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Navigating the Transition from Student to Teacher
December 24, 2024Join HIA SHANTI YOGA Teacher Training Courses
Yoga is more than taking an Asana class. To cultivate the healing power of yoga requires much more than mechanically following a recipe or a set of instructions.
The discipline starts with its guiding principles and values, known as the Yamas and Niyamas These are the foundations which shift your posture, and set the tone towards cultivating a strong backbone of integrity, and a soft front - that of tenderness. You stand tall, and sit up straight with the motivation to stop slouching in life, and deliver good therapies, medicine and healing in the form of helpful service and generous giving.
Aspiring to be noble can sound egoistic… being puffed up with the identity of a do-gooder, and perhaps, some could use this term in such a self-serving way. However, the most noble teachers are those who feel the most empty of ego, almost as if they were transparent, and you can see through them. They appear to be totally open ’human vehicles’ who receive operating instructions about generating more love in the world, and then they follow these instructions, even when doing so can be extremely uncomfortable and demanding for them.
A yoga teacher’s noble task is not just to keep the class flowing, and hopefully look good. To aspire to be on purpose in the world today, is to be of benefit, to be contributing... Teaching yoga can be an expression of this inspiration. To maintain the wisdom traditions is an alive, ongoing invitation, and for some of us, a real sense of calling.
There are many ways to be dharmic (to be living your purpose) in the world today. In my opinion, one of the best foundational steps is to undertake training to become a teacher of Yoga.
True, authentic yoga training enables you to establish a type of inner stability and open heartedness, which is what we need in order to be skilful and effective, particularly during these times when there is an acceleration of collective chaos.
What matters is the transformation of the person, not just the way. Becoming a teacher changes your own life, and affects all those around you!
Teaching about social identity, racism, and other forms of oppression, as well as how to bridge divides, offers a unique and powerful opportunity for you to apply your deepening practice to your own awakening and to serve others from diverse ethnicities with true sensitivity, respect, and compassion. You become a transformative force for better outcomes and positive social change.
You can take your yoga teacher training into whatever arena best suits your talents and life’s situation: to your work as an educator, therapist, business person, yoga teacher, parent, helping professional, or whatever expression your activity calls upon you.
We are facing an existential crisis. Given the magnitude of our global challenges and suffering, the need for qualified teachers of yoga is more compelling than ever before. In this time of widespread conflicts, wars, famines, pandemic, climate crisis, and continuing calls for racial and social justice, people are longing for wise ways to navigate themselves, heal their traumas, find resilience, and foster true connectedness and well-being. The teaching of yoga offers a powerful transformative medicine. It embodies both psychological wisdom and spiritual depth.
If you feel called to become trained as a teacher of yoga, I wholeheartedly encourage you to apply to join one of our upcoming cohort of courses. This is authentic, quality Yoga, suitable for all bodies, all ages. We have drawn on decades of our best teachings to make our yoga teacher training an extraordinary learning experience.
In this program, we lovingly support and challenge you to do your own internal work to help strengthen your practices, while honing in on your skills to bring this greater awareness to others.
Our program combines a truly comprehensive in-depth curriculum, providing training, practical experience, and opportunities for one-to-one connections, meeting with an affinity of fellow students, peer groups and mentors from around the world. Aimed at helping support your practice and refine your skills.in order to apply the life-changing tools from classical yoga into your own life, as well as with your family, clients, team members, patients, and the general public.
Upon your graduation, you will receive a qualification that is internationally recognised. And most importantly, you will have committed yourself to a time-tested path of training that will enable you to embody your deepest and most noble aspirations, in becoming part of a wisdom stream that is dearly needed in the world today.
I invite you into a transformational journey where you will learn to bring your own heart’s wisdom to foster the healing, connectedness, and compassion, so needed in our world.
We hope you can join us!
What makes the Shanti Yoga Teacher Trainign Certification Program Unique?
What you will
learn and experience
The teacher training curriculum aims to imbue learners with the transformational principles underlying yoga and guide them to skilfully offer these powerful practices to others.
Trainees will learn the application of yoga i.e. unity, to relationships and societal changes, explore the interface of meditation with Western psychology and cutting-edge science, and develop teaching skills as well as receive guidance on how to establish classes and workshops.
Specific
content inclusions
CORE PRACTICES
Develop your practice of yoga with mindfulness, movement, concentration, inquiry, open awareness, and breathwork that awakens a compassionate heart and is conducive to healing.
TRAINING IN THE DOMAINS OF YOGA
Practice classical yoga as it relates to your body and your feelings, emotions, mind states, social identity, and awareness itself. Learn how to expand the field of yoga to include wise relationships with others and the entire living world.
SKILL-BUILDING LESSONS
Become skilled and confident in speaking in public, conducting individual and small group sessions, guiding classes, and responding to questions in diverse, multicultural settings.
TRANSFORMATIONAL APPLICATIONS
Use the holistic applications that yoga provides to address physical pain, emotional challenges, addictive behaviours, trauma, relational difficulties, interpersonal conflict, and domains of collective, societal suffering.
THE ETHICS OF TEACHING AND APPLYING YOGA MINDFULNESS
Understand and learn to handle ethical issues that arise in teaching and in the student-teacher relationship, including awareness of, and taking responsibility for, the teacher’s impact on students from diverse backgrounds.
MINDFUL MOVEMENT PRACTICUM
Group practice sessions, with opportunities to connect with your peers for feedback and support. Complement sitting, standing, lying and kneeling practices by learning mindful movement, teaching embodied awareness in movement, and engaging students with a rich, grounded, somatic experience of meditation.
CULTURAL SENSITIVITY
Build the core understandings, skills, knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours about the conditioning that shapes social identity and creates racism, sexism, and the many other expressions of separation, hierarchy, and violence. Deep introspection, understanding, and skill building is supported through facilitated peer group discussions. These teachings are woven throughout the curriculum to serve your own awakening in this domain and to enhance your capacity to teach a wide range of students across culture, race, gender, ability, and other societally conditioned divides, with clarity and respect, attunement, and care.
ENGAGED SPIRITUALITY
Transform consciousness by actively engaging mindfulness and compassion to end social injustice, racism, violence, ecological harm, and other expressions of suffering.
CULTIVATING COMMUNITY
Learn to design and promote classes and workshops with inclusive facilitation skills in order to create a nurturing and caring community of dedicated learners who learn with and from one another.
Who should apply
for the teacher certification program?
Yoga Teachers and Wellness Practitioners committed to diversifying services to attract more students by offering holistic yoga courses and group and private sessions.
Health Care and Mental Health Professionals focused on integrating holistic and evidence-based techniques to enhance client/patient outcomes.
Social Workers and Academic Advisors seeking to integrate the depth that yoga offers into their work to manage stress and burnout and to better support the children/students they serve.
Social Activists and Nonprofit Leaders determined to make a positive impact by sharpening their communication skills, garnering support for their cause, and influencing policy changes more effectively.
Holistic Business and Life Coaches dedicated to improving client outcomes by seamlessly integrating evidence-based yoga training into their work with clients.
Executives, Leaders, and HR Directors committed to leading with a more mindful approach to foster a work environment that prioritises employee well-being, productivity, creativity, and collaboration.
Benefits
of becoming a certified Yoga Teacher
- Teaching as a Gateway to Inner-Realisation and Freedom
- Learning to share these practices and teachings with others profoundly deepens and enhances your understanding, awareness, compassion, emotional healing, spiritual awakening and well-being.
- Supporting Others in Healing, Awakening, and Transforming
- You will support others in their healing, personal growth, spiritual awakening, and transformation. By participating in this program, you’ll become trained in a wide variety of skills and feel the joy of teaching these benefits to others wherever you are.
- Serving the Healing of Our World and Becoming a Force for Social Good
- Teaching yoga mindfully and moving into meditation with compassion directly contributes to the evolution of global consciousness and the healing of our world. Your deepened understanding of systemic racism and other divisive societal conditioning that causes suffering inspires justice and compassion in our communities and a heightened caring for our earth.
- Right Livelihood
The demand for certified yoga teachers is increasing for those who work in educational institutions, nonprofit organisations, health care, therapy, counselling, coaching, and executive-level leaders in business. Teaching yoga mindfulness with compassion has the potential to contribute in a wholesome way to your own livelihood.
The Blessings of Community
Learn and grow spiritually in a global community of practitioners dedicated to breaking down the barriers to connection. Your small mentoring group allows for a safe and gratifying depth in relationships, providing enormous support in your personal and professional growth.
Distinguished Certification
With completion of this teacher training program, you’ll receive a certificate from Health Institute Australasia. This credential will support you in establishing classes, workshops, and training events in communities, organisations, and institutions throughout the world. You’ll also have access to HIA’s Alumni Association to continue a rich, nourishing engagement with our global community.
Health Institute Australasia (HIA) nurtures the psychology, sociology, and neuroscience of well-being, and teaches skills that foster a thriving, resilient, and compassionate society. Based on the Gold Coast of Australasia, HIA is unique in its commitment to both science and practice: it not only engages and participates in groundbreaking research but also helps people apply this research to their personal and professional lives.
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