Yoga Moves Teacher Training Course
Yoga Moves
Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training
Yoga Moves Teacher Training
This year we will start the course in January 2011.
More info on our vision and background of this program
Program Structure
The entire program will take approximately 12 months to complete; it is spread across weekends with the summer off. We meet approximately one weekend a month.
Here are the dates for 2011
We start with a focus on your personal practice - teaching yoga comes our of your own personal experience! Then we build teaching elements into the course, by the end of the course we focus primarily on all aspects of teaching skills (voice, demonstrating, adjustments, sequencing, pacing, connecting to the student, etc).
We integrate the courses on anatomy, philosophy, lifestyle, ethics, safety across the entire course.
You will also work with a small group of colleges to practice teaching, find a volunteer placement to teach a class and will go for one long weekend on a working retreat with us!
The Curriculum
Below are the topics we will cover plus more
Practice - Hatha
The study of the various asanas (postures), range of motion and movement that is possible for the physical body. Particular attention is paid to alignment, balance and the creation and maintenance of space & awareness.
Teaching Methods
The study of teaching skills. Lanugage of the body, instructing, visual demonstration, verbal cueing, voice work, seeing bodies and assisting students to find their potential. How to work safely, how to break down movements for mulit level classes, sequencing, teaching breath and principles of yoga.
Principles of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga
You will explore the full primary series from Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga – the asansa, the tempo, heat, flow, and intention that is needed to bring this powerful practice over to others in a balanced and safe way.
Teaching Vinyasa Yoga
Vinyasa Flow is a creative and grounded approach to building the experience of total yoga. It incorporates the essentials of alignment; breath coordinated movement, dristi, bandhas and multi-level sequencing will be explored as a way to integrate an effective, creative and dynamic teaching methods based upon vinyasa karma (stages of evolution) and pose /counter-pose.
Yoga Philosophy
Without grounding in yoga philosophy, yoga may as well be another sport or another addiction we add to our list of attachments! Essential basic concepts will be introduced into: the history, development and application of classical Indian philosophical thought for the yoga student.
Anatomy & Physiology & Yogic Anatomy
This part of the course is designed to introduce the basic principles of the physiology of the human body with consideration to specific physiological mechanisms activated or affected by yoga practices.
Home Base – Teacher Training
This aspect of our program offers you some guidance and feedback possibilities as well as the evaluation aspects needed to qualify for the teacher’s certificate. You will choose for one teacher as your mentor/guide for whom you will ask do your estage/ apprenticeship with. In addition, you will meet with a small group of students to learn, work and practice together.
Prerequisites
It is possible and encouraged to also attend the program without intent to become an instructor as a way of self-exploration. Students tell us it is demanding, but life changing; hard work but nice to do!
- Minimum of+/- 2 years of committed personal practice or
- Attend Going Deeper Course in the fall of 2010 and 1+ year personal practice before start of teachers course.
- Approval from one of our faculty teachers or your teacher
- Commitment to continuing practice and spiritual growth
- We recognize that some of the reading and study assignments are challenging (also much about yoga is written in English)
How it will look
Every friday we meet you will have either an anatomy or a philosophy workshop. You will be asked to read or prepare for these lectures in advance in order to digest and understand the material.
Saturdays we start for the first 4-5 months at 9:00 where you will join the beginners class in the studio and then after class we will talk about what we did and how you can work with beginners. After the initial months we will have start at 10:00 instead of 9:00.
We usually work quite systematically every morning on your flow and breathing & yoga practice and on how to see and work with students.
After lunch we usually have a time of integration or discussion on a specific topic.
In the late afternoon we work on alignment and building up the practices some more, often with alignment based work.
You will occasionally be asked to read and make assignments - sometimes presenting them to the group.
As we continue in the program we will explore more aspects of responsible teaching and offer opportunities for you to practice and be evaluated.
We ask you also attend classes with the teachers from the teacher training program on a regular basis and eventually come observe and assist in classes.
Evaluation
Evaluation is judged on overall participation, attendance, homework, quizes and exams and a final dvd or you teaching a group.
Some people choose to take this course with no intent on teaching, in these cases they may or may not choose to turn in reports or sit the exams.
Hilary Menting
Hilary Menting is the founder of Yoga Moves, which she opened in Utrecht in summer of 2001. A native Californian, Hilary has studied and practiced many forms of yoga, healing arts, massage & bodywork and dance since the early 1980's.
She has also been practicing yoga during these years and she holds a teacher certification in Iyengar Yoga & Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga and has studied with numerous unknown and well-known teachers. She teaches primarily Vinyasa Yoga - a fluid but precise, dynamic yet relaxed method that incorporates the breath as a focus of moving meditation. She has worked and studied in the field of communication, health, movement, and business for over 25 years and has a Masters Degree in Health Prevention Services from the University of California, Berkeley. She brings her love of movement, yoga and her interest in personal expression to all her teaching work.
Marlene Henny
Marlene Henny has been a certified Iyengar yoga teacher since 2003. She is currently teaching in Amsterdam and at Yoga Moves. In addition, she is a faculty member of the teacher-training program at Yoga Moves. Her teaching style is a combination of Vinyasa and Iyengar yoga. She teaches with a clear eye on body alignment and gives clear descriptions on how to work intelligently with yoga, but also incorporates the influence of her dance training where she lets students move the body through its entire range of motion on the wave of breath.
She lives in Amsterdam and in the past few years has spent her winters teaching in India/Goa where she has organized a number of yoga retreats. In the past, Marlene performed and taught dance in several professional studios in the Netherlands and Israel. Marlene enjoys teaching and connecting to her students and helping them to find their bodies, grace, power and essence.
Sumati Nair
Sumati Nair comes from South India and has been in the Netherlands for over 20years. She has a diploma as an Iyengar yoga teacher and teaches yoga in Leiden. Besides this she has degrees in Indian philosophy and teaches yoga philosophy at different yoga teacher training programmes in Amsterdam and at Yoga Moves in Utrecht. Yoga as a means to deepen ones knowledge of oneself is central to her way of working and yoga asanas are a very good starting point. An understanding of yoga philosophy, she believes, can generate a lasting love and enthusiasm for the 8 limbs (astanga) of yoga as a whole and so change the quality of ones life, making one energetic, calm and happy.
Claas Hille
Claas started to practice yoga in 1997. He was a slow starter. The first 4 years he enjoyed one class a week at an Iyengar school. Then he discovered Yoga Moves, the school of Hilary Menting. He gradually intensified his practice and in 2005 he followed the teacher-training program at Yoga Moves. By then yoga became a serious part of his life. He is now in the middle of the teacher-training program at the Iyengar Yoga Institute in Amsterdam. He enjoys teaching Iyengar yoga with some more playful ingredients.
Skadi van Paasschen
Skadi van Paasschen teaches yoga and pilates all over the world. With success she gives workshops in
English
Nederlands
