Yoga Teacher Training Spring 2012 / TBD 2013

300hrs Yoga Alliance-certified taught by Gopi Kinnicutt
(spread over two years, 2012-2013 / 150 hours each year)

• Learn to create sequences for private sessions–how to work one on one and address an individual’s physical, mental and emotional needs
• Understand yoga for depression and anxiety and how to create sequences that help relieve symptoms
• Trauma sensitive yoga–become mindful about language use, postures to use and not use based on the type of trauma groups
• Yoga as a therapy–learn to compose short practices or sequences (15 min) to achieve maximum effect for recovery and healing
• Yoga as a preventative–more than a fitness practice
• Restorative yoga using bolsters, straps and blocks
• The art of creating adaptation to serve a desired effect or objective
• Advance breath work (pranayama)–looking at threshold and seeing how to increase it by studying retention and suspension of breath; Aloma and viloma breath; how to use pranayama in emotional and mental healing; how to sequence in breath work appropriately to create a cooling, heating, cleansing, calming or energizing effect
• Ayurveda–teach and study the dosha and learn how to balance dosha’s through lifestyle, diet, work and yoga
• Look at diet and the effects of food on consciousness; the process of cooking using ayurvedic herbs and spices; and the compatible combination of foodstuff to create mind body balance
• How to teach and practice silent mediation, mantra meditation , japa and kirtan; the power of sound in asanas, using vibration as a way of healing and focusing; meaning of mantras and seed vibrations
• Marma, Nadi and Charka series–includes an in-depth study of the chakra system; look at the corresponding nadi lines (lines of energy), and marma points (sensitive energy points); examine what poses activate the different chakra and energy lines and how to stimulate energy points with hands on assists