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Teaching Faculty · Ethics Code · Admin Questions The Yoga Sutra 200-Hour
Program Philosophy · 200 Hour Certification Program · Dates
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accepting applications for Fall 2010
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Yoga Sutra school offers three styles of yoga: Ashtanga, Vinyasa, and Iyengar. Our teacher training program draws upon these traditions to provide a uniquely substantive and well-rounded learning experience. Yoga Sutra's program is designed to integrate broadly the principles of yoga as taught by Sri T Krishnamacharya, the "grandfather of modern yoga." Students will learn from teachers who have directly studied with and in many cases been certified / authorized by the principal proponents of Krishnamacharya's lineage: TKV Desikachar, BKS Iyengar, and K Pattabhi Jois. Our unifying principle is the philosophy of Patanjali as outlined in his classical text, the Yoga Sutra. We are pleased to include in our faculty noted scholar and Professor of Hinduism at Rutgers University, Dr. Edwin Bryant, author of "The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali with Notes from the Traditional Commentators" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009).
On a practical level, we are working together intimately for five months, Saturdays and Sundays from 11:00AM-8:00PM, about two weekends per month. Students are taught Asana, Teaching Methodology, Pranayama, Meditation, Chanting, Anatomy, Subtle Anatomy (Nadis, Chakras), Yoga Philosophy (Yoga Sutra and Bhagavad Gita), the Sanskrit Alphabet, Prenatal Yoga and Yoga for Children. These topics will be taught in a cohesive, seamless manner and include individual guidance by a mentor. Students are required to attend at least two regularly scheduled classes per week at the center (in addition to observing and later assisting in classes); to do daily home practice and journal writing; and to once weekly practice with fellow trainees.
Students will leave the 200 hour Yoga Teacher training program with the following skills and experiences:
Yoga Sutra's 200-hour program consists of instruction/class time with an outstanding faculty of world-renown lecturers and yoga teachers who are authorities in their field.
The program is Yoga Alliance registered (RYS-200 ID# 27005).
Teacher Training Program begins: Saturday, September 11th, 2010, 10:00AM (please arrive at 9:00AM if you still have to take care of payment and sign your contract)
Midterm: Will be given out on Sunday, November 7th, to be completed by Saturday, November 20th, 2010
Classes will complete: Sunday, February 13th, 2011
Final Practical Exams: Saturday, February 12th, 4:00-8:00PM, 2011
Written Exam: Will be given out on Sunday, January 30th, to be completed by Thursday, February 10th, 2011
Graduation: Saturday, February 19th, 2011
(Books we are using in class which everyone NEEDS to have in the editions mentioned below!)
(Books which are useful to read and use for reference during the training)
Download Schedule (PDF)
Download Application (PDF - 47K)
200 HOUR TRAINING:
Tuition includes unlimited yoga at Yoga Sutra during program and before (when paid in full)
Note: Tuition payments and deposits are non-refundable.
 Edwin Bryant received his doctorate in Indic languages, philosophies and cultures from Columbia University. He taught Hinduism at Harvard University for three years, and is presently professor of Hindu religion and philosophy at Rutgers University. He has been a practitioner of bhakti yoga for twenty-five years, a number of them spent in India. He has published six books and numerous articles on Vedic culture, yoga and the Krishna tradition, and has just completed a translation of Patanjali's Yoga sutras with extracts from the traditional commentators. |
Special Guest Teacher: Dr. Satya Narayan Das
Yoga Philosophy (Yoga Sutra)
Dr. Satya Narayas Das holds an M. Tech degree from IIT Delhi and a PhD in Sanskrit (Agra University), as well as eight additional shastric degrees in various subjects. He is the author of 15 books related to Indian culture and philosophy. Dr. Das conducts classes on ancient Indian sciences for scholars from around the world and has initiated a program for preservation, translation and publication of ancient Indian works of science and wisdom. He is a visiting professor at the American Hindu University and at State University of NJ, Rutgers. |
SPECIAL GUEST TEACHER: Chase Bossart
Course Planning/Teaching Methodology and Yoga Philosophy (500 hr training)
Chase Bossart, M.A., E-RYT, is a long time student of Mr. TKV Desikachar and a certified KHYF Yoga Teacher Trainer (www.khyf.net). Over the past 17 years, he has lived in Chennai, India studying at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram for a total of almost 4 years. As a Senior Teacher at the not-for-profit Healing Yoga Foundation (www.HealingYoga.org) in San Francisco he sees private yoga therapy clients and trains yoga teachers. He is also a faculty member of the Loyal Marymount University Yoga Therapy Rx Program, and travels frequently around the US teaching workshops on a variety of yoga related topics. Chase's academic training was in Religious Studies at UC Santa Barbara where he specialized in Indian Philosophy and wrote his thesis on Patanjali's Yogasutra.
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 Guta Hedewig has studied the teachings of Krishnamacharya with TKV Desikachar and Kausthub Desikachar at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram in Chennai where she has completed advanced yoga courses and studied privately. She is a certified teacher through the Krishnamacharya Healing and Yoga Foundation and is currently finishing their four year long Yoga Therapy Training. She also learned Vedic Chanting at the affiliated Vedavani (Vedic Chanting School) and with her mentor, Sonia Nelson. Additionally, Guta has studied Ashtanga in Mysore with K. Pattabhi Jois and with V. Sheshadri for many years. Guta has directed Yoga Sutra's teacher training programs for several years. She heads the 'Individualized Yoga Program,' creating practices for students adapted to their specific needs. Altogether, Guta endeavors to create an atmosphere of the committed, in-depth study of yoga in all its aspects, based in the tradition of Krishnamacharya's teachings.
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Jill began teaching yoga in 2001 and is a 500 Hour E-RYT. She
is trained in the Krishnamacharya lineage: vinyasa, alignment and classical philosophical methods.
She completed her advanced certification with Adrienne Burke in 2003 and went on to assist Adrienne in her subsequent teacher training. In 2004, Jill co-authored the book Yoga Fan and has been teaching philosophy and asana and methodology in numerous teacher training programs in New York City and Philadelphia for over 5 years. Jill has studied anatomy and alignment with Beth Biegler and currently practices Ashtanga, Iyengar and Vinyasa. She studies Vedic Chanting with Guta Hedewig and regularly attends philosophy classes with Dr. Edwin Bryant and Christopher Hildebrandt. Jill is Director of Vinyasa at Yoga Sutra NYC. |
Adrienne Burke has been teaching yoga since 1994 and practicing for over 20 years. She is known as a teacher’s teacher, leading training courses at yoga schools that have graduated over 100 yoga teachers to date. She has designed individual and group programs for specialized needs including but not limited to corporations, seniors, children, teens, prenatal, and students with anxiety disorders, headaches, insomnia, addiction, chronic conditions or illness. Adrienne is often called upon as a yoga expert, having been interviewed by major print and web publications.She served as the Director of Teaching Programs for the Jivamukti Yoga School for four years, directing their teacher training program as well as structuring their teaching program and teaching curriculum. Throughout the years she has taught at various gyms, yoga schools, and corporations as well as privately throughout NYC. Adrienne believes that yoga can be practiced and enjoyed by anyone with a desire, and a program can be structured for the individual regardless of time, physical, mental or emotional constraints. She is known as a teacher with integrity. |
 Dolphi Wertenbaker M.D. is a graduate of Columbia University (cum
Laude) and Cornell University Medical College (1978). She is a life-long student of TKV Desikachar since 1970, with a dream of combining yoga and medicine. She has been teaching yoga since 1985, with an emphasis on individual therapeutic work. She is a Krishnamacharya Healing Yoga Foundation-certified Yoga Teacher Trainer and teaches in yoga teacher training programs in New York, San Francisco and Chicago. |
 Jyoti Chittur was born into a family steeped in the Vaishnava tradition and initiated into the Sampradaya. She learned Sanskrit and Chanting from her grandfather who, during his time, was a scholar of the Vedas and the Scriptures. Her father, an educator, taught her Yoga in the traditional style encompassing the physical, spiritual and elemental aspects of the practice. Her mother, a devout devotee instilled in her the tradition and practice of Bhakti and Seva. She teaches Sanskrit and Yoga and is an alumnus of Yoga Sutra. |
 Rachel Lynch-John began practicing Iyengar yoga in 1990. She has assisted her Iyengar teacher, Genny Kapuler since 2001. Rachel is certified in Embodied Anatomy and Yoga (EAY), and Embodied Developmental Movement and Yoga (EDMY), and is also an Infant Developmental Movement Educator, through the School for Body-Mind
Centering®. She currently assists Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen (founder of the Body-Mind Centering® School) and has taught in the EAY and EDMY yoga teacher training programs in NYC and Berkeley California. Rachel teaches anatomy and yoga for yoga teacher training programs in Japan and NY. |
 Jon Aaron has studied mindfulness with a variety of teachers, namely Matthew Flickstein and other teachers affiliated to the Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts. He trained in teaching MBSR at the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, MA. in 2007 and 2008. He has also completed Teaching as a Form of Practice retreats with Matthew Flickstein and the Integrated Study and Practice Program at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies. Jon is currently training as a contemplative caregiver with the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care and the Beth Israel Hospital, and he continues to be involved with the New York Insight Meditation Center as an associate teacher. Jon has taught and given talks in a variety of settings such as the 92nd St. Y, the Dept. of Psychology at the Einstein College of Medicine and the Yeshiva University. |
 Sarah Perron came to yoga from a dance background. She began her exploration of yoga in 1992. In 1999 Sarah co-founded Baby Om and co-authored the book, "Baby Om: Yoga for Mothers and Babies." Since 1995, Sarah has been studying at the Iyengar Institute with senior teachers Mary Dunn, Brooke Myers, Kevin Gardiner, and Genny Kapuler. She participated in the 2004-2005 Teacher Training program at the Iyengar Institute and recently passed her first assessment with IYNAUS (Iyengar Yoga National Association of the United States). |
Lisa moved to New York in 1998 after graduating from Purdue University with a B.A. in Creative Writing. She began work in large advertising and publishing companies until being accepted into the NYC Teaching Fellows Program. While earning her M.S. in Early Childhood and Elementary Education from Bank Street College under this scholarship, Lisa taught third grade in Central Harlem. There, she developed programming to bring yoga to at-risk students, later utilizing a National Americorps Scholarship to complete her certification in Vinyasa yoga. Upon graduating, she began teaching in the non-profit educational sector, bringing yoga, meditation, and music weekly to over ninety under-served children under a 9-11 Red Cross Grant. Lisa is currently launching a certification program and Children's Yoga Department at Yoga Sutra. She continues to be involved in bringing yoga to underserved areas by building outreach initiatives and hosting fundraisers for partnering organizations at the school. Lisa is currently pursuing a Masters of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary in order to broaden her ecumenical work. She is also the singer-songwriter and rhythm guitarist for 14 Lines - an alternative rock band and project with Urban Iguana Music Productions. |
500 Hour Advanced Teacher Training
(300 additional hours)
Next training to start SPRING 2011
See our new pricing!
500 HOUR Program Description
(Advanced 300 Hour Training - 200 Hour Certification Required)
Yoga Sutra's 500 Hour Advanced Teacher Training builds on our 200 Hour training with emphasis in rigorous, intelligent ways of learning yoga in all its aspects. Our program provides a deep understanding and broad grasp of yoga based in the tradition of T. Krishnamacharya with emphasis on individualizing the practice for each student. Trainees who graduate from our training will have a full appreciation of the unity and rich diversity of the yoga tradition and a solid understanding of the philosophical underpinnings of yoga and its sister philosophical systems.
We are pleased to welcome to our faculty noted scholar and Professor of Hinduism at Rutgers University, Dr. Edwin Bryant, author of "The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali with Notes from the Traditional Commentators" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009).
Graduates of our Advanced 500 Hour Training Can Expect To Gain:
The Advanced 500-Hour Coursework Includes
Yoga Philosophy:
Asana/Teaching Methodology:
Anatomy/Physiology:
Pranayama:
Chanting:
Meditation:
The program runs March through December 2011 (10 months), with classes taking place two weekends per month. Each trainees receives individual guidance by a mentor.
For Yoga Sutra 200 hr Teacher Training Graduates
Please contact Lisa Bridge (yogasutralisa@gmail.com) to apply for work-study program after submitting program application to Guta Hedewig.
Early sign-up incentive: Unlimited FREE Yoga Classes at Yoga Sutra starting from the day full tuition is paid!
Tuition includes Unlimited Yoga at Yoga Sutra during program, until January 31st, 2012 - and afterwards Alumni Discount of 50% for School of Yogic Studies Courses; 50% discount for monthly membership; 20% discount on class packages and select workshops; 10% discount on retail.
Note: Tuition payments are non-refundable.
The program will be 10 months in duration, scheduled to take place twice monthly on Saturdays and Sundays, approx. 11:00 AM - 8:00 PM. In addition, students are required to attend two regularly scheduled classes per week at the center, to observe and assist in classes; to practice teach Community Classes; to do daily home practice and journal writing; and to twice monthly practice with fellow trainees.
IMPORTANT:
In order to guarantee the best possible learning environment for everyone, we require graduates of 200 hour yoga teacher trainings OTHER THAN Yoga Sutra's to additionally participate in select classes of our Fall or Spring 200 hr Teacher Training (such as Traditional Teachings/Desikachar; Vedic Chanting; Sanskrit; etc, plans will be made individually).
Program begins: Saturday, March 5th, 2011, 9:30AM (please arrive at 9:00AM if you still have to take care of payment and sign contract)
Midterm: Will be given out on Saturday, July 30th, to be completed by Friday, August 12th, 2011
Written Final Exam: Will be given out on Saturday, January 14th, to be completed by Friday, February 3rd, 2012
Classes will complete: Sunday, January 29th, 2012 Final Practical Exams: Saturday/Sunday February 11th & 12th, 2012
Graduation: Saturday, February 18th, 2012
Download Application for 500 hour program (PDF - 52K)
Code of Ethics (PDF - 76K)
For questions, please contact Director of Teacher Trainings, Guta Hedewig, at 212-490-1443 ext.13, or guta@yogasutranyc.com
Lisa was one of the first hires at Yoga Sutra when it opened its
doors in October, 2004. She began as an Assistant Manager and was
quickly promoted to Manager, Administrative Director and now, Director
of Operations. Lisa has been integrally involved in helping with
the growth and structure of the center. She oversees the entire managerial
staff, daily operations of the center, and is a key programming director.