FOUNDATION YOGA TEACHER TRAINING

Oct 2007 - June 2008 (1 intensive 5 day week & 9 weekends)

Our 200 hour Yoga Alliance Registered Course represents our heartfelt desire to offer a comprehensive and inspirational Foundation Teacher Training Course. This course is suitable for experienced yogis wishing to further their practice and develop teaching skills, as well as for practitioners that simply wish to deepen their level of understanding and practice of yoga.

Your training will be non-dogmatic, conducted in a supportive and nurturing group environment. Our course draws on the knowledge from a number of yoga traditions, including Iyengar, Ashtanga, Hatha and Vinyasa Yoga. This will establish a broad foundation and understanding of yoga's diversity and depth encompassing asana, restorative work, meditation, pranayama, applied anatomy, yoga philosophy, and developing and practicing teaching skills.

Students receive detailed practical training in how to teach yoga, alongside developing skills firmly rooted in the students own work and understanding of the practice. This ensures an integrated approach that develops compassion, creativity, personal integrity and safety, both as a practitioner and teacher. Trainees will gain a comprehensive understanding of how to observe, modify and safely adjust. Our main focus will be on developing a personal practice that supports, nurtures and sustains you, and how to develop your own teaching based on this understanding.

Focus is also given on how to sequence a class to suit your own personal style and the demands of your students. This multidisciplinary approach, gives our teacher trainees the strong foundation required to teach a diverse culture and ability of students we have in Ireland.

We invite you to join us on this course which promises to be an exciting exploration of self-knowledge, the practice and teaching of yoga, and perhaps a cue to opening up to something murmuring in your heart. Our teachers from around the globe have extensive experience in their fields and a sincere desire to provide a supportive, inspirational, and fully comprehensive course, that will allow you to develop your yoga practice and teaching skills in accordance with your highest capacity. The course features:

• How to practice and teach a broad range of asana that establish an essential foundation for a centred and sustainable yoga practice.
• Teaching methodology, principles of instruction through demonstration, observation, assisting, modifying and safely adjusting.
• How to create different sequences that nourish yet challenge you and your students and how to sequence classes for different emphasis whilst maintaining the integrity of a yoga practice.
• How to meditate, and how to practice simple but powerful pranayama techniques.
• Anatomy, and the intrinsic structure of the body, and how this is applied to yoga.
• To develop and refine skills to recognize imbalances in students and how to address these.
• The subtle pranic body, - the very life-force that sustains us, including the bandhas, the chakras and the nadis.
• The broader context of Yoga philosophy and its foundations and developments, and how it may apply to your practice and inspire your teaching.
• An insight and understanding of ethical guidelines of Yoga, and how these may inspire your practice, your teaching and your students!

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Throughout the duration of the training, in addition to full participation on all of the weekends, each student will be required to observe and if appropriate, assist in yoga classes, as well as demonstrating continuous attendance at local classes. Each student will have to demonstrate at least two years of continuous practice of yoga in order to be eligible for the course, ensuring a proficient standard and level of teaching.

The elbowroom has been successfully running teacher training courses since the beginning of 2005. We have great staff, a wonderful studio and a facility to allow our graduates to continue their education through ongoing workshops, seminars and classes.

We do insist that each student has at least two years yoga practice and will require referees to acknowledge this practice. A non-refundable deposit of €500 is required to secure your place. The balance will be required by 15th Septembper 06.