Richard

Month-Long Teacher Intensive

Week Long | Teacher Intensive | Advanced

We are no longer taking applications for the June 2010 Intensive.

Richard is currently going through each application we currently have, so if you have applied and have not heard as to your status, you should hear from us within the next week. Thank you for your patience!

Richard offers month-long Teacher Intensives through the Yoga Workshop. The purpose of the course is to begin an exploration of the internal principles and forms of Ashtanga Yoga at a level that will deepen one’s practice and make teaching a natural outcome of practice. Always returning to our own personal experience, we will explore the practices and philosophies of yoga, their contexts, purposes, patterns and limitations. Examining the tradition from multiple viewpoints should give depth and sophistication to the interconnected processes of yoga. The course will flow through the many and often contradictory philosophies of yoga into therapeutics, into asana practice, onto Sanskrit and pranayama, back into meditation, on into the biomechanics of posture and movement and into the hands-on world of relating to others.

This Intensive is not a "certification" course, since such certification in the Ashtanga Vinyasa style has traditionally been granted only by K. Pattabhi Jois. Since Guruji's death in May, 2009 authorization and certification is now only granted through the Ashtanga Yoga Institute in Mysore, India.

Recognizing that most teachers and students will not find the traditional standards accessible, this course will provide a rich context for whatever level of practice participants are able to do. The philosophical and contemplative background of the tradition and its intelligent application to real world bodies and circumstances will be emphasized, and a certificate of completion credited with 200 hours is given to students who participate fully in all aspects of the training.

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Course Content
Course Schedule
Richard will be teaching the next month-long Teachers Intensive in the Spring of 2010. Applications for this Intensive will be available in December, 2009.

Qualifications

For acceptance into the training students need to have:

A solid grounding in the practice of Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga.
Completed Intermediate Series or an equivalent intensity of asana experience.
A minimum of five to ten years of practice.
An appreciation of subtlety, and a sense of humor.

Next Course Date

June 1 - June 26, 2010.

Application

Students must apply and be accepted for attendance in the course.

Tuition

Tuition: $2,550.
A non-refundable deposit of $200 is required upon acceptance into the course.
Tuition includes all required text books, meditation course and lab fees.

Process

Applications will be evaluated in the order in which they are received.
Expect to hear as to your status in the Intensive within about six weeks of applying.
The course is limited to 42 students, and will be filled by accepted students in the order they have applied.
Applications received after the course is full will be placed on a waiting list and evaluated if openings in the course become available.
If you are accepted, you must send a non-refundable $200 deposit which will be applied towards the cost of the course. Please do not send a deposit before being accepted into the course.

Scholarships

There will be two full and scholarships available for the Intensive.
To apply for the scholarship, applicants must complete the application, and also include with the original application an essay requesting financial aid. In this essay students should explain why they qualify for aid and why it is important for them to take the course now.
Applicants applying for financial aid must be willing to give proof of financial aid need.

Scholarships for the Spring, 2010 course must be applied for when original application is filed. Scholarship requests will be evaluated in February, 2010 and will be awarded soon thereafter.

2010 Teachers’ Intensive Application