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Sedona Yoga Festival Partners with Give Back Yoga Foundation for Yoga For First Responders: a 2.5 day teacher training intensive pre-conference of Sedona Yoga Festival.
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Yoga for First Responders was created through a collaboration between the Give Back Yoga Foundation and the Sedona Yoga Festival. Marc Titus, Founder and Director of SYF, a former wildland firefighter of 20 years, had the desire to bring yoga to first responders after recognizing his own struggles with Post-Traumatic Stress following a tragic career event. Together, the organizations found the right people to present the inaugural Yoga for First Responders teacher training at the February 2015 Sedona Yoga Festival. Now a dedicated Give Back Yoga program, Yoga for First Responders continues to receive funding support through the Sedona Yoga Festival, building a strong foundation for our shared mission of making yoga more accessible to first responders. Together we are excited to bring the training again to the 2016 Sedona Yoga Festival to continue to expand the reach and the effects of the program nationwide. SYF is offering a $70 discount to festival passes when combined with full tuition to YFFR.
The need is clear: in one segment, emergency personnel may witness more trauma, loss, death and destruction than the average citizen will see in a lifetime. An estimated 25 to 30% of police officers have stress-based physical health problems, while 40% suffer from sleep disorders. And numbers are rising for Post Traumatic Stress among all emergency personnel: 18% in police officers, and 10 to 37% in fire service. Yoga for First Responders provides vital emotional-wellness and mental-resiliency support through in-house classes in academy and department settings, and through trainings that educate instructors on our unique approach.
Rooted in the foundation of Trauma-Sensitive Yoga, the Yoga for First Responders program incorporates the element of physical challenges paired with mental training — giving first responders an opportunity to increase peak performance on the job, while alleviating physical and mental effects of work-related stress and trauma so they can lead a more enjoyable personal life.
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Build your knowledge of the psycho-physiological system and the healing power of yoga.
Join program director Olivia Kvitne and YFFR’s core faculty members to learn the specific approach of offering yoga to the first responder population, including the foundation of coping and processing stress through yoga. Yoga for First Responders intensives give trainees the tools and knowledge to feel supported, protected and prepared while offering these evidence-based techniques to their students.
Learn how to bring yoga and mindfulness training to law enforcement officials, firefighters, EMTs, paramedics and other first responders, sharing valuable tools to help these individuals recover from situations of intense stress, strengthen body/mind resilience and support peak performance on the job.
Course Description
Yoga for First Responders shares empirically informed and field tested practices that help police, firefighters and other emergency personnel to recover from situations of intense stress, build resilience and support peak performance on the job. The program is led by Olivia Kvitne, ERYT-500, who has worked with the Los Angeles City Fire Department and the Des Moines Police Department.
Yoga for First Responders Training Curriculum:
Training participants will learn:
~ Understanding the culture of firefighters and the police department
~ An explanation of Post Traumatic Stress and Vicarious Traumatization, along with their manifestations
~The science of yoga as it relates to trauma
~ How to build a trauma-sensitive yoga class series
~ Cognitive training techniques
~ Practices for self-care while serving others
~ Reference material and toolkit to support you while teaching this population
Date:
March 8-10, 2016, Sedona, Arizona
Location:
Sedona Hilton Resort at Bell Rock
90 Ridge Trail Drive
Sedona, AZ 86351
Schedule:
The Yoga For First Responders Training is generally offered as a two-and-a-half-day intensive training with 20 hours of instruction time.
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