Please register in advance, a zoom link will be provided via confirmation email.
Come join us to learn more about our 200-hour ONLINE Basic Yoga Teacher Training program. We’ve been leading trainings here in San Francisco for forty years, and our teacher trainers have extensive experience training teachers with time-tested methods. In fact, the Yoga Alliance standards for teacher training were based on our program.
During this session, you will have an opportunity to meet the trainers, learn more about the curriculum of the training and ask any questions you may have. You can also sign up for the Basic Teacher Training at the event for a discounted rate!
This training will lead you on a transformative journey to greater self- knowledge, with the support of a vibrant and well-respected spiritual community. You will receive ongoing weekly mentoring during the training, and we offer mentorship and ongoing training to our graduates.
This 2020 Fall Teacher Training teaching staff includes Swami Ramananda, Diana Meltsner, Mia Velez and Stephen Sivadas McFarland.
We are committed to providing a safe and high quality program for all participants. Our graduates will develop skills to teach in person or online. We have dedicated staff to oversee the online coaching to have personal connection throughout the training as we did in the spring teacher training.
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Meet the trainers
Swami Ramananda is the Executive Director 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 45 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 co-developed the Stress Management Teacher Training program with Swami Vidyananda, has trained many teachers to bring Yoga into corporate, hospital and medical settings, and has taught mind/body wellness programs in many locations. He is a certified Yoga therapist and founding board member of the Yoga Alliance, a national registry that supports and promotes yoga teachers as professionals. He is a co-founder of The Spiritual Action Initiative (SAI) which brings together individuals committed to working for social justice for all beings and for the care and healing of our natural world. His warmth, wisdom and sense of humor have endeared him to many.
Diana Meltsner, C-IAYT and e-RYT500, has been teaching yoga in the Bay Area since 2001. The classes she teaches include prenatal, gentle, various levels of Hatha yoga, and yoga workshops. Diana is a lead teacher trainer for 200hour Basic Yoga Teacher Trainings at Integral Yoga Institute San Francisco. She is certified yoga therapist and offers individual therapeutic sessions with focus ranging from stress reduction to injury recovery. Her classes include physical postures, breathing, guided relaxation, meditation and other yoga teachings which help people to find deeper sense of well-being and ability to move through life with increased ease, intuition, and stress resilience.
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Stephen Sivadas McFarland, RYT-500 is one of Integral Yoga’s best-loved teachers. He grew up in Northeastern Pennsylvania and holds a BA in Theater from Marywood University. Stephen lived in New York City for many years as a working actor, director, choreographer, dance teacher and yoga instructor. Since moving to San Francisco in 2012 he has continued to work as an actor, floral designer and yoga instructor. He often staffs the Basic Yoga Teacher Training at Integral Yoga Institute San Francisco leading the anatomy and physiology portion of the training, mentors trainees, and leads a variety of Yoga workshops. He has taught at Integral Yoga, Planet Granite, Zomoti Yoga and Swan and Yoga all while pursuing his path in theater.
Mia Velez, RYT-200 entered the Integral Yoga Sangha in 2016 through the kitchen by helping to cook Thursday community lunches and silent retreat meals. In 2018 she certified as an Integral Yoga teacher to learn more of the IYI approach and be part of the lineage. Mia is a disciple of the Moy Yat Ving Tsun Kung Fu lineage and is highly influenced by her martial arts training. After completing her first 200 hour teacher training in 2008, she began to see undeniable parallel in Yoga and Kung Fu. When she began teaching Kung Fu in 2014, she incorporated Yoga insight and principles in her classes. Her goal in teaching is to connect with the students and to facilitate a safe space for exploration and self inquiry. Yoga and Kung Fu is integrated into her daily life as a mother, a preschool teacher, and an advocate for gender, race and class equality through multiple non-profits groups
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