The benefits of Hot Yoga are numerous and profound. Hot Yoga is a powerful tool that can help you to detoxify your body, lose weight, increase lean muscle, improve flexibility, focus your mind and honour your spirit.  Join Louise as she takes you on a step-by-step journey through the hot postures to ensure you have a solid understanding and safe expression of each pose.




Whether you are a regular or have just discovered the hot room, you will benefit from this workshop. Beginner through advanced variations of each posture will be covered so that you can learn to get the most out of your practice.

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Spend an afternoon with Louise discovering the healing benefits of Yin Yoga.
This ‘Yin-tensive’ experience will give you the confidence and understanding to take your Yin practice to a deeper level. An interactive exploration of the major Yin Postures and some simple sequences that are useful for helping lower back pain, neck and shoulder tension and immune function. 


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An insightful journey into what it really means to have good posture and what typically keeps people from having it.  In this workshop you will:

• explore areas of the body that affect the alignment of the axial skeleton
• discover how the practice of yoga helps to shed emotional holding patterns that create dis-ease in the body
• play with simple yoga postures that bring awareness and vitality to these areas of the body.

Warning: This workshop contains inspiring life changing information!



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Don't miss this opportunity to take your teaching to the next level! Join Louise for this insightful day of exploring the healing art of adjusting your students effectively. It's highly likely that you missed this valuable information during your 200 hr, and if you're thinking of becoming a teacher this will give you a great head start! 


Course will cover...
1.How to keep your body safe and in alignment while
you adjust your student.
2. How to keep your students safe while you adjust them.
3. The Adjusts (key adjustments for about 20 poses)
4. How to really "see" your students - connect to your intuition when
looking at your students
5. Clearing your energy and setting intentions, before and after every
adjustment - so that the student feels the adjustment is pure and
secure.
6. The dynamics of breath and movement - cueing your students to
breathe while you adjust them and the importance of breathing while
you adjust.
7. Different types of adjustments and when to use them.
8. What to feel for while you are applying pressure - noticing the
receptivity of the student.
9. Adjusting etiquette - when, how and where to use your hands (and
the different parts of your hand)
10. Working with an injured student.
11. Getting permission and feedback from your student.

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Are you ready for the stuff you didn't learn in your 200 hour training?
This course is meant for individuals who have taken a basic 200 hr training and wish to improve their ability to teach authentically from their heart while utilizing the wisdom of their intuition. It is a course that will open your eyes to many ideas that will take your teaching to a higher level. 


Daily Schedule:
10am-12pm Yoga Practice and Meditation
12-12:30pm Break
12:30-2:30pm Theory
2:30-3pm Break
3-5pm Application

 In this course you will touch on the basics of many important topics, such as how to: 

• see your students at a deeper level through connecting to your intuition.
• hold a sacred space for your students.
• develop your leadership skills through teaching.
• apply safe, effective and healing hands on assists.
• take care of your self as a teacher. 
• grow your teaching business through offering private sessions that will really benefit your students.
• recognize where the emotional holding patterns are in the body and how they manifest physically. 
• recognize Yin/Yang deficiencies/excesses in your students. 
• enhance your presence and ability to connect with your students as a gift to them and yourself. 

Location: Rama Lotus Yoga Centre, Ottawa Ontario

For more information and to register click here! Enrollment is limited to 8 people... this is a very personalized program.
 

This gentle practice increases your flexibility, opens your hips, quads, hamstrings, lower back and shoulders and enhances your overall sense of well-being. It is truly a practice in letting go of both the mental and the physical tensions that we store inside. It teaches how to accept what is happening in our bodies and in our lives, while remaining unattached to these experiences.




Who can benefit from this training:
Yoga Instructors, Body Workers, Personal Trainers, Health Care Practitioners and all those who wish to develop or deepen their home practice, or their understanding of this style of yoga.

This 30-hour program includes:

• An exploration of the Yin Yoga postures and their variations
  
• How to work with props and adjust for different body types, including special needs students (injury, pain, other physical predicaments) in a regular class
  
• Sequencing of a yin yoga class
  
• Meridian Theory as it relates to the yoga poses
  
• Advanced teaching skills to develop confidence
  
• Anatomy of connective tissue
• Yin Yoga as a meditation practice 
• The real benefits of Yin as a tool in teaching us how to let go of resistance 

LOCATION: Rama Lotus Yoga Centre in Ottawa Ontario


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Are you ready to escape into a magical world?

This program is designed for individuals who are seeking a greater connection to nature through the way of the horse. Little to no experience with horses is needed as this course offers the very basic skills of groundwork (handling), grooming and riding a horse. The development of these skills are taught using yogic principles which ensures the creation of a meaningful and sacred connection between yourself and your horse. You will notice an enhancement in your overall sense of wellbeing as the week progresses, which is the undeniable gift of physical, mental, and emotional healing that humans receive through interacting with horses. 




Daily Schedule:
 10am-12pm Yoga Practice
 12-12:30pm Break
 12:30-2:30pm Horseback Riding
 2:30-3pm Break
 3-5pm Theory, Groundwork and Grooming 

Location: Ottawa
Register today! Enrolment is limited to 6 people. Update: 3 SPOTS LEFT!!!

Investment:
$595 + hst early bird before April 15th
$750 + hst after April 15th

Those interested in the GallopingYOGA Certification Programs have an unrelenting desire to evolve joyfully while helping others to do the same. 

GY's programs are unique, innovative and life changing! 

"Ever since I was a little girl I felt there was something very profound and sacred about my time spent with horses... it went beyond all those hours I spent developing excellent equitation and technical skills in the saddle. Although I loved every minute of winning medals and trophies, I knew there was something bigger within me that attracted those awards and talented horses into my life...  it was a life force dormant within me that came alive in the company of horses. This program is a culmination of practices, techniques, knowledge and adventure from 35 years of combined experience in the saddle and on the yoga mat that will awaken within you your true potential...  I can't wait to meet you and be a part of your journey! What you gain from this training is measured only by the quality of focus and energy you put in. Are you ready?" Louise

You will get out of this training what you put in! This training is for you if...

• You want to dramatically improve your riding skills
  
• You want to become a more confident, skillful and intuitive rider and/or coach
  
• You desire to release your fears, overcome obstacles and render your self-limiting beliefs            
  
• You feel ready to explore the spiritual realm of your Self and the horses 
  
• You want to develop a healthier body that is stronger, more toned and flexible
  
• You want to learn proven techniques that decrease stress and promote well-being and longevity
  

                                    
This 35 hr program includes:

HEALING FOR THE BODY:

• An exploration (anatomy/physiology, benefits, teaching methods) of Yoga postures that are especially benificial to horse people.
  
• Gain an understanding about how to keep the human body healthy and methods to prevent and treat injuries using yogic techniques.
  
• Develop a stronger core and greater flexibility in the major joints and muscle groups affected by riding.
  
• Improve your balance and feel, on the ground and in the saddle.
  

HEALING FOR THE MIND:

• Train your mind to focus.
  
• Learn Meditaion and Breathing techniques to balance your energy and tap into your intuition.
  
• Discover the power of the subconscious mind and learn some powerful techniques to overcome life's challenges.                                                                                                    
  
• Learn to align your thoughts, feelings and actions with your truest intentions.
  

HEALING FOR THE SPIRIT:                                                                                                                                         

• Discover how horses are a mirror of the energy that we exude and how time spent with horses is a gift to our Spirit.                               
  
• Learn to call your Spirit home to your body and discover the feeling of this embodiment. 

Daily Schedule: 
 10am-12pm Yoga Practice
 12-12:30pm Break
 12:30-2:30pm Yoga on Horseback
 2:30-3pm Break
 3-5pm Theory, Groundwork, Grooming, Posture Refinement, Teaching Methodology

Location: Ottawa

Register today! Enrolment is limited to 6 people. 
Email info@gallopingyoga.com to obtain an application form.

Investment:
$750 + hst early bird before May 15th
$975 + hst after May 15th

A unique Yoga Teacher Training Program that will prepare you for a successful career in Teaching Yoga. This 25 day course led by Louise, encompasses 21 days of yoga practice intensives that will allow you to take your practice to a much deeper level, a teacher training program, a 3 day Anatomy Course led by Dr. Isaac Cristoveanu, and a 2 day Business Course led by Mark Laham of www.mindbodywarrior.com. 


What makes this the best training around?

- Trainee's will work with and teach actual students, not just fellow trainee's.
- Video feedback will be given weekly.
- A segment of the program will involve working with animals to improve non-verbal communication, leadership skills and work with the energetics of healing. 
- Training in an anatomy lab with cadavers. 
- Teaching placement program upon graduation. 

Daily Schedule:
 8-10am Practice
 10-10:30am Break
 10:30 - 1:30pm Theory  
 1:30-2pm Break
 2-5pm Practicum

Location: The Ottawa Athletic Club in Ottawa, Ontario

Register today! Enrolment is limited to 30 people. 
Send an email to info@gallopingyoga.com to obtain an application form. 

Investment:
$500 deposit due upon application that is put towards tuition.
$2800 cdn + hst early bird before and on April 1st
$3200 cdn + hst after April 1st