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Future Locations:
Therapeutic Approach Yoga Studio
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Sept 10-12, 2011
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McFarland House Yoga Studio
716 Queen Street, 8th Ave entrance
Saskatoon, SK
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Montreal, QC, May 2012
Certificate Program
August 27-28, 2011
Saturday 9 to 5
Sunday 9 to 5
Completion of Workshop Certificate
Atlantic College of Therapeutic Massage/
Collège Atlantique de Massage Thérapeutique
1040 Champlain St, Dieppe, New Brunswick
Fee: $250
This experiential workshop will cover all aspects of how to teach Yoga for Seniors, so that seniors can joyfully, safely and fully benefit
from the experience.
Topics covered
- Three Levels of Yoga for Seniors: Seated Yoga, Chair Yoga, Gentle Hatha Yoga
- How to create 'Yoga for Seniors' classes
- Health challenges, precautions, contraindications and modifications
- Pranayama (breath work)
- Laughter Meditation
- Partner Yoga
- Postures with chairs and walls
- Visualization and Meditation
- Massage and benefits
- Release/Health forms
- Communication
- Moving from sitting to standing/moving from floor to standing
- Funding
Prerequisite and Accreditation
The workshop is a certification course in teaching 'Yoga for Seniors' for participants who have obtained, or are enrolled in a 200-hour yoga
certification program.
Anyone working with seniors (personal caregivers, nursing home staff, recreation professionals, doctors, nurses, or anyone who has an
interest in the benefits of yoga for seniors), is invited to participate.
A certificate of hours will be provided for all participants.
Recommendations
"Jean's experiential teaching style helped me understand the why and how of teaching yoga to seniors."
Jennifer Saunders, OT Reg(NS)
Occupational Therapist
"Jean combines her humour, and personal history with a vast depth of experience working with seniors and/or large bodied people. She is inclusive and imaginative and able to bring a pure understanding of the needs of her clients to other yoga instructors."
Veronica Sherwood
Kripalu Yoga Instructor
"I really appreciated Jean sharing her wisdom with us via a question/answer period."
Angie Fenwick-Gibb
Yoga Instructor
"The pace was just right in such a way that nothing was 'lagged' or 'raced'."
Judy Hamilton
Yoga Instructor
"The references/resources will help me to build my knowledge base for working with all bodies, especially seniors and larger bodies, helping me to create a more welcoming environment."
Michael Brown
Yoga Instructor
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Participants at the April 2008 workshop
Instructor Description
Jean Short is a Certified Yoga Instructor in the Kripalu tradition at the 500-hour level (AYTT), and has been teaching for ten years. She was the owner of Gentle Path Yoga Studio in Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia until she moved to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan last year.
She instructs all levels of hatha yoga and is passionate about teaching Yoga for Seniors, and Yoga for Round Bodies.
Seven years ago, she undertook a transformational 14-week Spiritual Lifestyle Program at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, in Lenox,
Massachusetts, USA.
In January, 2006 she participated in a weeklong SAYCO (Silver Age Yoga Community Outreach) workshop in San Diego, with facilitators Roger Cole and many medical specialists/yoga practitioners. She spent the following summer creating this workshop, and has had participation
from Newfoundland and Labrador to Nunavut.
She is grateful for all her students, yoga community and all her yoga teachers, especially Paula Heitzner (Nyack, NY) who taught her that
the body is a miracle, Jody Myers who helped her connect to her spirit, Isha Ward, Silver Frith and Judith Hanson Lasater.
Contact info
(306) 374-8171 in Saskatoon
(506) 533-9729 for July and August in Shediac, NB
e-mail: jeanshort53@gmail.com
Recommendations
"I feel like I am giving everyone in my class the ability to participate in the poses in a way that makes them feel comfortable, challenged, and safe at the same time."
Kena Wiggins
Kripalu Yoga Instructor
"Brilliant workshop — your sense of humour and 'way' about you — opened my experience and help make it 'real'."
Helen Davis
Kripalu Yoga Instructor
"I liked the breadth and scope of this workshop very much. I arrived feeling very nervous about teaching seniors, but am leaving with
confidence that I will be able to create classes that can help seniors lead healthier lives. The yoga sessions were informative and helpful, and Jean's teaching, guidance and ability to lead the class into this new territory is wonderful. Her obvious love of what she is doing transmitted itself to us all — this was informative, immensely helpful, and most enjoyable. I wouldn't change a thing."
"P.S. I very much appreciate the wonderful manual and all the helpful hints."
Dianne MacPhee
Kripalu Yoga Instructor
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What do you really want out of your life?
This workshop gives you time/space/direction to figure out what you really want out of your life, and the tools to make these dreams reality: journal, breath, meditation, creative visualization, laughter, gentle stretches, relaxation and a vision board.
Sharing is minimal, and at the participant's discretion.
Weekly Workshop Topics
Week 1: Acknowledging your creations so far. What do you want to create in Health/Body, Relationships?
Week 2: What do you want to create in my Finances, Home, Work, Creative Expression, Travel and Adventure, Possessions, Spirituality.
Week 3: Attitudes, beliefs and blocks that are holding you back from attaining your highest good?
Week 4: Problem solving technique & gaining the support of our subconscious mind.
Week 5: Putting yourself in the picture with a Vision Board.
Week 6: Blocking and sabotaging.
Week 7: Experiencing doing nothing with a guided relaxation.
Week 8: Enthusiastically supporting your dreams.
Week 9: Faith, patience, and language.
Week 10: Looking back and looking forward.
Wednesdays: March 30 to June 1, 2011
Time: 7-9 pm
Cost: $275 (includes workbook)
Place: Willow Studio, 148 2nd Ave. N., Sasktoon
Facilitator: Jean Short, Certified Yoga Instructor
e-mail: jeanshort53 (at) gmail (dot) com
Feedback from participants
I took Jean's workshop this past winter. I always thought that I was very aware of what I wanted in life, but Jean's Thursday night gatherings really encouraged me to focus on making time to go within to discover what I truly wanted. Jean encourages us to start with one to three heart's desires. I will share my desires (from Jan '07) with you.
1. Better finances
2. Better health
3. Work towards getting my first home
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(Continued)
The workshop doesn't just help you see what you desire most, it helps you see what is standing in your way and what you can do to move forward.
In the months since we completed the session, I paid off my overdraft, opened a savings account, paid more on my credit card (and used it less) and was happily surprised with an $8,000 raise at work.
With regards to my health, the pounds are coming off slowly, I am more active, I participate in charity walks of 5 or 10 km. Overall, I take better care of my body and with my appearance. The final desire of getting my first home is still on the list, but I am more content now in the time it's taking before that dream becomes a reality.
Did I learn from this workshop? Yes! I needed this weekly workshop to get to know myself a little better.
Would I recommend it? Absolutely! You may even see me in the next Winter session, as I hope to dig deeper to find out what's next on my list of heart's desires.
Thanks Jean for your guidance throughout the session and beyond. You are doing a wonderful thing. I am grateful for the lessons learned from you and from Sonia Choquette's book.
Joyce
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I heartily recommend the workshop Jean has put together around Sonia Choquette's work. Because it is done over a series of weeks, in a supportive group, the actual clearing process is done; clearing of priorities, clutter, old habits and patterns. What stands in one's way becomes apparent. There is time to see how new attitudes, behaviours and intentions create desirable change. It was quite amazing what happened in our little group over the weeks. Jean is kind and forthright and her willingness to share examples from her own life's experience help immensely in ways even she cannot imagine.
Working this way inspires imaginative solutions to effortlessly Create Your Heart's Desire. It really works!
Jo-Anne Cusack
Kripalu Yoga Teacher
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