Mana Yoga Center Over 30 years practicing yoga, Michaelle has developed a unique inspiring core based yoga practice, Yogalign.
 

Hawaii Yoga Teacher Training at Kauai Yoga School
Hanalei, Kauai, Hawaii
March 12- April 20, 2012
Receive a $500 discount if you pay in FULL by February 25th!!!
Total cost with tax ($120) is then $3120 instead of $3650!
200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training at Mana Yoga Center, Hanalei, Kauai

2009 Kauai Yoga School Graduates

Yoga Alliance Approved

Class hours for the
Spring 2012 Teacher Training:

Monday 9- 1pm & 6-9 pm
Tuesday 9-1 pm & 1:30- 4:30pm
Wednesday 6-9 pm
Thursday 9-1pm & 6-9 pm
Friday 9-1 pm 1:30- 4:30pm

Class size is limited to 15 students.

If you would like to attend the spring training, there is space left in the March training and even housing at a reasonable rate at beautiful Hanalei Bay.
How is YogAlign training different and what will the course teach me is a question many ask me:

People want to get out of pain and feel joy and connect to source, divine, the names dont matter. 95% of pain comes from misalignment and poor breathing and posture habits. YogAlign is about attaining natural alignment not contorting to achieve poses. Once aligned, the more subtle realms of consciousness that the ancient yogis revered is more accessible.

We are a culture out of alignment and out of touch with feelings, movement, and our purpose in life which is to love each other. Rather than being an asana factory, Kauai Yoga School has a focus on getting you aligned without pain or injury and then you can teach it to others.

In the the first 3 weeks, you upload an integration of natural aligned posture software software in your body/mind. As you activate your internal forces of lift and radiance through YogAlign breathing work, you let go of the ingrained tension held in your emotions or physical armoring from trauma, yoga poses that do not follow natural design, fitness exercises or sports, sitting in chairs, or trying to keep your belly tight. You begin to get in touch with your true nature. We need to learn how to move and be with less effort on all levels, body, mind and spirit. There is actually no separation in any of these aspects of the self.

One of the simple definitions of yoga is ridding ourselves of the obstacles and learning the greatest love of all; self love. I watch as students go from rose buds to beautiful blossoms without pain, force or boot camp mentalities and practices. There is a profound love that permeates our training partially because of the location on my 5 acres of paradise but also because we are not trying to acquire more but actually learning to let go, receive, and do less. Hard to put all of this on paper but this course enables a strong acceleration of personal growth and power. The fourth and fifth weeks of the training, you are given the opportunity to practice teaching each other and the last week of the training there is a practicum where clients from the outside come in and receive one on one instruction and hands on teaching from the graduating students.

I can offer you CE credits if you are already certified but more important is giving you tools to truly help yourself and others to heal. Many people take my course who are already 200 hour certified and even 500 hour certified. Some people have practiced yoga for years but they were still in pain and/or suffering from poor postural patterns. It has been said that being enlightened simply means thinking or doing one thing at a time. You will learn in the YogAlign course how to be aligned without effort and how to communicate and connect with your body to stay in the moment at all times by practicing natural posture that is aligned by the movements of breathing I will teach you. It will become innate and you will not have to work at being in tune and aligned.

The lineage for the training comes by a deep transmission of source energy that is available to all of us and I can show you how to open up to perceive and receive it. I listened within and the intelligent force that 'runs' my physical body showed me how to 'do' YogAlign. My first yoga teacher was Satchidananda back in the early 70's but I did not join the ashram and instead moved to the wilds of Montana and Wyoming where I connected with the mountains and had a personal yoga practice. After 10 years of practice and moving to Kauai, I did complete teacher training with Erich Schiffman and also did some other teacher training seminars before getting injured and embarking on the quest to create a better system that made anatomical sense. I practiced ashtanga for two years but mostly my work comes from client research done as an experienced massage therapist and yoga teacher. As far as I know, I am the only yoga teacher who shows before and after photos of their yoga clients as proof of the physical shift that occurs by learning YogAlign.

This course is not about worshipping gurus although we study the yoga sutras and the Tao te Ching and other sources of wisdom brought forth by enlightened people in many disciplines. This course helps people blossom into the unique expressions of the god force that we all are. Each person who studies with me is a unique individual and how they integrate this course through the process of self inquiry and apply it to their life is entirely up to them. I have no interest in creating a cookie cutter teacher or system. I hold the ancient teachings of the science of yoga with deep respect however as the press is now exposing, the asana forms are not ancient or bio-mechanically tested and people are getting hurt both long and short term. Please read my press kit for more information about YogAlign.

Mark Olsen Phd will be teaching neural anatomy and I will be teaching experiential anatomy of the muscles, bones and fascia. Fascial anatomy is strongly emphasized based on the work of Thomas Myers and we spend time developing proprioception skills and using PNF ( proprioceptive neuromuscular faciliation) to assist ourselves and others. Nobody is required to perform poses however. YogAlign practice is based on getting aligned not contorted.. If this makes sense to you, please come and join us and feel free to call to discuss the details. with aloha, Michaelle

Learn to teach yoga safely and effectively on Kauai, Hawaii
with veteran yoga practitioner, author and teacher Michaelle Edwards.
The training will take place at the beautiful Mana Yoga Center just 10 minutes from Hanalei Bay, Hawaii. The Kauai north shore center is in a quiet rural setting on 5 pristine acres with a spectacular view of the Kauai Mountains and waterfalls. 5 minutes away are reasonably priced accommodations and a large shopping center. Beautiful beaches cover the entire length of the North shore and there is time early in the morning or after class to swim, surf or hike on this beautiful island.
Topics to be covered in the training:

  • Learn to teach a powerful hatha class and conduct private session work with confidence and understanding of effective sequencing and safety.

  • Learn to work with natural alignment of the spine and teach people to move and breathe from the psoas-diaphram connection.

  • Teach clients how to get flexible without stretching. Use proprioceptive neuro-muscular facilitation techniques to change muscle patterning at the nervous system level.

  • Hands on corrections and safe adjustments for your students

  • Therapeutic yoga training to heal injuries, posture misalignments and chronic pain

  • Pranayama for understanding and utilizing breath as the most essential tool in practice and teaching

  • Physiology and anatomy essential for understanding the body and how its is designed which is essential to be a qualified teacher

  • Self-massage techniques and partner poses

  • Keep your teaching skills alive and intuitive so that your practice and teaching become a lifelong process of growth

  • Learn how to read the body and assess a students flexibility, alignment and physio-emotional patterning.

  • Yoga philosophy, yamas and niyamas, mantra and chanting.

Graduation night vegan dinner, Michaelle's YogAlign training manual
and her new Yoga dvd are included in the cost.

Policies:
The tuition for the teacher training is $3500 plus $140  tax for a total of $3640.
A $500 deposit will hold your space in the workshop.

$500 Discount if Signup Before February 25th, 2012

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