A Blissful Life 12/3/24: Your Next Deep Dive

I am very excited to announce that Ocean Bliss Yoga will be offering a 200-hour Yoga Alliance-Certified Yoga Teacher Training beginning February 21st, 2025. If you ask any of the teachers at Ocean Bliss Yoga about the Yoga Teacher Trainings they attended when they were first getting certified, they will all tell you what a profound and transformative experience it was. Some people go into a Yoga Teacher Training to become yoga teachers, while others do it for the sole purpose of deepening their own yoga practice. Either way, the personal evolution that comes with a Yoga Teacher Training ripples far off the yoga mat and lasts a lifetime.

A Yoga Teacher Training is a hands-on, experiential and intellectual preparation that includes many parts to provide you with the skills and confidence you need to get out there and start teaching. To give you an idea, here is a brief overview of the different modules: First is a deep dive into what yoga truly is and how to bring that essence into your own yoga practice and life. This part includes understanding yoga history, yoga philosophy, and what it means to teach. Next, we discover the subtle body and energy. In this module, we get into pranayama (breathwork), chakras (energetic centers in and around the body), and energy flow. After that comes meditation and mindfulness. Here we learn and experience a variety of proven techniques to cultivate inner calm, as well as touching on the science behind these two important modalities. Fourth, we get into anatomy and body mechanics, where we master body alignment in the asanas (poses) for safe practicing and teaching. From there, we move on to teaching methodology, which includes class sequencing and confident teaching skills. You will also learn how to build classes around themes. Then, we focus on assisting and adjusting. Here you will learn and practice hands-on techniques to support your students. Subsequently, we continue on to yoga ethics and professionalism, exploring the ethical responsibilities of teaching. Finally, we conclude our training with the business of yoga and how to build a sustainable career with practical business strategies.

Another special piece of our Yoga Teacher Training is the community aspect. When a group of people embark on such a profound and intensive training experience together, beautiful connections form as a result. As you peel away layers and get to know deeper parts of yourself throughout the training, you also get to know the other magnificent souls in the group. Your training provides you with a built-in community that understands what you are going through and supports you on your path toward deepening your yoga practice and becoming a yoga teacher.

I am so excited to be leading this training, along with the help of some of the amazing yoga teachers at Ocean Bliss Yoga. Journey embarks on February 21st, 2025 and continues every other weekend for 10 intensive weekends. This format makes it manageable for most schedules and gives you the opportunity to integrate everything we learn into your yoga practice and life so that by the time you are done, the training isn’t just knowledge in your head, but also deeply ingrained in your body as wisdom.

Go to https://www.oceanblissyoga.net/workshops for more information, and call me at 917-318-1168 with any questions. Early bird specials available now through January 4th, 2025. Reserve today and save $500.