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BY H O M E S T U DY. A S I M P L E G U I D E . . .
BY JAHNE HOPE-WILLIAMS
! ! In teaching yoga teachers by home study and in class since the 1970s, I am more convinced than ever, that PASSION for yoga and for people are the most important components, and will take you down the path I have trodden. Being able to do fabulous poses (whilst looking in a mirror), are just that fabulous poses and nothing more. ! ! This program will change your life. It is not an empty boast. We have trained hundreds of yoga teachers, and I am sure we can teach you. To get the most out of this program, I recommend that you commit to it fully. Just do it, and when you look back you will see the changes, small at the beginning, getting bigger and more visible as you progress. Welcome to my world. I look forward to hearing from you, and meeting you in class sometime. ! ! Namaste:
Jahne !
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Copyright
2013 J. Hope-Williams All rights reserved. Published in Australia by YOGAFIRST EDITIONS, PO Box 14, Mt.Macedon Vic. 3441 Australia. ! ! This book belongs to YOGAFIRST EDITIONS. You may use part of the content for workshops as permitted in writing by contacting the publisher, and provided that you credit the source. (For permission for additional use, please write to the publisher at the above address). However, republication or reproduction of any part of this manuscript by any other graphic service whether it be digital, electronic, or other communication net resource is strictly prohibited. ! ! Produced, published and printed in Australia ! ! National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-publication data: ! ! ISBN No:. ! HOPE-WILLIAMS J. Title: HOW TO BE A YOGA TEACHER BY HOME STUDY ! ! Other works by the same author: THE YAMAS, Simple and Serious* YOGA: (see www.yogabeautiful.com.au to purchase Books, CDs and DVDs) Yoga Teacher Training: Instructors Manual* ! CDS Healing Meditation with Jahne* The Steps to Healing*
DVDs The Five Tibetans* Restorative Yoga* Radiant Core Yoga* Yogarst Barre Method* Yin-Yoga* Yoga and The Egg* Yoga Ninja Yoga Tonengo*
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All items marked with an asterisk are still being published, and are available via the web site: www.yogabeautiful.com.au ! ! CRAFTS Rag Rugs for Fun and Prot Stencilling for Everyone ! POETRY Fighting My Mother to the Other Side New Day Blue Day ! DIVINATION The Revelation Tarot.* The Revelation Runes* Soul Revelation* COOKERY Rose Petal Jam and Windfalls !
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in a feeling of overall success and satisfaction. Our course develops skills for successful yoga teaching, designed to break down the barriers that frequently exists between business and personal life. Making your work (your passion) your life is what this course can offer you. ! ! The Australasian Yoga Institutes Home Study Yoga Course is unique in that it focuses on how you can perform in yoga and in life to produce extraordinary results. Through this course your yoga becomes a vehicle for self expression, fulllment and most importantly of all - joy! ! ! Anna, graduate. Everything about the course was fantastic. You supported me when I needed it, and gently pushed me when I needed pushing (and in the beginning there were many times).... I cant believe that my life has become so rewarding, My horizons have broadened immensely, and I have been consistently teaching from the almost the beginning of the course
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Home Study makes the learning highly memorable because it is such a personal experience. Self designed, self paced, and self motivated learning. !
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The Benefits
The program is designed to have participants complete the year with the ability to lead a class, recognize what works and what doesnt work, and to be aware of how when and where to correct. They will also understand Yoga and related modalities from the Western, Indian and Oriental points of view. ! ! The course asks that the participants see themselves as teachers from day one, and complete the course from a teachers, not a students point of view. ! Some of the benets of this style of learning are: Can be done in a time frame of 12 to 18 months depending on your program, and not on the school. The course is entirely self-paced, so ts well with family responsibilities. Our students create a meaningful way of life for themselves and for others. On graduation the students knows the importance of a vocabulary of asanas and how to apply and develop programs suited to individual teaching styles. Our Graduates have the ability to build, maintain and inspire students. They have a sound knowledge of the body and its systems plus a broad philosophical perspective. Again we emphasis that our learning system is adaptive not controlling. We t around your life. In the many years we have been teaching, we have adapted and morphed our system around an unimaginable collection of different needs, and we can adapt to you. !
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History
The Australasian Yoga Institute, teaching this course under the name YOGA FIRST, originally grew out of a yoga teaching program and was introduced in the winter of 1976, in Mt. Macedon, Victoria, by its Founder and current Director Jahne Hope Williams.! ! It began as a studio based program, but due to the miles between yoga students and the school, a Home Study based system was conceived to overcome the tyranny of distance. The Director of Studies embarked upon an annual one month international teaching/learning tour to enable the course to be continuously improved to match the best the world had to offer. This is a continuing process, in close association with its insurance company of choice, enabling its many students to easily acquire Professional Indemnity Insurance on graduation. It also enables the qualication to be nessed into an International qualication through overseas Yoga Associations. ! ! By the late eighties the course had been honed down and rened into a very powerful mix of data and experiential learning that has been successfully applied by its many graduates. We have recently expanded the program to a standard 18 months, although it can be done in 12months or less. This means that the time to pay expands beyond the time of the course. We are in fact nancing the course for our students in-house, and in this respect it is like a HEX program. We can organize a time-payment program to suit you. ! !
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make wonderful teachers on completion of their course. Time-wise, the course is built around you, you do not have to conform to the course. There are no time constraints and although we do say it is a 12 to 18 month course, you can get through the course faster, or you can string it out to match in with your family commitments. ! ! However, if you do take longer than 18 months to complete the course, and are Student Teaching, then you will be required to Register with us at Yoga Teacher Trainee Level 2 for which there is a fee of $85 which will increase by $20 for each year you delay graduation. This is to encourage you maybe even remind you, to complete the course. Some students are happy to remain that, but we want you all to get out there and teach. That is what you signed up for. The world needs you! !
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The Schedule
The YOGA FIRST Home Study Professional Yoga Teachers Training Course starts when you are ready. You can start TODAY! ! ! It is designed as a twelve month course, although you can speed it up, or slow it down depending on your personal needs. It is the perfect way to learn for those who like to travel ahead of the pack, or people with high family needs. Typically the hours required are as follows... Two assignments will be sent to you per month snail mail. Each assignment will take at least two hours each to complete, depending on your involvement. There are 24 modules in the course. You will also be required to complete an elective, a rst aid certicate, and a community service component. Payment can be made over 12 or 18 months by arrangement with the Registrar. You are required to take 160 hours of actual physical yoga with your yoga teacher, within the time frame of your course, and 350+ hours overall counting mentoring, techniques, anatomy and all other aspects of the course (Unless private assessment arrangements are made with the Director of Studies. There is a charge for these assessments based on time and travel distance, and they are not mandatory). If you are unable to travel to a yoga class, you can subscribe to our Teacher Training Videos via our web site (www.yogabeautiful.com.au). Once you become a member, every time you log on, you are awarded a point towards your
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contact hour requirements. We suggest that all our students take advantage of Jahnes teaching in this way. With this facility now available, there is no reason why anyone at all should not be able to do yoga teacher training. With the advantages of the web it gets easier and easier. ! ! This Contact Hour requirement can also be assisted by spending blocks of time with the Director of Studies for her personal assessment, in the beginning of the course and then again at the end before or at the time of the exam either in Woodend, or in the capital city closest to you if Jahne is available . Prior booking required for these one-on-one assessments, but they are not mandatory. Whether you do them or not us up to you. !
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Course Details
To Graduate You will need the following.... ! ! !! ! ! ! ! ! ! Techniques !! ! ! ! Teaching methodology!! ! Anatomy and physiology! ! Philosophy/Ethics/Lifestyle!! Practicum ! ! ! ! ! Electives ! ! ! ! ! Contact hours minimum ! ! ! Teaching Experience (500 hour level only) ! ! ! ! ! 100 hours! Teaching Experience is in addition to all the hours outlined above.! ! (Those students interested in YOGA THERAPY - RYThA 500 - need to have achieved RYTA200, RYTA500 plus mentoring and case studies).! ! PLEASE NOTE: Across the total subjects a minimum of 160 Contact hours must be spent with your teacher (or via our Teacher Training videos).! ! DEFINITIONS of DISTANCE EDUCATION AS TAUGHT AT YOGA FIRST (The Australasian Yoga Institute) PLEASE NOTE: the RYTA200 is equivalent to the Yoga Australia Level 1 standard, and to the Yoga Alliance RYT200 standard (USA).!
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200 hour level ! 100 hours! ! ! 20 hours ! 60 hours ! ! 50 hours! ! ! 10 hours! ! ! 30 hours! ! ! 160 hours! ! !
500 hour level ! 150 hours! 30 hours! 85 hours! 50 hours! 40 hours! 195 hours! 350 hours!
! RYTA200: By STUDIO BASED LEARNING = REGULAR CLASSES WITH DIRECTOR OF STUDIES All classes are undertaken at the Woodend Studio with the Director of Studies or nominated tutors. In addition, 24 modules per year and all other requirements are to be completed by the student off campus. ! ! RYTA200: By DISTANCE EDUCATION: The entire course is undertaken off campus by DISTANCE EDUCATION. All studies done via post or email, asana assessments, workshops, personal consultations with the Director when required, are all extra to this course and are billed separately. They are not mandatory. ! ! 160 CONTACT (ASANA) HOURS REQUIRED No matter which way you decide to do the course. These can be achieved with your yoga teacher, with the Director, or via the Videos. If you are doing the contact hours externally (with your own teacher wherever you are) then our Yoga teacher will be asked provide term reports on your progress in all areas undertaken. ! ! (If none of the above with regards to Contact Hours is not possible arrangements can be made with the Director of Studies to do one-to-one teaching, mentoring and assessments etc. There will be a cost for this personal service, but it does mean that students in the most remote areas can still pass). ! ! YOU CAN START TODAY. To enroll, return the registration form at the back of this booklet, and an AGREEMENT ETC IN THE LATER PAGES HEREWITH. !
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Acknowledgements
This is a small gift that reects my great gratitude. I know I have grown and am taking many progressive steps upon my path in this life. True belief in ones self expands the possibilities in life, to enable any reality we wish to make manifest AL, Sunbury, Vic. ! ! I just wanted to thank you for your wisdom, guidance and support and most of all for being my mentor... AP, Tasmania ! ! Thank you for your encouragement love and support this year... J&R, USA ! ! Once again, thank you for your time, patience and consideration through the distance training with you. Thank you also for connecting in with me when you were in Adelaide and creating the time and space for us to meetMy commitment, passion and awareness of where I am and where I wish to journey through yoga, has seeded itself NDC Adelaide. ! ! Thank you. You are the best yoga teacher in the world. Yoga is so fun and ever sins I started I have been very stretchy and it also helps my riding and karady a lotte.. TK, Pastoria, (aged 10)
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! 2. VIA DISTANCE EDUCATION and personal mentoring with Director of Studies, c to j below. (If you are unable to meet these criteria, you can discuss your situation with our Director of Studies to arrange a time frame, 0ne-to- 0ne assessments and study map to suit your requirements). c. Anatomy and physiology, d.Yogic Physiology (Nadis/Koshas), e. Philosophy, f. Ethics and Lifestyle, g. Practicum, h.Electives + i. FIRST ! ! ! AID CERTIFICATE level 2 + j. Community Volunteer.! ! 3. I must attend at least three yoga classes per week with my own teacher (or give evidence of obtaining a certain standard in my yoga practice as agreed with the Director of Studies), and take part in the life of the school by joining in other classes and available workshops to increase my skills levels in all areas. These hours must all be written up and signed off in my PASSPORT provided on enrollment. ! ! 4. I must complete the required written work and reading materials within the course time frame or as agree with The Director of Studies - these times must be diarised and signed. ! ! 5. I must intern and be mentored to obtain skills required to lead a class. ! ! 6. I must master the teaching of yoga to the level of Registry Standards indicated above. ! ! 7. I must accrue a minimum of 398 teacher training hours as above, and pass the necessary end-of- year assessment and exam, (including diarised study times etc) before I am eligible to apply for certication.! ! 8. I must register with The Australasian Yoga Institute for registration to 200hr standard and the use of the letters RYTA200 after my name, and to enable me to obtain Professional Liability Insurance. The rst years Registration Fee is included in course fees (except if you are Student Teaching and you take longer than 18
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months to complete). ! ! 9. I must pass the end of course exam to at least 75% pass mark. (More than one attempt to achieve this pass level is available to every student) ! ! 10. For Distance Ed. Students: I must obtain signed reports on my progress and contact hours from my own (trained, registered and insured) yoga teacher, take part in regular mentoring, attend workshops provided, provide regular self assessments on my yoga progress as requested, and thoroughly diarise my yoga teacher training journey. ! ! Regular reports, plus a proper statutory declaration or equivalent (at the end of the 12 months) from your yoga teacher is required to conrm the hours completed and the standard achieved. Self Assessments and mentoring also plays a large part in distance education. ! ! I HAVE ALSO TO ACQUIRE SKILLS IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS: ! Understanding techniques and knowledge of basic instruction Clarity of instructions. Demonstration skills Observation of class and appropriate corrections Pacing & Control of class Manner of interaction with students Ability to maintain physical, emotional and psychological safety for students and Occupational Health and Safety issues. ! ! I have understood all of the above. I reiterate and qualify my desire to become a teacher of yoga. ! ! This is my rst step in a lifelong learning curve. ! ! STUDENTS Signature.................................................................................... ! !
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Date...................................................... ! ! Approved......................................................................................................... ! Rev.Jahne Hope-Williams (Founder and Director of Studies) ! ! NB: The cost of the course does not cover books (apart from the initial necessary texts sent with your rst packet), or other materials, work-shopping etc. Monthly student fees (Time payment) are due in the rst week of each month whether or not full attendance is achieved in studio classes Attendance is the students responsibility.! ! Upon successful completion of the course I will automatically receive my registration, and be able to use the letters RYTA 200 after my name. !
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Definitions
Techniques: (with your teacher and via DVD/Videos). Includes asanas, pranayama, chanting, meditation. Hours in this category include both techniques, training and practice. ! ! Teaching Methodology: (with your teacher and via DVD/Videos). Principles of demonstration, observation, assisting/correcting, instruction, teaching style, qualities of a teacher and the students process of learning.! ! Anatomy and Physiology: Includes both physical anatomy and physiology (body systems/organs etc) and astral energy, subtle anatomy, and YOGIC PHYSIOLOGY (chakras, nadis etc).! ! Philosophy/Ethics/Lifestyle: Study of Yoga scriptures (Sutras/yamas, purushartas, doshas, kriyas, mudras, bhandas etc. Bhagavad Gita/Hatha Yoga Pradipika etc) ethics for Yoga Teachers, living the life of a yogi etc. ! ! Practicum: Includes student teaching as well as observing and assisting in classes taught by others. Hours are a combination of supervised and unsupervised. Includes on-going mentoring and supervision under a senior teacher.! ! Electives: Electives are drawn from the above categories. A 30 hour project which enlarges on an area of interest. This must reect 30 hours of study and practice and contain a goal and outcomes, bibliography, times, dates places - any
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and all supporting documentation, which reects the time you have spend on this project. ! ! Contact/training hours: The teacher/trainer is physically in the presence of the student whilst lecturing on a topic. The non-contact or independent study hours can include: assigned reading or other homework, non supervised study groups, observing yoga classes etc. If the student is living remote from a teacher, the contact hours can be achieved via the teacher training videos. ! ! NB: In addition each students needs the following to qualify.... St.John First Aid Certicate to Level 1 Standard PLUS.Community Volunteer Teaching - 8 hours: This non-paid teaching practice. Not to be done as a relief teacher in your own teachers studio. Suggestions, Street Yoga, Aged Care Facilities, Classes for the disadvantaged. All aimed at people who cannot pay and would not be able to do yoga without this free service which you will provide over a minimum of 8 hours. ! ! !
STARTING DATE/COST!
YOU CAN START ANY TIME YOU LIKE. There are no specic term starting dates. We do encourage you to take the course on as a one year project, however, should your life take a sudden turn in another direction you can spread the course out over more than a year, or conversely do it in far less time. We are here for you. ! ! INVESTMENT: ! 1. RYTA200: STUDIO BASED LEARNING:! CASH PRICE $2,600! OR TIME PAYMENT $450 deposit plus 12 payments of $200 = $2,850 ! This price does not include subscription to the Teacher Training video facility ($275).! !
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2. RYTA200: OFF-CAMPUS DISTANCE EDUCATION:! CASH PRICE:$1,985 (or $2,260 with Video Teacher Training subscription) ! OR TIME PAYMENT $450 deposit plus 12 payments of $150 = $2,250 (+$275 videos).! ! 3. RYTA 500 and RYThA500: OFF CAMPUS DISTANCE EDUCATION! Cash price $6,500 or TIME PAYMENT $1,100 deposit plus $300 per month over 18 months to cover usual RYTA 200, AND RYTA500 class plus weekly sessions with The Dir. of Studies plus mentoring.! ! ** All time payment arrangements can be extended over an 18 month period. ! ! To enroll, return the registration form at the back of this booklet with your cheque or credit card information, to YOGA FIRST, PO Box 14, Mt.Macedon. Vic. 3441.
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! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! The Australasian Yoga Institute, PO Box 14, Mt.Macedon. Vic. 3441. ! ! Web: www.yogabeautiful.com.au ! Blog: www.myyogabeautiful.blogspot.com.au, www.mygfday.blogspot.com.au ! Email: yogarst@netcon.net.au
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