Advanced Teacher Training
2010 DATES
August 27 - September 5, 2010
Location: Kripalu, Lenox MA
November 20 - 28, 2010
Location: Pure Yoga, Hong Kong
Offered once in the US at Kripalu and once in Hong Kong at Pure Yoga. This hands-on course, taught over 9 days, is open to yoga instructors who've taught at least 3 years or participated in Forrest Yoga's Foundation teacher training course. Instructors of all Yoga traditions are welcome as the skills you'll learn enhance all teaching styles. Participants must have a regular personal practice and be ready to move deeper within themselves and assist students in the discovery of the physical, emotional and spiritual benefits of yoga.
Ana Forrest designed this program to be highly experiential. The training includes chanting, daily meditation, Pranayama, intensive yoga practice, working with injuries, addressing the needs and challenges of students, mentoring your own practice and needs and learning the principles of class sequencing for the setup and optimal implementation of advanced poses. The trainees are taught how to put into practice and teach intermediate and advanced arm balances, backbends, hip openers, abdominals, vinyasas, inversions, and bound poses. Teacher trainees are also shown how to work with people of different levels, abilities and body types.
Click here to register for ATTC at Kripalu.
Registration for ATTC at Pure Yoga coming soon.
REGISTRATION & CANCELLATION POLICY for KRIPALU:
Please refer to Kripalu's website for registration and cancellation policy. All of Kripalu's policy apply for the Advanced Teacher Training at Kripalu. Repeat discount for repeating Ana's Advanced Teacher Training does NOT apply to this 2010 Advanced TTC at Kripalu.
REGISTRATION & CANCELLATION POLICY for PURE YOGA HONG KONG:
Please refer to Pure Yoga's website for registration and cancellation policy. All of Pure Yoga's policy apply for the Advanced Teacher Training at Pure Yoga. Repeat discount for repeating Ana's Advanced Teacher Training DOES apply to this 2010 Advanced TTC at Pure Yoga Hong Kong.
Daily Agenda*
For Kripalu : August 27th to September 5th
August 27th begins at 7:30 pm
August 28 to September 4th
7:00am-7:45am Chanting
7:45am-10:00am Yoga Intensive
10:00am-11:30am Advanced Asanas
11:30am-1:30pm Break
1:30pm-5:15pm Advanced Teacher Training
September 5th day ends at 5:30pm
*Agenda subject to change at the sole discretion of
Forrest Yoga.
Chanting
The tools of meditation are chanting, sitting as well as
questions and answers. These tools are used to help quiet
the chatter of the mind in order to examine this question
with clarity and focus. Developing a meditation practice can
have a profound effect on your life. Instead of being
controlled by the chatter of the mind, learn to use
awareness in each moment to assess your relationship to that
moment.
Each morning prior to the daily intensive yoga practice
Ana will use storytelling and chanting, to help trainees
free their minds from their attachment to habitual patterns
of thinking and the resulting habitual patterns of action.
The freedom from habitual thinking will have an immediate
effect on your yoga and in your life.
Yoga Intensive & Advanced Asana with Ana Forrest
As the foundation of this course the daily intensive yoga
practice with Ana will create a heightened sense of
physical, emotional and spiritual awareness while
challenging every muscle and cell in your body. Through a
carefully constructed and rigorous Forrest Yoga series of
asanas, Ana will open you to amazing depths and feelings of
awareness. You will leave feeling cleansed, refreshed and
alive. The intensives are a sanctuary where you can feel
safe enough to open up, work through issues that may arise
and go beyond your perceived limitations. You will learn
about yourself and feel what it is like to have freedom in
your own body and mind. The intensives are sure to bring
each trainee to new levels within their yoga practice.
Each yoga intensive will become an advanced asana
instructional period. Ana will guide the class into advanced
poses related to the day's intensive theme, teaching and
demonstrating variations, leveling, spotting and assisting
along the way. A highly experiential session, this daily
advanced asana period is structured so that each trainee
works with others in the class in order to gain hands on
experience with spotting, assisting (to keep your students
safe as they learn the advanced poses), variations and
leveling all under the supervision of Ana and her
assistants.
Poses: Put into practice and teach intermediate and advanced arm balances, backbends, hip openers, abdominals, vinyasas, inversions, deep forward bends, advanced twists and bound poses. You will first practice the poses and then will coach and spot each other in the morning session. Afternoon training sessions will be dedicated to improving your teaching skills and working with the different injuries, abilities, and challenges your students will bring to the yoga room.
Seeing: Hone your "seeing" skills on anatomical and energetic levels. You will learn how to overcome your habitual seeing - as a yoga instructor - to better witness the whole truth of what your students are presenting in class.
Sequencing: Go beyond basic sequencing and delve into the principles of teaching and healing students with specific injuries. Create sequencing for the setup and optimal implementation of advanced poses. Learn to also increase strength, openness, and intelligence in all areas of your body.
Prioritize: Learn how to address the needs and challenges of your students more efficiently. Begin to address the issues that are of primary importance so that your students will yield the most profound results from your teaching.
Interface: Explore issues that are frequently encountered when working with intermediate and advanced students. Learn to interact with your student and their spirit and help them form an alliance. Healing is a slow process that involves time, patience and honesty for both teacher and student. In order to address the myriad of questions that traditionally come up, Q & A forums are regularly scheduled throughout the week. These intimate, safe sessions are designed so that each trainee has the opportunity to tap into Ana's 30+ years of teaching experience for answers to some of the tough questions, situations and scenarios that a yoga teacher faces today. Past questions have included: the trainees specific concerns or problems that they encounter in teaching; their own needs in staying inspired and inspiring; developing skill in becoming creative and effective with addressing their own needs and on to whatever path the trainees' impassioned questions lead us.
Working with Special Needs and Injuries: You will greatly increase your skill working with pregnancy and injuries including back, neck, shoulder, knee, sciatic and hamstring problems as well as post- surgical rehabilitation. Learn to manage the injuries you deal with on a daily basis.
Express the Wisdom of Your Spirit: By observing yourself, others, and receiving direct feedback, you will tighten the circle of understanding between your actions and their effects and become a more effective and compelling teacher. You will also further develop your particular gifts as a teacher to facilitate the greatest results for you and your students. Learn to risk being more truthful and how to speak from the eloquence of your spirit.
Accelerate Your Practice: Through daily intensive yoga and meditation classes you will develop your practice and viscerally experience the poses that you will teach later that day. Each yoga class is specifically designed to relate to the training goals.
Willingness, health and strength to go 100% for this event. If you don't have a daily practice, begin one now. To be drug free, including recreational drugs, coffee and tobacco. A list of poses that are problems for you to teach. A list of problems your students have or that you need help with. Bring a Strap, 2 mats or 1 mat and a blanket, neti pot and other personal props and supports (you'll be holding people in poses, make sure your weak places are supported).
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