Intermediate Yoga Teacher Training
With Swami Ramananda, Swami Arivananda, Snehan Born and Lalita Dagney

This training has begun. Please contact our Program Manager regarding our next Intermediate Yoga Teacher Training. Thank you!

February 27 – May 8 (no class Sunday April 1)

Tuesdays & Thursdays 6-9 | Sundays 9:30-5:00

Includes Special Program with Nischala Joy Devi  | March 17 – 18,  9:30 am – 5:30 pm

 

 

The Intermediate Teacher Training course provides you with the opportunity to upgrade your teaching skills, deepen your practice, and expand your service by learning how to teach an Integral Yoga Level II class. Intermediate asanas and variations are presented, as well as intermediate pranayama practices. Study of the Bhagavad Gita is also included, to strengthen your grounding in the universal teachings of Yoga for personal development and further your understanding. This is a wonderful way to meet and spend time with other Integral Yoga teachers, to share experiences and ideas, and to find creative solutions to problems encountered in teaching. This is a foundational training in our 500-hour Yoga Teacher Certification program.

Curriculum
Daily sessions will include pranayama, silent meditation, chanting, and other Yoga-based spiritual practices. The curriculum will consist of
• Guidance in your personal Yoga practices
• Monitored teaching practice
• Details and guidance for teaching Level II
• Optional poses for this level
• A course in the Bhagavad Gita with Swami Ramananda
• Further study of pranayama and meditation practice and theory
• Anatomy and physiology
• Workshops on your own personal practice of asana, pranayama, and meditation

Prerequisites
The course is available to all certified Yoga teachers who have completed a 200-hour Yoga Alliance-certified Basic Teacher Training program. Six months of teaching experience is recommended.

*Yoga teachers from other traditions may apply. We require that all teachers that are not trained through Integral Yoga familiarize themselves with the Integral Yoga method of teaching Hatha Yoga by taking classes at the Integral Yoga Institute or from an IY teacher. If this is not possible, you may purchase the DVD Yoga with a Master and the Integral Yoga Hatha I audio CD from www.Shakticom.org, or IYI Distribution at 1-800-262-1008.

 

160 Yoga Alliance hours

 

$1550.00 Standard
$1250.00 Active SF IYI Teachers 

 

Swami Ramananda is the President of the Integral Yoga Institute in San Francisco and a greatly respected senior teacher in the Integral Yoga tradition, who has been practicing Yoga for over 35 years. Ramananda offers practical methods of integrating the timeless teachings and practices of yoga into daily life, and transforming the painful aspects of human experience into steps toward realizing one’s full potential.

He leads beginner, intermediate and advanced level yoga teacher training programs in San Francisco, and offers a variety of programs in many locations in the U. S., Europe and South America. Ramananda trains Yoga teachers to bring Yoga into corporate, hospital and medical settings and has taught mind/body wellness programs in many locations. He is a founding board member of the Yoga Alliance, a national registry that supports and promotes yoga teachers as professionals. His warmth, wisdom and sense of humor have endeared him to many.

 

Swami Arivananda, RYT 500, is a devotee of H.H. Sri Swami Satchidananda and has been teaching Integral Yoga since 2008. Teaching beginner, intermediate and advanced Integral Yoga practices as taught by Sri Swami Satchidananda with the primary focus on discovering the True Self. Understanding we are already that which we seek and these yoga practices merely uncover that Light within, is the first lesson. Before Integral Yoga, Swami Arivananda enjoyed an eclectic career as a professional dancer, teacher and choreographer for over 25 years. The last decades she owned and operated a successful performing arts center and ballet company. In addition to her performing arts career she and her partner of 20 years developed a software company focusing on interactive multimedia and training programs. For past seven years Swami Arivananda has been serving with the Living Yoga Trainees (LYT). Her enthusiastic style exemplifies that it’s not the service it’s the attitude that makes the magic. The disciplines of Integral Yoga transform “doing” yoga, into “living” yoga. Arivananda has been instructing in all aspects of Yoga including but not limited to Hatha, Meditation, Pranayama, Karma, Raja and Bhakti Yoga. She also tours extensively teaching at various schools, temples and yoga centers around the country.

 

Snehan Born has four decades of experience with yoga and has been teaching since 2000. Snehan resides and teaches at Integral Yoga Institute of San Francisco and teaches at Mission Blue Center in Brisbane. He has also led teacher trainings at Satchidananda Ashram, Yogaville, Virginia and The Integral Yoga Institute, NYC. Snehan is certified in all levels of Integral Yoga Hatha and has received additional certifications in Pranayama, Meditation, Raja Yoga and Stress Management from Integral Yoga and “Life of a Yogi” from Sri Dharma Mittra. He has also studied with Sharon Gannon and David Life of Jivamukti Yoga in NYC. In 2001 he received “Conscious Eating”, a live foods certification from Dr. Gabriel Cousens at the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in Arizona. Snehan has lived and traveled extensively within India over 9 trips and studied with many teachers there. He has taught yoga all over the US as well as in India, South America, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Japan and Europe.

 

Lalita Dagny Vigander, E-RYT 500, LMT, RCYT has been practicing Integral Yoga since 1998, and became an Integral Yoga instructor in 2005. Lalita is now certified in Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced Hatha, as well as in Stress Management, Raja Yoga, Meditation, Restorative Yoga, Yoga of Recovery, Children’s Yoga, and Yoga for People with Cancer. Lalita is one of Yogaville’s teacher trainers for the Basic and Intermediate levels, including Anatomy and Physiology. Lalita teaches children, adults, and senior classes along with Meditation and Stress Management classes. She has been invited to lecture at cancer retreats, to a community college and at UT’s Administrators retreats and women’s conferences.