Yoga Teacher Enhancement Series
January 5, 2025 February 2, 2025
with Gabrielle Semel, ERYT 500, AHC
SERIES OF CLASSES

10:30am - 12:30pm. Root into the Soil; Ground Your Teaching. Ground yourself in the foundation of your voice and presence. Just as a strong root anchors a tree, a centered starting point strengthens your teaching. This workshop offers practices in self-study, intention setting, and pranayama to help you establish a deeper, more stable connection to your own guiding voice and teaching path. Setting a tone and a theme.

1:30 - 3:30pm. Explore the landscape; Break the mold. Feeling stuck in routine? We all develop systems and patterns in our teaching—whether in sequence design, resource selection, room setup, or playlists. This workshop invites you to step beyond these familiar structures and explore new dimensions of creativity. Through self-study, asana, pranayama, and meditation, you’ll learn to infuse your teaching with intuition, spontaneity, and playfulness. Embrace the unknown and discover fresh ways to inspire yourself and your students. Sequence development.

6:00 - 8:00pm. Refine Your Will. Investigate, purify, and redirect your inner drive. What fuels your actions? With what energy do you approach your work and life? This workshop helps you look within to understand the roots of your motivations, uncovering where your will is empowered and where it may need redirection. Through self-study, asana, pranayama, and yoga nidra, you’ll engage in practices that soothe, nurture, and invigorate your will, strengthening your sense of purpose and clarity.

10:30am - 12:30pm. Open Up. Exploring the spectrum between a standard teaching style and one that fosters a deeper connection with your students involves cultivating presence, awareness, and receptivity to their needs. By refining your “listening” skills—both in terms of physical cues and the emotional or energetic atmosphere of the room—you can create a more responsive, student-centered environment. Partner work, Pranayama, Meditation. Body reading and hands-on assists.

1:30 - 3:30pm. Clear the Channel. Liberating your creative potential involves understanding the flow of energy within the system and how it interacts with the mind, body, and spirit. The process of receiving inspiration, processing it, and then channeling that energy into action is where many of us can get stuck. To create a clear pathway from insight to expression, it’s important to address the barriers that may exist along the way. Whether it’s in your own practice or when guiding others, the key is creating an environment where expression is nurtured, boundaries are respected, and inspiration is given the space it needs to transform into action. Pranayama, Japa Mantra Meditation.