Yoga Teacher Training opportunities
at Jai Shanti Yoga
with Pranakriya Yoga
July 2008 - Teaching Advanced Pranayama Techniques
Aug2008 - Feb 2009 - 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training
Click here for FAQs about YTT - adding to this regularly
What if I need to miss a weekend during the training?
Is there any yoga experience prerequisite? I've only been practicing a little over a year ..
What are the dates and times for the training sessions?
Nov 2008 - Advanced Anatomy & Therapeutic Yoga wth Marlysa Sullivan
Yoga Teacher Training at Jai Shanti Yoga.
- Are you interested in learning more about yoga?
- Ready to take your practice to the next level, but you're not sure what the next level is?
- Would you be interested in learning how to teach yoga?
There are many reasons to take a yoga teacher training. Besides attending regular classes, private lessons and workshops/reatreats, there are few options in our country for increasing your understanding and abilities through yoga. Most people who attend a teacher training are looking to increase their understanding of yoga more than they are wanting to teach yoga.
Michael "Yoganand" Carroll will be preparing yogis to become 200 and 500 hour certified yoga teachers at JSY starting in 2008. Yoganand is a senior teacher in the Kripalu tradition, and creator of the Pranakriya Teacher Training program. This practices sources the personal practice and teachings of Swami Kripalu. Bill studied extensively with Yoganand while completing the 500 hour certification at Kripalu. To read more about Yoganand and his programs, please use the following links:
The Pranakriya Yoga 200 hour program
The Pranakriya Yoga 500 hour program
Questions I've received from perspective students.
I'm not that flexible, but I'm really interested in taking a teacher training. Can I still do the training?
- Yoganand write: I have read your e-mail and I can assure you flexibility will not be an issue for you in this program. However, I would like to give you two points to consider. Both are true and I present them for you to consider. If you chose to take the training I will welcome you fully.
1) To be a teacher of anything requires that we have some mastery of the topic. I have met yoga teachers in whom I could see none of the benefits of yoga practice. looking at these teachers I did not see much that I imagined they could impart to me as their student. It is easy to be attracted to the benefits of yoga and feel that becoming a yoga teacher will give them to us. Teaching is not a substitute for personal practice.
2) Some of the most powerful yoga teachers I have ever studied with (or trained) were folks who did not have normal healthy bodies. They were folks with MS or people who had been severely injured in automobile accidents. They were folks who had used yoga to help them heal and improve the quality of their lives. Yoga was real and powerful for them. You could feel it when they spoke and sometimes see it when they moved. They may not have been able to do many of the postures or look aligned in them but they illustrated the power of practice.
When we find yoga's power and learn the skills to pass it on we have a power to help others who are like us. Whether its other athletes, those living with diseases, or mothers of small children struggling to hold on to peace of mind and physical health.
What if I need to miss a weekend during the training?
- Yoganand writes: We can usually work with scheduling conflicts if you don't have to miss more than one weekend.
Making up a weekend will require extra work on your part and perhaps extra expense. Where possible I will ask you to cover material and do exercises that you missed by working with another student or students. Sometimes I need for students to make up a session with me or another teacher that can give feedback and support. I or the other teacher may charge their rate for private classes for this service.
Oct 10 or Weekend #3 is a very full weekend (actually they all are!) with at least 3 sessions that you will need to make up with a teacher (probably Bill). You would have until the 4th weekend to make up the material and wouldn't be able to work on it until after the group has completed weekend
Is there any yoga experience prerequisite? I've only been practicing a little over a year but in that short time, I've been profoundly impacted by the benefits of yoga (hence my interest in the teacher training!). Any insight you could give me on how much prior yoga experience is expected would be helpful.
- Bill writes: The general request is two years of yoga practice so you both have a fundamental understanding of asana and breathing, but also so you have acquired some physical strength and body awareness . Teacher training is a great way to increase your knowledge base, and more importantly, how to language and sequence a yoga practice for a variety of body types and abilities. I’m going to invite you to talk further with Yoganand about your level of experience and intention for the training . Also – you can come to a few of my classes over the next couple weeks, and after we meet and I see your practice, I can better advise you on taking the training now or not.
- Yoganand writes: I think Bill gave you an excellent answer regarding requirements for the program. I would like to offer one more pooint for your consideration. If you take a class with Bill or with me we will say 'yes' to your participation if we see you have a strong practice and sensitivity to your body. That said, please consider the following.
When you become a professional yoga teacher it will change your practice. I have seen many folks who fell in love with yoga and quickly became a teacher. Teaching then ate up their practice. There are a lot of yoga teachers out there who do not practice. They started with a strong practice and in becoming a teacher couldn't maintain it. My intention in asking 2 years of practice before YTT is for you become strong in your practice. See where it can take you, integrate it into your life. I believe that the longer you practice before you begin to teach the easier it will be for you to stay a practitioner who teaches.
I wish you the best in practice and if right for you, to see you in YTT
What are the dates and times for the training sessions?
- Bill write: Friday-Sunday - 9 weekends, (the last date is a tent date if one other weekend needs to be cancelled)
Friday start dates: 29Aug, 19Sep, 10Oct , 31Oct , 21Nov , 12Dec, 9Jan09, 30Jan09, 20Feb09, 27Feb09
Fri - 6:30p-9:30p, Sat & Sun 8:30a-6:30p
Future Dates for JSY Teacher Training Programs
Teaching Advance Pranayama Techniques - 3-6July - $400 (Thurs-Sun - Register Now!)
200 hour- Yoga Teacher Training - Register Now!
(Fri-Sunday - 9 weekends, the last date is a tent date if one other weekend needs to be cancelled)
Friday start dates: 29Aug, 19Sep, 10Oct , 31Oct , 21Nov , 12Dec, 9Jan09, 30Jan09, 20Feb09, 27Feb09
Advanced Anatomy & Therapeutic Yoga - - $400 (Thu-Sun, - - Register Now!)
New date for Nov 2008 coming soon!!
Yoganand's bio: Yoganand Michael Carroll has been recognized as a Master-Level teacher in the Kripalu Yoga tradition. Through many years of intensive study and practice of the Kripalu approach to yoga, Yoganand has gained a profound ability to distil and interpret esoteric yoga texts and techniques. After studying with Kripalu Yoga masters in India and America, Yoganand taught at Kripalu Center for more than 15 years before founding Radiant Well-being Yoga Center in North Augusta, South Carolina, where he leads Pranakriya Yoga 200 hour Basic and 500 Hour professional Level Yoga Teacher Training and a variety of other programs. Yoganand is registered with the National Yoga Alliance as an E-RYT500 level teacher.
For More information, please send me an EMail including your name and phone #. Thanks for your interest!!