RITUAL, CEREMONY & SOUND
THE YOGA OF RECIPROCITY
SIT TEA WITH ME and then Learn to Sit Tea WITH YOU.
Over time, we’ll Sit Together and if you’d like, we can Sit Tea with The World.
Join me for a ONE OF A KIND 25HR/50HR TEA RITUAL & CEREMONY TRAINING.
These hours are a part of a larger 100/150HR Ritual, Ceremony & Sound Yoga Teacher Training.
Tea Ritual and Ceremony Trainings are all about Tea and Service to Self and Other.
RCS YTT is a Yin & Restorative based Yoga Teacher Training that covers all the bases for walking easily into the world of considered and conscious Classes, Workshops and Retreats that can include Tea & Cacao, Sound and Stone Medicine. The Art, Science and Trade of Yoga. We will learn to better FEEL, EXPERIENCE & LISTEN. These Training Modules will be FULL, RICH & DEEP. Like all trainings offered here, this Yoga Teacher Training will include aspects of Meditation, Mantra and Mudra. 100HR Ritual, Ceremony and Sound includes relevant Anatomy & Physiology, Philosophy and all necessary components to meet your membership requirements.
LAW: Leaves & Water. An Introduction to The Leaf that includes the first of 4 Tea Training Booklets. A first, most sacred, 27 TEA SITS leading you toward The Great 108. A first month of Leaves in a Bowl as taught by Global Tea Hut and my original Tea Teacher. Tea and Teaware Basics, along with how to source them both locally and abroad. Online and in-person Tea Sharing.
Face2Face Ritual Protocol and Online Tea Sits included. Field Trips, Tea Tasting opportunities and we’ll have a little Clay Play to make our first three Tea Bowls, one In Service to Self and two to use In Service with others. You receive a Pathfinder Tea, to guide you along, and to commune with for your first month of Committed Daily Practice.
Limited to 8 for a FULL, RICH & DEEP dive into everything you need to begin your Tea Journey. We Set the Tea Stage and you’ll have 3 months access to Sitting Tea with me at a discounted rate.
Yin + Restorative Yoga-Based, this training gently pulls at the 4-Chambered Heart strings to lull us toward living and teaching IN SERVICE to something greater than ourselves. Sound Healing, Tea Ritual, Healing Into Life & Death, Cacao, Lunar Cycles and Life Cycles. Seasonal and Cosmological, Directional and Shamanic. Threading the Chinese Medicine of Crystals & Aromatherapy and exploring The Qi of Food, Posture and Breath.
BECOME A DOULA TO THE LIVING from Infancy to End of Life.
POT: Potential of Tea. CHA DAO. Sitting in Ceremony. Your Journey begins with your first 25HR Tea Ritual Training and at least a first 27 Tea Sits; Sitting Tea as Meditation and Daily Ritual Practice. Learning to Sit with your Side-Handle Teapot and Serving Others comes next. You will have had an introduction to Serving Leaves in a Bowl, and we dive deeper into Tea in Ceremony. Sidehandle and your Gongfu Tea Journey are offered here. Includes 4 Tea Training Booklets for each of 4 months of Tea: a Companion Set to your time with Tea. Journaling and Field Trip entries. Taste, Terrior and Temperature.
FEEL, EXPERIENCE & LISTEN. We’ll Curate and Consciously Create our Chaxi, Tea Stage, as yet another yogic opportunity for communing with Self; Meditation.
Limited to 8.
100HR RITUAL, CEREMONY & SOUND YOGA TEACHER TRAINING
WHAT'S INCLUDED
Yin + Restorative Yoga-Based, this training takes EVERYTHING you’ve already been taught or learned, both in practice and in life, and gently PULLS AT THE 4-CHAMBERED HEART STRINGS TO LULL US TOWARD LIVING & TEACHING IN SERVICE, AS SERVICE, AND TO BETTER SERVE THOSE WE CARE ABOUT. We learn how to do this without giving ourselves away. This training is for anyone wanting to GIVE & RECEIVE IN HEALTHY WAYS. This is EDUCATION AT ITS SWEETEST. This training is for the Life-Long Learner, Practitioner and Student that is ready to walk, talk and live differently. Bound to no one way of approaching Yoga, and as with all Yoga Teacher Training offered here, aspects of Kundalini, Hatha, Mellow Flow, Long Slow Deep, Yin & Restorative Yoga will be integrated into this YTT. Profound and leaving no stone unturned, TOGETHER WE WILL ALSO LEARN ASPECTS OF Sound Healing, Tea Ritual, The Esoteric Work of The 4-Chambered Heart, Healing Into Life & Death, Cacao, Lunar Cycles and Life Cycles. We discuss Seasons and Cosmological Caretaking, The 4 Directions and Shamanism, Elements of Chinese Medicine and Crystals as Stone Medicine, Chinese Medicine in Aromatherapy and The Qi of Food, Posture and Breath. BECOME A DOULA TO THE LIVING from Infancy to End of Life. Learn to help usher in and celebrate the Heart, Soul and Body of everyone around you.150HR RITUAL, CEREMONY & SOUND YTT includes 50 hours of Visionary & Therapeutic Assists in Yoga.
What's Included:
The Differences between Ritual & Ceremony
Holding Space for Self & Others: Clearing the Space, Dressing the Space and Tending the Space
Energetics: The 4 Directions, The 4-Chambered Heart, Five Elements and a deeper dive into the Deeper Dimensions of Yoga
Stages & Principles of Ceremony
STORY TELLING and Listening with an Open Heart
Utilising Archetypes, Gods & Goddesses, Mandalas, Altars and Plant Medicine
tuningYIN™ Protocols using Tuning Forks specific to Meridians and Physiological Systems of the Body
Drum Medicine, Gong and Sound Baths, Crystal & Tibetan Singing Bowls, Chimes of all kinds and various other Sound Tools
Movement, Dance and The Body as a Moving Poem
CIRCLES & CYCLES: Creating and Holding Space, for all demographics, in specific and cyclical ways
Introduction to Stone Medicine: Crystals for Every Day Use and the Chinese Medicine behind their use
Introduction to the Use of Aromatherapy and the Chinese Medicine behind it’s use
Introduction to Tea Meditation, Ritual & Ceremony Training (25HR TEA RITUAL TRAINING information here)
Introduction to The Heart of Cacao
Lunar Phases, Seasons and Life-Changes from Infancy to End of Life
Healing & Harmonics: Rhythm, Melody and Mood
Learn how to and why you might add Ritual, Ceremony and/or Sound to your Classes, Workshops & Retreats
Understand the Business & Creation of Workshops and Retreats
Bio-mechanical A&P of the Sense Organs and The Energetics of Sound and various Meditation Modalities
Pranayama, Mudra and Meditations including Yoga Nidra for physical and emotional wellbeing as they pertain to the Sensory Systems of the Body
Communication, relationship and listening skills
Understanding Ethics and Scope of Practice
Philosophy related to healing on ALL levels
Developing Intuition thru Daily Personal Meditation and Ritual Practices
Included in the 150HR YREST YTT is the 50HR Visionary & Therapeutic Assists
FOR EARLY BIRD PRICES, TEACHER TRAININGS ARE PAID IN FULL.
TO SECURE YOUR SPOT IN ANY OF OUR FULL 150HR TRAININGS, A NON-REFUNDABLE DEPOSIT OF $500AU CAN BE MADE THROUGH OUR TT PAGE.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
An Introduction to Yoga Therapy and a starting point for Trauma and Life-Sensitive™ teaching, this 8 to 12 day training offers more than the average Yin Yoga Training, and the 150HR YREST YTT includes 50 hours of Visionary & Therapeutic Assists in Yoga. Examine the myriad ways of incorporating BOTH YIN AND RESTORATIVE YOGA POSES IN ALL CLASS TYPES. Learn and review how to thread Kundalini Yoga and Long, Slow, Deep (LSD) techniques into any class; ask why and how including these can be beneficial within the scope of both personal practice and teaching.
Develop and mature an existing understanding of classical yin yoga and learn the differences, similarities and advantages of mixing both yin and restorative poses in one class. No longer teach from a “one size fits all” approach to yoga. Delve into Bio-mechanical Anatomy and Energetics thru Craniosacral Therapy, Myofascial Meridians & Biotensegrity, Shiatsu and Chinese Medicine. Develop Visionary Teaching through Intuitive & Biodynamic Practice and explore the deeper three practices of Meditation, Mudra and Mantra.
What's Included:
Resources for teaching people, not poses
Learn the difference between Yin and Restorative Yoga
Learn how to and why you might teach a mix of yoga styles (Yin, Restorative, Kundalini, and Long, Slow, Deep)
Bio-mechanical A&P and Energetics thru Craniosacral Therapy, Myofascial Meridians & Biotensegrity, Shiatsu & TCM
Pranayama, Mudra and Meditations including Yoga Nidra for physical and emotional wellbeing
Communication, relationship and listening skills
Understanding the Ethics, Importance and Relevance of Intimacy within the class setting
Sequencing for fun, for ease and certainly for form
A review of the myriad poses and how to appropriately prop for ALL body types and needs
Philosophy related to healing on ALL levels
An Introduction to Yoga Therapy and how yoga therapy is another way forward in the Business of Yoga
Developing Intuition thru Biodynamic Practice and Visionary & Therapeutic Assists in Yoga
An Introduction to Pain and Orthopedic Evaluation Techniques
Listening thru Sensitive Touch and with the Intuitive Eye
The Ethics of Touch within the scope of practice
Included in the 150HR YREST YTT is the 50HR Visionary & Therapeutic Assists
FOR EARLY BIRD PRICES, TEACHER TRAININGS ARE PAID IN FULL.
TO SECURE YOUR SPOT IN ANY OF OUR FULL 150HR TRAININGS, A NON-REFUNDABLE DEPOSIT OF $500AU CAN BE MADE THROUGH OUR TT PAGE.