Lead With Compassion Online Yoga Teacher Training
Hosted by The UNC Program on Integrative Medicine
Lead With Compassion Online Yoga Teacher Training
Hosted by The UNC Program on Integrative Medicine
About Us
We offer a compassionate approach to yoga through continuing education & trainings. Our curriculum is built on a foundation of contemporary anatomy, neuroscience, and research-backed mindfulness tools.
Compassion and Yoga
Why Is This Training Called 'Lead With Compassion'?
Compassion is like a muscle that, like any other muscle, becomes stronger with relevant exercise. Your capacity to take compassionate action towards yourself and others can grow and expand with practice. Throughout the Lead With Compassion online yoga teacher training, we work together to awaken our individual and collective capacities to:
- awaken and grow compassion for ourselves using research-backed practices
- explore difficult emotions that may arise within the relationship that we have with ourselves, including that with our physical body
- tend to ourselves with curiosity and an open heart
- explore and cultivate our own innate strengths as teachers and/or practitioners
- widen our circles of compassion to include those around us and lead yoga practices that meet others where they are
- learn how to effectively teach with mindful attention to the use of props, asana variations, language, and other tools that allow for bio-individuality and agency among students
- lead those that you love and/or the populations that you serve/teach in compassion-based mindfulness practices
- Bring compassion, variety, and effective interventions to your healthcare practice
Our Guiding Principles
Our Online Yoga Teacher Training Is Based On These Guiding Principles:
- Integrity and compassion
- Purposeful attention to safe and intentional movement based on body mechanics and the limitations and the freedoms of each body
- Learning to connect with yourself and others in a meaningful way
- Helping people discover the yoga tools that are appropriate for them, and for their students
- Yoga is for all
Our Principles In Action
We welcome diversity of heritage and narrative in all of our trainings and are committed to increasing the proportion of underrepresented individuals within the yoga community through The Community Care Fund.
I learned that self-care goes deeper than just making time and going through the motions like getting enough sleep. It means finding the time and compassion to see and understand myself.
Lead With Compassion Online Yoga Teacher Training Graduate
Yoga Alliance Registration
Graduates of the Lead With Compassion online Yoga Teacher Training program are prepared to teach balanced, safe & transformative yoga classes and practices to the populations that they serve. The curriculum, group experience, and integrative approach of our training, however, will provide you with more than a certificate to teach - it will provide an opportunity for personal growth, reflection, and new skills to share with others.
Upon completion of our 7-month program, you will be eligible for the 200-hour level of registration (RYT) with Yoga Alliance.
Our Curriculum
Our online yoga teacher training curriculum includes but is not limited to:
- Intentional, mindful yoga asana designed around contemporary anatomical, biomechanical and physiological knowledge
- Restorative yoga to nurture a healthy nervous system
- Physical therapy informed movement practices for joint pain, osteoporosis, injury, musculoskeletal problems
- Dynamic balance, strength & stabilization, and postural & muscular balance training
- Neuroanatomy: the role of the human brain as related to mindfulness, trauma, and pain science
- Exploration of energetic anatomy (the subtle body) and the role it plays in our wellbeing
- Breathwork as a tool to build awareness, energize the body, and calm the mind
- Effective use of props to compassionately support the body and minimize the risk of strain or injury
- The benefits of conscious rest
- Mind & body awareness practices
Representative List of Past Presentations & Engagements
