Hatha Yoga Teachers Training

During this 3-month training the emphasis will be on your daily practice of meditation, pranayama and asana. Through your personal experience you will not only learn to understand these different techniques but also to become intrinsically aware of them. This understanding and awareness will enable you to begin acquiring the knowledge in order to teach and broaden your insight into the needs of your future students.

- Brigitte Longueville.........................
- David McAmmond ..........................
- Jñanadakini ....................................
- Yogacharya Yogendra .....................
- Oscar Velázquez .............................
- Assistant of Mr. S.N. Goenka ..........

Teaching methodology and therapeutic asana
Restorative yoga and anatomy
Iyengar and Vinyasa yoga
Pranayama and kriyas
Advanced standing positions
Vipassana meditation

Brigitte Longueville (The Netherlands)
Founder of the yoga school 'Solstice' in Zipolite, Oaxaca, Mexico. Brigitte has been teaching traditional South Indian Hatha yoga with therapeutic adjustments. She has been practicing yoga for 23 years and teaching for 13 years. She studied in India for 6 years in the tradition of Mr. Iyengar and Mr. Pattabi Jois. In India she studied with Clive Sheradon, master in the field of Pranayama. In Amsterdam Brigitte worked daily for 3 years with Gert Van Leeuwen, learning therapeutic adjustments in conjunction with the traditional asanas. She has been doing pranayama for 23 years and has been practicing vipassana meditation for 8 years. She has taught workshops in the United States (NY, Portland, San Fransisco and Chicago), Europe, West Indies, India and Mexico. She has worked with David McAmmond, Mark Brown, Jñanadakini and Oscar Velázquez.

David McAmmond (Canada)
Member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists. Beginning as a student of Hilda Pezarro in the early 70s, he was soon encouraged to start teaching. Although he worked with many teachers, David feels that he was most influenced by Dr. Bruce and Maureen Carruthers, and Acharya Dr. S.V. Karandikar. In 1995, David traveled to Pune, India, to train under Acharya Dr. S.V. Karandikar, one of the world’s pioneers in Restorative Yoga. This relationship has been maintained for many years with workshops in Canada and India. Over the last 25 years, David has inspired more than 400 yoga teacher trainees through various Teacher Training programs in Canada and Mexico. His daily life is committed to continuing research on yoga therapy, the origins and development of yoga and meditation in order to refine his own practice and teaching. Participating in this training, you will not only have the opportunity to enjoy David’s practical wisdom, unique sense of humor and thought-provoking stories, but also his contagious warmth, enthusiasm and encouragement will bring you great satisfaction. David will cover important restorative techniques, and relevant anatomical knowledge which will greatly enhance your understanding, practice, and teaching.

Jñanadakini (Georgina Martinez – Mexico)
Founder and director of Yoga Espacio in Mexico City. She discovered yoga 20 years ago in Sivananda School of Chicago. She studied different Hatha yoga styles. In 1998 Jñanadakini started her studies with the master Dharmapriya and since then she has centered her teaching on the Iyengar method with Vinyasa forms. She is member of the Occidental Buddhist order and has given courses in Europe and Canada. In Mexico she initiated the yoga program of the Buddhist Center in Mexico City and she has been a guest teacher in Yoga del Sur, Centro Jiva, Centro Qi, The yoga Center, Mukta yoga and Solstice.

Yogacharya Yogendra (Mark Brown - U.S.A)
He will be teaching the complete breath awareness (vibhaga pranayama) through sectional breathing, vibrational breath awareness (pranava AUM), kriyas and mudras. Through this practice we will learn what is the full yoga breath. Realization of this practice opens the way for pranayama and the direct experience of prana.

Oscar Velázquez (Mexico)
Graduate of the 'Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Danza y Artes Escénicas', in Mexico City.
He has 15 years of experience in the field of yoga: with Dharma Mittra, Yoga Center New York, with Lygia Lima, Jivamukti, Ashtanga, Power yoga, Iyengar, NY. His training has been with Baptist Marceau, Jñanadakini, Mónica Hernandez and André Borbolla. Doing service in the fields of arts, psychology, medicine and public service in general. Together with Ana Paula Domínguez he participates in yoga encounters on behalf of the 'Instituto Mexicana de Yoga'. He studies and collaborates with Dr. Dieter le Noir in medicine and ayurveda.
Oscar is founder of Mukta Yoga.

- Vipassana meditation* ...................
- Pranayama and kriyas ...................
- Asana practice ...............................
- Anatomy .......................................
- Restorative yoga ...........................
- Teaching methodology ..................
- Personal teaching experience ........

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Vipassana meditation as taught by S.N. Goenka. The development of knowledge is a practical way to examine the reality of our own body and mind, to uncover and solve whatever problems lie hidden beneath, to develop unused potential and channel it for one’s own good and the good of others. During a ten-day meditation course we will remain within the limits of the course site, having no contact with the outside world. During the first nine days of the course we will remain in noble silence among ourselves. One must refrain from reading and writing and suspend any religious or other practices, working exactly according to the instructions given. However, you are free to discuss meditation problems with the teacher and practical problems with the management. For the entire period of the course we will follow a basic code of morality, which includes celibacy, and abstinence from all intoxicants.

Pranayama is the science of breathing, of the change of the rhythm of the breath, the inhalation, retention and exhalation. Pranayama is not a breathing exercise, but an exercise of awareness.

Kriyas are cleansing exercises to remove toxins from the body. There are six kriyas:
- Neti - nasal cleaning
- Nauli - abdominal churning
- Dhauti - upper digestive tract cleaning
- Basti - colon cleansing
- Kapalabhati - lung and brochial tube cleanser
- Tratak - steady gazing

Asana is a posture done with awareness, accomplishing maximum movement through minimum effort. Asanas will be practiced daily under guidance of different teachers: standing positions, backbends, forward bends, twists and balancing positions.
Iyengar yoga: the use of props designed by Mr. Iyengar such as wooden gadgets, belts and ropes help the practitioner to achieve perfection in any asana. “Yoga is a method of silencing the vibrations of chitta, the consciousness which includes the mind, the intellect and the ego” Mr. Iyengar.
Vinyasa yoga: The word vinyasa means 'Breath synchronized movement'. The technique is also called Vinyasa Flow.

Anatomy. The learning of the functional understanding of a manageable number of key anatomic structures in their settings as they relate to hatha yoga. Knowledge of these structures can be applied immediately to optimize your practice, overcome blockages and avoid injuries.

Teaching methodology. Observing the alignment in different asanas, assisting and correcting. We speak of 'alignment' when bones are connected to each other in such a way that the desired stretching is attained.

Personal teaching experience. Includes teaching classes as well as observing and assisting in classes taught by other aspirant teachers.

We can assist you in finding suitable accommodation for the duration of the training; house, cabana or room...

Graduation is on December 14. On this day you'll receive your official yoga teachers certificate!

If you like to know more about this teachers training, please contact us...

*The Vipassana meditation program is not mandatory, and we recommend it only to students with positive motivation towards participation.