This mod­ule cov­er lec­ture and dis­cus­sion about the most impor­tant scrip­tures of Yoga. Trainees get an under­stand­ing of the impor­tance of phi­los­o­phy for their own prac­tice and for their future teach­ing. A deep insight to the fol­low­ing scrip­tures is giv­en: Yoga Sutras of Patan­jali, Hatha Yoga Pradipi­ka, the main Upan­ishads includ­ing the Mahab­hara­ta and the Bha­gavad Gita. Ethics for Yoga teach­ers cov­ers themes like under­stand­ing the stu­dent-teacher­re­la­tion­ship, which qual­i­ties does a Yoga teacher have, and eth­i­cal guide­lines for Yoga teach­ers, as well as how to deal with prob­lems with­in the class.

This mod­ule will deal with sequenc­ing prin­ci­ples, how to struc­ture class­es, hands-on and ver­bal adjust­ment, use of props, demon­strat­ing, assist­ing, and the use of authen­tic lan­guage and voice. Trainees will uncov­er dif­fer­ent teach­ing styles and tech­niques to guide stu­dents in a healthy and safe way. By “see­ing and under­stand­ing bod­ies” this mod­ule offers dif­fer­ent approach­es to dif­fer­ent spe­cial needs. Atten­tion is giv­en to “read” bod­ies, faces, breath move­ment and body “lan­guage” of students.

Led class­es will allow to expe­ri­ence phys­i­cal edge and growth as a prac­ti­tion­er. Trainees will per­son­al­ly expe­ri­ence tech­niques, ben­e­fits, effects, and vari­a­tions of all
major asanas.

Ana­lyt­i­cal Asana Train­ing will pro­vide a detailed under­stand­ing of all major asana cat­e­gories. Trainees will learn how to break-down, under­stand, and approach every pose.

Teach­ing practice/practicum: In groups trainees will teach each oth­er the pos­es pre­sent­ed, will adjust their fel­low-stu­dents and will give feed­back to each other.

Trainees will be enabled and encour­aged to estab­lish a pro­found per­son­al med­i­ta­tion prac­tice. They will learn to cre­ate a safe med­i­ta­tion class, giv­ing assists, cor­rect­ing mis­takes, answer aris­ing ques­tions. Yoga Nidra, bodyscan, Bud­dhist med­i­ta­tion, body and breath aware­ness will be uncov­ered, dis­cussed and practiced.

The pranaya­ma mod­ule cov­ers the intro­duc­tion to the con­cept of pranaya­ma and the most impor­tant terms used in pranaya­ma class­es: prana, types of pranaya­ma in the Hatha Yoga Pradipi­ka, tech­ni­cal terms used in hatha yoga for the breath, ben­e­fits of prop­er breath­ing. Pranaya­ma tech­niques will be pre­sent­ed and mutu­al­ly prac­ticed. The trainees will expe­ri­ence on an indi­vid­ual basis the effects of a cor­rect pranaya­ma prac­tice accord­ing to their own capac­i­ty and pos­si­bil­i­ties. They will learn to safe­ly intro­duce pranaya­ma tech­niques in their Yoga classes.

In this mod­ule trainees will prac­tice asanas for each trimester, will learn about do’s and don’ts, the use of props as well as adjust­ments. Sequences for preg­nant women as well as for the 4th trimester (“post­par­tum mag­ic”) will be expe­ri­enced. The class­es also cov­er the prac­tice of pre­na­tal restora­tive class­es, as well as breath­ing tech­niques for preg­nant women and for the time after birth. An insight for birth rit­u­als and more, as well as the focus on the pelvic floor & Mama & Baby Yoga com­plete this mod­ule. Trainees will learn to under­stand how the female body changes dur­ing preg­nan­cy, how the yoga asana prac­tice should be adapt­ed, about hor­mon­al shifts dur­ing preg­nan­cy and bio­me­chan­ics of the expec­tant mother.

The chant­i­ng mod­ule will present some of the most impor­tant prayers/mantras. The San­skrit class will focus on learn­ing to count in San­skrit and to learn the San­skrit names of the major tra­di­tion­al yoga asanas. Trainees will learn the mean­ing and effects of the com­mon mudras. Objec­tives of Yog­ic Kriyas and prac­tices of Kriyas will be pre­sent­ed and dis­cussed. Trata­ka, Kapal­ab­hati, Neti, Dhau­ti, Nauli and Basti will be explained.

The Practicum mod­ule cov­ers class­es for prac­tic­ing teach­ing as lead instruc­tor in dif­fer­ent class sizes. The groups will be super­vised by at least two of the lead trainers.Trainees will prac­ti­cal­ly pre­pare a sequence, bring it into class, apply what they have learned about the use of lan­guage and voice, will train to offer props and alter­na­tive asanas, how to man­age a group of stu­dents and how to inter­act with the group in skill­full means. Feed­back is giv­en by the oth­er trainees and the lead train­er (sequenc­ing mark­ing sheet).

Through­out the Teacher Train­ing trainees will be asked to present sev­er­al writ­ten assign­ments. The assign­ments are part of the exam­i­na­tion process: Tech­niques, Train­ing, Prac­tice: par­tic­i­pa­tion in 3 dif­fer­ent class­es of dif­fer­ent Yoga styles and write about it. Assign­ments on sequenc­ing are giv­en. Anato­my: The Yoga Anato­my Foun­da­tion Course and Func­tion­al Anato­my are pre­sent­ed as video series. The answers to ques­tions at the end of each chap­ter will deep­en the knowl­edge of the human phys­i­ol­o­gy. Phi­los­o­phy: Trainees are asked to read the main Yoga scrip­tures (e.g. Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra, Hatha Yoga Pradipi­ka, Baghavad Gita …) and express their main thoughts on it.

You don’t have to know any “advanced” asanas to par­tic­i­pate. How­ev­er, you should know the basic pos­tures and basic ideas of yoga phi­los­o­phy. Oth­er­wise, you should just be will­ing to prac­tice yoga and be will­ing to learn — remem­ber: we re con­stant­ly learn­ing, #foreveras­tu­dent.

This Yoga Teacher Train­ing will be taught in Eng­lish. Julie, Eva-Maria and Knut will of course be avail­able to pro­vide trans­la­tions into Ger­man should the need arise. Please note: once you know how to teach in Eng­lish, you can teach world­wide as Eng­lish is “the” lan­guage most yoga class­es are taught worldwide.

The pre­req­ui­site for obtain­ing the cer­tifi­cate is par­tic­i­pa­tion in all manda­to­ry train­ing mod­ules and sub­mis­sion of all assign­ments. Absences can be made up by arrange­ment mean­ing we ll find a solu­tion in case you miss dates. The final exam of course also needs to be passed in order to obtain the cer­tifi­cate. We also expect the will­ing­ness to prac­tice yoga reg­u­lar­ly and read spe­cial­ist lit­er­a­ture through­out the dura­tion of the training.

Please con­tact us — either after/before on of our class­es in Feel­go­od­stu­dio (see sched­ule here) or by email via eva-maria.hinterwirth@townhouseyoga.com 

This Yoga Teacher Train­ing will take place in the fol­low­ing locations:

• Feel­go­od­stu­dio 1160, Grund­stein­gasse 12, Saras­vati — Sha­la (Small Room)

The exact loca­tions of each mod­ule will be com­mu­ni­cat­ed in due time.

• This Yoga Teacher Train­ing will be run over the course of sev­er­al week­ends (usu­al­ly one week­end per month: Fri­day evening, Sat­ur­day, Sun­day) in the peri­od from Novem­ber 2024 till May 2025.
• Our sched­ule will fit per­fect­ly to those who work part or full time dur­ing the week, two extend­ed week­ends will include a pub­lic hol­i­day on Thurs­day as well as the Fri­day (bridge day, “Fen­stertag”).
• on reg­u­lar week­ends ses­sions will take place as fol­lows: Fri­day 17.00 — 21.00, Sat­ur­day and Sun­day 10.00 — 17.30

Please scroll up for the exact dates. 

The price above includes the cost of teacher train­ing, a copy of the man­u­al and cer­ti­fies you (if you pass) as a 200HR RYT through the Yoga Alliance. The price does NOT include the cost of trans­porta­tion, food or accommodation.

There is an ear­ly bird price and dis­counts for Feel­go­od mem­bers. If you are also in a dif­fi­cult finan­cial sit­u­a­tion (unem­ployed, sin­gle par­ent,…) please write us an email to info@feelgoodstudio.at.

No, the train­ing only takes place on site. We are con­vinced that teach­ing can be con­veyed much bet­ter in per­son: we feel, touch (with hands and words), and learn from and with each other.

feel free to drop us an email via eva-maria.hinterwirth@townhouseyoga.com or talk to us after our class­es at Feel­go­od­stu­dio (sched­ule here).