Yoga Teacher Training and Certification Programs
Namaste!
Namaste, so often spoken at the beginning and end of Yoga classes means, I bow to you. I offer myself to you in Peace. At The Healing Post, our purpose in offering Yoga Teacher Certification Programs is summed up in this one word. Namaste! We believe that the essence of responsible transmission of the beautiful Teachings of Yoga requires both, competence and offering the best of ourselves. Our students are encouraged and assisted in building high-level competencies in all the pertinent dimensions of Yoga Practice, the How-To-Do-It. And in Yoga Education, the How-to-Teach-It. Because each person possesses different abilities, weaknesses and strengths, we encourage our students to discover styles of teaching that are unique to their own life path. We find that confidence based on competence encourages respect for tradition and for professional, creative self expression.
We also believe that when people practice Yoga competently and regularly, they manifest their inborn, intuitive capacities for service and right action, which, in turn, support vocation and right livelihood. Students in our Yoga Teacher Training programs often report exponential accelerations in their abilities to settle confusions and conflicts in their personal lives and in their teaching skills. Our intention is to offer the best of ourselves to Yoga Teacher Education Professionals. Namaste!
The Yoga Teacher Training (YTT) Program at The Healing Post provides four degrees of certification in Yoga Instruction - YTT 200 Hour; YTT 300 Hour; YTT 500 Hour; and The ERYT Seminar - Mastery In Yoga Teaching. All of our courses conform to standards set by the Yoga Alliance (YA). Our instructors are certified and/or approved by the YA as competent and qualified. Our purpose is to present a safe, challenging Yoga Education model that is responsive to the individual intentions of our trainees and, consequently, of their students.
Mastery in Yoga Teaching - The ERYT Seminar for Experienced Yoga Instructors.
Mastery In Yoga Teaching - The ERYT Seminar for Experienced Yoga Instructors. (ERYT is the Yoga Alliance certification standard for Experienced Registered Yoga Teachers.)
The Healing Post provides an educational concentration geared to obtaining ERYT status from the Yoga Alliance and for implementing advanced skills for professional Yoga Teachers. The purpose of this specialized, educational track is to nurture each participant's own, individual teaching style, technique-background and emergence of their Mastery In Yoga Teaching.Click here for more information about the ERYT Seminar
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200 Hour YTT
"He who brings peace to one person, brings peace to the world."
You can begin this program at any time!
This certification program exceeds the National Educational Standards of Yoga Alliance at the 200-hour level.
Program Requirements
Overview Requirements:
- Attend 50 Yoga Classes at The Healing Psot
- 185 Contact Hours -12 weekends (see hours below)
- 15 non-contact hours - Hours spent on the categories listed below that are not part of the scheduled 200-hour YTT program
- Prepare and teach a 5-week Yoga session
- CPR certification
Contact Hours:
The 185 Contact hours (time spent in the presence of the director during the program) will consist of:
- 100 hours of Techniques - including training and practice in asanas, pranayamas,Kriyas, chanting, and meditation.
- 25 hours Teaching and Methodology - principles of demonstration, observation, assisting/correcting, instruction, teaching styles, qualities of a teacher, and the student’s process of learning.
- 20 hours Anatomy and Physiology - Including both physical Anatomy and Physiology (bodily systems, organs, etc.) and astral/energy/subtle Anatomy and Physiology (chakras, nadis, etc.)
- 30 hours Philosophy, Ethics, Lifestyle - Study of the Sutras of Pantanjali, ethics for Yoga teachers, creating a safe and sacred space for your students, and the practice of consciousness and compassion.
- 10 hours Practicum - practice teaching, receiving feedback, observing others teaching and hearing/giving feedback, assistant teaching
- Contact hours are presented within the YTT weekend
Non-contact hours
The 15 Non-contact hours may consist of:
- Time spent in classes, workshops, or other yoga trainings that are hosted at The Healing Post
- Time spent preparing and teaching a 5 week Yoga session (up to 10 hours)
- 10 hours-prepare and teach 5-week Yoga session.
The 10 hours of preparing and teaching a class consists of:- Teaching a 5-week Yoga class - This class does not have to be a formal class taught in a studio. You can teach it to any number of friends, family, neighbors or acquaintances.
- Handing in lesson plans for all 5 classes- these lesson plans can be done in any way that is meaningful to yu to prepare for teaching these classes, using descriptions that will be helpful to you or just using the names of postures.
300 Hour YTT
This program was designed in 2006 as a bridge to the full 500-hour Program of Yoga Teacher Certification. The foundation of this course is the further study of Anatomy and Philosophy required for the 500-hour Program as well as the practice of Ashtanga Yoga. This practice is designed to help instructors to deepen their practice of the asanas, teaching them how to support others through that process by offering assists and modifications, while building on core strength and character to support them in their Yoga instruction.
"Finding your Core"
300-hour Advanced Yoga Certification
Pre-requisite: 200-hour Yoga Teacher Certification
This certification program meets some of the National Educational Standards of Yoga Alliance for the 500-hour level.
Program Requirements
Overview
- Contact Hours -Students must attend 12 weekends
- Non-contact hours of Teaching Experience (in addition to training hours listed above)
Contact Hours:
The 80 Contact hours will consist of:
- 20 hours of Techniques - based on the Ashtanga Primary Series
- 30 hours Anatomy and Physiology - Including both human physical anatomy and physiology (bodily systems, organs, etc.) and energy anatomy and physiology (chakras, nadis, etc.)
- 30 hours Philosophy, Ethics, Lifestyle - Includes the study of yoga philosophies, yoga lifestyle, and ethics for yoga teachers
Contact hours are presented within the YTT weekend
Non-contact hours
The 20 Non-contact hours must consist of:
- 20 Non-contact hours of Teaching Experience (in addition to training hours listed above)
500 hour YTT
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The ERYT Seminar for Experienced Yoga Teachers
Mastery in Yoga Teaching
The Healing Post provides an educational concentration geared to obtaining ERYT status from the Yoga Alliance and for implementing advanced skills for professional Yoga Teachers. The purpose of this specialized, educational track is to nurture each participant's own, individual teaching style, technique-background and emergence of their Mastery In Yoga Teaching.
A seminar format brings together the highly developed knowledge bases of veteran teachers and the newly honed skills of well-trained novices. The protocols we employ for giving and receiving constructive feedback and self-correction are used in many of the most advanced certification programs in Yoga Instructor Education. These protocols include: Comments from participants, using specific feedback techniques to optimize the emergence of precious insights into how to teach; Structures for self-appraisal; Observations and experiential instruction from the seminar facilitators; Optional video recording and review of each teacher's presentations.
One of the foundations of teacher excellence is interaction with peers and instructors, especially regarding strengths and weaknesses. Strict confidentiality agreements encourage honest, productive learning and self-initiated growth.
A segment of each seminar session is devoted to discussions about teaching situations and the problems or successes of seminar participants. In addition to their immediate educational benefit, these discussions are intended to foster the habit of seeking ongoing, peer discussion and review, as a life-long practice.
Our Student-Centered Approach to teaching Yoga is one of the core concentrations of this course. Teaching methods that center on the individual needs and goals of students are basic to all of the Healing Post's professional trainings. We believe, Teaching that responds to specific, current conditions, needs and goals of our seminar participants is fundamental to masterful Yoga instruction.
This seminar is a two-year study in Yoga Teaching Methods, "The-How-To-Teach-It" - along with the necessary Yoga practice skills that empower adept instructing, The-How-to-do-It. The curriculum includes a review of the course materials in our other YA-oriented programs - Asana, Pranayama, Meditation, Mantra and Chanting, Yamas and Niyamas.
Additional focuses of the seminar:
Studies in Karma Yoga - our relationship to our vocation as service, with in-depth attention to Ethics and the Yoga Teacher-Student relationship.
Explorations in Jnana Yoga - The basis for transforming our knowledge into wisdom.
Introduction to Raja Yoga.
Practice Teaching Dhyana Yoga - Meditation elements and approaches. This focus includes Chakra Integration Techniques, necessary to understanding the boundaries and safety issues of advanced Yoga studies.
Bhakti Yoga. Toward Heart-Centered Yoga.
The seminar meets two days per month, on a particular, designated weekend. In addition to lectures, demonstrations and constructive comment, four to eight hours per month, per participant, are devoted to practice teaching.
Time and space for weekly, four-hour practice teaching sessions, with further feedback, are made available outside of the official meeting schedule, as an integral part of the course. Teachers who already have ERYT status (or who have equivalency to ERYT status without registration with the YA) attend a minimum of 36 of the weekly practice sessions per year. Teachers who are working toward ERYT status (or teachers who are seeking the equivalent, without YA registration) attend the maximum of 48 weeks per year.
Additionally, participants teach and log at least two Yoga classes per week, given, either in a professional setting or informally - as, for example, to family and friends. The suggested class length is 1.5 hours, with 15 minutes included for Q&A.
As outlined above, the ERYT Track affords a minimum of 680 hours of teaching classes. Those participants who are accruing teaching hours toward ERYT 200 or 500 certifications log and document regular professional or informal classes, outside of the course framework.
Please note that the YA does not require a special course for ERYT certification, other than the standards they publish for the RYT 200 and RYT 500. Therefore, this course is an elective, portions of which may receive approval for CEU hours.
While experienced students and teachers from other programs may join the seminar, we encourage potential applicants for YTT 200 and YTT 500 certifications who are already enrolled in a YA-approved program to continue their studies in that venue, as well. As an Affiliated School of Robin's Yoga and Healing Center, LLC, there may be opportunities for cross-linkage of courses and credits between The Healing Post and Robins Yoga, details of which are still to be arranged between both centers and with The Yoga Alliance.