with Lead Instructors, Robyn Smith, Peggy Profant, and Liz Heffernan,
plus specials guests, Karen Harris, M.Div., Patrick Harestad, Amy Ailello and Shemaia Skywater

This Advanced Yoga Teacher Training Course is specifically designed for those who are ready to deepen their knowledge base, teach with more authenticity, expand their repertoire, and increase their efficacy in offering yoga as a vehicle for positive personal and planetary transformation.  Open to yoga teachers from all disciplines with six months or more teaching experience (or by permission).  Yoga Alliance RYT’s with a 200-hour certification will be eligible for the RYT-500 level certificate upon successful completion of the program.

CURRICULUM HIGHLIGHTS

• Beyond the Basics of Asanas
• The Alchemy of Yoga and Positive Transformation
• Therapeutic Applications of Yoga
• Applied Anatomy and Kinesiology
• Teaching Yoga Nidra and Restorative Yoga
• Advanced Verbal and Physical Assisting
• Advanced Sequencing Techniques
• Enhancing Your Observation Skills
• Energetic Anatomy and Prana Vidya
• Practice and Teaching of Meditation and Pranayama,
• Tantric Philosophy with Karen Harris, M.Div.
• Applying Ayurveda to the Asanas and other practices
• Cultivation of your Yoga Vision and Business
• Sequencing and Assisting Level 2-3 Asanas
• Practice of Asana, Chanting, Meditation, Pranayama and Yoga Nidra
• Self Study
• Lots of feedback on your teaching

“Soma Yoga Institute brilliantly marries the therapeutic asana, pranayama, meditation and philosophy to create a training that not only takes teachers deeper, it evolves their own being. Our lead instructor, Liz, is gracious, humble, patient, compassionate, insightful and so loving.  Inspirational as a teacher and human.  She is the perfect leader for this Advanced Yoga Teacher Training course. If you are truly willing to evolve, if you are ready to be shaped and see your true potential, dive in.”
- Wendy R., Vermont

“My favorite part about the training was the observing and assisting and class discussions about it. I learned so much about different body types and how to enhance their poses.”

“Robyn, I enjoyed the heartfelt approach that you brought to this training. You have really embodied the principles – alignment and heart.”

NEW FREE INFO NIGHT:  Thursday, March 10, 6 – 7  p.m. at Om Shala Yoga, 858 10th St., Arcata

PRIMARY FACULTY:

Liz Heffernan, owner of Soma Yoga Institute and ERYT-500, is an international yoga teacher and Integrative Yoga Therapist (CYT-1000). She draws from over two decades of personal yoga practice, 20 years of teaching and extensive training in the Hatha yoga systems of Kripalu, Ashtanga and Anusara. She currently directs and leads yoga teacher trainings and workshops in worldwide locations, provides unique one-to-one mentoring for yoga teachers wishing to improve their skills and delivery, instructs daily yoga classes and offers private therapeutic sessions. She also serves as a mentor and faculty member for the Integrative Yoga Therapy – Professional Yoga Therapy program. She is known is for her ability to bridge the gap between the ancient perspectives of yoga and contemporary daily life. Her teaching weaves together philosophy, creative sequencing, clear alignment, mindful breathing and compassionate self-inquiry to form a tapestry that reflects her heartfelt commitment to this transformative path.
www.somayogainstitute.com

Robyn Smith, E-RTY 500, owner of Inner Freedom Yoga, is a certified Anusara yoga instructor, Hendricks Big Leap Life Coach, Integrative Yoga Therapist and Hanna Somatic Educator (Somatics). She has been teaching yoga for over 20 years, leading teacher trainings since 2005, and helping people in pain through Yoga Therapy and Somatics privates and workshops since 1998.  She has co-taught two yoga therapy trainings in Arcata, as well as advanced mini teacher trainings and Immersions.  She studied extensively with Anusara’s founder, John Friend, from 2001 – 2012, as well as numerous other top instructors in Iyengar and Anusara Yoga.  She’s sought for her expertise in postural alignment and therapeutics, as well as the heartfelt messages and the playful spirit she brings to her classes. Her teachings are inspired by her dedicated meditation practice, studies in Buddhist and Tantric yoga philosophies, poetry, nature, and pertinent life lessons. More here

Peggy Profant, E-RYT 500, and Certified Anusara Yoga Teacher, is on a lifelong path of yoga and taking its insightful teachings into all areas of her life. She first discovered the practice in 1980 and began teaching it to others in 1997. Ashtanga, Iyengar and Anusara are the schools in which have influenced her practice. As one who lives courageously from her heart, she passionately teaches her classes with meaningful yogic themes while keeping a keen attention to alignment. In addition to yoga, being in nature and with her family is where she finds her deepest joy and peace. Peggy is owner and director of Om Shala Yoga in Arcata and has been leading workshops, retreats and trainings since 2003.  www.omshalayoga.com

TUITION and payment plans

A $500 deposit will secure your space in the program.  Your program deposit applies to the total tuition price listed below.  Seats in the program will likely fill to capacity, so please register early.

Early, Early Bird:  $3600 early early bird full payment due Jan 15, 2016

Early Bird: $3750 early bird full payment due Feb 20, 2016

Regular Tuition: $3850 pay in full – by April 10, 2016
Four month payment plan:   $4000 with a $500 deposit to reserve your space and four payments of $875 due on April 10, May 10, June 10, July 10

Seven Month Payment Plan:  $4105 with a $500 deposit to reserve your space and seven payments of $515 due on April 10, May 10, June 10, July 10, August 10, September 10, and October 10

Credit card payments will be charged a 3.5% processing fee.

REGISTRATION:

Please complete your application here and send in your deposit or full payment.

Questions:  Please contact somayogainstitute@gmail.com