The Foundation - Preparing to Teach Yoga

200-Hour Teacher Training 

Greetings Yogis and Yoginis, 

This program is meant to evoke transformation and change in your life! Through this program expect to explore, engage and completely immerse yourself for 10 weeks of your life into the alchemical teachings of YOGA. You will learn to access its inspired wisdom and share its gifts with others to facilitate positive transformation, vibrant health and balance. 

We have been creating and planning this program into YOGA for YOU, for a very long time!! Each day will be full of learning, contemplations, inspiration and practice; both practice of the yoga techniques themselves and practice teaching the technique to others. 

The training will cover a wide range of yoga techniques including yoga postures (asanas), breathing (pranayama), relaxation and meditations to calm the mind, history and philosophy, yogic lifestyles, contemplations to transform limiting tendencies to life affirming thought patterns, and the applications of clear principles of alignment to create safety, balance and freedom in your yoga poses. Anatomy and physiology will be addressed and applied in context while common mis-alignments and poses and actions to help balance these will be studied. 

As the Creatrix, my VISION for this teacher training program is TO create positive change and transformation in our communities one affirmative breath at a time. WE hope to inspire each teacher trainee to bring the practices and teachings of yoga out to diverse populations and touch the lives and individuals and groups regardless of their fitness level, cultural orientation, age, health, or circumstance. Yoga uplifts, it shifts perspectives, it invites us to be fully alive, it offers a path which cultivates a higher vibrancy and asks us to make better choices. 

One a personal note, Yoga has transformed my life. I have seen the world, grown kinder, more accepting, more able to ride the highs and lows of life with a continued sense of underlying ease. My physical body is free of pain, and feels good. In the past few years, I have been cultivating and manifesting more joy and wellbeing as I navigate the daily requirements needed for a growing soul. I am in continual awe of this path which is forever deepening and keeping me on my toes, even after over 25 years of continued practice and study!!

WE look forward to hearing from YOU, here's the application. To learn more, check out our spring dates, on Hot Hatha Yoga Training in this section of the website. 

Requirements

Students who are interested in participating should bear in mind that this is a rigorous program that requires a strong commitment and personal sacrifice, as well as the support of the student’s primary support network. We emphasize that this program may NOT be for everyone.

Interested Students Must:

• Have a deep desire to learn and personally explore the deeper dimensions of yoga
• Have minimum 12 months of regular yoga practice (if not you’ll need a recommendation letter from your yoga teacher)
• Be free of major injuries going into the program
• Be fully committed and understand that 100% full attendance is required
• Be willing to forgo most other personal or professional commitments for the duration of the program
• Submit a brief 250 word essay describing “Why I want to teach yoga” or if you do not intend to teach, “Why I want to take this training”

There will be some required readings and homework submissions prior to the start of the course. This will be sent to you upon acceptance into the program.