Altamonte Springs Yoga

Dear Friend,

This program is a 200 hour Vinyasa Teacher Training. As such it will be a mentally, physically and emotionally challenging process designed to enable serious students to become inspired teachers. You will practice asana, meditation, and pranayama to the point of proficiency and beyond. Your knowledge of Yoga theory will deepen to the point that it will become an aspect of the fabric of your life and of everything you do and say as a yoga teacher.

You will learn to teach classes that combine a consistent therapeutic vision with the inspired spontaneity that is the hallmark of Vinyasa Yoga. You will develop a thorough understanding of the elements of the therapeutic principles of Yoga and be able to design a class or teach a pose in such a manner that your students will immediately embody those principles.

Namaste and I look forward to the start of this journey with you,
 Rolf

About Rolf Gates

Rolf Gates, author of the acclaimed book on yogic philosophy Meditations from the Mat: Daily Reflections on the Path of Yoga conducts Vinyasa Intensives and 200/500hr Teacher Trainings throughout the US and abroad. Rolf and his work have been featured in numerous magazines to include Yoga Journal, Natural Health and People Magazine. A frequent conference presenter, this year he was also the Keynote Speaker at the 10th Annual Midwest Yoga Conference, IL. Rolf is also honored to be a contributor to The Good Men Project: Real Stories from the Front Lines of Modern Manhood* and a co-founder of the annual Yoga + Recovery Summit Conference at Esalen Institute, Big Sur CA. Rolf can also be found as one of the newest members of Crazy Sexy Wellness' Blog Posse: www.crazysexywellness.com and as a featured expert in the newly released: Add More-Ing:  A Hip Guide to Happiness with Gabrielle Bernstein. 

Rolf also works weekly one on one with clients in his Yoga Life Coaching program. A former social worker and US Airborne Ranger who has practiced meditation for the last twenty years, Rolf brings his eclectic background to his practice and his teachings. For further information visit his website at:  WWW.ROLFGATES.COM

*All proceeds from this project support groups working with men and boys at risk.  Check out www.goodmenbook.org

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Schedule Information (View Program + ALTAMONTE SPRINGS PDF)

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SCHEDULE: September 12^th-June 2013

This training meets 8 weekends (1/month).  

Friday evening-Sunday afternoon

THE TRAINING: What will I learn?

How to Design and Lead a Vinyasa Yoga Class

You will gain a thorough understanding of the principals which when applied create a class for all ages and body types. This will include a specific sequence and more importantly the method for adapting that sequence to the infinity of opportunities implied by the word Yoga. This method enables what you teach to grow as you and your students do.

Being the Change

Time on the Mat and on the Cushion           

One of the joys of being a teacher is that your Yoga practice becomes part of your job description. During this training you will begin each day with asana, meditation, and pranayama instruction and practice. You will be taught the therapeutic principles that will allow you to practice safely with intensity. You will be able to sit comfortably for a 45 minute meditation session during which you will experience what it means to rest in stillness. You will be proficient in breathing techniques that awaken and build heat, preparing the mindbody for asana, and breathing techniques that are cooling and soothing preparing the mindbody for meditation. On your mat the implementation of therapeutic principles will be dramatic. You will experience a vibrant aliveness from which there is no going back.

The Teacher Training Curriculum will include:

• Mastery of the basic techniques of Asana

• Mastery of the basic techniques of Meditation

• Mastery of the basic techniques Pranyama (Breathwork)

• The therapeutic alignment principles of Yoga

• Finding alignment within and without

• The art of sequencing a class flow

• The proper use of tempo in a class

• How to use your voice and language for impact

• Your class as a transformative space

• The art of themeing in your classes

• Teaching modifications for all class levels

• Teaching to beginners

• The art of hands-on assisting

• The anatomy and physiology of Yoga

• Nutrition as a support to practice

• Study of The Yoga Sutras

• Cultivation of the Eight Limb Path as a path   of action

• Integrating the three elements of spiritual practice into your life

• The role of the teacher

• The role of practice

• The art of sustaining change

• Moving from Soure

READING LIST:

Please approach this list by beginning with The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success and How Yoga Works

Bhagavad Gita: New Translation, (trans. Stephen Mitchell)

The Yoga-Sutra of Patañjali: A New Translation with Commentary, Chip Hartranft

How Yoga Works, Geshe Michael Roach & Christie McNally

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, Deepak Chopra

Meditations from the Mat: Daily Reflections on the Path of Yoga, Rolf Gates

Mindfulness Yoga: The Awakened Union of Breath, Body and Mind, Frank Jude Boccio

Scientific Keys Volume I: The Key Muscles of Hatha Yoga, Ray Long, MD FRCSC

Recommended Reading List:

Loving Kindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness, Sharon Salzberg

The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle

The Law of Attraction, Esther and Jerry Hicks

The Way of the Peaceful Warrior, Dan Millman

200-Hour Program Tuition

Tuition for this foundational course includes the following:

• 8 weekend intensive training certification program Download program PDF

• 200hr Vinyasa Teacher Training Manual

• Meditations from the Mat: Daily Reflections on the Path of Yoga

• (New) Meditations from the Mat: Teachers Index

• This training is a Yoga Alliance Registered Program and enables graduates to register with YA as RYT-200 Trained Yoga Teachers

All Applications are handled by Gates Yoga:  Apply Now

More Information

Contact Mariam at Gates Yoga: 831-425-1402 or email: info@rolfgates.com

Rolf Gates Website