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Kids Yoga Teacher’s Training

March 14, 2020 – March 15, 2020

9:30 am – 5:00 pm

Cost $595 USD

This blended training combines independent learning with two energetic, dynamic days of classroom instruction. Before the training, you will create an account with OKAY – Online Kidding Around Yoga. Here you will find your learning modules. The first two will prepare you for your intense, fun Two Day Live Training and are required to be completed. The remaining modules give you the chance to use and review the massive amount of knowledge you just received in your training.

Curriculum includes:

  • Games and songs… and MORE games and songs!
  • Easy class planning using our amazing class outline
  • Behavior management techniques
  • Age appropriate activities for 2-12 year olds
  • 80+ asanas appropriate to our songs and games
  • Yogic philosophy, pranayama, meditation and chanting
  • Tips for Family, Mommy & Me, Babies, Teens, and Classroom Yoga
  • Partner Yoga
  • Teaching yoga in various environments
  • Physical contraindications of poses
  • Deep relaxation/guided meditation for kids… The Secret Garden
  • How to run a successful kids yoga business
  • Yoga birthday parties and day camps
  • Observe a family class taught by your trainer
  • Stress management for kids
  • Cookin’ with KAY… fun ways to share healthy eating habits
  • Yog-arts & crafts
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Sound Practitioner Training

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Sound Practitioner Training 32 Hour Certification

Saturday & Sunday @ 11am to 7pm.

Weekend 1: April 25-26th;   Weekend 2:  May 2-3rd.

Hamid Jabbar

As a teacher of sound and meditation, Hamid Jabbar has been working with sound for over 20 years. He conducts empowers others to work with the voice, overtone emitting instruments like gongs and singing bowls, flutes, drums, bells, and chimes. As part of his journey into the world of healing sound, Hamid has spent extensive time in the Amazon Rainforest and Andes of Peru with indigenous groups learning traditional Curanderismo involving healing plants and songs. Hamid’s formal Western education includes a Doctorate degree from UCLA and Bachelor of Music degree from NYU. He holds the highest available designation with Yoga Alliance as an E-RYT 500, certifying over 500 hours of training and 2,000+ hours of teaching.

Do you want to help people feel better using the healing power of sound ? Join us for our Sound Practitioner Training at Harmony Family Yoga. This initiation into the world of the Sound Practitioner is spread over two weekends and explores the history, theory, spirituality, science and practice of sound while providing hands-on training in playing gong, crystal bowls, Tibetan bowls, shruti box, flutes, overtone singing, chimes, and more. This will be an intimate training with limited space. No prior experience required. No instruments required.

About the Training

Sound Practitioner Training is designed for both teachers and students who would like to begin using sound in public or private settings, or for those who are simply drawn to sound and wish to learn more. Sound Therapy and Sound Meditation (also sometimes called Sound Healing) are a range of practices used to bring about physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual changes using sound. Participants will learn the fundamentals of Sound Meditation and Sound Therapy and learn to deliver public and private sound sessions. Yoga and meditation teachers will learn how to incorporate sound therapy and guided meditation into their classes.

Pricing Includes all materials.

Early Bird $649 (Preregister by March 15th; Pay in full);

Regular $749 (Pay in full or two parts, hold my spot + pay remainder);

*Hold My Spot with a $350 nonrefundable deposit.

*Current students, veterans received discounted pricing of $599.

Curriculum includes:

History & Theory of Sound Therapy

  • History of Sound in Yoga and Shamanic lineages
  • Use of Sound in Meditation and Therapy
  • Science of Harmonics and Overtones
  • Importance of Non-Equal Temperament
  • Use of Sound in Working with Chakra
  • Responsible Use of Terminology: Sound Healing, Sound Bath, Gong Bath,Gongmaster, Vibrational Healing, etc.
  • Physical Effects of Sound: Nervous System, Vagal Nerve, Cellular Responses, Brainwaves
  • Use of Sound in Ceremonial Settings
  • Conducting a Sound Class or Private Session

Gong

  • Types of Gongs and Cultural Uses
  • History of Gong and Metallic Overtone Emitting Instruments
  • Energetics of Gong Playing
  • Gong Meditation
  • The 39 Gong Strokes
  • Friction Mallets (Flumies)
  • Hand Gong Techniques
  • Caring for the Gong
  • Selecting Gongs

Singing Bowls

  • Types of Bowls: Crystal Types, Metallic
  • Energetics and the Chakra
  • Playing Techniques and Styles
  • Use of Drone
  • Vocalization and Bowls: Toning, Chanting, and Talking Bowls
  • Binaural Playing
  • Selecting and Assembling Bowl Sets

Drums

  • Shamanic Journeying Styles
  • Use of Frame Drum in Meditation
  • Powerful Rhythms
  • Playing for Yourself and Others
  • Invoking the Medicine of the Drum
  • Use of Other Percussion Instruments: Shakers, Rattles, Wave/Ocean Drums, Rain Sticks, and Tingsha

Vocalization

  • Finding Your Voice Even if You Think You Can’t Sing
  • Mindful Singing and Chanting for Meditation
  • Overtone Singing
  • Singing and Chanting with Shruti Box and Bowls

Flutes

  • History of Flutes
  • How to Play Native American Flute
  • Introduction to Other Flutes: Overtone Flute, Bansuri, Neh
  • Playing Flute with Other Instruments

And more…

All instruments will be provided for use during training but students who own their own gong, flute, bowls, or other instruments are encouraged to bring them!

 

***Participants in this training receive Certification as a Sound Practitioner (Level I). Yoga Alliance teachers receive 32-hours of Yoga Alliance CEUs.

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