You are medicine.
Medicine for someone.
You will heal that person. You.
Maybe two people. Maybe 20. Maybe 10.000.
Only you. You are the bringer of medicine, and the bringer of the medicine is as important as the medicine itself.
Because if the wrong person brings the medicine the wounded person will not accept it.
It has to be you.
Welcome to the Inner Axis Teacher Training
As one teacher training graduate described the heart of teaching Inner Axis:
“You want to be an Inner Axis teacher because you want to be a teacher of transformation. You want to teach something with a deeper and more profound impact than a workout on a yoga mat or a stretch class. You want people to feel more comfortable in their bodies and experience a shift in their mind and emotional state. You want your classes to be accessible to everyone; all ages, abilities, and walks of life. And most of all, you want to help your students reduce their stress levels, relieve anxiety, depression, grief and PTS. This is what breathing patterns and breath initiated movement can do. This is the Inner Axis System.”
For whom?
If you’re in a leadership position, or have the aim to become a teacher or expand your teaching, or simply have the desire to enrich your knowledge and personal practice of Max’s Inner Axis System, you will find this training inspiring, immediately useful and indispensable to your journey.
Course description
For 28 days you will be immersed in all the aspects that make up the Inner Axis System.
During this month, highly experienced and esteemed anatomy teacher Jamie Elmer will take you on a 7-day journey through muscles and tissues so you will know exactly how to practice safely and effectively and teach others how to do so. Jamie Elmer is a long time colleague of mine and part of my advanced teacher training teaching staff and I am delighted to have her co-teach the anatomy part of this training. To get the most out of this training there’s some required reading and you’ll be asked to complete short writing assignments.
What will I learn?
- Breathing techniques; the why, what, how and when
- Breath-initiated movement; the prime mover
- Alleviating stress, anxiety, and depression
- Yoga postures; alignment, strength, and stretching
- Clear and safe verbal cues
- Adjustments, techniques and common issues
- Hands-on and hands-off assists
- Understanding Sequencing
- Working with extremes: beginners, elders, and the hyper flexible
- Emotional healing
- History of Yoga
- Philosophy of living
- Ethics and why they matter
- Meditation and focus techniques
- Enhancing your communication skills and building confidence
- Skills for effective universal teaching and leadership
- Applied Anatomy for Yoga, taught by Jamie Elmer
- Safety in the classroom, taught by Jamie Elmer
Faculty
Max Strom
E-RYT 500, YACEP, author, speaker
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Having been on the cutting edge of breathing and breath initiated movement for over 26 years Max shared his teaching in over 25 countries and 150 cities around the world as a teacher, speaker and author. He wrote 2 books; A Life Worth Breathing, and There Is No App For Happiness, and he has been the keynote speaker at many conferences around the world.
Max has been teaching yoga since 1994 and built a very successful yoga studio in Los Angeles CA, before he decided to expand his reach and started teaching all over the world. Combining yoga, breath work, Qi Gong and movement therapy, Max developed the groundbreaking system Inner Axis, designed to alleviate crippling anxiety, depression, PTS and sleep problems. His field-tested method focuses on the causes rather than the symptoms and his system is known to produce rapid results.
Max brings his experience in teaching thousands of students and teachers into his teacher training and is renowned for being an exceptional communicator and creating safety in the classroom. In his Inner Axis Teacher Training Max reveals his techniques on all aspects of teaching. His focus is not to train his students to become qualified yoga instructors, his focus is to train his students to become teachers, leaders and speakers so that they facilitate a practice that goes beyond the mat and beyond the classroom.
Jamie Elmer
Movement Therapist, E-RYT500, YACEP
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For two decades, Jamie has been a passionate teacher in the healing arts. Her background in anatomy, kinesiology, physiology, Pilates and yoga enables her to provide well rounded care and help you become pain free and physically balanced.
Jamie has taught yoga, Pilates, gait therapy and movement therapy full time for over twenty years.
A former professional modern dancer, Jamie has spent a lifetime either creating or correcting injury. Jamie’s own injuries at a relatively young age guided her toward a career in helping others heal their physical injury and pain.
Jamie has a bachelor’s degree in Dance Anatomy from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), is a graduate of over a dozen yoga teacher certifications, Long Beach Dance Conditioning’s Pilates program, Duke University College of Integrative Medicine’s Movement Therapy for Seniors program and is a certified Brourman Gait Therapist.
Jamie currently works in private practice, retreat settings, and teacher training programs in the US, Mexico and Europe.
www.movementtherapyco.com/
movementtherapyco.vhx.tv – Streaming platform
Valerie Moselle
E-RYT 500, YACEP, RPYT/Author, Educator, Steward of Yoga, Breath and Somatic Meditation
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Valerie Moselle is an author, advanced yoga teacher, and founder of Luma Yoga, an award-winning studio and wellness center in Santa Cruz, California. A 20-year veteran of teaching, Valerie’s superpower is in helping new teachers understand and apply functional anatomy and core concepts from biomechanics and kinesiology to yoga and breath work.
Valerie trains teachers to see students as individuals each poised to derive unique benefits from modern postural practice. She is known for classes that inspire a playful exploration of breath, movement, strength, and surrender. A student of yoga for nearly three decades, Valerie has studied and taught in the San Francisco Bay Area, Southern California, India, and the U.K. She works in close collaboration with international Breathe to Heal teacher Max Strom coaching teachers around the world.
Take a look at her book ; Breathwork: A 3 Week Breathing Program to Gain Clarity, Calm, and Better Health
http://bit.ly/BreathworkBook
Valerie lives in Santa Cruz with her husband and two daughters, where she serves as the Director of Luma Yoga, and of the Luma Yoga Teacher Training and Practice Enrichment program, found on her website:
Faculty
Max Strom
E-RYT 500, YACEP, author, speaker
read biography
Having been on the cutting edge of breathing and breath initiated movement for over 26 years Max shared his teaching in over 25 countries and 150 cities around the world as a teacher, speaker and author. He wrote 2 books; A Life Worth Breathing, and There Is No App For Happiness, and he has been the keynote speaker at many conferences around the world.
Max has been teaching yoga since 1994 and built a very successful yoga studio in Los Angeles CA, before he decided to expand his reach and started teaching all over the world. Combining yoga, breath work, Qi Gong and movement therapy, Max developed the groundbreaking system Inner Axis, designed to alleviate crippling anxiety, depression, PTS and sleep problems. His field-tested method focuses on the causes rather than the symptoms and his system is known to produce rapid results.
Max brings his experience in teaching thousands of students and teachers into his teacher training and is renowned for being an exceptional communicator and creating safety in the classroom. In his Inner Axis Teacher Training Max reveals his techniques on all aspects of teaching. His focus is not to train his students to become qualified yoga instructors, his focus is to train his students to become teachers, leaders and speakers so that they facilitate a practice that goes beyond the mat and beyond the classroom.
Jamie Elmer
Movement Therapist, E-RYT500, YACEP
read biography
For two decades, Jamie has been a passionate teacher in the healing arts. Her background in anatomy, kinesiology, physiology, Pilates and yoga enables her to provide well rounded care and help you become pain free and physically balanced.
Jamie has taught yoga, Pilates, gait therapy and movement therapy full time for over twenty years.
A former professional modern dancer, Jamie has spent a lifetime either creating or correcting injury. Jamie’s own injuries at a relatively young age guided her toward a career in helping others heal their physical injury and pain.
Jamie has a bachelor’s degree in Dance Anatomy from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), is a graduate of over a dozen yoga teacher certifications, Long Beach Dance Conditioning’s Pilates program, Duke University College of Integrative Medicine’s Movement Therapy for Seniors program and is a certified Brourman Gait Therapist.
Jamie currently works in private practice, retreat settings, and teacher training programs in the US, Mexico and Europe.
www.movementtherapyco.com/
movementtherapyco.vhx.tv – Streaming platform
Daily schedule (example)
The teacher training will take place in 2 segments of 14 days each. The first segment will take place in person, the second segment will have 7 days of online live stream Functional Anatomy training and is followed by 7 days of in person training with Max. In total Max will teach 21 days of the course and 7 days of the course will be taught by Jamie Elmer.
We will practice together every day. Our daily schedule is comprised of sections on techniques, teaching methodology, yoga philosophy, practice lab, applied anatomy for movement, sharing and Q&A.
For this training we will be using a hybrid format of in person and online learning. These methods have proven to be complementary when used to their advantage. What you will get:
- Access to the recordings of the Functional Anatomy segment until 6 months after completion of the training. An amazing resource to revisit as often as you like and allowing you to take in the knowledge again at your leisure.
- Access to Jamie Elmer’s online platform with an extensive library of practices and detailed tutorials on postures.
- No costs for accommodation for 1 week of the training and the opportunity to join from the comfort of your own home.
Inner Axis teacher’s code of ethics
As a teacher of Max Strom’s Inner Axis System, I represent and honor the following:
- I present myself as a leader, teacher, and in service to students.
- I maintain clear and professional boundaries with students.
- I will not use shaming, anger, or force as a teaching method.
- I will provide a safe environment, and cultivate respect, kindness, honesty, and humility in my students and myself.
- I will discourage competition between students.
- I represent myself honestly and provide only guidance and services that I am qualified for.