Yoga with Heart Advanced Curriculum Teacher Training Begins September, 2017 The Yoga with Heart 500 hour Teacher Training is a holistic program designed to equip yoga teachers with all the progressive skills and inspiration they will need to help guide their students along the path of selfhealing towards their highest good. The 300 hour advanced curriculum program is a dynamic continuation of the 200 hour foundational training. Anyone who has completed a 200 hour training (of any discipline) is eligible. We will be exploring deeper aspects of the many facets of yoga and where it is taking us. Students will develop the skills to compassionately guide others on many different levels. In the last forty years hatha yoga has been accepted as a therapeutic science all over the world and many scientific studies have been conducted in this field. Today we teach yoga to people because it is very necessary. Man has become sick and medical science is not able to meet the challenge. Hatha yoga, however, has been helping everybody. therefore, we do not want to discourage this aspect, but at the same time we should not forget what hatha yoga really stands for. Behind every sick man there is a spiritual man. Behind a diabetic there is a yogi. Behind a man suffering from depression there is an aspirant. When a patient comes for help, teach him yoga and make him better. Treat his sickness, but do not stop there. Take him further into the spiritual domain of life. This is the mistake that most yoga teachers make in the West. They just take a patient with arthritis, rheumatism or insomnia, teach him a few exercises and that is it. Hatha yoga has not been used to treat the total personality. This is why teachers are not able to raise the level of their pupils. Just to improve the physical health is not enough. The mental health must also improve, the nature must change. the personality must change, the psychological and the psychic framework also has to change. You should not merely feel freedom from disease, but freedom from bondage and from the vagaries of the mind. Now, the time has come when teachers in every part of the world must understand and transmit the true spirit of hatha yoga." - Swami Muktibodhananda "Hatha Yoga Pradipika" 1
Here are some examples of the topics we will be studying: Focused study of one key asana at a time variations to make it milder or deeper How to progress gradually towards the more advanced asanas Ayurvedic components of Asana work Sharpening skills of observation, assisting and adjustment Deepening understanding, practice & teaching of Pranayama Practices for Psycic development Opportunity for independent study and project presentation Topical analysis and discussion of the philosophy of yoga Anatomy and therapeutics for assisting with specific health challenges Application of Ayurveda to help balance one s lifestyle Yoga for various stages of life Kriyas Yoga nidra and meditation Devotion in motion - adding the heart-felt ingredients Sanskrit pronunciation and mantra chanting Refinement of restorative yoga Safe assists and adjustments Exploring Bhakti 2
Format of the Training: The 300 hour advanced curriculum series will consist of 14, 15-hour weekends and a 75 hour (9-day) intensive which will be scheduled during the summer. Depending on the preference of the enrolled students, an alternative to the 9-day intensive would be to instead schedule three additional 3 day weekends. Out of the 14 weekends, at least two of these will be full weekend workshops taught by nationally or internationally known guest teachers. The other 12 will consist of: Saturdays: 9:00-11 Morning asana class. Each class is focused on one type of asana and one of the Yoga Sutras to practice establishing one of the Yamas or Niyamas or some other yogic principle in our hearts and minds. 11-12:30 Study of therapeutic applications of yoga, for conditions such as: scoliosis, sciatica, knee pain, cancer, back pain, shoulder pain, etc 12:30 Pot luck veggie lunch and Vedic story time 2-5 A three hour special topic module taught by either guest teachers or Gopi. 5:30-8 Evening program of Kirtan (devotional chanting), philosophy class, and vegetarian feast (provided). Sundays 9:00-11:30 Deep work in the technique of asana moving towards a specific and more advanced variation of a target pose. Development of Pranayama, psychic development and meditation. 11:30-12:30 - philosophy of yoga 12:30 Pot luck veggie lunch and story time 2:00-4:00 Practice teaching and group work to sharpen teaching skills. Exact dates for this training to be announced
Payment options: $3,590 if paid in full by early bird date August 1, 2017 Pay $3,795 in full on September 23rd, 2017. Pay 1/2 up front ($1,950) and 4 more payments of $488 throughout the year. Pay monthly $250 for 12 months plus one payment of $1,450 at the time of 9 day summer intensive. Unless you choose the early bird option, please send $200.00 deposit by September 1 to hold your space in this training. This will be subtracted from your total fee Regarding absence from class, any missed hours must be made up in one of two ways: Additional weekend workshops will be scheduled at Westside Yoga which will serve as alternative qualifying hours. Up to 45 missed hours of classes may be picked up the following year without extra charge -(provided the student has already paid full tuition). Certificate of completion will be pending until all hours are finished. Students are responsible for purchasing their own books. (booklist available upon request). Yoga props are provided although you may bring your own if you prefer. Thank you for considering making this festival of yoga of the heart part of your life at this time! Please feel free to call me or meet with me to talk personally. Love, Gopi Send checks to: Gopi Sandal 1204 N. 200 Rd. Baldwin KS 66006 4
Why dive more deeply into teaching yoga? Why do we teach yoga, anyway? We want to deepen our own practice. We want to open our hearts to others. We want people to know how good life can get! By now the world is open to understanding how yoga can heal us physically, emotionally, mentally, and psychically. We can also help them understand how It teaches us to accept ourselves as we are and to cultivate gratitude to the Nth degree. By adding the element of Bhakti to this already amazing practice, we are brought to a whole new level of spirituality. It creates a mystical expansion of consciousness that enlivens the essential self and slakes the soul s thirst. It can take you as far into Love as you re willing to go. Now that s definitely worth looking into!
About the instructor and school: Gopi Sandal has been practicing yoga for forty years and teaching for over twenty five years. She has studied the technique of B.K.S Iyengar as well as other eclectic styles of hatha-yoga. Gopi spent ten years studying and practicing Bhakti Yoga, the yoga of devotion, in the ashram of A.C. Bhakivedanta Swami Prabhupada in London and in India and continues to incorporate this practice into her lifestyle and teaching. Gopi is an experienced, registered yoga instructor with Yoga Alliance at the 500 hour level. (E-RYT 500). Yoga with Heart Teacher Training Began in 2009. It is a registered Yoga Alliance School for both 200 hr and 300 hr continuing training. Graduates of both these programs are eligible to be registered with Yoga Alliance at the 500 hr level. Yoga with Heart Teacher Training classes are held at the beautiful, Westside Yoga in Lawrence KS.