Teacher Training
with Don Wenig, E-RYT
Marsha Wenig, E-RYT, CYKF
Mike Zolfo, CYT
Barbara Manley, RN, MS
Carla Douros, PHD, E-RYT

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Introduction
Curriculum
Your Instructors
Course Outline
Certification Requirements
Reading Materials
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Introduction

Dancing Feet's eight-month Teacher Training will deepen your yoga education so you can instruct others with precision and confidence. Adapt yoga to fit the needs of individuals and groups in any environment. Embark upon a journey of self-exploration and transformation to find the roots of your own yoga. Develop a strong healthy body and an understanding of the vital energies that nourish and sustain well-being. Integrate yoga into your day-to-day life.

Upon completion of the requirements, students will receive a certification (200 hour) from Dancing Feet Yoga, meeting the 180 contact hour standards set forth by the Yoga Alliance. Each weekend workshop is a complete course of study and may be taken independently from the certification program.

Each month you will cover curriculum syllabus material with your instructors, taking what you've learned home to practice and integrate over the following month. Student teaching and assisting begins immediatly as a base for your hands on learning experience. An on-line forum provides continuing contact and support for all participants.

Curriculum

  • History of Yoga
  • Yoga Philosophy
  • The Yoga Sutras
  • The Eight Limbs of Ashtanga Yoga
  • Asana
  • Pranayama
  • Chakras and the Energy Systems
  • Alignment and Adjustments
  • Exploring the classic paths of yoga
  • Yoga Ethics
  • Comparing the contemporary schools of yoga
  • Yoga Anatomy and Physiology
  • Ayurveda, Health
  • The art of teaching
  • YogaKids®
  • The Business of Yoga Teaching
  • Meditation, Chanting, Mantra

Your Instructors

Don Wenig is owner and co-founder of Dancing Feet Yoga Center. He has practiced yoga for 28 years and began his teaching career at the Center For Yoga, Los Angeles, CA in 1981. Don´s early training was with Anna Forrest, Manuso Manos, Angela Farmer and Victor Van Kooten, Tracy Rich and Ganga White. His certification is with the White Lotus Foundation. Don´s understanding of yoga is informed by his own practice and his study of an eclectic range of traditions. He is a Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapist and master bodyworker. Don´s private practice supports individuals in achieving wellness related goals through yoga therapy and transformational kinesiology.

Marsha Wenig is co-founder of Dancing Feet Yoga and a pioneer in the field of yoga for children. After 21 years of research and practice, her YogaKids® program is recognized as the most successful and widely known yoga education for children in the world today.

Carla Douros has studied the healing arts and yoga since the early 1970s. After working as a paramedic with the Chicago Fire Department, she completed her PhD in Physiological Psychology and taught at University of Illinois at Chicago.  She practices Tai Chi, Thai massage and energy work as well as interactive guided imagery, acupressure, massotherapy and is a certified Kripalu Yoga instructor. She has devoted the last 30 years to studying and teaching aspects of the mind-body-spirit relationship and is passionate about sharing her anatomy experience with yoga teachers.

Course Outline 2007

First Weekend

Introduction to Student Teaching, Journaling, Personal Practice. The art of teaching, Setting up classes, Sequencing, Cues, Demonstration. Asana I ( Warm ups and Standing Poses) Alignment, Adjustments, Pranayama, Use of Props, Partner work, Contraindications.

Second Weekend

Introduction to Pranayama, Asana II (Backbending Poses), Alignment, Adjustments, Use of Props, Partner Work, Contraindications, Anatomy of the Poses. Pranayama. Intro to meditation.

Third Weekend

Anatomy and Physiology, Study of the systems of the body and how Yoga affects our biology. Asana III (Inverted Postures) Alignment, Adjustments, Use of Props, Partner work, Contraindications.

Fourth Weekend

Asana IV (Twists, forward bends and seated floor poses) Alignment, Adjustments, Use of Props, Partner Work, Contraindications, Anatomy of the Poses, Meditation.

Fifth Weekend

Yoga Kids, Special Populations, Pregnancy, The Business of Teaching Yoga, Pranayama, Journaling and Teaching Review, Savasana.

Sixth Weekend

The Yoga Sutras, Meditation, Chakras and the Energy System, Ethics, Eight Limbs of Ashtanga Yoga.

Seventh Weekend

Asana V (Vinyasa), Alignment, Adjustments, Partner Work, Final Evaluations, Sequencing, Lesson Plans.

Eighth Weekend

Final Questions and Recommendations, Personal practice, Ethics, Graduation

Certification Requirements

  • Attendance of eight weekend workshops
  • Independent teaching of 15 classes
  • Assisting in 8 classes with approved teacher
  • 2 Teacher evaluations (one in June/July and one in November/December)
  • Completion of all homework assignments consisting of reading, personal practice and journaling

2008 Class Dates (subject to change)

  • May 2,3,4

  • June (May 30, 31 June 1)

  • July (June27, 28,29)

  • August 1,2,3

  • Septmeber 5,6,7

  • October 3,4,5

  • November (Oct 31, Sept 1,2)

  • December 5,6,7

Class Times

  • Friday 5:30-10:00 p.m.
  • Saturday and Sunday 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
  • Class time is EST and will begin promptly as scheduled.

Fees

  • Full Tuition: $2900
  • Discounted: $2700 - one-time payment due by March 30 ($200 savings)
  • Discounted: $2800 - one-time payment due by the end of the first weekend ($100 savings)
  • Installment plan: three payments of $967, the first is due upon registration, the second is due at the beginning of the second weekend and the third is due at the beginning of the third weekend.
  • Book fees (approximately $180) and all outside class fees not included
  • Cost of the program includes a 10-class pass at DFY

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Reading Materials

Required Reading

Suggested Reading

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