46 Day 500-Hour Spiritual and Mystical Yoga Teacher Training Course in Cocoa Beach, Florida

Certifications

Students who complete their subsequent trainings are eligible to register with Yoga Alliance as Registered Yoga Teachers (RYT®).

Spiritual and mystical lifestyle

A yoga teacher training with Full Circle Yoga School can deepen your understanding of prana (life-force energy), energetic healing, spirituality, crystals, and essential oils. These elements are woven into practical and scientific courses on kriyas, anatomy, sequencing, meditations, and breath — all in an inclusive and accepting atmosphere.

Deep personal healing

This training doesn’t stop at a certificate. Full Circle Yoga School is committed to helping you grow and expand deeply on a personal level, so you can fully express yourself in every moment. Many students experience rejuvenation from past experiences, detachment from emotional energies, and a deep shifting of priorities. You will graduate from this yoga teacher training feeling expanded and empowered as an individual.

Immersion in conscious living

True yogic living teaches us to expand our consciousness and live a higher vibrational experience filled with beauty, presence, grace, and bliss. Abstaining from alcohol and coffee and eating a whole, vegetarian diet are just a few yogic practices we encourage students to follow during their online training. These small shifts can ignite enormous transformations in your home life that provide balance, peace, and wisdom on and off the mat.

Techniques, training, and practice: 150 hours

Topics in this category include but are not limited to: asanas, pranayamas, kriyas, chanting, mantra, meditation, and other traditional yoga techniques. These hours must be a mix of analytical training in how to teach and practice the techniques, and guided practice of the techniques themselves. Both areas receive substantial emphasis.

Teaching methodology: 30 hours

Topics in this category include, but are not limited to:

• Communication skills such as group dynamics, time management, and the establishment of priorities and boundaries
• How to address the specific needs of individuals and special populations, to the degree possible in a group setting
• Principles of demonstration, observation, assisting and correcting
• Teaching styles
• Qualities of a teacher
• The student learning process
• Business aspects of teaching yoga (including marketing and legal)

Special Requirement: A maximum of five hours related to the business aspects of teaching yoga may be counted towards the Yoga Alliance Contact Hours requirements for this category.

Anatomy and physiology: 35 hours

Topics in this category include, but are not limited to: human physical anatomy and physiology (bodily systems, organs, etc.) and may also include energy anatomy and physiology (chakras, nadis, etc.). Includes both the study of anatomy and physiology along with its application to yoga practice (benefits, contraindications, healthy movement patterns, etc.).

Special requirement: A minimum of fifteen of the above hours are spent applying anatomy and physiology principles to yoga.

Yoga philosophy, lifestyle, and ethics for yoga teachers: 60 Hours

Topics in this category include, but are not limited to:

• The study of yoga philosophies and traditional texts (such as the Yoga Sutras, Hatha Yoga Pradipika or Bhagavad Gita).
• Yoga lifestyle, such as the precept of non-violence (ahimsa), and the concepts of dharma and karma.
• Ethics for yoga teachers, such as those involving teacher-student relationships and community.
• Understanding the value of teaching yoga as a service and being of service to others through yoga (Seva).

Special Requirement: A minimum of 4 of the above contact hours must be spent on ethics for yoga teachers.

Practicum: 40 hours

Topics in this category include:

• Practice teaching as the lead instructor (does not include assisting, observing or giving feedback)
• Receiving and giving feedback
• Observing others teaching
• Assisting students while someone else is teaching

Special Requirement: Each trainee must spend a minimum of 10 Contact Hours actively practice teaching as the lead instructor. Time spent assisting, observing others teaching, or giving feedback to others is excluded from these hours.

What will you learn

This course will profoundly expand your knowledge while deepening your practice of Vinyasa and Hatha yoga. Adding to your teaching palette asana, pranayama, anatomy, and assists are the pillars of your training. Beyond, you can expect the following:

• Yin yoga - Leave teaching a full class
• Restorative yoga - Leave teaching a full class
• Kundalini yoga - Leave teaching kriyas interwoven into your yoga classes
• Ayurveda training
• Aromatherapy - benefits and uses
• Meditation - Yoga Nidra, Mayan emotional release, candle gazing, chakra balancing
• Trauma sensitivity training
• Learn energy and crystal healing with oils
• Art of touch, hands-on assists, Thai massage uses in Shavasana
• Sound healing-crystal bowls, Tibetan bowls, tinchas, tuning forks, chimes, rain stick, mantras, chanting
• Intuitive arts training - tarot, oracle, palm reading, intuitive channeling, auras, pendulums, tea leaf reading
• Shamanic training - drum journey, smudging, medicine wheel, energy work

Philosophy

• Yoga Sutra study
• Hatha Yoga Pradipika study
• Bhagavad Gita study
• Chakra study and going beyond 7
• Personal ethics and for teaching

Asanas

• Refinements
• Adding to your toolbox
• Creative sequencing
• Energetic alignment
• Bandas, refining and going deeper
• Steps toward arm balances, headstand, handstand, forearm balance
• Safety and injury prevention

Self development

• Light of awareness
• Art of manifestation
• Living a yogic life
• Strengthening your Iintuition
• Esoteric how to, cards, oils, crystals

Anatomy

• Injury prevention
• Working with injuries
• Anatomy of the spirit

Ceremonies

• Smudging ceremony
• Cacao heart opening ceremony
• Kirtan sacred song fire circle
• Crystal sound bath
• Shamanic drum journey
• Past life regression
• Course graduation ceremony

Daily schedule

• 06:00 - 07:30 Daily morning yoga practice, Hatha/Vinyasa infused with pranayama, mudra, mantra or seed sounds, essential oil, specific chakra balancing
• 07:30 - 08:15 Breakfast
• 08:15 - 08:30 The magic
• 08:30 - 09:30 Philosophy
• 09:00 - 11:00 Workshops asana lab
• 11:00- 13:00 Practice teach/ pranayama practice
• 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
• 14:00 - 14:30 Chakra infused meditation, guided pranayama and shavasana
• 14:30 - 16:00 Workshops
• 16:00 - 18:00 Workshops
• 18:00 Dinner
• You will have 2 days off during the 300-hour portion.
• Ceremonies are built into the training and occasional evening hours after dinner.

Required textbooks

• 1. Teaching Yoga-Essential Foundations and Techniques by Mark Stephens
• 2. Yoga Toolbox for Teachers and Students, 3rd Edition
• 3. Bagavad Gita by Stephen Mitchell
• 4. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali by Sri Swami Satchidananda
• 5. The Complete Guide to Yin Yoga: The Philosophy and Practice of Yin Yoga by Bernie Clark
• 6. Yoga’s Touch Hands On Adjustments, Alignment and Verbal Cues byMartia Bennett Rachman
• 7. KRIYA: Yoga Sets, Meditations & Classic Kriyas by Yogi Bhajan
• 8. Relax & Renew by Judith Lasiter

It is recommended that you order the first five books when you enroll so you can start to read before the course. Any of the remaining books can wait until for Day 1 of training.

Homework

Nightly homework consists of reading and writing assignments, which will be sent to you after enrollment. It is highly recommended that you complete all homework prior to training, as you will also be tasked with class sequencing homework each day. Additional textbooks may be required; your facilitator will clarify.

The holiday will take place in Florida, USA. Cocoa Beach (home of Kelly Slater and the east coast surfing mecca) offers warm, turquoise ocean waters and lazy lagoons. Within walking distance of Cocoa Beach-Aquatics Center, city park, country club, skate park, and paddle board launch, the retreat home has everything to offer and then some.

Distances

• Beach - 7 minutes
• Miami International Airport (MIA) - 2.5 hours
• Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport (FLL) - 2.5 hours

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All meals during the training are included in the price.

• 45 nights accommodation
• 3 daily meals
• Tuition for 500-hour yoga teacher training
• Certifications within the training
• Yin yoga (25 hours)
• Restorative yoga (25 hours)
• Kundalini yoga (25 hours)
• Ayurveda (25 hours)
• Aromatherapy (8 hours)
• Meditation study and practice
• Trauma sensitivity training
• Energy and crystal healing
• Art of touch, hands-on assists, Thai massage uses in Shavasana
• Philosophy
• Yoga Sutra study
• Hatha yoga Pradipika study
• Bhagavad Gita study
• Chakra study and going beyond 7
• Personal ethics and for teacher
• Mantra and chanting
• Asanas
• Refinements
• Energetic alignment
• Steps toward arm balances, headstand, handstand, forearm balance
• Safety and injury prevention
• Self-development
• Light of awareness
• Art of manifestation
• Living a yogic life
• Strengthening your intuition
• Anatomy
• Injury prevention
• Working with injuries
• Anatomy of the spirit
• Ceremonies
• Smudging ceremony
• Cacao heart opening ceremony
• Kirtan sacred song fire circle
• Crystal sound bath
• Shamanic drum journey
• Past life regression
• Course graduation ceremony

• Transportation to and from the training location

Recommended Airports

• A reservation requires a deposit of 14% of the total price.
• The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
• The rest of the payment should be paid 14 days before arrival.