FORREST YOGA TEACHER TRAINING IN DENVER
FOUNDATION TEACHER TRAINING with Ana Forrest, March 2 - 28, 2012
The Forrest Yoga Foundation Teacher Training (FYFTT) is a comprehensive program for aspiring instructors, experienced instructors or yoga students who want to work deeper within themselves. The FYFTT delivers a solid foundation in the art of teaching Forrest Yoga and is the first step in becoming a fully certified Forrest Yoga teacher.
See below for specific details, dates and times
CURRICULUM THEMES
Yoga as a healing path Ana is a pioneer in the practice of using yoga to transform physical and emotional pain into a journey toward freedom and healing. She will teach you the tools to take control of your life and rid your cells of unwanted pain and trauma, so you may bring the same healing to your students.
Walking the path of your Spirit The training‟s objective is to guide you into a greater understanding of your own challenges, both in your yoga practice and in your everyday life. This awareness will allow you to teach from truths that are discovered rather than from a dogma. Teaching authentically is more effective and compelling for both you and your students.
Teaching through discovery Through a tightly woven circle of teaching modalities including lecture, videotaping, group circles, practice teaching and partner work you will participate in a wide variety of teaching activities where learning is achieved through discovery of experiential knowledge. You will learn principles of alignment, class sequencing, working with injuries and energy, modifying yoga postures to address an individual‟s needs and teaching private, beginning and intermediate classes. There is opportunity to teach beginning level students, see and diagnose injuries and energy as well as proper use of touch and adjustment to maximize your teaching impact. The training format encourages trainees to discover their own wisdom while offering guidance so that you can effectively convey this wisdom when teaching.
WHAT MAKES THIS TRAINING SO EFFECTIVE?
- Experiential, focused and rich, with over 35 years of Ana‟s experience
- Employs a variety of teaching tools and group
- Provides you the time to practice teach with supervision and feedback from Ana
- Includes philosophical inquiries into ethics, teaching integrity, boundaries
- Offers an opportunity to learn to speak your truth and listen open-heartedly
- Includes the 300-page Forrest Yoga Teacher Training Manual with breadth of valuable material for future reference
- Includes additional manuals for both the Functional Anatomy Course and the Forrest Yoga Business Course
Go Deeper in Your Personal Yoga Practice
The morning meditation and intensive are for you and your practice
Learn How to Become an Effective Teacher and Healer
The instructional sessions cover proper pose alignment and modification, sequencing, cueing and more
Begin Teaching Others Within the First Week
“To learn to teach, you have to teach.”
TEACHER TRAINING DETAILS, MARCH 2ND - 28TH, 2012
Ana Forrest is an internationally renowned pioneer in yoga and healing. Her own trauma and life experiences have formed the foundation from which Ana created Forrest Yoga - a distinct approach of using yoga to address today‟s physical and emotional challenges with a highly developed understanding of the human body and psyche. She challenges her students to access their whole being and to use Forrest Yoga as a path to finding and then clearing the emotional and mental blocks that dictate and limit their lives. With Ana‟s meticulous guidance, students cultivate an acute awareness of their own practice and life process, creating a unique and powerful opportunity for the student to make practical life decisions based on their own experiences. “In teaching Forrest Yoga, I am doing my part to "Mend the Hoop of the People,‟ to inspire people to clear through the stuff that hardens them and sickens their bodies so they can walk freely and lightly in a healing way, in a Beauty Way.”
With more than 35 years of experience teaching yoga, Ana Forrest is a living example of a teacher who has freed herself from the strictures of trauma and habits and chosen a warrior's path of truth and compassion. She became a certified yoga instructor at the age of 18, is an ordained practitioner of Native American medicine and has studied Polarity Therapy, Acupressure, Homeopathy, Hands-on Healing, Martial Arts, Psychotherapy and Regression Therapy.
Giving her life mission to "Mend the Hoop of the People‟ a global reach, Ana continues to teach around the world throughout the year.
Ana‟s book, Fierce Medicine, (HarperOne) was published in May 2011.
Core Curriculum with Ana Forrest March 2 - 12 and March 16 – 26, 2012
Meditation and Chanting
6:00am – 6:45am
Set the day‟s intent and create a space for healing and connection to Spirit.
Daily Forrest Yoga Intensives - Open to all Students
7:00am – 9:00am
Create a heightened sense of physical, emotional and spiritual awareness while challenging every muscle and cell in your body. Work with your injuries to experience these classes as part of your own healing practice.
Training and Instruction
11:30am – 5:00pm (Mon-Fri)
12:30pm – 6:30pm (Sat-Sun)
Work with the essential elements of teaching: class and pose sequencing, safe and effective hands-on adjustments, effective, concise and powerful communication, the development of your authentic voice
Price
USD $4,000 for training and material (excluding Anatomy Course). USD $1,000 deposit is due on registration. Full payment must be received two weeks prior to the start of the training. All paid amounts are non-refundable. (This price does not include the Functional Anatomy Training. See details below)
Our Expectations
- We expect willingness, health and strength to complete this training
- 100% attendance
- We expect you to be drug free, including recreational drugs, coffee and tobacco
- If you do not have a daily practice, begin one now
What to Bring
- Notebook, pen and water
- Two mats OR one mat and one blanket or beach towel to roll up
- Strap (at least 8 foot) and block*
- Forrest Yoga Cat‟s Paw*
- Netti pot and uniodized salt
- Any other props needed to support any injuries or physical concerns
- Forrest Yoga 5-Day Intensives Audio CD/Book (optional)*
* Available at www.forrestyogastore.com
March 13-15, 2012 | Functional Anatomy with Ellen Heed
This is a rare opportunity to learn how yoga functions anatomically. All Participants in the FYFTT must register for this separately. See details below.
March 27-28, 2012 | Forrest Yoga Business Course with a Forrest Yoga Guardian
A Forrest Yoga Guardian taught interactive course that gives you practical steps for creating a business from your passion.
Registration Requirements
You are able to register for training with a minimum $1000 deposit, or by paying in full. If you do go with the payment option, remaining payments must be made in full by March 1st.
IMPORTANT NOTE: In addition to registering with us, you will need to fill out an application directly through the Forrest Yoga Website. Click here for the Forrest Yoga Teacher Training Application.
FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY OF YOGA
Functional Anatomy of Yoga | Training with Ellen Heed | March 13-15, 2012
This course satisfies the 20-hour Anatomy requirement for the National Yoga Alliance in the USA. All participants in the Forrest Yoga Foundation teacher Training are required to take this training in addition to the main training, and have to register separately.
This training is also open to the public.
A dynamic three-day anatomy intensive which gives teachers new tools to communicate the benefits of yoga.
Ellen Heed has a gift for translating the complex language of western anatomy into usable, practical concepts that yoga teachers can successfully integrate into their teaching. You learn names of bones, muscles, and connective tissues and how to locate them in your bodies. Why and how we are different from each other becomes the basis of how to use yoga as a tool to develop your strengths and strengthen your weaknesses.
The course consists of seven modules over a three day period:
Module 1: Reading Posture: Psyche in the Body & Spinal Pathology
Module 2: Postural Muscles & Emotion in the Body
Module 3: The Bio-Dynamics of Connective Tissue
Module 4: Joint Structure & Function
Module 5: Ruled by Blood: Reading Biochemical Imbalance
Module 6: The Biomechanics of Breath:
Module 7: The Nervous System: Hardware of the Chakras
ELLEN HEED
Internationally acclaimed, Ellen Heed, travels the globe teaching her innovative body education courses. Her powerful workshops are a culmination of her extensive experience and education. She has spent over 10,000 hours as a bodyworker, is a certified Shiatsu Specialist, a Craniosacral Therapist, an international teacher of human anatomy, and a certified Sexological Bodyworker. Ellen is on faculty staff at the Shiatsu Massage School of California as a teacher of Craniosacral Therapy. Her Functional Anatomy for Yoga course is included in major yoga teacher trainings such as YogaWorks and Forrest Yoga TTC with Ana Forrest. She has co-taught the Sexiological Bodywork training with founder Joseph Kramer.
Ellen is currently working on her PhD in Somatic Psychology. She lives and maintains a thriving private practice in Los Angeles, California.
$350 + $25 manual fee | 50% discount to repeat this course if you have already taken it.
Location: Qi Downtown, 2636 Walnut St., Denver, CO 80205
FORREST YOGA MENTORSHIP PROGRAM
Forrest Yoga Mentorship Program with Cheryl Deer, for New Forrest Yoga Teachers
If you have recently completed the Forrest Yoga Foundation Teacher Training, and are looking to move in to your mentorship, join Cheryl Deer, one of Denver's most cherished Forrest yoga teachers. The program includes:
1) Four all day workshops given once per quarter that include:
- Morning Meditation, chanting and Forrest Yoga intensive class
- Hands-on assisting clinics
- Sequencing and class development work
- Teaching and assisting a class with feedback on both
- Working with injuries
- Seeing
- Basic ceremony
- Process work
2) Four quarterly bridge calls with your Mentor
3) Ongoing guidance around teaching Forrest Yoga
4) A structured, guided process toward Forrest Yoga Certification
Workshop Dates:
- December 10-11, 2011
- April 14-15, 2012
- July 14-15, 2012
- October 13-14, 2012
For more information and to register, please click here to visit Cheryl Deer's website.