THE IMMERSION & TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAMS
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"The Teacher Training
changes your life It was a going back to Nothing and starting over and
being born again -- You can get Asana and Sanskrit in any training but
you can't get wisdom. I needed elders and these have been there to
guide me."
Kristine (class of 2005)
The World Yoga Center is a registered Teacher Training school with the
Yoga Alliance. The Immersions and Teacher Trainings are for both
aspiring yoga teachers and committed students who want to take their
practices to a deeper level. Enter these programs to discover the
secret heart of Yoga and the power of the inner practices that move
your life forward.
The Immersions
The Immersion Program is open to all students, whether you are new,
seasoned or an aspiring yoga teacher. These programs are a prerequisite
to 2007-2008 WYC Teacher Training and all yoga students are welcome. An
Immersion is a wonderful opportunity for yoga students to deepen and
widen your practice. Immersion participants become infused with the
radiant practices of Anusara Yoga. By connecting a weekend(s) of study
with regular Hatha Yoga classes, meditations, inspired readings, and
the ongoing guidance of the trainers; the Immersion allows sustained
contact with the essence of Yoga. This transformative journey is
designed to create the experience of a long retreat. The radical, life
affirming philosophy of Anusara Yoga will facilitate new levels of
awareness and opening of the heart. Immersion I, II and III are
required if you are considering entering the Teacher Training Program.
Teacher Training
The World Yoga Center Teacher Training Certification Program is
dedicated to the power of Yoga and to the teachers who aspire to become
its carriers. The training leads new teachers on an inner journey
into the vast realm of Yoga as a tradition. As new teachers learn
to open their heart and mind, they will be able to transmit this to
students and create classes filled with spiritual aliveness and
energy. We are seeking to train teachers who will help make a
more compassionate world, and who are drawn to the inner dimensions of
yoga. This training is meant to touch our humanity and train us
to become all we can be so that we may take the “seat of the
teacher” with genuine confidence.
This unique ten-month, Yoga Alliance Registered Program provides the
groundwork for those who are called to the vocation of a Hatha Yoga
teacher in the Anusara Yoga style. It is an in-depth investigation of
the disciplines, practices, scriptures, and teachings that are at the
heart of Yoga. Each new teacher is given the skills, the craft
and the wide-ranging background necessary to enter the yoga community
as a professional. The Program intends to establish students on
their own path of transformation and evolution as well as pass along
the craft of teaching. By sustained effort and focused study, new
teachers are empowered to transmit yoga out of their own natural core
of love and compassion.
Our 30 years of experience training teachers at the WYC shows us that a
group that moves through the whole program together is an invaluable
gift. This group grows together immersed in the study and practice over
a period of time empowering and supporting each participant to the very
core of their lives. The training group provides an uplifting and
strong community that inspires each participant to great heights within
themselves. Students planning on enrolling in the 2007/2008 WYC Teacher
Training Program, will need to complete WYC's Immersion I, II and III,
or an equivalent immersion program of 108 hours with a certified
Anusara Yoga instructor.
The Immersion Program
gives participants an overview. Topics include philosophy, history of
yoga, universal principles of alignment; cultivating a personal
practice of meditation, asana (many common poses are covered) and
Pranayama; mantra, Satsang, some anatomy and self inquiry.
The Teacher Training Program
joyously wends its way through a full, rich curriculum and encourages
the development of a wide variety of inner skills needed for
teaching. The teacher training will cover an extensive syllabus
of poses, hands on adjustments, teaching practice, class composition,
and working with special populations including seniors and
pregnancy. There are required weekly classes, journaling, and
observations and class adjustment sessions with the teacher training
leaders. This course will cover:
- Anusara Universal Principles of Attitude, Alignment and Action
- Yoga Scriptures: Kashmir Shaivism, Upanishads, Bhagavad-Gita, Patanjali
- Yoga Teachings
- Asana training
- Meditation (Establishing a practice and teaching)
- Pranayama
- Sanskrit
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- Anatomy and Physiology
- Adjustments
- Composition and Sequencing
- Therapeutics
- Teaching Practice
- Mentoring Program
- Satsang: Forming a Kula or community of
seekers and incorporating the teachings and scriptural study of yoga
into themes of the heart that draw the students into the real essence
of the practice.
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The following concepts are addressed in the Immersion Programs and
fully explored in the Teacher Training Program:
- Seat of the Teacher
- Weaving the teachings of Non-dual Tantric scriptures into classes
- Respect and Holding Authority
- Lyricism and Self-Expression
- Presence of Silence
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- Language Creativity
- Inspiration
- Authenticity
- Spontaneity
- Vulnerability
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Immersions
No prerequisites.
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Teacher Training
An Anusara Yoga three-part Immersion of 108 hours with a certified Anusara Yoga instructor.
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Immersions
- Class attendance
- Personal home practice of asana and meditation
- Assigned readings.
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Teacher Training
- Assisting in Classes
- Practice Teaching
- Homework
- Personal Home Practice
- Attendance in all Training Sessions
- Karma Yoga (Service)
- Exams
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Over the course of thirty years of training teachers, the World Yoga
Center training program remains committed to retaining its spiritual
moorings in the ancient tradition of Yoga, keeping the potency of those
practices as a means of spiritual transformation.
More and more people approach the World Yoga Center asking for
"certification". Since outer "fitness" based yoga abounds
everywhere, we hope to make a special contribution. As a recent
graduate said "It is called the inner alignment of a true yoga
teacher". We are looking to train yoga teachers who can
carry knowledge and higher consciousness to others as well as physical
practices and knowledge of alignment.
Students in training are exposed to the scriptures, teachings and
practices and become open to the power of these, each in his or her own
way. As they continue developing their mastery of asanas, they
are also gaining strength inwardly and becoming more able to transmit
the inner heart of yoga, the inner awareness.
This is a subtle process in which significant shifts and inner growth
happen spontaneously in a climate of compassion, camaraderie and mutual
respect. It is our intention to keep the training as a natural
unfoldment, based on traditional yogic methods of learning and
transformation, as well as Western methods of scholarship and study, to
give students that mysterious "gestation period" needed to become a
true yoga teacher from within. WYC certification represents a
successful launching of a true yoga teacher capable of teaching
professionally.
The World Yoga Center is a teacher training school registered with the
National Yoga Alliance. Successful completion of the WYC Teacher
Training Certification Program gives you the title of Registered Hatha
Yoga teacher in the Anusara Yoga style. Please note that
certification is for the Teacher Training Program only.
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Immersions
A total of 108 Immersion hours are a prerequisite for the 2007-2008 World Yoga Center Teacher Training.
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Immersion
Part I
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Immersion
Part II
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Immersion
Part III
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2006
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2007
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2007
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Not available until 2009.
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Teacher Training
Teacher Training is a 9 weekend program comprising 150-hour of in-class work.
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Teacher Training*
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2007*
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2008*
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OCT 13-14
NOV 10-11
DEC 1-3
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JAN 12 & 13,
26 & 27
FEB 9 & 10
March 1 & 2
APR 12 & 13
MAY 3 & 4,
24 & 25
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*Please note the teacher training dates are subject to change.
To learn more about the Teacher Training Program teachers
or to meet them, you may come to any of the following classes
at the World Yoga Center:
- Rudrani
Farbman Brown, Director and Founder of the World Yoga
Center
Mondays at 7:00 p.m., Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. and Sundays at 10 a.m.
- Jackie
Prete, Certified Anusara Yoga Teacher, owner of Ram
Sangha Retreats, Faculty WYC
Tuesdays at 10 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. and Fridays at 10 a.m.
Immersions
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Teacher Training
Tuition is $2700: includes all training sessions, individual mentoring, distributed readings and materials. |
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PAYMENT OPTIONS
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MORE INFORMATION
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| Remit payment by check payable
to World Yoga Center. We accept Visa and Master Card.
Please call (212) 724-0467 with your information. |
If you are interested or need more information please call (212) 724-0467 or (212) 877-4153. |
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TESTIMONIALS
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| The following are
tributes and observations by students who have participate in the WYC
Immersion and Teacher Training Programs: |
| "I did
not come to the immersion expecting a big change or some "result" -- I
really thought I'd do a lot of hatha yoga and learn about alignment.
Yet, in retrospect, I realize my spirit was searching for something. It
is amazing to me how much I suddenly need and love this process of self
inquiry, meditation, and delving deeper. I feel calmer, surer, and more
content with my present." |
| ".to
be a yoga teacher means to walk your talk, to practice what you preach,
to share with others and give what you have inside you authentically." |
"What moved me
forward, through various obstacles (during the teacher training) was a
firm definition of the integrity expected and the collective agreement
by the group on a subtle energetic level to hold the container (i.e.
agreements and commitment to the structures of the training) and not
break it." |
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