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what to expect

  • be a part of a supportive community
  • learn from experienced and adept teachers
  • explore and experience variations of yogic techniques
  • gain skills to lead a yoga class
  • deep study of yoga philosophy
  • free unlimited yoga membership included during the training

Cancellation Policy

  • $1,000 Non-refundable deposit due upon acceptance
  • Full Tuition is due ONE week prior to school start date
  • $1,000 deposit is forfeited upon cancellation
  • Refund window closes 3 weeks prior to school start date; all monies forfeited thereafter

SPRING 2023 Yoga Teacher Training

200 HOUR YOGA ALLIANCE CERTIFIED

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This training will not only equip you to teach yoga asana in a variety of settings with confidence and ease, but it will instill within you the values and principles of yoga culture that can help enhance your personal life in deep and transformative ways.  Physical asana is one part of the vast landscape of personal development that is yoga.  This training highlights the spiritual culture of yoga as a means for personal transformation.  Over the course of 8 months, you will be immersed in yoga philosophy, lifestyle, culture, meditation practices, holistic health and wellness, and personal spiritual connection to self and others.  

Together, we will explore yoga’s timeless teachings and how they apply to your life today.  As you apply these teachings regularly, in a supportive community, you will notice yourself transform from the inside out. This course is not just about gaining textbook knowledge, but about applying the teachings and living the lifestyle of a yogi, leading to a profound and deep experience of what yoga has to offer. 

​As a graduate, you will head into the world confident and ready to lead grounded, safe, and inspired yoga classes. You’ll also learn how to offer modifications, posture options, clarification of contraindications, and how to create classes with progressive levels of difficulty. More than that, you’ll have the tools and knowledge to instill life-changing principles into your classes. 

Provided that you have fulfilled all requirements upon graduation, you will receive a 200 hour yoga teacher training certificate and have the option to register as a RYT 200 via Yoga Alliance.

Curriculum:

  • SANKALPA:  A discipline for empowered change
  • HISTORY OF YOGA: understanding the origin of yoga
  • ASANAS: Beginner to intermediate postures
  • MEDITATION: What is meditation + basic meditation techniques
  • YOGA ANATOMY: Understanding how the body moves and functions while performing yoga
  • SEQUENCING: How to structure various types of yoga classes
  • MANTRAS: Science of establishing change through sacred frequency / attunement for healing, wisdom, purification, and spiritual evolution.
  • BHAGAVAD GITA AND YOGA PHILOSOPHY: Living our yoga practice and taking our teachings off the mat
  • PRANAYAMA: Control of the life energy
  • YOGA NIDRA: Art of conscious relaxation 
  • RESTORATIVE YOGA: Yoga as a means of relaxation and healing
  • AYURVEDA: Intro to Ayurveda, the sister science of yoga
  • BANDHAS: Gain control and intentionally lock energy in specific areas of the body
  • ETHICS OF TEACHING YOGA: Servant leadership and leading by example
  • BUSINESS OF YOGA: Developing your yoga career
  • ADJUSTMENTS: How to properly assist students
  • BHAKTI: The yoga of devotion

Please note that if you miss a class or homework assignment, it will need to be made up, potentially at an increased cost.

*Please bring your own mat to the training

Brinda Kumari (Susan Hu) is an E-RYT® 500, YACEP®, and founder of an RYS® 200 based in NYC. Born and raised in Shanghai, she has always been searching for the deeper meaning and purpose of life beyond the body and the mind. After obtaining two master’s degrees in Media and Journalism and working in marketing/communications for over seven years, she listened to her inner calling to share the teaching of yoga and became a yoga and meditation teacher. Brinda believes when you take the time to care for yourself with genuine self-love and live an aligned life, you have the power to heal yourself and the world around you.

She has been assisting Yogi Charu and teaching in over 30 yoga and meditation teacher trainings. Brinda was initiated into the Brahma Madhava Gaudiya Sampradaya as a disciple of HH Radhanath Swami.

With over 2,000 training hours, Brinda’s teaching style is very nourishing, grounding and uplifting with a focus on breathing and the relationship with Self. As a senior lead teacher at the Bhakti Center, she offers different styles of yoga classes, workshops, and trainings both one on one and in group settings. Her style includes Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin, Restorative, Yoga Nidra, Prana Nidra, Pranayama, Prana Vidya Healing, Chakra Meditation and other yoga and meditation techniques. Brinda also leads local and international retreats and offers Ayurveda self-care treatment and consultation.

Jamuna Jaya Devi Dasi is a 300-Hour Registered Yoga Teacher who, after the first five minutes of her first yoga class, distinctly remembers thinking, “Oh, I soooooooooooo get this yoga stuff!” As a former professional dancer, and a life-long spiritual seeker, the synthesis of movement and contemplation on The Divine Spirit spoke to her immediately! She took her 200-hour YTT with Carrie Parker and Jillian Pransky’s Bright Spirit Teacher Training in NJ, and was lucky enough to join the apprentice program, and eventually staff at Devotion Yoga in Hoboken, NJ.

It was during her 300-Hour Advanced Teacher Training at Yogamaya, under Stacey Brass Russell and Bryn Chrisman, that she found the path of Bhakti. It is these practices that inform not just her teaching, but her entire life. She is a initiated student of HH Dhanudhara Swami. And counts HH Radhanath Swami, Kaustubha Das, Ghanashyam Das, and a host of amazing teachers at NYC’s The Bhakti Center as her teachers. In her physical practice she is heavily influenced by the Iyengar system of yoga, and has studied with senior Iyengar teachers Kevin Gardiner and Carrie Owerko. She loves combining precise alignment, and spiritual focus to give a complete experience of yoga. Currently, she teaches at The Bhakti Center, Yogamaya, for the online training Yoga Renew, as well guest teaching at studios like StoneWave Yoga and Three Birds. She has led retreats to Italy and Mexico. And has been the lead teacher in Yoga Teacher Trainings at Hudson Yoga Project, Yogamaya, and the Bhakti Center. She also leads Community Groups, is part of the Community Care Team, and a mentor at The Bhakti Center.

When not on her mat, Jamuna performs as a clown in hospitals for children for Healthy Humor, as her “alter ego” Dr. Ima Confused, and is professional storyteller bringing folktales to audiences of all ages everywhere from schools, libraries, and even prisons.