Our next 200-Hour Yoga Alliance Approved Yoga Teacher Training begins in February 2020! Offered in a convenient monthly format over 10 months, it will be held in Seattle at our beautiful Phinney Ridge Yoga Studio. Generally, we meet once per month on Friday evenings, Saturday and Sunday afternoons, and there will be some other elective courses to choose from to fit your particular interests.
The teacher training will be Facilitated by Christy Fisher with guest teacher Julie Hsu.
This Teacher Training program is for you if you:
✓ Would like to become a certified Hatha yoga teacher.
✓ Are not interested in becoming certified but simply want to deepen your practice.
✓ Would like to learn from some of Seattle’s most experienced teachers.
✓ Want to gain important skills teaching beginning and intermediate level Hatha Yoga classes, and in the Art of Adaptation – making yoga accessible to people with physical limitations or chronic health conditions.
✓ Are ready and interested to go on a life changing journey with a supportive community of like minded individuals.
✓ Would like to develop lifelong tools to lead a yogic lifestyle.
✓ Are interested in deepening self awareness, authenticity and clarity around your own life’s purpose.
In This Program We Will:
✓ Share knowledge and experience to guide safe and effective asana, pranayama, and meditation practices to beginning and intermediate level students. In the spirit of our studio’s general philosophy and approach, we will teach different methods of adapting and assisting practices to accommodate physical limitations and injuries giving you a foundation to bring yoga into diverse communities.
✓ Offer you a foundation in the history and philosophy of yoga with a focus on the view that within each of us lies intrinsic goodness and truth.
✓ Impart an ethical foundation including boundaries and tools for non-violent communication to empower students in your classes and support all relationships in your life.
✓ Provide lots of opportunities to practice teach and to receive individualized feedback and support.
✓ Through a creative, experiential and fun approach, provide a strong foundation in anatomy and physiology and their relationship to yoga practice.
✓ Upon completing the 10 month course along with assignments, students will have the option to register with Yoga Alliance for 200 Hour certification. This is an optional part of the program.
To receive an application to apply for the training, please call Christy at 206-547-2172 or email at christy@phinneyridgeyoga.com.
Full registration price: $3600
Early registration price: $3450 (total due by Feb 5, 2020, deposit due by Jan 5, 2020)
Early registration non-refundable deposit of $345 due by January 5, 2020
Early registration balance of $3105 due by February 5, 2020
About the instructors: Christy Fisher & Julie Hsu
Christy Fisher is a certified yoga therapist with the International Association of Yoga Therapy (C-IAYT), a Kripalu Yoga teacher at the professional level, and has practiced yoga for over 25 years. She is also a certified Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst and brings over 20 years of somatic education and yoga training to her teaching. She is passionate about making the transformational practice of yoga accessible to all abilities from athletes to people with physical limitations and chronic health conditions. Along with directing Phinney Ridge Yoga, she has taught for the National MS Society Washington State Chapter, Cancer Lifeline, and the Washington State Traumatic Brain Injury Association.
Julie Hsu has pursued intensive studies in yoga since 2003 with Kripalu teacher Ken McCray and then with her current teacher Yoganand Michael Carroll. She completed 200 hour teacher training in the Pranakriya tradition with Yoganand in 2008 and her 500 hour advanced certification in 2011. She brings a passion for philosophy and history of yoga to her classes which are known in Seattle for their transformational depth. When Julie is not teaching or practicing yoga, she is enjoying soaking up every minute of her son’s childhood and serving in her other role as a veterinarian.