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Your yoga teaching career and opportunities for personal growth are the repository of this most advanced yoga teacher training available. The 10 modules of UNION/YOGA Master Teacher Training put you in the position to gain scientific, psychological and spiritual information in areas of energetic anatomy & human physiology, yoga philosophy and principals, and historical and liturgical textual reference, to inform your own practice in profound ways and to take your students to the deepest levels in their yoga experience.
As more and more people become certified as Yoga instructors, only a few will move beyond initial, required training. The first step merely exposes where we yearn to go deeper. This program is for those of us for whom yoga is a life-long journey, and who are ready to take the path to a Master level.
This exclusive program meets all requirements of Yoga Alliance 500-Level Advanced Yoga Teacher certification. To participate in the UNION/YOGA Master Teacher Training students must have completed a 200 hour teacher training program. Exceptions are only with the prior approval the UNION/YOGA director and require a $180 processing fee.
UNION/YOGA Master Teacher Training begins June, 2006 and will conclude by January, 2008. Ten modules are spread out over a 2-year period, during which time teachers acquire the necessary required 100 hours of public teaching experience.
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UNION/YOGA Master Teacher Training - Overview
The UNION/YOGA Master Teacher Training is based on an ancient Tantric, chakra-based approach to yoga, with emphasis on the eight limbs, ashtanga, as outlined by Patanjali in his Yoga Sutras, and embracing the fundamentals of kundalini yoga as elucidated by Shyam Sundar Goswami in Laya Yoga.
"At the heart of Tantra is Kundliniyoga, and at the core of Kundaliniyoga is Layayoga."
–Sundar Goswami
Layayoga is body-positive, revolving around the process of kaya-sadhana, or "body cultivation." The purpose of sadhana, purification practices, the asanas and pranayama is not mere physical fitness, but the awakening of the individual’s innate power, kundalini-shakti, a form of conscious energy. With the full arousal of kundalini-shakti, one is awakened to the true nature of self; cit, pure universal consciousness.
It is our belief that Yoga, being the oldest extant method of conscious human evolution and Self-Realization, is best conveyed in the purity of its original intention. Layayoga is the Tantric process of dissolution of the common self, and union with the divine. We have called our program UNION/YOGA, in reference to a union that already, always exists. Yoga is union.
Ultimately, through specifically designed yogic practice, as kundalini rises through each psychospiritual center or chakra, the individual body is rendered transparent to that ultimate Reality. It is fundamental to recognize that our program embraces more than mere asana. Although asana and pranayama are core elements of UYTT, they are means, rather than end.
UNION/YOGA Master Teacher Training is a commuter and distance-study program consisting of two separate weeklong retreats and numerous weekend and daylong workshops. All components are held at UNION/YOGA at the Leelanau Center for Contemplative Arts, Lake Leelanau, Michigan unless otherwise noted. Some requirements may be completed in your home community or other Yoga Alliance sanctioned setting.
Our Staff
Sandra Carden, ERYT 500, director UNION/YOGA
Julie Eckhardt, MA, RYT 500
Carla Douros, PhD
Kathryn Roth, MD
Cynthia Snodgrass, MDiv
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UYTT MASTER LEVEL MODULES
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Modules
Each module must be registered for individually, allowing flexibility for substitutions (up to 40 hours) with prior approval of the UYTT director, Sandra Carden.
All components of UNION/YOGA Master Teacher Training must be completed in order to fulfill the UNION/YOGA Master Teacher Training requirements, consisting of:
- ANATOMY FOR YOGA: RETREAT. [28 hours]
- MEDITATION AND TANTRIC PHILOSOPHY: 5-DAY SILENT
RETREAT [52 hrs]
- YOGA METHODOLOGY: Weekend Workshops (choose
8 of 10). [48 hours]
a. Stability; Hip Openings
b. Surrender; Flexion
c. Fluidity; Advanced Flexion
d. Freedom; Twisting
e. Passion; Extension
f. Balance; Inversions
g. Healing; Restoratives
h. Purification; Heat/Sequencing
i. Assisting; Modifications
j. Supporting
- ESOTERIC ANATOMY: LECTURE/DISCUSSION SERIES;
Subtle anatomy exploration in tandem with each of the (above)
Methodology series, held the Friday or Saturday evenings prior
to the Methodology workshops; (choose 8 of 10). [32 hours]
- SANSKRIT: Weekend Workshop: Pronunciation of
Sanskrit transliteration, sutras, asana names and mantra.
[10 hours]
- PRACTICAL ESOTERIC ANATOMY: Weekend Workshop
on nadis and meridians with practical asana application
for common physical and emotional rebalance and healing. [10 hours]
- YOGA PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE: Distance course
on yogic scriptures including the Bhagavad Gita, Vijnana Bhairava,
and Yoga Sutras (choose 2). [48 hours]
- ELECTIVE WORKSHOPS: Students choose one or
more workshops in areas of personal interest from a Yoga Alliance
approved 500 level yoga teacher, school, or equivalent. Teachers
and schools may include, but are not limited to those offered
by UNION/YOGA. [24 hours]
- PRACTICUM: [36 hours] Mentored teaching and
coached private sessions.
a. Practicum Coaching
b. Contact Practicum
c. Non-Contact Practicum
- DOCUMENTED TEACHING
EXPERIENCE: According to Yoga Alliance standards, to graduate
as a UNION/YOGA Master Yoga Teacher students must have first achieved
100 hours of documented teaching.
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Modules
Note: Substitutions for the preceding 10 components may be allowed, up to a maximum of 40 hours, from an individual or Yoga Alliance approved yoga teacher training program, only with prior approval of the UNION/YOGA director.
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Graduation Requirements
The Yoga Alliance requires a total of 500 hours be completed in the categories specified above. UYTT Master Teachers must complete a minimum of 260 hours through UNION/YOGA programs. Students making substitutions (up to 40 hours) are required to satisfy the Yoga Alliance requirements for total hours and contact hours in each category. A total of 300 hours must be completed in addition to the 200 hour basic teacher training. Yoga Alliance also requires that 500-level teachers document 100 hours of actual yoga teaching in addition to training hours.
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Where to Stay
For students who are commuting from outside of our beautiful area, contact the Leelanau County Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Bureau for more about the region and for lodging:
Leelanau County Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Bureau
5046 S. West Bay Shore Drive, Suite G
Suttons Bay, MI 49682
231/271-9895
www.leelanauchamber.com
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