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TO APPLY: Please write a Letter of Intent to simplyYoga, PO Box 427, Kingston, New Jersey, 08528. Provide us with information about your previous yoga experience and your reasons for wishing to pursue teacher training or to deepen your practice. This can also be sent by email to nmmanabe@gmail.com Also please include the following: Name:_________________________ Address: _____________________ City: ________________________ State ____________Zip ________ Phone ________________________ Email: ________________________

SUMMARY Teacher Training 2011 Kicks-off February 18th over President's weekend and continues over 15 weekends throughout 2010. Exact dates and workshop requirements listed below. The course will be held at simplyYoga in Kingston, New Jersey taught by Carol Cook, E-RYT, David Thurn, E-RYT, and Nagisa Manabe, RYT and Teaching Assistant.

DESCRIPTION OF TRAINING: This 11 Month simplyYoga training course fulfills all of the requirements for the Nationally Recognized RYT (Registered Yoga Teacher) credential of the Yoga Alliance and those who successfully meet the requirements of the course will be eligible to become RYTs at the 200-hour level. Awaken the teacher within and inspire the transformation in others by becoming a hatha yoga teacher.

We offer an in-depth, intensive training of fundamentals of yoga. The course includes a solid grounding in the technical skills and the development of an emphatic, responsible, compassionate and intuitive approach to teaching. The training is designed to lay a solid foundation for yoga practitioners who would like to begin teaching; for teachers seeking additional training, and for serious students who aspire to deepen their practice. Instruction will be based on the teachings of B.K.S. Iyengar but practitioners of other yoga styles are welcome in the year long course of study.

The course will prepare participants to provide asana instruction to beginning and multi-level classes with attention to alignment principals and safety. Through practice and discussion, we will explore basic anatomy, skeletal and muscular systems as applied to asana practice, appropriate use of hands-on adjustments, focus on joint movement, range of motion and modifications for students with various health conditions and limitations. We will also discuss essential principles of yoga philosophy, considering their meaning for us as practitioners and as teachers. We will study the history of yoga, ethics for yoga teachers and study Pantanjali's Yoga Sutras. Participants will learn creative sequencing, how to assist, when and why to offer adjustments.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS: There will be take-home assignments to complete between segments. There will be ample opportunity for practice teaching, and assisting in some classes. Students must complete and submit all assignments and material in a timely and satisfactorily manner to receive certification. Simply Yoga’s new Teacher Training program is designed to fulfill the requirements for the national Yoga Alliance’s 200 hour RYT (Registered Yoga Teacher) credential. Students who successfully complete our program will be eligible to be registered with the Yoga Alliance. The program comprises 180 contact hours and an additional 20 (or more) non-contact hours that will include reading and writing assignments. Required Reading listed below the schedule which follows.
SCHEDULE: The course will begin with a long weekend intensive workshop from February 18-21, followed by meetings on 15 weekends through December 2010, including two workshops. Full schedule of monthly week end dates is listed below.

First Long Weekend Intensive: President's Day Weekend: February 18, 19, 20, and 21, 2011
FRI FEB 18 12-5PM
SAT FEB 19, 1-6PM
SUN FEB 20, 11-12:30 Take Class & 1-6PM
MON FEB 21, 12-5PM

15 Weekends in 2011
SAT MAR 12 1-6PM and SUN MAR 13 11-12:30 Take Class & 1-6PM
SAT MAR 26 1-6PM and SUN MAR 27 1-6PM
SAT APR 16 1-6PM and SUN APR 17 1-6PM Workshop Instructor TBA
SAT MAY 7 1-6PM and SUN MAY 8 1-6PM
SAT MAY 28 1-6PM and SUN MAY 29 11-12:30 Take Class & 1-6PM
FRI JUN 18 6-8PM, SAT JUN 19 10AM-1PM & 2:30-4:30PM, SUN JUN 20 10AM-1PM Bobbi Goldin Workshop
SAT JUL 16 1-6PM and SUN JUL 17 11-12:30 Take Class & 1-6PM
FRI JUL 29 6-8PM, SAT JUL 30 10AM-1PM & 2:30-4:30PM and SUN JUL 31 10AM-1PM Workshop
SAT AUG 20 1-6PM and SUN AUG 21 11-12:30 Take Class & 1-6PM
SAT SEP 17 1-6PM and SUN SEP 18 1-6PM
SAT OCT 1 1-6PM and SUN OCT 2 11-12:30 Take Class & 1-6PM
SAT OCT 15 1-6PM and SUN OCT 16 1-6PM
SAT NOV 19 1-6PM and SUN NOV 20 1-6PM
FRI DEC 2 6-8PM, SAT DEC 3 10AM-1PM and 2:30-4:30PM, SUN DEC 4 10AM-1PM Dean Lerner Workshop
SAT DEC 18 1-6PM and SUN DEC 19 1-6PM Final Weekend

PLEASE NOTE: Payment for Four Workshops will be in addition to the fee for Teacher Training, with a Teacher Training Discount of 20%.

COST: Total cost is $2,800 plus the cost of four workshops. Those who pay in full by February 1st, 2011 will receive a $200.00 discount. Alternatively, students may: 1) pay $1,400 by February 1, 2011 and $1,400 by May 1, 2011; or 2) pay $1,400 by February 1, 2011 and $140 per month from March through December, due on the 1st of each month>

Invite a friend to take the Teacher Training with you and each of you will receive a 10% discount!

PREREQUISITES: At least one year of yoga experience. This could include some study with books, videos and/or workshops. It is strongly recommended that you have or develop a daily personal yoga practice of moderate hatha yoga.

REQUIRED READING:
1. Susi Hately Aldous, Anatomy and Asana: Preventing Yoga Injuries, Eastland Press, 2006.
2. John Green, Human Anatomy in Full Color, Dover Publications, 1996.
3. B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Yoga, Schocken Books, 1966.
4. B.K.S.Iyengar, Light on Life, Rodale Press, 2005
5. Judith Lasater, 30 Essential Yoga Poses for Beginning Students and Their Teachers, Rodmell Press, 2003.
6. B.K. S. Iyengar, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
7. Michael Stone The Inner Tradition of Yoga, Shambala, 2008

There will be some additional books and articles assigned and other readings will be distributed at the workshop in Xeroxed form.

READING ASSIGNMENTS:
By the Febuary session: Read the Introduction to Light on Yoga and familiarize yourself with the book. Also read Lasater, pp. 1-71 and familiarize yourself with Human Anatomy in Full Color.
By the March sessions: Please have finished the Lasater book.
By the April session: Please have read through Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras and Read Hately, focus on pp. 7-46
By the May session: Please have read The Inner Tradition of Yoga and finish reading the Hately book.
On Going Reading Throughout the Course: B.K.S. Iyengar's Light on Life.

About the instructors:
CAROL COOK, Ph.D.,ERYT: Carol received her teacher training from Bobbi Goldin in 2001. She received additional teacher trainingfrom highly respected Iyengar teachers Mary Dunn and Dean Lerner. She has also participated in trainings conducted by Kevin Gardiner, Patricia Walden, Judith Lasater, and Mukunda Stiles. Carol teaches at simplyYoga and has also served as yoga studio director. Carol is interested in Buddhist psychology, which, like yoga, encourages the mindful recognition and integration of all aspects of our beings.

DAVID THURN, MSW, Ph.D., ERYT: David began his study of yoga with T.K.V. Desikachar. He started his teacher training under Bobbi Goldin at the Yoga Institute of Miami. He has continued his study of yoga with teachers in the Iyengar tradition, including Kevin Gardiner, Mary Dunn, Carrie Owerko, and Dean & Rebecca Lerner. In his teaching, David combines Iyengar's emphasis on precise alignment and Desikachar's emphasis on tailoring postures to the needs of individual students. He uses the postures and breath work of yoga to explore the connections between body and mind and to help students achieve greater focus, balance, and freedom. David has been teaching at Simply Yoga since March 2002. He holds a Master of Social Work degree from New York University and has completed psychoanalytic training.

NAGISA MANABE, RYT-200:Nagisa is a co-owner of Simply Yoga and the teaching assistant for Teacher Training. She first experienced yoga in 2002 when she came to simplyYoga with her mother, Noko Manabe, and began taking classes from Joanne Carter. Since 2002, Nagisa has studied Iyengar style yoga, studying with Joanne Carter David Thurn, and Carol Cook in Princeton. She completed her RYT in June of 2007. She has also studied under Kevin Gardiner, Dean Lerner, Bobbi Goldin, Mary Dunn, James Murphy, Bobbi Clennell, Lara Brunn, Tori Milner, Manouso Manos, Patricia Walden and John Schumacher. She continues to deepen her practice with regular study at the Iyengar Institute in New York City and is presently part of the 2009-2011 Iyengar Teacher Training in New York.

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Dr. Satyanarayana Dasa visits simplyYoga September 11, 2010

Mindfulness Meditation Class 6 Week Series Beginning October 5th

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Matt Dreyfus will lead a Workshop Sunday November 7th from 8:30-10:30

Prenatal and Postnatal Yoga 8 Week Series Begins Saturday September 11 2010

Dean Lerner Workshop, December 3rd, 4th and 5th, 2010

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