TREASURES OF ENGAGEMENT: Yoga Teacher Training

In Treasures of Engagement, Suniti Dernovsek offers an immersive training designed to help participants advance their personal practice and develop the pedagogical skills necessary to teach yoga. Throughout the course, participants will commit to daily meditation and asana practice, textual study, journaling and weekly partner meetings. The training assits participants in developing a strong foundation through the study and application of anatomy-based alignment, pranayama and meditation. Together, we unravel habitual patterns, thus creating space for the development of new pathways in body and mind. Most importantly, we investigate methods for integrating the practices into our own lives. This training seeks a new synthesis between classical and contemporary methods. In particular, Suniti approaches yoga philosophy and practice from a place of engaged somatic self-reflection. Drawing on somatic practices such as Body-Mind Centering and the Alexander Technique can at once renew and deepen the experience of yoga. Somatic practices are about getting to know ourselves yet more intimately; entering a safe and informed practice that responds to our ever-changing needs as dynamic organisms; and reclaiming the ability to make our own choices about our bodies. We will approach yoga pedagogy with the understanding that in order to empower others into more intimate self-knowledge, we must first do the work for ourselves. In Treasures of Engagement, we embrace the clarity of form without clinging to dogma. We look inward as a way to commit ourselves to a more rigorous applied ethics. We stay committed to embodied research and investigate methods for sharing our practice with our communities, in whatever forms those communities manifest.

Dates:

Schedule for Weekends: Fridays 6-9 PM, Saturdays 9 AM-5PM,  Sundays 9 AM-5PM

Week One: October 6-8
Week Two: October 30-22
Week Three: Nov 3-5
Week Four: November 17-19
Week Five: December 1-3
Holiday Break
Week Six January 5-7
Week Seven: January 19-20
Week Eight February 2-4
Week Nine: Feb 16-18
Week Ten: March 1-3
Week Eleven: March 15-16
Week Twelve: March 29-31
Retreat at Aldermarsh Retreat Center : April 3-7

IN THIS TRAINING PARTICIPANTS WILL:

• Learn to commit to a personal practice

• Learn asana alignment that is rooted in anatomy, curiosity and individuality

• Learn the basics of pranayama and meditation

• Learn to see bodies and address unique alignment cues

• Learn to articulate individual experience through journaling and practice teaching

• Engage in weekly partner meet-ups to deconstruct and embody ethics

• Discover philosophy that feels applicable to your life and community relationships

• Study the intersection of yoga asana and somatic practices as a way to deepen your felt sense

• Offer public practicum classes at The People’s Yoga

  Study with skilled guest teachers:

  • Experiential Anatomy with Wendy Hambidge

  • Speaking from a Calm Heart with Damaris Webb

  • Alexander Method with Rebecca Harrison

  • Presence and Difference with Ayanna Drakos and Renee Sills

  • Business of Yoga with Beth Thompson

  On Teacher Training in the near-pandemic years:

  As of spring 2021, we are hopeful that the entirety of Suniti’s 2021 teacher training will be taught in-person. However, at this point, we are experienced at moving teaching to livestream if the need presents itself. Additionally, to assure that these teachings are accessible to people who may not feel safe in person, we will accommodate a hybrid model in which there are students both in person and remote via livestream. If we end up with a mix of live and remote students, teaching will be scaffolded with room mics so that remote students can hear their colleagues. And, the ensemble unity of the cohort will be supported by the weekly partner discussions which are a core foundation of Suniti’s teacher training.

Tuition:

Foundational Teacher Training: $4750

$250 Early Bird Savings is people register before August 15

$500 non-refundable deposit due upon enrollment

Payment plans available.
For details or questions, please e-mail teachertraining@thepeoplesyoga.org