The Kripalu Yoga 200-hour teacher training includes both a solid grounding in technical skills and the development of an empathic, intuitive approach to teaching. The curriculum includes:

•  Tools of the Kripalu Approach

·  Guide students in developing witness consciousness and self-compassion
·  Learn how to connect to source for creative asana sequences
·  Connect breath to movement for a deeper experience
·  Use the “press point” assisting methodology and other assists to guide students
   into the fullest expression of each posture for their bodies
·  Offer the best in experiential teaching 

• Skills for transformational teaching  Help students develop a heightened sense of body awareness to deepen their practice on the mat and show them how to take that awareness into their lives off the mat.
   

• How to create inspirational, creative, experiential yoga classes  Develop skills for teaching an inspirational 1-hour or 1.5-hour yoga class. Learn how to pay proper attention to pratapana, how to motivate students and pace your class according to students’ skill levels and experience, and how to create lesson plans for a complete series of classes with progressive levels of difficulty.
   

• Principles of anatomy, physiology, and kinesiology  Focus on safety, joint movement, range of motion, and the skeletal and muscular systems.
   

• Pranayama techniques  Enable students to experience body-mind integration through yogic breathing and teach them how to connect consciously with prana, or life force—the inherent wisdom of the body.
   

• Relaxation and meditation methodology  Gain skills for getting yourself and your students centered, creating sacred space, and guiding students in a deeply restorative shavasana.

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