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Ramapo offers yoga and mindfulness classes within the academic curriculum. Please see the Contemplative Studies Minor web page:\u00a0https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/majors-minors\/majors\/contemplative-studies\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Yoga Workshops<\/h1>\n

REGISTRATION REQUIRED! WORKSHOP DETAILS:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to Register for All Yoga Workshops Listed Below<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n

All events are $45 for Community and $25 for Ramapo Student\/Alumni\/Staff. The cost of\u00a0 Yoga Nidra Teaching Workshop (For Yoga Teachers and Trainees only) (YACEP Credit) with Lena Madsen is $75 for Community.<\/p>\n

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  2. Yoga Nidra Workshop with Lena Madsen
    \n<\/strong>on Saturday, November 20, 2021 from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM<\/li>\n
  3. Trauma and the Wisdom of Yoga (YACEP Credit) with Sarah Couper
    \n<\/strong>on Friday December 3, 2021 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM<\/li>\n
  4. Yoga Nidra Teaching Workshop (For Yoga Teachers and Trainees only) (YACEP Credit) with Lena Madsen
    \n<\/strong>on Saturday, December 5, 2021 from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM<\/li>\n
  5. Vinyasa: Winter Solstice Yoga Flow and Restore with Allison Eagan Datwani
    \n<\/strong>on Saturday, December 11, 2021 2021 from 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM<\/li>\n
  6. Yoga with Children Workshop with Kat Benny
    \n<\/strong>on Saturday, January 8, 2022 from 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    <\/i><\/i><\/i><\/span> Workshop Descriptions - 2021-22 Workshops are Open to Community and Ramapo Faculty, Staff and Students<\/div>
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    Yoga\u00a0with Children<\/strong> Workshop\u00a0<\/strong>with\u00a0Kat Hess<\/p>\n

    Now more than ever, yoga and mindfulness are powerful tools to help support children with self regulation, stress management, and task focus. This workshop will introduce you to many hands on and virtual yoga activities, books, practices, and resources for children. Whether you are looking to use yoga in the classroom or at home with children, this workshop will provide you with many tools, practices, and resources to get started!<\/p>\n

    Chakra Workshop with Allison Egan Datwani<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \u201cChakra\u201d means \u201cenergetic wheel of light.\u201d In ancient India yogis discovered energy centers within the body. These energy centers are responsible for the smooth flow of energy throughout our bodies. When the Chakras are blocked, we can experience disease. When they are open and balanced, good health ensues. In this workshop you will learn how to open the 7 chakras, how to balance them and the science of the chakras. This workshop is 1\/2 lecture and 1\/2 easy to follow yoga and meditation practice. Please prepare a yoga mat and wear comfortable clothes to move in.<\/p>\n

    *Bandha Workshop\u00a0with Allison Egan Datwani<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \u201cBandha\u201d means \u201clock\u201d, more specifically the energetic locks that can be found within our body by controlling our breath. According to yoga we have several locks within our body that we can contract to confine our energy while we hold a pose and breathe. The benefits of having bandha wisdom are many. You may develop an ease in your practice to hold poses and breathe in them longer, jump to the top of your mat from downward facing dog with little to no sound, as well as be supported by your hands on the floor in downward facing dog & arm balances without having your wrists and hands hurt. In this workshop you will learn how and when to use your bandhas while practicing yoga and meditation. This workshop is 1\/2 lecture and 1\/2 easy to follow yoga and meditation practice. Please have ready a yoga mat and wear comfortable clothes to move in.<\/p>\n

    *Trauma and the Wisdom of Yoga with Sarah Couper <\/strong><\/p>\n

    Workshop participants can expect to learn about the nature of different types of trauma and how trauma effects the brain and the body. We will discuss how to make yoga classes trauma-informed using the ancient teachings of yoga and the newer findings about trauma. Participants will experience a trauma-informed yoga class.<\/p>\n

    *Yoga Nidra Workshop with Lena Madsen<\/h4>\n

    Open to Public<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Yoga Nidra: \u00a0Saturday, November 7, 2pm-4:40pm<\/strong> $45 for Community, $10 for 秘密研究所 Students<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Have you ever been in <\/span>Corpse pose<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>at the end of yoga class, and just when you feel yourself start to relax, your teacher calls time? Have you wondered what a longer period of meditation, while in deep relaxation, would be like? What it might do for your stress levels, your physical and emotional health? Well, I have two words for you: Yoga Nidra.<\/span><\/p>\n

    This meditation technique originated in India, where it is known as the “seed of meditation”. Like most modern yoga, it has been modified and westernized to suit the needs of contemporary students. Though Yoga Nidra is often translated as “yogic sleep,” this method is not about getting in a good snooze. Guided by a teacher’s voice, you identify sensations throughout your body and then within your breath.\u00a0 The practice produces deep physical relaxation, which, in it ‘s turn, relaxes your nervous system. There are a myriad of physical and mental benefits to this. In the process of relieving accumulated tension, it will help you to heal deep psychological wounds. It can also provide a way to gain the equanimity necessary to face the stress of daily life. It reintroduces you to the fact that you are always whole within yourself, no matter how broken you might feel.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Join Lena Madsen to learn more about this simple and easily accessible, yet profound, practice. <\/span>Give yourself the opportunity to free yourself from limitations of the past, stress about the present and worries about the future.<\/span><\/i>Dress in soft, comfortable\u00a0 layers so to be able to stay warm no matter the temperature of the room. Avoid belts and pants with buttons.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

    Yoga Nidra Teaching Workshop with Lena Madsen and Carol Bowman<\/strong> Sunday Dec 6 – 2:00-4:30Open only to Yoga Teachers and Trainees) YACEP CEUs available<\/strong><\/p>\n

    In this Workshops yoga teachers and trainees will learn the basics of leading a Yoga Nidra session.You will learn how to guide a Yoga Nidra Session to help your students identify sensations throughout the body and within the breath.\u00a0 The practice, when properly taught, produces deep physical relaxation, which in turn relaxes the nervous system. There are a myriad of physical and mental benefits to this. In the process of relieving accumulated tension it can help your students to heal deep psychological wounds and provide a way to gain the equanimity necessary to face the stress of daily life. This teaching workshop will help you work with students who have experienced trauma and other difficulties, helping them to access the resources they have to find the wholeness that resides within themselves. Join us to add a new practice to your yoga teaching skills!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    Bio for Lena Madsen<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    Lena Madsen<\/p><\/div>\n

    Lena Madsen, LMT, is the founder of Lena Madsen Yoga. Inspired by BKS Ayengar and Rodney Yee, she has been teaching yoga for 24 years. Lena grew up on the west coast of Sweden. At the core of her practice, as well as her teaching, lies a belief in self transformation through self observation. The physical body and the breath are excellent tools for practicing concentration, presence and relaxation, which can then be used to observe the habits and workings of our mind. Lena uses her thorough knowledge of anatomy and the energetic workings of the human
    \nbody in her teachings.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

    <\/i><\/i><\/i><\/span> Yoga Teacher Bios<\/div>
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    Yoga Instructor Biographies<\/p>\n

    Carol Bowman, E-RYT 200\/RYT 500, CRYT, is director of the Yoga Programs at 秘密研究所. She holds an Ed.D. from Teacher\u2019s College, Columbia University in applied linguistics and is also a professor of education at Ramapo. She has studied Yoga for most of her life and began teaching Yoga in 2008. A former dancer, her interests include the study of Sanskrit and yoga research, and she has published articles in Yoga Therapy Today. Professor Bowman teaches Vinyasa Yoga, and the Contemplative Practices in Education course required for the 200-hour Yoga Teacher Certification program and the Methods of Contemplative Education for Children and Youth course required for the Children\u2019s Yoga Teacher Certificate.<\/p>\n

    Allison Egan Datwani, E-RYT 200, is a creative and compassionate yoga teacher with a precise and mindful style. For over 25 years Allison has been guiding people to move, breathe, feel, release, center and heal. Her knowledge of the mind, body and emotional connection is drawn from a lifetime of studying movement starting with dance as a young adult to gym workouts and then eventually committing to finding herself on the yoga mat. She received her yoga teacher training from Cyndi Lee\u2019s Buddhist inspired yoga school, Om Yoga. Seeking yoga\u2019s wisdom, Allison studied ancient scriptures like the Yoga Sutras, Hatha Yoga Pradipika and Bhagavad Gita with Geshe Michael Roach and\u00a0Lama Christie McNally. Allison has been on several TV shows promoting health including being a wellness consultant for the \u201cToday Show.\u201d Today Allison teaches at Bamboomoves Yoga in Englewood, NJ and at Birchwood Center in Nyack, NY in addition to leading the chakras, bandhas, mudras and methodology portion of the yoga teacher training at 秘密研究所 of New Jersey. Allison writes weekly posts in her lifestyle blog, Glamorous Yogini, and has created several online yoga practices at Yoga International. Her Compassion Yoga Flow online practices at YI raise awareness to The Himalayan Institute\u2019s One Tribe Project that is building libraries in Cameroon, Africa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    Annie Colonna, RYT 500, is an experienced yoga teacher in the tradition of Krishnamacharya, holding diplomas from Yoga for Well-Being and Krishnamacharya Healing and Yoga Foundation (KHYF), and a member of the national registry Yoga\u00a0Alliance. She has been teaching yoga both privately and in group classes since 2000. During that time Annie has also assisted her teacher Fran Ubertini with workshops throughout Orange County, NY and the Northeast region. Annie is also a Credentialed Prevention Professional with the NYS Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services.<\/p>\n

    Lena Madsen, LMT, is the founder of Lena Madsen Yoga. Inspired by Ayengar and Rodney Yee, she has been teaching yoga for 18 years. Lena grew up on the west coast of Sweden. At the core of her practice, as well as her teaching, lies a belief in self transformation through self observation. The physical body and the breath are excellent tools for practicing concentration, presence and relaxation, which can then be used to observe the habits and workings of our mind. Lena uses her thorough knowledge of anatomy and the energetic workings of the human body in her teachings.<\/p>\n

    Gina Martin, M.S., L.Ac. is a Board certified acupuncturist specializing in Classical Chinese Medicine. She has over 25 years of experience as an educator of Western Bio-Science, Chinese Medicine, and modalities of Asian bodywork.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

    <\/i><\/i><\/i><\/span> Frequently Asked Quesions<\/div>
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    Q:<\/strong> Who can attend the Workshops?<\/em>
    \n<\/b><\/span>Ramapo students, alumni and community members. All are welcome!<\/p>\n

    Q:<\/strong> What are the benefits of practicing Yoga?<\/em>
    \n<\/b><\/span>Practicing yoga can improve your flexibility, can help build muscle strength and can help you relax and focus.<\/p>\n

    Q:<\/strong> What should I bring to Yoga Class?<\/em>
    \n<\/b><\/span>You can bring a water bottle, a towel and a mat if you would like. Mats are available at the class for your use if you do not yet have one.<\/p>\n

    Q:<\/strong> What should I wear to Yoga Class?<\/em>
    \n<\/b><\/span>Dress in clothing that is comfortable, stretchy and soft. Yoga focuses on flexibility, so clothing that will allow unrestricted movement is best. Avoid drawstrings, zippers, buttons and jewelry. Put your hair in a ponytail or bun if it is long.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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    Yoga Continuing Education YACEP\u00ae Workshops Open to All!<\/h3>\n
    <\/i><\/i><\/i><\/span> YACEP Workshops are Open to Community Members and Ramapo Faculty, Staff and Students<\/div>
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    YACEP Workshops – RYT’s can receive CEU’s |\u00a0Registration Links Above<\/span><\/h4>\n

    Trauma and the Wisdom of Yoga with Sarah Couper and Carol Bowman | 3 YACEP CEUs<\/h4>\n

    Friday, \u00a0December 3 | 6-9pm |\u00a0Register\u00a0<\/strong>above<\/h4>\n

    Open to Public\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n

    Information on Workshop<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Workshop participants can expect to learn about the nature of different types of trauma and how trauma effects the brain and the body. We will discuss how to make yoga classes trauma-informed using the ancient teachings of yoga and the newer findings about trauma. Participants will experience a trauma-informed yoga class.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Yoga Nidra Teaching Workshop with Lena Madsen and Carol Bowman <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

    Sunday Dec 5 \u2013 2:00-6:00 (Open only to Yoga Teachers and Trainees) 4 YACEP CEUs available Register above<\/strong><\/p>\n

    In this Workshops yoga teachers and trainees will learn the basics of leading a Yoga Nidra session.You will learn how to guide a Yoga Nidra Session to help your students identify sensations throughout the body and within the breath.\u00a0 The practice, when properly taught, produces deep physical relaxation, which in turn relaxes the nervous system. There are a myriad of physical and mental benefits to this. In the process of relieving accumulated tension it can help your students to heal deep psychological wounds and provide a way to gain the equanimity necessary to face the stress of daily life. This teaching workshop will help you work with students who have experienced trauma and other difficulties, helping them to access the resources they have to find the wholeness that resides within themselves. Join us to add a new practice to your yoga teaching skills!<\/p>\n

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    <\/i><\/i><\/i><\/span> About YACEP Workshops<\/div>
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    The Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider\u00ae (YACEP\u00ae) designation was introduced in July 2016. The YACEP\u00ae designation is designed for experts in the yoga community who are approved to teach courses that qualify as Continuing Education hours.<\/p>\n

    Registered Yoga Teachers (RYTs) who take courses with a YACEP\u00ae can trust that their training counts toward meeting their Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Requirements.<\/p>\n

    秘密研究所 of New Jersey is a registered Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider-YACEP\u00ae.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

    Continuing Education Units (CEUs) Available<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    What are the Requirements for RYTs<\/h4>\n

    Per the Yoga Alliance, every three years starting from your initial date of registration, all RYTs – including Experienced RYTs – must complete and log a minimum of:<\/p>\n

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    1. 45 hours teaching yoga, and<\/strong><\/li>\n
    2. 30 hours of yoga related training that is directly related to one of the Yoga Alliance\u2019s Educational Categories<\/u><\/a>, of which:\n