teacher training

Kusala Yoga Center will be offering it's first annual teacher training beginning on Thursday July 1 and ending on Sunday August 29, 2010.
The classes will be held every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evening evening from 6-10pm and Sundays from 12-8pm.

The training will include:

  • Study of the Asanas including standing and seated poses, back and forward bends, inversions, twists and arm balances and how to assist and adjust in the poses
  • Buddhist philosophy, scripture and ethical training
  • Vipassana (mindfulness) and Metta meditation
  • Practice teaching
  • Pranyama
  • Sanskrit language immersion
  • Anatomy and physiology

Upon successful completion of the course students will be certified yoga teachers. It is a unique course designed to give students the confidence to lead challenging Vinyasa yoga classes infused with joyful exploration, music, Buddhist wisdom, Metta and ethical training.

The course will be led by highly trained teachers, Melissa McKay and Mélanie Chevarie

RYS 200 Registered Yoga School
This course is certified by Yoga Alliance.

Tuition:

$2,500

Tuition includes unlimited yoga classes at Kusala from the start of the training, July 1 to 3 months after the training ends November 30.

Download our registration form.

Please contact studio for scholarship and payment arrangement information.


Required Reading:

Yoga Anatomy by Leslie Kaminoff

Yoga the Path to Holistic Health by B.K.S. Iyengar

30 Essential Yoga Poses: For Beginning Students and Their Teachers by P.T. Judith Hanson Lasater Ph.D.

Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante Henepola Gunaratana

The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya by Bhikkhu Bodhi

The Yoga Practice Guide, Dynamic Sequencing for Home Practice and Teachers by Bruce Bowditch

Recommended Reading:

In This Very Life by Sayadaw U Pandita

Light On Yoga by B.K.S. Iyengar

Teacher Training