Certification
Dancing with Dharma is a Registered Yoga School with Yoga Alliance. Every student of the teacher training course will be rewarded with a certificate of completion.Upon completion of this yoga teacher training, students are eligible to register with Yoga Alliance as Registered Yoga Teachers (RYT®). Registration with Yoga Alliance provides a globally recognized credential. Anyone who wishes to deepen their understanding of the fuller spectrum of yoga practice and lifestyle is welcome to attend. Whether aspiring to thoroughly deepen your knowledge or to share your practice as a teacher, this teacher training will provide you with the knowledge, understanding, discipline, and diligence to do so.
Our Dharma
The extent of possibility has been realized and successfully transcended by many men and women that have lived before us. They exposed through their accomplishments, an infinite canvas upon which dreams, ideas, and aspirations could be reached out to and painted by anyone who dares to believe in manifesting the impossible against all declared human and mortal inevitability. Whatever your goal, aspiration, dream, idea, or thought, it is possible and you are here at.
Dancing With Dharma will endeavor to place the impossible in the palm of your hands. The potential of possibility is governed by the extent and depth of the mind that created its initial existence. From a single thought can manifest a world of transcendence and infinity. The taste of infinity lay softly betwixt the lips of a healed, sound, and agile mind and body. Our dharma is to love, to heal, to share knowledge and wisdom, to be a light where there is darkness, and to have faith that beauty is for everyone and everything.
If you surrender to your dharma, you are free from all repetition. If it is a key that you find, then pass it on. Dancing With Dharma will give you everything they have and know so that you may too give to others with a great responsibility toward the authentic and original teachings of yoga and healing.
This yoga teacher training has a limited capacity of five students. Just as the teachers of old, Dancing With Dharma believes it is important to focus on smaller groups so that a higher concentration of vigilance and attention to could be given to your journey throughout and a higher amount of personal treatments in Reiki and bodywork.
In Negombo, you will experience the beauty and serenity of the sea as you will train in a private villa with a private beach and boats to explore the area. Then on to the ancient kingdom of Polonnaruwa, you will immerse your training fully into the energetic surroundings of temples, monuments, and ancient local historic culture. Dancing With Dharma methodologies toward the yogic sciences are deep-rooted in the ancient teachings of all three periods of modern yoga history. Upon your journey, you will be introduced and immersed in the knowledge of the following skill-sets.
- Knowledge of the ancient yogic texts and how to apply their teachings to life
- An introduction to the Bhagavad Gita
- An introduction to the Mahabharata
- An in-depth study of the Yoga Sutras
- Yoga philosophy for modern application
- Pranayama practices
- Meditation practices
- The myths and meanings behind the yoga asanas
- Sequencing asanas for different styles of classes
- Fair alignment of the asanas
- Spoken, contact, and psychic adjustments of the asanas
- Finding your teaching voice
- Developing a teaching style
- Anatomy of yoga
- Sanskrit and the energy behind spoken Sanskrit
- Mantras, their meanings and their applications
- Acroyoga basics
- Safely guiding progressions from basic to advanced asanas
- Ayurvedic living to compliment a yogic lifestyle
- How to manifest dharma talks for inspiring and thought-provoking classes
- Understanding the subtle energy bodies, chakras and energy points
- Energetically protecting your practice space
- Authentic self-promotion
- Authentic marketing of oneself to gain employment
- Ethics and responsibilities of being a teacher
- And most importantly how to live a life you love
With these skills, you will be a profound addition to knowledge and application in any yoga, holistic or healing school, center, and community. Your diligence and intuition in teaching a yoga class, whether yoga asana, yoga pranayama, yoga dhyana, or other yoga practices will be made solid and authentically sound. Thus, Dancing With Dharma is confident in rewarding you with a certificate of completion.
Criteria for graduation
Students must pass all of the components of the program to the satisfaction of the school in order to graduate. Failure to do so will result in non-graduation and a certificate of attendance.
Schedule
Please note that the schedule is intense and strict. The mind, body, and spirit will be challenged to attain a higher sense of self, energy, and the world in which you live.
- 06:00-09:00 Yoga sadhana (meditation, pranayama, Kriya yoga, yoga asana)
- 09:00-10:00 Light breakfast
- 10:00-11:30 Yoga philosophy and yogic texts
- 11:30-12:30 Hatha yoga and yoga asana alignment
- 12:30-13:00 Meditation
- 13:00-13:30 Sangha (discussion, sharing, dharma)
- 13:30-15:00 Lunch and free time
- 15:00-17:00 Week one: yoga anatomy / week two: understanding energy practices / week three: teaching practice and ethics
- 17:00-18:00 Week one: yoga ethics / week two: working as a yoga teacher / week three: yoga sequencing
- 18:30-19:30 Yin and Trataka (candle meditation)
- End of the day
Polonnaruwa Schedule
- Ayurvedic teachings
- Class design and teaching
- Yoga philosophy exam
- Sanskrit for yoga exam
- Reiki and Tok Sen treatments