About Our Yoga > 500-Hour Advanced Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training Program
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If you are ready to change your life, this advanced teacher training for you. Participating in the Breath and Body Yoga Advanced Teacher Training will quite simply change your life. You will learn to listen, observe and give tools in a brand new way. Through excavating, group practices and self-inquiry your powerful Self will be reveled. The intensive nature the Advanced Teacher Training is specifically designed to take you out of what you already know and allow you to create new spaces for unlimited possibilities in your life as well as your teaching. This training is practical and the results are immediate. Through hours of study, observation, practice teaching and hands on assisting you will acquire a deep knowledge of the practices of vinyasa yoga. The intimate group of teachers and the personal apprenticeship with Desirae is a unique experience in learning not just how to be a powerful yoga teacher, but in learning how to be an authentic and powerful human. This training is designed for yoga teachers already certified at the 200-hour level and with two years of teaching experience. This is a one of a kind and rare 500-hour certifications that is physically and personally rigorous and expected to take 12 months to complete. You will graduate as a certified 500-hour Breath and Body Yoga Power Vinyasa Yoga Teacher. This training take your teaching to the next level and discover new realms of your personal practice.
In this training you will
- Learn to design a challenging Power Vinyasa yoga class through teaching form, action and alignment
- Learn assisting techniques and tools for basic as well as advanced poses
- Build a deep understanding of the Anusara Universal Principles of Alignmentâ„¢ plus the anatomy and kinesiology to create safety for all students
- Develop skills for crafting demonstrations, leading workshops and creating yoga events
- Gain extensive knowledge on how to design classes with themes and advanced sequences
- Learn advanced asanas not taught in the 200-hour training
- Dive Deeper into the current lifestyles and ethics for yoga students and teachers
- Learn effective presentation and communication skills to teach to different every demographic
- Develop skills for working with special population yoga students
- Fully understand the Chakras, the Bhagavad Gita and Yoga Sutras and how they relate to your life and teaching
Open to 200-hour-certified teachers from any tradition, the 500-Hour Advanced Power Vinyasa Teacher Training consists of 300 hours of Yoga Alliance-approved content that, when combined with your 200-hour training, delivers a comprehensive and advanced 500-hour certification in Power Vinyasa Yoga.
Yoga Alliance Requirements
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Program Curriculum - 300 hour level:
Techniques (asana & assisting - 100 hours
Teaching Methodology (practice teaching) - 60 hours
Anatomy and Physiology - 40 hours
Philosophy / Ethics /Lifestyle - 60 hours
Practicum (teaching & assisting live classes) - 40 hours
Curriculum & Timing
The Breath and Body Yoga Advanced Teacher Training opens you to a deeper understanding of the yoga philosophy and practice, while providing opportunities to learn and experience what it means to be a transformational yoga teacher. You will learn advanced tools, gain knowledge, and the confidence needed to excel in teaching and support your ongoing personal evolution. This training consists of eleven-parts and meets monthly. The training will last 11 months in one calendar year. The weekly schedule is as follows:
- Wednesday Evening Session 6:00 pm - 10:00 (no asana)
- Friday Evening 4:30 - 6:00 pm (Asana Practice), 6:30 - 10:00 pm Classroom
- Saturday Noon- 8:00 (Asana plus Classroom)
- Sunday 10:00 am - 4:00 (Asana plus Classroom)
- There will be occasional field trips to other studio and workshops and guest teachers.
- As a student in this program you will explore the foundational tools and techniques such as:
- Understanding the misalignments in your own body and be able to see misalignments in others
- Take a deep dive into the Universal Principles of Alignmentâ„¢
- Learn to give feedback that empowers others and furthers the program
- Learn to teach based in alignment
- Learn to teach with a philosophical theme based on the Yoga Sutras
- Learn to teach weaving the alignment and the philosophical theme together
- Design a workshop to be presented to the public
- Learn to workshop poses as well as demonstrate effectively
- Deep Dive the practical anatomy of yoga poses
- Understand how the Chakra relates to each other's way of being
- Explore the modern-day applications of pranayama, inner stillness, and yogic philosophy, focusing on the energetics of yoga as expressed in breath practice, meditation, and daily life.
Textbook and Materials
The Key Poses of Hatha Yoga, by Ray Long, Volume 2
Light On Yoga, by BKS Iyengar
Light On Life, by BKS Iyengar
Eastern Body, Western Mind, by Anodea Judith
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali by Sri Swami Satchidananda
The Anatomy Coloring Book (3rd ed.) by Wynn Kapit
Yoga Body, by Judith Hansen Lasater
Bhagvad Gita
Dates & Costs
Dates: TBD & Costs:$4950