300hrs TEACHER TRAINING

200 hour Yoga Teacher Training

The 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training is appropriate for anyone who would like to deepen their personal yoga practice, cultivate greater self-awareness, and learn the art of becoming an effective and inspirational teacher. The program is designed to help you grow and evolve as an inspired student of life and as a Yoga teacher. Our emphasis is on developing an insightful and intelligent practice rooted in alignment and connection to Self and others.

Next Information Sessions:

We have completed our group information sessions with faculty teachers for the Oct. 2018/19 program, however if you have any questions about the program, please contact us, and we would be happy to speak with you.

Kula’s 200hour Yoga Teacher Training was established in 2008 and is revered as one of Toronto’s most comprehensive Teacher Training Programs. Over 250 teachers have passed through our doors since 2008 as confident and talented Yoga Teachers and students of life.

The Teacher Training program is carefully crafted by Bethy Rutty, Jesse Enright and Colin Matthews as well as internationally renowned Tantrik Yoga expert, Christopher Hareesh Wallis. All teachers are personally dedicated to evolving and refining the program year after year, and this year we are introducing a new and improved teacher training manual with a comprehensive guide to the 27 principle asanas (postures).

We pride ourselves on providing an approachable atmosphere built on a strong community culture that provides a level of education “that is rare to find in the modern, yoga world” (Christopher Wallis, The Mattamayura Institute).

Program Prerequisite: Students have a developed and dedicated yoga practice. The training requires a willingness to connect deeply and to explore with an open heart!

Why Study with Inye?

Learn to become a knowledgable and skilled yoga teacher, and above all learn to embrace your unique individuality in how you teach.
Reviewed as Oakville’s leading Yoga Teacher Training Programs.
Nationally and internationally renowned teachers to personally support and guide you to help you find your own voice.
A 2015 new and improved teacher training manual including descriptions and analysis of all 27 principal asanas.
The opportunity to teach at Kula Yoga Studios through our Community Classes (specifically dedicated classes taught by our YTT graduates).
An approachable yet uniquely comprehensive program – “something still rare in the yoga world”(Christopher Wallis, author of Tantra Illuminated).
Our tight knit, inclusive community that extends long after the program end. Our goal is to build and sustain long-term relationships with our students to support them on their life-long journey.

To submit an application or to discuss the program please email: oakville@mykula.ca

If you’d like more information about the Teacher Training, we would be happy to answer your questions at our free information session:

We have completed our group information sessions with faculty teachers for the Oct. 2018/19 program, however if you have any questions about the program, please contact us, and we would be happy to speak with you.

TRAINING SCHEDULE

The Teacher Training group meets once per week on Thursday evenings, and approximately one weekend a month for the duration of six months.

In order to obtain certification, 80% attendance is required and no more than one weekend may be missed. *Students will need to designate time to projects and non-contact assignments.

HOW TO REGISTER

Please complete and submit the teacher training application form by October 1, 2018

TUITION

$3,300 +hst

OPTIONAL PAYMENT PLAN:

$500+HST ($565) for the registration deposit, which is put towards tuition balance.

$527.33 per month for 5 consecutive months from Oct. 1-Feb. 1st and the final 6th payment of $527.35 on March 1st to complete the tuition balance.

Students receive unlimited yoga classes upon registration and payment of their deposit for the program from August 1st.

Fees include unlimited yoga classes at Kula for the duration of the training and a copy of the Teacher Training Manual.

A $500 non-refundable deposit is required to secure a place in the training.This deposit is applied toward the tuition balance.

QUESTIONS

If you have any questions regarding Teacher Training, please contact us by email
oakville@mykula.ca or call (905) 829-3443

ACCREDITATION

Kula is a Yoga Alliance certified Teacher Training School. Upon graduation students are eligible for a Yoga Alliance certificate.

APPLICATION FORM

Beth has been teaching yoga since 2001, and a Facilitator in Kula’s Teacher Training program since 2009. She is a Yoga Alliance certified E-RYT 500 teacher. Beth has a passion for teaching Meditation, Pranayama and Asana. She offers these practices to students as a vehicle through which to practice yoga and join the mind, body and heart. She offers the attention to detail from the Iyengar system, a focus on breath awareness from the Ashtanga system, and alignment based on universal anatomical principles from the Anusara system. Beth’s teaching poetically weaves themes that elevate the practice and inform a deeper understanding.

Beth encourages students to cultivate the awareness and skills to connect to their teacher within, and to live in the fullness of their embodiment. She invites and supports each teacher trainee to teach from the most authentic place within themselves.

CYNTHIA COOPERSTONE

Colin is the founder and director of Kula, established in 2003. He is a Yoga Alliance certified E-RYT 500 teacher, and holds two degrees from Dalhousie University in Education and Physical Education. Colin has studied with renowned Yoga teachers since 1999 across a variety of Yoga lineages, providing a breadth of technical and philosophical knowledge from which he shares. He is a certified Medical Intuitive with primary study under Dr. Mona Lisa Schulz.

Colin’s approach to practice focuses on developing body wisdom as a symbolic lens to gain clarity for empowered alignment on the mat and in the practice of life. He invites an evolving conversation and exploration of living Yoga, with one’s self and in community. His light-hearted spirit inspires a playful and engaged practice that is deeply rooted in attention, connection and expansion. His desire for teacher trainees is to cultivate the ability to see and support their students, and access their ever-present innate intelligence.

EDDEE HUANG

Christopher Wallis, PhD, also known as Hareesh, was initiated into the yogic path at the age of sixteen and has since taken degrees in Indian philosophy at three prestigious universities, including Oxford, Berkeley, and Rochester, winning academic awards at all three. He has also received traditional yogic education at āshrams in India, Thailand, and upstate New York. He is now a freelance lecturer on meditation, spiritual philosophy, Sanskrit, and mantra-science, as well as offering sādhana coaching. He is the author of the groundbreaking book Tantra Illuminated.

His students say his teaching balances accuracy with accessibility, profundity with clarity, and intellectual integrity with heart-expanding inspiration.

HALI SCHWARTZ

Jesse has been a student of Hatha Yoga since 1994 and a full-time Yoga instructor since 1998. He has studied under senior instructors in India, Australia, Canada and the U.S. including, Gioia Irwin (Vijnana Yoga) and Doug Keller (Yoga Therapeutics). He is trained in Craniosacral Therapy and is certified in the Muscle, Balance and Function system of biomechanical re-education. Jesse has taught alignment and anatomy for teacher training programs since 2003, and he is actively involved in curriculum development.

In 2004, Jesse developed SmartYoga, an approach dedicated to an objective and scientific study of the amazing technology of yoga postures and their effect on the human body. He has a private yoga therapeutics practice working with individuals, doctors, massage therapists and chiropractors to develop personalized yoga programs for people with pain and injury.

Jesse’s teaching style combines precise experiential anatomy with an accessible light- hearted approach.

OPTIONAL PAYMENT PLAN:

CYNTHIA COOPERSTONE

EDDEE HUANG

HALI SCHWARTZ

TRACEY SOGHRATI