Storytelling for Yoga teachers and other professionals online/In English

GREAT NEWS:  After years of anticipation, we are so happy finally to be able to offer this remarkable hybrid training and to welcome our dear friend and colleague, Storyteller Sydney Solis online via Zoom and eventually live in Denmark live. (These dates are still to be released.)

We need the magic of stories in our lives to help us define not only ourselves, but also get in contact with our inner wisdom of problem solving and how to connect to others, the natural world and in the world.

 

WHAT:

With great pleasure we invite you to an extraordinary, experiential training on how to use stories and yoga. During this 2-day training, you will discover the power of the spoken word and your own voice as a storyteller to apply in many areas. You will gain practical knowledge on how the magic of stories and storytelling help children, teens and their families achieve self-insight, develop and trust their intuition, and connect with their deep wisdom and inner power. The emphasis will be on children from age 3-12, but can be graduated accordingly since the oral skill of storytelling is universal and ageless.

You will learn and practice a toolbox of time tested skills in the oral tradition and the special method of Storytime Yoga, to mix and match as needed to solve problems, change perspective and face life’s uncertainty. This to be shared with the children you work with, live with, and love. Stories tend to spread like rings in the water.

WHY:

The challenges our youth are facing currently are enormous. Children need to be equipped with survival and growth skills like never before. One of the most effective ways to reach them is to create a safe space and an experience of being greeted from the heart, which can touch their soul and motivate them enough to take the risks to change and evolve. Through the healing power of stories, kids imagination will be sparked and nourished so they can realize their full potential now and throughout their lifetime, daring to take chances and find their own way.

WHO:

This training is adapted for all adults; mainly professionals but also parents, who are interested in how to help children and adolescents cope and thrive during our present challenges. Especially geared to those working within therapeutic interventions, social relationships, children’s yoga and mindfulness, self-development, special needs, stress, anxiety, and trauma, etc. Parents can find great joy in learning useful tools to support their child. No experience with the storytelling tradition is needed, but rather a deep determination to support young people in their development and a desire to learn how to tell stories from the heart. Experience with yoga will be a great basis, why this is recommended.

A gifted Storyteller, Sydney Solis is the founder of the original Storytime Yoga method and The Mythic Yoga Studio. Originally from Boulder, Colorado, she has been practicing yoga and meditation since age 12. She started the first kids yoga online training program in 2006 and the first kids yoga program on PBS. She has published numerous award-winning media and spent more than 20 years teaching and training around the globe. She continues her journey to bring this ancient oral tradition, needed more than ever, to children, youth and their adults in the world. Now for the first time ever in Denmark/Copenhagen area.

HOW:

From the comfort of your own home via Zoom. Link will be send beforehand as well as a link to a closed forum and library with  videos and readings for preparation and reflection. The training will be in English, with Danish translation on/off if needed for those who are not fluent in English.

Based on many years of practice,  this live, hands-on training will fill you with love, hope, and ready-to-use creative, joyful, and effective take-home strategies for how to use stories and yoga as modalities. Privately and professionally.

 

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:

● Learn the benefits of the oral tradition and the power of the image.
● Learn to tell an oral story.
● Learn the basics of combining storytelling with yoga and how to teach a Storytime Yoga class.
● Learn to use visual images, such as Kamishibai Japanese paper theatre, to tell stories and teach yoga.
● Learn different applications of storytelling for meditation, yoga, education, in the library,mental health, special needs family bonding and more.
● Q&A session and more.

BONUS:

Video and audio replay of the entire two day’s workshop.(And if you cannot attend live on Zoom, you can always join afterwards)
Access to a closed forum with videos, audios, text and stories for your reference and preparation before and in between class.

The training is registered as CEU with Yoga Alliance Intl.

 

Required books:

“Storytime Yoga: Teaching Yoga to Children Through Story”. Can be bought on Saxo.com for Danish Citizens, or if you attend from another country in EU or the States, check Amazon or the like there.

 

Link to – > brochure

Link to  – > youtube video a story about the Flowering tree