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2012 6-Day Teacher Trainings




6-DAY YOGA TEACHER TRAINING INTENSIVES
Teaching Beginning and Continuing Iyengar Yoga




A specialized training for students who are interested in teaching and for beginning teachers. A special focus will be on how to teach beginners. The program will include instruction each day on understanding, teaching and practicing the basic standing poses, forward bends, inversions, back arches, sitting poses and restoratives.

Please register early as this program will have attendees from around North America and is nationally publicized.

Tuition for the 6-Day Trainings: $645 per week; $595 if payment is received 1 month prior to the training; $545 if received 2 months prior to the course. No refunds. Credit toward future trainings if cancellation is one week or more before the course.

Where: The Center for Yoga of Seattle
   2261 NE 65th Street
   Seattle, WA 98115    (Ravenna Studio)

The purpose of the Level-1 6-Day Iyengar Yoga Teacher Training Intensive is to help prepare those who would like to teach successful beginning and continuing yoga courses. These trainings are especially aimed at the prospective yoga teacher who would soon like to begin teaching, as well as the beginning yoga teacher who needs continuing professional training and new ideas. The Level-1 6-Day Teacher Trainings are also excellent preparation for our three 200-hour yoga-alliance-approved trainings:

Teaching yoga in a professional manner is a rewarding and challenging job. This program has evolved over the past 20 years in response to a growing need for qualified instructors in the field of yoga. You may be just getting your first teaching position and realize how little real training you have. You may have taught for some time and are acutely aware of how difficult yoga teaching really is and have many important questions.

The 6-Day training is based upon the BKS Iyengar system and follows the general method described in the following texts: Light on Yoga by B.K.S. Iyengar, Yoga a Gem for Women by Geeta S. Iyengar, and Preliminary Course by Geeta S. Iyengar. (These books can be mail-ordered from the Center.)

The Level-1 Yoga Teacher Training will focus on giving specific training in the following Arts of Teaching:
  • Demonstrating Yoga
  • Yoga Instruction
  • Observation — "how to see bodies"
  • Verbal and Manual Corrections
  • Sequencing — putting a class and course together
In addition, students will learn:
  • How to break down poses into learnable sequences
  • How to adapt poses to the student considering the student's body type, including flexibility, strength, imbalances, injuries, skill level, and age
  • When, why, and how to use yoga props in the class
  • How to set up the physical arrangement of the yoga class for maximum effectiveness
  • How to use your voice as a powerful teaching tool
  • What it means to be a teacher
  • The theory of Iyengar Yoga
Expect a practical, hands-on training. The emphasis will not be on doing lots of poses, but rather to more thoroughly understand the basic poses and how to teach them, step-by-step, and to advance your students' skill level, sensitivity, and awareness. Specifically, we be learning to teach and practice the following poses in the Level-1 Yoga Teacher Training (time permitting)

Downward Dog Pose
Mountain Pose
Tree Pose
Extended Triangle Pose
Extended Lateral Angle Pose
Warriors I & II
Half-Moon Pose
Intense Side Stretch
Standing Forward Bends
Revolving Triangle Pose
Shoulderstand, Plow and the
  Beginning Variations
Handstand
Sitting Twists
Seated forward folding poses, incl.
  Head of the Knee, intense
  stretch of the west side of the body
Supine Big-Toe Pose Series
Beginning Back Arches:
  Upward Dog
  Bridge Pose
  Camel
  Backbend in Chair
Restorative Poses
Hip-Opening Poses
Relaxation Pose
and more!
Having at least one year of background in Hatha Yoga, preferably Iyengar style, is useful before taking this Iyengar Yoga Teacher Training, but not required. You may be interested in the Beginner 10-Class per Week Immersion Level 1 that next meet Certificate of Completion

All participants will receive a certificate of completion of the training. This certificate may make it easier to teach in community colleges, health clubs, and schools. It is not a Certified Iyengar Yoga Teaching Certificate, which requires formal assessment, including demonstration of skills in teaching beginners, and demonstration of skills as a practitioner of the poses as well as passing a written examination. There are other requirements as well, including specific letters of recommendation and a mentorship relationship.

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