Our 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training
Our 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training
We believe in excellence in yoga teacher training. For us and our students, this is far beyond teaching asana. Contemporary Yoga is a truly holistic programme that offers a transformational experience for students that explores deep into the yoga tradition and modern movement theory to build skills that support and enhance a beautiful life of teaching.
You won’t learn rigid shapes, cues or patterns here. Your highly experienced and respected teachers will take you on an enlightening and experiential journey of movement and yoga that creates stability and ease, and can be applied to every yoga style.
“This training surpassed all expectations - challenging, inspiring, and deeply informative.”
Bridget McNamara, 2017
Whether it whispers to deepen your practice or exclaims to share with others, we invite you to hear your inner calling and come explore.
Contemporary Yoga Teacher Training dives into the foundations of anatomy, alignment and movement in a way that is safe, stable, easeful and empowering.
With every breath and movement, you’ll be supported to find your own feet, resource your strength from within, and give voice to the passion that calls you.
Next 200-hour courses
January 2019 Intensive
5-12th, 14-19th, 21-24th January
Two rest days on Sundays 13th and 20th
9 Weekends over 5 months
April to August 2019
2x9 Days
24th August to 1st September 2019
12th-20th October 2019
Investment: $3250 (Early Bird)
Graduates of the 200-hour training are empowered to:
- Understand essential anatomy and physiology hands-on
- Investigate and enrich their understanding and practice of yoga
Embody natural, functional movement - Grow their own sustainable and nourishing practice
- Explore traditional yoga philosophy and history in a relevant way
- Apply principles of biomechanics and developmental movement patterns to healthy, easeful and steady movement in the wider yoga tradition
- Inquire, discuss, challenge, investigate, experience and try all learnings themselves in a safe environment, supported by their tutors and peers
- Develop a full and authentic approach to yoga, asana and meditation
- Deepen their personal journey, transformation and spiritual practice
- Have a clear sense of their own unique offering
- Give voice and confidence to their inner teacher
- Embrace yoga and movement as a lifelong study
- Build personal resilience and wellbeing
- Teach safely, confidently and creatively in their community
- Gain international recognition and accreditation to teach professionally worldwide
Choose Your Format
Our 200 hour yoga teacher training offering comes in three different formats.
20 Day Intensive 2019
Be fully immersed in yoga teacher training. We’ll spend 20 days together with two rest days.
Next training is 5-24th January 2019
Weekend Mode 2019
Autumn and Winter 2019: 9 weekends over five months.
27-28 April | 11-12 May | 25-26 May
8-9 June | 22-23 Jun | 6-7 July
20-21 July | 3-4 August | 17-18 August
2x9 Day Intensive
Two sets of 9 days, with a month and a half off in between to let everything sink in.
Part 1 :: 24 August - 1 September 2019
Part 2 :: 12-20 October 2019
Let’s Break It Down
Our 200-hour yoga teacher training course content can be broken down into several parts.
Face-to-face and heart-to-heart
170 hours are spent directly with your tutors where you will:
- Fully explore how developmental movement patterns grow into naturally-aligned asana.
- Discuss groundbreaking research into human anatomy & physiology and its relevance to yoga.
- Get hands-on with bones and muscles and how they work together in asana.
- Investigate yoga biomechanics with a focus on containment and stability.
- Understand postural analysis, using yoga to restore natural balance and full-range of motion.
- Work with the subtle energies of the body to purify the nadis and touch the natural mind.
- Discover how the Yoga tradition is about meeting each moment with presence and openness.
- Experience how yoga philosophy has the power to reshape your daily life.
- Gain confidence in your teaching skills and teaching practice.
Home study
30 hours are home study in the form of an investigational journal about:
- How your personal practice is developing
- Review the public classes you attend
- Workbook homework on philosophy, anatomy and physiology
- Optional teaching apprenticeships with a senior teacher
We encourage you to start your journal as early as possible in the training - even before the training begins!
The journal may take many forms - writing, photos, drawings, blog posts etc. We will review the journal towards the end of the teacher training course to offer some constructive feedback and help answer any questions that may have arisen.
On the first day of the training we will orientate you with more details as to what is expected of your journal.
We also have a library of many of our favourite Yoga books - resources that you can take home with you during the training to enhance your extra study.
PLUS, we offer an extensive Yoga Training Manual - an amazing resource that will serve and support you for many future years in your life as a Yoga practitioner and teacher.
Some of the techniques and methodologies:
You will learn valuable techniques to enhance your own Yoga practice and gain the skills to teach Contemporary Yoga principles in a safe and relaxed environment:
- Experiencing and investigating functional yoga
- Spinal awareness and practices for spinal and joint health
- Discover an embodied fluid support
- Breath and Vinyasa flow from the inside out
- Get creative with teaching and practicing Sun Salutations
- Finding your ground and foundations – yielding, gravity and breath in theory and in practice
- Stability, balance and neutrality in natural and easeful movement and Yoga asana
- Discover a breathing, supportive and balanced core
- Learn to give sensitive and intuitive adjustments that empower your students
- Learn effective and empowering cueing
- and much much more!
A day in the life of a yoga student
An example of our daily schedule:
7:30-9.00am Asana class with a key focus for the day
9:00-9:30am Breakfast
9:30-11:30am Yoga philosophy & applied yoga
11:30-1:30pm Methodologies & technologies
1:30-2:30pm Lunch
2:30-4:30pm Anatomy & physiology
4:30-6:30pm Practical applications & teaching skills
Plus regular opportunities for tea and discussion with your teachers and fellow students.
Next 200-hour courses
20-day Intensive 2019
5-24th January
9 Weekends over 5 months
April to August 2019
2x9 Days Mode
August to Oct 2019
You’re In Good Hands
Your senior teachers have over 80 years of yoga experience and teaching between them. We’ve practiced it all, and offer you an investigative and transformational approach to movement, teaching and self-development that you’ll carry far beyond the course.
Each of us teach with love and care, and our passion is to strengthen and shine light on your inner resources as a confident, skilled and soulful human, practitioner and teacher.
Karla and Neal are senior teachers with Donna Farhi on her internationally acclaimed yoga training programs. They are recognised within the New Zealand Yoga community as leaders in Restorative Yoga and in innovative, safe movement practices.
Dyana comes from the background of teaching medical science at Wellpark College and a thirty-year teaching apprenticeship in Buddha Dharma.
Vincent is an acclaimed international Yoga Teacher Trainer with a particular focus on Yoga Therapy.
Haidee brings her passion, knowledge and experience of teaching Yoga and movement to all her classes and training sessions.
Each are experts in their field and have the common goal of delivering excellence in every class, course and workshop.
New initiatives run alongside the trainings, including professional development workshops, private tuition and year-long mentoring. We are here to support you through your whole yoga journey.
Dyana Wells
Core Faculty
For those excited to delve into the spiritual, philosophical and metaphysical, it’s wonderful to do so with a scientist.
Dyana takes you as deep into the mysteries of the mind as she does into the intricacy and function of anatomy and biology to explore the rich interplay between yoga and science.
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Neal Ghoshal
Core Faculty
When someone loves what they do with all of their heart, it emanates to everyone they work with. Neal is one of these people.
His teaching focuses on exploring and refining natural movement and alignment principles, and to embody these in a way that takes our spiritual practice into our everyday lives.
Read more >>
Karla Brodie
Core Faculty
Intuitive, honest, attentive, creative, joyful and full of expression — there’s something about Karla that speaks directly to your insides, and suddenly you realise you have a newfound conversation with your inner world as well as you gain a deeper understanding of balanced posture and integrated movement.
Read more >>
Dyana Wells
Core Faculty
For those excited to delve into the spiritual, philosophical and metaphysical, it’s wonderful to do so with a scientist.
Dyana takes you as deep into the mysteries of the mind as she does into the intricacy and function of anatomy and biology to explore the rich interplay between yoga and science.
Read more >>
Neal Ghoshal
Core Faculty
When someone loves what they do with all of their heart, it emanates to everyone they work with. Neal is one of these people.
His teaching focuses on exploring and refining natural movement and alignment principles, and to embody these in a way that takes our spiritual practice into our everyday lives.
Read more >>
Karla Brodie
Core Faculty
Intuitive, honest, attentive, creative, joyful and full of expression — there’s something about Karla that speaks directly to your insides, and suddenly you realise you have a newfound conversation with your inner world as well as you gain a deeper understanding of balanced posture and integrated movement.
Read more >>
Vincent Bolletta
Senior Guest Faculty
Vincent will get under your skin, and you’ll like it.
He poses intelligent questions and nudges you toward finding your answers — sometimes with gentle subtlety, sometimes so pointedly your longstanding bubble will burst and make room for the fresh, new knowledge you needed.
Read more >>
Haidee Stairmand
Guest Faculty
Haidee brings a pragmatic approach to her teaching and offers students a clear, approachable and understandable way to develop their Yoga through self sensing, and awareness.
She is passionate about making yoga accessible for all, enabling an individualistic approach.
She has a unique ability to connect to others in a simple but profound way and sees Yoga as a holistic therapeutic modality that encompasses traditional and contemporary approaches to the Practice.
Sandra Palmer
Guest Faculty
As a certified psychologist I have always been interested in the the relationship between the body and the mind and my masters thesis was in the field of psychoneuroimmunology.
I have a particular interest in the way Yoga can be used to provide balance and stillness (and consequently energy) in this fast paced world we live in.
Vincent Bolletta
Senior Guest Faculty
Vincent will get under your skin, and you’ll like it.
He poses intelligent questions and nudges you toward finding your answers — sometimes with gentle subtlety, sometimes so pointedly your longstanding bubble will burst and make room for the fresh, new knowledge you needed.
Read more >>
Haidee Stairmand
Guest Faculty
Haidee brings a pragmatic approach to her teaching and offers students a clear, approachable and understandable way to develop their Yoga through self-sensing, and awareness.
She is passionate about making yoga accessible for all, enabling an individualistic approach.
She has a unique ability to connect to others in a simple but profound way and sees Yoga as a holistic therapeutic modality that encompasses traditional and contemporary approaches to the Practice.
Read more >>
Vincent Bolletta
Senior Guest Faculty
Vincent will get under your skin, and you’ll like it.
He poses intelligent questions and nudges you toward finding your answers — sometimes with gentle subtlety, sometimes so pointedly your longstanding bubble will burst and make room for the fresh, new knowledge you needed.
Read more >>
Haidee Stairmand
Guest Faculty
Haidee brings a pragmatic approach to her teaching and offers students a clear, approachable and understandable way to develop their Yoga through self-sensing, and awareness.
She is passionate about making yoga accessible for all, enabling an individualistic approach.
She has a unique ability to connect to others in a simple but profound way and sees Yoga as a holistic therapeutic modality that encompasses traditional and contemporary approaches to the Practice.
Read more >>
Yoga Teacher Registration Pathway
We are delighted and proud to be registered with two major Yoga organisations – Yoga New Zealand and Yoga Alliance.
You’ll also get our own Contemporary Yoga certificate!
Full details on Yoga New Zealand and Yoga Alliance Registration >>
Be inspired where you learn
Our 200-hour teacher training campus is in beautiful St Heliers, one of Auckland’s picturesque seaside suburbs.
With upmarket shops and cafes, a perfect swimming beach and an easy walk to the training venue, it’s a haven that’s the perfect place to immerse yourself into a Yoga training.
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