Kurma AquaYoga Teacher Training is an embodied, somatic approach to water training was born out of a passion for making yoga accessible and a love for the element of water. You are in the right place if you too love water and learning to use the element of water to make vibrant health accessible.

PROGRAM AT-A-GLANCE

Are you ready to guide kurma AquaYoga Experience of deep insight and powerful transformations for yourself, clients, communities, and organizations?

Are you committed to holistically and compassionately transforming pain and challenges into growth, meaning-making, deep connection, and resilience?

Then we invite you to the Kurma AquaYoga Teacher Training Certificate Program.

This unique 3 day live, in-person certificate program is designed for individuals, practitioners, and educators wanting to explore the power of water, yoga, somatics and coaching, one that fosters a truly transformative change. 

This program is led by Denise Davis-Gains, with over 40 years of experience to offer a holistic, body-centered method to transformation. This extraordinary program provides a systematic set of practical tools that guides the change process for yourself and your work with others.

Upcoming Dates

Saturday & Sunday June 8-9, 2024

What is Kurma AquaYoga?

Essentially, water yoga works by performing yoga poses in your swimming pool or spa to get a low-impact, full-body experience that helps to improve strength, balance, range of motion and presence of mind. Classes include asana, pranayama, mudras, bandha, meditation and other yoga technology. Our training includes foundations in working with the element and properties of water and water safety.

What are the Benefits?

While a traditional yoga workout can provide many health benefits, stepping into a pool or spa can make yoga more accessible, inclusive and add variety to life. Kurma AquaYoga also ….

Calms the Body and Mind

By focusing solely on the body’s movements and breathing, we can facilitate a deep sense of relaxation and inner peace.

Eases Stress and Anxiety

Water yoga exercises, especially if performed in warmer water, trigger the natural release of the body’s happy hormone, endorphins, which help to melt away the stress of the day – leaving clients feeling relaxed and rejuvenated.

Strengthens Your Body

Incorporating water yoga as part of a regular exercise routine can help to strengthen and tone muscles, improve range of motion and balance, boost endurance, enhance your immune system and even improve cardiovascular function.

Alleviates Aches and Pains

We will explore the pain relieving effects of cold and warm water yoga, the low-impact exercises combined with the natural buoyancy of the water can help to relieve tight muscles and joints, while also helping to increase flexibility by stretching out sore muscle. The cold and warm water help to increase blood circulation and reduce inflammation in the joints and muscles.

Improves Overall Health

The whole-body relaxation and calmness gained from Kurma AquaYoga practice can help to improve sleep patterns, boost energy levels, encourage detoxification, and promote healthy well-being.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

THE POWER OF WATER, YOGA, SOMATICS & MINDFULNESS TO FOSTER TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE

This unique 4 day certificate program is designed for yoga teachers, yoga therapists and other complimentary and alternative health care providers wanting to explore a water based yoga approach that combines the power of somatics, the tradition of yoga with mindfulness to fosters transformative change. 

This program brings together Denise’s over 40 years of experience to offer a holistic, body-centered method to create impact, integration, and acceleration. This unique program provides a collection of practices and tools that guides the change process for yourself and your work with others.

Through an experiential approach, participants will embody the core principles and processes to guide clients and groups in holistic, transformational, and impactful practice. 

This integrative approach to teaching will empower you to help your clients gain access to their body, thoughts, feelings, beliefs, attitudes, behaviours, and relational patterns that have obstructed them from living their full potential. Through a balance of depth processing and action-focused practices, Kurma AquaYoga empowers clients in addressing the obstructions to achieving their goals, realizing their life vision, transforming stuck patterns, and strengthening body, mind and spirit. 

This program draws on body-centered therapy and somatic teaching and coaching practices, including Yoga, AquaFitness, Gestalt, Hakomi, Focusing, Body-Mind Centering, Somatic Experiencing, the Expressive Arts, Strozzi Somatic Coaching, Somatic Stress Release, and Mindfulness.

2024 PROGRAM CURRICULUM

This 35hr certificate program includes 8 modules over 4 days plus an evergreen course pack with readings, audio and video recordings of our sessions:

THIS CERTIFICATE PROGRAM IS DIVIDED INTO EIGHT MODULES:

Module I

Foundations of Kurma AquaYoga Teacher Training

Module II

Principles of Vertical Water Based Exercise and Yoga

Module III

Communication in Watery Environments

Module IV

Mystery, Magic, Meaning and Method

Module V

AquaYoga Class Planning for Groups and Individuals

Module VI

Physiology and Water

Module VII

Special Populations and Your Signature Program

Module VIII

Continuing Education, Advanced Certificates, Integration and Certification

What you will learn in this Program

We will learn all the basics water principles, how to use yoga poses and other techniques in watery environments but we will also learn

• To facilitate the release of old stories, unwind frozen beliefs and pain stored in the body-mind, and compensatory behavioural patterns that no longer serve the individual.

• Techniques to rewire patterns of safety, connection, worth, and belonging. 

• To cultivate presence in yourself and those you work with.

• Assessments and embodied attuning that is cooperative.

• How to utilize evidence-based mind-body techniques.

• To integrate processing and action-focused teaching styles.

• A trauma-informed approach to teaching and coaching.

• To use strength-based approaches to identifying resources to support growth, learning, and resilience.

• Navigate the diversity of clients and students you work with.

• To support clients in opening up and connecting to their bodies' experiences, sensations, and expressions.

• To guide clients into mobilizing unprocessed stress.

• To guide clients through holistic, developmental processes of learning about themselves and facilitate growth and transformation.

• To actively engage in an exploration of your own, as well as your client's, social attitudes and beliefs so that you can address power dynamics and develop competencies in applying cultural humility to teaching and coaching.

Kurma AquaYoga Teacher Training Certificate

All students who complete the requirements below will receive a Kurma AquaYoga Teacher Training Certificate from Atlas Yoga School. The requirements to receive the Certificate are:
• Attend the live sessions and/or watch the recordings
• Complete the Self Evaluation & Reflection forms
• Complete 8 hours of practice teaching outside of class times and reach out to another student in the program and have a meaningful conversation about the program. A template for the practice sessions and prompts for the conversation will be provided.
• Dates to complete by 3 months after the final modules of the last live session (extension available on request)
• Full payment has been received