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 YogaFit's
500-Hour Teacher Training Program**
YogaFit is pleased to announce that we will be introducing
our 500-hour Teacher Training Program in 2008 and it will consist
of the following coursework:
• YOGAFIT Tx: Yoga Therapy – Postural
Assessment and Muscle Balance (prerequisite: Anatomy & Alignment)
• YOGAFIT Rx (Coming in 2009!): Supported
Restoration and Relaxation for Health (prerequisite: Anatomy & Alignment)
• 3-Week Intensives: Offered
in Hood River, Oregon: July 22- August 12, 2009.
Also, this will be held in Mysore, India, November 22-December 13, 2008 (prerequisites: RYT 200 & Level 4 Integration).
To be eligible to participate in this program, you need to have completed a Yoga Alliance-approved RYT 200 program. Depending on what year you completed your RYT program, and through what school, you will be required to take some additional coursework to complete the program:
Graduates of YF RYT 200 (prior to 12/31/06):
- YogaFit Level 5
- Anatomy & Alignment (prereq. before YOGAFITx)
- Level 4 Integration (prereq. before 3-week intensive to solidify Sanskrit and philosophical foundation)
Graduates of YF RYT 200 (after to 1/1//07):
- Anatomy & Alignment Integration (prereq before YOGAFITx)
- Level 4 Integration (prereq before 3-week intensiveto solidify Sanskrit and philosophical foundation)
Graduates of other RYT 200 program:
- YogaFit Level 1 - Foundational Elements of YF Vinyasa Style (prereq before any other YF Trainings)
- Anatomy & Alignment (prereq before YOGAFITx)
- Level 4 (prereq before 3-week intensive to solidify Sanskrit and philosophical foundation)
Training Locations
The following three 4-day trainings will be offered at YogaFit's MindBody Fitness Conferences in several locations throughout the US:
- YOGAFIT Tx --Postural Assessment and Muscle Balance
- YOGAFIT Rx --Supported Restoration and Relaxation for Health
- Level 4 Integration Training
- Anatomy & Alignment (2-Day Training offered at conferences and other host locations)
Master Trainers
Our 3-Week Intensives will be taught by RYT 500 and ERYT 500 YogaFit Master Trainers along with Sri Jayakumar Swamysree from the University of Mysore, India:
Sri Jayakumar holds the following degrees in yoga and physical education: B.Sc., M.P.Ed. (Mysore), D.Y.Ed.(Lonavala), Y.T.H.P.(Bangalore). Sri Jayakumar represented India (ICCR) and worked for the embassy of India, Moscow, Russia for four years. Presently he also teaches yoga in the University of Mysore, and is the head of the department of Yoga, Meditation, and Spirituality. He has been practicing yoga for 28 years and will teach theory, philosophy, mantra, Sanskrit, meditation, and pranayama for YogaFit's 500 hour program in 2009.
Materials Required:
- The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, by Sri Swami Satchidananda
- The Living Gita, by Sri Swami Satchidananda
- The Language of Yoga, by Nicolai Bachman
- Anatomy & Asana: Preventing Yoga Injuries, by Susi Hately Aldous
- The Key Muscles of Hatha Yoga, by Ray Long, MD, FRCSC
- Yoga as Medicine, Timothy McCall, MD
- Pathways to Joy, Master Vivekananda
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