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Teachers
Training Program
Our
Vision:
The art of teaching yoga requires sensitivity, compassion and understanding,
as well as lots of practice and technical and therapeutic knowledge.
This program is designed for your own essence to radiate through, to
communicate
your own voice and expression of yoga naturally and with ease.
Non-discrimination Policy & Statement:
We admit students of any race, gender, sexual orientation, national
and ethnic origin, philosophic and religious beliefs, to all
the rights, privileges,
programs, and activities generally accorded and made available to all
students at our school. It does not discriminate
on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, national and ethnic origin,
and philosophic
and religious beliefs in
administration of its educational policies, admissions policies,
and school-administered
programs.
How it Works:
The
course work models that of a professional college. (put this in bold
please) You take as many hours of classes
as you wish per week with both Suzette Scholtes and Karim Memi, Directors. To
get started you apply with an formal email to enter the program and
complete an application. The entrance fee is $250 which includes your
final exams; certicates, and teaching assessment. That fee is
required before formal training begins.
All hours of study with Karim Memi or Suzette
Scholtes, these hours qualify for registry with Yoga Alliance and Yoga
Studio certification.
Suzette
has completed over 9000 hours of certified training and Karim
over 8000.
The Yoga Studio is an Accredited and Registered National Yoga Alliance
Teacher Training School, with history in curriculum, therapeutics,
and integrity.
Our goal is to educate teachers of substance in our communities
to help
improve
the quality of life with yoga.
Required studies are:
Anatomy training, philosophy,
and methodology (sequencing and contraindications offered during our
weekend workshops).
Trainings
with “senior” teachers or Karim or Suzette are strongly
recommended.
All hours are cumulative; for example you may
file 200 hours then add on subsequent trainings hours for 500 applications
later.
The yoga curriculum consists currently of
two tracts:
- Certificate for Registered Yoga Teacher (200
contact hours)
- Certificate for Registered Yoga Teacher
(500 contact hours)
These two tracts or curriculums meet the standards
set by the national Yoga Alliance’s
Registered Yoga Teacher registry. The yoga teacher-training curriculum is interdisciplinary
and non-dogmatic. Our program covers the theory and practice of asana & pranayama,
teaching methodologies, meditation, philosophy, anatomy & physiology, ethics,
and yogic lifestyle. Many of the nation’s top Yoga teachers
are a part of the teacher-training faculty, including Aadil Palkhivala,
John Schumacher,
Doug Keller, Paula Tortolano, and Judith Lasater. You receive
a two-tier program:
- Certification from The Yoga Studio Certified Yoga
Teacher (C.Y.T.)
- Registry in National Yoga Alliance (you personally
file this)
Our Yoga Teacher Training Program:
Participants will be trained in the following
areas:
- Developing your own practice
- Learning how to teach yoga
- Philosophy as related to yoga
- Energy of the body
- Anatomy & Physiology as related to yoga
- Basic Sanskrit
- Meditation
- Becoming a Teacher: Ethics, morals, legalities.
Text Books:
- Light on Yoga by BKS Iyengar
- Yoga: A Gem for Women by Geeta Iyengar
- Yoga: A Fundamental Course” by Geeta Iyengar or “Yoga
the Iyengar Way” and “Relax & Renew” by
Judith Lasater
- An interpretation of your choice of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
(recommended: How to Know God by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher
Isherwood)
- Scientific Keys Volume I: The Key Muscles
of Hatha Yoga by Ray Long, MD
And Chris Macivor
- Log of elective textbooks or periodical readings on philosophy, pranayama,
pregnancy, anatomy, energy body and related.
Requirements:
- Passing Grade on Anatomy Exam (both 200
and 500-hour)
- Passing Grade on Final Exam (both 200
and 500-hour)
- Observation of Teaching a 90-minute yoga
class (both 200 and 500-hour)
- Internship of 8 weeks or more for therapeutics,
alignment, sequencing, adjusting, and voice for 500 hour and minimum
of 4 weeks for 200 Hours.
- Workshop Electives with Suzette and Karim
over the course of one or more years plus weekly classes
with
both directors.
- We
encourage you to study with
Visiting Faculty whenever possible.
Saturday Weekend Elective
for 2007-2010:
(Please see website for Visiting Faculty National
Training Dates)
- Pre Natal, Deliver, Post-Partum
- Therapeutics
for High or Low Blood Pressure
- Fundamentals of Alignment of bones, muscles & joints
- Therapeutic Yoga for Injured or Aching
Backs
- Therapeutic Yoga for issues of digestion
and elimination
- Therapeutic Yoga for PMS, menstruation,
peri and menopause
- The art and science of safe
adjustments
- Therapeutics for Depression
and Anxiety
- Kuranta Yoga (using wall
ropes effectively and
with safety)
- Therapeutics for knees,
hips, ankles and feet
- Teaching safe and
powerful inversion
asana
- Karma Yoga and
Philosophy of
Teaching - Yama & Niyama
- Meditation Training
for improved
quality of life
- Pranayama
Practices
- Details and
Intricacies
- Sequencing
powerful
and effective
classes
for all
levels
- Teaching
restorative
and gentle
yoga
for injured
or weak
- Knowing
and
using appropriate
Contraindications
for
injury
and
issues
- Therapeutic
Yoga
for
Neck,
Shoulders
and
Upper
Back
-
Therapeutics for
arthritis, fibromyalgia,
and autoimmune
challenges
-
Basic Sanskrit
for Asana,
pranayama, and
teaching
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Create a
Home Practice:
Safety and
Fulfillment
-
Fundamentals of
the Chakra
System
-
Advanced Yoga
with a
Chair
To apply for teacher training
We are now accepting applications. To formalize
your training or for more information,
contact Suzette
Scholtes by phone
at 913/492-9594
or email
at Suzette@everestkc.net.
Please visit www.YogaAlliance.org for
more information regarding requirements
for registry at both the 200 and 500-hour
levels.
The Yoga Studio of Johnson County Abides
by this code in their Bylaws. (Nov./2003.),
to
read click
here.
A Talk to Teachers
By: B.K.S. Iyengar
Teaching is very noble profession. When it comes
to yoga, there is a lot of give and take between the student and
the teacher involving friendliness and compassion for the growth
of qualitative teaching. The teachers and students should remain
together as one family without giving any room for misunderstanding.
The teachers should treat pupils like their own children and the
students should respect the teacher as one respects the parents.
We train our children to become healthy and happy, and as teachers
we too must take the responsibility to train those who come for
betterment of growth in body, intelligence and consciousness. The
teachers should learn to be happy if their students surpass them
in practice and teaching.
When teachers are conducting classes, the participants
and the teachers have to communicate as well as commune with one
another in friendliness to build up good rapport. In the case of
personal problem, which prevents the teacher from presenting accurately
as required, it is better the teacher explains his or her physical
drawbacks to them and then conducts the class. The teachers can
still guide them in practice, especially where they lack understanding.
The student also should appreciate the honesty
of the teacher. A friendly approach will definitely increase a
good relationship between them. In my life I have been both and
done both. Some explain well but cannot show; and some do well
but cannot explain. Both are good tools for understanding. If one
is blind to practice, the other is blind to theory, whereas both
are needed in teaching. Have confidence to bring the theory and
practice so that they are in rhythm with each other just as a blind
man with legs a lame man with eyes might help each other to move
from one place to the other.
Learning yoga is combined venture for teachers
as well as students. Each student has to learn to observe the structure
of his body, its movements, actions, and its contact with mind.
On the other hand, the teacher has to know the capacity of each
student and teach in such a way that his capacity increases. The
teacher has to teach the art of connecting body with mind. The
student can understand and appreciate only when he understands
his limitations and the teacher uplifts him a little further.
The students should not create misunderstanding
or barriers between two teachers. The teachers as well as the students
should remember that they are doing yogasadhana as followed by
me. The branches may be separate but the root is one.
The body is not a machine which can be hammered
to get the position in a day. As a student, you should take good
points from the teacher and practice. Understand the teachers and
accordingly listen to what they are teaching.
As teachers you have to see the good and you
have to express to the participants how to do the good or at least
a little better, rather than pointing out the small mistakes here
or there. This way the teachers and the students probably develop
a better quality of seeing and better quality of understanding.
This qualitative way of seeing and understanding will be great
help to both.
Teachers should not teach something which does
not come in the frame of the subject. They should not teach or
talk about what has no relevance to yoga. Te teachers should not
misdirect students.
As a teacher you should learn to tune the ears
of every student so that they learn the art of listening. Be clear
to give good background of basic teaching to make them develop
stability. Observe and ensure for yourself that what they do and
what you asked them to do was synchronized. Often, you say something
and the students do something else because they do not listen to
you attentively.
The teachers should focus on those parts of
the body where the students do not respond. See that they activate
those parts. Do not proceed further unless they get the hold of
them. Give an emphasis on their weak point. Let those ideas circulate
in them, to be grasped.
Teach first what the students can see and feel,
then proceed gradually on to points which they do not feel.
As a teacher, do the homework to analyze and
practice on your own body and mind before rectifying mistakes.
Decide what points are to be given to them so that they can attain
what is not yet attained. Use yourself as a helping hand to help
others.
The ideal relationship of mater and pupil is
based on a healthy way of teaching and approach to life. Yoga is
about associating and putting together the objects of self and
Self. Establish proper communion, good communication and relationship.
Teachers and students should proceed and progress hand in hand
without giving any chance for misunderstandings. Always remember
that the subject of yoga is greater than, and above, all of us.
We are mortals but yoga is immortal.
Resoruce: Astadla Yogamala Volume 3
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