Yoga Moves Teacher Training Course
The registration for the Yoga Moves Teacher Training 2013 will open in September 2012.
New course starts in January 2013
More info on our vision and background of this program
Program StructureThe 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.
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 2011 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 Anne Brown
Marlene Henny
Marlene Henny is gediplomeerd Iyengar/Vinyasa Yoga Docent sinds 2003. Na het volgen van Shiva rea’s workshops en de Prana Flow Teacher Training van Shiva Rea gegeven door Twee Merrigan is het de Vinyasa flow yoga die haar voorliefde heeft. Zij geeft al 9 jaar regelmatig les in Amsterdam en Utrecht, en maakt deel uit van de staf van de Yogadocenten opleiding van Yoga Moves in Utrecht.
Marlene is in staat om haar studenten op een natuurlijke manier een beter begrip bij te brengen van de flow van adem, beweging and mindfulness. Zij legt de nadruk op energetic alignment, het creëren van ruimte in het lichaam en het synchroniseren van beweging en adem, in Vinyasa flow yoga. Ze maakt ook gebruik van haar dans ervaringen door haar studenten voluit te laten bewegen op de golf van de adem. Ook heeft zij een nieuwe vorm van yoga practice geintroduceert in Nederland genaamd Coreflow die zij heeft ontwikkeld en waar zij zich meer in verdiept heeft na een Core strenght Vinyasa Yoga opleiding gevolgd te hebben.
Het creeren van een creative flow op het ritme van de ademhaling heeft haar voorkeur in haar lessen, en zij staat bekend om haar talent voor het maken van mooie series, waaraan iedereen kan meedoen. Marlene woont momenteel in Amsterdam maar geeft 's winters les in Goa, India, waar ze een aantal yoga retreats heeft georganiseerd en lesgegeven aan het Brahmani yoga center in Anjuna. Zij vindt het heerlijk om yogales te geven, contact te maken met haar studenten en hen te helpen de gratie, kracht en essentie van hun lichaam te ontdekken.
Claas Hille
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.
Dana Marshall
Dana Marshall werd in New York geboren, waar ze ook haar jeugd doorbracht. Ze verhuisde in 1989 naar Nederland. Ze behoort tot de tweede generatie van Shambhala-Boeddhisten en is als zodanig al dertig jaar lang een toegewijd meditatiebeoefenaar. In 2003 voltooide ze het 100 uur omvattende Niveau I van de opleiding tot Vinyasa Yoga-lerares. In 2004 voltooide ze Niveau II van deze opleiding bij Yoga Moves, dat 170 uur in beslag nam. In 2010 sloot ze met goed gevolg een Insight Yoga-lerarentraining van 60 uur af die onder leiding stond van Sarah Powers. Dana is beeldend kunstenaar en beoefent de beeldende kunst van het fotograferen even lang als het Shambhala-Boeddhisme. Raadpleeg voor meer informatie over Dana’s kunst en haar spirituele traditie de volgende websites:
www.dmarshall.nl
www.shambhala.nl
Shirley Woods
Shirley studies, practices and teaches Yoga in her studio Innerspace in Amsterdam. She was introduced to Astanga Yoga over ten years ago and now studies Vijnana Yoga (practicing from inside) with Orit Sen-Gupta. Orit introduced her to the completeness of practicing the yogic disciplines of sitting, pranayama, asana and study. For the past several years she has been a student of Georg Feuerstein. Moving towards effortless effort is a main theme in teaching and practice, both on and off the mat. It is a concept that appears frequently in the history and philosophy of Yoga. One of Shirley’s main goals is to inspire students to go further into the traditional texts on their own, and to apply this in their Yoga practice and daily life.
Liese van Dam
Liese is Ayurvedic Practitioner en Yoga docent. Liese begon met het beoefenen van yoga in Londen, in 1997. Ze was gelijk geïnspireerd door de beoefening en heeft sindsdien de Sivananda Yoga docenten opleiding met succes afgerond. Dit was een intensieve ervaring met focus op alle aspecten van yoga inclusief meditatie, mantrazingen, filosofie en uiteraard asana's en pranayama. Liese heeft vele jaren in de internationale Sivananda organisatie lesgegeven. Vervolgens heeft ze vanaf 1996 opleidingen gevolgd bij Birthlight (UK) en heeft de opleidingen tot zwangerschaps en postnatale yogadocent afgerond. Na verdieping in de Ayurveda is ze afgestudeerd als Ayurvedic Practitioner aan de Academy of Ayurvedic Studies in Amsterdam. Yoga en Ayurveda zijn twee zijden van dezelfde munt en het beoefenen van beide disciplines naast elkaar versterkt elkaar en zorgt voor meer verdieping. Beide disciplines geven gemakkelijk te volgen technieken. Liese kijkt voortdurend naar de link tussen Yoga en Ayurveda en naar hoe deze twee tradities samen gezondheid en welzijn het beste kunnen ondersteunen. Liese geeft les in traditionele hatha yoga, zwangerschapsyoga, postnatale yoga en geeft ayurvedische behandelingen en consulten. Verder is Liese als docent Ayurvedische voedingsleer verbonden aan de Academy of Ayurvedic Studies en geeft ze workshops op het gebied van Yoga en Ayurveda.
Liese is gespecialiseerd in voedingsleer en gezondheid voor vrouwen waarbij ze educatie aanbiedt tijdens zwangerschap en na bevalling.
Ancient wisdom made practical for you. www.shantiyoga.nl
Ted Willemsen
Ted Willemsen has been working as a fysiotherapist in his own practice in Amsterdam since 1981. He is specialised in manualtherapy and podology and mainly works with dans and sports injuries. Together with his collegue's, he provides fysiotherapy for the National ballet, Dutch Dance Theater, International Dance Theater and other smaller organizations. Since 1989 he is teaching anatomy and injury prevention in many dance schools in Holland.
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