Yoga Teacher Training

(Please see bottom of page for information on Meditation Teacher Training,
the ideal program for those interested in deepening their meditation practice.)

Welkin Wellness Centre is the only place in Canada that offers the Classical Yoga Teacher's Training program direct from the world's oldest ashram, The Yoga Institute in Mumbai, India. The personalized program fosters personal growth and helps you develop a greater understanding of yoga practice and theory. Some of the members of Yoga Teacher Training go on to teach while the rest join to expand their personal understanding of yoga. Our goal is to help guide you to learn the skills necessary to practice yoga wholly and teach yoga safely and effectively.

Yoga Teacher Training encompasses:

• One-to-one mentoring
• The inner workings of Yoga poses
• Mastery of the mind
• The subtlety of prana
• Profound relaxation
• Super-consciousness
• The art and business of teaching

Philosophy - Practice - Sadhana • 225+ Hours Certification • Approved by the Yoga Institute, Mumbai, India. This program meets and exceeds the requirements set forth by the Yoga Alliance and is a registered program.

Welkin Wellness Centre, in affiliation with The YogaLife Institute in Pennsylvania, has been commissioned by The Yoga Institute of Mumbai, India to train instructors and promote its unique system of teaching yoga philosophy.

You can enroll in Yoga Teacher Training anytime. Call 519-751-1368 for a complimentary meeting to discuss your needs.

Program Components

• Unlimited 12-Month Yoga Class Membership at Welkin Yoga Studio
• Participation in 3 yoga-themed workshops
• Weekend yoga retreat with Dr. Bob Butera of The YogaLife Institute
• Discounts on any additional workshops or retreats you choose to attend
• 12 monthly seminars
• 12 individual mentoring sessions
• Peer support from students who are in their later months of training
• Paper review and commentary/suggestions of 12 papers (each 5 pages in length)
• Lessons in traditional yoga theory
• Instruction in The Art of Teaching Yoga
• How to safely teach yoga poses
• Benefits and precautions of yoga poses
• Commentary/suggestion of 24 yoga pose write-ups
• Guardianship of Dr. Bob Butera
• Lineage with world’s oldest yoga centre (The Yoga Institute)
• Certification from a Yoga Alliance Registered yoga teacher training program

Exceptions are granted for circumstances like distance or other relevant reasons that compromise one's ability to follow the set program. It is expected these reasons will be discussed by the applicant during the admissions interview, for the purpose of creating clarity at the outset of the program. The program guidelines will have to be met fully and we grant as much time as needed to finish the course, i.e. twelve months training may take two years to complete.

Yoga Teacher Training Application Process

• Brief letter of intent, describing Yoga background and aspirations

• Interview with Erin Byron, President, Welkin Wellness Centre, Brantford

• Complete one 9-class punch card at Welkin Wellness Centre

Upcoming Teacher Training Seminars

( Summer Seminars Sundays from 9am-12pm )

Seminars are held on Saturdays from 12pm-4pm

Saturday, February 13, 12pm-4pm
Saturday, March 13, 12pm-4pm

Weekend Intensive with Dr. Butera:
Friday, April 16, 6:30pm - Sunday, April 18, 2pm

Saturday, May 15, 12pm-4pm
Saturday, June 12, 12pm -4pm

Meditation Teacher Training Program

Nine month-long program begins in September 2009

Personalized Meditation Experience and Practice

Did you know that not all meditation programs work for all people? Discover how you can help yourself and others find the type of meditation that best suits their personality.

Learn a unique system of sensory mastery in tandem with the 6 basic styles of meditation:

• Breath/Energy
• Mantra
• Visual
• Contemplation
• Mindfulness
• Conceptual

Find peace of mind through an in-depth exploration of the inner-landscape. Understand the roots of positive thinking, enhance your spiritual understanding, simplify your life and quiet that monkey mind!

Field of Study

• Six basic styles of meditation and how to teach them
• Mastery of the senses
• Science of meditation
• Positive thinking and emotionality
• Spiritual company and living
• Proper breathing
• Visualization
• Physical relaxation and loosening of the spine
• Diet and exercise
• Simple living/freedom from busy-ness

Program Components

• Two weekly Meditation Classes
• Weekly seminars on Meditation for Your Type and How To Teach Meditation
• Four workshops on various components of meditation teaching and practice
• Support in establishing daily home meditation practice
• Direction in spiritual readings and meditative philosophy
• Review and guidance on training papers
• Extreme discount on Unlimited Yoga Membership (optional)
• Reduced rate on Weekend Yoga Intensive with Dr. Bob Butera (optional)

This program is designed to meet the needs of:

• Beginner meditation students who want to go deeper
• Experienced meditation students who want to teach others
• Meditation students who want to explore alternate disciplines
• Yoga teachers who want to continue their education

(Yoga Alliance CEC available)

Yoga Therapy Program

Welkin Wellness Centre invites you to join the Pilot program "Yoga Therapy" to commence January 24, 2010 at an introductory rate of $325.00 

After which time feedback will be used to polish the curriculum and the full program will launch in March for 50 hour certification program

Upcoming Yoga Therapy Certification Courses:

Sunday, February 14 8:45am - 11:45am
Sunday, March 7, 9:00am - 12:00pm

Each Area of your life does influence your health...so how does Yoga Therapy work?

Everyday we have an opportunity to impact, inspire, motivate, heal and guide change into our clients lives. Imagine bringing a sense of fun, wonder and re-discovery back to a person who suffers in their own skin. Often, people with chronic pain, disease, and injury feel trapped in their body or that their body has given up on them. The loss is not only a lack of connection to their body, but also a loss of community and support.  With Yoga Therapy, you can offer hope through your understanding of mind awareness and guidance that will motivate the patient back into movement.Your knowledge of how a person in pain relates to their body can be the most valuable tool for helping them re-connect with the desire to self heal. For example, someone who suffers from panic attacks can learn to manage them by practicing a series of balanced breathing techniques. From this, a sense of control is gained and your client can then focus on addressing the source of their anxiety. Yoga Therapy guides patients to a place of physical, mental and emotional awareness and gives them the tools to address what ails them. For instance, people experiencing pain can find poses that target and relieve the pain, as well as overcome feelings of helplessness. One of the benefits of the Yoga Therapy Program is the customized approach that allows us to work with all types of individuals with different needs.

The Yoga Therapy Program will cover:

· Clients 65 and up (chair yoga modifications)

·   Client 65 and under (injuries, chronic pain )

· Benefits / Precautions of each pose

· Four sample practices for half-hour class

· Written and Group assignments

· How to instructions (cues) for each pose
 

Changing the patients physiology with their focus; therefore changing their conditioning

The Yoga Therapy Program will enhance the skill sets you already have as a care provider and through taking the program reflect positive changes through your new approach with your clients. By enhancing your practice with Yoga Theraphy, you are developing techniques through an alternative modality that are adaptable to to your clients needs. As a practioner you can also approach healing with a relaxed state as you apply what you have learned in the Yoga Therapy Program in their daily life. How you feel in treating the client will change.The relationship dynamic enhances and the patient may be more open to healing.With the overall benefit of the change in atmosphere /approach of your center of health, hospital, pain clinic, or training course you will see an improvement of health and overall well being and an increase of your services being seeked.

The Yoga Therapy Program is valuable as it is innovative and raises company and personal standards of patient care.There are long term benefits for both the client and practioner.

How the patient benefits:

·  Connection to their body and mind

·  Alternative wholistic method to heal

· Stress reduction techniques

·  Pain management through relaxation and breathing

· Better sleep which promotes rejeuventation

How the company / practioner benefits:
 

· Improved flexibilty

· Increased concentration

· Decreased tension / anxiety

·  Less sick time / absences

· Improved efficiency

· Increased productivity

· Improved breathing
 

Welkin's Yoga Therapists have additional specialized training in specific health related challenges which provides the understanding necessary to assure whole body integration of healing. Yoga therapy respects individual differances in age, culture, religion, philosophy, occupation, and mental and physical health.
 

For more information please contact yoga@welkin.ca or call 519-751-1368.