The Live Trainings are for yoga teachers, teacher trainees and yoga students who want to learn more. They are part of a unique process to help you understand anatomy in movement so that you are able to help your students prevent injury, progress in their practice, and if they are injured, how to reduce pain and create a plan to enable them to return to their regular practice.

Here is the pathway for enhancing your skill with Susi's Live Trainings:

• Kinesiology of Yoga

• Therapeutic Yoga Intensive

• Certification Mentoring Package

• Yoga Therapy Certification Program

The first three are currently being offered in Vancouver in Feb 2013, in Calgary in April 2013 and in Toronto in September 2013. To check out the dates, prices and details - go to www.functionalsynergy.com/shop/trainings. The intake for the 2013-2014 Yoga Therapy Certification program is open. Closing date is June 15, and the program begins in August.

Kinesiology of Yoga

If you are new to my style of teaching, this is the necessary pre-requisite for the Therapeutic Yoga Intensive. I call it my "no fuss, no muss", let's get into the Annaymaya Kosha and dig into biomechanics. When you leave you will understand biomechanical principles as they relate to asanas, alignment and yoga cueing. We'll explore physical concepts - fascia, muscle, bone, and how these concepts work together to create a yoga practice. Come to this session if you have ever asked "why do some teachers teach heel to arch, and others heel to heel"; or  "why do some students understand a yoga cue and others don't"; or "why am I so darn stuck in this pose, nothing I do seems to help". Join me - let's dig in, let's create some physical space so that tapas can occur and prana can arise.

To register: go to www.functionalsynergy.com/shop/trainings.

Therapeutic Yoga Intensive

This session is for you to build your knowledge of movement, breath and ease . . . both for your own body as well as deepening your understanding of how to help another. I will show you the foundational basics of what I do with each person I see, and how you can apply it to your students.

I've had much success since 1993 when I first started working therapeutically with movement. Back then I was an exercise therapist. In 1999, I started using yoga - breath, asanas, and philosophy to help people out of pain. It is a great pleasure for me to share what I have seen work.

The purpose of the Therapeutic Yoga Intensive is two-fold:

1. To experience a depth of ease that you didn't feel was quite possible before.
2. To learn the basics of working with therapeutic yoga "Functional Synergy style" so that after 5 days you can get back into your teaching and apply what you have learned.

These 5 days are transformative, and even the most skeptical yoga teachers who have applied these techniques have been simply amazed with the results. The keys are to understand how a body moves and to understand the relationship between body movement, lack of movement, breath and emotional states. When you understand and can apply these concepts, you'll be able to help many, many people.
Bonus: During the training you will receive both a manual and a bundle of yoga props so you can integrate these concepts immediately into your teaching.

Pre-Requisite: You must have 12 hours of training with me prior to registering for Therapeutic Yoga Intensive. If you already have had 12 hours with me, great. Otherwise, Kinesiology of Yoga counts as the pre-requisite and is always offered in the two days just prior to Therapeutic Yoga Intensive.

Certification Mentoring Package

Following your participation in the Therapeutic Yoga Intensive, this is the 2nd step toward participating in the Certification Program.

Following your participation in the Therapeutic Yoga Intensive, we will team you up with a Mentor to support you in applying the principles you learned. This is a sure-fire way to build your confidence, accelerate your ability to support your students in reducing their pain, and build your practice.

Here is what is included:

1. Three online (via Skype or similar online service) or live visits with a "Susi Trained Mentor". These visits will focus both on your own practice and your results with your students. Your Mentor will also guide you in your case study write ups so that you produce a very strong application for the Certification Program.  (If you are at all concerned with working on Skype, don't be. We have tremendous success working with people online). 
2. Susi's "Start Up" ToolKit. This is a series of audio and video tools for growing your teaching skills as well as building your business so that you gain the traction you need to be successful as a yoga therapist.

To register: go to www.functionalsynergy.com/shop/trainings.

... Advance your Practice

Mentorship Forum

This ongoing mentoring forum is only for yoga teachers that have completed the Therapeutic Yoga Intensive and want to be part of a growing community to connect, share, brainstorm and grow. Not only will you receive a monthly lesson from Susi packed with ideas and considerations for your practice, you will also have the opportunity to teach and share with the others on the board, and brainstorm on student issues. It is an amazing community who share your thinking, provide reminders on the principles you learned at the Intensive. If you are interested in joining this program and have completed the Therapeutic Yoga Intensive, please email us at health@functionalsynergy.com

Assistants Program

The assistants program is for yoga teachers who want to work with Susi at her trainings and who want to make a difference for the participants in the room. We are finalizing details on this program, and if you are interested in any of the trainings, please email us at health@functionalsynergy.com. Assistants can only participate in this program if they have completed the training themselves. (ie: to assist at Therapeutic Yoga Intensive - you must have taken this training).

Yoga Therapy Certification Program

My Yoga Therapy Certification Program is a comprehensive program designed to develop you into a highly skilled therapeutic yoga teacher. I will share the skills and tools necessary to get great results with students. The next program begins in Aug 2013 and the application deadline is June 15, 2013.
What you will learn can be divided into two broad categories:

1. Therapeutic yoga techniques and program design that are proven to help people get well. You'll have the tools to work with many different clients, with many different conditions.
2. Instructions and guidance in how to work successfully with clients. You'll learn how to work with clients one-on-one, in group programs and in workshops. You’ll learn that it is in the space between the client and teacher where the healing occurs.

In the end you'll be confident that you can teach your clients how to get out of pain and you'll have the information and tools to help them every step of the way.

If you are interested in this program - please email us at health@functionalsynergy.com for more info. You must have completed Kinesiology of Yoga, Therapeutic Yoga Intensive and the Certification Mentoring Package and have put the knowledge from these programs into practice for 3 months.

If you have trained with Susi in the past - How To Teach Restorative Yoga and Improve Your Ability To See are accepted in lieu of the Certification Mentoring Program when applying for Certification