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Reaching In, Reaching Out: Yoga for Youth in Diverse Spaces will be offered in Ontario annually. Stay tuned for details on our next workshop.

New Leaf offers yoga programs to youth who are facing barriers due to various forms of marginalization and trauma. We highlight making yoga accessible and relevant to young people and offer yoga within a trauma-sensitive and anti-oppression framework.

Join us for this weekend workshop exploring the techniques and skills needed to teach yoga to youth within diverse and sensitive environments, including:

• Practical ways to lead yoga classes that suit the needs of youth
• How to teach from a place of inquiry in order to foster more inclusive spaces
• Methods to engage young people and manage challenges in class settings
• Strategies for cultivating self-care

This workshop is geared towards yoga instructors seeking to bring yoga to adolescent populations, as well as those interested in learning how to foster inclusive spaces within yoga studios. It can also be a useful tool for individuals interested in making yoga more accessible in general.

We recommend that participants have a minimum 200 hour yoga teaching certification. If you are not a certified yoga teacher but would like to attend, please complete this form.

Friday, November 22 - Sunday, November 24
The Centre for Mindfulness Studies
180 Sudbury Street, Toronto (map)

Cost: $250

Daily Schedule

Friday 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Saturday 9:00am - 5:30pm
Sunday 10:00am - 4:30pm

Facilitators:

Laura Sygrove is the co-founder and Executive Director of New Leaf Yoga Foundation. She has spent several years studying approaches to offering yoga to youth in sensitive environments as well as trauma- sensitive and mindfulness yoga. Laura has been working directly with young men in custody settings for 6 years and oversees a teaching team of 20 individuals offering yoga to youth in schools, low-income neighbourhoods and jail facilities.

Julia Gibran is a senior teacher with New Leaf Yoga Foundation. She has been teaching yoga for over six years. She studied to be a classroom teacher only to find that a life of travel and service is where it is at for her. Her background in education fuels a passion for social activism and working with youth who have experienced trauma as well as sexual abuse survivors of all ages.

As posted on Yoga Toronto.