Yoga Workshops in Pittsburgh
Trauma-Informed Yoga with Joanne Spence
Trauma is not primarily an emotional response. Trauma happens in the body. As a body-based practice, yoga and the teaching of yoga has a lot to offer those with trauma. But how do we as yoga teachers need to adapt and accommodate our teaching in order to be trauma-informed? Come, learn, and be expertly guided by trauma-informed yoga teacher and yoga therapist, Joanne Spence. As a master trainer and the author of Trauma-Informed Yoga: A Toolbox for Therapists: 47 Practices to Calm, Balance, and Restore the Nervous System (PESI, 2021), Joanne will intersperse didactic teaching with experiential learning and small group facilitation. Participants will be experiencing/practicing trauma-informed yoga each day. This course is worth 8 CEU with Yoga Alliance, but you do not have to be a yoga teacher to attend.
This training will run over two days, Saturday and Sunday, February 12 and 13, from 1-5:30pm. The fee for the training is $225.
Partner Meditation with Joni Sturgill
Sustaining healthy, fulfilling relationships (of any kind) can be challenging, especially during times of stress. Do you need to reconnect with your spouse, partner, or close friend? Or maybe you're just looking for something fun to do together to create a stronger bond? Learn to relax together and experience a deeper connection through breathwork and simple meditation techniques, as well as a few gentle partner yoga postures. This workshop is designed to allow you to quietly experience and appreciate each other's unique presence. The price is per couple.
Add to Cart Saturday, February 12|
|$50North Hills
Doga with Laurie and Leta
Dogs are natural yogis: they live in the moment, they breathe from their bellies and they stretch immediately upon waking! Deepen your connection with your dog in this fun class. Class will include a walking meditation, human and canine yoga poses, doggie-massage and meditation. Please bring a large beach towel, treats, a leash and a willingness to learn. Prior yoga experience not required. Space is limited; advance registration through Animal Friends is required. This donation-based class will be held at their Camp Horne Road location. Registration opens February 1st.
Add to Cart Sunday, April 10|
|$0Animal Friends
Max Strom Weekend
Take all 5 workshops for $225, save over 20% on individual workshops!
Opening the Body and Finding Your Emotions, Friday, May 13, 7-9pm
Opening the Chest & Shoulders - A New State of Energy, Saturday, May 14, 10am-12pm
Some Doors Open Only from the Inside: The healing Power of Cathartic Breath-Work, Saturday, May 14, 2-4pm
First Aid Kit for Grief, Sunday, May 15, 9am-12pm (Designed for teachers and health care professionals but suitable for all)
Total Relaxation, Sunday, May 15, 2-4pm
Max Strom - Opening the Body and Finding Your Emotions
This movement workshop begins very gently and then builds momentum. At the apex we move directly into a special sequence of postures that opens the internal body that induces an emotional sense of release, brings the mind into stillness, and the body into a new state of energy. This class is both challenging and very healing.
All levels.
Max Strom is a global teacher, speaker, author, and trainer, and is known for profoundly inspiring and impacting the lives of his students for over two decades. His method, Inner Axis, is a system of field-tested techniques that are known to produce rapid results, and are known to alleviate extreme stress, anxiety, and PTSD. He is the author of; There is No APP for Happiness, and, A Life Worth Breathing. A dynamic speaker, Max has presented at three TEDx events, and keynote addresses for wellness conferences, corporate conferences, and yoga festivals.www.maxstrom.com
Add to Cart Friday, May 13|
|$55North Hills
Max Strom - Opening the Chest & Shoulders - A New State of Energy
Some of the negative side effects of using a computer are that we find ourselves with frozen shoulders, sore forearms, and injured wrists. This workshop targets these issues with a special sequence of postures that opens the chest and shoulders, as well as the entire body. This induces an emotional sense of release, brings the mind into stillness, and the body into a new state of energy. This movement workshop is both challenging and very healing. Bring writing materials!
All levels except absolute beginners.
Max Strom is a global teacher, speaker, author, and trainer, and is known for profoundly inspiring and impacting the lives of his students for over two decades. His method, Inner Axis, is a system of field-tested techniques that are known to produce rapid results, and are known to alleviate extreme stress, anxiety, and PTSD. He is the author of There is No APP for Happiness, and, A Life Worth Breathing.
Add to Cart Saturday, May 14|
|$55North Hills
Max Strom - Some Doors Open Only from the Inside: The healing Power of Cathartic Breath-Work
The voice of our intuition and wisdom is commonly drowned out by the noise in our mind. This noise is often caused by chaotic or congested emotions from stress, depression, anxiety, or PTS. Focused breathing patterns can spark within us the reawakening of our higher nature, the voice of intuition, wisdom, and conscience. The practices you will learn in this workshop will take you to new depths of insight and inspire you for weeks to come. Max has taken this work around the world to people of many faiths and nationalities.
Max Strom is a global teacher, speaker, author, and trainer, and is known for profoundly inspiring and impacting the lives of his students for over two decades. His method, Inner Axis, is a system of field-tested techniques that are known to produce rapid results, and are known to alleviate extreme stress, anxiety, and PTSD. He is the author of; There is No APP for Happiness, and, A Life Worth Breathing. A dynamic speaker, Max has presented at three TEDx events.
Add to Cart Saturday, May 14|
|$55North Hills
Max Strom - Teacher Training - First Aid Kit for Grief
This is a training especially designed for teachers, teachers in training and (health) caregivers. However, anyone interested in the topic can join. As a teacher, what do you do when someone in your class falls apart into grief? How do you adapt your class to a time such as now when there are so many of us grieving? Most teacher trainings lack any guidance whatsoever in this critical, very human, and ever-present emotion. This 3-hour training will show you how to hold space for your students who are grieving in a way that makes them feel seen, cared for, and that they belong in your community. The training explains a new understanding of the interconnectedness between grief and timacy/meaningful connection. This one-of-a-kind event includes lecture, self-enquiry, writing, teaching and leadership methodology, and breathwork.
Bring writing materials.
3 CEUs with Yoga Alliance.
Add to Cart Sunday, May 15|
|$65North Hills
Max Strom - Total Relaxation
Learn and experience how to relax deeply. We will begin with a talk by Max, then move into a very gentle movement sequence that is simple yet profoundly affective. In the second half of the workshop we will focus on floor postures and breathing patterns to release the mind and body from long-held stress and tension that impedes our happiness and our ability to sleep. This special event will help you rest like you did long ago.
Max Strom is a global teacher, speaker, author, and trainer, and is known for profoundly inspiring and impacting the lives of his students for over two decades. His method, Inner Axis, is a system of field-tested techniques that are known to produce rapid results, and are known to alleviate extreme stress, anxiety, and PTSD. He is the author of; There is No APP for Happiness, and, A Life Worth Breathing. A dynamic speaker, Max has presented at three TEDx events, and keynote addresses for wellness conferences, corporate conferences, and yoga festivals.
Add to Cart Sunday, May 15|
|$55North Hills