Yoga Teacher Training Course Curriculum
Our teacher training materials include up to date, relevant and pertinent key information geared to support all level yoga classes, and both warm up as well as advanced postures, keeping students free of injury.
In our yoga teacher training course, the instructor will provide the simple and most direct language to help you learn the material one lesson at a time. With lots of one to one support, honest feedback, and encouragement, you will find as the course develops, and the eight building blocks are taught, greater self confidence and understanding for your own unique style!
Clayton Yoga’s mission is to provide you with the best quality training possible.
A unique and special feature of this course is that the training begins as soon as you sign up! Over the past ten years, we have collected the best yoga photos, articles and research findings and placed the best of all collected information in a new Private Yoga Membership Site for your added convenience.
Private Membership Site
From the moment that you sign up, we will send you access to our all new Private Yoga Membership Site. Only available for yoga teacher training participants, this site will inspire and motivate you to begin absorbing, learning and integrating the best yoga tools offered in the industry today.
The Best Yoga Instructional Materials Offered in the Yoga Marketplace Today
Also, when you sign up, we will provide you help on acquiring a key list of Yoga Instructional Materials. These top quality DVD’s and books will save you money in the long run, by providing you with the best up to date, simple, and direct instructions on Ashtanga Yoga, Anatomy of Yoga and Yin Yoga and ongoing Skype Coaching calls to help you assimilate the material.
Skype Coaching Calls
Skype Coaching Calls will give you ongoing support and direct group access to the course instructor. Each call is designed to help you feel good about the yoga training. You are provided with many exciting take home step by step instructions to building the yoga practice of your dreams! We also have keynote speakers and journaling assignments which help you to become confident, authentic, and live the life of your dreams.
To learn more about the daily schedule of this yoga teacher training course, please go to this webpage here: http://claytonyogainternational.com/daily-schedule/.
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Yoga Breathing and Restorative Practice
Our breath is both voluntary and involuntary. We have the power to practice breathing, and when we oxygenate deeply, our body and mind shifts from fight or flight mode into deep relaxation. According to yoga, we must undergo change in order to remain healthy which is why a certain amount of stress is beneficial.
In this training course, you will learn to regulate your breathing, play the edge, and ignite the spirit. When we do, yoga helps us to resist less, embrace life more, and ignite compassionate, forgiveness and a detached outlook, creating new space, possibilities and opportunities for growth and dynamic support. We increase our parasympathetic portion of the nervous system and in turn heal, repair our body, and bring clarity to the mind.
Ashtanga Yoga
Pattabi Jois, a world known expert on Ashtanga says that when we practice regularly, everything we need will be provided. We must be the one to create conditions of health, and just like a seed is planted, it must also be tended to daily, nurtured, watered and with regular practice, new insights and understanding grows.
Learning the primary sequence of Ashtanga helps provide a safe yoga sequence for all level students, massage the internal organs and teach us to resist less, embrace life more, and ignite forgiveness and developed a more detached outlook. Within that newfound space, new possibilities and opportunities for growth and dynamic support will arise.
Yin Yoga
Holding certain postures for longer periods of time increases our stamina, meditation skills, and deep relaxation for the body and mind. Here, we will learn 12-15 essential Yin Yoga Postures, with their modifications and adjustments to see just how these amazing weight bearing poses improve our joints and youthful energy and body glow.
Sanskrit
We will develop our language skills through the practice, demonstration, teaching and confidence of 30-50 sanskrit terms.
IMG_2598Modifications and Adjustments
Many students are unsure, nervous or apprehensive about their own ability to be successful with yoga. Modifications and adjustments are helpful tools to encourage students to go at his or her own level.
In this Clayton Yoga International Training, we will learn the modification for every yoga posture (excluding the fifty best yoga warm up postures found in the yoga manual). Each teacher is instrumental in providing this positive backdrop to which students can feel free to go at their own pace.
Anatomy
Outside of breathing, proper anatomy is one of the most important tools used in teaching and practicing yoga. Postures are to be practiced in a safe and supportive manner. Students will learn anatomy as a way of breaking down complex, advanced postures in order to assimilate and absorb greater understanding of anatomical building blocks open every body type safely and with inspiration.
Sequence Development
Learn to create for yourself, challenging sequences to quiet the mind, open up vitality, and release layers of tension and stress for all backgrounds for all yoga level classes.
Bring Yoga Into the Everyday World
Clayton Yoga International Training teaches you the relevant information you need to know and how to apply yoga and these powerful tools into your everyday life. In this course, we begin with the study of the eight fold path and learn how to bring the moral precepts of Ashtanga and non-harm into the everyday. Through the application and practice of our daily yoga practice, together we learn how to play the edge of each pose, follow the breath, rewire our nervous system and prime our brain to receive the vitality, support and universal energy to help us tackle any life situation and learn to thrive.
Seven key ways to absorb our training
The practice of Yoga which means “to harness” or “unite” is a purification or pulling back from the blocks, ego or limitations in order to reveal our true light or truth. The path of self-mastery and uncovering of our true nature can often be a life long journey. That is why we emphasize 7 key areas to help you absorb the information of the training course and inspire you to take your practice to the next level.
Access to the Clayton Yoga Private Training Site
The best part of this yoga course is the access you will receive to our very own private membership site. This website is filled with a wealth of content for you. Included in this website are marketing tips, anatomy and adjustments photos, expert lecture and guest speakers covering various off the yoga mat topics such as nutrition and lifestyle topics, teacher bio’s, and other “cutting edge” yoga articles and over 200 yoga research findings.
When you sign up for the training course, throughout the training and for six months following the yoga course, you will receive access to this remarkable training site.
Developing a Daily Yoga Practice
Practicing yoga each day, clears out space mentally, and allows you to develop greater inner strength. When you sit inside these yoga postures and notice your breath, you become still and detached. Whether the correct yoga tools are practiced at home or by attending yoga classes, this is not important. What is key is to continue to practice regularly, keeping an open mind and just letting go. A daily yoga practice will improve your learning, sharing and produce a humble heart thus preparing you for more universal wisdom to flow and a lifetime of blessings to follow. By far one of the best ways to absorb your new learning is to practice yoga on a regular basis.
Journaling
In our yoga training, we provide many types of yoga handouts that cover goal setting, aligning with our own unique values, action steps, ways to better acknowledge accomplishment, thus shedding negative, fearful or false beliefs. Journaling acknowledges or spriit, and slows down an overly active mind thus clarifying any issues that may arise from learning new concepts. The act of writing prioritizies what is important, develops a lighter and joyous heart, and strengthens our resolve to listen and learn from a higher place.
Yoga Buddy
The success in presentation of our training materials depends largely on the level of understanding from each individual member. Reviewing the material with a yoga buddy offers you more support, feedback and encouragement. Each day, we include one hour of yoga buddy time which provides an excellent tool to discover yourself and offer you more personal freedom to cover material you are interested in.
Practice with the Group
Incorporating new yoga postures and learning to teach those postures is a skill, not a talent, so be patient with yourself as you develop taking the lead. The course offers plenty of time for students to actually practice their new skills.
Yoga Off the Mat
At Clayton Yoga, we believe strongly that great yoga and a great life go hand in hand. When we feel great, we make better choices. Yoga is not about perfecting a pose, it’s about elevating our lifestyle, expanding what is possible, and being willing to take more risks. Taking action from greater clarity, fun, and vitality, we bring power, transformation and balance within our mind and on the planet.