Certification
Students who complete the training are eligible to register with Yoga Alliance as Registered Yoga Teachers (RYT®).
Overview
Sewall House Yoga Retreat's 200-hour Yoga Alliance-certified yoga teacher training is limited to six participants. This ensures that each trainee will be truly seen and supported through their process of learning, purification, and integration during this three-week intensive. Their yoga teacher training at Sewall House in Island Falls, Maine, is a unique opportunity to participate in an immersive three-week intensive yoga teacher certification program in a small residential retreat center in picturesque Maine.
You don’t need a firm desire to teach to participate in this program. You can use it to deepen your current yoga practice. However, you may find that when you engage in the practice teaching sessions, you love teaching! Even if you don’t, the knowledge you gain at the 200-hour Teacher Training will help you along your yoga journey.
About the Course
Each day, the sessions will be 10 hours. There will be a total of three weeks of sessions to meet all the 200-hour Yoga Alliance requirements of the training. Also, you’ll have the opportunity to lead three one-hour sessions of your own — an advantage of choosing Sewall House for your yoga teacher training.
One unique thing about the teacher training is that they teach various forms of yoga, which gives students a broader understanding and the ability to either teach a couple of forms or move into a specialization after completing the program. %Your path to becoming a yoga instructor includes:
- Yamas and Niyamas
- Different types/ styles of yoga defined
- Anatomy and Physiology
- Philosophy, ethics, lifestyle
- Teaching methodology and techniques
- Mantra, meditation, asana, Pranayam, sequencing, forward and backbends, inversions, and twists
- Meditation, breathing, and relaxation techniques, including Yoga Nidra
- Kundalini Yoga sets and meditations, as well as the Chakra Energy systems
- An opportunity to study, and enjoy, the benefits of yogic eating as well as information about various approaches to food and diet (raw, fasting, cleanses, etc)
- Modules on teaching children yoga and Bhakti yoga from a mantra perspective
- Each participant leads 3 one-hour sessions during the training to gain practice
Daily Schedule
- 07:30 Meditation
- 08:00 Yoga practice
- 10:00 Breakfast
- 11:30 2-hour learning session
- 14:00 Lunch
- 15:30 2-hour learning session
- 17:30 Yoga practice
- 19:00 Dinner
The rest of the evening is for you to relax or prepare for the next day.
