid injury.
Module #2
Friday, 6:30 to 8:30 pm: Learn the important variations of sequence to heal sciatica and back pain. Understand the bio-mechanics of Downward Facing Dog and Upward Facing Dog. Learn how to work with both stiff and flexible students.
Module #3
Saturday (Lunch provided with your tuition)
10 am to 12:30: Learn therapeutics to heal injured hamstrings and how to work with healthy hamstrings. Understand the key joints used in yoga including wrists. Learn the proper alignment for Chaturanga Dandasana. Understand the key principles of yoga twists.
12:30 to 1:15 pm Lunch (included in your tuition)
1:15 to 3:l5 pm Practice Teaching in Small Groups to learn sequencing, pacing, voice, projection, language.
Fee: $260.00
Heartsaver CPR Class with AED,
Sat., Aug. 28, l2:30 pm to 4:30
Taught by Victoria Newman, R.N.
Heartsaver – American Heart Association Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) with Automatic External Defibrillator (AED).
This course is designed for professionals who have contact with the public, and any interested lay person. It is especially useful for Yoga instructors, preschool workers, security guards, childcare professionals, lifeguards and patient escorts.
If you have ever wanted to learn CPR this is your chance to get your initial certification. Re-certification is every two years.
All new manikins will be available for practice along with an Automatic External Defibrillator. Each participant will receive a wallet-size quick-access card and a certification card as part of their registration fee.
Ms. Newman is a registered nurse in both Kansas and Missouri, and has worked as an emergency medical technician (EMT) prior to becoming a nurse. She has hands- on experience with performing CPR while working for a large metropolitan ambulance service. Her philosophy of teaching CPR is that everyone, regardless of their ability to perform it, should learn the basics. Even if you can’t physically perform it, you can always guide someone else to do it. Everyone can learn to save a life.
Ms. Newman is also currently a 200-hour Yoga Teacher-in-Training with the Yoga School of Therapeutics. Ms. Newman is especially interested in holistic nursing and sees Yoga as part of an overall wellness approach to life.
Cost: $80 pre-registration required. Please bring your Yoga mat if you have one.
ENROLL NOW! Limited enrollments for this workshop.
Heart of Teaching:
Directing, Pacing, and Sequencing
Sat, Sept. 11, 2010 with Suzette Scholtes
The Active Work: 10:30 am to l2:30 pm
- Learn how to quickly assess the students who have gathered.
- Create a slow, centering, and grounding opening.
- Fundamentals of protection for Level I to III students
- How to receive feedback when no one gives it to you.
- Great endings: How to keep the students wanting more yoga.
The Quiet Work: 3pm to 5 pm
- The five keys of restorative yoga: Align, Still, Dark, Warm, and Safe
- Proper use of Props in Restorative Yoga & Using the yoga plank for achy backs/hips
- The longevity of a pose: maintaining the ease and comfort while moving into bliss.
- Taking the repose into the world: the wonders of imagery to impact the practice
The Heart of Teaching
“Suzette’s Key”
If you are having fun your students will enjoy the class. Allow your passions about yoga to shine through your teaching. Let your spirit show through your quiet joy. The virtues (niyama) will transfer to those around you. What enables a teacher of yoga to become outstanding? Patience, practice, authority, courage, gentle humor, cheerfulness, compassion, humiliy, truth, honor, loyalty, grace, courtesy and service. Have fun teaching and success is drawn to you.
Suzette Scholtes on “Teaching”
“Always create movement on exhalation. The diaphragm contracts on inhale and expands on exhale. The diaphragm mirrors the base of the brain. If the diaphragm is tight the brain will tense. Teach to relax the diaphragm while lifting the chest while maintaining softness in the senses.”
“Yoga with time heals scar tissue. Practice of asana will reveal scar tissue as it hurts and feels “grisly.” As this breaks up, encourage students to drink plenty of water and be especially mindful of good nutrition.”
Suzette Scholtes - Biography
A student of yoga for 26 years, Suzette founded The Yoga Studio of Johnson County, LLC, in l994. She began teaching in l985. She has studied in advanced trainings throughout the U.S. and in London. With her background as a writer, she approaches yoga and meditation with both compassion and discipline. Her column “Body/Mind & Soul,” published in Evolving Woman Magazine, focused on the intricacies of human growth and our potential. She presents workshops across the U.S.
Her audio tape, Yoga Balance, was published in l997 (ISBN #9991335730) by New Leaf Distributors. It has sold thousands nationwide, featuring a 20-minute guided meditation for deep rest. She says relaxing and meditation transform fears and doubts into courage and compassion.
A popular public speaker, Suzette’s presentations have been received by such groups as the North Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, Humana Hospital, The Kansas Dietetic Association State Meeting, Central Exchange, the Leading Edge of Human Potential, Unity Church of Overland Park, and many others. She lectured and taught yoga and relaxation to Kansas University students of nursing. Her featured work with the Nurses Holistic Convention in Wichita was the most popular workshop attended in the three-day conference. She spoke at the international meeting of ABWA’s national conference at Bartle Hall to an audience of 400 women. Her program was rated among the most popular at this conference as well.
In her career in health and fitness,she’s published hundreds of non-fiction articles in both local and national magazines, including a monthly health article in Kansas City Magazine as well as nationally-known pieces in Lady’s Circle and Woman’s Day.
A graduate of Kansas Newman College with degrees in English Literature and Journalism, Suzette worked as a reporter for the Wichita Eagle early in her career. She also worked as vice president/director of public relations for Travis/Walz Advertising; and director of PR for Barclay Evergreen and Bernstein/Rein Advertising. Her work led to several awards, including the prestigious Prism from the Public Relations Society of America as well as distinguished writer’s award from Avila College and national recognition for non-fiction work from Writer’s Digest Magazine.
She wishes to give to others by lifting them to health and wellness and happiness with this powerful modality we call yoga and meditation.
Cost: $135 for whole day, or $75 per session.
Doug Keller Workshop
Living and Learning Yoga As Therapy
June 17 to 19, 2010
Judith Hanson Lasater Workshop
Relax and Renew®:
Learning to Teach Restorative Yoga
October l2-l6, 2010
