200-Hour Vinyasa Yoga Training level one

 JANUARY 28 - APRIL 24, 2011

Certified by YOGA ALLIANCE, our 200-hour Vinyasa Yoga Instructor Training offers participants an in-depth understanding of Yoga as it has evolved over the years and as it is being taught at Prana Yoga Center today. In its fourth year, our teacher training program presents one of the most thorough and comprehensive trainings around, graduating over 60 teachers.

Whether you strive to become a Yoga teacher or would like to deepen your own practice, we invite you to experience the life-changing effects of this ancient practice and immerse yourself in our non-dogmatic training in traditional Vinyasa Yoga.

Led by Prana Yoga founder Gerhard Gessner, E-RYT 500, and guest teachers including Ingrid Yang, E-RYT 500, Paul Grilley, Robert Birnberg, Rachel Krentzmann, and Hari Das Kaur our comprehensive program covers:

• intensive asana study 
• Yoga specific anatomy and physiology 
• principles of pranayama
• the Yoga Sutras and Yoga philosophy
• introduction to meditation
• the art of teaching Yoga, incl. hands-on adjustments and sequencing
• the business of Yoga 
• teaching private Yoga sessions  
• introduction to speciality Yoga (Prenatal, Yin Yoga, Hatha, Yoga Therapy)

INTERESTED?

• Come to a FREE TEACHER TRAINING OPEN HOUSE:

Cancer Yoga Therapy Training with Ingrid Yang, E-RYT 500

OCTOBER 15-17 & 29-31, 2010

We invite certified Yoga teachers to join us in learning how to design and teach a Yoga Therapy class to cancer patients and survivors in a safe and therapeutic environment.

Free info session in September. Please check back for date/time. 

In this two-weekend training you will learn:

• Yoga postures appropriate for survivors of all types of cancer and their therapeutic advantages, contraindications, and modifications;
• The science and physiology of cancer, its treatments and side effects, and how yoga can help to reduce pain, build muscle mass and bone, and foster a healthy lifestyle while undergoing chemotherapy, surgeries and/or radiation;
• Develop and lead classes compassionately and competently to improve balance, flexibility, and strength and to relieve stress, anxiety and pain that is often associated with cancer.

Hours: Friday 7-10pm; Saturday 10am-4pm; Sunday 12-4pm

Upon completion, participants will receive a certificate of completion that may be applied toward Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Units (CEUs): 35 total CEUs, including 30-contact CEUs.

Pre-requisite: 200-hour Teacher Training

Fee: $495; early bird: $450.  Sign up by September 15, 2010 & save!

Applicants must complete an application: Click here for PDF. Click here to sign up online: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/H9G3CKG, and submit it in person, via email or mail along with a deposit of $150 by October 1, 2010. Accepted applications will be notified via email.

Ingrid Yang, E-RYT, has been teaching yoga for the last 10 years. She recently moved from North Carolina where she founded and ran a yoga center in Durham, NC and regularly taught cancer therapy yoga classes. While living in Durham, Ingrid also worked as a clinical research associate in the lab of Dr. Kimberly Blackwell at Duke University Medical Center’s Morris Cancer Clinic. At Duke, she focused her research specifically on breast cancer and genetic and protein signatures demonstrated in chemotherapy treatment. Ingrid holds her teacher’s certification in Cancer Yoga Therapy from OM Yoga Center in New York City. Having worked closely with cancer patients and with extensive yoga experience, Ingrid is uniquely qualified to inform and inspire teachers to lead cancer patients though the healing process of Yoga.