Advanced Teacher Training Modules
are designed to teach individuals how to develop therapeutic yoga practices for the modern world and expand their teaching practice to a much deeper level. You may choose to take any one training module as a standalone or combine multiple trainings to achieve certification at the 500-Hour level with Yoga Alliance on your own time table. Our trainings create an intimate experience with one-on-one attention from our teachers. Samadhi Sun’s training is rooted in the ancient yogic teachings to create therapeutic and transformative experiences for modern practitioners.
How Yoga Heals
50-Hour
This 50-Hour module is required for certification at the 500-level through Samadhi Sun. According to the science of yoga, all diseases come from disharmony in our bodies systems. "How Yoga Heals" will teach participants to apply therapeutic yoga practices to create inner harmony and wellbeing. The course is designed to teach individuals how to develop therapeutic yoga practices for the modern world.
Curriculum includes
- How the body comes to manifest disease from a yogic perspective
- Learn various aspects of yoga on a therapeutic level to heal oneself and others physically, emotionally and spiritually.
- Recognizing and understanding the location of the meridian channels and how they affect the body physically, spiritually and psychologically
Requirements
- 200 Hour Yoga Certification or by permission
Investment
- $425 for each 25-hour weekend module for first-time Samadhi Sun students
- $375 for each 25-hour weekend module for returning Samadhi Sun students
Curriculum includes
- How to structure and sequence a complete Samadhi Spectrum class
- Information on autism and how to prepare for teaching this population
- Yogic topics specific to autism, including asana, pranayama, energy work, diet, nutrition and anatomy
- How to create a personal practice and teaching from the heart
Requirements
- 200-Hour Yoga Certification or open to other professionals or caregivers working with the autism population
Investment
- $750 tuition for 50-Hour Certification
Curriculum includes
- Understanding how smart and safe sequencing, including the effective use of transitions, can maximize the benefits of the yoga experience
- Creating a well-rounded yoga experience, including the use of dharma talks, pranayama, mudras, mantras and how to appropriately use music
- Moving beyond vinyasa flow for a wide variety of students
- Deepening approaches to your own yoga practice
Requirements
- 200-Hour Yoga Certification
- 1 year of teaching experience
Investment
- $850 tuition for first-time Samadhi Sun Students
- $750 tuition for returning Samadhi Sun Students
Curriculum includes
- Understanding which yoga postures affect different body systems, physically and energetically
- Learning how to prevent injury and to maximize the healing effects of yoga asana
- Learning how to safely instruct asana with the use of props, cues and hands-on assists, including how to provide assistance to students with different body types and mobility
- Implementing techniques for how to safely instruct advanced asana
Requirements
- 200-Hour Yoga Certification
- 1 year of teaching experience
Investment
- $850 tuition for first-time Samadhi Sun Students
- $750 tuition for returning Samadhi Sun Students
Curriculum includes
- Learn how to practice and teach various types of meditation techniques, including mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR), breath awareness, visualization, trataka, japa and mauna
- Explore the use of mantra and vibrational sound healing
- Experience the healing benefits of pranayama and it’s deep connection to meditation
- Understand the science of yoga nidra, including how it works and how to integrate the practice into teaching
Requirements
- 200-Hour Yoga Certification or by permission
Investment
- $750 tuition plus retreat accommodations (TBD)
Curriculum includes
- Learning yoga philosophy directly by chanting that ancient texts
- Practicing yoga techniques for raising your vibration, including asana, chanting Sanskrit mantras, japa, pranayama, and meditation
- Effectively strengthening and using your voice and other sound healing tools to create sacred space
- Evaluate and fine tune your own sadhana to deepen your understanding of sequencing through your own practice and to authentically teach from the heart
- Using Ayurveda to find strength as a teacher and to improve the way you practice and teach
Requirements
- 200-Hour Yoga Certification
- 1 year of teaching experience
Investment
- $850 tuition for first-time Samadhi Sun Students
- $750 tuition for returning Samadhi Sun Students
Energetics & The Art of Balancing the Subtle Body
This module is required for certification at the 500-level through Samadhi Sun. The Energetics & The Art of Balancing the Subtle Body enables teachers to move beyond the physical practice as advanced teachers and healers through a deeper understanding of energetic anatomy and its role in connecting body, mind and spirit through the yoga practice.
Curriculum includes
- Understanding energetic anatomy, including a deeper exploration of chakras, koshas, meridians and the subtle energies of mudras and bandhas
- Learning how to use advanced pranayama practices and how to implement them into yoga classes and private healing sessions with different populations
- Exploring and experiencing ways to use energetic touch and the science of vibrational sound healing, including through chanting Sanskrit
Requirements
- 200-Hour Yoga Certification or by permission for those in the healing profession
- 1 year of teaching experience
Investment
- $850 tuition for first-time Samadhi Sun Students
- $750 tuition for returning Samadhi Sun Students