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What kind of yoga do you do?
How is it different than other classes?What do I need to know to teach yoga?
What makes this yoga teacher training course different or better?
What kind of yoga do you do?
How is it different than other classes?Our Hatha yoga classes not only physically challenge you to strengthen and balance your body and mind, but also go to a much deeper level. Our classes address the whole person on the physical, psychological and spiritual levels – not in an intellectual, religious or new age way – but with deep reaching, practical life applications.
Each class has a theme: a specific emphasis which can be applied in our daily lives. Class topics include: Breathing for Energy; Concentration, The First Step to Meditation; Overcoming Fear; Effortless Balanced Movement.
Yoga teachers are qualified through over 1000 hours of training and supervision by Dr. Vogel. Students learn far more than just doing the right movements; they experience techniques which help them cultivate the specific conditions necessary for learning to meditate. In a few short weeks you can be well on your way in learning to concentrate the mind, relax the emotions and achieve deep peacefulness and contentment.
What do I need to know to teach yoga?
You are always teaching. What you say, what you do, even the way that you are has an affect on all. Thus, the primary qualification for teaching yoga is to live true to yourself. In order to live true to yourself you need to know who you really are fundamentally, and then teach from that knowledge; you cannot just mouth the words.
Dr. Vogel’s classes teach students to live in a state of balance, free from stress, relaxed and energized. You will learn how to teach the yoga poses, and how to correct and adjust people in each pose. You will learn the benefits of each pose and a progression of poses that stimulates and works every major muscle group of the body. You will learn advanced breathing techniques, called Pranayama, that energize and balance all tissues in the body and enliven the mind’s energies. Far more than a stretching program, you will learn how to be in action while aware of the real Self you are and how to help others grow to their unique personal potential.
You will learn how to focus and how to teach concentration. You will learn how to weave in various themes that will help your students apply their learning in their daily lives. You will learn to communicate clearly and how to have unshakeable confidence. You will practice teach, under staff supervision, in order to fine-tune your classes. You will be tested for knowledge of the yoga poses and your ability to teach them, as well as take a written practical teaching test. When you graduate you will know how to carry yourself with real professionalism as a qualified yoga instructor.
What makes this yoga teacher training course different or better?
When you work with a teacher, you want to feel confident that you are working with an authentic person and a real teacher, not an impersonator who is merely saying all the right - or even wrong - things without your recognizing it. Dr. Vogel teaches from direct experience - not from book learning or things he has heard about along the way.
Dr. Vogel is a master teacher who teaches among the sages in the Himalayas. He asks you not to believe what he is saying but to “try it on,” to see if it reverberates in your heart as truth. Then you will know it to be true from your own direct experience.
More than 35 years of teaching, and continuous refinement of his yoga programs, have given Dr. Vogel’s classes a solid structure and a well thought out progression. Still, as a teacher, you must also discover how to make your class richer through your own creative input.
Dr. Vogel has a very gentle style that makes it easy for students to relax and enjoy the learning process. Also. as mentioned above, you learn who you really are fundamentally and how to teach with that knowledge.