Forrest Yoga Advanced Teacher Training Course

What You Will Learn:

Poses: Put into practice and teach intermediate and advanced arm balances, backbends, hip openers, abdominals, vinyasas, inversions, deep forward bends, advanced twists and bound poses. You will first practice the poses and then will coach and spot each other in the morning session. Afternoon training sessions will be dedicated to improving your teaching skills and working with the different injuries, abilities, and challenges your students will bring to the yoga room.

Seeing: Hone your "seeing" skills on anatomical and energetic levels. You will learn how to overcome your habitual seeing - as a yoga instructor - to better witness the whole truth of what your students are presenting in class.

Sequencing: Go beyond basic sequencing and delve into the principles of teaching and healing students with specific injuries. Create sequencing for the setup and optimal implementation of advanced poses. Learn to also increase strength, openness, and intelligence in all areas of your body.

Prioritize: Learn how to address the needs and challenges of your students more efficiently. Begin to address the issues that are of primary importance so that your students will yield the most profound results from your teaching.

Interface: Explore issues that are frequently encountered when working with intermediate and advanced students. Learn to interact with your student and their spirit and help them form an alliance. Healing is a slow process that involves time, patience and honesty for both teacher and student. In order to address the myriad of questions that traditionally come up, Q & A forums are regularly scheduled throughout the week. These intimate, safe sessions are designed so that each trainee has the opportunity to tap into Ana’s 30+ years of teaching experience for answers to some of the tough questions, situations and scenarios that a yoga teacher faces today. Past questions have included: the trainees specific concerns or problems that they encounter in teaching; their own needs in staying inspired and inspiring; developing skill in becoming creative and effective with addressing their own needs and on to whatever path the trainees’ impassioned questions lead us.

Working with Special Needs and Injuries: You will greatly increase your skill working with pregnancy and injuries including back, neck, shoulder, knee, sciatic and hamstring problems as well as post-surgical rehabilitation. Learn to manage the injuries you deal with on a daily basis.

Express the Wisdom of Your Spirit: By observing yourself, others, and receiving direct feedback, you will tighten the circle of understanding between your actions and their effects and become a more effective and compelling teacher. You will also further develop your particular gifts as a teacher to facilitate the greatest results for you and your students. Learn to risk being more truthful and how to speak from the eloquence of your spirit.

Accelerate Your Practice: Through daily intensive yoga and meditation classes you will develop your practice and viscerally experience the poses that you will teach later that day. Each yoga class is specifically designed to relate to the training goals.

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