PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Listed below are modules from our Diploma and Advanced Diploma Teacher Training courses, which can be taken as stand alone course subjects.

This is great way for for yoga teachers and advanced yoga students to deepen their knowledge and develop their skills.

ENHANCE YOUR CURRENT LEVEL OF TEACHER TRAINING
Have you completed a 200 hour teacher training course and feel the urge to deepen your knowledge? 

We can help tailor a study program from our Diploma, Advanced Diploma that complements your current training. This additional study can bring your training level up to the 350 hours required for full membership of Yoga Australia (formerly YTAA). Contact Us for more details.

The Fundamentals of Pranayama

Understanding & Teaching Yogic Breathing

Pranayama is the most powerful tool of yoga to bring about positive personal change.

This 18 hour course, from our Diploma of Yoga Teacher Training, is ideally suited to yoga teachers and experienced practitioners seeking to broaden their understanding of the intelligence and power of the breath.

The course will explore key principles of pranayama including understanding the vital energy of prana, how we can calm, energise and bring balance to our system through the breath. Participants will also learn and practice teaching several pranayama breathing techniques.

Cost: $495.00 (incl gst)
Dates & Times 2013:
1. Friday Course: 10th to 31st May & 14th June, 12:30-3:30pm. 21st June, 8:30-11:30am.
2. Intensive Course:
Sun 2nd June, 2:00-5:00pm
Mon 3rd June to Wed 5th June, 12:30-3:30pm
Sat 8th June, 9:30am-12:30pm & 1:30-4:30pm

Bookings are essential and prepayment is required. Contact us to reserve your place. Limited numbers available.

Yoga teachers attending this course can earn 18 Continuing Professional Development (CPD) points towards their Yoga Australia membership.

Sign up to our Enews (above) and find us on Facebook so we can keep you posted of new professional development courses and workshops.

Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

Understanding the Foundational Text of Yoga

The Yoga Sutras is the foundation text of yoga. Arguably every yoga teachers needs an understanding of this philosophical framework.

This course aims to provide participants with a basic familiarity with the overall teachings of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and major themes and concepts of yoga, found in this highly significant text.

This course is part of our respected Diploma of Yoga Teaching, will explore the relevance of these ancient concepts for the practice of yoga today and for health and wellbeing in our modern lives. In keeping with this oral tradition, the course includes the classical chanting of the Yoga Sutras.

This course is suitable for yoga teachers and yoga students keen to deepen their knowledge. No prior knowlege of the sutras is required.

Teacher: Michael de Manincor
Cost: $330.00 (inc gst)
Dates & Times 2013:
1.  Friday Course: 3rd to 31st May, 8:30-10:00am & 7th June, 8:30-11:30 am
2.  Intensive Course:
Sat 1st June 1st, 9:30-11:00am
Sun 2nd June, 10:00-11:30am
Mon 3rd to Thurs 6th June, 8:30-10:00am
Fri 7th June, 8:30-11:30am

Bookings are essential and prepayment is required. Contact us to reserve your place. Limited numbers available.

Yoga teachers attending this course can earn 12 Continuing Professional Development (CPD) points towards their Yoga Australia membership.

Sign up to our Enews (above) and find us on Facebook so we can keep you posted of new professional development courses and workshops.

Yoga Psychology and Mental Health

A Framework for Mental Health

Yoga practice is underpinned by a time-tested philosophical and psychological framework. As contemporary yoga evolves, and its significance in the area of mental health, it is important to develop an understanding of this ancient system of wisdom.

In this Yoga Psychology module you will:

- Explore themes of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, the foundational text of yoga.
- Contextualise the key learnings from these ancient texts within yoga practice today.

This course is a module from the Advanced Diploma of Yoga Teacher Training. Pre-requisite: understanding of concepts of the model of meditation in yoga, and experience of basic meditation techniques (e.g. Yoga Institute-Meditation I). Prior study and familiarity of the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali (e.g. Yoga Institute - Yoga Sutra studies). 12 hour course.

Teacher: Michael de Manincor
Cost: $330 (inc gst)
Dates: Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th July 2013
Time: Saturday: 9:30am-4:30pm, Sunday: 9:45am-4:45pm

Bookings are essential and prepayment is required. Contact us to reserve your place. Limited numbers available.

Yoga teachers attending this course can earn 12 Continuing Professional Development (CPD) points towards their Yoga Australia membership.

Sign up to our Enews (above) and find us on Facebook so we can keep you posted of new professional development courses and workshops.

Interpersonal Teaching & Communication Skills

For Teachers offering one-to-one Yoga Lessons

The focus of this course is the development of interpersonal communication and teaching skills, for yoga teachers who offer one-to-one yoga lessons, for the guidance and development of a student’s personal yoga practice. Such skills are similar to, but not necessarily the same as, those required for a professional or therapeutic relationship, such as coaching, counselling, or yoga therapy.

This course is a module from the Advanced Diploma of Yoga Teacher Training. Some prior learning is required. 12 hour workshop.

Aims of this course include helping participants to:

- Understand themselves better as yoga teachers in one-to-one teaching context
- Understand basic elements of effective communication as yoga teachers in one-to-one context
- Develop greater understanding of their own communication strengths and weaknesses
- Enhance desired behavioural change to be a more effective communicator

Teacher: Michael de Manincor
Cost: $330 (inc gst)
Dates: Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th August 2013
Time: Saturday: 9:30am-4:30pm, Sunday: 9:45am-4:45pm

Bookings are essential and prepayment is required. Contact us to reserve your place. Limited numbers available.

Yoga teachers attending this course can earn 12 Continuing Professional Development (CPD) points towards their Yoga Australia membership.

Sign up to our Enews (above) and find us on Facebook so we can keep you posted of new professional development courses and workshops.

Courses starting 2014

Asana 1

Classical Yoga Postures

Deepen your understanding of how classical yoga merges the body and the breath through various postures.

This 18 hour course is part of our respected Diploma of Yoga Teaching. It is an ideal refresher course for yoga teachers or experienced students interested in developing their understanding of the form and function of yoga asanas.

* Learn a classification system for the postures (asanas)
* Experience and learn the classical techniques of the commonly used yoga postures (asanas)
* Deepen your understanding of how yoga merges the body and the breath.
* Learn when and how to modify the commonly used postures
* Practice instructing the commonly used postures and modification

Cost: $495 (inc gst)
Dates & Times: To be confirmed. Next course starts February/March 2014.

Yoga teachers attending this course can earn 18 Continuing Professional Development (CPD) points towards their Yoga Australia membership.

Sign up to our enews and find us on Facebook so we can keep you posted of new professional development courses and workshops.

Yoga Energetics II

Exploring the Cakras

Develop your understanding and experience of the subtle energy centers of the body (the cakras). Learn about how the cakras interact with prana in the maintenance of good health in the system of yoga. Enhance your capacity to skilfully integrate chakras into yoga practice design.

This course is a module from the Advanced Diploma of Yoga Teacher Training. Prior learning required. 9 hour workshop.

Cost: $250 (inc gst)
Dates & Times: To be confirmed. Next course starts 2014.

Yoga teachers attending this course can earn 9 Continuing Professional Development (CPD) points towards their Yoga Australia membership.

Sign up to our enews (above) and find us on Facebook so we can keep you posted of new professional development courses and workshops.

Advanced Pranayama

More Tools to Access the Transformative Power of the Breath

Pranayama is one of the most powerful tools of yoga to bring about positive personal change. In this module you will broaden your understanding of the intelligence and power of the breath including skilfully working with breathing patterns, retentions and ratios.This course is a module from the Advanced Diploma of Yoga Teacher Training. Prior learning in this subject required. 12 hour course, 12 contact hours.

Teacher: Michael de Manincor
Cost: $330 (inc gst)
Dates & Times: To be confirmed. Next course starts February/March 2014.

Yoga teachers attending this course can earn 12 Continuing Professional Development (CPD) points towards their Yoga Australia membership.

Sign up to our Enews (above) and find us on Facebook so we can keep you posted of new professional development courses and workshops.

Advanced Asana

Skillful Design of Dynamic, Challenging Sequences

Enhance your asana teaching skills and ability to develop personal practices incorporating more challenging (visesa) postures and dynamic, challenging sequences of postures (vinyasa krama) based on the classical techniques of T Krishnamacharya.

Learn more about the skilful application and use of bandhas in advanced postures and incorporating advanced breathing patterns and techniques as part of asana sequences.
This course is a module from the Advanced Diploma of Yoga Teacher Training. Prior learning in this subject required. 12 hour course, 12 contact hours.

Teacher: Michael de Manincor
Cost: $330 (inc gst)
Dates & Times: To be confirmed. Next course starts February/March 2014.

Yoga teachers attending this course can earn 12 Continuing Professional Development (CPD) points towards their Yoga Australia membership.

Sign up to our enews and find us on Facebook so we can keep you posted of new professional development courses and workshops.

Special Offer for Yoga Institute Graduate Teachers

50% discount on refresher modules from the Diploma course