Teacher Training Certification

A 500-Hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training with Laurel Hodory & Guest Faculty

Click here for more information on the 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training program, beginning in January 2010

Download Application (pdf)
Program Starts: July 10 and January 8

This is a 300-hour program that leads to certification at the 500-hour level for students already certified at the 200-hour level.

Choose from two programs:
2 ½ Year Program—Graduates January 2013
2 Year Fast-Track Program—Graduates July 2012

Pre-requisites

  • 200-Hour Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher
  • One year of teaching yoga

Partial Selected Faculty List

  • Mitchel Bleier, RYT500
  • Paul Grilley, RYT500
  • Indu Bala Bhardwaj, RYT 500
  • Craig Roberts, RYT 500
  • Gary James, LMT
  • Dr. Robin Hunter, D.C
  • Dr. Debra Schroeder, D.C.
  • Sonam Targee, M.Ac. & Ayurvedic Practitioner
  • Cate Stillman, E-RYT & Ayurvedic Practitioner

Dates

Dates Cost
July 10
August 7
September 11
October 2
November 6
December 4

2011 & 2012 dates will be provided upon enrollment

 $175/month

How to Enroll

Download Application (pdf)
Application Deadline: June 1
Program Starts: July 10

Course Content: Techniques

Art of Intelligent Sequencing

  • How to prepare students for an apex posture, so that the body opens easily and effortlessly
  • Using the sequence as a tool for instruct/illuminating an alignment technique
  • How various classes of postures can be grouped to pulse, direct and change energy
  • Staging postures in multiple progressions for mixed levels of students
  • How postures relate to one another physically and energetically
  • How to “invent” new postures and what makes a movement a posture

Skillful & Advanced Assisting

  • The four different types of assists
  • The principles of assisting
  • The seven types of touch
  • Seeing the students possibilities and limitations
  • Knowing when to apply which kind of assist
  • How to maintain ground and safety

Yoga Therapeutics

  • The five most important diagnostic questions
  • How to create balanced action
  • The role of skeletal architecture & ROM
  • Specific therapeutic techniques for low back, hips, knees, neck and shoulders
  • How to practice therapeutically and evaluate the student’s progress
  • Pathology & yoga

Pranayama & Meditation

  • Learn and practice specific techniques to address energetic imbalances and the charkas
  • Advanced Pranayama Practices
  • Signposts along the journey
  • How to teach pranayama and meditation

Electives

Yoga Nidra

  • It’s role on the yoga path
  • How to practice
  • How to teach it

Sacred Chanting: Devotional Practice

  • It’s role on the yoga path
  • Practice of sacred chanting
  • How to create kirtan

Ayurveda

  • Understanding doshas and constitution
  • How to make quick student assessments
  • Integrating Ayurveda into your lifestyle and into the classroom

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