Level 3 - Yoga Therapy for Youth Certification January 2025
Building Resilience and Capacity to support Mental, Physical and Emotional Well-being for Youth through Yoga, Movement, Breath and other Therapeutic Approaches
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January 5th-April 13th, 2025
Monthly Payment Plan is available. Click ENROLL button and choose PAYMENT PLAN
PLEASE NOTE: Pre-requisites for this course are completion of both the Level 1 and Level 2 Trainings or completion of a 200-hour RYT. Please DO NOT register if you do not have these pre-requisites. It is suggested that you complete the Level 1 and Level 2 courses through Asanas for Autism and Special Needs as they are foundational courses to the the Level 3.
The Yoga Therapy for Youth Foundations 100-hour Teacher Training is a foundational training in therapeutic approaches to support children and youth ages 5-17 with emotional, physical and mental health and well-being.
Participants who complete this training will receive a Certificate of Completion in 100-hours training in Yoga Therapy for Youth.
*Please note: 800 hours + in an IAYT Accredited Yoga Therapy Program is required in order to be a "Certified Yoga Therapist". This training offers therapeutic approaches to working with a wide range of youth, however it does not equal being a Certified Yoga Therapist upon completion.
Participants who have completed the Asanas for Autism and Special Needs Level 1 and Level 2 Trainings, will receive a 200-hour Yoga for Children and Youth with Complex Needs Certification through Asanas for Autism and Special Needs (with the completion of a final 5 hour Course requirement).
SEE COMPLETE DETAILS AND REGISTRATION FOR TRAINING HERE
This course is an APD course through International Association of Yoga Therapists and counts as 80 CEU's.
Location:
Online via Zoom and Self-Learning
Dates:
January 5th-April 13th, 2025
Learn via Online Modules, Webinars, Reading/Study time, Live Zoom Workshops, Community Meetings and Final Project hours.
Pricing:
$2,150.00
$1,950 Early Bird
EARLY BIRD DEADLINE EXTENDED:
December5th, 2024
Payment Plans Available!
SCHEDULE
Zoom Meetings: We will meet on Sundays throughout the course.
Please Note: Attendance in the Zoom meetings is MANDATORY. Please check the time zone conversion for your location to be sure the times work for you.
*Should there need to be 1 or 2 missed zoom meetings - you will need to watch the recording of the missed zoom meeting, write a reflection of what you learned and make up any missed group work or exercises practiced in the group meeting. Please note- there will only be 2 missed meetings allowed unless you have arranged an extenuating circumstance in advance with Shawnee.
PLEASE CONACT SHAWNEE IF YOU WANT TO JOIN AND ARE IN A TIME ZONE IN WHICH THESE TIMES ARE NOT ACCESSIBLE FOR YOU.
Date & Times
January 2025
Module Workshop: January 5, 12, 19 & 26
1-5pm PST
February 2025
Module Workshop: February 2, 9, 16 & 23
1-5pm PST
March 2025
Module Workshop: March 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30
1-5pm PST
April 2025
Module Workshop: April 6 & 13
1-5pm PST
FACULTY
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CONTACT: Please contact SHAWNEE with questions.
Prerequisite - 200-hour Yoga Teacher Certification or completion of Level 1 and Level 2 Asanas for Autism and Special Needs Trainings.
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Your Instructor
Shawnee is a C-IAYT -Certified Yoga Therapist, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, M.Ed., and Educational/Behavioral Specialist. She is the Founder of Asanas for Autism and Special Needs and the Founder/Director of Yoga Therapy for Youth Certification Program. Shawnee has worked with children and adults with and complex and diverse needs for 30 years. She has specialized in working with children and adults with neurodiverse needs, sensory processing challenges, communication differences, developmental disabilities, mental health challenges and trauma backgrounds. Shawnee works with private clients of all brains, bodies and abilities to facilitate health and healing. Her goal is to bring the experience of yoga to all individuals no matter their differences or challenges.
She has written two published a books, Asanas for Autism and Special Needs – Yoga to Help Children with Their Emotions, Self-Regulation and Body Awareness and her second book - Yoga Therapy for Children and Teens.- Embodying a Somatosensory Approach to Mental, Physical and Emotional Wellbeing has just recently been published and is NOW AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE! She is also the creator of the C.A.L.M.M Yoga Toolkit and Body Sensations Curriculum.
She has a Yoga School through Yoga Alliance in order to train others in yoga approaches to support children and adults with neurodiverse needs and children and adults with complex needs needs and travels globally to share her teachings. Shawnee is dedicated to helping support youth and adults in developing strategies to cope with stress in order to live happier, healthier more empowered lives.
Shawnee has experienced first hand the benefits yoga and somatic practices can provide to health and overall well-being as she is a survivor of childhood trauma as well as multiple significant traumas in her adulthood, resulting in a diagnosis of PTSD. She is also a cancer survivor. She has a unique combination of understanding neurodiversity, developmental disability, trauma and other complex needs and knowing how to support people of all ages in connecting to their authentic self and building more capacity and resilience in order to live life in a more embodied and empowered way.
Shawnee has led several workshops at major conferences both in the US and Internationally; including MISTY (Montreal International Symposium for Yoga Therapy) and IAYT (International Association of Yoga Therapists) SYTAR Conference on Yoga for Sensory Processing and Self-Regulation for children with ASD, BOOST Conference (Best Out of School Time) on Yoga for Children with Special Needs , Yoga and Mindfulness for Youth and Yoga to Reduce Stress and Increase Relaxation for Educators. TRUST Conference (Teens Understanding and Reflecting Stigma Together) on Learning to Breath, Yoga and Mindfulness for Teens, including teens struggling with mental illness and UCSD Bridging the Hearts and Minds of Youth Conference on Yoga and Mindfulness for Sensory Integration and Self-Regulation.
Shawnee has written for and has had her work featured in several magazines,podcasts and online resources. See media features here.
Shawnee also offers private and small group therapeutic sessions for children and adults as well as yoga and somatic movement workshops and trainings through her company Embodied Wellness Yoga Therapy.