Advanced 500-Hour Certification
Module One: Core Studies (50 Hrs.)
Module One: with Dina Amsterdam (May 5th – May 11th)
This 50-hr module is designed to provide you with the knowledge, experience, and skills to deepen your practice and expand your teaching. You will develop greater insight into all the asana categories and delve deeper into anatomy, physiology, and subtle (energetic) anatomy. In addition, you will explore how asana, meditation, and yoga philosophy facilitate awareness and increase the depth of your teaching.
In this intensive you will build on the knowledge gained in your 200-hour certification program by refining your sequencing, pacing, demonstrating, adjusting, and verbalizing skills. By learning to teach with more self-awareness, knowledge, authenticity and confidence, you will better address the needs of your students and stand out in an ever-expanding community of yoga teachers.
Program Highlights in the asana practice you will learn:
- How to awaken the foundational flows of energy in the body and use them to inform physical alignment
- An in-depth understanding of the techniques, benefits, effects, and variations of all major pose categories.
- How to utilize mantra to open the subtle body.
- How sequencing, pace, and attention to detail effects the body and cultivates mindfulness.
- How to bring to life the 3 pillars of yoga: awareness, breath, and kindness.
- How to work with resistance, injury and special needs.
- How to design a personal practice that changes with your needs and cultivates balance in your life.
In the teaching methodology coursework you will learn:
- How to create logical, creative, effective sequences.
- How to balance effort and surrender in asana, sequencing and personal practice.
- How to structure the beginning, middle and end of class.
- How to connect to essence or inner wisdom in practice and teaching.
- How to teach technically and intelligently without sacrificing flow.
- How to develop your verbalization skills and speak clearly, honestly, and comfortably.
- How to work with obstacles that arise in your practice as yogi and yoga teacher.
- How to use your hands and your demonstrations to develop your students’ practice.
- Various pranayama practices and their effects and benefits.
Tuition:
Early Bird Rate – $1,150
Regular Rate – $1,250
Schedule:
May 5 – 11, 2012
9:00am – 5:00pm
Location:
Mission Studio
Tuition Details
Schedule Details
Prerequisite
Minimum 200 RYT Certification with The Yoga Alliance.
Module Two: Mentoring (50 Hrs.)
Yoga is rooted in the relationship between teacher and student. Because each of us has unique needs as both teachers and students of yoga, working one-on-one with a senior teacher enables you to delve much deeper into the practice, to develop subtle skills that define an exceptional yoga teacher and to learn the art of teaching from someone who has walked the path for years.
One of Yoga Trees basic tenets of teaching is that “book smarts” alone will not make you a great yoga teacher. In order to truly excel as a yoga teacher, personalized guidance and advice is essential.
You will be paired with one of Yoga Tree’s senior teachers for six months. During this time you will assist them in two classes a week, take their yoga classes as a student and meet with them privately for coaching. This gives you real world experience under the guidance of a highly regarded teacher.
While we welcome your requests for a specific mentor, many of our senior teachers limit the number of people they will mentor. You always have the option of getting on a wait list for a specific mentor, or we can help find another teacher with whom you can cultivate a deep and rewarding relationship.
Benefits of the Mentoring Program
• Assist your mentor in at least one class per week.
• Take FREE classes with your mentor
• Meet with your mentoring teacher for monthly counseling sessions.
Assisting: We have found that the best way to learn is to assist. When you are assisting a senior teacher, you will have the opportunity to watch them in action as they address the endless array of needs of a diverse group of students. You can study their sequencing, learn advanced assisting techniques, and even learn how to work with injured students or those with special needs.
Free Yoga: In addition to assisting, we want you to experience your mentor’s teaching on the receiving end. As a result, you will be required to take their class regularly. To facilitate this experience you will have unlimited free yoga with your mentor for the length of your internship. (Some restrictions apply.)
Counseling : Once per month you will be meeting one-on-one with your mentor so that you can ask questions, get feedback and gain important guidance with regard to your work as a teacher. Your mentor will bring specific topics to discuss to each session, however you will always have an opportunity to bring up your own questions, concerns, as well as to discuss the physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual issues that surround being a yoga teacher.
Journaling: During the course of your six-month internship, you will be required to keep a journal filled with reflections from your experience as well as observations you make while assisting. While you won’t be required to share the content of your journal with you mentor, you will be asked to bring it to counseling sessions so that you can reflect more thoughtfully on your process.
Long Distance Relationship: If you don’t live in the San Francisco Bay Area, but would really like to work with one of our senior teachers, we have a program just for you. You will work with your mentor to develop a unique set of projects and you will meet for monthly video conference counseling sessions with your mentor to discuss your progress.
Junior & Senior Teachers: All of our teachers at Yoga Tree are exceptional, but some have been studying for many years and are not registered with the Yoga Alliance as 500 E-RYT or “Experience-Registered Yoga Teacher” When you see the E, you know that in addition to many hours of training, they also have documented many hours of real world teaching experience.
In order for your mentoring hours to count toward our advanced certification you will need to study under a Yoga Tree teacher who is registered at the 500 E-RYT level. However, if you would like to mentor with one of our very talented junior teachers, you can do so at the reduced rate of $500 for six months. It is important to note that these hours cannot be applied toward your advanced certification.
Tuition:
$700
Schedule:
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Location:
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Mentors
Amanda Moran
Brenna Geehan
Britt Fohrman
Chrisandra Fox
Darcy Lyon
Darren Main
Deborah Lee
Dina Amsterdam
Elise Collins
Elise Lorimer
Janet Stone
Jill Abelson
Karl Erb
Kerri Kelly
Les Leventhal
Lauren Slater
Pete Guinosso
Stacey Rosenberg
Tara Dale
Prerequisite
RYT 200 Certification or greater with Yoga Alliance, Liability Insurance
Module Three: Electives (150 Hrs.)
No two teachers are the same. Some will want to work with a special needs population while others will want to teach more advanced vinyasa or restorative classes. To help you develop in to the unique teacher that you are striving to become, we allow you to pick and choose courses from our Continuing Education program, so that you can hone the skills you need to become a more specialized teacher. The Continuing Education courses and intensives are as diverse and wide-ranging as the teachers at Yoga Tree.
Click here to view all electives.
Prerequisites
200 RYT certification from Yoga Alliance. Some electives require additional prerequisites
As teachers, it is essential that we never forget that we are, first and foremost students. Continuing your education as a yoga teacher is essential for both you and your students growth as yogis. To support you in this process we have created The Yoga Tree Advanced Certification Program, which will provide you with the advanced skills you need to really flourish as a teacher while at the same time qualifying you for membership in the Yoga Alliance at the 500 RYT level.
To help you grow into a uniquely skilled teacher, the Yoga Tree Advanced Certification is broken down into three distinct modules totaling more than 300 hours of hands on training.
Additional Mentoring Hours
In addition to the extensive list of electives offered, we also allow those enrolled in our Advanced Teacher Training to extend their mentoring relationship for an additional six months and count those additional mentoring hours as electives.
Discounted Yoga
You will receive a special discounted rate at Yoga Tree for a full year after your enrollment. This will allow you to be able to go deeper in to your personal practice as well.
Breakdown of Hours
Module One: Core Studies
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Module Two: Mentoring
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Module Three: Electives
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Prerequisites
Because this is an advanced training, we require all participates to hold a 200-Hour Basic certification from Yoga Tree from our Anusara Program, our Six Month Intensive or our One Month Intensive. We will also honor your 200-hour certification from other accredited schools as long as you are a member of the Yoga Alliance in good standing.
