500 Hour Certification

Professional Level Yoga Training Program

Take your passion for yoga a step deeper

This program will span the course of 10 months, approximately 6 weeks apart. It will include in-depth practice and education in the classic path of yoga. Students will receive ongoing mentoring and coaching throughout the training, which will guarantee the integration of the experience. We are transitioning away from the "module" form in which some students chose the modules in an ala carte manner. With this module style format, we saw that students did not have the "follow through" that mentoring could ensure. We have also reduced the tuition of the program by nearly 25%, hopefully making this more affordable for many. We are also creating some payment options to accommodate a payment over time.

Growth as a yoga teacher calls for commitment to practice, expansion of knowledge, and openness to inspiration. This integrated training will support your development personally and professionally and gain deeper experience with a variety of tools for offering extraordinary yoga classes and living an extraordinary life. Trinity Yoga Centre offers 500-hour certification for yoga teachers of all traditions who want to further their study and deepen their experience of practice.

The Kripalu Experience of Today

In the 30 years since Swami Kripalu's passing, times have changed. The guru is gone, and really, the guru model is finished (the vertical paradigm of unconditional surrender to the guru's dictate). As a famous teacher recently said "the next gurus come from our own village". So what now? We are left with ourselves, with each other. We have the gift of freedom in exploring our own practice, while, at the same time we have the responsibility to move the dharma forward. We must be the change we wish to see in the world. Yet the road to freedom is not clearly marked, nor are there shouts from the sidelines guiding our way.

We arrive here, now. We use our developing practice to 'know thyself'. Nothing really to accomplish or master, but rather using the tools of yoga to know who we are and where we are. At that point, we will recognize we have a choice; to continue in the well worn tracks of our personal mind and behaviour, or, use our newly established presence to walk our own unique path. In that unique journey lies our freedom, our healing, our service, our transformation. Transmutation of old layers of energies, in to the blossoming of our true self.

This training is our offering to you. We are the leaders of the course, but only in the sense of building the riverbanks of experience and information. You are the water of life.

We will explore time tested practices and philosophy of our Kripalu lineage, with a background of a non-dual awareness, an understanding that ultimately there is nothing to do. That said, we want to develop the 'container' of a balanced lower self to explore the possibility of setting ourselves free to our higher self.

Curriculum and Course Details

The 500-Hour curriculum consists of eight weekends. Attendance is required at all 8 of the weekends as the program material builds over the course. Some make-up will be allowed on a case by case basis. Previous candidates with completed modules in the Trinity Yoga Center Professional Program will receive a credit towards the tuition of this course. As well, students from the Kripalu tradition or other approved schools of yoga may also receive credit towards this course. Those credits will be evaluated on a case by case basis.

All contact hours are with Sonya, Jeff (Harshad) or Ron (Naresh), as well as other approved program directors.

Key Components of the Training will include;

• Asana, a rich exploration of advanced asana, and their building blocks
  
• Pranayama
  
• Exploring the 3 states of nature (Gunas)
  
• Samkhya philosophy
  
• Yoga Sutras
  
• Kriya techniques
  
• Koshas within Yoga Nidra
  
• Meditation techniques
  
• Variations on advanced practice
  
• Inspiration from the Bhagavad-Gita, Atma Gita, and various sacred texts
  
• Sanskrit Chanting and Mantra
  
• Contemporary wisdom from Michael Singer, a non-dual master teacher
  
• Lastly, and most importantly, Mentors, your guides and supports on this journey. Probably your most valuable asset from this training. A mirror, a friend, a confidant, an advocate, together you will create the journey home to you.

Tuition, Schedule, and Application Procedures

We also offer a payment plan for the duration of the course (with post dated checks), which would include a 5% finance fee. Credit Card payments for tuition will include a 3.5% processing fee. A cancellation policy will be provided upon registration.

Trinity Yoga Centre will accept other credit hours from an approved 500 Hour Yoga Alliance Recognized training. These non-Trinity Yoga Centre credit hours must be approved in advance and be relative to our course content.

Trinity Yoga Centre may change the course content and schedule at our discretion. In the event of a change, Trinity Yoga Centre will make every effort to communicate those changes to participants in a timely manner.

Schedule

The course begins each weekend, on Friday morning approximately 7:30am, with a yoga class. The course then runs through Friday evening to approximately 10pm. Again, 7:30am Saturday through 10pm, and Sunday 7:30am through to approximately 6pm. There will be appropriate 1 hour breaks for lunch and dinner, as well as shorter breaks as needed, throughout the course. Times are subject to change based on the flow of the course content.