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Teaching Faculty · Ethics Code · Admin Questions The Yoga Sutra 200-Hour
Program Philosophy · 200 Hour Certification Program · Dates
Reading · Schedule · Application · Tuition Now
accepting applications for Fall 2009
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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 especially delighted to include Mr. Srivatsa Ramaswami in the teaching faculty, the longest standing student of Krishnamacharya outside the Master's family, as well Dr. Edwin Bryant, Professor of Hindu Philosophy.
On a practical level, we are working together intimately for almost five months, Saturdays and Sundays, 11:00AM to 8:00PM (with a one hour break). Students
are taught Asana, Teaching Methodology, Pranayama, Meditation, Chanting,
Anatomy, Subtle Anatomy (Nadis, Chakras), Yoga Philosophy (Yoga Sutra
and Bhagavad Gita), the Sanskrit Alphabet, and Prenatal Yoga. In
addition, Mr. Ramaswami will lecture on the many facets of Krishnamacharya's
teachings and lead a course in the traditional Vinyasa Krama Yoga. These
topics will be taught in a cohesive, seamless manner. There will also be a workshop
in Prenatal Yoga and Yoga for Children. Students
are required to attend at least one regularly scheduled
class 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 plus-hour Patanjala 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).
Orientation: Saturday, September 12th, 2009, 11:00-12:00 PM (please arrive at 10:00AM if you still have to take care of payment and sign your contract)
Classes begin: Saturday, September 12th, 2009, 12:00PM
Midterm: will be given out on Sunday, October 25th, to be completed by Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Classes will complete: Sunday, January 17th, 2010
Final Practical Exams: Saturday, January 16th, 3:30-7:30pm, 2010
Written Exam: will be given out on Sunday, December 12th, to be completed by Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Graduation: Saturday, January 30th, 2010
Please note:
There are no teacher training classes on
Nov. 28/29,
Dec 5/6,
Dec 19/20,
Dec 26/27,
Jan 2/3, 2010.
(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)
To be posted soon.
Download Application (PDF - 208K)
Tuition: (includes unlimited yoga at Yoga Sutra during program)
Tuition includes Unlimited Yoga at Yoga Sutra during program, until January 31st, 2010 (and afterwards alumni discount of 20% for School of Yogic Studies Courses as well as 15% discount on class packages and select workshops)
For students paying the entire tuition in advance, unlimited yoga begins at the time of payment
Note: Tuition payments are non-refundable.
500 Hour
Advanced Teacher Training
(300 additional hours)
Our next Advanced Training
will be offered in 2010
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.
Yoga Sutra is honored to announce the involvement of Mr. Srivatsa Ramaswami in our training, a direct student of Krishnamacharya for over 30 years. In addition, we are pleased to welcome to our faculty noted scholar and Professor of Hinduism at Rutgers University, Dr. Edwin Bryant, author of the forthcoming "The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali with Notes from the Traditional Commentators" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008).
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:
Vedic Chanting:
Meditation:
The program runs October 2008 through December 2009 (15 months), with classes taking place one weekend per month.
Cost for graduates of Yoga Sutra 200 hour Teacher Training:
Cost for graduates of other 200 hour teacher trainings:
Cost for Combined 200 and 500 hour trainings:
Tuition includes Yoga Sutra Teacher Training Manual.
Students paying the entire tuition in advance receive ten free classes per month of advance sign up. For the duration of the training, each student receives two hundred complimentary classes, October 2008 till February 2010. (All complimentary classes, including those received for advance sign up, expire by the end of the training, February 28, 2010).
If you are new to Yoga Sutra and are interested in our teacher training program, try three free yoga classes!
Note: Tuition payments are non-refundable.
The program will be 15 months in duration, scheduled to take place on Saturdays and Sundays, 11:00 AM - 8:00 PM (with a one hour break), every first weekend of the month, as well as a few Friday nights, 7-9pm (2/27, 4/3, 6/6, 10/30, 2/5/10). Students are required to attend at least one regularly scheduled class per week at the center (in addition to observing and assisting in classes); to do daily home practice and journal writing; and to twice monthly practice with fellow trainees.
Payment plans available.
Orientation: Saturday, September 27th, 2008, 3:00 - 5:00PM
Classes begin: Saturday, October 4th, 2008, 11:00AM
Midterm: May 2009
Classes will complete: Sunday, December 6th, 2009
Final testing and graduation: February 2010
New schedule to be posted in late 2009
Download Application for 500 hour program (PDF - 272K)
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 contact Guta Hedewig (gutadance@cs.com) to make arrangements for integration assignments. These could consist of joining (parts of) the first three weekends of the 200 hr program, free of charge, in September (Sept. 13/14, 20/21, 27/28) to catch up on Sanskrit, Vedic Chanting, Traditional Practices, etc., as needed, as well as reading and studying assignments prior to the training.
Special Guest Teacher: Mr. Srivatsa Ramaswami
Lecture on "the Many Facets of Krishnamacharya's Teachings", "Practicum
of Vinyasa Krama Yoga" and "Overview of Yoga Sutra" (200 hr
program) and "Yoga
Rahasya," "Yoga
Yajnavalkya" and "Mantras and Meditation" (500 hr program)
 Srivatsa Ramaswami was the longest standing student of T Krishnamacharya
outside the Master's family, He has studied
the classic Yoga texts extensively and mastered Vinyasa Krama, Vedic
Chanting, and Yoga Therapy. Mr. Ramaswami has written four books: "Basic Tenets of Patanjala Yoga," "Yoga for the Three Stages of Life," "The Complete Book of Vinyasa Yoga," and "Yoga Beneath the Surface." He has also recorded about 40 audio cassettes and CDs in India of various Sanskrit chants like Sun Salutation, Gayatrii, Siva Kavacham, etc. He has been teaching for more than 25 years in India: for 20 years at Kalakshetra (recognized as an Institution of National Importance by the Govt. of India); at Ramachandra Medical University; at Yoga Brotherhood; and at other institutions. In the US, Mr. Ramaswami is teaching workshops and Teacher Training Programs at Esalen Institute, Loyola Marymount University, Yoga Works, Himalayan Institute, Chicago Yoga Center and several others centers. |
Special Guest Teacher: Dr. Edwin Bryant
Yoga Philosophy (Yoga Sutra, Bhagavad Gita, and additionally for 500 hr program: Introduction to Hindu Philosophy, Six Darshana-s and Principal Upanisads)
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.
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Special Guest Teacher: Dr. Jeffrey Rubin
Meditation
Dr. Jeffrey B. Rubin practices psychoanalysis and psychoanalytically-oriented psychotherapy in New York City and Bedford Hills, New York. A Dharma Holder in the White Plum Sangha and Red Thread Zen Circle and the creator of meditative psychotherapy, Dr. Rubin is considered one of the leading integrators of the Western psychotherapeutic and Eastern meditative traditions.
The author of Psychotherapy and Buddhism, The Good Life and A Psychoanalysis for Our Time, Dr. Rubin has taught at various universities and psychoanalytic institutes including Union Theological Seminary, Hunter College, The Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, The C. G. Jung Foundation of New York, The American Institute for Psychoanalysis, and Yeshiva University. Dr. Rubin runs private study groups on meditation and psychotherapy and lectures around the country on three forthcoming books, How to Stay Sane in an Insane World: Insights from Yoga, Buddhism, and Psychoanalysis; The Art of Living: How to Make Your Life a Masterpiece; and Psychotherapy and Meditation: Partners in Healing. Dr. Rubin is a training and supervising analyst at the Westchester Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and can be contacted through his website (drjeffreyrubin.com). |
Special guest teacher: Chase Bossart
Course Planning/Teaching Methodology (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 enrolled in their four year long Yoga Therapy Training. She also learned Vedic Chanting at the affiliated Vedavani (Vedic Chanting School). Additionally, Guta has studied Ashtanga in Mysore with K. Pattabhi Jois and with V. Sheshadri for many years.Guta directs Yoga Sutra's teacher training programs. She heads the 'Individualized Yoga Program,' creating practices for students adapted to their specific needs. Guta heads the 'School for Yogic Studies,' a Continuing Education initiative at Yoga Sutra, where she teaches Vedic Chanting. She also co-directs the Vinyasa department. Altogether, Guta endeavors to create an atmosphere of the serious, in-depth study of yoga in all its aspects, based in the tradition of Krishnamacharya's teachings. Concurrently, she choreographs for her dance company (www.gutahedewig.com). Guta is a certified Shiatsu practitioner. |
Carl Horowitz is influenced by the teachings
of T Krishnamacharya and his son TKV Desikachar. In addition to his
studies with TKV Desikachar, Carl has also studied with several of
his long-time students, including Mark Whitwell, Leslie Kaminoff and
Gary Kraftsow. As part of this training program he will cover the different
skills needed for leading one-on-one and group sessions. Carl will
cover thoughtful ways of putting postures together so that students
will come out of the course with the tools to begin creating intelligent
sequences for the practitioners with whom they are working.
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 John Campbell has been a student of Sanskrit and Yoga philosophy since 1993 with a variety of teachers in India and with Vyaas Houston in the US. In the past ten years he has been a student of Tibetan Buddhism; his teachers include HH the Dalai Lama and Denma Lochoe Rinpoche. He began practicing Ashtanga Yoga with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois in Mysore sixteen years ago, receiving Guruji's AYRI Certification in 2003. From 2003-2004 he carried out doctoral dissertation research in Mysore, Varanasi and Dharamsala as a Fulbright Fellow, and recently completed a Ph.D. in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University under the guidance of Professors Robert A. F. Thurman and Gary Tubb. He has been a senior instructor for the American Sanskrit Institute, and has taught courses in Sanskrit, Tibetan and Religious Studies at Columbia University, the New School and Brooklyn College. He currently teaches in the Department of Religious Studies at Drew University in Madison, NJ. John is also a senior ashtanga teacher. |
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Sarah has been practicing yoga for the past eleven years. Wanting to better understand the body and how to prevent and heal injury, she began studying with Irene Dowd (teacher of anatomy and kinesiology, and neuromuscular training) in 1999. Sarah holds a BFA from the North Carolina School of the Arts in Contemporary Dance and authorization to teach the Ashtanga Yoga Method from Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. |
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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. |
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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. |
Code of Ethics (PDF - 76K)
For questions, please contact Guta Hedewig at 212-490-1443x13, or gutadance@cs.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.