Yoga Teacher Training
&
Certification

Yoga Teacher Training & National Certification

with The Yoga University - EAST COAST

"What you seek is seeking you"
- Rumi

Are you interested in furthering your Yoga Teacher Education?

We are proud to announce we are now offering Advanced Yoga Teacher Training through Yoga University! Registration for 300 hour Certification is beginning now.

In the 300 hour teacher training, the teacher will learn how to advance all of the techniques previously studied. They will further their own asana work and become more comfortable teaching intermediate and advanced asanas. The teacher will also learn how to incorporate the knowledge of ancient texts into their understanding of philosophy and their classes. They will also be introduced to more teaching styles, including: pre-natal yoga, restorative yoga, and partner yoga, (stroga).

Please call our yoga studio for more information: 1-800-883-8616

People who should attend our teacher training:

This insightful teacher training is for anyone who has an avid interest in yoga. Whether you have been practicing for a year, or many years this certification is for you. This training is for all traditions of yoga for new or experienced teachers. It is not necessary to have teaching experience to take it.

Student or teachers become interested in doing teacher training for many different reasons:

• To understand how to change the perspective of being a student to being a teacher
• To teach part-time or full-time
• To open up a studio or add yoga to an already existing business
• To teach specialty retreats/workshops

The Different types of Yoga Styles that will be taught:

The teacher training goes over a good combination of meditation techniques as well as going over in detail the physical postures. There are many poses that are found in a number of the lineages; Iyengar, Shivananda, Ashtanga, Bikram, Vinyasa, Kripalu, and Desikacher.

Objectives of the course:

• To learn all of the different teaching techniques from demonstration to articulation
• To have an understanding how to be a teacher and what that means
• To learn how to form your own teaching styles
• To have a full understanding of the business of yoga

I take the responsibility of educating students to be teachers very seriously. After teachers graduate the course I continue to give assistance in the following ways:

• Provide a teacher in training class at the studio so that new teachers can hone their skills
• Assist in job placement
• Make myself available by phone, email, or facebook for assistance or questions about future endeavors
• Let new teachers assist in classes or workshops to continue to learn different facets of yoga

The course will go over many different aspects of teaching:

First Part:

Learn the hatha yoga postures that are utilized in many different styles of yoga; the Sanskrit, the counter-poses, how to modify for injury, and how to put the pose into a flow.

• Anatomy of the poses
• Injury prevention
• Modifcation of poses with props
• Pre-natal yoga - how practice changes through the trimesters
• Senior yoga – going through a chair yoga syllabus
• Learning kids yoga – going over how to modify adult practice to kids practice

Second Part:

Learn the basics of pranayama techniques

• Learn how to teach the complete yogic breath
• Learn how to do alternate nostril breathe, kabalabati, bramari breathe
• Learn how to do the bandhas and why they are used in breathing techniques

Third Part:

Learn many different techniques of meditation taught worldwide.

• Learn how to teach meditation
• How to effectively combine meditation into a class
• Learn how to teach meditation as its own workshop

 

Fourth Part:

Learning the basics of Yoga Philosophy and the History of Yoga

• Learning and understanding the 8 limbs of yoga
• Introduction to Patanjali’s sutras
• Going over all of the branches of yoga
• Reviewing the schools of yoga

Fifth Part:

Learning what to teach, and how to put together a class

• Learning how to put all of the parts together to make a cohesive, comprehensive class

Sixth Part:

The Business of Yoga

• Learn  the basics of setting up a corporation, being an independent contractor, or setting up a partnership
• Learn how to setup a studio
• Negotiate a lease/rent a space
• Put together a contract
• Organize your business

Other Miscellaneous topics include:

• Chakras
• Ayurveda
• Mudras

Yoga Teacher Training & National Certification Course

YOGA UNIVERSITY - EAST COAST

Namaste, Melissa