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Yoga for Mental Health - 3 full days with Michael Olabode & Ella Shewring


Your investment: $799 (For a 25% + discount, register for the complete RYT-300 pathway)

Are you looking to become an even more powerful yoga teacher with the ability to share yoga not only on the mat, but transform peoples’ lives by creating lasting change? Society at large is currently at a point where people are struggling to cope with life’s stresses and mental health issues like anxiety, depression and burnout abound. Being able to taylor your yoga classes and workshops to the needs of people suffering from such issues is not only a great gift, but also a highly relevant skill set in the crowded health & wellness market.

Topics:

  • Presence, Practice and Non-Attachment

  • How to teach Yoga Nidra, Pranayama and Meditation to support mental health

  • How to use the various branches of yoga to maintain mental health and wellbeing

  • How to hold a healing space within an asana class

  • Asana

  • Dharana

  • Dhyanam

  • Kriya Yoga (incl pratyahara/dharana/meditation techniques and tapas, svadyaya, ishwara pranidhana)

  • Trataka

  • Kapalabhati

  • Brahmari

  • Mantra Yoga


Accreditation credits: 30hrs towards your RYT-500 accreditation with Yoga Alliance

Time: 7am - 4pm on Friday, Saturday and Sunday

Investment: $799

To receive a 25% + discount, contact us to register for the complete RYT-500 pathway

This workshop is for accredited RYT-200 yoga teachers as well as students of all levels.

Make sure to book early to avoid disappointment! Advanced workshops can book out well ahead of time. This workshop is part of a series of workshop weekends that will allow you to collect credits towards your RYT-500 accreditation with Yoga Alliance.


About your facilitators

Michael Olabode is a yoga philosophy teacher, personal development facilitator and international speaker who travels around Australia, Africa, Asia and Europe to help people build their self-awareness through a blend of modern self-development tools and age old yogic philosophy.

At 17, he became a young entrepreneur, studied Business and traded commodities from aluminium to sugar in the heart of London. He was noticed by Young Enterprise after joint-founding a company that personalised gifts in London. It won a Future100 award for ethical and environmentally-friendly business.

While still at university, he met a student of the mentor of both Muhammad Ali & Nelson Mandela who exposed him to eastern philosophy.

After graduating and trading for a global bank, Michael decided to explore the wisdom of yoga further. Having been to India 11 times in the last 10 years to study yogic wisdom, he was invited to teach and host interactive seminars in universities and institutions in places like the UK, Belgium, Netherlands, Nigeria, India, Australia & NZ. Since arriving in Australia, he has taught Yoga Philosophy on a series of Level 1 and Level 2 yoga teachers trainings.


Ella Shewring has 10+ years of teaching experience, combined with a background in psychology with a bachelor and graduate degrees. This has fostered her understanding of the genuinely therapeutic nature of yoga for our mental health and wellbeing, establishing a psychosomatic framework for personal transformation, and ultimately spiritual transcendence.

In this advanced training, Ella will focus on supporting you in developing the confidence and skills you need to support yoga students to become self-regulated, autonomous and authentic practitioners of yoga. As she does in her own classes, Ella will share how to offer students opportunities to cultivate emotional intelligence through authentic self-enquiry. She will also share the psychosomatic benefits of yoga for self-regulation, resilience, and self-empowerment, through yogic practices such as meditation, pranayama, kriya and yoga nidra.

Please get in touch if you have any questions - we are happy to help…