200 Hr Intensive Yoga Training
LET US TAKE YOU ON A JOURNEY INTO YOGA! Deepen your personal practice and learn how to share it with others with our comprehensive training. Study in depth from near or far with extensive online resources. Our global training is designed to reach you wherever you are with online and in person options.
OUR PROGRAM is designed to give you a thorough education in yoga. This program focuses of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga and has been created with the help of senior Sanskrit scholars from Mysore India to give an in depth and totally authentic training experience.
Welcome to our 200 Hour Intensive Training! This training is designed to cover all aspects of practicing and teaching yoga which can be conveyed in an online course. It is a journey into yoga practice, technique, philosophy and the art of teaching asana. Our training lasts for 12 months, so you can proceed at your own pace and absorb the information without rushing. The training includes 5 video calls with Andrew Eppler. You can correspond with Andrew directly to ask questions, schedule calls and to turn in your assignments. After successful completion of the course curriculum you will be given a certificate of completion that you may use to register as an RYT 200 with Yoga Alliance. Click here to learn more about Andrew Eppler.
Our Ashtanga Yoga Intensive Training is affiliated with Samskriti Foundation in Mysore India, Mysore Yoga Traditions Conference, and will be assisted by Dr. M A Alwar, a professor from the Maharaja’s Sanskrit College in Mysore. Our course includes talks by numerous Sanskrit scholars covering a wide range of topics. This allows you to absorb ideas about yoga directly from some of the greatest philosophers in India. We are able to offer you a glimpse into the culture and mindset of Indian yoga that very few other trainings can give.
COMPREHENSIVE CURRICULUM
Our curriculum includes hands on experience adjusting and calling our postures, functional anatomy, and in depth philosophy and history of yoga so that you can walk out with skills and confidence.
YOGA METHODOLOGY
You will learn the Primary Series as a foundational sequence including the Sanskrit names, vinyasa counts, adjustments, verbal cues and contraindications. While staying grounded in Ashtanga Yoga sequences we will explore a global fusion of techniques.
Hands on adjustments using a wide variety of safe and effective methods
Learn Resistance Adjusting (when the practitioner pushes you instead of you pushing them)
Practice leading postures
Get honest feedback about your technique so that you can be confident when you graduate
Learn to safety in each and every technique we teach
Pranayama
Mudras
Chanting
Energetic anatomy
Deep personal practice
Access to extensive video tutorials
Our curriculum includes hands on experience adjusting and calling our postures, functional anatomy, and in depth philosophy and history of yoga so that you can walk out with skills and confidence.
You will learn the Primary Series as a foundational sequence. You will also learn to recognize patterns of imbalance both in yourself and others, and be given tools to encourage safety and balance. While staying grounded in a traditional philosophy and classical yoga sequences we will also explore a global fusion of techniques.
Yoga HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY
We aim to give our students a wholistic view of what yoga means and where it has come from. You will have full access to Mysore Yoga Traditions Archive for the duration of the training. You will get a deep and articulate view of yoga through direct exposure to the yoga culture of Mysore India.
Mysore Yoga Traditions is an insightful documentary which was directed and produced by Andrew Eppler. This film sheds light and perspective on the history and cultural background of the yoga that has come from Mysore which accounts for approximately half of all postural yoga practices in the world. You will come out of this training with an accurate view of where yoga came from based on the latest research in the field.
Traditional views of Yoga philosophy from experts int he field
Access to a vast library of original video content
Study Patanjali Sutras and Bhagavad Gita
Sankhya Philosophy
History of Modern yoga based on the latest research int he field
In depth group discussion about the meaning of yoga philosophy in our contemporary paradigm
Physiology
and Healing Arts
Do you find it boring to memorize complicated muscles from diagrams? Our approach is to use Functional Anatomy. You will experience what the muscles we are learning about actually do in your body and also what happens if they become too strong or too weak. We give you many tools for assessing the symmetry and stability of your own or anyone else's body. You will learn safe and effective tools for correcting physical imbalances.
Graduates of the program will have many techniques to work with and an introduction to Thai bodywork that is very useful to help understand posture adjustments. We believe a competent yoga practitioner should be able to correct their practice methods when they are experiencing pain and difficulty in postures. Our training gives you the experience and tools you need to do this. You can then go on to help others in the same way.
Postural analysis
Complete course in Thai Massage
Somatic movements
Self massage
Learn to use reciprocal inhibition and isometric stretching to deepen yoga postures safely
Get a deeper understanding of the imbalances in your own body
Start your personal journey towards balance and freedom from pain
BE RESPECTED AND RECOGNIZED GLOBALLY
Andrew Eppler has been traveling the world teaching yoga for many years and he is known in the international yoga community, particularly among Ashtanga practitioners. Ashtanga Yoga Studio is connected to a global community of serious yoga practitioners and and has hosted guest teachers from all over the world. As a graduate you get access to an extensive international network and the recognition that comes through training with an established, well known school.
This training is registered with Yoga Alliance
This year we will hold our training at our new place! Magic Forest is located half an hour east of Norman Ok. For more info on our location CLICK HERE.
ONLINE LEARNING OPTIONS ARE AVAILABLE!
Required books:
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali by Swami Satchitananda
The Living Gita by Swami Satchitananda
The Roots of Yoga by Sir James Malinson and Mark Singleton
The Concise Book of Muscles by Chris Jarmey
The Practice Manual by David Swenson
* these books are not included in the tuition and each student will be responsible for purchasing their own copies.