Learn how to use Yoga to fulfill your daily DPA requirement

School teachers! Learn how to insert Yoga breaks into your daily classroom schedule.

Yoga teachers! Learn how to teach Yoga in schools.

Next Scheduled Pro-D Workshop with Teressa Asencia M.A., E-RYT

Fee includes the 3-hour workshop and a take-home PowerPoint presentation of the material presented in the workshop designed with images and voice to make it easy for teachers to begin inserting Yoga breaks into their daily classroom schedule.

Vancouver, BC on Friday, 23 April 2010 from 1:00pm to 4:00pm

The Path Yoga Centre, 2083 Alma St, Suite 240, Vancouver

Fee $100. Register by phoning 778.990.3850 or emailing This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

This Pro-D day workshop is designed to help teachers integrate simple movement and breathing exercises into their daily classroom schedule to fulfill daily DPA requirement and:

• Strengthen physical and mental well-being
• Enhance energy and concentration
• Enjoy a calm, content, centered classroom
• Create a more enjoyable efficient learning process

Teaching is one of the most essential professions and also one of the most demanding. This pro-d day workshop is designed to give teachers movement and breathing techniques to enhance their own energy as they inspire their students to tap into their inner potential and create a harmonious classroom.  

Children love to move. When they sit still too long, they feel tense and it is more difficult for them to learn. By taking time for a few movement and breathing exercises daily, teachers may easily release this tension and create a more effective learning process.

Yoga in Your School presents a series of short “Yoga Breaks” designed for teachers to easily insert into their daily classroom schedule. Each posture or breathing technique may be practiced in less than three minutes, so that they may be used regularly or as needed, when attention or energy begins to wane. These short exercise segments may also be combined to create longer sequences for physical education classes, playgrounds and athletics. This audio-visual series is designed to inspire teachers to integrate movement and breathing their daily schedule with no additional training.

The movement exercises are designed to develop concentration, improve motor skills and fitness, develop strength, flexibility and balance as they enhance relationships and inspire a joyful, effective learning process. The breathing exercises are designed to expand lung capacity and increase endurance as they energize and harmonize body and mind. By taking a few moments to stop between activities to breathe and stretch, teachers may create a harmonious classroom with calm, alert children who are receptive and eager to learn.

Take a “Yoga Break"…and see what happens

Taking a few minutes between activities to stretch while concentrating on the breath, helps create calm focused students and a harmonious classroom. Teachers who participate in this pro-d day workshop will learn how to share a refreshing “Yoga Break” with their students several times a day and how to integrate Yoga breaks into their curriculum.

Yoga is an ancient science designed to rejuvenate every part of the body and calm the mind. It involves a series of physical exercises and breathing techniques that develop flexibility, endurance and well-being. Yoga is one of the most comprehensive forms of physical exercise for people of all ages. The stress of daily modern life creates a growing need for ancient, yet simple Yoga techniques that nourish the body, refresh the mind and create a feeling of unity.

How does Yoga differ from other forms of physical exercise?

It is possible to build body strength, endurance and flexibility through many forms of physical exercise. The unique aspect of Yoga is that it builds both inner and outer strength, endurance and flexibility as it develops qualities like patience, and insight. While toning the body and focusing the mind, regular Yoga practice also strengthens the nervous system, builds inner confidence and teaches students to concentrate and learn more efficiently as well as be able to better manage the tensions of daily life.

Bio – Teressa Asencia

Teressa Asencia has taught Yoga and Creative Dance for twenty-five years in California, New York, Canada, China, Tunisia and France. She holds a Masters degree from CUNY in New York City and an E-RYT certification from Yoga Alliance as a “grandparent” of Yoga who has taught more than 5000 hours of Yoga before the year 2000. She has written and produced several Yoga videos and three Yoga series for television which were broadcast daily on CBC and the Women’s Network across Canada and aired on many PBS stations in the U.S.A. Her award-winning dance documentary, “A Dance the Gods Yearn to Witness”, depicts the rich history and tradition of Bharata Natyam dance of India. Recently she has published two new books, “Yoga in Your School” and “Yoga for Mom, Dad and Me”. Teressa teaches Yoga workshops based on her books internationally.

This Pro-D day workshop is based on the book, “Yoga in Your School”, by Teressa Asencia. Recently, “Yoga in Your School” has been the #1 selling book on Amazon.ca for Physical Education in schools in Canada.