500-Hour Certification Program – Intermediate Hatha Yoga
Those who have completed the 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training are encouraged to continue their training, in order to improve their teaching skills and practice of the asanas as well as learn the Level II Intermediate format. Those who have completed a 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training will receive the 500 hour Certification by completing this additional 300 hours of training.
This training fulfills and surpasses the 500 hour Yoga Teacher Training standards of the Yoga Alliance. The training is open to all levels of yoga practitioners, who wish to deepen their practice and understanding of Hatha Yoga. The Yoga Teacher Training Certificate, with which you are able to register with the Yoga Alliance as a 500-RYT, will be issued at the end of the course.
THIS COMPREHENSIVE 300-HOUR TRAINING PROGRAM COVERS:
- The opportunity to improve your teaching skills, deepen your practice and expand your service to your students.
- Learn how to teach Intermediate Hatha Yoga classes without losing the essence and overall goal of yoga
- Intermediate asanas, variations and modifications are presented as well as intermediate pranayama and meditation practices.
- Explore ways to help students focus inward and experience the True Self.
- A mini-course of the classic text the Bhagavad Gita is included – expanding your grounding in the universal teachings of Yoga.
- Personal development and enriching your understanding of practicing and teaching Yoga.
- Understand how to develop and implement Yoga therapy techniques and how it can help most common health conditions such as high blood pressure, type II diabetes, arthritis and back pain.
- This is a wonderful opportunity to meet and spend time with other Yoga teachers, to share experiences and new ideas and to find creative solutions to problems encountered in teaching.
Training Details
Six-Month Program June – November, 2013
Two weekends per month – 2nd and 4th weekend
Weekend Schedule: Fridays – 6-9 pm, Saturdays and Sundays – 9 am-6 pm
Weeknight Schedule: Fridays – 6-9 pm
Requirements
Committed students of Yoga who are genuinely interested in expanding their knowledge and understanding of Yoga and have completed the Red Door/Red Sun Yoga 200-Hour Teacher Training certification program or an equivalent Yoga Alliance certified program.
Tuition
$3,700
$500 non-refundable deposit due by March 1, 2013 to hold your space.
If you have received your 200-Hour Pre-requisite from Red Door/Red Sun Yoga, there is a $200 discount.
Early Bird Discount – $100 if the full amount is paid by March 1, 2013
The full tuition must be paid before the first session or a payment plan can be arranged with a 5% service fee, which is granted on an individual basis. Tuition does not include the five required text books or yoga mat.
Payment Plan for Red Door/Red Sun Graduates – $3,500
$500 Deposit due by March 1 + $150 Service Fee
6 Payments of $500 due the first of each month during the training
Payment Plan for Others – $3,700
$500 Deposit due by March 1 + $150 Service Fee
6 Payments of $534 due the first of each month during the training
Required Textbooks
Hatha Yoga Illustrated, Martin Kirk and Brooke Boon, ISBN 0-73606203-3
Yoga Mind and Body, Sivananda Yoga Center, ISBN 978-0-7566-3674-6
The Key Poses of Yoga, Scientific Keys Volume 2, Ray Long, M.D., ISBN 978-1-60743-239-5
The Living Gita, Sri Swami Satchidananda, ISBN 978-0-932040-27-5
Yoga Nidra, Swami Satyananda Saraswati, ISBN 978-81-85787-12-1
I am a new person! I have a new focus in life and a new path that I am meant to be on and I owe both of you a great deal of gratitude for facilitating the knowledge and experiences you have and leading my life in a new direction. Namaste. Spring 2008 Graduate