WellSpring Yoga Services

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.

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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.

SERVICES

• Private Sessions

• Workshops/Seminars

• Teacher Mentoring 200 Hour Program

• Adaptive Yoga for Special Needs

Contact WellSpring at:

(314) 614.3187

As human beings we long to feel a sense of community, intimacy, and relationship. Yet often we feel disconnected from others, with a resulting sense of alienation and separation. Yoga offers us the opportunity to re-connect with our True Self, and through doing so, create more clarity and less conditionality in our relationships with others. There is always risk when we open ourselves to touch and be touched by others, yet the surrender and vulnerability that we experience can provide a deeper, more satisfying heart opening. This workshop offers techniques and playful interactions with Self and others in a safe and nurturing environment. The workshop opens with a yoga sequence that introduces the creation of a center or internal ground space that provides a sense of safety and support, followed by elements found in contact improvisation that allow for playful exploration of building relationships through movement and touch. Appropriate for those with yoga or dance/movement experience. For info please contact Lucy at 314.614.3187 or email Lucy Holmes @ WellSpring Yoga

Workshop Instructors:

Lucy Holmes, E-RYT 500 has some 2,000 hours of professional training in Yoga, Anatomy & Physiology, and Massage Therapy, and has been teaching since 1991. Her influences include intensive study of Iyengar, Astanga, Anusara, and Kripalu styles of Hatha Yoga; currently she studies Hatha Yoga with Mary Paffard and Dynamic Yoga with Matthew Krepps and Robin Buck. Her teaching style is infused with a love of nature, music, dance, and philosophy, and deeply influenced by her 16 years as a professional, nationally certified massage therapist. BIO

Pavan Deep (Cayree Dobsch) is a Licensed Bodyworker and Certified Yoga Instructor who loves the space and growth that is created through breath (prana/life force). In a style of her own she draws upon many forms of movment including the grounded, rooted aspects of West African dance to the freedom of Contact Improv. As an Artist she has worked with an eclectic range of troupes and groups, from the theatrical Bench Press Burlesque, to the energetic Afriky LoLo, and the amazingly eclectic "May These Changes Make Us Light" ~back to top~