Yoga Teacher Training
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Yoga Insider vs Outsider & Faith
You are familiar with yoga practice. You have a solid sense of what yoga is, but there are also many areas of yoga that may seem incredibly foreign, exotic, or you just aren’t sure what is yoga and what is not. In this clip, Alex sets context for our time & place in yoga’s history as both insiders and outsiders.
A Part of our orientation is refining what we understand by “Faith”
Support and Stabilize the Joints
No matter how much your yoga practice isn’t about the fitness or musculoskeletal benefits of practice (and if that’s is what your practice is totally about), you still must contend with this body and take care of it. This means making sure that the most vulnerable parts of the body are taken care of in yoga practice. That’s the Joints.
This all around training will cover the full spectrum of yoga practice. From fitness, exercise, and anatomy, to regulating your nervous system, and deeper within explorations. Regardless of where you find yourself on the spectrum, you must first, take care of this body!
The Safety Net
Teaching Yoga is complex. It takes a lot of skill and anatomical understanding to do it well. (This is why it takes a 200 hour course to learn!) That said, many yoga teachers make teaching more complicated than it needs to be. Most yoga teaching is simple and most of the time, you can teach a good class if you make sure to follow a minimum of best practices that we call “The Safety Net”.
Sequencing Frameworks
There are many reasons why we do not simply throw a bunch of random poses into a class. One is student safety. Another is to give a class that leaves people relaxed and reset in their nervous system by the time Savasanah rolls around. All of this is the art of sequencing.
Another key to sequencing is to set up sequences that are “more than the sum of the parts.” A good sequence helps students do things that they would not have otherwise been able to do. In order to accomplish this magic, we as teachers, must set a framework.
Domain of Infinite Distraction
With everything you have learned in techniques of practicing yoga, it may sometimes feel like you have a whole checklist of things to do. It is possible to practice “correctly”, but for practice to lose it’s magic.
Re-enchanting practice, and indeed, re-enchanting realities depends on our handling the domain of infinite distraction.
Accreditation & Certification
This training is planned to be delivered pursuant to Yoga Alliance's temporary provisions (which have been extended) for allowing Registered Yoga Schools (RYSs) to offer contact hours in a virtual format, subject to additional future guidance, and will meet and exceed Yoga Alliance’s Registered Yoga School 200 Hours + competencies-based model, with 200+ online classroom hours in the following categories:
75 hours of techniques, training, practice (asana, pranayama, subtle body, and meditation)
60 hours of professional essentials (teaching methodology, professional development, and practicum)
40 hours of anatomy and physiology (anatomy, physiology, and biomechanics)
30 hours of yoga humanities (history, philosophy, and ethics)
Upon completion of this training, graduates will receive a certificate of completion for 200 hours of study with 21st Century Yoga on the Mat and can register with Yoga Alliance as an RYT-200.