4-Week 200Hr Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training

Twice daily you will cultivate the asana practice. The practice has a flow and a rhythm but is a little bit slower than many Vinyasa and Power Vinyasa styles because the team values the quality of your poses. When one takes things slower, one has time to build up the prana and energy in a pose by working on the alignment, the comfort and above all, the breathing. The main types of poses that you cultivate are: preparation poses, core strengtheners, standing poses, arm balance, inversions such as headstand and handstand, back bends, forward bends, twists and the deeper calming poses. Daily alignment adjustment is offered to ensure students build a safe personal practice and have an embodied understanding of each posture.

Daily Pranayama classes include s unique Swara Yoga system of rhythmic movement and breath, along with the seated practice of pranayama. The school is designed to give students of all levels easy access to the profound power of yogic breathing and builds the foundation to practice advanced pranayama including Ujaii, Antara, Bhaya & Kevala Kumbhaka, Viloma, Kapalabatti, Bastrika, Nowli Kriya, Anulom Vilom, Chandra & Surya Bhedana, Nadi Shodhana, Sama & Visama Vritti.

The course explores a variety of accessible and powerful meditation techniques to develop inner calm, insight, clarity and wisdom. Many of our meditations are based on the 5 Elements of yoga: Stability, Flow, Intensity, Movement and Emptiness. Other techniques are also utilized such as those based on witnessing, visualization or using sounds such as mantras. These meditations source from the lineages of traditional Tantra, Buddhism & Taoism. Some meditations are active, some seated, and we offer regular practice of Yoga Nidra for deep restoration.

Each day includes a discussion of yoga philosophy & practices. These classes address the foundations of yoga and include texts such as the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali & Hatha Yoga Pradipika. The content of these lectures is kept quite simple so that all students grasp the core content in a way which is relevant to their practice, teaching and daily life. Throughout the course, these classes also expand to cover a broad scope of topics including; yoga history, meditation, traditional Tantric and Shakta traditions, yoga as a spiritual path, Ayurvedic medicine, Jyotish (Indian Astrology) and Taoism.

Anatomy is taught for understanding the postures and breath, covering essentials of tissues, bones and organs. You will look at the various systems of the physical body to help you understand how and why the yoga works the way it does and how you can use yoga to address problem areas and to help improve fundamental health and well-being. Study the alignment of the postures in depth so that students know how to build and teach the asanas in a step-by-step fashion so teachers can guide students of all levels & abilities. 

One of the most unique and special parts of the training is the fire puja, which you will experience on the beach in the evening, once a week. It is a simple and beautiful traditional ritual. You will chant the mantras that you learned in the classes and focus on the fire as a method of purifying the mind and inducing meditation. The ritual is very transformative but is also fun and lighthearted. This is often students’ favorite part of the course.

The art of teaching yoga requires a clear and open voice, strong knowledge of alignment & breath, creative sequencing, knowledge of modification and adjustment, and the ability to hold a transformative space. This program addresses all of these and many more. Learn how to understand the energetic qualities of each posture, and how to arrange yoga sequences so that a class flows in an energetic pattern which is intelligently balanced. A daily practice of bite-sized teaching exercises encourages students to explore the awkward first stages of learning how to teach within a loving, private and supportive workshop environment.