Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training – Garopaba, Brasil

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200 Hour Yoga Alliance Certified

February 21 – March 20, 2010

Garopaba, Santa Catarina – Brasil

” I thought I was signing up to learn how to do my yoga poses better! I could have never imagined that the month could be such an enriching/life altering experience. Wow!” Kathleen S. TT 2009

Students who successfully complete the training are eligible to register with The Yoga Alliance USA and Aliança do Yoga Brasil as 200 hour certified Yoga Teachers. However, the desire to teach is not required to participate in the training!

This residential training will be at Enchanted Mountain Retreat Center in the South of Brasil. The center is a perfect place to explore and deepen your practice while taking a month to look deeply into your own life, the path of Yoga and the relationship of the two. The program will be taught in English and will be a well represented group of Global Yogi’s from Brasil, the America’s and Europe.

The details of the program and schedule outlines are below and the program will unfold organically as we learn and share together.
Please feel free to contact me via email with any specific questions you have and if you like, we can also schedule a SKYPE call to talk in person about your participation.

OVERVIEW

This month long intensive course is designed to build a solid foundation in the practice of Vinyasa Yoga. Daily asana practices will explore various aspects of Vinyasa with a wide range of sequences and focuses…and lots of lunges and inversions!
With anatomy and physiology of asanas study, we will deepen the awareness of the body, mind, spirit connection in preparation for you to take your practice to the world and as a teacher. The program will help you develop a deep personal practice to inform your teaching as well provide the the skills to be a great yoga teacher.
There will be lots of practice teaching, group evaluations and feedback to help you discover and fine tune your teaching voice.
In addition to the Asana practice, this training will be a transformational experience as we explore various aspects of Yoga with afternoon lectures and discussions.Topics will include:

Sequencing Postures
Adjustments
Meditation
Mantra / Bhakti Yoga
Pranayama
Kriyas
Acro-Yoga
Business of Yoga
Teaching Voice
Class Structure
Yoga and Ecology
Sanskrit
Karma Yoga
Anatomy
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Mudras
Community building
8 Limbs of Ashtanga Yoga
Practice teaching
Ethics for Yoga Teachers
Chakras / Energy Bodies

LOCATION

We have selected Enchanted Mountain in Santa Catarina for this training. This beautiful and complete retreat center has fully equipped yoga studios, comfortable and cozy living arrangements and a full kitchen staff to serve our vegetarian meals.To get to Garopaba, it is best to fly to FLORIANOPOLIS, BRASIL (airport code – FLN). We can help arrange ground transportation at an additional cost from the airport to the retreat center.

At Enchanted Mountain Center, you will discover the magic of this unique meeting of mountain, forest, lakes and sea while you reconnect with the inner enchantment of peace and harmony within your being. The Center is located in the heart of the temperate rainforest on a site of over 50 acres with views of lakes, mountains, white sand dunes, and the Southern Atlantic Ocean. The Center has a feeling of peace and tranquility while at the same time, you’re only 10 minutes from the beach and 15 minutes from the village of Garopaba.

The Yoga spaces are open and beautiful with premiere quality recycled hardwood floors which provide the perfect atmosphere for Yoga, meditation, or other activities.

The housing units for two to four people are spacious and comfortable, each with a private bath and decorated with Brazilian handicrafts. Each unit has ocean or mountain views and is surrounded with unique trees and vegetation of the temperate rainforest. The property has a natural pool fed by a spring of crystal water.

Keeping in mind that healthy natural cuisine is a foundation of well-being, Enchanted Montain offers an excellent variety of vegetarian dishes lovingly prepared in a home-style kitchen. Most of the vegetable and salads are organically grown in our local area and breakfast is highlighted with a buffet of fresh tropical Brazilian fruits. The dining room offers both indoor and open air dining.

PRICES

Registration and payment in Brasil is handled by:
YOGASHALA – FLORIANOPOLIS
Others contact David directly via email

2350 Euros / $3000 US

There is a payment plan available as well which is broken out into several payment installments. Please email for more details if you are interested in this.

The above prices include:
* Cost of the Yoga Training (including Teacher Training Manual)
* Shared accommodations in a double room (there is additional charge for single room)
* 3 meals per day

Not Included:
* Transportation to / from Garopaba, Brasil (please note, we will assist you with group transportation to/from FLORIANOPOLIS AIRPORT at a separate cost)
* Additional food and beverage outside of the meal plan
* Required reading books

SAMPLE DAILY AGENDA

7:15 – 9:30  Asana Practice
9:30 – 10:30 Breakfast
10:30 – 12:15 Session I (Theory, practicum, lecture, etc)
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 4:30 Siesta / Free Time
4:30 – 6:30 Session II
6:30 – 8:00 Dinner
8:30 – 9:30 Wisdom Circle / Journal Writing

The classes are Sunday – Friday with Saturday as the day off

REQUIRED READING BEFORE THE TRAINING
Tree of Yoga by B.K.S. Iyengar

SUGGESTED READING (not required, but helpful)
Heart of Yoga by Desikachar
Yoga Anatomy by Leslie Kaminoff
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (any version)

TEACHING STAFF

David Lurey – David was introduced to Yoga in 1996 as a way to tone his body and relieve work related stress. Using those as a foundation for building an Asana practice, the other limbs of Patanjali’s Ashtanga Yoga began to unfold leading him to the path of teaching transformational Yoga.
Using various spiritual teachings as guidelines for classes, David takes students through opening and often challenging Asanas while encouraging the magical power of breath and mental stillness to cultivate the true loving nature of the heart.
David is the primary teacher for this program and will lead roughly 145 hours

Mirjam Wagner – As a certified PILATES and YOGA teacher with many years of various masage and healing arts practice, Swiss born Mirjam has found her total passion in the study and application of OSTEOPATHY. Her complete and profound knowledge of the human body, as well as enthusiasm and sincere interest in human well being, give her access to healing modalities that treat the true origin of most types of physical pain. Today, Mirjam lives and works on Mallorca, Spain. She also teaches anatomy classes in different countries around the world for a variety of programs from Yoga teacher training to body/mind conferences. She is driven by a strong curiosity that feeds her purpose to investigate a deeper understanding of nature and the miracle of the human body.
For more information and to contact Mirjam, please visit: http://www.mw-rebalance.com/

Camila Reitz – Camla was born in Brazil and practicing and studying yoga for the last 17 years. She has traveled to India three times to deepen her Yogic living. Among the teachers that inspired and shaped her teachings are Dena Kingsberg, David Lurey, Gloria Arieira and Clayton Horton. She is the director of Yogashala in Florianopolis and has a degree in Physical Education. She teaches trainings and workshops in Brazil and other countries. Her goal as a teacher is to inspire students to practice and find their own inner freedom.
To find out more about her work visit her Portuguese website: www.yogashala.com.br , www.devi.com.br/formacao

Joseph and Lillian LePage
Joseph is the founder and director of Integrative Yoga Therapy and the primary teacher in all IYT training programs. His approach to teaching has been influenced by Kripalu Yoga and Tibetan Buddhism as well as studies in India where he lived for two years. Joseph has traveled in more than a hundred countries studying ancient ways of wisdom and varied approaches to healing.

Lilian has practiced Yoga for 23 years and has been teaching for 17. She graduated from the four year teacher training program of Vayuananda and also completed a three year Vedanta study course on the Bhagavad Gita. Lilian’s gentle approach focuses on Pranayama, Mudra, Bandha and Meditation.

Joseph and Lillian will lead 10 hours of the training (mudras, chakras and yogic theory)
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Yoga teacher training is an opportunity to look very deeply at your life and relationship to yourself and other beings. This program will be a transformational month of Asana, philosophy, group dynamics, connecting to Nature and introspection. Participants will come from all over the world with many different backgrounds and histories which will add to the learning process.The course is designed to help you develop a personal practice to educate your teaching as well as finding and developing the tools to be a great teacher. Practice teaching and evaluation will be a major part of the program and we will all explore the path of Yoga on many levels.

Please feel free to contact me if you have specific questions about whether this course is ‘right’ for you. I prefer to have those conversations before the training knowing that the Asana I teach, the work I do and time and location may not be the right fit for everyone.

It is with great gratitude and honor that I send out this information for Teacher Training. As Yoga has been such a strong and positive force in my life leading me to this place I am now, I feel a strong responsibility to share the knowledge, insight and love that I have received from my practice with the world. It is this intention that I plant for this training and hope that we can harvest the fruits together.
With Light and Love,
David

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2010 TT Application