17 Day Livestream 200-Hour Vinyasa, Hatha & Restorative Online Yoga Teacher Training

Pre-application requirements

• Wi-Fi connection, device to connect online, yoga props (yoga mat, strap or scarf, two or more blocks or big stable books, pillow or bolster, blanket, wall, and chair for assist to the exercises), and a wireless microphone or Bluetooth for phone to be clearly heard at your recorded sessions
• Zoom app downloaded. The live-stream hours are held via Zoom or other application if zoom experiences disruption
• 8 hours live-streaming daily for 17 days
• Meeting hours are held via Zoom or Skype: hours of webinars are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., time zone GMT+3:00 Athens
• Lost livestream hours are send archived via email

Certifications

Students who complete their training before 31st December 2021 are eligible to register with Yoga Alliance USA as Registered Yoga Teachers (RYT200).

How the training works

The training works with 8 hours daily live-stream training along with free access to an Online Library with archived/pre-recorded videos, audios, and digital material. Kindly make sure you have a Wi-Fi / internet connection and tools as mentioned in the pre-application requirements for a smoother training.

Contact hours

There will be 200 training hours in total separated into 120 live-stream teaching hours and 80 self-study hours on completing tests, creating practices to teach, audios of meditations, etc (you are given all the necessary info and online tools access to create them).

Curriculum

Expected outcomes

By the end of the training program, participants are expected to be able to

• Teach confidently and with safety at the basic level to mixed level Vinyasa classes
• Design Vinyasa, Hatha, and Restorative yoga classes and courses based on knowledge of anatomy, physiology, kinesiology, and philosophy of yoga and feel able to develop their knowledge and practice in the future
• Feel awakened to apply the principles of yoga in their personal lives and to awaken those around them on this path
• Have ignited their inner fire of truth-seeking by researching individually on yoga and offer their own research work according to their scientific background if existed
• Know how to offer yoga-related services to their communities
• Know how to advertise their work and maintain a steady group of practitioners
• Combine other alternative methods they may be familiar with their work in yoga
• Offer retreats, workshops and alternative events to their communities
• Collaborate with teachers of other yoga systems to spread the yoga worldwide and locally

Curriculum:

• Theory & Practice via Livestream Training and an Online Library with digital material, videos, and audios

Ten modules that communicate with the practice.

1. Techniques:

80 asana covered with experiential practice alongside with extended analysis with the different variations they appear in the modern practice. Finally, there is a really extensive number of asana that will be covered.

Asana covered without extended analysis, but mainly with experiential practice

kinetic exercises from modern functional theory with experiential and partly extended the analysis

Pranayama and meditation

• Pranayama - traditional breathing techniques and modern breathwork exercises
• Mudra - pranic hand gestures and sealing poses, benefits, and circumstances to use them
• Mantra - signing for meditation practice
• Bandha - internal locks, main, and secondary
• Meditation - benefits, finding the personal voice for meditation guidance, and types of meditation (theming guided meditation, visualization, yoga Nidra, positive affirmations, non-guided meditation, etc.)

2. Anatomy and physiology

Muscular system, skeletal system, planes of motion, types of movements, joints actions, etc.

Yoga applied anatomy: anatomy knowledge that serves the yoga practice, eg. muscles and joints that work in each asana

3. Teaching methodology

• Sequencing
• Theming
• Cueing
• Fascia theory
• Hands-on assists
• Yoga programs
• Teaching Styles
• Teaching communicability
• Teaching efficiency
• Sacred space: sacred offerings, altars, smudging, presence of a teacher, Sankalpa, etc.

4. Yoga philosophy

• Energetic airs/Vayu system
• Energetic bodies/Kosha system
• Energetic qualities/Guna system
• Energetic centres/Chakra system
• The model of the Eight Limbs Yoga/Ashtanga path

5. Yoga psychology and ethics

• Serving in teaching with love. Live, love, and learn from a pedagogical point of view
• Critical thinking
• Trauma-Sensitive yoga
• Positive language and non-violent communication
• Transformational leadership
• NLP
• Theta Healing
• CBT
• Mind reprogramming and self-regulation for negative beliefs as Yoga teachers

6. Marketing

• The professionalization of yoga teaching in the western world
• Yoga teacher as a professional
• How to title the yoga sessions
• How to give a yoga title to yourself as a teacher according to your qualifications
• How to write a yoga teacher CV, resume, and personal sign
• How to price yoga services
• How to seek a job
• How to set a yoga brand

Throughout the program, a certain selected bibliography is used and proposed for lifelong learning as well.

Also, free ebooks are given to read and complete the exercises.

This curriculum mirrors the in-person training and follows the Yoga Alliance USA guidelines in 200 Hours trainings

This teacher training is held online. Yoga and More School is based in Greece. You can participate from the comfort of your home by just using your phone, tablet or computer.

+−

• 120 livestream teaching hours for 17 days
• 80 non-contact hours for self-study & practice
• Training material for lifelong support
• Eligibility to register with Yoga Alliance USA as RYT200 upon completion before December 31, 2021

• Accommodation and meals
• Yoga props

• A reservation requires a deposit of 100% of the total price.
• The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.