Teacher Training
The Yoga Company Teacher Training Programs provide an opportunity to deepen ones experience and understanding of yoga. One need not be teaching or planning to teach in order to participate. What is required is a basic understanding of the practice and a strong interest in committing to the further exploration of yoga. For those interested in teaching, The Yoga Company Teacher Training Program will set the foundation to begin a teaching career. This 200 hour Yoga Alliance (link to www.yogaalliance.com) registered training is via partnership with Greenpath Yoga (link to www.greenpathyoga.org). The 200 hours entail class attendance, karma yoga, class observance, meditation, study and electives.

Summer Session:

Weekends May 31 - July 27 1230pm – 930pm

Topics:

Eight Limbs of Ashtanga Yoga
Wisdom of the Patanjalim Yoga Sutras
Foundations of Ayurveda
Giving Adjustments, Seeing Bodies
Classroom Dynamics
Pre-Natal Yoga
Alignment and Verbal Cueing
Finding your own Teaching Voice
Kirtan and Bhakti Yoga
Introduction to the Language of Sanskrit
Bhagavad Gita
Partner Yoga
Anatomy of Yoga
Awakening the Unseen Yogic Body
The Business of Yoga
Mudras and Pranayama
Personal Evolution Through Chakra Exploration Nadha Yoga: The Yoga of Sound
Hatha Yoga Lineages in the West


The Faculty:

Clayton Horton, Director of Greenpath Yoga Studio and Director of The Yoga Company Teacher Training, has been a student of yoga for over 14 years and began teaching in 1996. Clayton has traveled to India and studied with Pattabhi K. Jois and B.N.S. Iyengar. His practice is deeply rooted in the Ashtanga Tradition and Greenpath meditation. As a musician, he has studied at the Ali Akbar Khan School of East Indian Music. Committed to the blending of Eastern and Western ideas, Clayton specializes in Ashtanga, Vinyasa, Greenpath, Partner, and Golf Yoga. He is a student of the Greensufi and Pattabhi K. Jois.

Seane Corn has been a student of yoga, meditation, sacred ritual and psycho/spiritual therapies since 1989. Selected by Nike to represent Yoga for a national ad campaign she has been seen on commercials and print across the country. Seen on the TODAY SHOW, VH1 and E! Extra she has also been featured on the cover of Yoga Journal and in numerous magazines including Glamour, Self, British Elle and Allure. In 2000 she created the yoga program for “Children of the Night”, a shelter that educates and houses adolescent prostitutes. Seane was also chosen by Caroline Myss (author-Anatomy of the Spirit) to be included in her “expert forum” on her website www.myss.com. She is currently in development on a series of vinyasa flow videos to be distributed through Gaiam International.

Bhavani Maki, Director of Yoga Hanalei and Ashtanga Yoga Kauai, musician and yogini, Bhavani has been a student and teacher of the Ashtanga Yoga system for over 13 years. She has received her teachers training from the masters Sri K. Pattabhi Jois of Mysore, South India and Baba Hari Das of Hardwar, North India. Bhavani specializes in presenting the yogic philosophy of Patajali's Yoga Sutras and a detailed exploration and refinement of the Foundations of the Ashtanga system.

Greensufi, the Greensufi comes from an ancient esoteric school of learning. His teaching & training includes harmonizing the energy centers, balancing the male & female within, tuning the seeker's vibrations to the diurnal cycle of the planet & awakening the unknown areas of human psyche. He has taught both in the United States & Europe.

Bhagavan Das, author of “It's Here Now, Are You?”, and singer of many spiritual records, has practiced Bhakti Yoga for decades.

Rusty Wells, Rusty's path began as a bhakti yogi many years ago and he has practiced hatha yoga since 1996. He has been teaching in the Bay Area for over three years. His training has been under many eclectic teachers including David Life and Baron Baptiste, although he is a student of pretty much everyone he meets. A key objective of his teaching style is to help unlock the inner power of each student within a safe and nurturing environment. Through devotion, nonviolence, perseverance and gratitude, each one of us can somehow reduce suffering in this world.

Britt Fohrman, teaches Pre-Natal yoga throughout the Bay Area. She is presently studying to be a Doula and is a certified therapist of Shiatsu, Acupressure, and Pre-Natal Massage. Britt enjoys using her ingenuity and knowledge of the body to help people, (especially pregnant women) become more balanced and at home in their own bodies. She has been teaching yoga since 1997.

Liisa O'Maley, R.Y.T., has been a student of Yoga for more than twenty-five years. She began her spiritual quest first as a TM meditator, then as a student of Ram Dass. While traveling in India on pilgrimage, she attended the 1977 Kumbha Mela in Allahabad and also visited many holy sites. On her return, she moved to New Mexico, worked at the Hanuman Foundation Dying Center, and graduated from the Kototama Institute of Natural Life Therapy and Acupuncture. In 1982, Liisa settled in Marin County. She was a student for 9 years in the Ridhwan School, center of the Diamond Approach founded by A.H. Almaas, aka Hameed Ali. She is currently Public Relations Director of the Yoga Research and Education Center. She also teaches Hatha Yoga and seminars on the practice, foundation, and lineage of Hatha Yoga in the West. She is a graduate of The Yoga College of India.

Atmagyana Saraswati Kaser has been studying and practicing Ayurveda for the past seven years. For five years she studied with, and worked for, Dr. Vasant Lad, of The Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque, NM. Currently she is a partner in Berkeley Ayurveda, providing Ayurvedic consultations, therapies and education. Atmagyana holds a B.S. in Biology and a M.A. in Education. Her teaching experience includes 2 years of high school math and science, 12 years teaching dance, and 3 years of teaching Ayurveda.

Michael Cerda is co-founder and director of The Yoga Company. His purpose for starting The Yoga Company was to create an accessible environment for yoga practice. That purpose has evolved and continues to evolve into that of fostering a yoga community. Michael has also recently combined his love for music and yoga in a CD release "Yoga Tunes by The Yoga Company - A Benefit for Karma for Kids Volume I". Michael's formal teacher training was done at Greenpath Yoga Studio in San Francisco with Clayton Horton. Having opened San Ramon’s first yoga center, Michael has first hand experience with the intricacies of the business aspect of a yoga center.

Anirudh Shastri has been practicing yoga for the past 25 years. He studied under the guidance of Sri Vishnu Prasadji. Shastri hails from North India and has had 20 years of extensive teaching experience. He teaches many styles of Yoga - Sivananda, Iyengar, and Ashtanga.

Tuition:
$2100 or $1999 before April 1 Early Registration

Text costs: $45 due at first class

Payment Plans Available