FireFlex Yoga’s Train the Trainer: for First Responders & Yoga Teachers
Summary
Her mission continues to be delivering wellness tools to help people increase resiliency and mitigate injury using mind-body practices, functional fitness, and yoga.“After many years delivering weekly yoga classes inside fire stations, and now implementing 3-day trainings across the country to public safety agencies, I hope to empower first responders with impactful wellness tools they can take with them back to their colleagues,” said FireFlex Founder Shannon McQuaide. This helps me to think more clearly when I have to make decisions that will ultimately affect my crew and the public,” said Southern Marin Fire Protection District Captain Jason Golden.All Train the Trainer attendees will receive a manual that includes several step-by-step sequences for leading first responder yoga classes. www.activewellness.com/fireflexyoga-foundations-trainingNovember 3-5 Training Location: Active Wellness Center at NorthBay Health, 1020 Nut Tree Rd., Vacaville, CA 95687Early Bird Pricing: $750 (registration after September 1 will be $895)What’s included: Sequencing Manual, a copy of The Conscious Warrior, plus an electronic toolkit containing breathing practices, meditations and video of five FireFlex Yoga classes to support your practice and teaching.Closest airports: Sacramento, San Francisco, Oakland, San JoseQuestions? Its flagship program in 2014 gathered quantitative data on first responders before/after a series of classes to measure results of daily fundamental movement patterns and interoception skills. The data consistently demonstrated physical and mental improvement for a high majority of first responders, which correlates to testimonials describing increased resiliency and decreased stress.