Mindfulness and Meditation for Women's Mental Health
Personal Growth Course and optional Teacher Training Module
JOIN ONLINE via ZOOM and optional in-person outdoor class every Saturday.
This training is for absolute beginners to regular meditation practitioners and yoga teachers.
ENROLMENT NOW OPEN
8 Week Training
Starts 22nd February 2022.
Ends April 16th.
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Tuesdays- 6am online.
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Saturdays- 6:30am online or in person at outdoor studio.
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Join the Video replays if you can't join LIVE.
Photo features our Saturday outdoor workshop space in the Sutherland Shire. Address is given upon enrolment.
8 WEEK COURSE for Personal Growth
Personal Growth Track.
If you will do this training for your personal growth and mental health, you have 28 hours of classes and your weekly program looks like this.
Step 1: Listen to the weekly audio class (block out about 75 mins). Option to write in your journal to record your insights.
Step 2: Join the Tuesday class LIVE (6am-7am) or via the ZOOM replay.
Step 3: Join the first hour (6:30-7:30am) of the Saturday workshop in person or via the ZOOM replay.
* You may decided you want to join the Teacher Training Track after the first few weeks. This is possible. Everything is video recorded and myself and the trainees will support you to catch up on what you have missed.
Payment includes access to all videos/audios/transcripts/notes/journal workbooks.
Personal Growth Track. The total investment of the course is $450
EARLY BIRD ENROLMENT NOW OPEN.
Pay upfront by February 20th 2022, and SAVE $135 OFF the full fee.
Pay just $315 ($39 per week)
ADD the Teacher Training Module (total 40 hours)
5 Hours of Training per week.
If you will do this training to gain certification, your weekly program looks like this.
Step 1: Listen to the weekly audio class and write in your journal and submit your answers to the questions each week via a Google Document shared with Shivani (90 mins).
Step 2: Join the Tuesday class LIVE (6am-7am) or via the ZOOM replay.
Step 3: Join the 2 hour Saturday workshop (6:30-8:30am) in person or via the ZOOM replay.
Step 4: Block out a personal practice session throughout the week. Dedicate 2 x 15 minute sessions to practice one of the meditations and write in your journal.
Week 8 includes Step 5: Guide a 20 minute meditation class and receive feedback from Shivani and your peers in the last week of the course, or during the week you apply for CEU points with Yoga Alliance.
Teacher Training Track. The total investment of the course is $560 for 40 hour CEU.
EARLY BIRD ENROLMENT NOW OPEN.
SAVE $168.00 OFF the standard fee.
Pay just $392 ($49 per week).
Weekly Payment Plan
Upfront payment is designed to encourage commitment and full participation, but if you need to pay weekly (and are willing to commit to the whole 8 weeks), a weekly payment plan is available.
Personal Growth Track: Pay $120 upfront + $28/week for 7 weeks (Total $316)
Teacher Training Track: Pay $150 upfront + $35/ week for 7 weeks (Total $395)
IMPORTANT INFORMATION for Teacher Training Track.
If you are already a Yoga Teacher or Meditation Facilitator and wish to guide others through a Mindfulness and Meditation course or add on meditation to the end of your yoga classes, this is the Track for you. Upon completion of the training you will be able to add 40 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) to your annual YACEP program with Yoga Alliance.
To guide others effectively, your blissipline to personal practice, the classes and workshops in this training is essential. To complete the course you must guide a 20 minute meditation class in the last week of the course, or during the week you apply for CEU points with Yoga Alliance.
To gain Continuing Education Units (CEU) , you need to already be a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) and you need to register your participation on the Yoga Alliance (YA) website BEFORE the start of the course otherwise you will not be eligible for CEU points. I will assist you in this process once payment has been made. Please notify me once you have made payment
CE is calculated on an hourly basis, so if you have a cut off date to register CEU to keep your status as a YA RYT before the course ends on April 23rd, you can receive a certificate with the total hours you have done up until that point, and upon early completion of your 20 minute class during that week of applying for your CEU. Please inquire if you are unsure of what this means.
As we continue to live with the impact of the pandemic, there has never been a more important time to repeatedly take actions to nourish your mental health and encourage others to do the same.
Research shows that women are more vulnerable to stress and post-traumatic stress disorder than men particularly by 18-24 and 45-64 age groups. Women with children are also more likely to report symptoms of anxiety and/or depressive disorder than men with children (49% vs. 40%). *
Prevalence of stress, anxiety, depression among the general population during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Nader Salari (and others). Globalization and Health volume 16, Article number: 57 (2020)
The training is a combination of online and optional in-person (outdoor) classes. You can join all sessions online via ZOOM if you prefer.
You will be able to access the personal practice videos, audios, notebooks, and transcripts via a membership site.
Training Overview
- Understand how to harness the power of your mind to enhance your health, relationships, and your life purpose.
- Reduce stress, self-judgment, physical pain, and anxiety.
- Learn practical ways of improving your well-being, productivity, interactions with others, and sleep.
- In the uplifting environment of group energy, you will develop the positive habit of meditation and mindfulness.
- Overcome common mental obstacles like excessive worrying, constant mind chatter, unhealthy cravings, repressed anger, procrastination, attachment to the past, doubts about your future.
- If you are already a Yoga teacher and wish to teach mindfulness and meditation, you can complete the teacher training component to receive 40 CEU points with Yoga Alliance.
- You will learn how to lead small groups of people to raise the quality of their life with mindfulness and meditation.
- Gain the confidence to teach traditional methods ( breath and physical sensations, self-compassion, spiritual insight etc), and also learn how to teach emotional awareness, emotional release, and emotional celebration techniques in a safe way.
- You will find your unique way to empower others to cultivate resilience, inner peace and joy.
Some of the course content is standard in the mindfulness and meditation world, but if you know Shivani, you know she is a fusionist and weaves her feminine magic for a unique and interesting adventure specific to the needs and desires of women.
Metaphorical Framework: Understand the workings of the mind and body through the lens of nature's cycle, the 8 elements, and the 8 energy vortexes (chakras).
Hormones and the Brain: Learn about about the female brain, the role of hormones on mental health and well-being. Learn how to also help the boys and men in your life.
Mindful Movement and Breath-work: Learn the most effective movements (joint mobilisations and qigong) and breathwork practices to bring ease and flexibility to the body so that seated meditation is comfortable for yourself and your students.
Core Mindfulness Skills: inquiry, awareness, body scans, breath-work, concentration.
Mind Recognition: Learn how to recognise mind hindrances to get to the root of what's making you (or a student/client) stressed and create practical ways to overcome it.
Heart-Brain Practices: Meditations to cultivate forgiveness, loving kindness, compassion, joy, and peace.
Active Meditations: Learn the still and active meditations and when to apply them (sound meditations, meditation walking, breathing meditations)
Transformational applications: Learn how to apply still and active meditations to address stress, anxiety, depression, physical pain, and relationship conflict.
Teacher Training Module Only.
Current research: Establish a familiarity with the latest science on the affects of meditation, and the heart-brain connection. Learn how to simply explain the benefits to others.
Teaching Techniques: Develop skills and confidence to teach individuals and small groups. Understand the ethics of the student-teacher relationship. Design and promote a course to share with your friends and community members.
Even if you have no intention of ever teaching mindfulness and meditation, you will find the teacher training module (Saturday's workshop 7:30-8:30am) very interesting and beneficial in terms of understanding interpersonal relationships, so I encourage you to apply for the Teacher Training Track. The discussions about the theory and neuroscience, confidence building skills, listening to others, and the Q&A session tends to deepen your personal growth practice.
Teacher Trainer: Shivani is co-founder of the Sunrise Yoga and Meditation Academy (SYAMA). She is a Yoga and Meditation Teacher Trainer with 25 years experience having trained and taught in Japan, China, India, Bali, and Australia.
As a long time massage therapist, Shivani also has expertise in pain therapy, hormonal health, and the way the mind affects physical health.
Currently training as a counsellor, her areas of interest include how to effectively apply embodied mindfulness and meditation to stress, anxiety, depression and relationship issues.
Shivani has been teaching and refining her Mindfulness and Meditation course over the last 6 years, and offers this new 40 training upon the requests of past and current students.
Weekly and Monthly Schedule (Calendars are best viewed on your desktop)
Listen to the audio class on a day and time to suit you. If you miss the Tuesday or Saturday LIVE class you can catch up via the video replay. Teacher Training students are encouraged to do solo practice for 15 minutes x 2 days throughout the week.
FAQ
Why do this course rather than follow an app?
Why is Community such an important element of this course ?
Why do the Teacher Training Module?
Why will we learn and practice a set sequence of movements before we sit and meditate?
