500-Hour Teacher Training with Karen Miscall-Bannon
Prerequisites: This program is open to anyone with 200-hour teacher training experience. The program is certified by Yoga Alliance and provides the additional 300 hours required for 500-hour certification. Students who have been teaching for a year or more without 200 hours of training may apply and be interviewed.
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Timeline: Meeting times will be Fridays 5pm – 8pm, Saturdays 11am – 3pm & 4pm – 6:30pm, Sundays 11:30am – 3:30pm on the following weekends:
- June 20-22
July 26-28- August 15-17
- September 5-7
- November 7-9
- January 16-18, 2015
- Additional Date TBA
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Training: The training is set up in 5 Modules, available individually for $800, or $3500 for all five.
MODULE 1
- Blueprint for Optimal Movement 1: Cellular Breathing – Navel Radiation
- Principle of a Quiet Spine
- Discriminating Core & Periphery – Finding Union
- Standing Postures 1– Our Foundation: Pelvis, Legs & Feet
- Surya Namaskar: Sun Salutations & Vinyasa
- Skeletal Structure
- Ease in the Ilio–psoas Complex
- Yield and Push of the Legs
- Inversions 1: Shoulderstand & Handstand
- Pranayama 1: Ujjayi
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MODULE 2
- Standing Postures 2 – Dynamics & Alignment, Integrating Upper & Lower Body
- Ribs, Shoulder Girdle, Arms and Hands: Alignment & Integrated Movement
- Yield and Push of the Arms
- Lower Back Fundamentals: Sacroiliac & Lumbar Health
- Standing and Supine Forward Bends
- Lungs, Conchas of the Nose & Breathing Diaphragm
- Embodying Organs & Glands
- Breath in Asana Practice
- Patanjali’s Eight Limbs of Yoga
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MODULE 3
- Principles of Backbends 1: Organ & Glandular Support
- Arm Balances 1
- Twists and Hip Openers 1
- Inversions 2: Headstand and Shoulderstand Cycle
- Savasana
- Pranayama 2: Viloma, Prana Vayus
- Bandhas – Integrating Core
- The Kosas: Spiralic Sheaths of Awareness
- The Systems of Yoga
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MODULE 4
- Blueprint for Optimal Movement 2: Spinal Patterns
- Integrated Whole Body Movement in Yoga Practice
- Precision Vinyasa — Flow and Hold
- Balancing Sympathetic & Parasympathetic Nervous Systems
- Temporal-Mandibular Joint, the Skull and Palate
- Backbends 2
- Twists, Hips and Arm Balances 2
- Pranayama 3: Nadi Shodhana and Kumbhaka
- Restorative Yoga
- Chakras, Nadis and Kundalini
- Tantra Yoga: The Expression of Life Lived in Fullness
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Module 5
- Yoga Nidra: Tantric Technique for Deep Rest
- Deepening your Personal Practice
- The world of Fascia: supportive structure and nadis
- Principles of Observation, Instruction, Demonstration & Touch
- Art and Science of Sequencing
- Weaving information into the vinyasa framework.
- Using the full-body template in your practice and classes. Make it simple!
- Integrating information from previous modules
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CONTINUINING THROUGHOUT ALL 5 MODULES:
In-depth study of Yoga Sutras of Patanjal, Hatha Yoga Pradipika, and Bhagavad Gita.