Below is information on the 2010 training.

Innerlight Yoga Teacher Training 2010: Course Details

The strength of our program includes:

• A carefully structured curriculum
• A consistent approach to asanas and philosophy by the three directors
• The intention to support each student in developing their own unique voice and presence
• The appreciation of yoga as a deeply transformational practice
• Become part of a community knowing and being known is the most powerful, life enhancing gift we offer each other

The Innerlight Yoga Teacher Training is a 200 hour Yoga Alliance certified yoga teacher training, which includes:

• Practice and analysis of more than 50 yoga asanas, including standing poses, one-legged poses, hip-opening poses, backbends, forward bends, twists, arm balances and inversions
• Analysis of asanas, including principles of alignment (both Kripalu and Anusara influenced), benefits, precautions, contra-indications and modifications, including pre-natal
• Restorative and partner yoga
• Pranayama practice and techniques
• Meditation practice and techniques
• Sanskrit chants
• Anatomy and physiology
• Yogic philosophy and psychology, including study of Pantanjali's Yoga Sutras, yamas and niyamas, the Bhagavad Gita, the history of yoga, koshas and chakras
• Teaching methodology, including relationship with yoga students, planning a yoga class, sequencing of poses, teacher demonstrations and assists
• The use of language in a yoga class
• Creating context and larger meaning for students
• Professional ethics
• Teaching practicum
• Personalized mentoring

Our teaching style is experientially based we will learn by discussion, reading, demonstration and other techniques and then reinforce the learning by applying what we have just learned. Each weekend will build on the knowledge and experience gained in the weekends before and in home practice and homework reading. Our intention is to embody the yoga philosophy of awareness and to support you in your personal growth as both a yoga practitioner and yoga teacher.

There will be a strong emphasis on practicum and personalized mentoring will be provided for each student.

Directors

Kim Chandler
Yanna Sahady

Kim Chandler is the founder and director of Innerlight Center for Yoga in Middletown, RI and also was the founding director of the Innerlight School for Yoga in Portland, Maine. A former resident of the Kripalu Center, she has directed Yoga Teacher Training courses at Kripalu and has been a certified Kripalu Yoga Teacher Mentor since 1992. Kim was a founding member of the Kripalu Yoga Teacher Association (KYTA) and from 1993-95 was the associate director of KYTA. In 2002 she co-directed the international Kripalu Yoga Teachers Conference in Lenox, MA. She is adjunct staff at Kripalu, presenting several programs each year, most recently Come As You Are: A Yoga Retreat for All Levels and Mind In Motion: Yoga and Proprioceptive Writing. In addition, Kim has been an Outward Bound course director and has founded and directed several alternate schools in Maine. Kim has been influenced by a variety of traditions; for several years her interest has been focused on the practice of Anusara Yoga.

Janne (pronounced Yanna) Sahady is a senior teacher at Innerlight Center for Yoga, co-director and co-developer of the Innerlight Yoga Teacher Training program, and a yoga teacher for the Newport Hospital Enough Is Enough program. She is a Yoga Alliance E-RYT 200 with 1000 hours of teaching experience. She has taught yoga in yoga studios, homes, schools, barns, parks, businesses and conventions. Yoga is my gift from the universe. Or at least that is the way it feels to me. Innerlight opened just when I had time in my life to begin to take classes. My first teachers were Kim Chandler and Tom Gillette. They introduced me to Kripalu and Ashtanga yoga with extraordinary experience and knowledge and loving support in my first yoga classes and first teacher training. Her training includes a 500-hour course at Innerlight (1998) and a 400-hour Anusara-based course with Todd Norian (2003). Janne has also studied with John Friend, Suzie Hurley, Doug Keller, Ann Greene, Tom Myers, David Swenson, Richard Freeman and Beryl Bender Birch. She has assisted in many programs at Kripalu and elsewhere, including Introduction to Yoga and Meditation, Rebalancing Body, Mind and Spirit, Ashtanga Yoga, Anusara Yoga, Chakra Yoga, Partner Yoga, and Snow Shoe and Yoga.
"My experience with yoga is that it is a life changing force. Yoga develops strength and flexibility, focus and confidence and a sense of connection with a spirit greater than just me. Yoga grounds me and at the same time opens possibilities. My intention in teaching is to pass that on, that sense of living life to the fullest, vibrant, strong, and open."
Janne is currently working on getting her leg behind her head, and expects that in about five lifetimes from now, she may be close.

Additional faculty staff includes:

• Katharine and Christopher Carbone
• Jane Maguire

You will also have the opportunity to experience a wide variety of sadhanas (classes) with many of the Innerlight teachers

Dates 2010

• Jan 23/24
• Feb 6/7
• March 6/7
• March 13/14
• April 10/11
• May 1/2
• June 5/6
• July 10/11
• NO AUGUST MEETING
• September 11/12
• October 2/3
• November 6/7
• WEATHER CANCELLATION DATE Nov 13/14

HOURS

• Sat 8-5
• Sun 8-5

Attendance at all sessions is required.

Between Sessions

The weekend format is designed to integrate what you are learning into your daily life and to support you in developing a consistent yoga practice. Assignments will deepen your experience and begin the process of life-long learning that is yoga.

Homework will include:

• Daily yoga practice of asana, pranayama and meditation (6 days a week for 60 minutes)
• Keeping a sadhana journal
• Practicing the yamas and niyamas
• Reading and writing assignments
• Experiential assignments
• Communication with fellow students and directors
• Observing other teacher's classes
• Teaching yoga classes

Prerequisites

• Dedicated yoga practice of at least 3 years (class or home practice multiple times per week)
• Strong desire to learn more about yourself
• Sound health
• Recommendation from a yoga teacher
• Commitment to attend all teacher training dates (with no exceptions)
• Commitment to daily practice during teacher training
• Commitment to homework between weekends

Cost

 Early bird registration by Oct 15. 2010 $2450.

The tuition for the Innerlight Teacher training is after Oct. 15 is $2500. This tuition fee includes a non-refundable $50 application fee. Payment may be by check to Innerlight Center for Yoga or by Visa or MasterCard.

The full tuition fee must accompany your completed application. A full refund less a $50 application fee will be made if the application is not accepted.

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Refund Policy

After Oct 1 until January 24: 50% of tuition less $50 application fee
After course start: No refund is available

Tuition does not include reading materials, props, food or lodging.

Applications are currently being accepted. Class size minimum is 10 people. For further information, email info@innerlightyoga.com or call (401) 849-3200.

Thank you.

Kim Chandler
Yanna Sahady
Directors, Innerlight Yoga Teacher Training