Teacher Training

Why Yoga?

Yoga's popularity continues to rise as people seek out its benefits for body, mind and spirit. Hospitals, fitness centers, corporations and schools all offer yoga. The Stone Center's Yoga Alliance registered 200-hour Teacher Training course will provide you with the skills to meet the growing need for well-trained yoga professionals, while giving you the tools to enhance your own well-being and self-discovery.

Why Structural Yoga™?

Structural Yoga™ allows teachers to adapt yoga to individual needs and provide teachings that translate off the mat into daily life. Structural Yoga™ instructors are trained to teach people with a broad spectrum of needs, from those able to participate in traditional yoga classes, to those with movement restrictions, injuries, or health challenges, who require modifications and a very compassionate, healing approach.

Why The Stone Center?

The mission of the SCYH is to bring highly informed yoga, yoga therapy, stress reduction, and holistic health programming to people of all ages and needs, and to provide professional trainings for those wishing to share these healing practices with others. By learning to integrate the ancient wisdom of yoga and Ayurveda with contemporary teachings in anatomy, physiology, and stress management, participants gain the skills they need to give yoga classes and private sessions in a range of settings. The Director, Charlotte Chandler Stone (Hamsa), personally supervises each participant, providing ample opportunities for personal coaching and sharing from her extensive experience in class and private practice.

The Teacher Training Program

The SCYH 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training program is a unique opportunity to learn professional yoga instruction, while deepening your own yoga and meditation practice. The best teaching comes out of our own innermost journey. Your experiences and insights will become the cornerstone of your teaching ... and the techniques you learn will give you the skills to teach yoga classes and private sessions with competence and compassion.

The SCYH Teacher Training course consists of:

• 11 Sunday Intensives at the SCYH (approx. one Intensive per month)
• a minimum of 2 weekly classes with Structural Yoga™ teachers at the SCYH
• assisting, observing, learning verbal, visual and hands-on adjustments
• supervised student-teaching and practicum (teaching 4 classes and 2 private sessions is required for certification)
• workshops and electives
• monthly reading and home study assignments
• daily personal practice
• volunteer activity of your choice

Tuition

The cost is $3200, which includes a non-refundable $300 deposit (payment plan available); in addition, a few books will be required reading - these may be purchased at Amazon.com. Tuition includes all Intensives, unlimited yoga classes at the SCYH, one private session with the Director, supervised practice-teaching, and ongoing coaching.

Teachers from other traditions may audit the course at an adjusted cost.

Dates

The current teacher training began in October. Students wishing to participate in this training may be able to join at a later date; please call to discuss this with the Director.

Curriculum

Techniques: Asanas (yoga poses) in the Structural Yoga™ method, with training in adapting yoga postures for individual needs; pranayama (breathing techniques); kriyas (cleansing techniques); bhandas (energy locks); chanting (non-denominational); and meditation and guided imagery techniques

Special Themes: Back Care; Stress Reduction; Restorative Yoga; Chakras (energy centers)

Teaching Methodology: Observing; demonstrating; verbal, visual and hands-on adjustments; accommodations and modifications for special populations, sequencing; structuring classes and private sessions for various needs; use of props

Anatomy & Physiology: Anatomy & body mechanics; physiological systems; yogic energy anatomy

Philosophy, Ethics & Lifestyle: Patanjali's Yoga Sutras; Bhagavad Gita; ethics for yoga teachers; incorporating yoga into daily life

Sanskrit: Basic terms and pronunciation of key yoga poses and concepts

Home Study: Anatomy and physiology studies; journaling; reading and written assignments; personal daily yoga and meditation practice

Practicum: Supervised student-teaching; assisting; observing; attendance at approx. two Structural Yoga™ classes per week; attendance at all Sunday Intensives; teaching 4 classes and 2 private sessions is required for certification

Volunteering: Volunteer community service

Electives: Workshops, programs and classes in the trainee's areas of interest; study of different yoga styles, prenatal yoga, children's yoga, yoga bodywork, yoga therapy, meditation, yoga philosophy, guided imagery, energy work, and other topics related to yoga, yoga therapy, yogic lifestyle, and holistic living

Required textbooks

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