The Yoga of Healing: Take Healing into Your Own Hands

As a yoga teacher, we get a lot of questions:

Why does my back hurt in this pose?
What can I do for knee pain?
How do I sleep so my hips don’t hurt in the morning?-

These are even more common if someone’s pregnant or a new mom, because of the changes that happen. Plus, there are specific conditions related to this time of life:

Why do I have a pain in my lower belly?
How can I get my abdominal muscles to come back together?
What do I do for pelvic instability?

In The Yoga of Healing, you’ll get the answers.

In this powerful, information-filled weekend you will receive alignment principles to practice, teach, and live by. These actions we can do anytime help maintain pain-free living, strength in our core and joints, freedom in our physical and energetic body, and inner support throughout the cycles and phases of our lives.

We will apply these principles to basic yoga poses and sequences, and learn to instruct with them to help our students out of pain.

Poses we teach all the time – chatturanga, downward dog, backbends and standing poses – can worsen pain for the vulnerable pregnant and post-partum body.

Bring your aches and pains! They are often our greatest gurus, so we can learn to help others heal from them. These principles are particularly useful for common pregnancy discomforts, but help reduce pain for all bodies, all the time.

get hands-on alignment training so you can be confident in getting students out of pain

practice hands-on adjustments to get students out of pain on and off the mat

delve deep into the physical conditions many women deal with during the 18 months around birth

use breathing, meditation, and poses to help relieve anxiety, infertility and more

learn how to use therapeutic instructions to make sure all students stay out of pain

discover your own power to get yourself out of pain and feel great in your body

If you haven’t gotten this yet, this workshop is not rainbows and woo woo! It’s what I believe is essential information for any yoga teacher interested in helping their students find a connection to easeful energetic flow in every pose.

What are You Teaching Here?

The Five Ma Yoga Alignment Principles, or Five Sacred Steps – We will go over step by step actions, and how to apply them to our every day poses on the mat; how to get people out of pain in the usual challenging poses; and hands-on adjustments to address specific aches and pains. We will practice seeing misalignments in common poses, and instructing people into optimal alignment to help them get and stay out of pain.

Start from pain – We will address particular aches and pains using women’s bodies as our model, as well as common physical challenges along the journey to motherhood and beyond. We’ll address include wrist, low back, SI, knee and other pains, as well as infertility, dyastisis recti and other physical conditions. We will practice hands-on adjustments on each other that will feel great and help us understand the directions the muscles and bones want to go in, so that we can end with relief, stability, and freedom.

Become a confident healer – The principles you will learn are applicable to everyone, man or woman, pregnant or in menopause. By looking closely at specific issues related to pregnancy and new motherhood, we will come to know intimately what the body needs physically and energetically to maintain ease and strength. With the Five Sacred Steps you will have the tools to relieve all musculo-skeletal pains, on and off the mat.

The “healing” designation does not come from Yoga Alliance certification but rather from Kinesiology. Jessica Jennings has her Masters in Kinesiology.

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The 5 Therapeutic Alignment Principle Experience

My experience was fantastic, I thought I would have wrist pain forever, but just by learning to support my weight in my shoulders, I have started to alleviate this issue. It was wonderful to learn that we are more powerful than we know and be given the tools to use this power and gentleness.
Vanessa Kettering PhD Candidate Positive Developmental Psychology Claremont Graduate University
With no background in teaching yoga, the Therapeutics training really helped me be more confident in my ability to teach. The training was very interactive and hands on which also made me more confident in being able to teach others. Thank you Ma Yoga!
Jordan Smith
I had a wonderful experience - it was definitely more than I imagined it to be. The weekend really helped me to look at yoga in a different way. I walked away with new tools and principles that I can use on myself and others. I'm excited to review all of the material and to start putting what I learned to use immediately. I really appreciate being able to download the handouts, it's nice to be able to revisit the handouts in the member area.
Jasmine Walker-Creighton
Thank you Colleen for sharing with us your knowledge about bio mechanics of the body, energy flow and mindful movement. I really appreciate you taking us in such an awesome journey through the body's anatomy and it was really amazing to be able to feel the different alignments ourselves. And at the very end of the training I feel confident enough to be able to recognize mis-alignments and have the tools to guide a student into a better and more optimal position. Feeling the changes and benefits in our own body was key to be able to understanding all the principles of Therapeutic Yoga!
Andrea Myers Social Media Consultant
Jessica, the alignment principles I learned in your therapeutics workshop last weekend was completely evolutionary for my practice in mind, body, and spirit. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for this priceless gift. I hope some day to embody a fraction of the goddess energy that radiates from you.
Ashlie Flood‎
Including therapeutics into the (200-hr) training is essential for any new yoga teacher—giving them tools for students who come into their classes with common ailments. Our trainees... were able to experience alignment from a different perspective - and most had transformations in their own practice as well. Jessica and her team are dynamic educators; she is prepared, knowledgeable, and passionate about healing through alignment. We look forward to working with Jessica and Ma Yoga again!
Nicole Schwander Riel and Tracy Brennan co-owners and teacher trainers, Claremont Yoga
I left teaching each class feeling ridiculously happy; so proud to be doing my best for these ladies at such a special time and so privileged that I was in a position to be able to be on this journey.

How lucky to be doing something so magical it uplifts your heart and soul every day.
Andy

Yoga of Healing for Women as part of a 200-hour training

Including therapeutics into the (200-hr) training is essential for any new yoga teacher—giving them tools for students who come into their classes with common ailments. Our trainees... were able to experience alignment from a different perspective - and most had transformations in their own practice as well. Jessica and her team are dynamic educators; she is prepared, knowledgeable, and passionate about healing through alignment. We look forward to working with Jessica and Ma Yoga again!
Nicole Schwander Riel and Tracy Brennan co-owners and teacher trainers, Claremont Yoga

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We hope you’ll join us and give yourself the tools to relieve yourself, your students and your clients from aches and pains, both on and off the mat.

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