Prana Yoga and Healing Center
941.928.2137
Teacher Training
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 many other lives!
Teacher training begins on March 23, 2012.
200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training:
Prana Yoga Center is pleased to present its 200 hour yoga teacher training. 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 23, 2012, held monthly through December 2012. 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.
Program curriculum:
A detailed presentation of hatha yoga asanas are taught with technical exploration into the fundamentals of postural alignment. Pranayama, meditation, teaching methodologies, sequencing and the art of manual adjustments are given detailed instruction. Anatomy and physiology, yoga history and philosophy, nutrition will be an important focus. The program also involves the study of basic Sanskrit and practice of chanting. Student teaching with evaluation will lead to open discussion and interaction.
Pre-requisites:
The program is geared toward students with a minimum of one year of consistent yoga practice. Students wanting to become yoga teachers upon completion of the program will be tested for their competency. The program will encourage health professionals such as nurses, massage therapists, physical therapists, and chiropractors to attend who may wish to apply the modalities of yoga to their therapies.
Instructors:
Regina DeWitt, E-RYT 200, the program's facilitator, is a certified yoga instructor. Regina additionally has thirty years experience as an holistic RN, twenty of those in Open Heart Surgical Nursing. Yoga is taught as a therapeutic modality combining medical education with principles of alignment based yoga.
Steven Weiss, MS, DC, RYT has over 30 years of experience as an holistic chiropractor, nutritionist, yoga student and teacher. For the past 17 years Dr. Weiss has been the resident chiropractor and nutritionist at teh Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in Rhinebeck, NY. His yoga training has been in various traditions with an extensive background in Anusara and Iyengar yoga, studying with teachers in Pune, India and throughout the United States.
Ed Dailey RN, E-500 RYT is an independent yoga teacher and educator with 15 years experience in the field of nursing and integrative medicine. He is a graduate of Urban Zen Integrative Therapist program and has completed certification as a registered nurse patient advocate. He spent eighteen months at Beth Israel Medical Center in NYC working on the oncology and surgical floors as a Yoga therapist.
Rev. Anthony Cowan, M.Div., L.M.T., C.P.H. has been practicing Yoga and studying the Vedas since 1977. After obtaining a B.A. in Philosophy and a Master's degree in Theology, he studied under Ayurvedic physician Dr. Vasant Lad and the founder of Pranic Healing and Arhatic Yoga Grandmaster Choa Kok Sui, specializing in esoteric healing and spiritual development.
Schedule:
Classes will be held for ten consecutive months, usually on the 4th weekend.
2012 dates are as follows:
March 23,24,25
April 27,28,29
May 25,26,27
June 29, 30, 1
July 27,28,29
Aug. 24.25,26
Sept. 38,29 30
Oct. 26,27,28
Nov.16,17,18
Dec. 7,8,9
Classes begin Friday, March 23, 2012 and conclude December 9, 2012.
Hours each month are:
Friday 5:30pm - 9:00pm
Saturday 9:00am - 6:00pm
Sunday 9:00am - 6:00pm
Reading List:
REQUIRED:
• Light on Yoga by B.K.S. Iyengar
• Yoga the Iyengar Way by Silva, Mira, & Shyam Mehta
• Moving Toward Stillness by Rodney Yee
• The Living Gita by Sri Swami Satchidananda
• The Yoga of Breath, Step by Step Guide to Pranayama by Richard Rosen
• The Key Muscles of Hatha Yoga by Ray Long MD FRCSC
• The Mirror of Yoga by Richard Freeman
Tuition:
• Program cost is $2600.
• Early bird payment: with 10% discount = $2360 if received by January 30, 2012.
• $500 deposit with application.
• Payment Plan:
$234 per month, beginning March 1 and through November 1.
Credit card plan available
Payment in full is required to receive certificate of completion.
Refund:
o No refunds after March 1, 2012.
o Prior to March 1, 2012 a full refund is available, minus $100 administration fee
Apply the ancient wisdom of yoga to today’s practice and find greater health, happiness and fulfillment that you can share with others.
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