Midtown Yoga Memphis : Workshops : Thai Yoga Bodywork: Level 1 Foundational Training

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Thai Yoga Bodywork: Level 1 Foundational Training

Thu-Sun, Feb 3-6, 2011

With Tanya Boigenzahn Sowards, RTT, E-RYT 500, CHTP & Reiki Master
NCBTMB, THAI Alliance & YA approved for 36 CE hours

Tanya Boigenzahn Sowards, RTT/Instructor, E-RYT 500, CHTP
Tanya Boigenzahn Sowards, a Registered Thai Therapist (RTT), is an Instructor and Advanced Practitioner with Thai Healing Alliance International (THAI), and offers one of the only multi-level certification programs to learn the art of Thai Yoga Bodywork in America. She is a senior student of Master Teacher Pichest Boonethame of Hang Dong, Thailand, and has received many certifications from other respected teachers in the field. Leading annual retreats to Thailand for students of all backgrounds, she continues her study of Thai Massage, as well as traditional Thai herbal and medical practices, Buddhist meditation, Thai Shamanic Healing techniques, and other cultural delights (like Thai cooking!). At home she runs her healing arts business, Thai Yoga Bodywork, LLC, offering Traditional Thai Massage, Energy Work (Healing Touch, Reiki, Seichem), and Ayurveda.

Tanya is also is the owner/director of Devanadi Yoga Studio in Minneapolis, which offers classes, workshops, private yoga and meditation sessions, plus 200hr and 500hr Yoga Alliance approved teacher training and intensives. She’s an initiate of the Himalayan Tradition and one of the only Certified ParaYoga teachers under Yogarupa Rod Stryker in the country. Tanya also has many yoga teaching certifications in other styles including Ashtanga, Prenatal, and Judith Lasater’s Restorative Yoga. As a Certified Healing Touch Practitioner, Reiki Master, Seichem and Qi Gong practitioner, she uses this training and experience to help deepen the Thai Yoga Bodywork students’ knowledge of the traditional practices of hands-on-healing. She has been practicing yoga since 1993 and teaching since 1996.

Prerequisite: None. Knowledge of anatomy, yoga, bodywork is helpful, not required.

Workshop Description:
Thai Yoga Bodywork, also known as Thai Massage or Thai Yoga, is an ancient and sacred healing treatment from Thailand that integrates Yoga, Ayurveda, and Buddhist spiritual practice. Unique from other types of bodywork and massage, Thai Yoga is also a form of Yoga Therapy that combines assisted Yoga poses, rhythmic massage, acupressure, energy work, and Buddhist meditation. It helps receivers release blocked areas and stimulates the flow of healing energies within the mind, body, and spirit. Thai Yoga Bodywork is quickly gaining popularity in the US as a style of bodywork that gives the benefits of a variety of modalities all in one session.

Health in eastern philosophies is regarded as a state of balance between these energies, where all the systems of the body, including mind and spirit, function in harmony with each other. Disease is seen as imbalance or disharmony in this flow of energies. Thai Yoga Bodywork aims at stimulating the flow of healing energies within the body, opening the areas which are blocked and bringing the body, mind and spirit back into balance and harmony.

What You Will Learn in Level 1:
This 36 hour training is the first course in the 180 Hour Thai Yoga Bodywork Practitioner Training & Certificate Program with Tanya Boigenzahn Sowards. You will learn a complete sequence that will allow you to give a 1 to 1.5 hour Thai Yoga Bodywork session to another person. Students will receive a manual outlining the Thai Yoga Bodywork techniques that is also filled with an appendix full of Energy Work techniques, chakra info, meditations, and more.

Students will also learn:
• History and roots of Traditional Thai Massage
• Benefits and contraindications of receiving as well as giving
• Sequences including: Supine, Arms, Prone, Seated, and Relaxation
• Techniques from a variety of positions as you partner up with another and practice in class
• Ergonomics and proper body mechanics as a giver
• The basics of our subtle anatomy (chakras, meridians, biofield)
• How to assess the biofield and chakras before a session begins
• Basic energy work techniques you can use in a session
• Tools for growing your self care, intuition and healing skills

What Makes this Thai Massage Training Different From Others:
This intensive differs from other Thai Yoga Massage trainings in that you will also learn to assess the chakras, aura, and meridians of the body in order to facilitate your growth in both giving bodywork sessions, and also your own development as a healer.

Benefits for the Receiver
• releases stress and tension
• increases flexibility, suppleness & vital energy
• deeply relaxing
• relieves pain and soreness
• brings the systems of the body into balance
• increases blood and lymph flow
• releases emotional blocks
• supports one’s yoga practice
• excellent therapy for common injuries and ailments
• deepens the connection between mind, body and spirit

Benefits for the Practitioner
• enhances meditation and concentration
• awakens compassion and loving kindness
• deepens the connection of mind, body and spirit

Whether you are an experienced massage therapist, yoga teacher/student or someone who desires to help your friends and family ease their aches and pains, come see how Thai Yoga Bodywork is a fun, fulfilling method of healing that anyone can learn. All levels welcome. No experience necessary. Certificate of completion given at end of workshop for all attendants.

Please bring: a pillow and blanket or you may order a Thai Yoga futon from Tanya before the training begins by emailing her at tanya@thaiyogabodywork.com or calling 612.816.YOGA.

Time: 8:30-5:30pm each day
Cost: $650 ($600 if paid in full by Jan 3, 2011); $325 for course repeaters ($300 if paid in full by Jan 3, 2011)

Download and print your registration form here: thai-yoga-bodywork-flyer.pdf, or stop by one of our studio locations and sign up today!