Visual Yoga Certification Course
Sivananda Yoga Retreat | Paradise Island, Bahamas
March 21 - 25, 2012
Course Schedule
6am - Satsang
8am to 9:30am - Visual Yoga Asana Class
Practicum (Deaf / HH welcome)
9:30am - 10:00am - Group Discussion
10am - Vegetarian Brunch
11am - Karma Yoga (selfless service)
12pm to 1pm - ASL Class
2:00pm to 3:30pm - Main Lecture
4pm - Classical Yoga Asana Class (optional)
6pm - Vegetarian Dinner
8pm - Satsang
Course Curriculum
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•Who Benefits from visual yoga?
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• Hard of Hearing & Deaf cultures
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• Anatomy & physiology of the inner ear and brain
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• American Sign Language (ASL) - basic communication and vocabulary
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• Study of natural gesturing
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• Communication Techniques
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• Teaching & Designing a visually-based yoga class
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•Marketing tips and techniques
Course Cost
Tuition: $350
plus 6 nights’ accommodation
Course Description
Gain tools to serve the Hard of Hearing, Deaf and visually-based community members. With about 28 million Deaf and Hard of Hearing people in the U.S. alone, this training course is a valuable resource for any yoga teacher.
Learn a variety of visual techniques to suit a multitude of students; whether hard of hearing senior citizens, Deaf yogins, or people with autism or apraxia. Explore the Deaf and Hard of Hearing cultures, American Sign Language (ASL), natural gesturing and a variety of other subjects related to the visual method of teaching yoga.
Deepen your spiritual practice and expand your teaching skills with a visual approach to yoga and meditation.
You will receive a manual upon arrival as well as a certificate of completion for this course.
Who can attend this Course?
This course is perfect for non-signing yoga teachers*, but if you know some ASL then we will share related vocabulary with you. This course also welcomes yoga teachers fluent in ASL. If you are fluent in ASL, you will have free time during the ASL Class at noon. Since this is the first offering of its kind, we are open to learning and growing as a group.
Deaf and Hard of Hearing yogins are encouraged to join us as an ashram guest (pay Sivananda accommodations). We welcome you to join the training program as:
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• a participant (pay the tuition fee + Sivananda accommodations)
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• a visual yoga student (as students for our 8am practicum teaching class)
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• a cultural voice = share your wisdoms with us about the Deaf and Hard of Hearing cultures.
If you do come to the ashram, please contact the DeafYoga Foundation as they will be organizing interpreters for your visit.
* may know some American Sign Language (ASL) to none at all. May also be a person who has previously taken an ASL class but not used it often and lost some knowledge, etc.
About Lila
Lila Lolling is a Sivananda yoga teacher and prior sign language interpreter. She merged her two passions and founded the DeafYoga Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to sharing the benefits of Yoga to the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community members. She has been an integral part in the translation of classical yoga texts into American Sign Language (ASL) and a strong advocate for the certification of Deaf and Hard of Hearing yoga teachers.
She has been featured in Yoga Journal, Yoga International, ABC News as well as a long list of other publications and media channels. In 2009, Lila was awarded "New Yorker of the Year" by television channel NY1 for her efforts. She has written several articles on Deaf Yoga including articles published in India's magazine Ability News. Lila is also the producer of the Deaf Yoga for Beginners DVD and a strong ally for teaching yoga to the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community members.
