Workshops at The Breathing Project
On many weekends throughout the year, The Breathing Project will offer workshops that will be of interest to students and teachers of yoga. Taught by the finest educators in the fields of yoga, movement, anatomy and associated fields of study, our workshop program offers a variety of ways to deepen your yoga practice.
Workshop presenters will be drawn from our roster of highly qualified teachers, as well many top professionals visiting from all over the world.
To register for an upcoming workshop, use the PayPal inks, or register by e-mail .
Read about our Cancellation Policy.
Social Action, Interdependence and Community weekend
with Jill Satterfield, Founder and Director of the School for Compassionate Action
Friday, February 5 from 6-8:30pm (by donation)
Saturday, February 6 from 11am-6pm $135
Sunday, February 7 from 11am-4pm $90
Discounted fee for both days: $200
Join us.
For an introduction to the School for Compassionate Action: Yoga & Meditation for Communities in Need.
Practice with us.
Practice is an integral part of the School for Compassionate Action. Experience Metta - loving kindness meditation - for yourself as well as others. Break down the illusion of separate-ness, of seeing self and other as different - recognize the interconnected web that wraps us all together. Every action. Every heart beat. Every being.
Be Part of our Local Community.
As we support each other in facing the challenges of being helpful to others who are suffering and need our help. There are many ways to help others – we are focused on sharing the traditions of yoga, meditation and compassion. If you are too – join us and find out more!
Saturday Program, Part 1:
How Tonglen (giving and sending) Meditation can help those in need; Seated and in Motion
Bringing a caring quality of mind, heart and being to working with others, begins with a quality of care and presence with our self first.
The ability we have to help others also depends on our own inner clarity, good intentions and practices. This workshop is for anyone interested in, or already in the field of helping others with the traditions of yoga and meditation.
We will focus on Tonglen meditation as a vehicle for releasing negativity, grasping, judging and healing - both in seated meditation and yoga practice.
Sunday Program, Part 2:
Teaching and Applying Tonglen (giving and sending) Meditation; Seated and in Motion
The focus of this workshop will be how Tonglen may be applied to specific populations: at risk youth and adults, those in recovery programs and those with chronic pain and illnesses.
For more information or to register, go to the SCA website or email info@schoolforcompassionateaction.org
Preventing Burnout: A Yoga Workshop for Social Workers and other Helping Professionals
with Susanna Eckblad and Julia Hough
Monday, March 8 from 1:00-4:30pm
$50 Early Registration by February 22
$60 Thereafter
How do you sustain yourself while helping others? Social worker/yoga teacher Susanna Eckblad and yoga therapist Julia Hough will address this important issue and provide you with tools for stress reduction and greater career fulfillment.
Experience how various aspects of yoga can support and inform you professionally in addressing and preventing burnout. You will practice breathing techniques, calming yoga postures, and meditation exercises, and you will learn yogic principles that broaden your understanding of the path of helping others.
Leave this afternoon workshop feeling restored and with a renewed vision of your capacity to serve others. No previous yoga experience is necessary.
About the Teachers:
Susanna Eckblad is a social worker who finds alternatives to incarceration for people charged with violating parole. In addition she teaches yoga and meditation to female inmates in a New York City federal prison. She has been a yoga practitioner for over ten years and in 2008 she completed the Conquering Lion Yoga teacher training with senior Jivamukti instructor Kelly Morris.
Susanna believes that the teachings of yoga have the potential to bring about profound change in our whole lives--not just our bodies--and is particularly interested in bringing these teachings to other social workers and the individuals they serve.
Julia Hough is a yoga therapist trained through Integrative Yoga Therapy and Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy. She helps individuals with a range of physical and emotional difficulties—including stress, back pain, and chronic illness. Julia teaches classes in therapeutic yoga and restorative yoga in the New York City area.
Prior to becoming a yoga therapist, as an acquisitions editor with Cambridge University Press, Julia came into contact with many leading thinkers in the field of psychology. She combines her broad knowledge of yoga and psychological principles in creating engaging and transformative workshops on a variety of topics.
For more information, email Register@breathingproject.org
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beginning october 2009! The school for body-mind centering presents embodied anatomy & yoga with amy matthews and roxlyn moret
OCTOBER 2009: A new BMC & Yoga Certification Course
The School for Body-Mind Centering will offer a 16-month long program in Embodied Anatomy & Yoga, taught by Amy Matthews and Roxlyn Moret.
For more information contact the School for Body-Mind Centering
THE MELT 8-WEEK INTENSIVE
with Edya Kalev
Dates TBA in the Fall of 2010
Mondays 6:30-7:45pm
$275
In this in-depth program, we will explore the foundational concepts of MELT and learn the exercises thoroughly and sequentially, including: Breathing, Core Balancing, the Upper Limbs and Shoulders, the Lower Limbs and Hips, and the Spine.
For more information about the MELT Method and this special program, please go to our class descriptions page.
Breathing Project Workshop Cancellation Policy
- up to 2 weeks before – REFUND. Deposit will be refunded, minus 15% processing fee per person
- up to 7 days before – CREDIT. Deposit minus 15% processing fee may be transferred to another Breathing Project workshop or course within 18 months of cancellation
- less than 7 days before – No refunds or cancellations
If you need to withdraw due to an emergency once a course begins, you may transfer the remaining pro-rated tuition to another class or be refunded at the rate of 80% per remaining day of the course in question. The same reimbursement rate will apply in the unlikely event that you are asked to withdraw by the teaching staff.
Each situation will be assessed individually, however by registering for any Breathing Project course, you agree to abide by these policies.
