Ethics, Scope of Practice & Sustainable Teaching
Schedule
Fri Jan 08 2027 at 05:30 pm to 08:30 pm
UTC-05:00Location
3015 7th St N, Saint Petersburg, FL, United States, Florida 33704 | St. Petersburg, FL
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Date: Friday, January 8-10, 2027 Time: Friday 5:30pm-8:30pm; Saturday-Sunday 9:00am-12:00pm and 1:00-5:00pm.
Cost: $467
Discounts: 10% for BE Members / Mysore Members
Capacity: Limited to 20 participants per module to support an intimate learning environment
This training welcomes dedicated practitioners who are drawn toward deeper inquiry, anatomical understanding, and embodied learning. While teaching applications are present, the material is also explored through self-practice, peer learning, and reflection. Many participants find this training brings clarity and maturity to their relationship with practice—whether or not they choose to teach.
This program works well for continuing education and advanced credentialing. The modules emphasize applied learning, integration, and long-term teaching intelligence—supporting teachers who are expanding their depth, scope, and sense of responsibility in their work.
Overview:
Module Six brings the training into its ethical center. After developing perception, structural understanding, continuity, and applied intervention, participants turn toward the responsibility that comes with influence, touch, and long-term engagement in practice and teaching spaces.
This module explores how and when to teach, not simply what to teach. Ethics, scope of practice, trauma-informed awareness, and sustainability are approached as lived skills—shaped by relationship, context, and time—rather than as abstract principles or rules to follow.
Here, teaching with discernment is understood as skill. Listening is understood as action. And sustainability—physical, emotional, and relational—is recognized as a reflection of maturity in both practice and teaching.
Learning Objectives:
By the completion of this module, participants will be able to:
- Develop sensitivity around when and whether to teach or intervene, recognizing timing, discernment, and listening as meaningful forms of skillful action.
- Navigate the ethical dimensions of influence, authority, and touch within teaching relationships, with attention to power dynamics, consent, and responsibility.
- Clearly understand and honor the limits of the yoga teacher’s role, using scope of practice as a foundation for safety, trust, and integrity.
- Recognize how trauma, history, and context shape student experience, and respond with clarity, consistency, and choice rather than technique or interpretation.
- Teach with an orientation toward longevity, supporting students through change, aging, plateaus, and return without fostering dependency.
- Reflect on personal sustainability as part of ethical teaching, including boundaries, workload, and the capacity to remain present and available over time.
Ethics as a Living Practice
Ethics are explored as something that unfolds moment by moment, rather than a fixed code applied universally. Participants examine how ethical teaching requires awareness, humility, and responsiveness.
Areas of exploration include:
- Understanding ethics beyond rules or codes of conduct
- Applying ethical discernment in real teaching and learning environments
- Recognizing power dynamics
- Working with consent, agency, and responsibility in hands-on contexts
- Navigating boundaries with clarity, care, & respect
- Participants are invited to see ethics as a relational practice, shaped by timing, trust, and awareness rather than rigid prescriptions.
Scope of Practice
This section clarifies the role of the yoga teacher and the importance of staying within appropriate professional boundaries.
Participants Explore:
- The distinctions between teaching, facilitating, and therapeutic or clinical roles
- Recognizing when support is appropriate and when referral is necessary
- Avoiding overreach in language, adjustment, and emotional holding
- Understanding the limits of expertise within teaching spaces
- Honoring what is not the teacher's role
Staying within scope is framed not as a restriction, but as a practice that protects safety, trust, and integrity for everyone involved.
Trauma-Informed Application
Trauma-informed teaching is approached as a way of holding space, rather than a set of techniques to apply.
Participants learn to:
- Recognize trauma responses without labeling or pathologizing
- Create environments that support choice, autonomy, and a sense of safety
- Use language, pacing, and proximity thoughtfully
- Approach touch as optional, responsive, and non-coercive
- Support nervous system regulation through clarity and consistency
The emphasis is on awareness and sensitivity—understanding that trauma-informed teaching often shows up in how something is offered, rather than what is offered.
Long-Term Student Care
Teaching is explored as a relationship that unfolds over time, rather than a series of isolated interactions.
Participants reflect on:
- Teaching with a long view rather than focusing on immediate outcomes
- Supporting consistency, trust, and gradual development
- Avoiding dependency while fostering connection
- Recognizing plateaus, regression, and cyclical growth
- Teaching in ways that support aging bodies and evolving needs
This section reinforces patience, steadiness, and care as essential qualities of sustainable teaching.
Sustainability for the Teacher
Participants are encouraged to consider their own sustainability as part of ethical responsibility.
Areas of focus include:
- Managing energetic and emotional labor in teaching roles
- Preventing burnout through boundaries and discernment
- Establishing realistic teaching loads and expectations
- Maintaining personal practice alongside teaching responsibilities
- Recognizing sustainability as an ethical commitment to oneself and others
Teaching is framed not as self-sacrifice, but as a practice that must be livable over time.
By the end of Module Six, participants develop the capacity to pause, discern, and choose responsibly in complex teaching and practice situations. Ethics, scope of practice, and sustainability are understood not as external rules, but as embodied skills that guide how participants relate to power, touch, and long-term responsibility.
Module Six completes the 300-hour training by bringing perception, structure, continuity, and intervention into a shared ethical context—affirming that the depth of this work is revealed not only in how skill is applied, but in how care, listening, teaching with discernment, and responsibility are carried forward over time.
Teaching Schedule & Focus:
Friday | 5:30pm-8:30pm
Orientation & Ethical Framing
- Module orientation
- Ethics as lived practice: responsibility, influence, and discernment
- Teaching relationships: authority, trust, and power
- Reflection and guided discussion
Saturday | 9:00am-12:00pm
Ethics & Scope of Practice
- Ethics beyond rules: responsiveness, humility, and timing
- Consent, agency, and responsibility in teaching and hands-on work
- Power dynamics within student–teacher relationships
- Scope of practice: understanding limits, roles, and boundaries
Saturday | 1:00pm-5:00pm
Trauma-Informed Awareness & Application
- Trauma-informed teaching as a way of holding space
- Language, pacing, proximity, and choice in practice spaces
- Touch as optional, responsive, and non-coercive
- Supporting safety and nervous system regulation through clarity and consistency
Sunday | 9:00am-12:00pm
Long-Term Student Care
- Teaching as a relationship over time
- Supporting consistency, trust, and gradual development
- Recognizing natural cycles of growth, pause, and return within practice
- Avoiding dependency while fostering connection
Sunday | 1:00pm-5:00pm
Sustainability & Integration
- Sustainability as ethical responsibility
- Managing energetic and emotional labor
- Boundaries, workload, and longevity in teaching
- Maintaining personal practice alongside teaching
- Integration & Closing
- Reflection and integration
- Teaching with discernment and responsibility
- Closing circle and completion of the 300-hour training
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Where is it happening?
3015 7th St N, Saint Petersburg, FL, United States, Florida 33704, 3015 7th St N, St Petersburg, FL 33704-2062, United States, St. PetersburgEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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