Welcome to my new 300 Hour Advanced Yoga teacher training.
As with my 200 Hour foundational Yoga Training, it is my intention to help you as a now qualified Yoga Teacher, to find your own way in this vast & wonderful world of Yoga by studying specific areas that interest you in greater depth.
Pay in 12 monthly instalments on the 15th or 29th of the month
- Choose from multiple dates, over two years.
- Over 375 Hours of training available to take.
Working with my colleagues Andy Curtis-Payne & Ananda Mello-Costa, we have put together a deeper & more reflective programme of learning that will animate the minds of teachers who will in turn inspire their students to learn about & live in yoga, thereby bringing about a positive change one class, at a time.
There are two, five-day, compulsory modules focussed on asana, sequencing & class planning with Lucy, these are a week long. All days run 9.15am to 5.30pm. You can attend these modules at any point on the calendar; all the modules run twice a year, numbers allowing. From sign up, you have 24 months to complete all your hours.
Your hours will be made up of the following:
COMPLUSORY MODULES
Advanced Teaching Skills - Week 1
50 Hours
Advanced Teaching Skills - Week 2
50 Hours
100 Hours
Classical origins of Yoga, its true meaning, its original purpose with Andy Curtis-Payne
25 Hours
Advanced Anatomy with Ananda Mello Costa
50 Hours
Advanced Pranayama: Technique & Mastery with Ananda Mello Costa
50 Hours
Class attendances with Senior Yoga Teachers
20 Hours
Mentoring with Lucy
5 Hours
In-Studio Assisting & Adjusting alongside Lucy
5 Hours
Class Planning & Self Study
20 Hours
ELECTIVE MODULES
Teaching Pregnancy & Postnatal Yoga 30 Hours
Teaching Restorative & Yin Yoga 30 Hours
Teaching Vinyasa Flow 8 Hours
Yoga Adjusts for Teachers 8 Hours
Workshops with Lucy - Attend up to eight of 2.5 hour Anatomy Based Workshops 20 Hours
Sussex Yoga Training’s 30 Hour Restorative & Yin Yoga CPD course & is for established teachers or those working towards a level three diploma or 200 hours certificate. It is a two day training that will enable you to deliver two entirely useful methods of yoga to your students.
Course Outline
This special four-day training will consist of two days of practical explorations, presentations & discussions with senior teacher, Lucy Leslie.
Syllabus
Restorative: The anatomy & physiology of Restorative Yoga, nervous system regulation & the relationship with other body systems. The physiology of stress & relaxation, vagal tone & how to elicit the relaxation response. You’ll practice teaching, whilst considering environment, postures, props, modifications, progressions, intention, sequencing, theming, class planning, breath & language.
Combining Yin and Restorative Postures in a class: Guidance on sequencing, planning & delivery. The “Putting it all together – teaching from the heart” & Yin Yoga versus Restorative Yoga – what makes them different & why they work well together.
Yin Yoga: In context, it's purpose & benefits. The anatomy of Yin Yoga – “Yin tissues”, flexibility, fascia & the heart-mind connection. You’ll work on practical delivery of Yin Yoga postures whilst looking at intention & attention, the energetic body, duration, breathing, use of props, sequencing and themes.
30-hour Pre & Postnatal Yoga Teacher Training
This training is for qualified yoga teachers who have a calling to work with mums, bumps & babies. This course would also allow you to confidently teach pregnant womnen safely & insured, in your regular classes. Most importantly, you’ll need to be able to teach yoga to bodies that don’t feel like yours. Having had your own children or being female is not a necessity but being able to listen & have empathy for the body’s multiple changes & a real desire to alleviate the aches & pains of building a baby are.
Prerequisites:
Level 3 Diploma in Teaching Yoga/Certified 200 Hours or 'working towards'
Improve Your Balance - a practical workshop to explore why so many of us feel we are terrible at standing on one leg!
Join Lucy for 2.5 hours of improving our balancing poses
This practice is for anyone who wants to improve their ability to balance, also their mental focus & to quieten their inner yoga-critic when practicing any kind of balances, bearing in mind we balance on arms, hands, feet, knees, shoulders & heads in yoga!
Whilst the practice will contain some fairly unpopular poses, take that as a sign they're needed. We'll address powerful muscles of the core, legs & hips & so it's only right that the practice will end with a nice restorative rest.
Balancing is not about stillness, its about riding the uncertainty with trust & skill - just like life!
This workshop will be a led class; you practicing & experiencing whilst Lucy shares as many tips, tools & wisdom as she has garnered in her last 25 years of practice. Q&A at the end & lots of adjustments & observing along the way.
An in-depth immersion in the classical origins of Yoga, its true meaning, its original purpose and how we can adapt these profound teachings to serve ourselves and society in the modern world.
We will explore the earliest classical definitions of Yoga and how the teachings we have available today developed from these ancient texts.From the first textual reference to Yoga through the first definitions of Yoga, looking at models of the human system and how to use Yoga to establish wholistic health and allow each of us to realise our very highest potential!
Day 1 - Reference to the Upanisads to explore and discuss the first textual reference to Yoga in the Taitirriya Upanisad and the first definitions of Yoga in the Katha Upanisad and the Maitri Upanisad.
Day 2 - Explore the role of sound in Yoga, how mantra was used to transmit the teachings orally for millenia before the teachings were written down. Also, how sound can be used to develop the breath, initially lengthening the exhalation and then stimulating the inhale as a result. Finally, the use of sound/mantra in meditation
Day 3 - Meditation in theory based on the teachings of Patanjali, Yoga Sutra chapter 3. Sutra 1-4. Presentation on the classical yoga model for meditation and the relationship between asana, pranayama and meditation. Purpose and application of meditation classically and in the modern context.
Each day begins with an hour of Yoga taught by Andy, which will be open to the public.