Yoga School Program Information.

Yandara Yoga Teacher Training emphasizes safe, effective, and inspiring teaching methods which prepare you to be a confident and competent yoga instructor. We offer excellent training in teaching skills, planning a class, communication skills, creating confidence, and posture corrections. The program also offers instruction and experience in how to live the yogic lifestyle -- enhancing personal health and well being through yoga.

You will learn modifications, and adjustments in the postures, as well as aspects of other yoga styles. This will enable you to formulate your own personal teaching style. We offer a non-denominational, ecumenical style of yoga instruction, comprised of the strengths of different yoga lineages. You will also receive guidance on how to establish your profession as a yoga teacher.

1. Practice of and learning how to teach a basic beginning yoga class, including:

• Asanas taught with precision and  alignment.
• Flow yoga, Vinyasa, Sun Salutation.
• Pranayama (includes techniques from the Desikachar method): Abdominal Breathing, Full yogic breath, Ujjayi, Alternate Nostril.
• Various Meditation methods; mindfulness, walking meditation, use of a mantra.

2. Yogic theory and philosophy, including:

• The Four Paths of Yoga.
• The Yoga Sutras, including Yamas and Niyamas.

3. Anatomy and Physiology as they relate to yoga practice.

4.  Satya: Communication Skills  and Meditation in Nature.

We encourage you to contact us by phone so that we can answer any questions.

Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness, Donn Farhi.
Anatomy and Asana: Preventing Yoga Injuries, by Susi Hately Aldous.

All of these comprehensive books are an excellent resource for any serious yoga teacher. We will not be covering all the material presented in these texts. Prior to arriving at the training you will be required to do 20 hours of independent study of the chapters that we outline.( Read all chapters of  Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness, Donn Farhi.)

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Graduates of Yandara Yoga Teacher Training will be eligible for Yoga Alliance 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Certification.For more information about this, click here.