200hr training

Teach what you love

Benefits to You as a Yoga Student

The Charm City Yoga Center 200-Hour Teacher Training is for all serious students of yoga who want to deepen their practice and learn how to share it with others. Teaching is a wonderful way to move into the art of giving yoga. As teachers, we learn that to give is to receive, equally important in health and in life.

In this training, you will learn to teach not only asana (postures), but also all eight limbs of yoga, including Yamas, Niyamas, Asana, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Dharna, Dhyana, and Samadhi. You will learn to teach classes that are a dynamic expression of your personal relationship to the practice. This expression will join your individual light with the collective light of the sages who have come before you in the name of union.

Your life and teaching will become an example that inspires others to live in accordance with the yoga tradition of peace and happiness.

“Kim Manfredi’s teacher training is one of the most profound experiences of my life. Kim is able to challenge students to learn and grow not just in our yoga practice, but in life as well.” –Margo C.

Topics explored in the program

  • The dialogue and hands-on training to assist, teach and provide modifications for 45 asanas
  • Six pranayama techniques
  • Practicing and teaching meditation
  • Anatomy including exploration of the skeletal, muscular, respiratory, digestive, and nervous systems
  • Basic physiology including respiratory, circulatory, and digestive systems
  • Principles of sequencing: the order of poses used in the different styles of yoga
  • Readings on diet, the lives of saints and sages, anatomy, and philosophy, including the Upanishads, Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras and the Bhagavad Gita
  • Introduction to the subtle body- Areas of study include the Ida, Pingala, Shushumna, Vayus, and the Seven Chakras
  • The structure and chaos of flow in yoga
  • Using touch and voice as a teaching tool
  • Embracing your personal yoga and teaching from the center

Charm City Yoga Center Teacher Training is registered with Yoga Alliance. Upon completion of this program, you will receive your 200-hour Hatha Yoga Teacher Certification.

“Charm City Yoga training has helped me in innumerable ways. I feel that the many dimensions of my life, that seemed so disparate once, are now cohesive and somehow more real since I started practicing yoga. Take this first step, join the teacher training, well worth every second of your time!” Sajida C..

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About the Teachers

  • Kim Manfredi’s passion is to teach others to live a radically inspired life. She began practicing yoga and meditation to facilitate healing from an injury resulting in four broken vertebrae. The healing was so miraculous that she began studying to become a teacher. Teaching had allowed her to share the practice with others while facilitating a thriving community. The Charm City Yoga Community provides a transformative practice for thousands of yoga practitioners. Some of Kim’s teachers and their traditions include Sri Patabhi Jois Ashtanga yoga, Richard Freeman, Doug Keller, Barbara Benaugh, Kripalu, Sharon Gannon, Shiva Rea, Dharma Mittra, Bikram Yoga, and Vipassana Meditation. Kim is grateful to her teachers and students who keep her on the path.
  • Camille Moses-Allen loves to teach a vigorous Vinyasa flow filled with fun-loving energy and great music. In addition to completing the Charm City 200-hour teacher training, she has studied with Baron Baptiste, Dharma Mittra, Sharon Gannon, David Life, and Kimberly Wilson. Camille teaches hot vinyasa classes at Charm City Yoga, and runs yoga retreats.
  • Chris Jamison has studied movement for over 30 years. He blends his background as a dancer, Physical Therapist, and Thai Massage practitioner along with scientific studies in Kinesiology into his teaching of yoga. Chris completed his RYT-200 in 2007 and his RYT-500 in 2010. Chris teaches hot vinyasa yoga at Charm City Yoga.
  • Steve Haddad has taught Vipassana meditation for several years, having studied with the International Buddhism Center in Chiang Mai, Thailand and the Insight Meditation Society of Washington, DC. His teaching has been described as open and accessible, with a focus on how to bring compassion, self-awareness, and happiness into our lives. Steve holds a weekly meditation class at our Midtown Yoga Studio.

“I recently completed Kim’s 200-hour teacher training, and it was one of the most amazing experiences of my life.” –Erin B.

Spring Low-Residency Training Dates & Times

  • April 6, 7, 8, 2012
  • May 4, 5, 6, 2012
  • June 1, 2, 3, 2012
  • July 6, 7, 8, 2012
  • September 7, 8, 9, 2012
  • October 5, 6, 7, 2012
  • November 2, 3, 4, 2012

Weekend times

  • Fridays from 7:30 to 10:30
  • Saturdays from 12:30 to 8:30
  • Sundays from 9:00 to 4:00

Summer Intensive Training Dates & Times

  • June 18 through July 11, 2012

Weekend times

  • Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays from 9:30am to 5:00 pm
  • Tuesdays & Wednesdays from 11:00am to 8:30pm

Payment

  • $2,200 including a $500 non-refundable deposit
  • Monthly credit card auto-pay also available
  • Additional fees include the cost of books and yoga classes outside of the training: three Charm City classes per week for the duration of training; one of three must be taught by Kim.

Prerequisites

Minimum of 1 year of consistent yoga practice

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