Cost $3050

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Teacher Training Graduate Program – Byron Bay

Byron Yoga Centre’s 12-day Yoga Therapy Course is designed to deliver holistic training that encompasses the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of yoga therapy.

Course overview

This course is designed to enhance the skills and knowledge of yoga teachers in instructing students with special needs, assisting them to move towards better health and wellbeing. With the assistance of our trainers, who are specialists in this growing field of Yoga Therapy, you will learn to design and sequence individualised programs for students with specific medical or health conditions or injuries. This course is also a good way to refine your ability as a teacher of general classes, to help you to more adeptly ‘juggle’ students with varying needs.

Course methodology

Students will integrate theoretical knowledge in several case-study exercises to be undertaken in the face-to-face time.

Course pre-requisites

This course is open to all graduates of recognised, accredited yoga teacher training courses.
Yoga teachers who have been teaching for many years without official training are also eligible, with the provision of a written declaration detailing your teaching experience. Serious, experienced yoga practitioners may be accepted at Byron Yoga Centre’s discretion.

Your teacher trainers - experience and expertise

Coordinator Maria Kirsten is joined by Byron Yoga Centre founder and director, John Ogilvie, Australian yoga community legends, Eve Grzybowski, Libbie Nelson and Judy Krupp, as well as senior BYC teacher trainers, Ana Davis, Jacinta McEwen, Stephan Kahlert, Lila Kirtana,  and Malcolm Knights.

Guest teacher: Eve Grzybowski

Eve has been teaching for nearly 30 years, practising yoga continuously since 1971, and training yoga teachers since the mid-1990s. Her teaching emphasises that paying attention to the physical work of poses is important because it fosters the unfolding of pure awareness, leading to evolving body, mind, and spirit. Author of Teach Yourself Yoga and The Art of Adjustment, Eve's passion is inspiring yoga students to develop their own practice and discover their inner teacher.

Guest teacher: Judy Krupp

Judy Krupp is a senior teacher trainer with Byron Yoga Centre with more than 20 years experience. Founder and director of The Yoga Room & Life Centre in Sydney, Judy has an astute knowledge of the body and its movement and she lives and teaches with both humour and passion. She encourages her students to move beyond their perceived limitations, while working at an individual pace with grace and core stability.

Guest Teacher: Libbie Nelson

Libbie is a certified Iyengar yoga teacher, therapist and physiotherapist with over 25 years of yoga teaching behind her in the Iyengar tradition with other strong influences evident. She began working with yoga as therapy by teaching ‘medical yoga classes’ in Sydney when also working as a naturopath. Libbie moved to Byron Bay in 1990, where she combines yoga, naturopathy, physiotherapy and acupuncture in her physiotherapy practice with studio attached. This enables continuation of her interest in healing individuals with yoga and herbs as well as giving routine yoga and medical classes. Libbie has also been involved in teaching yoga for special needs to budding yoga teachers and yoga therapy to certified yoga teachers. She has completed a diploma in Ayurveda and courses in Pilates and Bones for Life, a Feldenkrais derived series. Her teaching and self-study continues to align her with the most knowledgable and well-educated yoga therapy teachers in the country.

Course content

The following subjects will be covered: -

• Asana - "Purna Yoga" - dynamic vinyasa yoga - managing a general class
• Yoga as an holistic practice integrating the 8 limbs
• Applied Anatomy & Physiology: Developmental patterns
• Applied Anatomy & Physiology: working with back conditions, neck, knee, shoulders, scoliosis, the sacro-iliac joint, and the rotator cuff etc
• Applied Anatomy & Physiology: aged clients, injuries, yoga for osteoarthritis
• Mind-body connection - meditation and pranayama for healing
• Introduction to counselling
• Yoga therapy for recovering from addiction
• Women's health
• Restorative yoga as yoga therapy
• Post-operative healing
• Working with props
• Adjustments and corrections
• Postural and Functional Assessment
• Ayurveda and yoga therapy
• Case studies (comparative): theory
• Developing yoga therapy classes for a special needs population
• Work one on one to develop an individual yoga therapy program

Course schedule

Students need to arrive on the afternoon of the first day after 2pm to settle into their accommodation. A brief introduction to staff and commencement of the course will be at 4pm.

The course finishes on the last day at 1pm.

› Download the provisional June 2011 Yoga Therapy session schedule.

Food

Food at Byron Yoga Centre is market-fresh. Enjoy healthy and delicious vegetarian cuisine, organic wherever possible, designed along Ayurvedic principles to be light and cleansing.

Accommodation

• Share accommodation is available at our specially designed yoga centre which is located within easy walking / cycling from the centre of Byron and the beaches

• The accommodation is clean and simple, with shared rooms and access to all amenities

• Trainees in residence are expected to be cigarette, drug and alcohol free and are asked to maintain silence (where practical) in the mornings before 9am and after 9.30pm and at ALL times in the rooms

• Generally please be mindful that the accommodation is a place of study and learning, that socialising can be done at local cafés or the beach. We also ask trainees in residence to be vegetarian on site

Full tuition fee: $3'050
This includes all sattvic meals (healthy vegetarian) and “ashram” standard accommodation.

Bookings
All bookings must be paid in full 6 weeks before start date. We offer internet banking and credit card facilities.

Byron Bay - General Information

Cape Byron is Australia's most easterly point, located on the North Coast of New South Wales. With its numerous beaches, unspoilt hinterland, and relaxed lifestyle, Byron Bay is a popular tourist destination. It is also a place where artists, musicians, dancers, writers, surfers, healers and of course yogis express their diversity and individuality.

The town has all major facilities: a hospital, cinemas, supermarkets, health food stores and great restaurants, as well as a flourishing alternative health industry. Bicycle is the easiest way to get around town and easily organised through Byron Yoga Centre.

The average summer temperature is 21C - 28C, and average winter temperature is 15C - 21C, There are also periods of heavy rainfall, especially in summer. The area has a total annual rainfall of 1734cm.

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Read an article about the unique experience of training in our Yoga Therapy Teacher Training Intensive here.