The teacher clinics at Functional Synergy 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 - not only the names of muscles and where they are located, and which asanas do this or that, but also to truly understand how a body moves.
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The Path to Becoming a Therapeutic Yoga Teacher
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Pre-Requisite Training
Pre-Requisite Training
12 hours of pre-requisite training are required before attending the Therapeutic Yoga Intensive.
The purpose of the pre-requisite is two-fold:
- it gives you a chance to “kick my tires”, and to see if what I offer resonates with you.
- You learn the basic fundamentals so that when you take the Intensive you truly are ready to deepen your understanding of movement, healing and therapeutic programming.
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Therapeutic Yoga Intensive
Therapeutic Yoga Intensive
The purpose of the Therapeutic Yoga Intensive is two-fold:
- for you to experience a depth of ease that you didn't feel was quite possible before.
- I want to give you the basics of working with therapeutic yoga "Susi style" so that after 4 days you can get back into your teaching and apply what you have learned.
These 4 days are transformative, and even the most skeptical yoga teachers who have applied these techniques have been simply amazed with the results. The key is to understand how a body moves and the relationship between body movement, lack of movement, breath and emotional states. When you understand and can apply these concepts, and 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.
What Yogis are Saying:
"So, I've just returned from my client with Parkinsons. She's been quite depressed about how her leg is starting to drag. Today, after a while doing stuff on her back, I got her up and asked her to walk around and tell me how she felt. 'Oh Gillian,' she said after a couple of minutes. ‚ 'Can you see, my leg's not dragging nearly as much!' What is this stuff? Magic?" ~Gillian S.
Pre-Requisite: 12 hours of training with me are required.
Price: $1479
Early Bird: $1365
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Co-Teach with Susi
Co-Teach with Susi
This is your chance to take your training and understanding to the next level. For 3 days, you will teach real students. I'll be by your side to watch, guide, suggest, correct, praise and build your confidence.
I will supply the students and all you need to do is show up! Over the 4 years that I have taught this program it is by far the most mind blowing experience following the Therapeutic Yoga Intensive.
Price: $799
Early Bird: $699
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Improve Your Ability to See
Improve Your Ability to See
Over these 2 days, you will learn, understand and see what is going on beneath the skin. We will explore, for example, why some SI joint pain only releases with shoulder work, while other SI pain releases with pelvic work.
In all, this 2 day program will "give you eyes" and you'll leave with an understanding of how musculo-skeleta-fascial relationships relate to movement and to yoga. It will enhance your assessment skills and transform your teaching.
Price: $399
Early Bird: $349
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Year Long Certification Program
Year Long Certification Program
The Functional Synergy Year Long Certification Program is a comprehensive program designed to develop you into a highly skilled therapeutic yoga teacher.
What you will learn can be divided into two broad categories:
- 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 who have different conditions.
- 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 have completed the Therapeutic Yoga Intensive and are interested in applying, please contact us for more information.
To Apply for the Certification Program you need to do and provide the following:
- Teach 5 students successfully and provide case studies on their progress.
- Provide testimonials from these 5 people.
- Film a one hour session of you teaching a private session.
Susi's Teaching Philosophy
Easy to Learn and Simple to Apply: I like simplicity. You can find me often drawing models and diagrams to make a complex concept easy to understand and apply to someone's practice. I want you to be inspired to take these concepts into your practice, to play, to explore and discover the "ah-has" for yourself.
Come from Experience: Once you have experienced the "ah-has", you become a very powerful communicator. Communicating intellectual knowledge doesn't often land for students; however, when you communicate from what you know from actual experience, students get it. Be authentic. Preach what you Practice.
Susi's Teaching Experience
Since 1994 I have been working with students teaching them concepts of Anatomy and Physiology, first as a Physiology teaching assistant at the University of Victoria, then with clients at a multi-disciplinary rehabilitation facility and then, in 1997 with yoga students and in 2001 with yoga teachers and teacher trainees.
Anatomy is a brilliant way of exploring asanas. Through the physical structure of joints, muscles, fascia, and through physiological actions like psycho-neuro-endocrinological processes we can explore the relationship of yoga on ourselves and ourselves on our yoga practice. Essentially our bodies are the mirrors of our lives.
