July 14, 9am-3pm with a break for lunch. (Please bring a sack lunch, or plan to head somewhere nearby.)
Training location: Warren Village Administrative Office – 1300 Gilpin St, Denver, CO
This training is appropriate for anyone interested in teaching community based yoga, or interested in serving special populations in their classes. Training will be required for people who would like to teach at a Yoga for the People site in 2012 and is great preparation for starting your own community-based site. Training covers a comprehensive array of topics designed to prepare you for teaching community based yoga on your own or at a YFP site including:
- History, Mission and Vision of Yoga for the People
- Program Evaluation
- Working with Special Populations including:
- kids/youth
- seniors/people with a disability
- community based classes
- Adjusting Students in a Community-Based Setting
- Professional Boundaries
- Self-Care
- Role Playing, Teaching and Hands On Activities
To register, please fill out a volunteer application and email your application to volunteer@yogaforthepeople.org. CEUs available. To RSVP on Facebook, click here. To register online, click here.
Suggested donation $50, appreciated, never required. Donations assist us in providing yoga services for communities in need and education and training to support our volunteer base.
YFP is hosting its second volunteer training of 2012 on Saturday, July 14 from 9 am-3 pm at Warren Village. This training is available to any yoga teacher interested in teaching community based yoga or serving special populations. This training is required for volunteers who would like to teach at a Yoga for the People site in 2012 including all new volunteers and is optional for current volunteers who have already attended orientation.* The program cycle for trained volunteers matched with sites to teach yoga this spring will run July 9- August 13 (6 week commitment).
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Volunteer training covers a comprehensive array of topics designed to prepare you for teaching community based yoga on your own or at a YFP site including:
History, Mission and Vision of Yoga for the People
Program Evaluation
Working with Special Populations including:
- kids/youth
- seniors/people with a disability
- community based classes
Adjusting Students in a Community-Based Setting
Professional Boundaries
Self-Care
Role Playing, Teaching and Hands On Activities
To register for the YFP Volunteer Training, please click here.
Suggested donation of $50, appreciated, never required. Donations assist us in providing yoga services for communities in need and education and training to support our volunteer base.
*Future volunteer training dates are September 22. Future program cycles are July 9 – August 13 (6 week commitment) and Oct 1 – Dec 17 (12 week commitment). YFP volunteers may take any one of these trainings, as long as it is prior to your volunteer work.
Being a teacher through Yoga for the People has been a great experience. Right now, I’m teaching at the South Lincoln Bridge Project with 3rd to 5th graders and loving it! It has been interesting to start teaching there because I actually live in the neighborhood. I really feel like I am not just helping Denver, but a community I am a part of.
The kids, of course, have a lot of energy and show it in class, but many also have a very soft side and have gotten into this “yoga thing.” They ask a lot of questions, and most ask for help in many of the postures. The challenging part is that the kids are only around for an hour at a time, once a week, so it is hard to always have their focus. However, many successes have seemed to pop out as well.
I have about 11 completely regular kids, and they are bringing friends to try it as well. The kids favorite game is the “quiet game” and we play it at the end of class . . . It is a way they can understand what so many adults know as Savasana.
– by Holly Rom, Yoga for the People volunteer teacher
