Teaching Yoga for Scoliosis (Students)

For yoga teachers and students of all levels.

Take part in the first teacher training program designed specifically to train yoga teachers how to work with students who have scoliosis. Senior certified Iyengar Yoga teacher Elise Browning Miller used the power of yoga to relieve her own scoliosis 30 years ago. Now she has designed a sequence of poses for scoliosis that reduces pain and creates better postural alignment in the body. These poses lengthen the spine, stretch tight muscles, and strengthen those that have become weak.

With a teaching style that is down-to earth, precise, and nurturing, Elise’s joyful personality and ease of communication endear her to students. This program includes

• Basic information about scoliosis
• How to adapt the asanas for scoliosis
• The use of props
• How to adjust students with scoliosis
• The anatomy of a scoliosis spine
• Common patterns of scoliosis
• The physical and psychological causes and effects of scoliosis.

Leave with the necessary skills and confidence to offer a beginning yoga practice to those with scoliosis. This program includes a practicum; upon successful completion, you will receive a certificate recognizing you as a Yoga for Scoliosis trainer.

Required reading Elise Browning Miller, Yoga for Scoliosis booklet, available through Elise’s website, www.yogaforscoliosis.com.

Recommended viewing Elise Browning Miller, Yoga for Scoliosis video or DVD (Shanti Productions), available through the Kripalu Shop or Elise’s website, www.yogaforscoliosis.com.

Note Teachers are encouraged to invite students with scoliosis. Yoga students who would like to learn more about their scoliosis and how to adapt yoga poses for scoliosis are also welcome to attend.

Combine this program with Iyengar Yoga for Back Care for a 10 percent tuition discount for each program; please call to register.

• 23.5 credits for Yoga Alliance (YA), $20 additional charge
• 23.5 credits for Athletic Trainers (BOC), $20 additional charge