Upcoming Workshops and Trainings

10-Hour Finding and Keeping Private Clients with Morgan Cowie

Saturday November 12th and Sunday November 13th

Getting and keeping private clients is an incredible way to deepen your relationships, enhance your teaching skills and increase your income. In this unique ten-hour training, Morgan Cowie will share the strategies she has used for the last fifteen years to build a thriving private client practice.

From specific sequences and assessment techniques to how to have tricky conversations about payment and fees, this training is an excellent foundation to start building your own private practice.

What You Will Be Offered:

Meeting and Connectiong: How to Start a Private Client Relationship;
Initial Assessment and What to Do in the First Session;
Pricing;
Common Issues and Concerns;
Core Series To Help (Pretty Much!) All Clients;
Working With Tune Up Balls;
Therapeutic Lens for Hips, Spine and Shoulders;
Meditation, Restorative and Breathwork;
The Role of Specialized Modalities – pre/post-natal, vertigo, fertility, menopause;
Adjustments and Safety;
Dealing with Room Rentals;
Relationship: Boundaries and Scope.

Time: 2-7pm each Day

Cost: $250 + HST

We offer subsidized spots to racialized, LGBTQ+, folks living with physical and other barriers as well as other marginalized students on a case by case basis. Please message morgan@mosaicyoga.ca to start a conversation.

Intro to the Zodiac with Morgan Cowie

Saturday, November 19th

From Aries to Pisces, each sign in the zodiac calendar offers us specific insight about the season unfolding around us and ways to tune into our own talents, strengths and inner resources. In this workshop, we will explore what each sign tells us about the particular energies to be aware of during each month of the year and then become aware of what these mean for us personally as we chart out our personal Sun, Moon and Ascendant Sign. Bring a journal and your time of birth (if you have it).

TIME: 2-4PM

COST: Members $30 +HST, Non-members $35 +HST

20-Hour Advancing Your Teaching with Morgan Cowie, Taranee Ponjani and Philippe Van De Maele Martin

Friday, January 20th – Sunday, January 22nd

Whether you’ve been teaching for one or fifteen years, you might have found that despite all the incredible rewards we encounter as professional yoga teachers, it can be, well, lonely. We all have moments of self-doubt, imposter syndrome and isolation because when we’re standing at the front of the room, we are kind of on our own.

We can find lots of trainings for specialty skillsets and modalities but it’s hard to just find a course that is affordable, valuable and geared simply towards advancing our skills at teaching basic and intermediate drop-in classes.

Morgan Cowie, Taranee Ponjani and Philippe Van de Maele Martin have created a weekend training experience where you will be surrounded by fellow yoga teacher professionals all working towards clarifying their unique signal, finding effective and innovative ways to teach more complicated sequences and poses and discussing big issues within the profession, like cultural appropriation, power and consent.This weekend will leave you better able to understand the gifts that you bring as a teacher, able to deal with the shadows of imposter syndrome and doubt. You will have tried and tested methods of helping students (and yourself) to safely and effectively move towards complex poses like handstand, splits and bigger backbends. And finally, you will have a safe and caring space to work with some of big ethical challenges we face as teachers.

What You Will Be Offered:

Theory and Structure of Successful Classes;
Strategies to Uncover And Believe In Your Voice;
Dealing With Imposter Syndrome;
Working with Cultural Appropriation and Decolonization;
How to Practice and Teach: Advanced Arm Balancing and Inversions;
How to Practice and Teach: Backbends and Splits;
Sequencing Skills: Integration of Body and Concept, Layering and Transferring Skills, Class Structure, and Themes;
Adjustments and Consent in a Post-Covid World;
Working with Feedback from Students and Studios.

TIME: Friday 6-9, Saturday and Sunday 9-6pm

COSTS: $450 +HST

25-Hour Barre and Bosu Teacher Training with Morgan Cowie and Lindsay Kinzinger

Friday, February 3rd – Sunday, February 5th

Calling all yoga, pilates and dance teachers looking to create incredible Barre and Bosu classes that are intelligently sequenced, designed for joy and guaranteed to have students packing your classes. Movement classes like Barre and Bosu are increasingly in-demand at yoga and pilates studios as an adjunct style to prevent repetitive injury and strain, increase cardiovascular health and build strength and endurance.

Morgan and Lindsay have a combined total of more than twenty-five years of teaching and they draw from their knowledge of yoga, pilates, dance, biomechanics and physiology to create smart, fun and unique classes. They are joining forces to offer this one-of-a-kind training at Mosaic Yoga in downtown Toronto where you will be certified not only to teach Barre but also to teach Bosu classes

In this 25-Hour training, you will be offered:

Templates and sequences for forty-five and sixty minute Barre and Bosu classes;
Techniques to engage the core sequentially to create stability, reduce pain and increase mobility;
Ballet foot and arm positions and explanations as well as modifications for all levels and bodies;
Methods to increase and decrease challenge quickly and easily;
Practice and training on how to quickly learn how to teach to music;
Dozens of specific exercises for core, arm, shoulder, leg, glute and ankle;
Fundamental anatomy for core, arm, shoulder, leg, glute and ankle;
Instructions on how to add other equipment like weights, bands and more to amplify impact;
Simple choreo techniques for fun and easy to learn cardio sequences;
Strategies to make your classes more inclusive, non-threatening and anti-oppressive.

Time: 9-6pm each Day

Cost: $500 + HST

Yoga Nidra Teacher Training with Taryn Diamond

DATES TBD

Yoga boasts a wealth of subtle practices, the kind that surprise one with their efficacy and simplicity. This training invites participants into a relationship with one of yoga’s subtle gems: Yoga Nidra. Walk away with both the confidence and excitement to offer these practices to yourself, your family or your students. This program is about more than becoming a nidra teacher, this is about equipping you with the know-how to rest and relieve stress.

Yoga nidra is an effective tool for new parents, caregivers, seasoned students and instructors alike. This program is one-of-a-kind and barrier-free: all bodies, all levels of experience (including none!) are welcomed.

Taryn offers a comprehensive introduction to yoga nidra. The program will:

ground the modalities of yoga nidra within the larger context of yoga philosophy;
train you in teaching the art of yoga nidra, including leading in-person and online classes, best practices and script preparation;
equip participants with the tools to walk away and teach a Nidra class and enhance their asana classes with nidra practices;
empower participants with stress-reduction tools including simple breath work and gentle movement.

For the first time ever, you choose your adventure by joining Taryn for Restorative TT or add the Yoga Nidra TT for a discounted price.

COSTS
Yoga Nidra Training – $450 +HST