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Course overview
This two-year course, unique in Perth for its depth and scope, offers training in yoga for teaching and personal evolution in the authentic living tradition of Krishnamacharya, and an introduction to yoga as a complementary healing system. It comprises 600 hours, and after completion leads to registration with Yoga Australia at level 1 or 2, or with Yoga Alliance at the 500 hours level.
An expansive transformational course, it brings together the profound traditional teachings of yoga and the technical aspects of this discipline as we practise it today.
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Trainees will participate in an intensive course of study that includes lectures, practices, home study, written and oral presentations, teaching evaluations, and most importantly, individual practice.
As TKV Desikachar always said: “First and foremost, Yoga is relationship”. A foundation of this course is the connection between student and teacher, between mentee and mentor, as a support of self-enquiry and personal transformation. Your mentor will also help you to establish a realistic and appropriate personal practice that will evolve over time and weave into your life.
Note: next course intake in 2024
Program Structure
- 400 contact hours: lectures, interactive workshops, practices led by trainer, supervised teaching practicum, and final exam.
- 10 hours – mentoring
- 200+ hours – personal study, preparations of written assignments and oral presentations, revisions
- Total = 600+ hours
Course duration: two years
- Starting February 5th, 2022
- Ending December 3rd, 2023
- 10 two-days’ training week-ends per year in 2022 and 2023 – February to December
- 2 six-days’ retreats – September 2022 and September 2023
Training dates
- 2022 – 5 Feb, 5 Mar, 2 Apr, 30 Apr, 28 May, 25 Jun, 6 Aug, 2 – 8 Sept (retreat), 15 Oct, 12 Nov, 3 Dec
- 2023 – 4 Feb, 4 Mar, 1 Apr, 29 Apr, 27 May, 24 Jun, 5 Aug, 1 – 7 Sept (retreat), 14 Oct, 11 Nov (exam), 2 Dec
What graduates of previous courses are saying
How is this course different?
Ongoing mentoring & Self-study - You will benefit from a minimum of 10 hours of one-on-one mentoring sessions to develop and evolve a customised practice as your platform of self-transformation, building a long-lasting connection with your mentor in the process.
Community - You will be part of a small group of 12 like-minded individuals linked together, sharing experiences, growing alongside each other for two years, and most likely beyond.
Methodology & teaching skills - You will become familiar with a broad range of tools unpacked in great detail (over 50 postures, 14 breath techniques, several energetic locks and techniques of meditation, Vedic chanting, and more), firmly establishing yourself as a skilful and compassionate teacher in a respected lineage, for a total of 600 hours, well in excess of industry standards.
Practical yoga philosophy - You will examine the nuts and bolts of yoga’s philosophy and psychology, with forays into the major texts and the detailed study of Patanjali’s Yoga-Sutras, linking with concrete examples relating to everyday life.
An established leader in Yoga Training for over 10 years - You will be taught by a trainer with over 20 years of experience teaching yoga internationally, leading retreats, and running teacher training courses since 2008.
Course Curriculum
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Brief summary of the course curriculum:
- Module 1 | Anatomy & Physiology | the major systems, anatomy of movement, etc.
- Module 2 | The Subtle Physiology of Yoga: cakras, nāḍīs, prāṇa, pañca-maya, pañca-vāyu, sapta-dhātu, tri-guṇa
- Module 3 | Roots of Yoga: contextual history and evolution of yoga
- Module 4 | Yoga Philosophy: overview of major texts (Bhagavad-Gītā, Sāṃkhya-Kārikā, Haṭha-Yoga-Pradīpikā, etc.); detailed study of ch. I & II of Patañjali's Yoga-Sūtra
- Module 5.1 | Tools of Yoga: āsana | 50 postures studied in detail
- Module 5.2 | Tools of Yoga: prāṇāyāma | 14 techniques studied in detail
- Module 5.3 | Tools of Yoga: mudrās and bandhas (energetic seals), special postures as mudrās
- Module 5.4 | Tools of Yoga: dhyāna (meditation) | definitions, applications etc.
- Module 5.5 | Tools of Yoga: sound & Vedic chanting, non-religious
- Module 6.1 | Teaching methodology: course planning, class sequencing
- Module 6.2 | Teaching methodology: pedagogy of teaching, teaching practicum
- Module 6.3 | Teaching methodology: ethics of teaching
- Module 7 | Specialty yoga | Pre-natal, post-natal, children & teens, seniors, introduction to yoga- therapy
Teaching faculty
A French citizen, Valerie lived in Singapore from 2004 to 2021. She recently relocated to Perth with her Australian husband and two children. Valerie has been teaching yoga in the USA, the Netherlands, Australia and Singapore since 1999, and conducting teacher training courses in Singapore since 2008. She still mentors many graduates of past courses who are now living all over the world, from the Americas to Europe and of course Singapore. She identifies first and foremost as a student of yoga, and thus maintains strong links with her mentor Frans Moors in Belgium, and with the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram (KYM) founded by TKV Desikachar in Chennai (India), where she has been studying for nearly 20 years. She is a Certified Yoga Teacher Trainer in the tradition of T. Krishnamacharya. Valerie is a registered level 3 Senior Teacher with Yoga Australia.
Yoga Australia Registered
Yoga Alliance Registered