2012 Yoga Teacher Training
Let It Go Yoga Teachers Training with Sue Anne and Jim Parsons offers a wonderful blend of the best of the popular yoga styles. The training is made up of six three weekend certificate courses. Each course offers a different style and way of teaching hatha yoga. Learn to teach Basic Hatha, Flow Yoga, Restorative Yoga, Yoga Lifestyles, Yoga Therapy and Let It Go Yoga .
The training is paced and designed to get your teaching career started while continuing your yoga education. With each course you receive a Certificate of Completion that entitles you to begin teaching that style of yoga. You may choose to do one or more courses. After completion of all six courses you would be eligible to register with the nationally recognized “Yoga Alliance” at the 200 hour level.
The Yoga Alliance is a board of health care and business professionals who have set standards for yoga teachers and yoga training schools. Their mission is to support yoga teachers and the diversity and integrity of yoga. Completing all six of the courses ensures you a well rounded education in Technique and Training, Teaching Methodology, Anatomy, Physiology, Yoga Philosophy, Lifestyles, Ethics and Practice.
We are very proud that our certified teachers are teaching yoga locally for Santa Barbara City College, UCSB Leisure Arts, YMCA, Yoga Soup, Santa Barbara Yoga Center, Santa Barbara Athletic Club, Cathedral Oaks Athletic Club, Goleta Valley Athletic Club, Evergreen Learning Center, MS Society and more. We also have teachers that are working in hospitals, health clubs and yoga centers around the country and internationally.
This training gives you the confidence and knowledge to teach a variety of styles of hatha yoga to students of all levels.
Join Sue Anne and Jim for a journey of self discovery and personal growth that will blossom into a rewarding career teaching yoga.
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Let It Go Yoga Teacher Training - 30 hours
In this course you will gain the knowledge to teach and assist others in this unique and gentle style of yoga.
Let It Go Yoga is a series of yoga postures that are practiced lying down. It is designed to teach your students how to slow down, relax on a deep level, let gravity help realign the spine and ease out pain and stress.
Let It Go Yoga is an invaluable tool, as you will be able to offer an accessible class that all levels of students can safety attend. This class can be taught to beginners through advanced. It is also a therapeutic practice for people with injury, for those who are recovering from surgery, back pain and other chronic problems. Click here to learn more about what Let It Go Yoga is. Learn to create and guide your own meditations and visualizations. You will be able to assist with hands on instruction, and to use props such as blankets and straps in helping students. A Let It Go Yoga Course Manual and a Let It Go Yoga CD are included. Click here to see pictures from our recent Let It Go Yoga Teacher Training. Classes will be held on three consecutive weekends: 2012: February 4 - 5, 11 - 12, 18 - 19, from 9:00 - 11:30 am and 1:00 - 3:30 pm.
Basic Hatha Yoga - 30 hours
This 30 hour course offers training in basic yoga postures including standing, seated, supine and inverted poses.
Learn to use gentle hands on techniques as well as work with yoga props, such as blocks, blankets, belts, chairs and the wall to help your students’ alignment. Using the variety of postures you will learn to design your own yoga classes. You will be able to offer an “Introduction To Yoga Course,” a class that is essential for attracting new students to yoga and is a wonderful overview of yoga practice and principles. With time built into the training for you to teach and assist others, this course is designed to increase your confidence as a teacher and be able to work with beginners through intermediate levels.
Also covered is an in-depth look at the Yoga Philosophy, History of Yoga, Pranayama, Chakras, Mudras, Anatomy and creating a personal practice. A Hatha Yoga Course Manual is included. Click here it see pictures of our recent Hatha Yoga Teacher Trainings. Classes will be held on three consecutive weekends. 2012: March 10 - 11, 17 - 18, 24 - 25 from 9:00 am - 11:30 am and 1:00 - 3:30 pm.
Flow Yoga - 30 hours
Flow Yoga is a more rigorous form. This style uses continuous, flowing movement combined with deep breathing. It is designed to challenge the more advanced students.
You will gain the skills to teach a series of sun salutations, as well as standing, seated, supine and inverted postures. Along with each posture you will learn hands on adjustments and alternate poses and modifications to accommodate your students.
As a teacher you will be able to challenge your most flexible student as well as take your existing students to more advanced levels. The Flow Yoga training will give you all the material you’ll need to start teaching Flow Yoga and the ability to design your own Flow Yoga classes. Includes a Flow Yoga Course Manual. Click here to see pictures from our recent Flow Yoga Teacher Trainings.
Classes will be held on three consecutive weekends: 2012: June 2 - 3, 9 - 10, 16-17, from 9:00 - 11:30 am and 1:00 - 3:30 pm.
Restorative Yoga - 30 hours
This course offers an approach to stress release with the use of yoga props. You will learn to guide your students into deep levels of relaxation and free the body from pain.
Each class teaches supported yoga postures using props such as bolsters, blocks, blankets, straps, eye pillows, elastic bandages, and sandbags. You will be able to set up an entire class that soothes and refreshes your students. You will better understand chronic problems such as back and neck pain, headaches and insomnia and be able to help your clients’ eliminate these problems.
Restorative Yoga is especially beneficial to women. Many supported postures help with the menstrual cycle, relieve the stresses of pregnancy and help balance hormones for women in menopause.
The course teaches human anatomy and posture.
This is a very popular and much needed style of yoga that everyone can benefit from.
A Restorative Yoga Course Manual is included. Click here to see pictures from our recent Restorative Yoga Teacher Trainings.
Classes will be held on three consecutive weekends: 2012: July 14 - 15, 21 - 22, 28 - 29, from 9:00 - 11:30 am and 1:00 - 3:30 pm.
Basic Yoga ll/Yoga Lifestyles - 30 hours
With Basic Yoga ll/Yoga Lifestyles you will learn the basics of teaching hatha yoga with an emphasis on creating classes and workshops that include all phases of life.
With knowledge of the basic hatha yoga postures you will be able to teach a wide variety of classes. You will learn to teach standing, seated, supine and inverted poses.
With use of yoga props, such as blocks, straps, blankets, chairs and the wall you will learn hands on adjustments and modifications for a wide range of students. You will learn to teach and design classes for Partner Yoga, Yoga for Pregnancy, Yoga for Kids, Yoga for Teens, Family Yoga, Office Yoga and other specialty classes.
Discover how to apply the Yoga Sutras, meditations and visualizations into your daily life. We will discuss how to use these ancient tools to and how to share these tools with your students, creating fun and inspiring classes that enrich a wide audience.
You will become well-versed in all phases of running a profitable yoga business. Gain the knowledge of how to promote yourself as a yoga teacher and how to set up your schedule of classes. We will discuss marketing, advertising, flyers, telephone techniques, release forms, insurance, and working with clients in private sessions.
Includes a Basic Yoga II / Lifestyles Course Manual. Promotional Photos will be taken to get you started. Click here to see pictures from our recent Lifestyles Teacher Trainings.
There are no prerequisites for attending.
Includes a Yoga Lifestyles Course Manual. Click here to see pictures from our recent Lifestyles Teacher Trainings.
Classes will be held on three consecutive weekends: 2012: September 22 - 23, 29 - 30 & October 6 - 7, from 9:00 - 11:30 am and 1:00 - 3:30 pm.
Yoga Therapy - 30 hours
With this cutting edge mind/body technique you will have all you need to give private yoga therapy sessions, as well a lead group workshops.
Yoga Therapy addresses the tension held in the body. Using assisted hatha yoga postures and effective dialog techniques your clients will be nurtured while gaining an understanding of their body signals. This is an empowering way for you to offer clients your services in a one to one private setting that allows you to go deeper and provides you with tools for helping others make positive changes.
With an introductory flowing session you will be able to accustom your client to the yoga therapy process. You will learn how to support your client in yoga postures and add dialog that allows your client to tune into their intuitive voice and access their own answers from within. There are a variety of additional assisted postures that you can choose from to design client specific sessions. Includes a Yoga Therapy Course Manual. Click here to see pictures from our recent Yoga Therapy Training.
Classes will be held on three consecutive weekends: 2012: November 3 - 4, 10 - 11 & 17 - 18, from 9:00 - 11:30 am and 1:00 - 3:30 pm.
Registration and Tuition
Tuition for each 30 hour module is $595. Credit cards are accepted and payment plans are available.
Refund Policy
$100 deposit per course will reserve your space. Deposit is refundable one week prior to start date. A cancelation processing fee of $25 will be deducted from the refund.
Tuition is due and payable at the start of each training unless other arrangements have been made. Refunds are pro-rated within the first weekend and all Let It Go Yoga materials are returned intact. There are no refunds past the first weekend.
Course Leaders
Since 1986 Sue Anne and Jim Parsons have successfully taught yoga in Santa Barbara. They founded and operated The Yoga Studio, Santa Barbara’s first commercial yoga center. They have shown thousands the joys of yoga and stress release. They teach a unique gentle style appropriately named Let It Go Yoga, and also draw from the best of the popular styles. Sue Anne is a Certified Yoga Therapist.
Since 1990 Sue Anne and Jim have been teaching Certified Yoga Teachers Training and have hundreds of graduates successfully teaching yoga around the country.
While raising five children, Sue Anne and Jim have gained the practical experience of teaching partner yoga, yoga for pregnancy, yoga for kids, yoga for teens, and yoga for kids with special needs.
By sharing their years of experience, they give their students not just the fundamentals to teach a yoga class but the tools for creating a successful yoga business.
Certification Requirements
There are no physical requirements necessary to attend this training. Anyone with a love for yoga and a sincere desire to learn is most welcome. We encourage people of all ages and levels of strength and flexibility to join us.
There is a certificate of completion with each module. To receive the 200 hour certification, students must attend all modules of the 185 contact hours (5 hours in on-going classes) and complete 15 hours of non-contact training. Non-contact hours are assignments in each module that are to be completed outside of the class. Each student is required to design and teach their own yoga class and yoga therapy session. You must successfully complete a written test for each module.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I have to be super flexible to be a teacher?
No, a good teacher needs to be able to work with varying degrees of flexibility (including your own). We have found that the most compassionate teachers often have some difficulty with aspects of their own yoga practice. We teach modifications for all poses and encourage people of all levels to participate. Yoga is noncompetitive and our training teaches classes for every level, from the beginner to advanced.
How much yoga experience do I need?
The more yoga experience the better, but people who have never done yoga before have successfully completed our training and are now teaching. We will start with the basics and build a solid foundation. We supply you with the materials you need to learn specific yoga classes and begin with mock teaching situations. You will have plenty of time to practice with others, giving you the confidence to teach.
Will I get work upon completion?
Yes! With a rapidly growing base of students, the demand for skilled instructors is at its highest point ever. As a yoga teacher you may choose to work at an established center or set up your own classes or studio.
Additionally, many of our graduates work as employees in health clubs, local YMCA’s, City Park and Recreation programs, hotels, hospitals, colleges and universities.
What will I earn as a yoga teacher?
Teachers make $25 to $100 (and up) per class. Health Clubs pay $20 to $35 per class to start and usually offer a complementary membership. Private yoga and yoga therapy sessions run $60 to $90 an hour (and up). Offering speciality classes, workshops and seminars is a great way to supplement your income.
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