One Day a week Part Time Level 2 Intouch Yoga Teacher Training
About the One Day a Week Training-Suffolk Park 2012
This format encourages an integration of deep spirituality into daily life, by cultivating a dedicated practice throughout the course, that fits with who you are, and where you are up to in your life right now. As opposed to the residential intensive style training, which requires a complete immersion, and disconection from our mundane daily lives, the part time schedule allows one to continue with the responsibilities of work and parenting, blending the spiritual with the ordinary aspects of our lives.
Time Commitment
As well as the 38 meeting dates, there will be a minimum of 3 x set home practice sessions per week, plus some reading, assignments and other homework totalling on average 10 hours per week.
Content
The Level Two Intouch Yoga 300 Hour Teacher Training is approved by Yoga Alliance. It will have a strong focus on Yoga Therapy. The following is an outline of the course content;
.Personal Practice
Over 100 Hours of practice including level two meditation, Pranayama, Mantra and Asana techniques.
Unlike many other Level Two trainings, which see progression in practice as learning more and more variations of complicated asana routines, our goal will be to strengthen our foundation in asana, but then to move into the higher limbs of yoga, and cultivate a greater grounding in pranayama, meditation, and mantra practice.
The focus will be on creating a flowing practice that connects the movement of the body to the breath, and engages our conscious mind. We will be practicing level two Shatkarmas including Tratak and Laghoo, and mantra will include the chanting of the sutras. We will move into level two pranayamas including Bhastrika and Viloma II as well as introducing breath ratios and kumbhaka into our asana practice.
. Philosophy
The 4 Ashramas (stages of life) and the 5 Kramas (classical applications of yoga)
Basic Principles of Yoga Therapy
Therapeutic application of asana
Therapeutic application of pranayama
The Sutras of Patanjali as they relate to Yoga Therapy and Meditation
Ayurveda with Kester Marshall;
Curriculum:
Class 1:
Ayurvedic Physiology
We will review the fundamental aspects of Ayurvedic Physyiology. In particular the qualities, elements, physiological and constitutional aspects of the Doshas, and how these relate to your yoga practice.
Class 2:
Agni & Ama
We will look at the Ayurvedic view of digestion and tissue metabolism and how this relates to strength, immunity, longevity and the prevention of chronic and degenerative disease.
Class 3:
Prana, Tejas and Ojas
In this class we'll cover the concept of Prana, Tejas and in particular Ojas, exploring how their cultivation is essential for a happy and healthy life and a successful and fruitful yoga practice.
Class 4:
Ayurveda, Health and Disease
We'll look in more detail at the factors that contribute to imbalance in the body and mind, exactly how this occurs (the disease process) and practical ways to prevent it happening.
.Anatomy and Physiology
Nervous System
Endocrine System
Immune System
Reproductive System
All the joints of the body
The spine
. Advanced Teaching Skills
The skills involved in teaching at a higher level, including understanding the therapeutic applications of asana, pranayama and meditation, teaching yoga nidra, voice production and modulation, and structuring a course for maximum benefit.
. Practice Teaching
30 Hours of practice teaching one on ones courses for outside students, and learning to design personalised sequences over a 4-6 week period
Teaching specific postures and/or sequences
.Teaching Methodolgy
Course planning for individual needs-asana-vinyasa krama
Course planning for individual needs-pranayama-vinyasa krama
Modifications of the postures for special needs
Observation skills of the spine and all of the joints of the body
Understanding common ailments and how to work with them in yoga
Teaching meditation
Teaching Yoga Nidra
Alignment Props and Modifications;
Revision PLUS
Thoroughly-Balances, Twists, Inversions
.Yoga Therapy
Herniated Discs
Arthritis
Scoliosis
Sacro iliac joint dysfunction
Shoulder joint
Hip joint
Knee joint
Anxiety/Depression
. Self Inquiry
Communication skills
Voice production and modulation
Schedule
The training will take place in Suffolk Park or Byron Bay depending on numbers. We will meet on Fridays, at 8am-4.30pm. There will be 40 meeting dates between March 2012 and April 2013. These include 36 Fridays, a workshop day on the last Sunday in March on which we will study anatomy and physiology with Russel Young (see Teachers page Level One training pages.) Also three sessions of ritual, Kirtan and Hawan. The dates of the Fridays allow breaks for most school holidays and are as follows;
March
16th, 23rd, 30th
April
20th, 27th
AND Sunday 1st April one day workshop Anatomy 9-4.30pm
May
4th, 25th
June
1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd
July
13th, 20th, 27th
August
3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th, 31st
September
7th, 14th, 21st
October
12th
November
2nd, 9th 30th
December
14th
February 2013
8th
March 2013
1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th
April 2013
12th, 19th, 26th
Costs and Booking
Cost for the 300 Hour training is $4,200.00 for 2012.
Bookings can be made by emailing Flo with an expression of interest. Deposit details will be given on completion of the approval and registration process.
Set Texts
Set texts will include;
. Level One Intouch Yoga Teacher Training Manual-Flo Fenton
. 'Four Chapters on Freedom-a Commentary on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali'- Sw. Satyananda Saraswati
. 'The Key Muscles of Hatha Yoga'-Ray Long
.'Yoga Nidra'-Sw. Satyananda Saraswati
These texts are provided at an additional cost which will depend on their costs of purchase and postage nearer the time.
You will also be given extensive printed notes on Philosophy, Ayurveda and Yoga Therapy, which you will need to file in your own resource folder