Continuing
Education
for Teachers
Forrest Yoga Continuing Education for Teachers: This 3-5–day teacher training helps teachers to become more skillful, passionate, intelligent and authentic teachers. You will leave this training better equipped to deal with your challenges in teaching and life.
Eligible Participants
Teachers aspiring to improve their teaching and personal practice, and those ready to move deeper within themselves and increase the mental acuity needed to explore the rich tapestry of Forrest Yoga. A minimum number of years of teaching experience is not required. You will receive a certificate of completion only upon 100% completion of the teacher training.
Training Overview
Taught by Ana and Jose or a Forrest Yoga Guardian, the objective of this teacher training is to encourage trainees to develop as individuals as well as to make you a more skilled, intelligent and authentic teacher. Awareness is a vital component when developing the skills necessary to teach from your own found truths. Through daily meditation, intensives and group instruction, trainees begin to discover their own potent voice and gain valuable life tools.
Meditation and Intensives
Each day starts off with a ceremony involving chanting, drumming and meditation to set the intent for the day, which creates the space for healing and connection to your Spirit. The ceremony is followed by a 2-hour intensive that will create a heightened sense of physical, emotional and spiritual awareness while challenging every muscle and cell in your body. Through an intelligently designed Forrest Yoga sequence, you will be opened to amazing depths and feelings of awareness. You will leave feeling cleansed, refreshed and alive. The intensives are a sanctuary where you can feel safe to open up, work through issues that may arise and go beyond your perceived limitations. You will learn about yourself and feel what it is like to have freedom in your own body and mind. The intensives are sure to bring each trainee to new levels within their yoga practice. Injuries and any special requirements are addressed so that each trainee experiences these classes as part of his or her own healing practice.
Teacher Training
The daily afternoon sessions encompass training and instruction. Using skill-building exercises, trainees will work with the essential elements of teaching, such as: class sequencing, sadhanas (spiritual exercises), optimal personal nutrition, effective pose sequencing, the use of safe hands-on adjustments, clear, concise, powerful communication which eliminates mind-dulling habitual phrases, and tone of voice. You’ll also develop a more charismatic presence and honesty in your class.
Preparation
We suggest that all interested trainees get acquainted with the Forrest Yoga method of instructing, and start experimenting with a vegan diet to prepare your body for a Forrest Yoga event. To get familiar with Forrest Yoga methods of instructing, practice online yoga classes with Ana and Jose on The Forrest Yoga Online Channel. This will introduce the concepts of Forrest Yoga and provide practice for the trainees in Forrest Yoga. The more the FYCET trainees are familiar with Forrest Yoga, the more they will progress during this training.
