Credentials

Jocelyn Townsend, RYT 500

Intention: To create a safer space for my students to deepen their understanding of themselves and body. To share the therapeutics of yoga and ayurveda by empowering my students through knowledge, integrity and kindness.

Teacher Trainings

Two year long distance learning is Ayurvedic Medicine

-Certified Ayurvedic Practitioner

-Level 1 body work (Abyanga+Shirodhara)
-Published paper on Ayurvedic treatments for Crohn’s Disease

training at United Yoga with Hart Lazar and Donna Read (2015-2016)

(Alignment based hatha yoga) Hart Lazar is an Iyengar teacher. His training conists of extensive prop use, adjustments, and systematically teaching alignment from the base up.

**Completed 220 hr of 300 hrs (due to death in family) but it was my forth training and I only missed sequencing**

300hr Yoga Therapeutics Training at Re:Source Yoga 2013-2015

2 year long certification program in Yoga therapy with Carina Raisman.

Case Studies in Yoga for IBDs

200 hrs Vinyasa/Hatha Training at Pacific Elements (April 2012)

Pacific Elements is a Yoga School founded and ran by former Anusara inspired teacher, Natalie Horscroft Rousseau. The training includes over three time the amount of practice teaching required by the Yoga Alliance, skills to be able to analyze any pose, sequencing, including Yin and Prenatal and in depth study of anatomy and a well rounded introduction to philosophy and Ayurveda.

500 Moksha Yoga Teacher Training. (October 2011)

Moksha Yoga teacher training teaches the Moksha sequence and prepared teachers for teaching in a hot studio.

Important Workshops Taken

A Year to Go Much Deeper (Jan 2012-December 2012)

A year long 100 hour course with Hart Lazar at United Yoga to deepen my own self-study and practice, along with deepening my understanding on the poses from an Iyengar prespective.

Iyengar Workshop with Kevin Gardener (Spring 2013)

-Forward folds, side bends and inversions

4 month Yogic Lifestyle Coaching Program (jan 2013-april 2013)

-Worked with my primary teacher to develop and integrate Ayurveda into my life

-Practitioner of Ayurveda at the California College of Ayurveda 2013-2016

Noah Maze Workshop at Moksha Yoga Montreal (2015)

-Vinyasa Krama- sequencing

-Inversions, backbends and forward folds.

Inversion workshop with Amy Ippoliti (2016)

Your Brain on Yoga: The affects of yoga postures on the central and autonomic nervous system (2016)

Level Three Practice at Shri Yoga (april 2012-june 2016)

Attended level three iyengar classes weekly for four years.

Classes with Robin Golt in Anusara Yoga and Kaismere Shaivism (sept 2016-2017)

Classes with Hart Lazar and Donna Read

Work Experience/Volunteer Experience

Private Therapeutic sessions:

working with people with Digestive disorders, chronic back pain, arthritis, M.S., Asthma, trauma recovery. (Ongoing)

Victoria BC

Carsa (2018-2020)

• destress yoga
• yoga for athletes
• slow-flow
• power flow

Fierce Hearts Yoga (2018-2020)

• group therapeutic classes

Montreal and GMA

Yoga sur le Parc (2017-2018)
-teaching to the elderly

-restorative

-hatha

-vinyasa

Yoga Source

On call subbing at Yoga Source Studio in Brossard (2016-2018)

-Ashtanga from an alignment based perspective (props and modifications)

-8 week series on yoga and eastern psychology

Idolem Yoga Studios

Teaches beginner, restorative/therapeutic, flow and power yoga. (November 2012- 2018)

Studio Bliss (sub)

Seasonal subbing at Studio Bliss (2016)

Re:Source Yoga (2015)

Therapeutic Clinic: Yoga Therapist and home-patient calls

Viveka Yoga

Teaches variety of classes: yin, gentle, beginners, intermediate, power flow. (Feb 2013-Dec 2013)

Ha Yoga

Teaches accessible vinyasa flow to beginner and intermediate practitioners.

Yoga Lounge

Hot power flow teacher, as well as sub for hatha, deepening your practice.. July 2012-Jan 2013

Ahimsa Yoga (sub)

Acted as a substitute teacher for Ahimsa Yoga, filling in for classes when the teacher was not available.

Vidalia Yoga Studio (sub)

Acted as a substitute teacher for Vidalia, forming classes that specifically worked for the needs of the students.

Moksha Yoga Practice Teach (2011-2012)

Gave two free classes a week at Moksha Yoga NDG to continue sequence study and working in a classroom environment.

Art of Living Club, Concordia (Jan 2012-April 2012)

Free classes giving to university students finding healthy means of dealing with stress.

Private Lessons/Therapeutic Yoga

Currently giving private lessons tailored to the needs of the individuals. Providing everything from pre-natal, IBS, PTSD, to grounding sequences for anxiety.

Prenatal

Experienced and passionate in teaching both private and group prenatal classes.

Mentorships

Mentored two young yoga teachers who wanted help adjusting in lifestyle.

Workshops Given

Yoga and eastern psychology – Yoga Source

Beginner’s alignment – idolem

Other Work and Volunteer positions

community outreach coordinator at YOCOMO (2014-2016)

-Wrote their blog in later years

-responsible for addressing the needs of the community and making yoga more accessible to people of diverse background

Fauna Foundation (Yoga Teacher)
-Teaching yoga and meditation to Caretakers of endangered species.

-Specifically addressing Compassion Burnout.