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500hr training
Take your teaching to a deeper place!
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The Charm City Yoga Center 500 hour Advanced Teacher Training is for all students who have completed a 200 hour Yoga Alliance registered training course. We will come together as an advanced group and create a practicum oriented experience where you will expand the definition of your teaching while practicing in community.
You can focus on leading workshops, cultivating fluency with private classes, or working therapeutically with special populations. Our aim is to combine our knowledge and experience as experienced teachers to enhance the learned material. This weaving creates a rich tapestry of study that engages us as students while enlivening our skills as teachers.
In this training we will create workshops, specialized classes and private lessons that will offer advanced subject matter. You will work as a student and a teacher though out the course. Topics emphasized will vary based on your interest but can include: advanced asana, advanced pranayama , advanced study of ayurveda and doshas, specialized workshops on hips and shoulders, partner yoga, meditation, advanced anatomy applications for teaching, advanced study of texts and more.
We will use advanced readings, advanced postural and pranayama study, energetics, experience, practicum, relaxation and meditation as tools for learning. You will grow and change as a teacher with Kim Manfredi, Camille Moses-Allen, Chris Jamison, and Steve Haddad as your guides.
Topics explored in this program include:
- The dialogue and hands-on training to assist, teach and provide modifications for 32 advanced asanas
- Seven advanced pranayama techniques
- Diet, ayruveda, anatomy, systems of Indian philosophy, ethics, styles of yoga including vinyasa, yin, and structural yoga therapy, The Yoga Sutras and the Bhagavad Gita
- Classical methodology in teaching about the body
- Teaching mudras and locks during asanas as a pathway to enlightenment
- Yoga Nidra
- Samyama as described by Patanjali
- Anatomy, connective tissue, the lymphatic system, strain and counterstrain, normal range of motion, and kinesiology
You will come out of this course confident to teach:
- Advanced classes
- Workshops or retreats
- Private lessons
- Specialized populations, including pre-natal, seniors, kids, and fibromyalgia
- Advanced study of breath, koshas, ayurveda, and meditation
Dates – Beginning April 2012
- April 27, 28, 29
- May 18, 19, 20
- June 22, 23, 24
- July 13, 14, 15
- September 28, 29, 30
- October 12, 13, 14
- November 9, 10, 11
- December 7, 8, 9
Times
- Fridays from 7:30 to 10:30
- Saturdays from 12:30 to 8:30
- Sundays from 9:00 to 4:00
“ I had no idea that this venture would completely change my life. Kim’s authentic experience with her own personal spiritual journey was communicated continuously. ” ~ Nancy M.
Financial Obligation
$2,400 including a $500 non-refundable deposit ($2,200 early registration fee available if registering before January 1, 2012)
Monthly credit card auto pay available
Additional fees include cost of books only. There is no additional required class attendance for this course.
Prerequisites
Completion of a 200 hour Yoga Alliance registered training course
Charm City Yoga Center Teacher Training is registered with Yoga Alliance. Upon completion of this program, you will receive your 500-Hour Hatha Yoga Teacher certification.
