Clarity In Communication

Are you sometimes challenged by living yoga off the mat? Do you long to communicate from the heart and get your needs met? Is there a compassionate way to share with someone that their behavior is frustrating ? Can you consciously maintain a connection with a co-worker whose ability to follow-through seems lacking? The answer is: Yes.  

This workshop is a hybrid of hatha yoga practices and study of authentic communication practices supported by Anusara yoga's Principles of Alignment and Non-Dual Tantra.

What You Will Learn

• Expanding Asana practices and Empathy practices
• How to recognize & shift stress patterns in communication 
• How to create more peace in personal and business relationships
• The four components of communication: OFNR & how they RELATE to ASANA
  • Observation
  • Feelings
  • Needs
  • Requests
• The four components of communication: OFNR & how they RELATE to PERSONAL & BUSINESS RELATIONSHIPS

Specific Practices to Take Home

• Self Connection Process: Body-Breath-Need
• Elements of Empathy: Presence-Understanding-Needs {6 minute practice}
• OFNR for small upsets and communication barriers
• Enemy Image 3-step process

Who Should Attend?

If you would like to expand your asana practice AND have more satisfying and engaging relationships, this course is for you! Take this introductory course is designed for those interested in how to take their yoga off the mat, especially when we feel contracted around the conversations we don't want to have. Anyone interested in cultivating harmony internally and externally will leave with immediate skills to reduce stress and create clarity in communication.

This module counts for 14 CEU credits with Yoga Alliance and toward elective hours in ASHY's 300 Hour Teacher Training

Schedule

August  9-11

Friday 

6:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Saturday & Sunday

9:30 am - 12:30 pm & 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm 

Friday:

Asana practice will provide a physical introduction to self empathy through a deep hip opening practice! Build awareness of what you feel during the practice and how to meet your needs physically, mentally and emotionally. Open to practitioners of all levels. 

Saturday:

• Introduction to Non-Violent Communication and ASHY's Compassionate Communication Framework
• Break down, understand, and practice 3 of the components of communication: Observation, Feeling, Need
• How to stop Flight-Fight-Freeze reactions when triggered in communication or in life - Self Connection Practice
• The Circle of Safety: Elements of Empathy 6 minute practice
• One hour asana practice integrating Breath-Body-Need and Observation-Feeling-Need

Sunday:

• Integrate the Self Connection and the Elements of Empathy practices
• Break down, understand and practice the 4th component of communication: REQUESTS vs. DEMAND
• Practice all 4 components of communication: OFNR
• Enemy Image 3-step process
• One hour asana integrating how to make a request of Self and Others

Post-training Support Program

August 28: 7 pm - 8 pm

September 18: 7 pm - 8 pm

October 9: 7 pm - 8 pm

Included in the registration is a unique and supportive post-training program designed to help integrate the skills learned over the weekend workshop. A video conference call will allow participants to engage from their own home and receive further tutorial from Tiffany and guidance from the experience of the group. 

Additionally, a private Facebook group will be created so that group members can engage the practices learned over the weekend on a daily or regular basis. Tiffany will also provide constructive feedback and personally engage with participants in this forum. 

Suggested Reading

Choosing Peace by Ike Lasater & John Kinyon