WHAT IS YOGA AS A PEACE PRACTICE?

Yoga As A Peace Practice is a curriculum to train certified yoga teachers to offer yoga classes where violence and trauma have had a significant impact on individuals and communities.

Rather than a focus on Hatha yoga, this training helps teachers better facilitate an experience of yoga as a contemplative practice that leads participants toward the attainment of balance, hope, harmony, balance, and improved self-awareness to develop lifestyle strategies to create peace in their homes and communities.

The Yoga As A Peace Practice training will provide:

• Specific lessons and class formats for each yoga class
• Selection and use of themes in music, poetry and readings to help participants learn to cultivate self-awareness and stillness
• Methodologies in the practices of sharing and releasing
• Yogic practices to manage feelings of stress, fear, grief and loss
• Pranayama practices (yogic breathing techniques) for relaxation and meditation
• Steps to help teachers meet the students where they are
• Approaches for leading effective share circles
• Methods to facilitate group reflections
• Methods to collect anecdotal data from participants on the impact of Yoga As A Peace Practice

Upon completion of the training you will be certified to bring the Yoga As A Peace Practice curriculum and the Heart of Yoga training into your practice and your community.