Congratulations! As a Certified Svaroopa^® Yoga Teacher, you are ready to expand your skills and experience of yoga to the fullest through our Advanced Teacher Training (ATT) program. Some of the ATT courses are even available after you have completed YTT Level 2.

Your advanced study is based in the sacred texts, deeper levels of asana, anatomy and business skills, all enlivened by Rama's personal wisdom. With this education, the weave of deeper asana and yoga philosophy that you love in Teacher Training comes alive in the classes you teach. Course emphasis is on the practical mastery of the skills you are being taught with follow-up homework that hones your skills and polishes your ability to expertly teach your students while maintaining your steady yogic state. You can teach and serve your students while simultaneously quenching your own innate thirst for the experience of the Self.

You will receive certificates at each level of mastery to support your credibility in professional settings, while also announcing your new skills to ongoing students. Each certification is described below, accompanied by the courses you take to achieve it.

Gain the knowledge, depth of personal practice, and technical expertise it takes to be a refined yoga professional. Expand your skills, increase your income, deepen your personal experience of Svaroopa^® yoga, and guide your students to more profound levels of experience. Complete the most comprehensive advanced certification available today. Empower yourself with the knowledge to teach and live the complete practice of Svaroopa^® yoga.

STUDY: BHAGAVAD GITA & YOGA SUTRAS

Verses about yoga, life and business

LIVING YOGA BUSINESS CERTIFICATION

Learn how to weave yoga wisdom and professional skill into your matters of money, administration, planning, supervision, and marketing. Rama's wisdom and personal mentoring will expand your thinking beyond the boundaries of any remaining patterns of self-limitation. Whether you are running a yoga business, or applying yoga to your professional life in any arena, empower yourself with this comprehensive approach to pure clarity. Be radically effective; use these tools to envision, create, and manage a highly functional yogic life.

Courses: 75, 76, 77

STUDY: PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS

The most well known yoga text for understanding the mind.

PREGNANT YOGA CERTIFICATION

Learn how to teach mothers-to-be as well as those hoping to conceive. Offer special Pregnancy Yoga courses, and/or utilize the specialized protocols to serve pregnant mothers in your regular classes. These teaching tools make pregnant moms more comfortable during their pregnancy while significantly easing their labor and delivery. Teaching pregnancy yoga is a heart-opening experience for both teacher and mother-to-be.

Courses: 402, 403 (previously titled Hip Openers)

DEEPER YOGA LEVEL I CERTIFICATION

Develop the skills to teach Deeper Yoga classes, more advanced levels of practice, and multilevel classes by using the powerful new adjustments and variations you learn in these trainings. Offer class contemplations directly from the sutras, significantly expanding students' understanding of yoga and of themselves. Take your continuing level students to new depths. Inspire your more dedicated students in new ways. Learn how to deepen your regular lesson plans in the following themes: Daily Practice, Lower Spinal release, Upper Spinal Release.

GENTLE YOGA CERTIFICATION

Serve students who are out of the 'bell-curve' by offering ongoing Gentle Yoga classes. Adapt poses to meet their needs within your regular classes. Learn specialized poses, propping, and variations for those with challenges that include: illness, injury recovery, genetics, and age.

YOGA FOR YOUR BACK CERTIFICATION

Teach the 4-week course, "Yoga for Your Back," as seen in Rama's video of the same name. Teach people who are in pain, by understanding the mind that is identified with pain. Use techniques that help them re-build their self-confidence. Fill your classroom with these "newly awakened" students.

Courses: 75, 76, 77, 402, 403, 411, 412 (previously - Spinal Flexibility/Neck & Shoulders)

STUDY: NARADA BHAKTI YOGA SUTRAS

Experience and understand the devotional practices of yoga

BEGINNER BLISS CERTIFICATION

Introduce your students to the most advanced level of Svaroopa^® yoga: Bliss Yoga. Ignite their experience of the Bliss of the Self with specialized formats, asana variations, and advanced adjustments. Develop and sustain your bhav (yogic state) through the study of bhakti yoga, the yoga of the heart. Support your students' transformation with delicious readings from the Vivekachudamani.

Courses: 75, 76, 77, 402, 403, 411, 412, 221, 522 (previously included in Lotus Poses & Twists)

ADVANCED BLISS CERTIFICATION (previously Lotus Poses & Twists)

Lead your students deeper into their bliss experience. Further your teaching skills and your ability to lead others while you are in a state of inner bliss. Transform your students' minds and hearts by opening their bodies, minds and hearts simultaneously. Further develop their bhav (yogic state) with poetic and beautiful passages from the Vivekachudamani that describes this inner experience.

BLISS YOGA WEEKEND CERTIFICATION

Learn to teach Bliss Yoga in a weekend workshop. Introduce students of all levels to the advanced level of Svaroopa^® yoga practice. Offer an excellent immersion to your students for their depth and transformation, while increasing your income potential.

Courses: 75, 76, 77, 402, 403, 411, 412, 221, 522, 523 (previously - Lotus Poses & Twists)

STUDY: PRATYABHIJNAHRDAYAM

Yoga's teachings on the recognition of your own essence

SVAROOPA^® YOGA THERAPIST CERTIFICATION

Work with private clients using a comprehensive range of therapeutic poses and specialized dialogue techniques. Help students dissolve pain using the practices and customized propping most effective for their current condition. Gain a profound understanding of the healing process and guide students on their personal journey with Svaroopa^® yoga.

Courses: 75, 76, 77, 402, 403, 411, 412, 262, 463, 464 (previously Yoga Therapy I)

STUDY: ASHTAVAKRA GITA

Yoga's best descriptions of the enlightened state and inner experience

MEDICAL YOGA THERAPIST CERTIFICATION

Understand the medical terminology your students and clients bring to you. Learn how to communicate within a medical environment. Meet medical professionals with the understanding and language that empowers you to bridge the gap between yoga and medicine. Work with your client's medical team using powerful skills that support their healing process.

YOGA PAIN CLINIC

Learn how to offer the community program "Yoga Pain Clinic" Give practical solutions to each individuals' aches and pains. Facilitate this educational program that illuminates the power of opening the spine with Svaroopa^® yoga. Inspire participants' faith in their own healing possibilities.

Courses: 75, 76, 77, 402, 403, 411, 412, 262, 463, 464, 561, 562 (formerly - Medical Yoga)

ADVANCED Svaroopa® YOGA THERAPIST

Take your private clients on a journey that is deeper than mere healing. Learn specialized adjustments that serve your long-time yoga therapy clients who are ready for 'the next step'. Create the radically deeper openings that expertly take them inward. Refine your ability to use the specialized dialoguing techniques that bring this opening through their minds, revealing the innate fullness that is their essence.

Courses: 75, 76, 77, 402, 403, 411, 412, 262, 463, 464, 561, 562, 661,662 (formerly Yoga Therapy II)

STUDY: SHIVA SUTRAS

A complete science of Consciousness & the basis of Svaroopa® Yoga

DEEPER YOGA LEVEL II CERTIFICATION

Learn how to keep your spine open in the midst of strenuous activity. Develop the skills to teach your students the challenging levels of practice that maintain, and even increase spinal opening. Motivate sedentary students to action, and meet overly active students where they are with this more challenging level of Svaroopa^® yoga practice. Teach Deeper Yoga in the following themes: Abdominals, Backbends, Forward Bends, Neck and Shoulders, Inversions, Classical Poses. Begin to support your students' active yogic lifestyle.

DEEPER YOGA WORKSHOPS CERTIFICATION

Offer Half Day and Weekend Workshops in a variety of themes. Apply your Deeper Yoga teaching skills and weave important sutras through longer programs that guide students into a profound experience of Svaroopa^® yoga. Expand your students' inner experience as you expand your income possibilities and your professionalism.

Courses: 75, 76, 77, 402, 403, 411, 412, 531, 532, 541, 551 (previously - Abs & Backbends, Forward Bends/Inversions)

STUDY: BHAGAVAD GITA

Living your life in the world as a yogi

SVAROOPA^® YOGA FLOW TEACHER CERTIFICATION

Teach 5 different flows from the official Svaroopa® yoga vinyasas (moving series of connected poses), in these Themes: Basics, Lower Spinal Release, Neck and Shoulders, Abs, Balance & Inversions, and Lotus Poses & Twists. Understand and communicate the principle of spinal release in the midst of activity. Teach your students how to live a courageous life through discovering the inner source that empowers them to live in the world as a yogi.

Courses: 75, 76, 77, 402, 403, 411, 412, 531, 532, 541, 551, 611, 621, 622 (previously - Flow 1)

ADVANCED SVAROOPA^® YOGA FLOW TEACHER CERTIFICATION

Teach all the themes in the Svaroopa^® Yoga Flow, adding these to your professional skills: Forward Bends, Upper Spinal Release, Backbends, Standing Poses, Sun Salutation and Warrior Vinyasa. Learn new poses, adjustments, and variations that enhance the flows. Develop your students' experience of the full spectrum of Svaroopa^® yoga with the marriage of continuous movement and deep inner experience. Transform their body, mind and life in the world.

Courses: 75, 76, 77, 402, 403, 411, 412, 531, 532, 541, 551, 611, 621, 622, 631, 632, 643 (previously - Flow 2)

COURSES in 2008

January

28 - Feb 3 • ATT 402: Deeper Practice Malvern PA click here

February 2008

11 - 17 • ATT 411: Upper Spinal Release Malvern PA click here

March

17 - 21 • ATT 75: Yoga Business Skills - Defining Your Vision Malvern PA click here
22 - 28 • ATT 262: Yoga Therapy - Treating Pain Malvern PA click here

April

15 (6 am) - 23 • ATT 82: Svaroopa® Yoga Vinyasa 2 Malvern PA
15 • ATT 76: YBS - Planning for Success (begins) Telephone Conference Calls click here

June

1 - 7 • ATT 221: Twists Malvern PA click here
9 - 15 • ATT 522: Beginner Bliss Malvern PA click here
23 - 25 • ATT 77: YBS - Attaining Your Goals Malvern PA click here

July

23 - 29 • ATT 403: Lower Spinal Release Malvern PA click here

October

17 - 23 • ATT 463: Yoga Therapy B - Neck & Shoulders Malvern PA click here

November

29 - Dec 5 • ATT 412: Gentle Yoga Malvern PA click here

ATT APPLICATION

To apply for ATT, please submit all of the items listed below at least one month before you plan to begin:

Photocopy of your Certified Svaroopa^® Yoga Teacher certificate. If you are currently completing requirements for the Graduate Upgrade Program, please tell us where you are in the process.
Class Report List: A summary of your teaching since YTT graduation.
Asana Report Form: List the poses from YTT that you have NOT yet taught and comments about why (for each one).
Brochure, Calendar or Schedule issued by the facility/facilities where you are currently teaching.
Your Résumé: List other educational and professional information.
Cover Letter: Why are you interested in the program? Which trainings do you plan to do over what period of time?
Teaching Review: In person with a qualified Senior Teacher (for $190), or by video submission ($95). Please contact our enrollment advisor at 858-454-2436 ext 5 to arrange and pay for your review, which must be submitted at least four weeks before your first ATT course.
A non-refundable application fee of $250, which will be applied to the first ATT course you take within twelve months of your application.

We are not able to process incomplete or late applications.

COMPLETION OF TRAININGS does not guarantee your certification; you also need to demonstrate mastery of the material through practical application. Each course includes homework such as teaching special classes, giving private sessions, or presenting workshops based on the material in the course. You must complete and submit reports on all parts of the homework within one year of course completion and receive a passing grade before you continue to the next course.

You will be supported in this process by staff and teacher trainers who will devise a personal plan of study when you need additional help. You will receive a 40% discount on any courses you need to repeat.

For schedule information, click here. For more information, contact Caroline Kennedy at 619-718-9642, ext. 5 or myti@masteryoga.org. If you would like our full course catalog, click here.