200hr
VINYASA TEACHER TRAINING
Mt Madonna
Center, Santa Cruz Mountains,
CA
AUGUST
10th-28th, 2009
Dear Friend,
This
program is a 200 hour Vinyasa
Teacher Training. As such it will be a mentally,
physically and emotionally challenging
process designed to enable serious
students to become inspired teachers.
You will practice asana, meditation,
and pranyama to the point of proficiency
and beyond. Your knowledge of Yoga
theory will deepen to the point
that it will become an aspect of
the fabric of your life and of
everything you do and say as a
yoga teacher. You will learn to
teach classes that combine a consistent
therapeutic vision with the inspired
spontaneity that is the hallmark
of Vinyasa Yoga. You will develop
a thorough understanding of the
elements of the therapeutic principles
of Yoga and be able to design a
class or teach a pose in such a
manner that your students will
immediately embody those principles.
 Vinyasa
Yoga expresses
that part of us that celebrates
the space between the notes. A typical
class will move from simple to
complex poses, from standing
poses and balancing poses, to
back-bends, inversions, and hip
openers. The teacher and students
take this simple formula and
make it their own day by day.
No two classes are ever alike
yet the intention behind the
class is always the same. The
genius of Vinyasa Yoga is not
found in its approach to alignment
or sequencing, but rather in
the rhythm with which alignment
and sequencing unfold. Anchored
in the unseen aspects of an asana
class, Vinyasa Yoga is uniquely
accommodating to the evolution
of a teacher; allowing her to
bring all that she has learned
and all that she is into her
classroom. The result is a class
that is at once consistent and
inspired.
I
want to bring special attention
to the interplay between the
physical and the metaphysical: A
yoga class is a three dimensional
story that unfolds to the rhythm
of the breath. The art of teaching
is the art of telling that
story. Each of us, always,
has a song to sing a story
to tell. Of necessity much
of what we will be working
on will be technical in nature
but all of what we do together
will be dedicated to supporting
you in singing your song.
Namasté and
I look forward to the start of
this journey with you,
Rolf
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