AN EXCEPTIONAL TEACHER TRAINING THAT WILL PREPARE YOU TO TEACH A GREAT
CLASS WITH CONFIDENCE FROM DAY 1 AFTER GRADUATION

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We are excited to announce a 28 day, 300 hour residential teacher training from July 28 to August 25 at the Omega institute in Rhinebeck New York. This training stands out from most current teacher trainings.  The vast majority are only 200 hours, and many or those hours are on zoom or just self study.  This means that only a small portion of the training is done in person with a facilitator leaving students with limited skills to actually to begin teaching with confidence.

The Urban Sadhu Yoga 300-hour Teacher Training allows students to dive deep into Urban Sadhu Yoga Method through yoga asana, meditation, pranayama, Sanskrit language, and anatomy of both the physical and the subtle bodies. The study of yoga Shastras and sacred texts such as, The Yoga Sutras Patanjali, The Bhagavad Gita, The Hatha Yoga Pradipika and The Sava Sutras of Vasugupta allows us to explore the ethics, ideology and spiritual practices of the yoga tradition.

This month long training is an immersive experience facilitated by Catherine Miranda,  Kate Szekely and myself along with internationally recognized guest teachers and lecturers. Devdutt Pattanaik – Mythology and Sacred Texts, Hari-kirtana Das – Sanskrit and Lori Zucker and Ellen Anderson – Anatomy.  As an added bonus, students will be able to participate in Devdutt Pattanaik’s weekend course on comparative mythology.

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DAILY SCHEDULE

Mantra, meditation, and the yoga asana practice will form a deep-rooted foundation for your daily Yoga Sadhana. Each day begins with the deep study of a Sanskrit mantra followed by meditation upon that mantra. After meditation, one of the facilitators will teach an Urban Sadhu Yoga 90 minute Open Class.

Following the yoga asana practice, we conduct an Asana Lab. This lab gives you a deeper understanding of the asanas (the seats or postures). Each lab will have a specific focus for that day – standing asanas, balancing asanas, forward folds, backbends, inversions and will include alignment, energetics, anatomy and “intelligent sequencing” of these asanas. This will greatly help you design an Urban Sadhu Yoga Open class as an Urban Sadhu Yoga Teacher. You will also learn how use props effectively and offer hands on assists to greatly enhance your teaching ability and effectiveness of your classes.

After lunch the afternoon is devoted to various lectures. These lectures will allow us to understand yoga from its roots. The lectures are followed by Small Group Teaching time where you will teach fellow students using the Urban Sadhu Yoga Bija Sequences.

Yoga is a spiritual practice. Each evening will end in a Satsang. The Sanskrit word Satsang means ‘association with good company’. The Satsang allows for a deeper exploration of the spiritual practice of yoga. It gives us time together as spiritual seekers as we look deeper into the teachings of yoga that are glossed over or completely overlooked in most yoga teacher trainings. 

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URBAN SADHU CLASSES YOU WILL LEARN

Also included in the training are scripts for the 4-part Urban Sadhu Fundamentals, 4-part Urban Sadhu Foundational Vinyasa, Urban Sadhu Yoga Express, Urban Sadhu Yoga Meditation, Urban Sadhu Yoga Tri-Guna and the Urban Sadhu Yoga Chakra Tuning Classes making this one of the most comprehensive collections of class types available in any current yoga teacher training.

So come join us on July 28th for a unique, immersive experience whether your ultimate goal is to teach yoga or to deepen your understanding of the yoga tradition.

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WHAT IS A SADHU? 

A sadhu (Sanskrit: साधु) is a holy person who actively practices a spiritual sadhana or follows a spiritual discipline, with the goal of becoming a “seer of truth.” Sadhus are yogis and traditionally are ascetics. The term sadhu appears in Rigveda and Atharvavada where it implies “the right path leading straight to the goal” moksha or liberation from the cycle of life, death and rebirth. The word comes from the root sadh, which means “reaching one’s goal”.