Rainbow Family Yoga
200 Hour Teacher Training
Specialization in Yoga for Mothers, Partners,
Infants, Children, and Families
October 22 – November 7
Tulum, Mexico
Why become a yoga specialist? In a competitive world, where there are hundreds and sometimes thousands of yoga teachers in every city, we want to offer you the best start. With so much competition we believe that to be a successful yoga teacher you need to have passion, knowledge, and a specialization.
The focus of the Rainbow Family Yoga teacher training is family and society. We believe that the peace and joy of yoga can penetrate deeper into our world by sharing it with families. After successful completion of the teacher training requirements, you will be certified to teach all of the following:
- Fertility Yoga
- Women’s Yoga (Women’s cycles and hormonal changes)
- Prenatal Yoga
- Postnatal Yoga
- Baby Yoga
- Yoga for Kids
- Yoga for Teens
- Family Yoga
- Partner Yoga
- And Community Yoga (you can read more about community yoga below)
We will also attempt to open your mind and your heart, and to empower you to become part of the constant evolution of yoga. We are the present of yoga, but you are the future!
200 Hour Training Schedule:
17-day Retreat (120 contact hours):
Parallel to the Rainbow Family Yoga Teacher Training there will be a family yoga retreat (please invite your family and friends to join us! More information). Parents, kids and babies will be able to enjoy a yoga vacation and classes with senior teachers, while trainees will have the opportunity to observe and assist them, experiencing the real spirit of Community Yoga. In this way, the teacher training will be practical and experiential and not merely theoretical.
The 200 hour Family Yoga Teacher Training is an intense experience. We will study and practice for about 8 hours a day but there will still be some free time for the beach and for chillaxing!
The daily schedule:
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06:30 | Sunrise Beach Meditation Walk & Pranayama |
08:00 | Breakfast |
9:00 | Specialty Yoga Class: Fertility, Pre/Postnatal, Baby, Women’s or Partner Yoga |
11:00 | Yoga Anatomy and Physiology, Yoga Psychology, Yoga Philosophy and Alternative Education Systems |
1:00 | Lunch |
02:00 | Beach and Chillaxing Time |
04:00 | Teaching Techniques |
05:00 | Family Yoga Class |
06:30 | Dinner |
08:00 | Something Fun: Bonfire, yoga drama (or movie) made by the kids, yoga circus and acrobatics performance, music, kirtan, talent show, dancing, movie… |
09:00 | Well Done! |
Individual study and teaching practice (80 hours):
The following assignments must be completed successfully in order to receive your certification:
1. In the two months prior to the course, take at least three yoga classes a week a with a yoga teacher of your choice – we encourage you to try a variety of yoga styles in that period
2. Prior to the course, read the required books and write a short review (1-2 pages for each book). *
3. Pass a (really fun!) written exam during the course.
4. Following the retreat you will need to accumulate 20 hours of teaching experience. You will be provided with feedback sheets for your students to fill out, and you will be required to send a video of one of your classes to the Rainbow Family senior teachers. After review of your students’ feedback and your class video, you will have a phone (Skype) meeting with one of the senior teachers where you can ask questions and receive feedback and further advice.
* You will receive a list upon registration.
Requirements:
The course is open for anyone who is passionate about life. It can be a wonderful way to start your yoga career if it’s your first yoga teacher training, or it can be a way to specialize if you are already a yoga teacher. Previous yoga experience is necessary.
All Trainees Receive:
1. Rainbow Family Yoga certificate
2. During the retreat:
• 16 nights shared accommodation in a beautiful ecological beach-front retreat
• 3 vegetarian meals a day (breakfast, lunch and dinner)
• Herbal teas and drinking water throughout the day (please bring your water bottle to save plastic)
3. A detailed teachers’ manual for each of the following:
• Fertility Yoga
• Women’s Yoga
• Prenatal Yoga
• Postnatal Yoga
• Baby Yoga
• Kids Yoga
• Family Yoga
• Partner Yoga
• Community Yoga
4. Registration on our websites, with your contact info and email
5. After the training: mentoring, answering questions, opportunities to assist in classes (if available in your area)
Yoga Alliance Information:
Graduates of our training will be able to apply to register as 200 Hr RYTs with the Yoga Alliance if they wish. Since we are not yet a YA registered school, grads can fill out this form to apply for their 200 hr RYT listing.
Please note that according to YA rules, if you are already a 200 Hr RYT, you can not use another 200 Hr training towards your 500 Hr listing. An Advanced training will count. Please contact the Yoga Alliance directly for clarification or more information.
Instructors:
Dates and Location:
Check in: October 22, 3 PM (first night's activities include dinner at 6:30 PM & Welcome Gathering at 8 PM.
Check out: November 7, 12 noon (There are no planned activities for the last morning.)
16 nights
Accommodation at Luv Tulum, a gorgeous beach-front retreat.
Carretera Tulum a Boca Paila
Zona Hotelera
info@luvtulum.com
México 011-52-984-141-7821 | USA 01-786-877-5789
Transportation:
Transportation expenses are not included in the retreat price.
You will need to fly to Cancun International Airport, Mexico. From there we can arrange a pickup for you (please email us your arrival details). Driving time from Cancun to Tulum is about two hours, and costs $60 round trip for adults ($30 one way) and $30 round trip for kids ($15 one way).
Investment and Registration:
$4400 USD if you register by July 10th, 2010
$4850 if you register before September 1st
$5850 if you register after October 1st
A 50% deposit is due upon registration to hold your place; the balance is due by September 21st, 2010
Space and course size are limited.
Click here for an online registration form or here to download a registration form as a Word document that you can type on and then email back to us. Once you've filled out the registration form, submit your deposit below.
The Rainbow Family Yoga 200hr Teacher Training is intensive and requires full participation. You do not need to be a yoga teacher to take the course, but you must have a regular yoga practice.
Cancellation Policy:
Your deposit is fully refundable if you cancel 30 days or more before the course start date. After that, it can be used as credit for a future course.
Submitting the Deposit:
Already sent in your registration form? To reserve your place, you can submit your deposit a few different ways:
1. Have a checking account at a US bank? Mail us a check. Just email us and we'll send you the details (mailing address, etc). If you live outside of the US but can get a bank draft in US dollars from your local bank, that works too.
2. Call us at (646) 797-3226 (USA) with a credit card number. In the office we take Visa, MasterCard and Discover. Please note that we are often traveling, but we make every effort to return calls promptly.
3. Use the PayPal button below.
Below is a short promotional video of the Quintana Roo area (including Tulum), made by Mexico's most well-known television station.
Community Yoga
by Gopala Amir Yaffe
Anyone who has take more then just a few yoga classes knows that yoga is more than just physical exercise, it's a way of seeing and experiencing. Yoga is a physical as well as mental exercise that makes you realize from within that you and the world are interconnected.
We come to this world through our families. We are nourished by them as we grow and learn. We then proceed to create our own families and support the social circles that sustained our development before. We receive and we give; we interact and we grow together. It's all yoga.
In a way, there are two kinds of yoga: Yoga Mat Yoga, which is your practice in class, and Living Yoga, which is the attitude, peace of mind, the balance and the excitement about life that stays with you.
In this course, we’ll learn a new kind of yoga that combines the two yogas into one. It’s a more social yoga, a yoga that we do together and that will give us tools to enrich and enliven every aspect of our family life.
In a world where communities are less and less a part of our society, and where people and new families find themselves isolated, it is more important than ever to focus on finding new ways of bringing people together.
We are all unique as individuals, but we cannot claim to be able to survive and thrive completely independently. A close look on our lives will reveal how interdependent we are and how a strong and healthy society can contribute to the growth of every individual.
Of course, society is made of individuals, and the healthier one individual is the healthier the whole society is. If one person is unhappy, it affects those around us. And if one of us is excited and joyful, it uplifts all of us. We affect each other constantly.
If we take yoga as a representation of our society, we will see that in the last fifty or sixty years, the majority of yoga was based on the individual. Practitioners have been wholly focused on themselves, whether physically, mentally or spiritually, practicing on their own yoga mats.
The new paradigm of yoga that we believe in is Community Yoga. Doing yoga together, whether it is with your baby, your child, your friend or your partner, has incredible benefits:
• It deepens our connection to others
• It builds trust and compassion
• It enables us to stretch further than usual
• And balance in ways we couldn’t by ourselves
• It teaches us to move with more awareness, realizing that our movements affect our partner
• It provides constant feedback to our actions by communicating with our partner as well as by experiencing how it feels when they stretch us
• It enhances communication skills using words, facial expressions, touch, breath and even thoughts
• It helps us to explore safe and loving touch
• It’s so much more FUN !!!
