The Functional Flow 200hr
Yoga & Meditation Teacher Training
A trauma-informed teacher training for facilitating mystical and healing experiences through functional movement.
Why You Should Practice Yoga in the Morning
Fire up your digestive system and boost your metabolism.
Improve your overall fitness by toning up and increasing flexibility.
Wake up your brain and bring more focus and energy to your day.
Fire up your heart and lungs giving you more energy.
Reduce your reliance on morning caffeine!
Adjust your biological clock and get better sleep.
Work out any pains from the night and bring ease into your day.
Share your morning with like minded people.
Shake off any remaining stagnant energy from the night before.
It’s just an awesome way to start your day!
Functional Flow teaches us how to love moving.
It is a safer, deeper embodied movement practice using functional movement to provide strength, flexibility and health
Moving meditation can open up profound insights and healing,
As well as revealing our systems truest intention so that we can offer a practice that is informed
by true consent.
Join us on a unique 8 month personal and group growth journey.
Balance the speediness of our culture and bring deeper self-connection and transformation
What is Functional Flow?
a slower, stronger, therapeutic movement practice.
This unique style blends
→ Spiritual enquiry into our infinite nature
→ Functional strength
→ Therapeutic movement
→ 3 different formats of meditation and spiritual practice
Into a beautiful and deep practice
Where we can experience fitness, release, joy, healing and awareness of our infinite nature.
Whether you are brand new to yoga or a seasoned teacher, we guarantee that learning this style will change everything.
Over 8 months you will receive
✔ 7 in-studio sessions with Ava
✔ 7 Online special sessions with Ava
✔ 3 Life-changing, self-paced online modules
✔ Ready-made class template and sequences
✔ On-demand library of classes and trainings with Ava for your own practice
✔ Simple and profound tools made easy to understand and share
✔ Carefully spaced modules for time to rest, integrate and reflect
✔ 1:1 Access to Ava for mentoring and personal development
✔ Discounts on silent retreats and studio classes (to be booked separately)
✔ A weekly opportunity to teach in studio
The study program is suitable for
1) Beginners wanting to learn how to practice yin & meditation.
2) Yoga practitioners wanting to take their practice and knowledge to the next level.
3) Teachers wanting to expand their skills and teaching range and deepen their capacity to hold a trauma-informed space.
Please fill out an application form to help you clarify your intentions and determine suitability. Thank you!
A 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Certificate is awarded upon the completion of:
✔ All in-person trainings
✔ Online modules and quizzes
✔ Attendance of 25 yoga classes at Spanda School (in studio or live stream)
✔ Attendance of (1) 7 day silent retreat during the course (to be booked and paid for seperately)
✔ Delivery of (4) practice sessions
Graduates from the teacher trainings with Ava are sought after and recognised in the community as having received high-quality instruction.
In practice, graduates are recognized as having special skills in space holding that set the apart. They are able to facilitate something truly valuable, meaningful and enjoyable.
For more information about yoga certifications read Ava’s article here.
Studio: Spanda School
24C South St, South Fremantle WA
Get in touch with us to recieve full orientation pack our contact form,
or fill out an application form to help you clarify your needs and intentions.
Sunday, 20th October 9:30 – 12pm (online)
In studio:
Sunday, 27th October 10- 3pm
Sunday, 17th November 10- 3pm
Sunday, 8th December 10- 3pm
Sunday, 12th January 10 – 3pm
Sunday, 2nd February 10- 3pm
Saturday, 8th February 11:30 – 3:30pm
Sunday, 23rd February 10- 3pm
Saturday, March 15th 11:30 – 3:30pm
Saturday, March 29th 11:30 – 3:30pm
Saturday, April 12th 11:30 – 3:30pm
Saturday, April 26th 11:30 – 3:30pm
Saturday, May 10th 11:30 – 3:30pm
Ava Irani
Lead Teacher
Ava is the director of Functional Spirituality and the yoga and meditation centre Spanda School. She is a philosopher with a degree from the University of Sydney, retreat leader, business owner and somatic therapist. Her deepest passions are non-dual philosophies, community healing and looking at the impacts of spirituality.
Ava’s path started with a ferver for awakening and non-duality. However over the years her path has matured with a more functional approach. Her work now considers the wide-spread complex trauma that lies at the heart of almost every obstacle to happy, healthy and connected living, and marries profound mystical approaches with nervous system regulation.
She has trained with Paul Muller-Ortega (Blue throat yoga), NARM (complex trauma), Cecily Milne (yoga detour) to name a few.
Ava is predominantly known for her thriving yoga studio, silent retreats and the phenomenal teachers that emerge from her yoga and trauma-informed certifications. She lives in beautiful Western Australia with her family and animals.
Deepen your spiritual path through philosophy, community connection and your essential heart nature.
This training is designed to remove obstacles for both professionals and those developing their yoga practice. You will receive:
History of yoga and spiritual practices
Pitfalls vs Functionality of Spirituality
Enlightenment and the 3-part method
Psycho-education of complex trauma
Principles of being Trauma-informed
Yin, Gentle and Strong class sequences
Anatomy for yoga instructors
Meditation skills and guiding the practice
Somatic approaches to healing
Structuring a yoga class and special considerations
Study handbook
Manual for cueing postures and meditation
Request an orientation pack for more information.
Testimonials
I found the course to be one of expansion and I am deeply grateful to have had such an experience. I honestly could not be more pleased with the content, the pace, the support and the sense of community. Ava’s knowledge, passion and encouragement were paramount to me and I cannot thank her enough. I feel as though she has given me direction. She has given me answers I didn’t even know I was looking for. She gave oxygen to the fire that resides inside me.
I have come out the other side; my heart overflowing with loving inspiration, my mind full of perspective, my belly burning with a fiery passion and a deeper understanding of self.
Exceeded my expectations of how much there was to learn not only about yoga but the mind, the spirit and myself. Ava is so knowledgeable and very well articulated, it’s so exciting to come into the yoga teaching training sessions and listen to all the wonderful content. My confidence has grown and the way I approach life now is a little more gentle and more thought out. The way the course rolls out also creates such a safe space to feel connected to everyone else in the group, to support each other and to meet such interesting people you would otherwise never meet. I would very much recommend this experience to anyone who is interested. Xx
I particularly loved learning from Ava as she has a very grounded, well learned approach to teaching, less jargon, no bullshit approach. Drawing on her direct experiences with the pitfalls many modalities of modern yoga offer, she sets students up for a grounded and balanced yoga practice which is something I find unique in this offering.
A beautiful space to connect, be nurtured, explore safely and grow within. Highly recommended. More than Yoga & Mindfulness – a community to expand and learn more about who you are.
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FAQ
There will be 1 hour average of study per week as you make your way through the online trainings. We recommend attending/practicing yoga 2-3 times per week, however the requirement is 25 cited classes over the 8 months.
At least half of our attendees complete this course for a personal wisdom and healing journey. This course presents information about the mind, body, emotions, spirituality and relating to life. It offers insight, training and perspective across many fronts that will inspire and transform you.
This course provides you with knowledge required to offer yoga and meditation sessions, and a certificate to attain insurance. So, yes! See Ava’s article about yoga certificates here.
No. The course will be hosted on Thinkific. No additional software is required.
We recommend to fill out the application form – you will know after that if its the right fit or not as it asks you to reflect on key areas.
You can always book in a free 10 minute chat with Ava to discuss your suitability. Contact us to receive the booking link.
Please note no refunds are given due to having access to all the material upon signing up. All further considerations are at the discretion of the facilitator based on circumstances.
The course is copyrighted and passing on or sharing the course material to another party is prohibited.
