cYs Yoga Practitioner Teaching & Therapy Training Programme
The cYs Yoga Teacher and Yoga Therapy Practitioner Training Programme offers BWY accredited Professional Yoga Teaching and Therapy Training through over 500 contact hours over three years of non-residential weekend workshops.
Offering an in-depth Yoga teacher training in Yoga Practice, Yoga Teaching, Yoga Psychology and Yoga Therapy, it will include both working with small Yoga groups and a special emphasis on one to one Yoga teaching and Yoga therapy for therapy for health recovery or lifestyle support or personal development.
To present a view of Yoga to help develop our practice and deepen our relationship with Yoga. This means respecting the vital source from which these teachings originated and their place in our age and culture.
Framework
The Yoga Teacher Training Programme reflects the Yoga teachings of TKV Desikachar and his father and teacher T Krishnamacharya as taught to Paul Harvey over 25 years through appreciating Yoga as a:
Learning or healing practice for groups or individuals
Holistic Teaching received from T Krishnamacharya through TKV Desikachar
Reality Philosophy through Texts and Teachers
Lifestyle Psychology comparable to Western models
Complementary Therapy to support health and recovery from illness
Group
Each group will have up to 16 students.
Teachers
The Programme will be led by Paul Harvey with faculty assistants and specialist tutors supporting the Programme where necesary and appropriate.
A minimum of 460 contact hours within 640 course hours over three years:
Yoga Sadhana – Yoga Practice
Individual lessons for personal practice
Group workshops to develop self planning, planning for others and observational skills.
Building and working with basic, group class and personalised Learning or Healing Yoga practices.
Yoga Sutra – Yoga Psychology
A in-depth study of Chapters One and Two of the Yoga Sutra.
Roots of Yoga and Related Texts
Definition of Yoga according to root texts.
Approaches to and evolution of Yoga.
Overview of related texts
Asana – Yoga Postures
Definition according to Yoga texts.
Detailed study of Primary Asana.
Introduction to Intermediate Asana.
Overview of Advanced Asana.
Classification, sequence building, compensation and breathing.
Movement, stay, variation and modification.
Asana with sound, Mudra and Bandha.
Apprenticeship into the Art and theory of observation in practice.
Pranayama – Seated Yoga Breathing
Definition according to Yoga texts.
Detailed study of important techniques and theory of Prana and Nadi.
Preparation, classification, components and sequence building within Pranayama.
Dhyana – Yoga Meditation
Introduction into the various aspects of meditation within practice.
Basic techniques applied through Asana and Pranayama.
Refinement of practice through meditation.
Yoga Cikitsa – Yoga Therapeutics
The therapeutic possibilities of Yoga in working with problems or illness.
Study of Ayurveda and its therapeutic links with Yoga.
Viniyoga – Application of Yoga
The Teachings from T Krishnamacharya and TKV Desikachar.
Eastern and Western Teaching Methodology and the student teacher relationship.
Advantages and disadvantages of individual and group tuition.
Application of Yoga for individual and group situations.
Organisational and Ethical aspects of teaching.
Introduction to counselling skills.
Sanskrit and Nada – Yoga of Sound
Introducing the Romanised Sanskrit alphabet.
Understanding the important names in Asana and Pranayama.
Application of voice work and techniques for sound in practice.
Reciting the Yoga Sutra and Yoga teachings.
The Human System
Study of anatomy, physiology, pathology, pharmacology and kinesiology.
Svadhyaya – Home Study
Formal home study of a practical nature through reading, practice planning, theory questions and personal practice.
Completion of final year Yoga Sutra study project.
Completion of 80 hours external group and one to one teaching.
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cYs for Bristol Group Yoga Classes, Yoga Workshops and UK Yoga Teacher Training Yoganjali Yoga Centre, Princes Place, Bishopston, Bristol BS7 8NP. Phone: 07768 278 728 Email: info@yogastudies.org
cYs Yoga Practitioner Teaching & Therapy Training Programme
The cYs Yoga Teacher and Yoga Therapy Practitioner Training Programme offers BWY accredited Professional Yoga Teaching and Therapy Training through over 500 contact hours over three years of non-residential weekend workshops.
Offering an in-depth Yoga teacher training in Yoga Practice, Yoga Teaching, Yoga Psychology and Yoga Therapy, it will include both working with small Yoga groups and a special emphasis on one to one Yoga teaching and Yoga therapy for therapy for health recovery or lifestyle support or personal development.
Download the 2013-2015 Teacher Training details as a PDF file
Download the 2013-2015 Training application form as a PDF file
Upcoming Dates
A three year Professional Yoga Teaching and Yoga Therapy Training
Aims
To present a view of Yoga to help develop our practice and deepen our relationship with Yoga. This means respecting the vital source from which these teachings originated and their place in our age and culture.
Framework
The Yoga Teacher Training Programme reflects the Yoga teachings of TKV Desikachar and his father and teacher T Krishnamacharya as taught to Paul Harvey over 25 years through appreciating Yoga as a:
Group
Each group will have up to 16 students.
Teachers
The Programme will be led by Paul Harvey with faculty assistants and specialist tutors supporting the Programme where necesary and appropriate.
Venue and Dates
Yoganjali Yoga Teaching and Therapy Centre
2013-2015 Programme dates to be finalised.
Syllabus Topics & Content
A minimum of 460 contact hours within 640 course hours over three years:
Yoganjali Yoga Centre, Princes Place, Bishopston, Bristol BS7 8NP. Phone: 07768 278 728
Email: info@yogastudies.org