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YOGA Ignites Our Personal Healing + Transformation
Hazel, one of our trainees, said this when asked about studying with Sarahjoy for her training experience: "Sarahjoy is so wonderful. So present. And so smart." Beyond that, she also appreciated how Sarahjoy acknowledges where each student is arriving from in the training journey and how to kindly coach them as they learn their teaching skills. |
A Teacher's Presence Matters So Much
Sarahjoy radiates a radical acceptance for all of her students on the journey of yoga, no matter where they are and what they have been through. Being in her presence gives an osmotic possibility of all of us being able to radiate more radical acceptance and appreciation for ourselves and our fellow humans. |
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YOGA Teaches Us To Face Trauma With Courage + Compassion
Yoga helps us to face trauma with courage and compassion All of our online trainings are trauma-informed. We anticipate that the training journey, as with the yoga journey, may give students potent access to that which is unresolved in themselves. Yoga and training also potently support students to re-connect with and realize that their inner nature, their deepest essence, has not been damaged by the traumas they have lived through. Faraji talks about this here and shares with us how he learned to face his own traumas with courage and compassion rather than trepidation and worry. |
Yoga Heals Trauma + Helps Us Find Our Voice
Yoga helps us to overcome trauma and to connect with our VOICE and our expression in many ways. Often when we have experienced trauma, it can also impact our voice. We may feel hesitant about speaking up or we may lose our words in important conversations. We may get choked up with emotion more often or find ourselves going numb. As Shelley mentions, in Sarahjoy's teacher training not only do we practice yoga asanas, but we also chant in Sanskrit together. The practice of chanting is just another way we can heal trauma and learn to embody our yoga more fully. If you're yearning to delve deeper into your relationship with VOICE in the context of yoga, you'll surely have the opportunity to do so in our online 200hr Yoga Teacher Training! |
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YOGA Fosters Communication + Develops Community
Communication in a learning environment is essential to integrating what we're sensing and feeling with our sense of ourselves in community. In yoga, we practice generating compassionate communication within our own mind and body systems, and in Yoga Teach Training we practice bringing that yoga off the mat to foster community dedicated to compassion and growth. Our online yoga teacher training provides not only online course material for trainees but also four live modules to deepen the skills of the yoga teachers-to-be. As Faraji alludes to, our Yoga Teacher Training understands the sacredness of the process of fostering communication, and we'd love to have you along for the ride! |
Yoga helps us to discover our INHERENT WORTH
Our inherent worth is deeper than anxiety and depression. We learn through mindfulness practices that we don't have to do, plan, or over-strive for anything in order to feel our internal vibrancy and viability. In a culture that so often promotes the physical and mental attitude of over-striving, yoga and mindfulness offers us the gift of knowing that who we truly are is deeper than our worst moments, our best moments, or anything we could achieve. What better way to discover this deeper sense of Self than with a yoga community, in which each person is dedicated to doing the same! |
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Yoga Is A Teacher-Student Relationship
Finding the right teacher can feel like a homecoming, and as Shelley says, "It has been a blessing" to have the opportunity to come home to the Sangha that Sarahjoy created and participate in the trainings she facilitates. If you want to deepen your practice or become a certified yoga teacher, join us for our online 200hr Yoga Teacher Training. You may be with a group of students from around the world! |
Yoga Opens Doors To Connection
Yoga is a lifelong journey of self-inquiry... which of course can lead us to experience moments of vulnerability. Hazel, a graduate of the 200hr Yoga Teacher Training, reflects on how even online she was able to get to know her cohort deeply and share in the heart-opening realizations about their yogic paths. Yoga Teacher Training is transformative in so many ways. If you're ready for new doors to open in your life, join us for the next 200hr Yoga Teacher Training. |
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Yoga Brings Us Home To Our Body and Community
HOME can be felt in a physical place, a routine, or a group of people. In Yoga, we have the opportunity to build upon each one of those indicators of home to consciously welcome an inner sense of safety, and ultimately to become more familiar with living in love than fear. In Yoga Teacher Training, many of our students have felt the joy of learning about yoga in COMMUNITY. We invite you to join us for the Fall 200hr Yoga Teacher Trainings cohort to broaden your community! |
Yoga Teachers Deeply Impact Their Students
Have you ever felt a sense of APPRECIATIVE JOY after connecting with someone who remembers a special memory of you together, or a key part of who you are? On the path of yoga, we learn that one of the ways of nurturing ourselves and feeling the bramaviharas, the four divine abodes of the heart, is in moments of connectivity with others, or being in Sangha. In this video, Faraji addresses the powerful experience of feeling his authentic self be recognized by Sarahjoy. If you want to understand how to cultivate more experiences of the divine abodes of the heart (loving- kindness, compassion, appreciative joy, and equanimity) for yourself and for others, join us in the fall for the next online 200hr Yoga Teacher Training! Sarahjoy's teaching spans the full yoga, from jnana to bhakti, with intelligence, cohesion, and love. She seamlessly brings everything - and everyone - together. |
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The Training Is A Very Healing Space
Sarahjoy holds the space for healing in a really profound way. Christina shares here how comfortable she has felt to really share whatever is arising for her along the journey of her yoga practice as well as in becoming a yoga therapist. Christina also discovered, through the training, the ways in which she does not yet love herself more completely. The healing that a healer goes through becomes the vessel from which she or he is able to offer healing to others. Our 300hr Advanced Yoga Training is designed to go deeply into Yoga Psychology in preparation for our 800hr IAYT Yoga Therapy Training. It also helps mental health providers and other allied health professionals integrate yoga psychology, interpersonal neurobiology and mindfulness into their work with their clients or patients. The 300hr training is accredited with both the Yoga Alliance and the International Association of Yoga Therapists. You will be qualified to be certified at the 500hr level with the Yoga Alliance and you will have completed the first 300 hours of our 800hr IAYT Yoga Therapy Training, too! |
Generous and Deeply Studied
For a yoga teacher to create a safe environment for their students to experience yoga, maintaining their personal practice is essential. In this video, Alice notes how through Sarahjoy's presence she can feel the depth of her studies in yoga and her personal practice. If you're looking to be inspired by a teacher who fully embodies the practices of yoga and selflessly passes down knowledge from yogic traditions, join Sarahjoy's next 300hr Yoga Teacher Training! The 300hr Advanced Yoga Training is designed to go deeply into Yoga Psychology in preparation for our 800hr IAYT Yoga Therapy Training. It also helps mental health providers and other allied health professionals integrate yoga psychology, interpersonal neurobiology and mindfulness into their work with their clients or patients. The 300hr training is accredited with both the Yoga Alliance and the International Association of Yoga Therapists. You will be qualified to be certified at the 500hr level with the Yoga Alliance and you will have completed the first 300 hours of our 800hr IAYT Yoga Therapy Training, too! |
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Connection and Community
During the pandemic, we had to make personal and collective adjustments to our lifestyle. For a lot of people, loneliness and a sense of separation became a normal feeling. Yoga is designed to address any suffering that we may experience. Our graduate of the 300hr program, Breanna, has experienced her yoga practice open her up to connecting with not only her yoga peers and students but with EVERYONE. If you are interested in reducing aspects of suffering and inviting more connectivity into the world, join us for online Yoga Teacher Training. The 300hr training is accredited with both the Yoga Alliance and the International Association of Yoga Therapists. You will be qualified to be certified at the 500hr level with the Yoga Alliance and you will have completed the first 300 hours of our 800hr IAYT Yoga Therapy Training, too! |
A Framework for Healing
As Alice says, Yoga provides a framework for addressing any traumas we've experienced. Each time we step on the mat, we can invite our thinking mind (which is often over-active) to ease into a state of neutral, kind observation of our current experience. And better yet, we might learn that observing our experience in this way can more easily make was for RESOLUTION! In Sarahjoy's Yoga Teacher Trainings, she incorporates not only teachings about yoga asana, but also meditation, pranayama, and yogic philosophy to engage students in the process of self-study (svadhyaya). The 300hr training is accredited with both the Yoga Alliance and the International Association of Yoga Therapists. You will be qualified to be certified at the 500hr level with the Yoga Alliance and you will have completed the first 300 hours of our 800hr IAYT Yoga Therapy Training, too! Join us in the Fall of 2022 to connect with new possibilities for trauma resolution! |
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Studying with Sarahjoy is Powerful
Sarahjoy's commitment to the whole of yoga comes through in every training program she leads. It's intentional, precise, and, often, poetic. Cathy, who is currently in her 800hr IAYT training with Sarahjoy and is a graduate of the 200hr and 300hr trainings, talked about the powerful impact this has had on her life, personally and professionally. Yoga is susceptible to being co-opted, watered-down, and Westernized. With Sarahjoy you'll be getting the traditional teachings with a contemporary view that includes understanding the impacts of trauma, the resource of neurobiology, and the benefit of studying with a teacher whose been in both public yoga studios and institutions such as Oregon's prisons, drug and alcohol rehab, and schools for neurodiverse children. Our 300hr Advanced Yoga Teacher Training prepares our graduates to be on course to becoming Yoga Therapists with the IAYT. It is the first 300hrs of our 800hr IAYT Training. The course will also certify you at the 500hr RYT level with the Yoga Alliance. Join us now. It will be a life-changing, life-nourishing experience! |
Feeling SAFE Supports Learning
Feeling SAFE is essential to learning. Safety is also key to building strong communities, that can embrace fluctuations with an open heart and create positive change. In our online Yoga Teacher Trainings, we learn how to build and be in a safe community through our sharing yoga and periods of reflection. Breanna notes her surprise at the sense of safety her cohort built online. While it may seem unlikely, in fact, the depth we can co-create with each other is possible, even online! If you're yearning to be a part of creating safe spaces for transformative yoga, join us for the next session of Yoga Teacher Training! Our 200hr and 300hr programs are registered with the Yoga Alliance. Our 300hr program is also the first 300 hour of our 800hr IAYT Yoga Theraphy Training program. This means that when you complete the 300hr training, you are half way through your 800hr training modules! |
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Feeling Cared For by Sarahjoy
Feeling Cared For is one of the most essential experiences in our human life. Knowing that another person is considering who we are and how we want to grow inspires us to feel safe and open in our learning process. With a caring teacher, we can delve deeper into our yoga and our healing. Our 300hr Advanced Yoga Training is registered with the Yoga Alliance and also with the International Association of Yoga Therapists. It qualifies you for your 500hr certification with the Yoga Alliance and it is the first 300 hours of our 800h IAYT Yoga Therapy Certification. Is this next season the right timing for you to deepen your practice alongside other yoga teachers-in-training? Join us this fall! |
Virtues of Online Training
Right timing is everything! Our Yoga Teacher Trainings begin with the 200hr Yoga Alliance training and then progress into the 300hr Yoga Alliance training, which is also the first 300 hours of our 800hr IAYT Yoga Therapy training. Our cohorts may include new teachers as well as teachers returning to yoga teaching after some time away or looking to re-ignite a fire for their yoga journey. In this video, Alice explains that coming back to do her second training at the time of the pandemic allowed her to feel the support of a community during a time where isolation and separateness were easy feelings to slip into. Is this next season the right timing for you to deepen your practice alongside other yoga teachers-in-training, join us this fall! The 300hr training is accredited with both the Yoga Alliance and the International Association of Yoga Therapists. You will be qualified to be certified at the 500hr level with the Yoga Alliance and you will have completed the first 300 hours of our 800hr IAYT Yoga Therapy Training, too! |
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Integrating Activism + Spirituality
When students study with Sarahjoy, there is a common, shared impulse that arises: The desire to give back. The longing to serve the greater good. A social action perspective begins to bubble up from within. Sarahjoy has been on the front lines of yoga and social action since 1998 when she taught her first class in Oregon's prisons. So when these impulses arise in a student during training, Sarahjoy is prepared to support them fully. When our personal life, our professional life, and our service life are all in alignment, we feel both energized and at peace. If you're longing for more integration and depth in your teaching or in your life, join us for the 300hr Advanced Yoga Teacher Training. The 300hr training is accredited with both the Yoga Alliance and the International Association of Yoga Therapists. You will be qualified to be certified at the 500hr level with the Yoga Alliance and you will have completed the first 300 hours of our 800hr IAYT Yoga Therapy Training, too! |
Yoga Wherever Your Are
Many trainees were initially apprehensive about doing their training online. Alison shares here how her initial apprehension shifted when she realized how well Sarahjoy held the container for the training. One of the delights for her in training online is the ability to do it from wherever you are. Some of our trainees have attended the synchronous learning modules from their RV, their back yard, their campsite, their home, or their studio! For the asychronous learning portions, students also have the freedom to do it whenever they want to. The asynchronous content supports the live, synchronous content by both preparing trainees for the modules and reinforcing what is learned within a module. If you're looking to deepen your practice and understanding of yoga, or to move your certification to the next level, or get on track to becoming a certified yoga therapist, consider joining us for our 300hr Advanced Yoga Teacher Training. The 300hr training is accredited with both the Yoga Alliance and the International Association of Yoga Therapists. You will be qualified to be certified at the 500hr level with the Yoga Alliance and you will have completed the first 300 hours of our 800hr IAYT Yoga Therapy Training, too! |
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Leadership Matters
Online training became necessary during the pandemic. Pivoting from entirely in-person, studio-based trainings to an online community platform was a kind of yoga of its own! Cathy shared how deep it was able to go for her, something that surprised (and impressed) her. Cathy attended her 200hr training at the DAYA Foundation with Sarahjoy before the pandemic. She then joined the 300hr Advanced Yoga Teacher Training in its first online iteration in 2020. Cathy is now a student in the 800hr IAYT Training becoming certified as a Yoga Therapist. One of the things she noted in this short discussion was how impressive the format was able to be online with Sarahjoy's leadership. That leadership has developed over a 22 year span of leading teacher trainings. Even when the format changed, the yoga remained in its essence. The 300hr training is accredited with both the Yoga Alliance and the International Association of Yoga Therapists. You will be qualified to be certified at the 500hr level with the Yoga Alliance and you will have completed the first 300 hours of our 800hr IAYT Yoga Therapy Training, too! |
Integrity + Authenticity
Many yoga teachers join us for the 300hr training with a fear of "imposter syndrome". Imposter syndrome is so wide spread that Sarahjoy talks about it as "integrity + authenticity syndrome". Yoga teachers face an enormous amount of marketing and false impressions in the media every time they look at any social media platform. We are prone to internalizing what we see and then thinking that we need be "that way" or "this way". We need to be all healed, or perfect, or in a constant state of equanimity and grace. When our susceptibility goes up, so does our anxiety. And then we are, sadly, reinforcing our sense of being a yoga teacher imposter: we are not feeling grace and ease and joy. We are feeling stressed and uncertain about ourselves. Sarahjoy talks about this as the split between deeply wanting to be in integrity - in alignment with who we each are uniquely while honoring the tradition of yoga, and wanting to be authentic - to then express that uniqueness in our classrooms as we aim to also bring in the full spectrum of yoga's teachings. Therefore, the bind isn't about imposter syndrome but rather about throwing off the weight of conditioning and bringing the courage to be one's self into the classroom. We are all in development. We do not need to already be the teacher we are going to become. We have to live into it. Studying with Sarahjoy is a full-spectrum experience of learning and healing. Join us for the next 300hr Advanced Yoga Teacher Training. The 300hr training is accredited with both the Yoga Alliance and the International Association of Yoga Therapists. You will be qualified to be certified at the 500hr level with the Yoga Alliance and you will have completed the first 300 hours of our 800hr IAYT Yoga Therapy Training, too! |
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Healing Trauma with Yoga
Many of our trainees would not have been able to do these trainings if they were not in an online format. Christina is a mom of 5, a wife, and native Creole whose family lives rurally with their livelihood from native fishing practices. Her dream has been to do yoga teacher training to bring yoga back to her tribe, her community, especially for healing around the multiple traumas of racism, marginalization, poverty, and displacement. Christina did her 200hr Yoga Teacher Training with Sarahjoy online during the pandemic. She then began her 300hr Advanced Yoga Teacher Training and will graduate in December with her 500hr Certificate from the Yoga Alliance. Our 300hr Advanced Yoga Training is also the first 300hrs of our IAYT Yoga Therapy Training. Christina will be eligible for that in June of 2023!! The 300hr training is accredited with both the Yoga Alliance and the International Association of Yoga Therapists. You will be qualified to be certified at the 500hr level with the Yoga Alliance and you will have completed the first 300 hours of our 800hr IAYT Yoga Therapy Training, too! If you'd like to go deeper with your practice and advance your certification or move toward becoming a Yoga Therapist, check out our trainng prorams today! |
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Humble + Integrated
Alison shared this with us: "Sarahjoy is really humble and able to hold the space while also integrating the understanding of yoga philosophy, trauma stewardship, the chakras, everything!" When we are in a training program, the leadership and depth of the trainer will powerfully influence our journey. Alison noted here that Sarahjoy is really humble and is able to hold space in ways that she has not seen in other teachers. This is a skill that develops over time and with experience. Sarahjoy has been leading yoga teacher trainings since 2001. There is a depth that comes from this kind of experience that has no substitute. If you want to take a training that integrates Eastern and Western views, seamlessly and with respect for both the mystical and the scientific, please join us for Sarahjoy's next 300hr Advanced Yoga Training. (This is also the first 300hrs of your IAYT Yoga Therapy Training.) |
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Understanding Our Bandwidth
Many yoga teachers come to the program wondering how to find balance in their personal and professional journeys. Fortunately, Yoga is designed to affect lives off-the-mat. When we are going through life changes, yoga helps us to understand the importance of making decisions with a clear mind, grounded in our deepest personal knowing. Sarahjoy teaches students to align with this innermost knowing by integrating into asana practice mindfulness techniques, yoga psychology and discussions on yoga philosophy. If you're yearning to discover your internal compass through your yoga practice and wish to help guide others to theirs, join Sarahjoy in the next cohort of 300hr Advanced Yoga Teacher Training! The 300hr training is accredited with both the Yoga Alliance and the International Association of Yoga Therapists. You will be qualified to be certified at the 500hr level with the Yoga Alliance and you will have completed the first 300 hours of our 800hr IAYT Yoga Therapy Training, too! |
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Amazing Guidance!
Having the opportunity to help teachers really focus on their inner development is an honor and a joy. We emphasize the inner development of each practitioner because yoga, as so many of us can attest to, is profoundly transformational, often in unexpected ways. Shifting from a student to a teacher is one phase of development. Shifting from a teacher to a yoga therapist is another level of development. This requires more than just excellent curriculum and knowledgeable teachers. It also requires leadership that role models the artistry and transmission of YOGA - the awakening to our inner abiding nature. Sarahjoy's students consistently report that this is one of the most powerful aspects of training with her. Essentially, the transmission of yoga, compassion, and encouragement that she exudes is a catalyst in their journey. It also becomes a resource within them from which they can draw when they are with their students. If you are considering deepening your practice or doing more advanced training, please join us for the 300hr Advanced Yoga Teacher Training program. This training prepares you for your 500hr Yoga Alliance Certification and is also the first 300 hours of our 800hr International Association of Yoga Therapists training. |
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Self-Love + Self-Worth
Through the many hurdles we may face in life, yoga helps us to see the importance of caring for ourself in order to face hurdles with strength and compassion. Christina, graduate of Sarahjoy's 300hr Yoga Teacher Training, notes how yoga has allowed her to "come back" to loving herself and feeling worthy. In Sarahjoy's teacher trainings, she aims to create a safe space by empowering her students to explore what safety looks and feels like for them, on and off their mat. By establishing safety in the cohort, your "yoga tribe", students commonly experience what feels like a "remembrance" of their deepest, most inherently lovable and worthy self. From here is where the love of the tribe can ripple out into the world through actions and teachings! If you're longing to remember your innermost self, and help others to do the same, join Sarahjoy in the next 300hr Advanced Yoga Teacher Training. The 300hr training is accredited with both the Yoga Alliance and the International Association of Yoga Therapists. You will be qualified to be certified at the 500hr level with the Yoga Alliance and you will have completed the first 300 hours of our 800hr IAYT Yoga Therapy Training, too! |
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So Wonderful!
Studying with Sarahjoy goes beyond the journey in yoga. Andrea tells us that Sarahjoy is the best teacher she has ever had - in life, not just in yoga. A unique combination of knowledge, presence, attention and humor make Sarahjoy accessible to students in her classes and trainings. She has definitely lived the yoga in her life, including through some significant life challenges. Her perseverance and healing shine through in her teaching and in how she leads yoga teachers into the deeper levels of study on the path of yoga therapy. If you're considering a deeper dive for yourself, or you want to be part of a learning community that enriches your life, please join us for the 300hr Advanced Yoga Teacher Training. This qualifies you for certification with the Yoga Alliance at the 500hr level and is also the first 300 hours of the 800hr International Association of Yoga Therapists Therapy Training! |
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Feeling Connected Even Online
One of Sarahjoy's goals is to make her Yoga classes and Yoga Teacher Trainings available to the widest variety of people. Some considerations here are people who are out of state, and it would be too costly or against their personal climate ethics to travel, people who have health concerns, and also people who already have a lot on their schedule and find it more convenient to Zoom to group sessions. The role that the connection of the cohort plays in the life-changing experience of Yoga Teacher Training is not to be underestimated. Andrea, graduate of Sarahjoy's 300hr Advanced Yoga teacher training says how grateful she was only able to take the opportunity to do the training because it was online, and notes how even in the virtual model, she was able to feel deeply connected to her cohort-- which was likely made more vibrant by the variety of places which people where coming from, and the abundance of gratitude emerging for such an opportunity! If you've been looking for an online yoga teacher training, or for one of the reasons above, looking for an online opportunity to train with Sarahjoy, now is your time! Join Sarahjoy in the upcoming 300hr Advanced Yoga Teacher Training. The 300hr training is accredited with both the Yoga Alliance and the International Association of Yoga Therapists. You will be qualified to be certified at the 500hr level with the Yoga Alliance and you will have completed the first 300 hours of our 800hr IAYT Yoga Therapy Training, too! |
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Room For Both Joy + Grief
Yoga is a deep resource in our lives capable of supporting us in ways that we may not even imagine when we first begin a practice. It goes beyond the physical realm, deeper than the vital body, and often more subtle than our mind, too. We are being opened up to the full spectrum of life including the poignant emotions of love and loss, of joy and grief. In our training programs, Sarahjoy knows that each student's personal healing journey is also integral to the whole. And not just that, but these individual healing journeys that occur from the training program are also the foundations from which a yoga professional is able to be truly present with their students. Our 300hr Advanced Yoga Training is for teachers who want to go deeper into teaching yoga, including yoga for special populations, as well as deeper into the psychology of yoga. This training is also the first 300 hours of our 800hr IAYT Yoga Therapy Training. We are preparing you to become a yoga therapist during your 300hr course. By the time you complete this course, you will have a strong foundation in yoga therapy and will also have had healing and integration of your own. The 300hr training is accredited with both the Yoga Alliance and the International Association of Yoga Therapists. You will be qualified to be certified at the 500hr level with the Yoga Alliance and you will have completed the first 300 hours of our 800hr IAYT Yoga Therapy Training, too! |
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More Ease + Connection
While in-person trainings surely have their benefits, during the pandemic many schools, teachers and students discovered the depth and potential even in the online space. Sarahjoy creates community wherever she goes. Whether it's an afternoon workshop or a year-long training. The intimacy, connection, and ease that she is able to co-elicit with the students in these trainings is deeply nourishing. Plus, students have had the ease of practicing in their own space while also being connected to their classmates! The 300hr training is accredited with both the Yoga Alliance and the International Association of Yoga Therapists. You will be qualified to be certified at the 500hr level with the Yoga Alliance and you will have completed the first 300 hours of our 800hr IAYT Yoga Therapy Training, too! |
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Amazing + A Privilege
In all of our yoga trainings, Sarahjoy integrates yoga philosophy in an authentic, contemporary and tradition-respecting way. She brings to life the stories and the teachings of yoga in such a way as trainees can integrate the teachings to being meaningfully applied to both their own life and to the lives of their students. Yoga has much more to offer than merely its physical medicine for well-being and vitality. It is also a guiding practice and a dedicated path to awakening. To truly understanding ourselves and the nature of life. The 300hr training is accredited with both the Yoga Alliance and the International Association of Yoga Therapists. You will be qualified to be certified at the 500hr level with the Yoga Alliance and you will have completed the first 300 hours of our 800hr IAYT Yoga Therapy Training, too! |
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Above + Beyond
Sarahjoy gives of herself so fully in the yoga teacher training programs. Not only does she give attention to the subtle details and nuances of yoga, and to the relationships between herself, the students, and the community, she goes Above + Beyond what is expected in yoga teacher trainings. Her depth of knowledge and deep trustworthiness make these trainings transformational - not only professionally, but also personally. Rumi said: "Be with those who support your beingness." Who we spend time with is important. Likewise, who we train with matters greatly. Our teachers should be role models, people that we want to emulate. And people who can see us and our potential for becoming who we are meant to be. Our 800hr IAYT Yoga Therapy Training begins with our 300hr Advanced Yoga Teacher Training course. The 300hr training is accredited by both the Yoga Alliance and the International Association of Yoga Therapists. If you're looking to deepen your study or advance your certification (and knowledge, skill, and presence), please join us in our training programs! |
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Deeper Understanding
Yoga is more than a physical practice. And yet, the physical practice can lead to profound changes in our lives by what it elicits within our body, with the musculoskeletal body and with our emotional body, mental body, and subtle body. One of the teachings about the subtle body in yoga includes the Chakras. Each of the chakras aligns with developmental imperatives and stages as researched and outlined by Eric Erickson, Robert Kegan, and Laurence Kohlberg. It's amazing how YOGA understood these internal journeys way before contemporary researchers codified their understanding. As Peggy said here, yoga helped her to open her heart - this is at the 4th chakra. What happens below the 4th chakra, at the 3rd, 2nd, and 1st, we may discover that we have had areas of guarding or protective mechanisms. While these were mechanisms were laid own in our neurological map in response to our developmental experiences in early life - and as they absolutely made sense at the time of their development, if we continue to live from our Protective Mechanisms, they become Preventative. They block us from being able to grow as we are meant to. This is where Yoga Therapy can be so powerful: the tools, the practices, and the inner perspective of yoga helps us to move from protecting and preventing ourselves toward living into our potential for consciousness, love and grace. Our 800hr IAYT Yoga Therapy Training builds upon our entry level training, the 200hr amrita yoga teacher training, and includes our 300hr Advanced Yoga Training as the first portion of the 800hr curriculum. When you train in our school, you can move seamlessly between these levels of training toward your 500hr Yoga Alliance Certification and your 800hr IAYT Yoga Therapy Certification. All of our programs are trauma-informed, brain-sensitive trainings. |
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Sarahjoy Wants Us To Succeed
Having taught yoga for 22 years, Sarahjoy has masterfully created yoga teacher trainings that honor the roots of yoga while also integrating Western ideology around therapy and mental health to encourage a yogic practice that is far-sighted and mindfully aware of all of the ways culture contributes to our present moment experience. As Kira points out, Sarahjoy's dedication to meeting the present moment (culturally, communally, and personally) with clear vision comes through when she's teaching yoga as deep care. In Kira's words, "Sarahjoy has a deep yearning for us as students to succeed." Studying with Sarahjoy as Yoga Therapists-in-training, students are continually invited to show up in this same way, addressing the whole, complete picture of their yoga journey to regenerate the gift of loving compassion in their own classroom and broader community. Our 800hr IAYT Yoga Therapy Training builds upon our entry level training, the 200hr amrita yoga teacher training, and includes our 300hr Advanced Yoga Training as the first portion of the 800hr curriculum. When you train in our school, you can move seamlessly between these levels of training toward your 500hr Yoga Alliance Certification and your 800hr IAYT Yoga Therapy Certification. All of our programs are trauma-informed, brain-sensitive trainings. |
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Self Love + Compassion
A yoga practice effects more than just the physical body. At a level even deeper than the physical body, yoga aims to non-judgementally illuminate and clear away unhelpful thought patterns. This helps us to see ourselves and the world with more clarity, and oftentimes, with this clarity, yoga students will have insights about how to be more loving and caring towards themselves. As Kira, student of Sarahjoy's 800hr Yoga Therapy Training, mentions, the flow of self-love doesn't stop within the self but extends outward to create compassionate, joyful connections with others. Our 800hr IAYT Yoga Therapy Training builds upon our entry level training, the 200hr amrita yoga teacher training, and includes our 300hr Advanced Yoga Training as the first portion of the 800hr curriculum. When you train in our school, you can move seamlessly between these levels of training toward your 500hr Yoga Alliance Certification and your 800hr IAYT Yoga Therapy Certification. All of our programs are trauma-informed, brain-sensitive trainings. |
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Joy + Connectivity
Many students of the 800hr Yoga Therapy Training come wanting to create a deeper harmony between their career and their yoga practice and spiritual path. When Sarahjoy teaches about the Chakra system and the developmental imperatives associated with each Chakra, at the very first Chakra, the root, we see the importance of having people we can trust. Having a strong tribe ensures the healthy development of our sense of self and for our Dharma to be carried out with an easeful and joyful expression. In this video, Kira, a student of Sarahjoy's 800hr Yoga Therapy Training, says that even online she felt that the depth and nuance of her training inspired joy in her cohort and built a sense of strength between them. As Sarahjoy teaches, having a stong, inspired community will help to maintain the "health of your Dharma"-- which is a beautiful way to come to understand the harmony in career you may have been seeking! Our 800hr IAYT Yoga Therapy Training builds upon our entry level training, the 200hr amrita yoga teacher training, and includes our 300hr Advanced Yoga Training as the first portion of the 800hr curriculum. When you train in our school, you can move seamlessly between these levels of training toward your 500hr Yoga Alliance Certification and your 800hr IAYT Yoga Therapy Certification. All of our programs are trauma-informed, brain-sensitive trainings. |
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