Join Simon Park for a 4 day training in practicing essential skills for teaching Vinasa - “ Sacred Movement - Alignment, Sequencing, and Touch ". This course is designed to empower yoga instructors and practitioners with the knowledge and tools necessary to enhance your practice and teaching. This comprehensive training focuses on the essential elements of alignment, the art of creative sequencing, and the therapeutic use of touch, ensuring a well-rounded approach to yoga instruction and practice. Workshop Highlights: - Essential Alignment Elements Delve into the essential elements of physical and energetic alignment that support a practice that is effortless, dynamic and injury-free. Explore common alignment mistakes and learn effective adjustments to ensure safety while enhancing the benefits of each pose. Breath and Energy Flow: Learn techniques to enhance the flow of prana through the body, supporting vitality and emotional balance. This will empower you to help students cultivate awareness of their energy as they move. Learn effective verbal and physical cues to assist your students in achieving both optimal physical alignment and energetic balance. Incorporate dynamic vinyasa flows that emphasize proper alignment while encouraging awareness of energetic sensations in the body. - Creative Sequencing Explore the principles of creative vinyasa sequencing, focusing on how to weave together poses that build to complexity and feel great for your body Integrating Themes, Peak Poses, and Anatomy: Learn how to create sequences centered around specific themes, intentions, or anatomical focuses, ensuring that each session resonates with your students on multiple levels. Mastering Transitions: Learn ways to connect poses creatively and fluidly. Discover how to incorporate dynamic movements that keep the energy alive and foster a sense of playfulness. Employing Variations: Understand how to use variations to accommodate different skill levels within the same class, allowing all students to experience the flow while feeling challenged. Deep Dive into Pose Categories: Examine different categories of poses, including standing poses, forward bends, side bends, backbends, arm balances, and inversions. Counterpose Integration: Develop strategies for integrating counterposes to maintain balance and harmony within your sequences. This will ensure that students leave feeling refreshed rather than fatigued. - The Therapeutic Approach to Touch Unlock the transformative power of touch in your teaching with comprehensive training on hands-on assisting techniques. Discover the principles of therapeutic touch and its impact on your students' practice. You'll explore the role of consent and communication in establishing trust, using touch mindfully to promote healing, relaxation, and well-being. Learn to read bodies in still postures and in-motion. Intelligently and intuitively apply the correct set of instructions and assists for each individual student. Work in pairs to practice various assisting techniques, receiving constructive feedback to enhance your effectiveness and sensitivity as an instructor. Corrective Assists: Gently guiding students to enhance bone + joint alignment, muscular engagement and energy flow.. in key poses like Mountain Poses, Downward Facing Dog and Standing Postures. Supportive Assists: Providing stability in challenging poses, helping students feel secure—such as in Arm balances and Inversions. Deepening Assists: Using touch to deepen the experience of poses without imposing, unlocking new layers of awareness and facilitating relaxation. Zen Thai Shiatsu: Explore the benefits of incorporating Zen Thai Shiatsu into your yoga practice—a unique blend of Zen Shiatsu, traditional Thai massage, and osteopathic techniques that offers exceptional therapeutic value. Discover how this modality complements your teaching and enhances your students' experiences by promoting deep relaxation and healing. Experience Liquid Flow Yoga “Sacred Movement - Alignment, Sequencing, and Touch” promotes a safe, effective, and enriching yoga environment for both instructors and students. You will gain practical insights into alignment and sequencing strategies, master hands-on assisting techniques, and integrate therapeutic practices into your yoga teaching. Join us for this opportunity to deepen your knowledge, refine your skills, and cultivate a supportive atmosphere in your classes—helping your students on and off the yoga mat. Simon has 25 years of teaching experience. His enthusiasm for sharing the art and practice of Yoga is boundless! Who Can Attend? This training is open for new and experienced yoga instructors looking to enrich their teaching with precision and creativity. It is also available to practitioners who have an interest in deepening their practice by developing the techniques and perspective of a teacher. About Simon: Simon Park has taught Vinyasa Yoga for 25 years creatively integrating Ashtanga, Iyengar and Thai Massage. His yoga journey began in 1995 under the guidance of Shiva Rea at UCLA, and continued studies with Maty Ezraty at YogaWorks in Santa Monica, California. Early in his teaching career, Yoga Journal recognized him as "one of the most influential and gifted yoga teachers of the next generation." Simon leads teacher trainings, workshops, and retreats around the globe, fostering creativity and self-discovery in his students. His teaching is enriched by the wisdom he gained from master teachers including Shiva Rea, Maty Ezraty, Dharma Mitra, Joan White, Richard Freeman, and Gwyn Williams. Simon's signature style, 'Liquid Flow Yoga,' artfully combines the timeless principles of classical yoga with contemporary influences. Schedule: Thursday 2 OCT: 12.00 - 18.00 Friday 3 OCT: 13.00 - 20.00 Saturday 4 OCT: 13.00 - 20.00 Sunday 5 OCT: 12.00 - 18.00 EB until 31/7.