Yoga Teacher Training coming May 2012!

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Kula's 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training (Registered Yoga School 200 via Yoga Alliance) with Dana Goudie, E-RYT 200 and Amanda Brenner, RYT 200 begins May 2012. The training will meet one weekend per month over a twelve month period. All sessions held at Center for Spiritual Living on Montlimar Drive.

Hours:
Fri 6p-9p
Sat 1p-7p
Sun 12-6p

Dates:
2012
May 18/19/20
June 8/9/10
July 20/21/22
August 17/18/19
September 21/22/23
October 19/20/21
November 9/10/11
December 14/15/16
2013
January 18/19/20
February 22/23/24
March 22/23/24
April 26/27/28

Cost:
$2200 if paid in full by 4/1/12
$2300 if paid in full by training start date (5/18/12)
$2600 if paid in installments over the course of the training ($200 deposit due upon application and 4 installments of $600 due 5/18/12, 7/20/12, 9/21/12, and 11/16/12)

Trainees will also be required to attend one class per week and fifteen hours of workshops with either Dana or Amanda and complete outside homework and reading assignments.

Topics include:

Asana: how to teach, benefits, contraindications,
Pranayama: techniques, how to teach, how to develop a practice
Meditation: techniques, how to teach, how to develop a practice
Philosophy: Eight Limbed Path, Yoga Sutras, philosophy of teaching
Anatomy: Applying knowledge of the body to yoga postures
Subtle Body: Chakras, Vayus, Prana
Teaching Methodology
Business of Yoga

Between the two of them, Dana and Amanda have experience in Power Vinyasa, Ashtanga, Viniyoga (Yoga Therapy), Anusara, Kripalu, Iyengar, Bikram, Prenatal, Chakra- and Mantra-based yoga. Dana is currently studying Yaapana Yoga under LeeAnn Carey, and Amanda is currently studying Yoga Therapy under JJ Gormley Etchells. Both are working toward RYT 500 certification.

Projected Reading List:
Please have the first four by the first training session.

Heart of Yoga, TKV Desikachar
Tree of Yoga, BKS Iyengar
A New Earth, Ekhart Tolle
Teaching Yoga, Mark Stephens

Bhagavad Gita, translated by Stephen Mitchell- aquire by November training
Approved Asana Reference Guide (discussed during first session)

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Here's to Community.

Greetings Kula, my fellow yogis, and community! I am so honored and grateful to be a contributor to this blog and to be part of the explosion of yoga in the southeast. Kula yoga has come so far, and has done so much to expand the practice, philosophy, and teachings of Yoga throughout Mobile and Baldwin counties. I’ve watched the growth over the past year with complete gratitude and amazement. We are so blessed to have an organization that facilitates the growth and accessibility of this ancient art, science, and philosophy.
We all have one thing in common that brings us to our mats again and again: yoga has changed our lives. We begin to discover how awareness in our bodies transforms to awareness in our lives. We develop both willpower and playfulness and learn that asana is but one form of devotion to the Highest—in ourselves and all living beings. We learn that the reason we continuously come to the mat is not because we want to find the perfect expression of some pose. It’s because we desire freedom. Desire brings us to the mat to discover our true selves.
So here’s to yoga, to union, to community, and to each beautiful soul with us on the journey of life.
Namaste!
Leah