Thank you very much for this interesting hatha yoga teacher training that changed our lives and helped us to understand our inner world a bit better and opened our hearts for new life experiences! - 4/10/2016

For a very long time we have been asked by students to offer a yoga teacher training right here in Luxembourg. After a combined 45 years of teaching experience, we have put together a comprehensive yoga teacher training program.

We have engaged the participation of André Riehl who has been a guest teacher in Nidra yoga here since 2006 and of Ram Vakkalanka who has taught Sanskrit and Nada and Bhakti Yogas here since 2012. The training will be given in English.

We offer a 500-hour program for those who wish to deepen their yoga practice with an intensive practice and become certified yoga teachers.

Content Overview

• History and Philosophy of Yoga

Study of the Bhagavad Gita, the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, the Chakra energetical system and Sansrkit.

• Yoga Practice and training

• intensive personal yoga practice in asana, pranayama, deep relaxation, concentration & meditation
• teaching instructions in student observation, asana alignment, adjustments, pranayama, deep relaxation, concentration & meditation

• Anatomy and Physiology

Muscular-skeletal, respiratory, circulatory, nervous and endocrine systems in relation to yoga

• Teaching Methodology

Structuring classes, teaching practice sessions, responding to students' needs, presence and communication, ethics

Teacher training

Space will be limited to 20 teaching candidates.

Requirements for Teaching candidates:

• An uninterrupted 3-year practice of hatha yoga with teachers is required. If you have started more recently than 3 years, you can still participate on the teaching track and receive a teaching diploma after completion of your 3 years of continuous practice with a teacher.
• Prior to the training, participation will be required in a course taught by either Denise or Fredric in the term preceding the training. This will be outside the teacher training costs.  Trainees will need to attend 10 sessions. To ensure attendance and not simply enrollment, you will need to have your teacher sign a booklet at the end of each class verifying your attendance.
• During the training, continued attendance of at least one yoga class a week in the style you are training for at our center during the entirety of the program with the same attendance verification system as described in the preceding point.
• Homework is assigned between training periods. This includes a summary of the preceding training session and possibly a book report on an important yogic text. All homework must be completed. Any copying and pasting from website material is cause for suspension from the program, and we check. Footnoting to websites is acceptable, but all work must be in your own thinking and words.
• If you must miss one or two of the sessions of a training weekend, you will be required to review the material taught in those sessions and write a paper on it of one page for each hour missed. Those missing entire weekends will have to attend other workshops mutually agreed-upon at your own expense. Those missing more than 10% of the entire training will not graduate.
• Trainees will be required to pass an oral and written exam as well as demonstrate the ability to teach an asana class with ease and confidence. They will also be required to submit a dissertation / "memoire".

Teachers:

Yoga Philosophy will be taught by:

Nidra Yoga will be taught by:

Yoga asanas, pranayama and teaching instruction will be taught by:

Anatomy will be taught by:

along with asana variations for students with special conditions such as back problems.

Dates:

The dates for this program have yet to be finalised. The structure will be 1-week residential intensive followed by 5 week-ends throughout each calendar year.

Arrangements are made for trainees to practice together between trainings to maintain continuity and exchanges.

Testing

Trainees will be required to pass an oral and written exam as well as demonstrate the ability to teach an asana class with ease and confidence. They will also be required to submit a dissertation / "memoire".

Price

The cost over the duration of the 500-hour program will average 12 Euros per workshop hour.

This price is exclusive of all materials, including books required, as well as accommodations, food and workshop room rental during the residential portions of the program.