Potrero Hill

The Lighting the Path Teacher Training program is a life-changing course of study for dedicated yoga students and aspiring teachers.  

Lighting the Path Teacher Training prepares you to be an authentic and heart-centered yoga teacher, offering compassionate and accessible vinyasa classes for all levels of students.

 

Vigorous morning yoga intensives guide you deeper into your own practice and life purpose, while afternoon instructional sessions cover an extensive yoga teacher curriculum, including cueing, sequencing, hands-on assists, working with injuries, demonstration techniques, vocal presence, yoga philosophy and history, the business of yoga, ethics, and anatomy.

 

The LTP program includes a variety of teaching methods so that you can learn, practice and embody the material. This includes demonstration, lecture, talking circles, group processes, and partner practice. You will receive personalized attention, guidance, and feedback directly from Pete Guinosso and his highly qualified assisting staff and senior guest faculty.

 

Process work helps you to connect to your own heart’s wisdom and find your authentic voice as a teacher. Deep connection with the community of trainees and trainers gives you the support you need during and after the training to be successful in establishing yourself as a teacher and throughout your yoga career.

 

LTP trainees begin teaching on day one, initially teaching to other students and gradually building up to teach a group public class under Pete’s guidance. The program’s teaching focus helps trainees become adaptable and knowledgeable teachers for a wide variety of students.

 

This training is ideal for serious students of yoga and aspiring teachers, as well as current yoga teachers looking to add additional skills to their teaching.

 

Upon completion of this training, you are eligible to register with Yoga Alliance as an RYT-200 teacher. You will also be able to enroll in Lighting the Path’s 300-hour teacher training course and/or the LTP mentorship program.

 

Over the course of six months, you will learn how to:

• Inspire students by teaching from your own heart’s wisdom
• Be emotionally intelligent and present with your students
• Effectively sequence for, and safely adjust, an all-levels class
• Incorporate themes and intentions into your teaching and practice
• Cue and instruct so your students stay present in their practice
• Feel confident working with common conditions and injuries
• Create a supportive and caring environment in your classes

Lighting the Path 200-hour Teacher Training
Pete Guinosso
September 22, 2018–March 3, 2019
(See time schedule in description below)
Yoga Tree Telegraph
2807 Telegraph St, Berkeley, CA 94705
(510) 486-1989
$3200
$500 non-refundable deposit to reserve your space (balance due by September 22; for students on monthly payment plans, balance is due by January 31, 2019)*

 

SCHEDULE
September 22, 2018–March 3, 2019
Saturdays & Sundays: 7-9 am and 11 am–5 pm

 

TRAINING DATES
September 22–23, 2018
October 6–7 and 20–21, 2018
November 3–4 and 17–18, 2018
December 1–2 and 8–9, 2018
January 12–13 and 26–27, 2019
February 9–10 and 23–24, 2019
March 2–3, 2019

 

LOCATION
Yoga Tree Telegraph
2807 Telegraph Ave.
Berkeley, CA 94705
(510) 486-1989

 

ELIGIBILITY
Open to students of all levels interested in teaching others and/or taking their practice to the next level.

 

LTP-TT 6 Month Information Sessions
Pete or one of his lead assistants will host the following information sessions to share additional details and answer questions.

 

Dial-in Number: (712) 775-7031
Meeting ID:220-921-274
Sunday, August 25th, 11 AM
Saturday, September 8th, 10 AM

San Francisco: In-Studio Information Sessions at Yoga Tree Valencia
Tuesday, September 4th, 8–8:30 PM
Tuesday, September 18th, 8–8:30 PM

East Bay: In-Studio Information Sessions at Yoga Tree Telegraph
Sunday, August 12th, 11–11:30 AM
Monday August 20th, 8-8:30 PM

Wednesday, September 5th, 8-8:30 PM
Sunday, September 16th, 11 AM
Wednesday, September 19th, 8–8:30 PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

*ENROLLMENT NOTE: Registration for this training is not available through the mobile app. Please visit YogaTreeSF.com or call Yoga Tree Telegraph at (510) 486-1989 to enroll. 

Take your personal practice and understanding of yoga and meditation deeper with Pete's Morning Intensives. The power of his series is that each class is designed and sequenced to build on previous classes. You will experience profound growth and meaningful connection of your mind, body and spirit. Or maybe you are looking for a quick, effective jump start to your practice that needs a bit of spark and inspiration. Either way, Pete’s mix of vinyasa and Forrest yoga, taught with heart and compassion, will make you sweat, smile and leave feeling restored and grounded.

 

 

*SCHEDULE

September 2018
22rd–23rd 

October 2018
6th–7th and 20th–21st 

November 2018
3rd–4th–5th and 17th–18th 

December 2018
1st–2nd & 8th–9th

January 2019
12th–13th and 26th–27th 

February 2019
9th–10th and 23rd–24th

 

2nd–3rd

(415) 655-3936
$275 Full Weekend
$145 Full Day (Saturday or Sunday)*

Practice is the cornerstone of your experience of yoga. What and how you practice determines what you will ultimately gain from it. If practice is going to carry you to its ultimate promise, it will need to balance three things: 1) stability; 2) the light of self-awareness and; 3) the fire of divine or spiritual awakening. Thus, for practice to provide the ultimate reward, it must be systematic, and include a gradual progression, employing different techniques at different times to help you mature/evolve, both in and out of your practice.

 

• Session 1: Supreme Practice, Supreme Life: The Seven Gems

*Full weekend attendance suggested as each session builds upon the previous session. Priority will be given to those registering for the full weekend. Registration for Saturday or Sunday drop-ins will open approximately 8-12 weeks prior to the first day of training.

 

On September 30, 2018 1-3 pm, Darren Main, Jill Abelson, and the Yoga Tree community will go to the mat to teach an all-levels vinyasa benefit class to celebrate and support the 10 year anniversary of the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Neuro-Intensive Care Nursery (NICN).

Every day, infants are born with critical and life threatening conditions. The NICN is an innovative bedside and research program that has transformed brain-focused care and aims to improve neurodevelopmental outcomes for the most vulnerable babies.

This program desperately needs the support of the yoga community. Practice yoga—enhance a life!

 

This 40-hour course is intended for those who wish to teach Yin Yoga, as well as for anyone who wishes to be immersed in the profound benefits of this meditative, therapeutic and philosophically-rich practice.

Combining Indian Yogic, Chinese Taoist, and Indian/Tibetan Buddhist philosophical lineages, Yin Yoga encompasses a vast, holistic approach to health and well-being of body, mind, and spirit.

Topics:

• Modern & ancient roots of Yin Yoga
• Yin Yoga practice & sequencing
• Meditation & Pranayama
• Anatomy (including Paul Grilley's Anatomy DVD series)
• Yogic, Taoist & Buddhist philosophy
• Meridian & Chakra theories from ancient Chinese medicine
• Nadis, Chakras, and Koshas of the Ayurvedic Indian system
• Therapeutic applications
• Injuries & Special Needs modifications
• Teaching practice
• The Business of Yin Yoga

"I have complete confidence in Christy's sensitive and skillful ability to teach teachers the nourishing practice of Yin Yoga." –Sarah Powers, internationally-renowned yoga teacher and author of Insight YogaChristy Brown, E-RYT 500 has taught yoga since 2000. She has studied in India with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois (Ashtanga yoga) and S.N. Goenka (Vipassana meditation) and in the U.S. with Sarah Powers, Paul Grilley, T.K.V. Desikachar, and H.H. the Dalai Lama. Emphasizing mindfulness, breath, and alignment; cultivating one's highest well-being for the benefit of the Earth and all beings; and drawing on Buddhism, Taoism, and other wisdom traditions, Christy weaves a creatively flowing, invigorating yet calming, centering yet expanding exploration of Self through asana. Christy also has a background in cultural and language studies with U.C. Santa Barbara and Harvard University and spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Bolivia working with indigenous basket weavers. 

ChristyBrownYoga.com

 

 

 

Immerse yourself in the study of yoga for the childbearing year! This 45-hour comprehensive Level 1 training will include how to teach yoga to women in all stages of pregnancy and throughout the early stages of postpartum. The training will explore yoga as a tool in preparation for not only childbirth, but for motherhood!

Whether or not you have the goal to teach, this training is also a fit for you if you work with women in any capacity (doula, midwife, obstetrician + gynecologists, massage therapists, etc.). Also, mamas looking for ways to deepen their own practice will find a lot of benefit in this immersion as will yoga teachers from every discipline.

This training will include:
• The effects of pregnancy on the body
• The benefits of yoga in pregnancy and beyond
• Postures to aid common discomforts
• What poses are contraindicated (what to avoid)
• Appropriate pranayama practices
• Prenatal bonding
• Physiology of childbirth
• Yoga for labor
• Mom and baby yoga
• Postpartum issues
• Observation of classes

 

Qualifies for Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Credit, hours toward Yoga Tree's 500- and 1000-hour Certification Program, OR can be applied toward the 90-hour Yoga Alliance Prenatal Certification, but not both.

All participants must have completed a 200-hour basic teacher training or at least three years of yoga practice.

**SCHEDULE
Wednesday, 10/10, 8:30am–6:00pm
8:30am–1:30pm at Yoga Tree Valencia, 1234 Valencia St (at 23rd St), SF, CA 94110
3pm–6pm at Yoga Tree Training Center, 175 De Haro St. (between 15th and Alameda St), 2nd Floor, SF, CA 94103

Thursday, 10/11, 9:00am–6pm
9:00am–6:00pm at Yoga Tree Training Center

Friday, 10/12, 10:25am–6:30pm
10:25am–3:30pm at Yoga Tree Valencia
4:30–6:30pm at Natural Resources, 1367 Valencia St (at 24th St), SF, CA 94110

Saturday, 10/13, 9:00am–7:00pm
9am–7pm at Yoga Tree Training Center

Sunday, 10/14, 9:00am–7:00pm
9am–7pm at Yoga Tree Training Center

Jane Austin has worked with pregnant women and their families since 1990. She weaves her experience as a midwife, doula, childbirth educator and mother into the Mama Tree training.

Jane's trainings attract students from all over the world interested in learning how to utilize the practice of yoga to support pre- and postnatal women physically, mentally and emotionally. By training teachers, doulas, midwives, birth professionals and those that work with women, it is her hope to make yoga accessible to any mama that wants to experience the benefits of this ancient and powerful tradition.

With online registration you are reserving one spot in the workshop. To reserve for additional students, please contact the studio where the workshop will be held.

ALL WORKSHOPS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE.

*ENROLLMENT NOTE: Advance pricing for this training is not available through the mobile app. Please visit YogaTreeSF.com or call Yoga Tree Potrero at (415) 655-3936 to enroll.

 

Pregnant women are welcome to come alone or with their partners or other support people who will learn the basics of how to set mammas up in the postures, as well as how to experience the relaxation themselves.

This workshop is ideal for all pregnant women, their partners, birth companions and anyone who works with childbearing women, including yoga teachers, doulas, midwives, nurses, doctors, therapists, acupuncturists and chiropractors.

Since 2000, Britt Fohrman has been creating an inspiring and supportive environment for pregnant and birthing women, as well as for new mamas, in her work as a pre- and postnatal yoga teacher, bodyworker, photographer, HypnoBirthing educator and birth doula. Britt's classes draw on a variety of practices including alignment-based yoga, mindfulness meditation, fluid movement, HypnoBirthing, and breath awareness. She knows that the practice of yoga is one of the most effective ways that a woman can prepare to bring her baby into the world in a peaceful, conscious, and loving way. Though she has studied with many of the top experts in the filed of yoga and birth, Britt finds that her most profound education comes from witnessing true yoga in action—women giving birth.

Receive more information about Britt and her practice at brittfohrman.com.

 

 

 

 

Dana Damara is one of the Bay Area's most powerful yoga teachers and empowerment leaders. She is a mystic, a mother, a teacher of teachers, and an author. She traverses between the mystical realms, and mothering her two teenage girls. She is an activist for balancing the Divine Feminine and Sacred Masculine in a way that is approachable, and digestible to people living in the realms of "real life." She is committed to feminine embodiment, self-love, sisterhood, sacred ceremony and ritual, and creating a safe space for evolution.

When she’s not leading one of her fiery, Moon Mystic Classes, she may be facilitating a retreat, hosting a Moon Circle, empowering her clients, creating an inseparable tribe with her Embody Truth Teacher Training program,or simply observing her daughters as they navigate their own karmic path.

She believes that the body has many depths. What happens on the outside is simply a reflection of what is going on inside. It’s how we wake up to that wisdom and use it that makes this a human experience. Living in our truth will bring us to the liberation of the mind, ultimately guiding us to infinite love. If we want liberation, we must do the work and it is all based on self-inquiry, exploration, and discovery.

“On the mat, my passion is proper alignment, powerful breath and effortless flow. Time on your mat is sacred space where you find more depth, authenticity and integrity in your life,”Damara says. She believes that how you show up on your mat can be directly related to how you show up off your mat. “When we begin to integrate this truth and see ourselves with compassionate awareness, we are liberated from any illusion that holds us back from moving out into the world.”

Her greatest teachers are her two daughters, her family, Byron Katie, Seane Corn, Louise Hay, Michael Beckwith, Janet Stone, and every student that has ever walked into her class.

 

 

Spend a weekend immersed in the bhakti tradition of heart-centered practices, including chanting. We’ll explore the joyful and meditative journey of singing to the Divine through call-and-response, which creates a bridge between the individual and the eternal, opening the heart and welcoming the spirit. By singing these prayers, we unite our voices and join in a stream of consciousness and devotion that has been flowing for centuries.

 

Join Janet Stone and friends for an exploration of bhakti/devotion. We’ll chant, chant, chant and drink in the wisdom of many a guest musician who will share their experience and interpretation of bhakti.

We will explore:
• Mantra and meaning
• How to lead chanting
• Basic harmonium skills
• Stories of the deities/aspects of the self we invoke through chanting
• What devotion means in our own lives
• Expression through sound and voice
• English translations of Sanskrit chants
• Intention and sound

Each day will include a morning practice with musical accompaniment, followed by discussion, sharing, and lots of chanting.

Training option
Teachers receive 30 hours of Yoga Alliance Continuing Education credit (22 contact hours and 8hours of credit from assigned self-study). This program qualifies towards the Janet Stone Yoga or Yoga Tree 500- and 1000-hour Teacher Training programs.

Approximately 1 hour of homework or group work will be assigned after each session and follow-up reflections and writings will also be required.

Teacher Training Center 

Yoga is an excellent way to prepare the mind, body and spirit for the many transitions of pregnancy, childbirth and parenthood. In this workshop, you will learn techniques for breath awareness, partner poses and massage, which can help strengthen and relax your body, and sooth your mind during the birth process.

Additionally, these approaches will give you the opportunity to connect more deeply to yourself, your partner and your baby. We will also explore visualization and relaxation techniques that can further assist you during childbirth.

Please eat a light meal one hour before class, and bring a snack.

This session is limited to 21 couples and sells out up to two months in advance; pre-registration is REQUIRED. 

 

 

 

Join internationally-recognized yoga teacher and Off the Mat, Into the World co-founder Seane Corn, world-renowned musician Nahko Bear, and legendary environmental activist Julia Butterfly Hill in a very special event to benefit Off The Mat, Into The World.

 

We were born for these times.  It is a crucial moment in the health of our planet, and the healing of humanity. This potent afternoon of yoga, music and poetry is guaranteed to nourish, enliven and inspire!

 

A two-hour yoga practice led by Seane Corn, accompanied by a special acoustic performance by Nahko, and poetry by Julia Butterfly Hill will be woven into the tapestry. Together, these three leaders will engage in a brief dialogue about their activism, and what we can do to preserve the planet (and those on it), both on and off the mat.

 

 

 

 

1:15–1:25 pm Seane, Nahko, Julia introduction & welcome

1:25–3:25 pm Yoga with live music by Nahko & poetry readings from Julia
3:25–3:30 pm Break
3:30–4:15 pm Nahko acoustic performance

offthematintotheworld.org

 

 

Open and tune into the pelvic floor, while igniting the strength, suppleness and juiciness within this in this mysterious and powerful part of our bodies. You’ll learn how to use gentle and restorative yoga poses, along with yogic breathing, sounding and simple meditation techniques to deepen your connection to your pelvic floor muscles. This practice can be very useful in releasing tension and trauma; decreasing discomfort and dysfunction; while increasing circulation, relaxation, optimal function, strength and pleasure throughout our lives. As we become more embodied, the pleasurable possibilities increase! This exploration is open to self-identified women of all ages and life stages, and is especially relevant for the preconception, prenatal and postpartum times. 

Participants are invited to contact Britt directly with specific questions, requests or concerns at: britt@brittfohrman.com 

Please bring your own eye pillow. If you'd like an eye pillow, you may purchase one in our studio retail boutique.

Receive more information about Britt and her practice at brittfohrman.com.

With online registration you are reserving one spot in the workshop. To reserve for additional students, please contact the studio where the workshop will be held.

ALL WORKSHOPS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE.