London Yoga in
Camden & Islington

Yoga Teacher Training Course 2009

Registered by the International Yoga Federation and the European Yoga Alliance

Every year there is more and more demand for yoga teachers alongside an ever-increasing interest in learning yoga. In this second yoga teacher training course of Yoga from Within you will study a contemporary yoga, suitable for our present-day consciousness. The new course will start in September 2009 and take place over a one year period, consisting of 13 weekends.

The training is open to all yoga practitioners who want to teach yoga and/or study the deeper aspects of yoga. It is inspired by the integral approach to yoga of Heinz Grill, Rudolf Steiner and Sri Aurobindo. (see links)
The course certifies you with the European Yoga Alliance and the International Yoga Federation as a registered yoga teacher (200 hours of study) and both meets and exceeds the basic number of contact hours.

Introductory Workshop Saturday June 27th 2009.
Come and ask your questions about the course
before you register (see workshops)

Content of the course
Dates and times
Price
Registration
Teachers
Venue
Certification

Content of the yoga teacher training course

You will learn basic and advanced asanas, how to teach and correct them, as well as how to prepare your yoga classes in a methodical way. The emphasis will be on understanding the consciousness as well as the body and on how the consciousness can be transformed through different aspects of yoga practice. During the yoga teacher training course the work will gradually help to develop more clarity in your thinking, more sensitivity in your feelings and a stronger sense of yourself.

You will become familiar with classical yoga philosophy and some of the fundamental yoga-texts like the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads, the Vedas and the Sutras of Patanjali and you will learn the general importance of spiritual texts and how they need to be read in a particular way.

You will learn how yoga helps with relaxation and managing stress, with strengthening the spine, how wholefood nutrition supports the work with yoga. You will understand more about training and transforming the soul-forces of the thinking, the feeling and the will in the consciousness and about how yoga is a form of artistic expression. You will learn concentration and meditation exercises and deepen your understanding of the seven chakras and the subtle energy system. Two of the weekends will be devoted to anatomy and physiology, so that you will have a clear understanding of the main organs in the body and the nervous system, the heart and circulatory system, the digestive system and the muscular system.

You will also be able to teach yoga to children and adolescents, and to pregnant women after the course, as there will be specialist training in these different approaches to yoga classes.

In a very practical way you will also learn about setting up your own yoga classes, marketing and establishing yourself as a yoga teacher, within the law and with safe practice. There will be plenty of opportunity during the course for trial teaching of individual poses, as well as of an entire yoga class.

It is important to make sure that you have time during the year for study, reading, asana practice and researching other forms of yoga. You will be expected to be really active in your participation in the course!

NB. New teachers need insurance cover and attendance at a one day First Aid course before starting to teach

Dates and times

The yoga teacher-training course will take place over one year with 13 weekends, the last weekend of every month, starting in September 2009. Each weekend consists of 16 hours study, including asana practice. Delicious wholefood vegetarian lunches will be provided on both days, which are from 10am until 6pm., Saturdays and Sundays

Price

The yoga teacher training course costs £2500.
£500 is payable with registration. The remaining £2000 payable at the first weekend.
Essential books on the reading list will cost approximately £70

Registration

Please register by the end of June 2009. After registration you will receive further information and a reading list. The course is intended for a maximum of 15 participants and is intended both for would-be yoga teachers and for students who wish to deepen their practice, their knowledge of yoga and its philosophy. All participants need to have practised yoga consistently for at least one year.

Teachers

The course is led by Caroline Pick. I have been teaching yoga in London for the last 15 years and as a result of the success of the first course am keen to develop more yoga teachers in this integral approach to yoga. (see Caroline Pick) There will also be guest lecturers who are specialists in some of the subject areas mentioned above.

Venue

The teaching will take place again in the studio in Tufnell Park/ Kentish Town, London. There may also be occasional weekends in the countryside.

Certification

For certification you need to have attended at least 90% of the weekends and taught a final public practice class. You also need to write a 4,000 word piece on a specific, agreed theme of yoga that you will have researched in depth. If preferred you can deliver this as a half hour talk or lecture. Your certificate will say "Yoga teacher as recognised by the International Yoga Alliance (basic 200 hour level)". Completing the course does not necessarily imply certification as a teacher.

If you have any queries please contact me for further information about the yoga teacher training course.

	ardha matsyendrasana, the spinal twist - first step ardha matsyendrasana, the spinal twist - second step sarvangasana, the shoulderstand - correction going into halasana, the plough (first step) going into halasana, the plough (second step)

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