Her 300-hour certification is in certification is in Ashtanga Yoga. She is registered with Yoga Alliance and certified in Pilates with Exercise Science Alliance.
She also teaches special topics in workshops and private sessions:
Breathing
Meditating
Freeing the Pelvis
Inverting
Arm Balancing
Backbending
Ascending and Floating in Vinyasa Movements
Using PNF Resistance Techniques in Yoga Practice and Teaching
Sequencing Your Yoga Practice
Developing the Core (both for general public and for postnatal women)
Elizabeth has designed and conducted yearly yoga teacher trainings at Miami University, Cincinnati State, and her studio in Troy. She offers training and continuing education for yoga teachers in the topics above, plus method and theory topics, such as:
Observing and Responding to Students
Pacing and Sequencing
Precise Use of Language
Cueing Alignment in Flow
Adjustment Techniques
Applying Philosophy to Practice
Yoga and Pilates with Elizabeth Silas
Elizabeth Silas, E-RYT, is an experienced, certified instructor of yoga and Pilates on the east side of Cleveland, Ohio.
She has been teaching for the past ten years in both big-city studios and small-town locations. Most recently, she owned a studio in Troy, Ohio that offered a full schedule of drop-in classes and private sessions. She Yoga while living in Chicago for the summer of 2007, and she has taught classes, workshops, and teacher trainings at It's Yoga, Gratitude, and YogahOMe in Cincinnati since 2001. She has taught undergraduate courses and trained yoga teachers at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, in addition to her weekly schedule of drop-in classes and workshops that ran from 2000 to 2007.
Her instruction teaches students to carefully align the body while flowing through a meditative and challenging series of postures. Students learn to initiate each movement with the breath and compassionate intention. Themes from eastern and western philosophies are woven into each class.
Elizabeth teaches classes and individualized private sessions for new beginners, mixed levels, and experienced students in a variety of formats:
Jivamukti Yoga
Vinyasa Yoga (flow yoga, at slow, moderate, or vigorous levels)
Therapeutic and Restorative Hatha Yoga (focusing on prevention of injury, illness, and other conditions, as well as relaxation and stress relief)
Ashtanga Primary and Intermediate Series
Pilates (plus additional methods of core work)
She designs and refines each class sequence to provide students with the opportunity to immerse themselves in the practice.
finally, the door opens... and it opens outward: we've been inside what we wanted all along. --David Foster Wallace