Program Overview

You are invited to join us in offering service to the world. Training as a Svaroopa^® yoga teacher prepares you to serve others by uplifting one body (and heart) at a time, beginning with your own. The trainings will ground you in a strong personal practice while preparing you to teach from your rapidly expanding knowledge and understanding. Your own personal practice of the asanas is not enough to make you an effective teacher because you need training that prepares you to work with other people's bodies. You also need more than the physical practices and the related anatomy, because yoga is much more than working with the body. Training as a Teacher includes learning to help students with their minds as well as their bodies, plus learning to use Svaroopa® yoga's tools to take them to the deeper dimension within.

Svaroopa^® YTT provides you with all the tools you need to be an informed, experienced and compassionate teacher. YTT focuses on the details that new teachers typically use during their first two years of teaching, including:

100+ yoga asanas (poses), including personalized adjustments
Anatomy & physiology
Teaching methodology
Assisted and supervised teaching experience
Meditation
Yoga's philosophy of consciousness
Study of Sanskrit terminology
Chanting and mantras
Asana classes
Hour-long Shavasanas
Full year of coaching and mentorship
Personal guidance and support in a nurturing environment

Foundations of Svaroopa^® Yoga

This program offers a profound experience, which will deepen your own practice as well as prepare you to share yoga with others. You will be trained in 16 foundational asanas (poses) of Svaroopa^® yoga. These primary asanas are explored in detail, including working with partners to learn how to do adjustments. The course includes guided relaxations, chanting and meditation, and asana classes as well as an introduction to anatomy and to key yogic texts. You will receive a complete set of handouts for each of the asanas taught. You will leave this program able to teach these asanas to beginning students.

June 20 - 24 Antioch, IL
Enrollment: Contact Kathy Johnson at rosebud@james-johnson.net
June 27 - July 1 Malvern, PA
Enrollment: Select date and click Enroll below
July 25 - 29 Chelmsford, MA
Enrollment: Contact Becky Bronson at becky.bronson@bbyoga.com
August 1 - 6 Mount Madonna, Watsonville, CA
Enrollment: Contact Mount Madonna at www.mountmadonna.org
August 22 - 26 Malvern, PA
Enrollment: Select date and click Enroll below
October 24 - 28 Malvern, PA
Enrollment: Select date and click Enroll below

Prerequisites: None

Members Tuition: early (6 weeks prior) - $ 505, late - $ 545
Non-Members Tuition: early (6 weeks prior) - $ 530, late - $ 575
Materials: $35

Core Intensives—Level 1, Level 2, Level 3, Level 4

Four nine-day Intensives (YTT Levels 1 through 4) form the core of our teacher training program. This format immerses you in yoga, creating a profound opportunity for personal growth and transformation of your body, mind, heart, soul and more. Course materials include handouts with detailed descriptions of the poses, including their benefits, mechanics, anatomy, and teaching methodology. In addition to developing the depth of your yoga experience, you are specifically trained to teach classes and help individual students get the best results in poses.

Prerequisites: Foundations of Svaroopa^® Yoga within 6 months of first Intensive, or a Foundations Review.

YTT Dates

Level 1

February 22 - March 2 2008 • Fallbrook CA
May 2 - 11 2008 • Emu Park, QLD, Australia
July 11 - 20 2008 • Malvern PA

Level 2

January 18 - 27 2008 • Malvern PA
March 28 - April 6 2008 • Malvern PA
August 15 - 24 2008 • Fallbrook CA
September 5 - 14 2008 • Emu Park QLD Australia
November 14 - 23 2008 • Malvern PA

Level 3

May 16 - 25 2008 • Malvern PA
August 1 - 10 2008 • Fallbrook CA

Level 4

January 4 - 13 2008 • Fallbrook CA
October 3 - 12 2008 • Malvern PA

Components

Component 1—Includes Levels 1 and 2 and DTS Level 1 and 2 Themes
Component 2—Includes Levels 3 and 4 and DTS Level 3 and 4 Themes

Note: Students who allow more than 6 months to elapse between any 2 9-Day Intensives are required to re-take or take any EYTS or YTT course (including Foundations, Foundations Review, Embodyment, and Experiential Anatomy) before continuing on to the next intensive.

Component 1 Tuition and Enrollment

Members Tuition: early (6 weeks prior) - $ 3580, late - $ 3895
Non-Members Tuition: early (6 weeks prior) - $ 3770, late - $ 4100
Materials: $100

Component 2 Tuition and Enrollment

Members Tuition: early (6 weeks prior) - $ 3580, late - $ 3895
Non-Members Tuition: early (6 weeks prior) - $ 3770, late - $ 4100
Materials: $100

Develop Your Teaching Skills (DTS)

Once you have completed your Intensive, you begin the DTS training. While you are guided and supported by a personal Mentor, this is a self-study program in which you review all the material covered in your One-Level Intensive, as well as plan how to teach your classes for your students.

There are three teaching themes covered in each DTS module:

Level 1 Themes—Daily Practice, Lower Spinal Release, Upper Spinal Release
Level 2 Themes—Abdominals, Backbends, Standing Poses
Level 3 Themes—Forward Bends, Neck & Shoulders, Balance & Inversions
Level 4 Themes—Classical Poses, Vinyasa, Twists & Seated Poses

These four modules are correspondence courses that you complete from your home. You work in teams of two or three students along with your Mentor, to enhance your ability to translate the material from your Intensive into the actual teaching you are doing in the classroom. Through telephone conference calls and by the reviewing and sharing of lesson plans, you and your team refine your teaching skills and get all your questions answered.

You are qualified as a 200-hour R.Y.T. with Yoga Alliance upon your successful completion of Levels 1 & 2 and their DTS Modules. When you successfully complete all 4 9-Day courses, all four DTS Modules, Embodyment and Experiential Anatomy, you are qualified as a 500-hour R.Y.T. and as a Certified Svaroopa^® Yoga Teacher. For more information about applying to become a 200- or 500-hour RYT you can go to www.yogaalliance.org.

Enrich Your Teaching Skills (EYTS)

EYTS courses are available to you throughout your YTT training and after you graduate. This new lifelong learning model will enable you to integrate teacher training, yoga techniques, and yoga philosophy into your life at a pace and intensity to suit your learning style, your budget, and your schedule. New EYTS courses will be added every year, fully supporting your evolution and development as a teacher for years to come.

Teacher Forum Calls

Conference phone calls with Rama

Friday February 8, 2008 10:00am - 12:00pm (EST) / 7:00am - 9:00am (PST)
Tuesday March 4, 2008 7:00pm - 9:00pm (EST) / 4:00pm - 6:00pm (PST)
Monday June 2, 2008 2:00pm - 4:00pm (EST) / 11:00am - 1:00pm (PST)

You get to ask about your students, Embodyment clients or your own practice and process. Rama gives detailed explanations about each question, with the fine points that we didn't have time for in YTT. You will be inspired by the other teachers on the call as you hear their stories and learn from their questions. Enroll early as the group size is limited.

Registration: Call James at 619-718-9642, ext. 16, or email james@masteryoga.org

Prerequisite: Foundations or YTT

Members Tuition: early (6 weeks prior) - $ 40, late - $ 45

Yoga Therapy Forum Calls

Conference phone calls with Rama

Thursday January 17, 2008 3:00pm - 5:00pm (EST) / 12:00pm - 2:00pm (PST)
Tuesday February 19, 2008 12:00pm - 2:00pm (EST) / 9:00am - 11:00am (PST)

Get detailed help with your clients from Rama in these small group calls, while you learn from the questions raised by the other therapists. Hear about the challenging conditions other therapists are treating as well as the success stories that follow. Get Rama's help no matter where you live, so you can maximize how you apply your training to your clients' real life needs.

Registration: Call James at 619-718-9642, ext. 16, or email james@masteryoga.org

Prerequisite: ATT or EYTS Yoga Therapy course

Members Tuition: early (6 weeks prior) - $ 40, late - $ 45

Note: Your enrollment fee for these Forum calls is paid directly to STC, Inc. and provides financial support to Rama personally. When you register, you will receive an email with the phone number to call and the code to enter to get into the call. It may be a long distance call for you. These call are not recorded.

Teaching Yoga Sutras 1: Leading a Discussion Group

WINTER COURSE: Wednesdays - January 16, February 6, February 27, April 2, 2008 from 2:00 to 4:00 pm (Eastern Time) / 11:00 am to 1:00 pm (Pacific Time)
SUMMER COURSE: Tuesdays - June 3, July 1, July 22, August 19, 2008 from 1:00 to 3:00 pm (Eastern Time) / 10:00 am to noon (Pacific Time)

Course held by conference calls

Lead a monthly discussion group and help your students understand the deeper experiences that they are already having. Inspire them to recognize their yoga experiences and carry them into their life. Facilitate their sharing of their breakthroughs with each other and with you, while you build your yoga community. The relationships they build in your yoga philosophy discussion group will motivate their continuing commitment to classes and deepen their understanding of yoga's application in their life. Begin teaching the profound principles of yoga philosophy to your students with this foundational training. This is the first course of the new training track that will certify you to teach sutras and yoga philosophy. In this telephone course, you take the first step toward teaching yoga philosophy - learning to listen and lead your students through meaningful dialogue. You will lead thought-provoking sessions using Rama's theme articles as the jumping-off point. Rama trains you to prepare your program, to moderate the group discussion, to handle controversy, and to integrate your student's understanding. You will be able to answer challenging questions with confidence as well as offer solutions that redirect students' questions inward, encouraging the practice of self-inquiry as part of their continuing yoga experience. This course is TYS #1.

Prerequisite: Foundations or any YTT Level completed within the past 2 years. Certified Svaroopa^® Yoga teachers are eligible without any prerequisite.

Members Tuition: early (6 weeks prior) - $ 480, late - $ 525

DTS Personal Coaching

Now you can have a personal DTS coach to inspire you, answer your questions, and help you deepen your understanding of Svaroopa® yoga's profound lesson planning principles. This home-study program is a professional training for Svaroopa^® yoga teachers, through 5 private phone meetings with your DTS coach. In your first call, you will create a Personal Study Plan that can help you with a full review of the Key Principles or how you apply them in your lesson plans and in the classroom. This is great for helping you with organization, motivation and clarity, as well as general yogic support. Repeat as many times as you like!

Course Tuition: $295 plus you call your coach for each of your 5 phone sessions.

Teaching Half Day Workshops

August 11 - 15 • Malvern, PA

Take your students deeper by expanding your teaching skills, which also enhances your income potential. Learn poses to use in your 3- or 4-hour workshops, along with variations and adjustments that make the experience meaningful for your students. Weave yoga's teachings throughout your workshop to deepen the content and effect with easy- to-understand elements of yoga's ancient philosophy. You will be able to offer your students these special workshops on a regular basis, in several new Themes: Heart Openers, Discovering Inner Clarity, Finding Center, Body Basics, and more.

Prerequisite: YTT Level 2 & DTS 2

Members Tuition: early (6 weeks prior) - $ 720, late - $ 790
Non-Members Tuition: early (6 weeks prior) - $ 760, late - $ 830

Senior Teacher Training

not offered in 2008

When you inspire your students to go farther in their study and practice, everyone grows! Especially you grow, when you send a student to Teacher Training or the Deeper Studies Programs. You need mentoring skills and practical support for you while your students are becoming your peers or as they negotiate the rapids along the way. The Senior Teacher program is designed to help you help them, and gives you a more comprehensive understanding of what they are learning. As a Senior Teacher, you also gain Master Yoga's support with official recognition for your leadership, more visibility and recognition, and new teaching/coaching opportunities. For full information about our Senior Teacher Program, call Caroline at 619-718-9642 ext 5. The Senior Teacher Training includes several components:

Three Conference Calls with Rama
Vichara Training
Senior Teachers Training

For full information about our Senior Teacher Program, call Caroline at 619-718-9642 ext 5.

Vichara Training

not offered in 2008

Vichara is a process of self-inquiry, giving you tools that work with your mind in a way similar to how the Svaroopa^® yoga poses work with your body. It is a process of exploring inward, to uncover the tight spots in your mind and emotions, and to unravel them compassionately, quickly and effectively. Vichara is a much-needed tool which enables you to include your mind in the process of inner opening that Svaroopa^® yoga poses provide. You may have experienced a taste of Vichara if you have received a private session from a Svaroopa^® Yoga Therapist. This Vichara training takes what our therapists work with to a significantly deeper level, while giving you the tools to work with your mind in a whole new way. At the same time that you are trained to delve deeply into your own issues, you will learn how to help others in their own exploration, tracing difficulties to their source in order to access the inner answers. The work replaces old patterns with a yogic perspective creating clarity and ease. For those who are not Svaroopa^® yoga teachers, this training for how to do vichara on your own mind is part of Rama's 7-day Retreat "Radical Openings2".

Prerequisites: Successful completion of YTT Level 3, Embodyment® Training and Meditation Made Easy/Deeper, and a SAT member in good standing. In addition, the student must complete 2 vichara sessions with Rama before this training (these can be done by phone).

Members Tuition: early (6 weeks prior) - $ 880, late - $ 945
Non-Members Tuition: early (6 weeks prior) - $ 925, late - $ 995

New & Renew Level 1

canceled for 2008

Learn the newest poses and adjustments included in YTT Level 1, including new adjustments and teaching protocols for Sukhasana, Janushirshasana, Supta Janushirshasana, Alternate Leg and Ardha Mandukasana. Develop new tools and a deeper understanding of SloMo, Seated Side Stretch, Kurmasana, Shavasana and Yoga Mudra. Learn a new head adjustment for Supported Fish and new adjustments for Vidalasana 1. Reinvigorate your understanding and teaching of the most important Svaroopa® yoga poses.

Prerequisite: YTT Level 1

Course Tuition: $450; Paid 30 days prior: $395

New & Renew Level 2

canceled for 2008

Expand your expertise and deepen your experience of the poses included in YTT Level 2, including new adjustments in Pigeon Backbend and Pigeon with Dhanurasana Leg. Learn the new teaching protocols for Child's Pose, Vidalasana 2 and Virabhadrasana 1. Finesse your understanding of the anatomy and experiential use of your abdominal muscles in a variety of challenging poses. Fine tune your Dhanurasana Leg and learn a variation that was previously taught only in ATT. You will return home with a new clarity and enthusiasm that is guaranteed when you work deeply with abs and backbends.

Prerequisite: YTT Level 2

Course Tuition: $450; Paid 30 days prior: $395

Special Needs Yoga

May 4- 8 • Malvern, PA

The Foundations course prepared you to teach the most important poses of Svaroopa^® yoga to most people. But teachers need special tools to safely and effectively work with students, friends, and family members who have significantly limited flexibility, serious pain or illness, or are recovering from an injury or surgery.

This course provides the tools you need to begin to work with students who are "outside-the-bell-curve." You will review poses from Foundations, and then learn to modify them to meet the needs of students who aren't yet able to reach or maintain the angles of the regular poses.

Note: This information has previously only been taught in Advanced Teacher Training courses. The advanced courses will continue to provide more extensive training in this subject.

Prerequisites: Foundations of Svaroopa^® Yoga completed within the past 2 years.

Members Tuition: early (6 weeks prior) - $ 720, late - $ 790
Non-Members Tuition: early (6 weeks prior) - $ 760, late - $ 830

Deceptive Flexibility

not offered in 2008

You may have some students who are able to move very far into poses without effort—maybe even further than you! But they could be paying a very high cost for this deceptive flexibility. Their spinal muscles work overtime and their hip ligaments are over-stretched so they can move into those extreme angles. This ultimately causes an instability in the hip joints and tremendous spinal compression, which can lead to early hip replacement surgery, arthritis in the hips and/or spine, and serious digestive problems.

Svaroopa^® yoga provides the tools to help them heal the damage they are unknowingly causing. This course will teach you how to spot hyperflexible students, how to prop them (or yourself!) for maximum effectiveness, and most importantly, how to work with their minds to transcend the "picture perfect" paradigm they've brought from dance backgrounds, other yoga styles, or athletic practices.

Prerequisites: Foundations of Svaroopa^® Yoga completed within the past 2 years.

Members Tuition: early (6 weeks prior) - $ 370, late - $ 405
Non-Members Tuition: early (6 weeks prior) - $ 390, late - $ 425

Teaching Without Props

September 27 - 29 • Malvern, PA

OK, so you've got students but no props: what do you do? Learn ways to teach Svaroopa^® yoga when there's not a blanket, block, strap, or eyebag to be found! By the end of this 3-day workshop, you will know how to teach students to find support on the inside and carry it with them wherever they go, be it work, play, or even sleep.

Prerequisites: Foundations of Svaroopa^® Yoga completed within the past 2 years.

Members Tuition: early (6 weeks prior) - $ 370, late - $ 405
Non-Members Tuition: early (6 weeks prior) - $ 390, late - $ 425

Embodyment^®

February 3 - 8 • Malvern, PA
March 9 - 14 • Fallbrook, CA
September 21 - 26 • Malvern, PA

Embodyment^® is a "hands-on-healing" modality based on the principles of Svaroopa^® yoga. This five-day course includes the techniques of Embodyment along with the related anatomy and yoga philosophy from the yoga text, Pratyabhijnahrdayam.

The Training is primarily experiential, which means you receive Embodyment sessions as well as give them to other students. You will experience your body opening as easily as a blossoming rose and will understand the power of opening your spine in a whole new way. This will inspire and uplift your teaching abilities, as well as prepare you to give private sessions, which complement your skills as a yoga teacher. It also will provide you with additional income potential while you serve your students effectively.

Prerequisites: Foundations of Svaroopa^® Yoga.

Members Tuition: early (6 weeks prior) - $ 760, late - $ 825
Non-Members Tuition: early (6 weeks prior) - $ 800, late - $ 870
Materials Fee $35

Embodyment^® Weekend

December 5 - 7 • Warren, MA
Registration: Nancy Nowak, 413-436-7374, nancynowak@comcast.net

Spend the weekend giving and receiving Embodyment sessions. The hand positions taught in the Embodyment Course will be reviewed. Your body will open dramatically as you spend the Levelend in this profoundly healing state.

Prerequisites: Foundations of Svaroopa^® Yoga and Embodyment^®.

Course Tuition: Contact host for information.

Embodyment Plus

not offered in 2008

This five-day course is an introduction to using Svaroopa^® yoga poses in a private yoga therapy session. Mastery of the Embodyment^® hand positions and the Spinal Walk-Up is our starting point, and is the reason for the prerequisites. You will learn new tools for working with your clients for maximum benefit as well as tools for working with High Risk clients. Until now, these Yoga Therapy techniques have only been taught in our Advanced Teacher Training courses.

Prerequisites: Foundations of Svaroopa^® Yoga, Embodyment^® and Embodyment^® Weekend.

Course Tuition: $595; Paid 30 days prior: $495

Foundations Review

February 20 - 22 • Fallbrook, CA
April 30 - May 2 • Emu Park, QL, Australia
July 9 - 11 • Malvern, PA

You will refresh your knowledge of the basic Svaroopa^® yoga poses, with a bonus of chanting, meditation and optional asana classes. This program fulfills the Continuing Education requirement for Svaroopa^® yoga Teachers and also fills any gap of more than six months in YTT. If you already have a gap of more than 6 months, you may also need a Teaching Review in order to regain your active status.

Prerequisites: Foundations of Svaroopa^® Yoga.

Members Tuition: early (6 weeks prior) - $ 230, late - $ 250
Non-Members Tuition: early (6 weeks prior) - $ 240, late - $ 260

Meditation Teacher Training

to be held in 2009

This course focuses on deepening your inner experience in meditation as well as training you how to teach others. You are trained to offer a Meditation Course spanning over three class meetings, providing your students with tools to make their meditation deep and easy from the beginning. A significant amount of your Meditation Teacher Training is focused on developing your inner experience of meditation. You will be trained to answer your students questions from your own profound understanding of meditation through the inner experiences that unfold with the Svaroopa^® yoga tools. You will graduate this course as a Svaroopa® Meditation Teacher.

Plan ahead to complete your prerequisites for this training, as all 3 prerequisites must have been completed (or retaken) within 18 months of the Meditation Teacher Training course.

Prerequisites: Foundations of Svaroopa^® Yoga or Foundations Review; Embodyment^®; Meditation Made Easy completed or retaken within 18 months of Meditation Teacher Training .

Members Tuition: early (6 weeks prior) - $ 1395, late - $ 1520
Non-Members Tuition: early (6 weeks prior) - $ 1470, late - $ 1600

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