Deciding to take Semperviva's yoga teacher training course was the best decision I've ever made. It changed my life. My life is better, and will be better forever, because of the time spent with Gloria, Kari, Cam, the other teachers-in-training, and the yogis we were lucky enough to meet during the course. If you're considering taking yoga teacher training, I wholeheartedly recommend Semperviva's. Namaste.
– Lindsey
200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Program
Study the postures of Hatha yoga in conjunction with the technology of Kundalini yoga for the most powerful of yoga experiences.
Our study program enables you to dive deeply into the study and practice of yoga while still being able to maintain your commitments to your work, family, schooling and other activities.
Topics covered include teaching asana, meditation, pranayama, anatomy, yogic anatomy, history and philosophy, yogic diet and lifestyle, and ayurveda.
Tuition fees include unlimited classes at Semperviva Yoga for the duration of your course, a comprehensive 300 page manual, the Yoga Sutras, the Bhagavad Gita, and Dr Ray Longs anatomy textbook.
Most exciting is your ability to participate in workshops from visiting yogis during the course of your study at no additional cost to you.
Our fall program will include a two day workshop with Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa, and an additional two days with Dharma Mittra!
Yoga has become an important part of life for millions of people around the world creating a rapidly growing demand for yoga teachers world-wide.
Students who complete the 200hour Teacher Training Program will feel confident in their ability to teach students safely and effectively, and will have gained tremendous insight into the world of yoga.
What Semperviva offers you is excellence in Yoga Education.
Upcoming Sessions:
- Fall 2008: September 27th to November 29th, 2008
Download the 200 Hour Teacher Training Course Description
Asana
The foundation of this course is the practice and study of Asana. Yoga is experiential and a daily personal practice is required. Poses will be studied extensively including:
- correct physical alignment
- general physical and energetic benefits of postures
- modifications
- hands on adjustments
- learning to see and understand bodies
Teaching Asana
A good teacher is one that is ALWAYS learning
- learn to teach safely and effectively
- setting an intention for the class; following a theme, workout, instructional
- how to structure a class, principles of sequencing,flow
- verbalizing an asana; choice of words, body language, touch
- demonstrating an asana
- modifications
- manual adjustments
- key points for teaching beginners
- teaching to special groups ex pre-natal yoga, kids
- student-teacher relationship; ethics of a yoga teacher
The entire purpose of asana is to establish a steady, comfortable seat (=asana) that is used to study pranayama and meditation.
Meditation
Meditation is the practice of watching your mind think. Through practice one realizes that you are not your mind. You stop identifying with the body, the mind, and its ceaseless thoughts. When this happens, then there is yoga, which is identification with the Self, samadhi, happiness, bliss.
- simple meditation techniques, with and without mantra, that focus and quiet the mind
Pranayama
Prana is the life force or vital energy. Pranayama is a way of building and directing this vital energy
- theory and practice of pranayama.
- basic breath (pranayama) techniques such as ujayi, kapalabhati, nadi sodhana and kumbhaka
- bandhas or energy locks that direct prana (vital life force)
Anatomy
Western anatomy and physiology; circulatory system, lymphatic system, respiratory system, digestive system, endocrine system, nervous system, musculo-skeletal system, the spine, immune system, genito-urinary system
Yogic Anatomy
- Prana and kundalini
- vayus
- nadis
- chakras
Yogic History and Philosophy
- Patanjali's Sutras and the eight limbs of yoga practice
- Maya (gives us the illusion of seperateness), the tattvas (the densest levels of seperateness, experienced as earth, water, fire, air and ether), and the gunas (sattva, tamas and rajas)
- schools of yoga
Yogic Diet and Lifestyle
Ayurveda
- ancient Indian system of medicine and healing