300 Hour Yoga
Teacher Training

300 hour Teacher Training Cirriculum

Our curriculum is aimed at helping you get to the next step in your yoga teaching, improving your effectiveness, sharpening your teaching focus, and providing you with tools for adapting yoga across a range of student needs.  Our program is based on three pillars of investigation and learning: exploring the yoga practice through the body (asana), mind (meditation) and heart (integration).  

What You’ll Learn:

ASANA - POSTURE•

*Knowledge of basic asana• Yogic anatomy and philosophy• Alignment and avoiding Injuries• Medical Benefits• How to Read Bodies balance between body, mind and breath.

*The Five Categories of Asana: The trainee will practice and learn the key poses in each category of asana (forward bends, backbends, twists, inversions, and extensions) and will begin to develop a relationship to both the form and the function of these different categories.

YOGIC HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY

• Basic History, philosophy and evolution of Yoga

• 8 Kinds of Yoga

• The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

PRANAYAMA - BREATHING

• The use of breath as a transformative tool for self-awareness Breath Control Different

• Breathing Techniques

• Exploration of Benefits

• Subtle Energy & Anatomy: Awareness and activation of subtle energy, including how to cultivate bandhas and the relationship between pranayama, bandhas, and the elements of yogic anatomy, including koshas, chakras, nadis, vayus, gunas, and doshas. 

MEDITATION

• What it is and why it is practiced

• Quieting the mind to develop deeper levels of self-awareness

• Deeper meditation, subtle body and yoga philosophy studies

THE ART OF TEACHING

• How to address a group of students

• How to use your own body as a teaching tool

• How to use your voice: volume, tempo and pacing

• refine your verbal cueing skills

• How to correct postures

• teach mixed levels classes with confidence and skill

• Energy, passion, confidence & humor

• Using your own presence and self- awareness as a transformative teaching tool 

• Principles of Demonstrating Asanas: Discuss how effective demonstrations in class can help emphasize an alignment or other focus for the specific pose or sequence of poses. 

• Learning Modalities: identifying your  dominant style, and learning how to teach based on others’ learning styles

• Use of Language and Voice: Lecture and discussion on active vs. passive language and the effective use of each; positive and  conscious communication, and habitual speech and communication patterns

• develop a deeper understanding of human anatomy as it applies to yoga

• Advanced Class Planning & Sequencing: The art and science of sequencing families of asanas and crafting entire classes, including for different levels of students, different intentions, seasons, styles and other considerations. Here we also cover pacing, duration, tempo, and vibe for different levels and intentions of classes. 

CORE 300 HOUR CIRRICULUM

• Communication skills such as group dynamics, time management, and the establishment of priorities and boundaries

• How to address the specific needs of individuals and special populations, to the degree possible in a group setting

• Principles of demonstration, observation, assisting and correcting

• Teaching styles

• Qualities of a teacher

• The student learning process 

• Business aspects of teaching yoga

• Practice teaching

• Receiving and giving feedback

• Observing others teaching

• Assisting students while someone else is teaching

• The study of yoga philosophies and traditional texts, such as the Yoga Sutras and Hatha Yoga Pradipika

• Yoga lifestyle, such as the precept of non-violence (ahimsa), and the concepts of dharma and karma

• Ethics for yoga teachers, such as those involving teacher – student relationships and community

• Understanding the value of teaching yoga as a service and being of service to others through yoga (seva)

• A final project designed to help define yourself as a yoga teacher

To Apply | Investment:

If you are ready to sign up, share with us your email and we will send you the Studio 108 Yoga 2022 Teacher Training Application. Email or send complete application with $250 deposit toward your tuition.  Enrollment is limited. 

6 months that will blow your mind and rock your world. Immerse yourself in the experience of yoga in this 6 month intensive to develop and refine your personal practice, learn how to teach various types of yoga including hot yoga, vinyasa flow and multi-level classes. Find the joy of teaching and how you can make a difference.

Class Limit is 25

$250 Deposit and completed application form will hold your spot.  Non-refundable

$250 Deposit is part of final payment and 100% refundable if application is not approved.  

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