This training is limited to certified yoga teachers.
This 2-day weekend immersion will explore foundations of mindfulness and meditation while weaving together understandings from modern psychology with ancient, living philosophies of Yoga, Buddha dharma, and South Asian Tāntrik traditions. Explore various styles of practice through movement, stillness, and reflection. Nurture innate presence with awareness of: the senses, sensations of body and breath, thoughts and emotions, flow of attention, and awareness itself. This course is for 200 and 300-hour level yoga teachers who are:
Interested in deepening and/or reconnecting with their personal meditation practice.
Looking to integrate meditation into their offerings in creative, therapeutic ways.
Curious about the way meditation works and how it supports mindful attention, heartful presence, and purposeful engagement.
Ready to broaden their teaching to include contemplative practices of self-care and collective caring.
This weekend course will be led by Rashmi Bismark, MD, MPH with expansion upon material via virtual sessions facilitated by Shannon Stephens and Rashmi throughout the month. Expect to learn facets of practice and guiding meditation, reflect upon your own experiences of body:heart:mind:behavior, explore essential attitudes that support present awareness, incorporate philosophy in relevant ways, and enrich mindful ways of living in relationship with this life.
When?
Saturday & Sunday, February 8-9th from 8:00 am - 6:00 pm
4 Thursday Nights in February from 6:00-8:30 pm (February 6, 13, 20, and 27)
Pricing
$600 | A teaching manual and 1-month unlimited membership to This Land Yoga are included in the cost of the training.
Prerequisites
Participants must have a 200-hour yoga teaching certification to enroll.
CE Hours vs 300-Hour YTT Credit
This course is part of our 300-hour teacher training program. Participants not enrolled in our training are eligible to receive 30 CEU's.
About Rashmi
Rashmi Bismark, MD, MPH is a mom, writer, and board-certified physician specialized in Preventive Medicine whose clinical practice is focused on facilitating mindfulness-based programs to support whole health. Her experience in public health, health behavior, lifestyle medicine, and complementary therapies informs her work as a certified yoga and mindfulness meditation teacher. A dedicated student-practitioner of yoga, Dr. Rashmi has been teaching meditation for Yoga Medicine teacher trainings with Tiffany Cruikshank since 2017 and is a regular guest teacher on Yoga Medicine Online. She is also a contributor to Accessible Yoga School's online Making Meditation Accessible course with Jivana Heyman and friends.
As the daughter of immigrants, a mom, and humble steward of Yoga from the Indian diaspora, she hopes to inspire mindful ways of engaging with life for her generation and generations to come. Dr. Rashmi’s personal explorations and experiences of sharing ways of living mindfully with her own children sparked her first children's picture book, FINDING OM (Mango & Marigold Press, 2020).
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