Subtle Practices Training (15 hrs)
An in-depth exploration of the subtle body, mudra, prana, mantra, and sound for yoga teachers
Are you ready to move your understanding of yoga beyond the realm of asana? Do you want to learn how the koshas, vayus, and chakras intersect and develop a deeper understanding of how the energies of the subtle body can be shaped through the practice of pranayama, mudra, and sound?
- An exploration of the philosophies underlying yoga, including Patanjali's eight limbs and the six limbs of Vedanta yoga, as well as the gunas, the doshas, and the kleshas
- An overview of prana, the nadis, the vayus, and the koshas
- The seven chakras and how they relate to the energies of the subtle body
- Create a personalized Sankalpa, then turn that into a Sanskrit mantra
- How to use a mala for meditation
- How mudras work on the subtle energies of the body and practice mudras for meditation, stress and anxiety, digestion, other common ailments, the prana vayus and pranayama practices, and the chakras.
- The mechanics of the breath, an exploration of traditional pranayama techniques, and the importance of nostril dominance
- The importance of sound, vibration, and chanting and why chanting Aum is so revered in yoga
- Bija mantras for grounding, manifesting, and heart-opening
- A deep dive into seven common yoga chants with Sanskrit pronunciation, and mudra practices that go along with each chant, includes Brahmarpanam Mantra, Ganesha Mantra, Gayatri Mantra, Lokasema Mantra, Mukti Mantra, and Pavamana Mantra.
Teachers will receive 15 CEC hours through Yoga Alliance.
Your Instructor
Cheryl found yoga in 2001 as a way to ease chronic back pain and became instantly enchanted by the subtle connections between the breath, body, mind, and emotions. Students appreciate her deeply educational approach to yoga and her classes weave anatomy, philosophy, asana, mudra, chanting, pranayama, and yoga nidra together for a well-rounded experience delivered with compassion and humor. Cheryl encourages each student to honor where they are in their bodies every time they step onto the mat so deep healing and transformation takes place. She specializes in working with people over 50, cancer patients, and those with structural injuries and ailments.
Her training with master Hatha teachers from Piedmont Yoga Studio in Oakland, California, and the Integrative Yoga Therapy school at Kripalu helps her to blend both traditional Hatha teachings and alignment principles with subtle energy work and intuitive healing. She is certified as an E-RYT 500 through Yoga Alliance and maintains their certification as a continuing education provider. In 2016, she was among the first group of teachers to be certified through the International Association of Yoga Therapists as a C-IAYT. She has been a Reiki practitioner since 1997 and was certified as a Holy Fire® III Karuna® Reiki Master in 2019. She currently works at the Mindfulness Center as a Master Faculty Teacher.
Her training with master Hatha teachers from Piedmont Yoga Studio in Oakland, California, and the Integrative Yoga Therapy school at Kripalu helps her to blend both traditional Hatha teachings and alignment principles with subtle energy work and intuitive healing. She is certified as an E-RYT 500 through Yoga Alliance and maintains their certification as a continuing education provider. In 2016, she was among the first group of teachers to be certified through the International Association of Yoga Therapists as a C-IAYT. She has been a Reiki practitioner since 1997 and was certified as a Holy Fire® III Karuna® Reiki Master in 2019. She works as a Master Faculty Teacher for the Mindfulness Center and leads teacher trainings across the country.
As a yoga therapist with over 1,800 hours of individual client experience, Cheryl co-creates home practices that meet the lifestyle needs of her wide variety of clients. As a teacher, she has taught over 8,290 hours of public classes, workshops and retreats in studios and cancer centers nationwide, and serves on the faculty of several teacher training and yoga therapy schools across the country. As a mentor, she helps to develop both aspiring and seasoned yoga teachers. As a researcher, her Healing Yoga for Cancer Survivorship study on the benefits of yoga for reducing side-effects of cancer treatment has been presented at IAYT's Symposium on Yoga Research and the Society of Integrative Oncology's annual conferences in 2015 and highlighted in Yoga Journal. Cheryl and is a published author with three Yoga Nidra CDs and a companion DVD to the cancer research available from her discography.