This training is created to give you the foundation you need to be able to practice and teach, if you choose to do so, Hatha Yoga and Yin Yoga in a Mindful way.
What does that mean? Hatha is the proverbial style, the one where most contemporary styles derived from. In this frame we operate a lot with muscles, alignment and strengthening the body and the mind. In Yin, a passive style, we work more on joints, compression and flexibility. These opposite ways doing yoga are intertwined with a Mindful approach that will help you reap all the benefits from what you do in the mat and out into the world.
We promise to give you the most up to date information available to us at the time you complete the training. We truly believe the best teacher is an active student. We are always learning, training, studying and growing ourselves.
We offer our perspective, based on our lifelong training and experience. You will create your own perspective as you start teaching yoga classes and working with students. If you happen to come across information or have an experience that brings up questions or uncertainties for you, please feel free to reach out to us at any time. What might be right for one body or mind, might not be for another one.
We are always evolving, and we will learn from you as much as you will learn (hopefully) from us.
This training is over 200 hours in total, with a very ambitious content plan, and you will be always encouraged to know more than the basics, and we will suggest ways to increase your knowledge on every subject we discuss and to make the tools you get from us your own. We are here to see you thrive.
We want you to go through this training “feet first”, dwelling into the experience. That was the way Yoga was taught in ancient times, with a lot of listening and questioning. We are going to lecture, debate and practice as a pedagogical method. In that sense, an old prescription for learning in Sanskrit says: “Sh’ravana, Manana, Nididhyaasa”.
Sh’ravana means listening attentively, without mental comment; Manana means clarifications, contradictions and implications; and Nididhyaasa means meditating on the meaning behind the words. In other words: listen, clarify and question, apprehend the meaning behind the language.
