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Yoga for Cancer CPD Training Course Weston-super-Mare
Healing the Whole Person Yoga for Cancer CPD Weekend
£50 during January
Yoga for Cancer CPD Training Course Weston-super-Mare
Yoga teachers: Learn to teach yoga to groups and individuals on the cancer journey
Related health professionals: enhance your knowledge base and incorporate yoga and mindfulness into your work. (Holistic practitioners, healthcare professionals, social or spiritual care provider and similar)
Students of yoga: deepen your practice and share this powerful tool for transformation with loved ones.
Healing the Whole Person is a mindful, whole-person approach to yoga for people affected by cancer
If you’re looking for a way to evolve your skill set, develop a specialism or deepen your understanding of yoga, the Healing the Whole Person CPD course will provide you with experiential, in-depth knowledge of how you can help people to live better with cancer. The course is also suitable for those looking to work with people with other long-term or life-threatening illnesses.
The course is designed, written and led by Morven Hamilton, a YAP accredited Senior Yoga Teacher and breast cancer survivor.
YOU WILL LEARN TO:
Create unique holistic Yoga programmes for the individual on the cancer journey
Integrate people with cancer into your regular classes
Design courses for groups and individuals on the cancer journey
Apply Mindfulness concepts and techniques to your yoga teaching
Compassionately hold space for those who are potentially in physical, emotional, mental and spiritual difficulty
Explore your own personal responses to life-threatening illness and end of life.
YOGA FOR CANCER
In 2011 Morven began her work at Penny Brohn Cancer Care in Bristol, the flagship centre for the UK’s leading complementary cancer care organisation. From 2011 to 2016 she worked closely with Penny Brohn clients, running yoga courses for people with cancer and their loved ones.
Beginning by teaching the YogaThrive programme for cancer support, over the years her approach has evolved into a mindful, whole-person approach to yoga for cancer. The fruition of this is the recently developed Yoga for Cancer Teacher Training programme which is a 40 hour intensive course for teachers, related health professionals and students of yoga who wish to work with people living with cancer.
Mindfulness has played an increasingly important role in her own practice and daily life, and is integral to her teaching style. She has trained on the Breathworks Mindfulness for Health teacher training programme, directed by Vidyamala Burch.
Morven worked as a course facilitator at Penny Brohn Cancer Care for several years, delivering the Living Well course, a two-day intensive course for people coping with the impact of cancer.
She works on a group and one to one basis with cancer patients and has run retreats and workshops for people with a diagnosis and their loved ones.
Suitable for existing teachers and motivated practitioners of yoga.
Course Structure
3 Days - Face to Face Training
Friday 26th March: 9am – 5pm
Saturday 27th March: 9am – 5pm
Sunday 28th March: 9am – 5pm
Day 1 - Group practice from week 1 of the Healing the Whole Person course. Basic cancer biology and treatment. Exploring personal responses to cancer. Adapting asana for cancer. Creating sequences for individuals on the cancer journey.
Day 2 - Group practice from week 3 of the Healing the Whole Person course. Exploring identity and the cancer journey. Mindfulness for cancer.
Day 3 - Group practice from week 6 of the Healing the Whole Person course. Holding a compassionate space. Using Yoga nidra, mantra, visualisation and poetry in your class.
21 HRS of CPD
Please Note:
This course does not qualify you to be an accredited yoga for cancer teacher or a yoga therapist. It is a course intended to equip you to integrate people with cancer into your yoga classes or to share yoga informally with others.
For the Yoga Alliance Professionals accredited training, please visit the 40 hour Healing the Whole Person Yoga for Cancer Training page here.
COURSE CONTENT
Each day begins with a yoga practice with Morven, taken from the Healing the Whole Person six-week course. There will be time for a Q&A on each session with discussion on the rationale behind each lesson plan.
Day 1: Exploring personal responses to cancer and its implications.
Basic cancer biology and treatment. The immune system and yoga. Treatment side-effects and yoga practices to cope with them. Modifications.
Day 2: The impact of cancer on the whole person (body, mind, spirit and relationships).
Restorative yoga. Exploring identity and the cancer journey. Mindfulness for Health. Holding a safe and compassionate space.
Day 3: Using Yoga nidra, mantra, visualisation and poetry in your class. Cultivating compassion.
This Yoga training course is structured to engage and nurture all learning styles, with a focus on experiential learning. You will assimilate the course content in a way that is meaningful and grounded in experience.
We’ll use props to recreate some of the physical movement restrictions that patients often suffer. Through this and other course elements, you’ll be encouraged in your own personal transformation towards an embodied understanding of the person with cancer.
Presentation (teacher to student and peer to peer)
Led practice
Discussion
Enactment
Peer to peer teaching practice
Teachers, you will have the option to upgrade to the 40 hours Yoga Alliance Professionals certified Yoga for Cancer Teacher Training for £150. The remainder of the course takes place online.
PAYMENT & EARLY BIRD OFFERS
£275 until 20th January 2022 then £300
Example daily schedule
08:00 - 09:30
09:30 - 10.00
10:00 - 11:30
11:30 - 12:30
12:30 - 13:30
13:30 - 15:30
15:30 - 16:45
16:45 - 17:00
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MORNING PRACTICE
CHECK-IN
YOGA TECHNIQUES & MINDFULNESS
ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY
LUNCH
METHODOLOGY / LIFESTYLE / ETHICS
TECHNIQUE & PRACTICUM
CLOSING CIRCLE
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Postural Hatha yoga, relaxation and meditation.
A group check-in to set the intention for the day ahead.
Asana, pranayama, kriya, bhanda, mantra, mudra, meditation.
Anatomy in action & applied philosophy, lifestyle and ethics.
A chance to nourish, relax and refresh together.
Yoga on and off the mat, sequencing, postural applications.
Teaching & practice with peers in small groups.
Space to share and meditate
Are you ready to become your best you?
Reveal the most radiant, confident, skilful version of yourself, as well as
gaining a professional qualification.
Curious? Contact info@yogabynature.org to discuss your next steps
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"This course was one of the most powerful and empowering experiences of my life. I found the holistic approach enlightening and thought provoking and I felt very supported in exploring some big topics and ideas for myself. While I now feel confident to teach yoga, this course hasn’t just facilitated an ability to teach yoga; it has truly developed a bedrock for my whole life."
Jess - 200 hour training graduate