For Graduates of 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Programs
When you’re ready to build on your 200-hour yoga teaching certification, the 500-hour program offers a plan for deep growth as a practitioner and teacher. 500-hour Prairie Yoga Teacher Training begins with Part 1: Intermediate Training. For those interested in further study and 500-hour certification, the path continues with Part 2: Advanced Training.
We offer a comprehensive, unified program designed to refine your teaching and sequencing skills. You will study yoga philosophy and energetics in-depth and develop expertise in adaptation and therapeutic yoga. Graduates become specialized and highly skilled yoga teachers who can make a living teaching private lessons, specialized classes and workshops to a wide variety of students.
500 HOUR PART 1: INTERMEDIATE TRAINING
Open to teachers who have completed a 200-hour yoga teacher training program.
The Intermediate Training is the first step toward earning 500-hour certification. The 45 hour course serves as a bridge between your 200 hour yoga teacher training and Part 2: Advanced Training. The training provides an in-depth intermediate-level focus on asana, pranayama, sequencing and teaching skills. We will study the yoga sutras with a big picture view and learn the essence of yoga as a system.
Refine Your Own Practice. Train Your “Teaching Eye” to Help Students.
We refine your understanding of alignment in asana and help you with specific issues that arise for you and your students. Train your eyes to see and your body to feel unhealthy habitual patterns and then learn how to guide yourself and your students into healthy movements. The Intermediate Training will take your practice and your teaching to a deeper level.
Learn How to Sequence to Prepare Students for More Challenging Asana
You learn how to sequence for different categories of asana, to create energetic effects and how to use simple asana to prepare for complex asana.
Clarify Your Teaching Skills
Learn how to demonstrate visually, cue clearly and adjust students manually to support your teaching.
Recommended for All Yoga Teachers!
Part 1 Intermediate Training can be taken without continuing into the Part 2: Advanced Training. The Intermediate Training qualifies for Yoga Alliance Continuing Education credits.
Topics
- Fine-tune alignment of intermediate-level: standing poses, forward bends, twists, back bends, padmasana, sarvangasana, sirsasana (and their variations), and restorative
- Sequence for apex poses, different categories of asana and to create energetic effects
- Establish a personal pranayama practice
- Learn how to link key concepts throughout a class
- Clarify your verbal cueing and provide effective visual demonstrations
- Look at the overall yoga sutra system from a wide perspective.
COURSEWORK
The Intermediate Training involves practice, hands-on training and group discussions. Homework is kept to a minimum, typically about 10 hours total over the entire course. Your full commitment and attendance is required, so please adjust your schedule accordingly. We understand the occasional conflicts with family events or the unexpected emergency, but repeated tardiness, absences or early departures are not acceptable.
Books
The Prairie Yoga Intermediate Training manual is included in your tuition. No additional books are required.
REGISTRATION
PDF: April-May 2013 Weekend Program: Intermediate Training Flyer and Registration Form
PDF: Fall 2013 Tuesday Program: Intermediate Training Flyer and Registration Form
If you have registration questions, please call the studio at (630) 968-3216.
If you have questions on the content of the program, contact Lori directly at lorigaspar@mac.com or (630) 702-8908.
$150 non-refundable deposit will hold your spot.
You must apply for the program and enrollment is limited.
500 HOUR PART 2: ADVANCED TRAINING
The next step in earning 500-hour certification is the Advanced Training. Part 2 requires a greater level of commitment than the Intermediate Training. There is significantly more weekly homework (5+ hours per week).
Prerequisite
You must complete 500 hour Part 1: Intermediate Training to participate in the advanced course. No exceptions.
Primary Instructor
Lori Gaspar, 500 E-RYT
Course Description
An advanced study of classical yoga that builds upon the foundation established in your 200-hour teacher training and Intermediate Training. The program is designed to:
- expand your knowledge, deepen your personal practice and refine your teaching of asana, pranayama and meditation;
- experience and learn how to teach deep relaxation, yoga nidra, mindfulness and meditation. This includes the use of props to support the body and facilitate deep relaxation;
- enable you to adapt and modify the practice for a wide variety of students and different health conditions such as low back and hip issues, seniors, cancer, scoliosis, depression, anxiety, pregnancy and more (therapeutics, modifications and teaching to special populations is a major emphasis of the training);
- develop your art of sequencing with intention and intelligence. Create class themes and establish energetic intentions. Refine your ability to link a yogic concept throughout a class and learn how to teach with deeper intentions;
- improve your teaching communication skills: become student focused, refine your verbal language, visual demonstrations and hands-on manual adjustments;
- provide an opportunity for supportive feedback on your teaching skills, including video review;
- sharpen your ability to “see” your students, prioritize their needs and become more efficient and effective
- enhance your understanding of the energetic, psychological and subtle bodies, with a special focus on the koshas and prana vayus, so that your teaching penetrates deeper layers of being
- teach you the principles of yoga psychology, Samkhya philosophy, Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, Hatha Yoga Pradipika and the primary Upanishads in detail;
- provide a group experience for reading and discussing the Bhagavad Gita;
- Option for advanced study in tantric hatha yoga
- help you establish a daily and seasonal routine based upon the principles of Ayurveda;
- develop your own unique, contemporary teaching;
- build a private practice/expand your teaching career;
- become an inspiring and effective teacher. Learn how to inspire, mentor and teach from the divine spark within your heart.
Upon satisfactory completion, trainees are certified as 500 hour level yoga teachers and may register as a 500 RYT with Yoga Alliance. (YA requires 100 teaching hours for 500 RYT designation).
COURSEWORK
The Advanced Training includes practice, hands-on training and group discussion; workshops with master teachers: weekly homework (approximately 5+ hours per week); and apprenticing. The Advanced Training requires a final culmination project: you develop and teach a specialty yoga topic of your own interest as approved by the Director. Participation in all components of the program are valuable for your development as a teacher. Your full commitment and attendance is required. Please adjust your schedule to make room for these requirements. We understand the rare conflicts with family events or the unexpected emergency, but repeated tardiness, absences or early departures are not acceptable and will impact your earning the 500-hour certification.
CLASS PRACTICE
Class practices are taught in a dedicated yoga teacher training environment.
SELF PRACTICE
Trainees are expected to have a dedicated and consistent yoga practice a minimum of 3 days per week.
ADVANCED YOGA TEACHER TRAINING MANUAL
The Prairie Yoga Advanced Training manual is included in your tuition.
BOOKS
Required Books:
Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace and Ultimate Freedom by BKS Iyengar
Hatha Yoga Pradipika by Swami Muktibodhananda
Light on Pranayama by B.K.S. Iyengar
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, any translation you prefer. Edwin Bryant is recommended.
The Bhagavad Gita, Translated by Eknath Easwaran
The Upanishads, Translated by Eknath Easwaran
The Hidden Secret of Ayurveda by Dr. Robert E. Svoboda
CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
305 Hours Total
- Intermediate and Advanced Training Classes: 165 hours
- Tias Little Teacher Training: 24 hours
- The Art of Teaching Therapeutics with Gabriel Halpern: 12 hours
- Apprentice in Therapeutics or attend Tantric Hatha Yoga Teacher Training: 24 hours
- Master Teacher Electives: 30 hours
- Teach 5 private lessons and write summary: 10 hours
- Final culmination project: 40 hours
- Complete all homework assignments
REGISTRATION
Weekend Program, Flyer and Registration Form PDF: 500 AdvTT Wknds 2013-2014
Tuesday Program, Flyer and Registration Form PDF: 500 AdvTT Tues Jan-Oct 2014
If you have registration questions, please call the studio at (630) 968-3216.
If you have questions on the content of the program, contact Lori directly at lorigaspar@mac.com or (630) 702-8908.
$150 non-refundable deposit will hold your spot. You must apply for the program and enrollment is limited.
Application
Please respond to the following questions by email to:prairieyoga@comcast.net. (Include original question in response).
- Name
- Address
- Primary Phone
- Emergency Contact
- Date of Birth
- Please describe your health history.
- Please describe your emotional and mental health.
- How is your health now? Do you have any recent injuries? Please describe.
- Are you currently taking any medications? Please describe.
- List anything interesting you would like us to know about you.
- Where did you receive your 200 hour certification?
- When did you complete Part 1: Intermediate Training?
- Identify the location and approximate dates of the program you are applying to.