Prana Yoga and Healing Center of Sarasota

Why become a registered yoga teacher?

Yoga is the fastest growing, personal practice for health and fitness today. 
Apply the ancient wisdom of yoga to today’s practice and find greater health, happiness, and fulfillment that you can share with others.  Being a yoga teacher is truly meaningful; your work will impact on many other lives!

Teacher Training

Prana Yoga Center is pleased to present its 200 hour yoga teacher training for 2010.   The program will provide potential yoga teachers with an alignment-based background in traditional practice that additionally focuses on the therapeutic application of yogic principles.  

The program’s facilitator is Regina DeWitt Halpin, a Yoga Alliance registered instructor, with eleven years experience in teaching and founder of Prana Yoga Center, in Sarasota, Florida.  Additionally, Regina has thirty years of experience in holistic nursing, including twenty years specializing in open heart surgery.

The faculty includes RYT yoga teachers who each maintain professional degrees in chiropractic, nursing, nutrition and holistic health.  This unique collaboration of teachers offers not only traditional yoga education but also expertise in applying alignment principles which also can be used to address various injuries and chronic conditions. This program is for aspiring yoga teachers and for all health care professionals to help educate and support their clients, while adding to their own modalities.

The program begins the weekend of March 26-28, 2010, held monthly through December 10-13, 2010.  The curriculum meets Yoga Alliance standards (certificate pending).  It also provides the student of yoga the opportunity to deepen his or her practice, even if not choosing to teach. The program consists of 175 hrs of classroom time with an additional 25 hours of supervised observation and assisting of classes taught by program faculty.  Attendance is required weekly in yoga classes by our faculty or an approved teacher.  Homework will include keeping a daily practice journal and required reading.


 

We are now offering a Kids Yoga Class for ages 6 - 11! Join us on Mondays from 4 - 5 pm.

Parents, bring your kids and stay for an adult class that will occur at the same time.  Taught by Tylar Smith and Gillian Whatmore.

6 week series for $90 for both parent & child.  $100 for 2 children + parent.  Additional children $10 drop in class fee.

6 week series for child only $55

“Children derive enormous benefits from yoga. Physically, it enhances their strength, coordination, and body awareness. In addition, their concentration and sense of calmness improves.” –Yoga Journal

Christmas Tree Pose

Chronic back pain is difficult to treat and causes loads of misery. But something as simple as twice-weekly yoga appears to relieve pain and improve mood in people with the condition.

The study, published in this month's issue of the journal Spine, was a three-year, $400,000 research project funded by National Institutes of Health. Researchers assigned 90 people with chronic low back pain to a yoga group or a control group that received standard medical care.

Those in the yoga group participated in 24 weeks of biweekly yoga classes designed for people with chronic lower-back pain. Six months after the study ended, those in the yoga group reported significantly more improvements in pain and functionality compared with subjects in the other group. In addition, depression was much lower in the yoga subjects. The use of pain medication was reduced, but that reduction was similar in both groups.

"The yoga group had less pain, less functional disability and less depression compared with the control group," Kimberly Williams, the lead investigator, from West Virginia University, said in a news release. "Proponents of yoga have long described its benefits in reducing back pain. But not everyone was convinced. This is a much bigger, much more rigorous evaluation than had been done before."

The classes were taught by an instructor certified in Iyengar yoga, a type that emphasizes posture