Offerings and Services from WellSpring Yoga~St. Louis
Private Classes are tailored to meet personal needs and can take the serious practitioner to a deeper awareness of his own potential, and is the classical means of transmitting teacher knowledge to student. For those with therapeutic considerations, private classes can stimulate a new appreciation of one's abilities, while accepting and honoring limitations. Locations can be at a nearby studio or in the home. Call 314.614.3187 or e-mail to schedule an appointment.
Workshops & Seminars for C.E.U.’s often taught with other professional instructors, are intended to give students in-depth and focused information on particular aspects of Hatha Yoga. WellSpring has offered a number of three-hour workshops on such topics as Partner Yoga, Advancing Your Practice Using Breath, Bandhas, and Driste, and Restorative Yoga for Women. Other seminars such as How to Teach Inversions, Anatomy & Physiology for Yoga, and Teaching Chair & Restorative Yoga are designed for teachers to gain C.E.U.'s, give new instructors opportunities to learn practical aspects of teaching postures, and tips on how to handle special concerns.
200-Hour Teacher Mentoring Program offered from February 2009 to January 2010: Format includes asana practice, analysis of postures, teaching techniques and methodology, and pranayama and meditation practice. Readings, discussions, and written essays on Yoga Philosophy, Ethics, and Lifestyle are included, as is study of anatomy and physiology as it applies to yoga. Three half-hour opportunities to practice teaching in a small group setting are followed by feedback from fellow students and the mentor. Students are required to complete 20 hours minimum of self-study and homework, including but not limited to observation of classes, assisting, and practice teaching. Program begins January 18 and meets for 24 three-hour Saturday sessions and for three 18-hour weekend intensives. Participants are required to take 36 one and a half hour yoga classes with WellSpring Yoga for the duration of the program. The program is intended for serious students of yoga who have taken classes consistently with Lucy Holmes for at least one year. WellSpring Yoga believes that teaching yoga requires one have a deep love and discipline for the practice. This love is supported by an ability to clearly articulate and sequence the techniques and methodology of asana, and by a lifestyle grounded in yogic philosophy. Teaching yoga is an art as well as a science, and this program, with its one-on-one and small-group format, provides the space and time for each student to gain knowledge, to grow as an individual, and to develop a unique voce as a Teacher of Yoga. Faculty includes Robin Buck, Angela Culbertson, Rhonda Mills, and Mimi Eagleton. The program also includes teacher training sessions with nationally known teachers Mary Paffard, Matthew Krepps, and Tias Little. CONGRATULATIONS TO THE GRADUATES OF THE 2009/2010 PROGRAM: ANITA PEMBERTON, ANNA SCHWIND, AND JOHN VISER
Adaptive Yoga Classes WellSpring Yoga offers classes which bring the benefits of yoga postures and movement, breathing techniques, and meditation to folks in wheelchairs or those with special needs such as recovery from drug/alcohol dependency. Lucy Holmes has co-taught Adaptive Yoga with Donna Greenberg at St. Louis Society for the Disabled, www.stlsociety.org and volunteers weekly at Labre Center, www.ppcsinc.org, a rehab facility for men in recovery with mental illness and/or chemical dependency.