200 Hour Teacher Training, Summer 2012

200 HOUR TEACHER TRAINING – SUMMER 2012 WITH GREGOR SINGLETON & CLAIRE ESTE-MCDONALD

TRAINING DETAILS: The value of Yoga is reflected by the love and understanding, harmony and ease, as well as adventure and spontaneity that pervades your life.

 

To teach, is to draw forth these qualities into the lives of your students as well as into your own. This training roots the ability to teach in the practices inherent to the understanding of Yoga. It is this same understanding that gives you another place to stand, in relationship to your life and all that you choose to envision and realize with it.

This training is an appreciation of this understanding.

 

As such, the training includes the practical skills of:

  •  pacing and rhythm for vinyasa classes
  • sequencing that works seasonally and energetically
  • themes and emphasis
  • anatomical integrity of asana
  • physiology of vinyasa sequencing
  • enhancing asana through intelligent assisting
  • teaching to the needs of new students and established practitioners

Further to these and central to the curriculum are the transformative practices of:

  • pranayama
  • pratyahara
  • the meditational limbs
  • behavioral ethics of yama and niyama
  • chakras, nadis, bandhas, and koshas
  • ayurvedic understanding
  • artistry of storytelling
  • sourcing the full spirit of your expression

Here’s how to make your deposit:  Go to online store, click on series & memberships, from the drop down menu choose memberships, from there you will see the $500 deposit. Once you’ve made your payment we will contact you regarding the training and final payments. If you’ve been thinking about teacher training, what are you waiting for? This training will be amazing.

FEE:
 $3700
$500 deposit due now.  Remaining amount due by June 1st.

This program will fill up fast. Get your deposit in quickly in order to insure your spot.

SCHEDULE:
June 29, 30, July 1st
July 20 -29th
August 10, 11, 12
August 17, 18, 19

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BIOS:
Gregor Singleton

Gregor grew up in Scotland. He studied English Literature and Theatre at Trinity College, Dublin and trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. It was while he was a classical stage actor in London that he took his first yoga class. More fully engaged with his body, he began to see that the truest form of self expression was not to be on a stage playing at being someone else, but to fully and completely inhabit his own being. After a few years of exploring the power of transformational work, Gregor found yoga, and at once saw that intense physicality offered unique opportunities for breaking free of disempowering cycles and patterns, creating a safe atmosphere for students to take on and fully engage with their own lives.

Gregor sees his classes as a chance to step outside the everyday and explore the energetic possibilities of the group — possibilities that continually amaze and delight him. “When we approach our practice from a place where there is nothing to prove, nothing to improve, we open ourselves up to the simple wonder of being alive. My reason for teaching is for my students to leave their mats with a palpable sense of readiness for whatever shows up in their lives.”

Claire Este-McDonald

Claire’s teaching is distinguished by her gentle insistence that her students be educated by their own body, by their own emotions and by their own experiences.
Claire’s training has given her a deep appreciation for the miraculous nature of the human body and the Spirit which animates it. She cultivated a love for the human form through her formal training in life drawing.
She encountered first hand front-line experience of the physical and emotional extremes of the human condition while working as a nurse in the Emergency Room at Boston City Hospital.
She personally experienced the unrelenting ability of the body to heal through it’s own innate intelligence. After four critical back surgeries and despite predictions of poor recovery she engages with her children, her dogs and her teaching with the youthfulness and freshness that comes from someone equipped and recharged by her own life. Now, however, she has the wisdom that comes with being someone who was face to face with the prospect of never being able to walk again.
Her training with the Concord Institute in London and the life affirming nature of their work provides a critical cornerstone to her expression as a teacher and the commitment she brings to support her students in connecting themselves to the life they want.
Her discipleship is in honoring her own instinctual Nature and to support everyone in recovering this for themselves.
The personal influences in her teaching come from her ongoing work with Dennis Young as well as David Norris, Baron Baptiste and David Frawley.