Innerlight Yoga Teacher Training 2008-2009: Course Details

Joining our team is Mary Pat (MP) Murphy, who was our adult education consultant for the development of the Innerlight teacher training curriculum in 2004, and who has been teaching the Innerlight YTT course at her Ohio Namaste Yoga studio the past two years. MP brings a strong physical style, a soft compassionate heart and many years of adult education experience we are delighted to have her as part of our team!

Additional faculty staff includes:

• Katharine and Christopher Carbone
• Jane Maguire
• Judy McClain

You will also have the opportunity to experience a wide variety of sadhanas (classes) with many of the Innerlight teachers

The strength of our program includes:

• A carefully structured curriculum
• A consistent approach to asanas and philosophy by the three directors
• The intention to support each student in developing their own unique voice and presence
• The appreciation of yoga as a deeply transformational practice
• Become part of a community knowing and being known is the most powerful, life enhancing gift we offer each other

The Innerlight Yoga Teacher Training is a 200 hour Yoga Alliance certified yoga teacher training, which includes:

• Practice and analysis of more than 50 yoga asanas, including standing poses, one-legged poses, hip-opening poses, backbends, forward bends, twists, arm balances and inversions
• Analysis of asanas, including principles of alignment (both Kripalu and Anusara influenced), benefits, precautions, contra-indications and modifications, including pre-natal
• Restorative and partner yoga
• Pranayama practice and techniques
• Meditation practice and techniques
• Sanskrit chants
• Anatomy and physiology
• Yogic philosophy and psychology, including study of Pantanjali's Yoga Sutras, yamas and niyamas, the Bhagavad Gita, the history of yoga, koshas and chakras
• Teaching methodology, including relationship with yoga students, planning a yoga class, sequencing of poses, teacher demonstrations and assists
• The use of language in a yoga class
• Creating context and larger meaning for students
• Professional ethics
• Teaching practicum
• Personalized mentoring

Our teaching style is experientially based we will learn by discussion, reading, demonstration and other techniques and then reinforce the learning by applying what we have just learned. Each weekend will build on the knowledge and experience gained in the weekends before and in home practice and homework reading. Our intention is to embody the yoga philosophy of awareness and to support you in your personal growth as both a yoga practitioner and yoga teacher.

There will be a strong emphasis on practicum and personalized mentoring will be provided for each student.

Directors

Kim Chandler
Yanna Sahady
Mary Pat Murphy

Kim Chandler is the founder and director of Innerlight Center for Yoga in Middletown, RI and also was the founding director of the Innerlight School for Yoga in Portland, Maine. A former resident of the Kripalu Center, she has directed Yoga Teacher Training courses at Kripalu and has been a certified Kripalu Yoga Teacher Mentor since 1992. Kim was a founding member of the Kripalu Yoga Teacher Association (KYTA) and from 1993-95 was the associate director of KYTA. In 2002 she co-directed the international Kripalu Yoga Teachers Conference in Lenox, MA. She is adjunct staff at Kripalu, presenting several programs each year, most recently Come As You Are: A Yoga Retreat for All Levels and Mind In Motion: Yoga and Proprioceptive Writing. In addition, Kim has been an Outward Bound course director and has founded and directed several alternate schools in Maine. Kim has been influenced by a variety of traditions; for several years her interest has been focused on the practice of Anusara Yoga.

Mary Pat (M.P.) Murphy E.R.Y.T 500 is the Director/Owner of Namaste Yoga Studio in Richfield Oh. MP has practiced yoga for many years, occasionally sidetracking to other sports including marathon running, cycling and weight lifting.A cycling accident turned out to be my invitation to return to yoga. I really hurt my shoulder when I crashed, but that ended up being a gift. At about the same time my mother had a stroke and my life felt very challenging. I really needed the physical, emotional, spiritual and therapeutic benefits of yoga. I began to study yoga very seriously and found my primary teacher, nationally acclaimed Certified Anusara Yoga teacher, Todd Norian.

M.P. is certified through Todds Hatha Yoga- Anusara Inspired Teacher Training program and continues her studies with him several times each year. She has been a student of Todds practicing Anusara yoga since 2001. She has completed Anusara Yoga Teacher Training Level 1 and Yoga Therapeutics with John Friend. She has also studied with Richard Freeman, and has completed Rodney Yees five day Teacher Training Program.

Her love for the Anusara yoga system has led her to continue her studies with Certified Anusara teachers, Jamie Allison, Jenny Otto, Anne Green. In the past two years, she has studied Yoga Therapeutics with Doug Keller. M.P. is a Certified Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapist and is also certified through TRY for Life Hatha Yoga Teacher Training. She is also a Reiki Practitioner.

M.P. blends her abundant energy and joy for life with principles of alignment to create classes that help open body, mind and spirit. Yoga helps us learn to let go, to breathe, to laugh and really honor one's self. Yoga, for me, is really a celebration of life. I love the practice and am so grateful that I can share this practice with others. I am especially grateful to all my teachers, especially Todd Norian."

Janne (pronounced Yanna) Sahady is a senior teacher at Innerlight Center for Yoga, co-director and co-developer of the Innerlight Yoga Teacher Training program, and a yoga teacher for the Newport Hospital Enough Is Enough program. She is a Yoga Alliance E-RYT 200 with 1000 hours of teaching experience. She has taught yoga in yoga studios, homes, schools, barns, parks, businesses and conventions. Yoga is my gift from the universe. Or at least that is the way it feels to me. Innerlight opened just when I had time in my life to begin to take classes. My first teachers were Kim Chandler and Tom Gillette. They introduced me to Kripalu and Ashtanga yoga with extraordinary experience and knowledge and loving support in my first yoga classes and first teacher training. Her training includes a 500-hour course at Innerlight (1998) and a 400-hour Anusara-based course with Todd Norian (2003). Janne has also studied with John Friend, Suzie Hurley, Doug Keller, Ann Greene, Tom Myers, David Swenson, Richard Freeman and Beryl Bender Birch. She has assisted in many programs at Kripalu and elsewhere, including Introduction to Yoga and Meditation, Rebalancing Body, Mind and Spirit, Ashtanga Yoga, Anusara Yoga, Chakra Yoga, Partner Yoga, and Snow Shoe and Yoga.
"My experience with yoga is that it is a life changing force. Yoga develops strength and flexibility, focus and confidence and a sense of connection with a spirit greater than just me. Yoga grounds me and at the same time opens possibilities. My intention in teaching is to pass that on, that sense of living life to the fullest, vibrant, strong, and open."
Janne is currently working on getting her leg behind her head, and expects that in about five lifetimes from now, she may be close.

Dates

The training is in a weekend format, starting in October 2008 and finishing in June 2009.

Saturday hours: 8:30 4 and 5:30 - 8:30 pm
Sunday hours: 8 3 pm

Attendance at all sessions is required.

Between Sessions

The weekend format is designed to integrate what you are learning into your daily life and to support you in developing a consistent yoga practice. Assignments will deepen your experience and begin the process of life-long learning that is yoga.

Homework will include:

• Daily yoga practice of asana, pranayama and meditation (6 days a week for 60 minutes)
• Keeping a sadhana journal
• Practicing the yamas and niyamas
• Reading and writing assignments
• Experiential assignments
• Communication with fellow students and directors
• Observing other teacher's classes
• Teaching yoga classes

Prerequisites

• Dedicated yoga practice of at least 3 years (class or home practice multiple times per week)
• Strong desire to learn more about yourself
• Sound health
• Recommendation from a yoga teacher
• Commitment to attend all teacher training dates (with no exceptions)
• Commitment to daily practice during teacher training
• Commitment to homework between weekends

Cost

The tuition for the Innerlight Teacher training is $2450, with an early registration discount for a total of $2350 if paid by Sept 15. This tuition fee includes a non-refundable $50 application fee. Payment may be by check to Innerlight Center for Yoga or by Visa or MasterCard.

The full tuition fee must accompany your completed application. A full refund less a $50 application fee will be made if the application is not accepted.

Refund Policy

Before Sept 15: Full refund less $50 application fee
Sept 15 course start: 50% of tuition less $50 application fee
After course start: No refund is available

Tuition does not include reading materials, props, food or lodging.

Applications are currently being accepted. Class size minimum is 10 people. For further information, email info@innerlightyoga.com or call (401) 849-3200.

Thank you.

Kim Chandler
MP Murphy
Yanna Sahady
Directors, Innerlight Yoga Teacher Training