Are you considering Yoga Therapy as a career?
Would you like to learn new tools, skills and paradigms, and integrate Therapeutic Yoga Principles into your teaching and personal practice?
Offered over 3 ten-day modules: July 14 – 23, 2017 & November 3-12, 2017 & April 13-22, 2018
Rooted in authentic yoga and informed by western medicine, this 300-hour advanced teacher training is a credential in itself, and counts fully toward your professional level yoga therapist certification through the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT). This program is personalized to help you develop deep expertise in the populations you wish to serve. Group training is enhanced through a mentored practicum and a personal healing project that provide one-on-one opportunities to explore your interests under expert guidance.
Designed to deepen and expand your knowledge of and skill in:
- Yoga’s origins and philosophy
- How and why yoga heals and supports optimum health
- Ayurvedic basics, healing as personal evolution, and restoratives for modern living
- Integration of Ayurvedic, energetic and western anatomy
- Alignment and movement for efficient body use and health
- Respectful hands-on guidance, body reading, and movement analysis skills
- Prevention of common yoga injuries
- Designing private sessions and group yoga classes for special populations
- Specialized teaching strategies and skills
- Professional issues such as when to refer, liability and insurance and confidentiality
Additional certificates embedded in the 300-hour coursework are:
- Yoga for Back Care
- Yoga for Vibrant Aging
- Therapeutic Yoga Principles and Practices for Group Classes
Tuition
Extra Early Registration per module tuition is: $1,175, if $500 deposit is received with your application by April 14, 2017. The balance of $675 must be paid in full by that module’s start date. Total tuition for the Foundation program at this rate is $3,525.
Early Registration per module tuition is: $1,300, if $500 deposit is received with your application by May 12, 2017. The balance of $800 must be paid in full by start date. Total tuition for the Foundation program at this rate is $3,900.
Regular Registration per module tuition is: $1,425, if $500 deposit is received with your application. The balance of $925 must be paid in full by that module’s start date. Total tuition for the Foundation program at this rate is $4,275.
Payment plans are available, click here. Your deposit reserves your spot.
Tuition Overview
Tuition is paid one module at a time.
The 300-hour Foundation training has three modules. Foundation training graduates are eligible to continue onto the Advanced Training and complete the Professional Yoga Therapist Certification, making them eligible to register as a C-IAYT.
You are not enrolled, or ensured a place in the program, until we receive your $500 nonrefundable deposit and you agree to a method of payment for the tuition balance. When we receive your deposit determines the amount of your tuition.
You must either pay the remaining balance in full prior to each module’s start date or by committing to a 3-month payment plan.
Monthly payment plans are available for Extra Early, Early and Regular Registrations. The payment schedule is detailed on the following page. All payment plans include an additional, very nominal service fee.
If you’d like to more fully orient yourself to the point of view of health and healing this program offers, please begin reading Radical Healing: Integrating the World’s Great Therapeutic Traditions to Create a New Transformative Medicine, by Rudolph Ballentine, M.D. (ideally the Second Edition.) We recommend beginning with the introduction, taking your time, and exploring some of his suggestions as you see fit in your life and personal practice.
