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Teacher Training

Power Yoga 200Hr Power Yoga Teacher Training

Instructing Power Yoga (Vinyasa Yoga) is the most rewarding and enjoyable jobs available. As a Power Yoga instructor you come into peoples lives daily, weekly or monthly and offer them a break from their everyday drama and stress through breath and movement from within the body. You create an atmosphere of acceptance, growth and renewal for each student to tap into their body, mind and ultimately spirit. You challenge each individual to create breakthroughs as opposed to breakdowns.

Our Power Yoga 200 teacher training offers prospective instructors and students seeking a deeper understanding of yoga, an intimate and nurturing environment in which to learn, grow and evolve as teachers and individuals. Teaching Power Yoga is simply the sharing of knowledge and experience. The Teacher Training will deepen your current Yoga practice and allow you to develop your "inner teacher".  While we be learning 5 set Power yoga (vinyasa yoga) sequences, we encourage each student to develop their own sense of Yoga and work to establish their own teaching style. It is our goal to provide knowledge, guidance and support, to provide the spark each student requires to build their fire. Whether your goal is to deepen your current Yoga practice or to become a full time yoga instructor this program will provide you a solid foundation.

This course is not a "Hot Yoga" certification, most of the heat we use is an internal heat created through pranayama and movement. We stoke the internal fire to ignite the spirit and burn toxins from the body and mind. With that said several students who have graduated from this course have gone on to instruct "Hot Power Yoga" or "Hot Flow" classes. Again this course is open minded and fluid to whatever your preferences and teaching styles might lead. Our sole purpose is to deepen your current practice and then facilitate you in discovering your teaching style whatever that may be. There will be a few set sequences in which we will practice and breakdown, however we encourage all students to express their own creativity and practice, teach and play with their own sequences and styles.

Course Topics:


  • Yoga History and Philosophy; Pre classical Yoga, Buddhist teachings, From Raja to Hatha Yoga and other Schools of Thought including various philosophers and teachers such as Bruce Lee, Lao tsu and Deepak chopra
  • Patanjali's Yoga Sutras and how they apply in todays world
  • Layers of The Human Body and Consciousness (Kosa)
  • Yoga Psychology
  • Hatha Yoga: Pranayama, Asana and Bandhas
  • Anatomy and physiology as they apply to yoga- We will be using 3D digital Yoga models to explore the human anatomy as well as digital cadavers. This section will be comprehensive and require extensive home study.
  • Energetic anatomy and the Chakra system as they apply to yoga 

  • Power Yoga Postures (Asanas) the practice and correction (again this class is open minded and as such we explore a large number of traditional Asanas as well as various variations from not only the yoga system but martial arts, Pilates and gymnastics 

  • Teaching Methodology: Creating and instructing a Power Yoga class. 
  • Sequencing and Flow
  • Finding the Teacher within aka getting real, style and dialogue. 
  • Working with special considerations. 

  • Living an Empowered Life : Meditation, Vision, Goal setting, Yoga off the mat and Nutrition
  • Marketing, insurance etc.

Now accepting Applications for Teacher Training  January 2013 Edmonton

To make the course available to everybody we have spread the curriculum across several weekends. This will allow those with careers and families and other obligations an opportunity to enjoy the course material with little added stress. We  meet every other weekend: Saturday and Sunday from 8am-6pm. The daily curriculum is flexible (no pun intended) and dynamic, according to the groups energy and needs. We begin each day with a group practice of Asana, Pranayama and Meditation followed by a short discussion. After Lunch we tackle the scheduled curriculum. Group discussion is highly encouraged as the best teachings typically arise out of the group synergy. We encourage each student to participate fully, asking many questions, expressing ideas and offering feedback.  The location of the course will be, Hot in Leduc, conveniently located 5 min from the airport and 10 min south of Edmonton just off Hiway 2. We accept a limited number of students to keep class size intimate and interactive.

Start date January 5th 2013 (tentative)

Weekend 1 - January 5th & 6th - History and Philosophy of Yoga and  Introduction to Anatomy

Weekend 2 - January 19th & 20th - Anatomy, Physiology, Kosa and Energetic Body

Weekend 3 - February 2nd & 3rd - Layers of Power Yoga; Pranyama, Asana, Mudra, Bahnda


Weekend 4 - February 16th & 17th -  Layers of Power Yoga cont; Asana and Teaching Methodology, creating a Power Yoga class


Weekend 5 - March 2nd & 3rd -  Empowered Living; Yoga off the Mat, Meditation and Teaching Methodology, Modifications and Adjustments 


Weekend 6 and 7 - March 16th & 17th -  Assisted Teaching: Power Yoga

Weekends 8-12 April- Practical Teaching (Karma Yoga) at various locations including, lululemon athletics, Hot in Leduc and Various Yoga studios. These classes are done outside of the course group. For those out of towers arrangements will be made on an individual basis.
Students will be granted their certification and eligible to register with the Yoga Alliance once they have completed all of the assignments, course material and required reading.

Investment $2600.00 plus get. A $600 deposit is required to reserve your spot

Please contact us if you are interested. We do not have an application process, we are open minded and accepting of all ages, abilities and years of practice.

Namaste, 
Michele Theoret

RHYS