Yoga Mountain now offers National Yoga Alliance approved teacher training for parents, school teachers, everyone who wants to teach yoga to young people!
Young Mountain Yoga is a new certification program based on our 16 years of work in schools, homes, yoga studios, hospitals, playgrounds, inclusive of all ages, body-types, dispositions, disorders, attitudes, physical handicaps – you name it!. Yoga helps us all to focus and self-regulate.
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January 30th, 2012
snail time over
March 26th, 2011
We’re moving into the home stretch for folks in the YM teacher certification program to finish up so we can start fresh this coming fall with our delightful new partner, Nancy Mahon and Sanctuary Yoga Studios. June is the graduation! Come on in and finish up, all you yogis who’ve been rocking along at a snail’s pace. The time has come!
Our new old home
November 14th, 2010
When Nancy Mahon called weeks back and left a message she was thinking of opening a yoga studio where Yoga Mountain used to thrive, at 132 Park Ave. in New City, NY, I thought how hard it had been – the years of running a business, paying the rent, keeping the cold off the many gentle and enthusiastic yoga teachers and students, but what a grand and infinitely challenging journey: what a gift to us all.
Think of Shiva’s pose. You’ve seen the bronze statures where Shiva’s foot is raised high and when it comes down, the tiny skull (the past) at Shiva’s feet will be crushed. Every time I do that asana, and my foot crashes down metaphorically on the well-worn patterns in my mind, and untried paths burst forth, I understand anew why I’m practicing yoga.
Nancy Mahon’s Sanctuary Yoga Studios is opening Dec 4th. Many of us are teaching with her, and the Yoga Mountain 200 hour, (300)500 hour, and Yoga Therapy Certification Programs will be offered there starting Wednesday Dec 8 at 7:30pm. A week later, on Dec 15th, will be graduation for students in the 200 hour and yoga therapy programs.
Our first intensive session 12:30 to 5:30 pm on Saturday, December 18, will give us a deep study of anatomy led by Christopher Rosen, D.PE. Any and ALL yoga students are welcome to these workshops.
Everything changes, The new space is beautiful, and the certification programs are high tech, fierce, grounded in nature, focused not only on individual practise but on learning the necessary communication skills to bring the study of yoga to the wide world.
Our partnership with Kelly Kamm at Happy Buddha Yoga in Goshen, NY is a big part of Yoga Mountain’s Certification programs now, with students from both sides of the river from northern Rockland, Orange, and Westchester Counties. Like Kelly Kamm, Nancy Mahon will be assisting in the program as she works toward completeing her 500 hour certification.
Ronda Lam DiChiaro, Janet Vignola and Theresa Mihalopolous are senior instructors with Yoga Mountain Cert Programs, and my gratitude to them for their loyalty and passion in teaching.
letting go the need to keep my arm still
October 4th, 2010
If I’d used a cloth sling for support instead of holding my right arm rigid by my own will, the arm would have healed a lot sooner. I know that now. My body knew no loss of function then, only the head on my apex restrained every muscle in ignorance. Because the doctors and nurses were emphatic that I shouldn’t, under any circumstance, move my arm or raise my hand higher than the shoulder joint. New wires had been installed in my thorax which needed time (so they said) to root.
Within those two non-moving months of inertia , my brachial plexus froze; Now I know something of immobility, arthritis, numbness, and loss of range of motion. In yoga the effort for me used to always be in surrender; now it’s in inciting strength within my chest through extension with open arms.
We involved in teacher certification had twelve hours of workshops this past weekend, October 1,2,3, that turned out fascinating. Who knows what actually happened? We did indeed explore so truly. I want to thank Janet Vignola and Ronda Lam DiChiaro — our wonderful, inspired teachers, for being there.
I tend to write these serious epistles to hope you all well.
Let me know your thoughts…
Don’t let it hook the heart
September 8th, 2010
The Chinese have a saying, ‘don’t let it hook the heart.’ (‘boo yah dhan shin’ is how it sounds to me when I hear it spoken) Our focus this month in the certification program is yoga as a healing art, and Ronda talked so truthfully this past Sunday at the session in Goshen about people coming to yoga to heal. The Chinese have another saying – there is no end to things of the heart; likewise, there is no end to hope and healing.
Certification students at Yoga Mountain have the chance now to work with a dedicated team of yogis and get clinical intern experience. Starting this fall we’ll be giving classes in mental health locations in Rockland and Orange Counties as volunteer teachers.
This is one way for students in theYoga Mountain certification programs to learn in the field. And get ‘elective’ credit at the same time.
May we go on gaining more and more heart and healing each other at every turn.