Ghost Ranch Teacher Training & Personal Enrichment Program 2012 & 2013:

Yoga Retreat Into Yourself, Teacher Training & Personal Enrichment

Ghost Ranch in Northern New Mexico is a place of stunning beauty and inspiration. Ghost Ranch is the perfect destination to immerse yourself into the riches of yoga so you can dive into who you really are, at your deepest level a sacred and beautiful being. The YogaNow Teacher Training & Personal Enrichment Program is a path for this exploration.

Ghost Ranch offers a sanctuary for deep self-exploration with its vistas, walking meditation labrynth, spectacular hikes and wide open skies.  Nearby are the healing hot springs of Ojo Caliente, the Bandelier National Monument the glorious Valles Caldera.

The YogaNow Teacher Training & Personal Enrichment Program is a 200 hr program to become a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) registered with the Yoga Alliance. But you don’t have to want to be a teacher to participate in this program, you only have to have the desire to grow with yoga, from the inside.

You prepare for the retreat by reading the great texts, The Yoga Sutras and Bhagavad Gita, andVital Yoga; A Sourcebook for Students and Teachers by Meta Hirschl, who developed this retreat. There are two 10 day sessions, in October 2012 and March 2013. You will have other reading assignments between the two sessions and we’ll have weekly meetings on phone or skype. More details and the application soon. Call 505-232-4717 or email to get your name on the list. Spaces are limited.

 

Previous programs:

Click here for the brochure:

YNTTAP brochure 2011-12 inside
YNTTAP brochure 2011-12 outside

The YogaNow Teacher Training Apprentice Program for 200 hr Register Yoga Teacher status runs 6 months, October 2, 2011– March 25, 2012. Our meetings are carefully designed and taught to maximize your time in training.
Here are the times and days:

Every Sunday:  noon – 5 pm at YogaNow except a two week break mid-term: no class December 25^thand January 1^st.

Weekend Intensive happen once a month: Friday 730-9:30 pm, Saturday 1-9 pm, Sunday noon-5 pm

Dates of Weekend Intensives:

• October            21-23, 2011
• November        18-20
• December        16-18
• January           20-22, 2012
• February          17-19
• March              16-18

Reading List – Required texts included in tuition

Required:

Vital Yoga:  A Sourcebook for Students and Teachers, Meta Chaya Hirschl

1. Moving into Stillness, Erich Schiffman
2. Bhagavad Gita, Stephen Mitchell translation
3. Paths to God : Living the Bhagavad Gita, by Ram Dass
4. Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras,
5. Light on Yoga, BKS Iyengar

Strongly suggest for your Library:

Yoga the Iyengar Way S, M & S Mehta

Awakening the Spine, Vanda Scaravelli  (suggested)

Anatomy & Physiology: suggest Yoga Anatomy by Leslie Kaminoff or  choose one (or more) below although if you have an anatomy book you like already it isn’t necessary to purchase another.

The Key Muscles of Hatha Yoga by Ray Long MD FRCSC, use multi-media as it helps you – Anatomy Coloring Workbook, by I Edward Alcamo, and Anatomy for Yoga, for example

Read at least one book on Meditation/Mindfulness suggest:  Pema Chodron’s books, suggest Awakening Loving-kindness, Comfortable with Uncertainty, The Power of Now; Eckart Tolle;The Tao te Ching of Lao Tzu, translated by Brian B Walker

Moving Toward Balance, Rodney Yee; Anatomy of Hatha Yoga, David Coulter; Yoga, Mastering the Basics, Sandra Anderson, Rolf Sovik
We’ll read excerpts from: Tantric yoga texts and The Yoga Tradition: Its History, Literature, Philosophy and Practice by Georg Feuerstein

YogaNow Mission Statement

Our mission is to create a welcoming and safe environment to learn and practice yoga in community. We look for success, not just in terms of financial viability, but also in the quality of our services, the way we respect our students and teachers and the human spirit, and our overall commitment to the greater community. We are dedicated to the belief that healing and transformation are possible for us all. Yoga is the ultimate playground – a place to explore our bodies, hearts and minds, to push and move our edges and especially, to have fun!

Ethical Guidelines for YogaNow teachers and teacher trainees

As a teacher or teacher trainee at YogaNow LLC I agree to uphold the following guidelines:

All YogaNow teachers strive to maintain the highest standards, both personally and professionally.  We adhere to the basic yoga principles of the Yamas and Niyamas:

 

Yamas: (Behavior restraints) Ethical guidelines for relating with others in society and the external world.

Ahimsa (Non-violence), Satya (Truthfulness),Asteya (Non-stealing), Brahmacharya (Walking or having ethical conduct like God, boundaries): Aparigraha (Non-clinging, non-grasping):

Niyamas: (Internal-restraints): Observances of one’s own physical appearance, actions, words and thoughts.

Sauca (Purity, orderliness, cleanliness): Santosha (Contentment): Tapas (Focus),
Svadhyaya (Study of the Self): Ishvara Pranidhana (Devotional offering to the Lord-faith)

The two fundamental rules at YogaNow  1) Create safety for the student in every way possible, communicate clearly and directly 2) Remember that the students are already sacred and good we are just here to assist everyone to open to more happiness and aliveness.

We actively encourage diversity by respecting all students regardless of age, physical limitations, race, creed, gender, ethnicity, religion affiliations or sexual orientation.

We avoid words and actions that constitute sexual harassment or the perception of violating boundaries.

We care for the environment and studio by practicing sauca, keeping the space need and orderly.

We support all students in yoga classes, physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually to the best of our abilities as yoga teachers.

We attend to the class – demonstrate poses but never personal practice as we teach.  The students need our focus, especially with props, and adjustments as appropriate.

We always check before the class starts with individuals about injuries, illness, and problems and make sure that the adjustments we offer are acceptable to the student.

Problems and questions always eventually arise in our working lives, in any environment.  The key point is to communicate honestly and as quickly as possible with the Director of Yoga Teaching.

Every YogaNow teacher is encouraged to have personal malpractice insurance for teaching, resources for options can be found through Yoga Alliance.

 

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