Forrest Yoga Continuing Education for Teachers

Forrest Yoga Continuing Education for Teachers course, taught by Ana Forrest, focuses on intense personal and professional growth.

Workshop Details

September 12-16, 2009

Saturday- Wednesday
6:00am - 6:45am / Meditation & Chanting
7:00am - 9:00am / Forrest Yoga Intensives
12:00pm - 4:00pm / Training & Instruction

This 5-day course will promote powerful insights that provide deeper integration with one's true self. It is designed for instructors aspiring to improve their teaching and personal practice. It is for those who are ready to move deeper within themselves and increase the mental acuity needed to explore the rich tapestry of Forrest Yoga.

This course will open you to deeper truths and perceptions and teach you how to apply these truths to your lives - both in and out of the yoga studio.

You will have the opportunity to:

• Study, tailor and improve your own yoga practice
• Learn to work with injuries
  
• Teach clearly and specifically
  
• Enhance communication skills
  
• Gain a greater understanding of the poses and their effect
  
• Explore optimal personal nutrition
  
• Students will be given sadhanas (spiritual exercises)
  
• Develop personal and professional ethics and boundaries in teaching
  
• Learn about Sequencing - the process of aligning poses in a way that you can go into progressively deeper poses smoothly, without a kink or injury. Included in this study is also the skillful warming down of the muscles so they are not sore or susceptible to injury.
• Gain insight into your own habitual behaviors and learn the tools and skills needed to change them
  
• Strengthening your authentic voice
  
• Teaching Critiques - You will teach and be provided with feedback regarding your teaching

"The teacher training process is the most effective tool that I have developed to mend the hoop of the people. Through this journey you will begin to discover your correct relationship with yourself, others and all forms of life." - Ana Forrest

Cost

Intensives and Training

$675 - 5 days of meditation, intensives and afternoon training & instruction sessions

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Intensives Only

$225 - 5 days of Intensives (Meditation & Chanting included), open to all members of our community, must attend all 5 days

$100 In Advance ($110 Door) - Weekend Intensives (September 12th & 13th)

$55 / drop-in cost for single day of Intensives (Meditation & Chanting included), available only to graduates of FY Teacher Training. Drop-in may only be purchased at the studio.

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For cancellations on or BEFORE August 15, 2009, you may request a refund for your total payment less the non-refundable deposit of $200. Refunds will be processed after the training session ends. For cancellations after August 01, 2009, no refunds will be given. If the training is ‘sold out’, no refunds will be made unless the spot can be filled from the waiting list..

WALKING THE PATH OF YOUR SPIRIT
The aim of the training is to make you a more skillful, passionate, and intelligent teacher, so you are better equipped to deal with whatever challenges your student may have. Teaching authentically is much more effective and compelling for both you and your students.

Trainees will be encouraged and empowered to develop both as individuals and as teachers. Through meditation, intense daily yoga practice, group instruction, trainees can begin to discover the voice of their own spirit, which leads to a truly authentic life path.

COURSE CONTENT
The Forrest Yoga Continuing Education for Teacher program is comprised of three components: Meditation, daily Forrest Yoga Intensives, and afternoon Training & Instruction.

Meditation and Chanting (6:00am - 6:45am)
The tools of meditation are chanting, sitting as well as questions and answers. These tools are used to help quiet the chatter of the mind in order to examine this question with clarity and focus.

Each morning prior to the daily intensive yoga practice Ana will use storytelling, chanting, sitting meditation to help trainees free their minds from their attachment to habitual patterns of thinking and the resulting habitual patterns of action. The freedom from habitual thinking will have an immediate effect on your yoga and in your life.

Forrest Yoga Intensives (7:00am - 9:00am)
As the foundation of this course the daily intensive yoga practice, taught by Ana, will create a heightened sense of physical, emotional and spiritual awareness while challenging every muscle and cell in your body. Through a carefully constructed and rigorous Forrest Yoga series of asanas, Ana will open you 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 enough 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 trainees to new levels within their yoga practice. Injuries are addressed so that each trainee experiences these classes as part of his or her own healing practice.

Training & Instruction (12:00 - 4:00pm)
Daily four-hour sessions of training and instruction comprise the afternoon portion of the course. Using skill-building exercises, trainees will work with the essential elements of teaching, such as: class sequencing, explore optimal personal nutrition, work with sadhanas (spiritual exercises), learn about personal and professional ethics, effective pose sequencing, the use of safe and effective hands-on adjustments, and effective clear, concise and powerful communication, eliminating mind-dulling habitual phrases, and tone of voice as well as the continued development of a more charismatic presence and honesty in your class.

NOTE TO TRAINEES TO PREPARE
We suggest that all interested trainees get Ana's products and do them before attending the training. Her DVD's ("Strength & Spirit" and "The Pleasure of Strength") and the Forrest Yoga 5-Day Intensive (CD's & Book) 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 Ana's training stay.

WHAT WE EXPECT OF YOU
Willingness, health and strength to give 100% to this training. Have a daily practice. If you don't have one, begin one now. Be drug free, including recreational drugs, coffee, and tobacco.

EACH TRAINEE WILL NEED TO BRING

• Two (2) mats - One to practice on and one which can be rolled up. A beach towel, blanket or block can also serve the same purpose as the 2nd mat.
• Strap (at least 8')
• Block
• Netti pot
• Forrest Yoga Cat's Paw (for wrists)
• Any other props they may need to support any injuries or physical concerns
• Notebook and pen for note taking
• A list of poses that are problems for you to teach
• A list of problems your students have or that you need help with
• Water

About Ana Forrest

Ana Forrest is recognized worldwide as a pioneer in yoga and emotional healing. Born with crippled, her own life trauma and experiences, which include physical abuse, drug addiction, epilepsy, and bulimia, compelled her to create Forrest Yoga, the Forrest Yoga Institute (Santa Monica, CA) and the Forrest Yoga Educational Library.

Ana took her first yoga class on a dare at age 14 and became a certified yoga instructor at age 18. In her search to become a better healer and teacher, she studied Native American medicine and ceremony, Polarity Therapy, Homeopathy, Hands-On Healing, Martial Arts, Psychotherapy, and Regression Therapy.

Her philosophy and approach are unique and powerful, drawing on her vast life experiences. She is a living example of a spirit who has freed herself from the bondage of trauma, and chosen a warrior's path of compassion. Having studied a multitude of Yoga styles and healing modalities, Ana's focus is on guiding the student to use Forrest Yoga in a meaningful way for the sacred exploration of truth, wholeness, and health.

The way she teaches Asana, Breath, and the movement of energy allows for the epiphanies of the students' life experiences to emerge. These illuminations create a unique and powerful opportunity for the student to make practical life decisions based on their experiences.

Ana Forrest teaches yoga from an intuitive and highly developed understanding of the human body and psyche. She openly shares her wisdom in the yoga room. Every breath and yoga asana combine to create a healing dance betweens student and teacher. Ana challenges the student to access their whole being. She teaches the student to use Forrest Yoga as a path to find and clear the emotional and mental blocks that dictate and limit their lives. With Ana's meticulous guidance, students cultivate attentiveness and deep care to their own practice and life process, so each class becomes an exhilarating journey.

She is a well-known contributing expert to Yoga Journal and other national wellness publications. She has journeyed to India, Nepal, Costa Rica, Canada, Japan, Mexico, and throughout Europe and the United States and currently teaches internationally at yoga conferences, workshops, and teacher trainings. Ana is on the board of Advisors for the Foundation for Athletic Research & Education (F.A.R.E. play) and is an instructor for continuing education at the University of Bridgeport, College of Chiropractic.

Forrest Yoga Intensives, Teacher Trainings, and Workshops are for yoga students who are committed to personal spiritual growth.

Call Generations Yoga Center to Register 847-919-0533