This offer is an annual subscription extension to your existing program.

‘Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.’
Plutarch

The Inspiring Yoga Teacher weaves eight classes together into a rich tapestry. It is a mini-apprenticeship into shared inquiry teaching. The series offers you a set of blueprints for beginners classes that act as a springboard for your own innate creativity to emerge.

Each weekly lesson plan provides a template and a thorough teaching curriculum that models how to build the foundation for a yoga practice in a warm, informative way that is easy to digest and leaves your students hungry for more.

These eight classes comprise the foundations course you’ll learn to teach by first becoming a student of the course and developing an embodied, experiential understanding of the material.

 The Inspiring Yoga Teacher shows you how to work in a pedagogic model of shared inquiry, unpacking what that means in terms of practice, language, cueing, pace, sequencing and hands-on adjustments.

By becoming a student of the shared inquiry teaching process in a dedicated, peer-group environment, you’ll learn how to help your students listen to their own bodies, honour their unique physical structure and make wise decisions about modifying, adapting or staying in a pose to suit their individual needs. Once learnt, they can apply these skills in any asana class.

The series carefully builds a sequence of foundational asana, inquiries and practices that are the vehicles used to explore these fundamental skills.

The classes are structured to progressively flow from each other like a series of over-lapping waves. Each class informs the last class and acts as a springboard for the next one. You will explore structural alignment (how to set poses up) and engaged alignment (how to run force through those poses), with your breath as the backdrop and animating force from which all movement emerges.

Each class is structured so that it can be unpacked and expanded to serve you and your students. It includes accessible options that can be tailored for different age groups, abilities, injuries, energy levels, time of day and season of the year.

Classes are prop-light in deference to teachers who are working in gyms, church halls and other non-studio settings. They are aimed at a beginner-improver level, and based on class plans honed through teaching real people of all sizes, shapes and ages over a period of twenty years. In essence, they contain Lisa’s favourite play-lists for each theme. Together they offer you an extensive and eminently practical tool-kit.

You will receive an extensive manual to inform your learning, with clear explanations that address teaching methodology, choices and considerations. The manual contains detailed instructions for each asana as well as a reference guide for further learning and a glossary of terms.

‘Learning is movement moment to moment.’

Krishnamurti

Who will benefit from this series?

~ Teachers who are relatively new to teaching who need guidance in curating a well-rounded foundation course.

~ Experienced teachers who are keen to refresh and enhance their teaching repertoire, and discover new creative sequences.

~ Graduates of Donna Farhi’s, Lisa Petersen’s, or other teacher trainings who are looking to refresh their foundations template, find new inspiration and embody new practices.

~ Teachers who wish to learn how to incorporate somatic inquiry in a class, and how to seamlessly incorporate somatic exercises into a yoga warm-up.

~ Teachers who wish to be in community with like-minded peers, and held in the framework of a horizontal teaching model. As you enter this space, you are in co-authorship with the material.

~AOT graduates who are eager to learn how to offer a foundation series through the lens of a shared-inquiry pedagogic model.

~ Yoga teachers globally who are moving away from drop-in classes and wish to offer intelligent foundation courses for new comers that integrate the best of cutting edge somatics with contemporary yoga practice.

~ Teachers who are disenchanted with the drop-in model and want to feel greater satisfaction in working in a cumulative learning model (as well as the greater income security that comes with pre-registered bookings).

What do I get?

• 20 hours of live in-person training
• 8 x 1.5 hour experiential classes.
• 8 x 1 hour support circles at the time of delivery
• 8 x additional support circles after you have begun implementing the material
• Edited and upgraded recordings available for one year.
• An extensive manual with clear explanations that address teaching methodology, choices and considerations.
• Clear, direct, practical, accessible, directly applicable knowledge and practices infused with heart, presence and an infectious joy for movement and the body.
• A chance to be in co-inquiry with a teacher trainer with two decades of teaching experience, including 10,000 hours of actual teaching, and over 15 years of clinical practice.
• An opportunity to experience a unique cross pollination of yoga, somatics, embodied anatomy, Body-Mind Centering, developmental movement, bio-tensegrity and functional movement. As one long-term student said, ‘it’s all there in one package.’
• The possibility to be part of a like-minded community of somanauts, embodied anatomists, experiential learners, and spiritual seekers. As you enter this work, you enter into co-authorship with this material.

These teachings arise from 20 years of embodiment, yoga and somatics and a lifelong inquiry about how to love the skin we’re in.

Each class has the following loose structure:

• Arriving and Settling
• Somatic Inquiry (soma scan, breathwork, anatomy inquiry)
• Warm-up (includes asana and somatic movement exercises)
• Application to Asana
• Savasana
• Close of Class

Due to the short delivery duration of this course, the Purchase Guarantee is  reduced to 7 days from first release of course material (your date of purchase).