Yoga for Plus Size Bodies Certificate
with Gillian Dodd
April 8 - 12 2024
Residential : Dunstan Hall Craster Northumberland
NE66 3TF
This 40 Hour Module can be used for Personal and Professional Development. Designed for Yoga Teachers, this accredited residential training offers scope to increase your student base through an authentic and compassionate exploration of a body type that has often been marginalised in Western Yoga Spaces. This training will enable you to extend and embody your learning and create body positive class plans. Aimed to help teachers facilitate more opportunities for Plus-size women to join their classes.
These people who may have not felt like:
- considering Yoga as an option in the first place
- entering the Yoga Space
- practising Yoga at their pace
It’s created for you to make your classes more inclusive. The content is experiential, practical, and informative and gives a thorough insight into overcoming barriers faced by those in *Plus Size bodies. It includes unique adaptations and modifications to facilitate and achieve the benefits of Yoga including confidence, strength, suppleness, and inner calm - without having the distraction or worry about body shape or size or level of fitness.
The world is constantly evolving, and unconscious bias exists. We are challenging this daily in our workplaces and more so in our daily lives. This module is designed for teachers to explore ways to challenge it in our yoga communities also and contribute to making Yoga more accessible.
There is much to be done to dispel myths and prejudice about what a Yoga Body is. This residential course takes a deeper dive into the issues to appreciate the barriers and create adapted and modified practices in classes that welcome and encourage the Plus Size Practitioner in their Yoga journey.
Gillian shares the view that we are at risk of depriving people from experiencing the benefits of Yoga and at risk of creating yoga communities which exclude those who may well need it most.
The Course content explores :
- What is Yoga Anyway?
- How do the ancient texts meet today’s body image culture?
- Yamas and Niyama’s
- The Koshas
- Ayurveda Dosha Types
- Unconscious Bias
- Dispelling Myths about ‘good and bad’ Yoga bodies
- Marketing your Yoga classes
- Fat Phobia and Diet Culture
- Body Positivity
- Stress and the Esoteric Nervous System
- *Use of Language - including “is it okay to say Plus Size Yoga?”
- Pacing and leading of your yoga students of all shapes and sizes
- Choice and use of props
- Planning and preparing classes
You will receive a Plus Size Yoga Course Handbook.
You may also opt in to receive Gillian’s monthly newsletter with updates on News, Research, Events, Yoga Practices and Products relating to Plus Size Yoga. You will stay in the wonderful Dunstan Hall accommodation on a full board basis using our wonderful Yoga Shala in the picturesque village of Craster.
To book, please make your payment to :-
Account : 76206408
Sort Code: 60- 08-45
YOGA FBYI G DODD
Just leave your name as reference.
Contact Gillian here:
Gillian@yogafbyi.com
to book a place or:
Whatsapp +4478039043
