Back to school vibes
It’s getting to be that time here in Tennessee: the school supplies are back in stores and kids are relishing the final weeks of their summer vacation. (And if you’re a fellow transplant from the Northeast like me, you might also feel like this is ALL HAPPENING TOO SOON!) Some of us are probably glad we’ve escaped the cycle of back to school, but here’s the thing: I know some of y’all are craving that back to school feeling too.
Back to school is a mindset. It’s a chance to continue learning, growing, and evolving. It’s a time to take the knowledge you have and test it, expand upon it, refresh your skills, and learn some new skills too. Back to school can happen any time of year but we’re especially excited for August and beyond this year because we have four new teacher training weekends on the calendar for the remainder of 2023.
We’re kicking off our training weekends with Fire Flow: Skillful Sequencing Strategies with Neda Honarvar (she/her, E-RYT 500, YACEP) August 11-13.
Join Neda for this weekend workshop designed to help you expand and refine the ways you sequence flow classes. We’ll explore shape-based and action-based approaches to both single-peak and multi-peak pose sequencing. You can expect asana, pranayama, and meditation practices, workshop-style explorations of the sequences and poses, lecture, Q&A, group exercises, and time for practice teaching.
We’ve got additional trainings scheduled later this year, too. Check out the schedule and get on the list to get first dibs on early bird pricing for upcoming events.
About Neda Draupadi Honarvar (she/her), E-RYT 500, YACEP
Known for her fiery nature and deep desire to make yoga accessible, Neda’s teaching style reflects her passion and playfulness as well as her dedication to the science, depth, and discipline of yoga. Her classes are an engaging blend of clear, direct, alignment-based instruction and skillful sequencing; expect lots of encouragement and play with generous servings of sweat and laughter. Neda is the founder of Tough Love Yoga and maintains an active teaching schedule, offering asana, pranayama, & meditation classes, ritual gatherings, workshops, retreats, and teacher training programs both locally and internationally. Neda has trained over 300 yoga instructors through 200 hour and 300 hour alignment-based Hatha yoga programs registered with the Yoga Alliance, both through Tough Love Yoga and other yoga studios across the globe.
Neda’s love for teaching is second only to her passion for learning, believing that being a student of yoga has and continues to transform the capacity and potential of her mind, body, and heart. Neda’s primary practices include asana, pranayama, meditation, and ritual. She has been practicing yoga since 2000 and is a devoted student of her teachers Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, Darren Rhodes, and Christina Sell.
Not a yoga teacher? Looking for a smaller step back to learning? Join us for our monthly Book Club!
Our free monthly Book Club takes place one Wednesday evening per month at 7:30 pm in the Lab. You don’t have to read the book to attend, but we highly recommend it! We’ll read a different nonfiction book each month and gather to discuss the book and practice any physical exercises mentioned when applicable.
August: Built to Move by Kelly Starrett and Juliet Starrett
August 16 at 7:30 pm in the Lab with Kim and Camryn
September: Breath by James Nestor
September 13 at 7:30 pm in the Lab with Kim and Maddie
Save the date: October 18 and November 15 - books to be announced.
We are committed to the practice of studying yoga, and we can’t wait for you to join us in our studies and explorations. See you in the Studio or the Lab soon!