200, 300 AND 500 hour Teacher Trainings begin in January 2024
Yoga Foundation offers Yoga Teacher Training Programs in the teaching tradition of renowned yoga teacher Sri Krishnamacharya in four different levels:
Our 200 hour Certification (Foundations of Therapeutic Yoga) Self Paced
Our stand-alone 300 hour Certification (200 +100)
Our 500 hour Certificattion (200 + 300)
All incoming Teacher Trainees begin with the 200 hour program, establishing a strong theoretical foundation for teaching. Those seeking a 300 hour training continue seamlessly with 100 additional hours. Those seeking 500 hours complete our Foundation Teacher Training program followed by our Advanced Program, equaling 500 hours of unrivaled, authentic Yoga Training
Our comprehensive curriculum was originally designed by TKV Desikachar when the family began to systemize the teachings for the purpose of passing them on with authenticity and integrity. It ensures that the theories and practices of authentic, appropriate, accessible and transformative yoga will be learned and applied with clarity, confidence and depth of understanding. For this reason, most who take our training are already well on the path of Yoga and seeking to integrate it even more profoundly into their personal and professional lives.
Curriculum includes:
Extensive Yoga Philosophy
Classical Asana Theories and Techniques (and Modifications)
Pranayama, and Meditation Theories and Techniques
Asana, Pranayama and Dhyanam Course Planning
Teaching Methodology
Chanting
Anatomy and Physiology
Mentorship is the pivotal aspect of our program is and the teacher-student relationship. Each student will be assigned a suitable mentor who will guide her/him, through a series of one-on-one mentor classes, to develop her/his personal practice, to address individual queries, and in her/his development as a competent teacher.
Teaching Observation evolves through numerous hours of observing Krishnamacharya-tradition certified teachers. Our students gain the advantage of experiencing how one tradition can be creatively applied, with discretion, by different teachers with the common goal of enhancing the well-being of many different populations.
Supervised Teaching begins a few months into the program and serves as the primary bridge between learning and teaching. This valuable and unique aspect of our program enables Teacher Trainees to go through a step-by-step process in order to feel comfortable transitioning to a teacher in a lineage with a reputation for integrity and a high quality of teaching.
Teachers of yoga must undergo transformation in order to help others as competent teachers, hence our programs are designed for personal transformation. As future teachers and leaders, you will have time and support to cultivate stability, peace of mind, and clarity through the process. The education is holistic – influencing all dimensions of our trainees through incorporating all tools of yoga and encouraging out-of-the-box thinking. Graduates will feel confident to teach group classes to all ages and levels of students and one-on-one classes tailored to general physical/mental/emotional well-being.
THE TEACHINGS
The main teaching faculty is Danielle Tarantola, a certified Teacher Trainer and Yoga Therapist.
Accredited directly by TKV Desikachar himself to run 500 hour teacher trainings, Danielle takes this credential to heart. We align ourselves exclusively with the teachings of T. Krishnamacharya as learned through Mr. TVK Desikachar himself, and his closest, living students, including his family members, S. Sridharan, former Executive Director of Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram, Radha Sundararajan, former Director of Vedavani, and Dr N. Chandrasekharan, former director of Yoga Therapy at Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram.
T Krishnamacharya
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya – yogi, healer, linguist, Vedic scholar, expert in the Indian Schools of thought, researcher, author, Yoga legend. Born in 1888 in a remote, South Indian village, T Krishnamacharya who lived to be over hundred years old was one of the greatest yogis of the modern era. If today, yoga is an inherent part of the everyday lives of millions of people across the world, it is due in large measure to the pioneering efforts of T Krishnamacharya who revived yoga in the early twentieth century. Krishnamacharya was a revolutionary innovator who developed and adapted yoga practices that offer health, mental clarity and spiritual growth to any individual in the modern-day world.
Krishnamacharya’s knowledge of yoga was so vast that he taught each student differently. In refusing to standardize the practice and teaching methodology, Krishnamacharya created an understanding of yoga relevant for a broad spectrum of students. By integrating the ancient teachings of Yoga and Indian philosophy with modern-day requirements, Krishnamacharya created yoga practices that are as accurate and powerful as they are practical and relevant.
TKV Desikachar
TKV Desikachar, son and student of T Krishnamacharya, is one of the most respected yoga teachers and healers of our time. Over the course of his thirty years of study with his teacher, Desikachar learned the complete practice and application of the tools of yoga, as well as the classical yoga texts, including Yoga Sutra-s of Patanjali and Yoga Rahasya of Nathamuni. In 1976, Desikachar founded the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram (KYM), a non-profit public charitable trust in Chennai, India, to honor his father and share his teachings. Today, the KYM is one of the most respected yoga centers in the world, attracting thousands of local and international students each year, who come for healing and to participate in the KYM’s numerous educational programs. Desikachar is the author of several chanting CDs, as well as books on yoga and allied subjects, including The Heart of Yoga, Health Healing and Beyond, and Reflections on the Yoga Sutra-s of Patanjali.
“i just completed a 9 month on-line yukti in asana course with danielle. the course was remarkable—the information given, the manner in which it was presented and even the homework was impeccable. danielle is intelligent, thoughtful, very knowledgeable and an excellent communicator. i look forward to participating in her next course.”
— marguerite, ca”