Yoga Alliance 500 RYT

Yoga Alliance-Approved Yoga Teacher Training Program

YogaFit is pleased to announce that we will be offering a 500-hour Teacher Training Program that will consist of the following requirements:

1. Be a Graduate of Yoga Alliance approved 200-hour RYT program (copy of certificate mandatory)

2. YOGAFIT Tx®*--Postural Assessment and Muscle Balance (prerequisite: Anatomy & Alignment)

3. YOGAFIT Rx®*--Supported Restoration and Relaxation for Health (prerequisite: Anatomy & Alignment)

4. Attendance of TWO 10-Day Intensives in Rishikesh, India, Poconos, PA, or Hood River, OR (prerequisite: RYT 200 & Level 4 Integration)

5. Additional requirements listed below depending upon your RYT 200 graduation date and school

* Please see required reading list below

Eligible 200-hour RYT's:
Depending on what year you completed your RYT program, and through what school, you will be required to take some additional coursework to complete the program:

Graduates of YF RYT 200 (prior to 1/1/07):
• YogaFit Level 5
• Anatomy & Alignment (prereq. before YOGAFITx)
• Level 4 Integration (prereq. before 3-week intensive to solidify Sanskrit and philosophical foundation)


Graduates of YF RYT 200 (on or after 1/1/07):
• Anatomy & Alignment Integration (prereq before YOGAFITx)
• Level 4 Integration (prereq. before 3-week intensiveto solidify Sanskrit and philosophical foundation)

Graduates of other RYT 200 program:
• YogaFit Level 1 – Foundational Elements of YF Vinyasa Style (prereq before any other YF Trainings)
• Anatomy & Alignment (prereq. before YOGAFITx)
• Level 4 (prereq. before 3-week intensive to solidify Sanskrit and philosophical foundation)

Training Locations:
The following trainings will be offered at YogaFit’s Mind/Body Fitness Conferences throughout the US in 2010:
• YogaFit Tx––Postural Assessment and Muscle Balance (Four Day Training)
• YogaFit Rx––Supported Restoration and Relaxation for Health (Four Day Training)
• Level 4 Integration Training (Four Day Training)
• YogaFit Anatomy & Alignment (2-Day Training – offered at conferences and other host locations)
• YogaFit Anatomy & Alignment Level 2 (2-Day Training – offered at conferences in 2011)

Additionally, beginning in 2010, two 10-Day Intensives will be required and are offered in:

April 3-13 Rishikesh India (with optional excursion to Kerala – the birthplace of Ayurveda April 13-18)
July 15-25 The Poconos, PA
July 30-Aug 9 Hood River, OR
Nov 20-30 Rishikesh, India

Included in Tuition: 3 daily meals, shared lodging, and education.

Space is limited to 18 persons per location and will fill fast

10-Day Intensives will be taught by RYT 500 and ERYT 500 YogaFit Master Trainers, Beth Shaw, Stephanie Adams, Sandi Cartwright, and/or Kristin Mabry.

Anand Mehrotra, ERYT 500, from Rishikesh, India, will teach our Classical Yoga practice that will include mantra, asana, pranayama, meditation, chanting, and an opportunity to ask questions of this master visiting us from Rishikesh, India, the birthplace of Yoga. He was born in Rishikesh, India, the town where yoga is said to have originated over 5,000 years ago. Anand has spent most of his life learning from many of the great sages and yogis in India. He was destined to be a teacher from an early age and began teaching at 16 years. He studied under many Masters in the Himalayas and was initiated into several different yogic paths including Kriya, Sivananda, Shakti Tantra, and Raja Yoga. He also is Vedic Astrology master. His teachings work toward dissolving the ego and the false belief systems that hold us back and expanding into an aware and liberated state of existence. The method is an inclusive approach to the lifestyles of today and about inviting higher understandings into all facets of life. The vision of the teachings is to inspire a conscious awareness into the modern-everyday world.

Required Reading List:

• The Living Gita: The Complete Bhagavad Gita: A Commentary for Modern Readers, Sri Swami Satchidananda;
• The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Sri Swami Satchidananda.
• YogaFit's Level 1 & Level 4 Manual
• The Language of Yoga, by Nicolai Bachman
• YogaFit 500 – Materials Required:
• The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, by Sri Swami Satchidananda
• The Living Gita: The Complete Bhagavad Gita, by Sri Swami Satchidananda;
• The Language of Yoga, by Nicolai Bachman
• Anatomy & Asana: Preventing Yoga Injuries by Susi Hately Aldous
• The Key Muscles of Hatha Yoga by Ray Long, MD, FRCSC
• Yoga as Medicine: The Yogic Prescription for Health and Healing, Timothy McCall, MD
• Pathways to Joy, Master Vivekananda
• Therapeudic Yoga for the Shoulders and Hips, Susi Hately Aldous
• Relax and Renew, Judith Lasater
• The Woman's Book of Yoga and Health, Linda Sparrowe and Patricia Walden

Prerequisites: Due to the in-depth nature of this training in philosophy, theory, pranayama, meditation, and other special techniques, including chanting yoga sutras relevant to Astanga yoga in Sanskrit, we are requiring a strong foundation of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, Bhagavad Gita, and Sanskrit pronunciation. Therefore, all attending must have completed their Yoga Alliance RYT 200, and Level 4 Integration is a required prerequisite for this training. Your Level 4 Trainer will be requiring specific home work and focus for all attending as integration and evaluating your readiness for the 10-Day Intensive. Graduates of other RYT 200 programs, will need to also take the YF Level 1 Foundations training weekend prior to attending the 10-Day Intensive.