yoga training
ADVANCED IMMERSION SERIES
Designed for Curious Practitioners and Diligent Teachers
Are you looking to deepen your knowledge about classical and modern yoga, but don’t know where to start? Do you wish that you could study only the topics that interest you, rather than committing to a full training program?
The Advanced Immersion Series is a program designed to satiate your curiosity and expand your understanding of yoga on your terms and your schedule. Evolved from the Advanced Teacher Training, this remodeled immersion structure presents themes one weekend at a time. You can choose your areas of interest from a wide range of topics.
Take one weekend or all twelve!
Deepen your knowledge around postural yoga, yoga philosophy, the gentler practices of yoga, social justice and yoga, meditation, breathework, the subtle body and yoga, yoga and the nervous system, and more. The program is designed for the committed and curious practitioner with some years of experience directly in yoga, or another movement practice. It is also a perfect place for dedicated teachers already having a 200 hour certificate wanting to get re-inspired or deepen a specific skill.
À-la-carte program : choose any weekend or get the 100hours certification
This is, either, an á-la-carte formula where you mix and match weekends for a yoga learning elixir, or qualifies as a 100-hour Advanced Teacher Training Certificate if you complete 9 of the 12 weekends.
~ CORE PROGRAM~
You must complete 4 required weekends to qualify for your 100 hour advanced certification
There are four fundamental or ‘core’ weekends you must complete to obtain the 100hr diploma in addition to five other weekends of your choosing.
The ‘CORE CONTENT’ of this Advanced Immersion includes the courses we think are important to progress your skills and knowledge as a teacher, and some are also prerequisites for other topics/weekends in this training.
This structure aims to provide the basic foundations for expanding teaching skills while maintaining the ability to tailor your personal education to suit your unique interests in the wide world of yoga instruction.
ALIGNMENT 1
History & philosophy 1
Cueing/Cognitive feedback & Language
ALIGNMENT 1 IS REQUIRED.
SEQUENCING
ALIGNMENT 1 IS REQUIRED.
~ SATELLITE PROGRAM ~
You can choose 5 weekends below to complete the 100hours certification.
Pranayama & Meditation & Restorative
ALIGNMENT 2
ALIGNMENT 1 IS REQUIRED.
ADJUSTMENT & ASSIST
ALIGNMENT 1 IS REQUIRED.
Privilege and Oppression in Yoga
HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY 2
HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY 1 IS REQUIRED.
Embodied Rest & Restore
SUBTLE BODY
Trauma through a Yogic and Somatic Lens
Weekends are 10hours of training
Saturday (6 hours total) 8am – 3pm (8-11:30) (12:30-3)
Sunday (4 hours total) 8am – 12pm
Pricing
Regular
9 of 12 weekends = 100hr certificate ~ $2150
12 weekends ~ 2500$
Individual weekends ~ $275
Former Teacher training
100h certification = $1950
12 weekends ~ 2250$
Individual weekends ~ $250
PAYMENT PLAN
If you choose to pay in several installments, here are the requirements:
– You have to pay 250$ at registration
– ¼ of the training has be paid by August 15th 2023
– The full training has to be paid by March 15th 2024
– We ask for regular payment inside of these balises.
If you choose to do the training over 2 years, here are the requirements:
– You have to pay 250$ at registration
– ¼ of the training has be paid by August 15th 2023
– ½ of the training has to be paid by February 15th 2024
– The rest of the training will be paid depending on your progression during the first year of training
100H certificate
If you wish to obtain your 100H certificate, please complete the following form.
To register for only a few weekends, you will find the registration links below.
~ INFORMATION SESSION ~
22nd of june @ 5:30pm ~ ONLINE
Are you interested in our new program? Would you like more information on the topic of a specific weekend and/or regarding the 100-hour advanced certification that can be obtained with completion of 9 weekends?
We would like to invite you to an information session with Jill Campbell and Terri McCollum, the creators of the program. These 2 very passionate teachers will explain the motivations behind the new program and answer any questions you have. Jill & Terri have been teaching yoga for decades and are the principal creators of STUDIO MILE END’s 200-hour teacher training program.
Their experience gives them a unique perspective regarding the vast world of yoga, its teachings, practice and study. The information session will take place online on our BSPORT platform.
Please sign up to receive the live stream link.
~ YOUR TEACHING TEAM ~
JILL CAMPBELL
Every job or hobby I ever invested myself in plateaued. I realized that yoga had transitioned with me through many life changes and managed, not only to hold on, but to stimulate interest, questions and growth. The more I learned and practiced the more I wanted to learn and practice.
On the micro level, asana provides a place where I can let go of all else that swirls around in my mind; on a more macro level, it has helped me through life challenges and enriched my experience along the way, providing a platform for self-love, support and community. My refuge, my temple, my student, my meditation, my movement, my mirror, my counsellor, my community, my devil's advocate, my rudder, my teacher, my breath, my soul... it's right here, and, for so many reasons, i feel it all deeply when moving through asana. How can I not share it with others? I've practiced with wonderful guides and gurus. I pass on their teachings in honour and appreciation.
TERRI MCCOLLUM
I was influenced early in life by the practice of yoga. My first classes were after school at 11 years old, in my adolescence and teen years I became very fascinated by different tools for self-discovery and expansion of thought. As a teenager I found the practice of asana to be a great compliment to my other physical activities, and meditation a tool for calming and focusing my busy mind. This is likely what planted the seeds for my later pursuits in meditation and yoga.
At 19 I took my first trip to India to study more deeply and intensely the practice and philosophy of yoga. That first trip took me to a number of Ashrams in Southern India. I developed a keen desire to know more about the history, language and culture surrounding yoga. This fascination led me to complete my studies in Asian religion and South Asia and to make several subsequent trips to India.
Over the years I have been lucky to have the opportunity to practice with many wonderful teachers in several yoga traditions and various movement practices. My personal practice is exploratory and varied including many modalities of movement, pranayama and meditation. In my teaching I draw upon many influences but really encourage a practice unique to the individual. I truly believe that practice itself, of all the limbs, is the true teacher and I hope to inspire and nurture my students to cultivate their own path.
DETAILED PROGRAM
ALIGNMENT 1 - 9 & 10 SEPTEMBER
This is STUDIO MILE END’s fundamental approach to postural work. We will dive deep into anatomical position, methodology for practicing and teaching postures, and myth busting common misconceptions about asana. The intention is to be able to enrich the quality of our own practice and our ability to teach what we know.
In addition to enriching your wisdom about the physical practice of yoga, the information shared in this weekend immersion will help you to create better sequences based on knowledge of the body, of the energetic effects of postures, and what general alignment principles apply to the postures.
Your feedback and cueing will become more sophisticated and better able to serve practitioners/students as you dive into what is actually happening in the body as you practice. You’ll be better able to identify families of postures and their neutralizing or countering effects on other families. A basis in anatomy, sanskrit terms, and postural yoga is helpful for this weekend as we will be diving into all of these aspects of learning.
Over the course of this weekend we will be exploring the topics below. We will practice, discuss, observe, hypothesize, and learn together.
General alignment in Asana
Postural Breakdown
Anatomical positioning and relationship to gravity
Postural families/groupings and how to apply our knowledge across them
The body’s foundation of postures
Finding more breath ease in Asana
Stretch Theory and Practice
Preparatory postures for advanced or complex Asana
Practical application to our own practice and in class planning & sequencing
You’ll need a yoga mat, practice clothing, notebook & writing tools, and a tablet or laptop device is recommended for viewing articles and materials.
Alignment 1 – For those who have already completed a 200 hour training with us this will be a refresher course but also builds the foundation for many of the weekends courses explored in the Advanced Training sessions so you are required to attend this session to qualify for the Advanced Certification.
PRANAYAMA & MEDITATION - 14 & 15 OCTOBER
This weekend will focus on using restorative postural work to prepare the body and nervous system for pranayama practice and meditation. The emphasis will be on the practical – exploring these concepts and techniques through practice to be able to better understand and embody them individually so we can potentially share the work with others. Some topics covered include but aren’t limited to:
- Pranayama history and philosophy
- Pranayama practice methods
- Bandhas and breath
- Meditation history and practice methods
- Pranayama and meditation practice and experimentation
- The role of preparing the body/nervous system for pranayama with restorative asana
- Teaching and sharing pranayama & breathwork
- Teaching and sharing meditation
ALIGNMENT 2 - 28 & 29 OCTOBER
Building on Alignment 1 this weekend will focus on prescriptive, therapeutic applications that can be employed for both our general public classes and individuals that may require more personalized attention. We will also be continuing to expand on Alignment 1. Exploring and demystifying advanced postures and the methodology to break down and help our students (and ourselves) understand and teach them.
- MUST HAVE COMPLETED ALIGNMENT I (or equivalent)
- Overall Health and alignment through postural work
- Unique individual alignment
- Prescriptive postural work
- Common postural dilemmas and how to address them in ourselves and others
Adjustments & Assists - 10 & 11 NOVEMBER
Many of us love a good, juicy adjustment, while some prefer a lighter touch or directive to inform them of how to learn the work. But how do we know what is appropriate?
This weekend will provide opportunities to apply touch, based on a deep understanding of the energetic and antomical directions of a posture and of individual alignment needs. Touch is such a powerful tool and we will examine how our intention behind touch and our awareness of ourselves and the other impacts the act itself. We will look at how to recognize signs from the nervous system as indicators of what touch is needed and how much to offer.
Through exercises and discussion we hope to cultivate sensitivity and nuance in adjustments while we increase our touch vocabulary together. We will discuss power dynamics, consent, the history of touch in yoga, and trauma sensitivity related to touch and then get clear about communicating effectively through words or body language so that, as much as possible, adjustments and assists we offer and receive can be therapeutic and beneficial.
The curriculum and exercises will outline a wide variety of assists, including feel-good adjustments, light do-it-yourself assists, directional assists, full-body adjustments, and much more. These sessions are very hands-on and we request that you inform us of any accessibilty needs or considerations related to offering or receiving touch so we are aware prior to the workshop and can accommodate. This can include, but is not limited to, injuries, trauma, or nervous system sensitivities.
Here is an outline of what topics we will explore:
Understanding energy directions, alignment, and diagnostics before touch
The role of breath and the nervous system in adjustments
Consent to touch before and during an assist
Choosing the appropriate assist
Touch and delivery, including a multitude of techniques
Practice receiving and offering adjustments and assists
Communication and feedback for assists
Adjustments as a collaboration
You’ll need a yoga mat, practice clothing, notebook & writing tools, and a tablet or laptop device is recommended for viewing articles and materials.
PRIVILEGE & OPPRESSION IN YOGA - 25 & 26 NOVEMBER
This weekend will take a bold look at the ways that privilege and marginalization show up in our yoga studios, practice, and culture. We will focus first on understanding our own identities within the social/cultural/economic web and how we can show up for one another in our relationships so that the unlearning and learning process related to social justice, equity, and diversity can happen.
Then, we will dive into the ways which yoga perpetuates marginalization and other-ing to explore how we, as individuals within the yoga culture can improve and build better, broader communities. Together, we will brainstorm and breakdown some of the ways that a studio, class, and/or community can feel more welcoming, and more approachable, for a broader population, by getting clear on what barriers to entry exist for people.
We will have practical exercises to consider how we set up a space, what words we choose, our promotions and merchandise, and our actions can uphold values of equality and equity or perpetuate marginalization.
This weekend will offer you the opportunity to practice your values, to examine your ethics, to understand your identity and how you can contribute to a better yoga culture. It will also offer the chance to get real and have a truer view of what the yoga world is, which is highly driven by capitalism and white-washing. Expect friction and inspiration.
Here are some of the topics we will explore:
Self-awareness around personal identity related to greater social structures
Vocabulary to understand some of the ways that racism, sexism, ableism, classism, heteronormativity, and lookism show up in our minds, our spaces, and our communities
What are barriers to entry people experience for yoga spaces/classes/studios
Ways to build spaces and practices that are welcoming to people of diverse social identities
Allyship in yoga spaces (interrupting, intervention, mutual care)
Role playing, problem solving, practice as means to learning and unlearning
We will examine topics through a diversity of methods, including discussion, journaling, exercises, and lectures.
HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY - 9 & 10 DECEMBER
The historical and philosophical underpinnings of the yoga tradition stem back thousands of years.Understanding the philosophical and historical relationship modern yoga has with its predecessors helps to build our understanding and contributes to how we pass down this information.
This two part series will start from the beginning (as far back as we know it) and examine how it influences our contemporary understanding of the practice. For those wishing to add more philosophy into their teaching this will assist on the path of first attaining knowledge to be able to embody and eventually transmit it.
Historical outline of Indus Valley and Indian subcontinent as it relates to yoga through the ages.
The orthodox and unorthodox schools of Indian philosophy and why they are important.
A more concentrated look at:
Introduction to Classical Yoga/Yoga Sutras
The most relevant schools of philosophy for the modern yogi – yoga, samkhya, vedanta.
The role of the Indian epics (Mahabharata & Ramayana) in yoga.
History & Philo 1 – Our practice is built on thousands of years of practice and study. To understand the past is to understand the present and to build for a brighter future where we can perpetuate the richness of the yogic past, while also being aware of shortcomings and ensuring we aren’t repeating them. This session is key for anyone teaching yoga and is required for certification. (For those who have already completed a 200 hour training with us you be required to take History & Philo 2 instead of 1)
Cueing/Cognitive feedback & Language - 20 & 21 JANUARY
ALIGNMENT 1 (or equivalent) IS RECOMMENDED PRIOR TO THIS COURSE
One of the biggest skills that we need as guides and instructors is our ability to communicate effectively. The way we bring movement and action into words and then transmit that message to others is crucial to our teaching and their understanding.
Cueing, or the way we guide others through a practice, has a major impact on the outcome on their (AND OUR!) bodies and minds. The words we choose, the quality and speed of our voice, and the order of how we present information all influence the practitioner’s ability to absorb and interpret the information offered.
At the STUDIO we use the voice almost exclusively as our way to transmit the practice. This workshop will enhance your ability to communicate clearly and efficiently what you want to say as well as simplifying your delivery so there can be SILENCE!
While we will discuss theory around communication, this weekend will be much practical application of cueing themes and techniques. We will explore the following topics:
Cueing with a strategic krama (order) to build clarity
Cognitive feedback – offering general or personalized instructions to improve alignment of experience of a posture or practice
Building visceral language to speak directly to the body Inclusive
Languaging and ways to build more equity and diversity with our words
Practical application of lessons Identifying and improving our personal tendencies when it comes to communication
Examining our feedback as we help our colleagues to improve their cueing
You’ll need a yoga mat, practice clothing, notebook & writing tools, and a tablet or laptop device is recommended for viewing articles and materials.
Continuous examination of the ways in which we communicate is central to our lives and profession as yoga and movement instructors. Awareness about the words we choose and how we deliver them makes us more capable and sensitive to participants and community members. This course is required for the certification and will also include a segment about language that builds diversity and community.
SEQUENCING - 3 & 4 february
MUST HAVE COMPLETED ALIGNMENT I (or equivalent) TO JOIN
ALIGNMENT 2 & CUEING ARE RECOMMENDED PRIOR TO THIS COURSE
Create better sequences! Building an intelligent practice is a process that requires a deep understanding of the body a rich personal practice as well as a toolbelt full of potential exercises. It takes a combination of intuition, creativity, and science to design a sequence that is healthy, intriguing, and effective. This session will break down many considerations when planning your sequence and offer alternatives to your own planning methods to inspire diversity in your approach. We will also look at ways to enrichen postural work through theming and variation, to keep classical asana practice fresh and captivating for you and the practitioner. There is not one right way to sequence a practice, come discover some of the many possible ways to do it responsibly.
Some of the topics we will explore include:
- The nervous system and sequencing
- Energetic arcs and their role in sequencing
- How classroom management impacts the sequence
- Practice “delivery” and vocal guidance and how it impacts the sequence
- Neutralizing and countering postural work
- Layering in physical or ethical themes into a practice
- Sequencing within a pose to build body wisdom and ease
- Sequencing a class and the STUDIO MILE END structure
- Sequencing over a longer time period
- Sequencing for a variety of practicioners
- Practice building sequences
You’ll need a yoga mat, practice clothing, notebook & writing tools, and a tablet or laptop device is recommended for viewing articles and materials.
HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY 2 - 17 & 18 FEBRUARY
MUST HAVE TAKEN HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY I TO ATTEND (unless they have done our 200hr)
The historical and philosophical underpinnings of the yoga tradition stem back thousands of years. Understanding the philosophical and historical relationship modern yoga has with its predecessors helps to build our understanding and contributes to how we pass down this information.
This two part series will start from the beginning (as far back as we know it) and examine how it influences our contemporary understanding of the practice. For those wishing to add more philosophy into their teaching this will assist on the path of first attaining knowledge to be able to embody and eventually transmit it.
This second weekend in the two part series will spend more time looking in depth at the philosophy of the Yoga Sutras, the influence tantra and hatha yoga has on modern practice and the impact India’s independence movement had on modern postural yoga in a post colonial world.
A deeper look into the philosophy of the Yoga Sutras
Tantric period and its complexity – from about circa 600 CE – 1500 CE
Hatha Yoga – the practical application the of the yogis circa 1000 CE – 1800 CE
Mythology & storytelling – How cosmology has evolved over this history
Modern yoga, colonialism and what we do today – tying it all together.
Embodied Rest & Restore - 16 & 17 MARCH
This weekend will be a delicious dive into the quieter yogic practices to melt away tensions, restore your breathe and mind, and replenish your wellbeing. Gear up for an entire weekend dedicated to blending practice with theory you can understand and also feel the ways that the yin, restorative and nidra practices impact you physically, emotionally, and mentally.
We will outline how these practices have different goals and effects on our bodies and, more specifically, our nervous systems. This is not a session to learn to teach these practices, but an opportunity to plunge into them and gain a greater understanding for yourself. We will discuss the theory and philosophy of these modalities as well as their histories and evolutions over time.
Some of the practices and topics we will explore include:
~ Yin ~
An introduction to the fascial system and how yin affects it
Compression and tension and how they impact our alignment and position
Unique individual postural work
A brief history of yin yoga
Counter indications
Practice
~ Restorative ~
How restorative yoga tones the nervous system and helps create more resiliency
Noticing your breath and nervous system throughout the practice
A brief history of restorative yoga and its evolution
Counterindications
Practice
~ Non-sleep, deep rest nidra ~
to reset and restore the body and mind
A brief history of Yoga Nidra
Counterindications
Practice
You’ll need a yoga mat, practice clothing, notebook & writing tools, and a tablet or laptop device is recommended for viewing articles and materials.
SUBTLE BODY - 30 & 31 MARCH
The subtle body is a different way of mapping the physical and energetic bodies. Though we may never fully comprehend what is meant by those who imagined it, we can certainly do our best to understand the complexity of our energetic systems and how they interact with our physical understanding of body and mind. Once we have some idea of the subtle body mapping we will look at ways to embody this information and use it as a tool for sequencing our classes.
- Chakras + Nadis
- Bandhas
- Koshas
- Vayus
- Subtle body asana alignment
- Sequence creation using subtle body concepts.
TRAUMAS - 13 & 14 APRIL
Trauma shows up in the body physiologically as a mechanism to keep us safe. What does trauma look like and feel like? How is trauma passed through generations and cultures? Learn the markers of trauma and nervous system dysregulation in this session.
Through an understanding of the physiology of stress and how it presents in us personally we can take the first steps toward finding ways to soothe ourselves and regulate.
The first section of this course is designed to practice and grow awareness and resilience – awareness of our emotional landscape, our breath patterns, and the overall embodied state; and resilience through kriyas (cleansing practices), pranayama (breathework), and somatics (somatics means of the body). Practical exercises will be offered with careful guidance to build our own connection to ourselves. Learn how to support your nervous system and connect deeply using integrated, embodied tools.
Later in the course you will discover ways to observe, connect with, and assist others in moments of traumatic response.This session will likely bring emotions, stress, and trauma to the surface. If you have any information related to your trauma history or special consideration that you think are important for us to know, please reach out prior to the session so we can best prepare and collaborate with you.
To recap, topics that will be covered in this session:
What is trauma and how does it show up in the body.
Some tools to build resiliency by centering the body and finding presence
Naming and feeling emotions to bring them into practice in healthy ways.
Listening to the body and interpreting the messages it is sending
Noticing your own triggers and response patterns.
Embodied integration of the learning.
Tools to be supportive to others who have experienced significant stress or trauma.
You’ll need a yoga mat, practice clothing, notebook & writing tools, and a tablet or laptop device is recommended for viewing articles and materials.