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WILDLOTUS 300-Hour Advanced Teacher Training 2024 (HK) with Patrick Creelman

World Trade Centre – Causeway Bay

24 Oct 2024 - 26 Jan 2025

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The WildLotus 300-Hour Teacher Training Programme aims to transform all participants with 3 main goals:

 

  1. Expand your Yoga practice
  2. Deepen your understanding of Yoga
  3. Stabilise and mature your teaching from a clear position of values and skill

 

The WildLotus 300-hour Teacher Training is a Professional Teacher Certification Programme. This programme offers a cohesive, multi-specialist approach to teacher training that blends the best of the yoga tradition from the east and the west. Our faculty are highly-trained, experienced, inspiring professionals with a profound understanding of the transformative power of Yoga.

 

The WildLotus 300-hour Teacher Training aims to deepen the direct experience of yoga for yoga teachers. Our programme emphasises students’ personal practice as the source of their teaching and includes a comprehensive study of the techniques and mechanics of the fundamental postures as well as the tools necessary to teach and inspire others. To deepen their education, students will also study functional anatomy and physiology; explore Yoga’s key philosophical teachings in a practical way; practice meditation and pranayama; engage in the practice of hands-on adjustments; study group management and strong leadership skills.

 

WildLotus’ methodology will be presented and explored during practice sessions, teaching sessions, student-to-student assessments, and discussions to create sincere understanding and authenticity for teaching. This includes the mastery of asana alignment and prop use learned from the Iyengar School, sequencing knowledge from the Vinyasa/Flow approach, and the transformative element of Hot Yoga. Essentially the Iyengar School provides us with the methodology of precise anatomical and physical alignments and instructions as well as the profound understanding and application of the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali. The vinyasa and hot practice methodologies incorporate heat and flow into a dynamic approach to class programmes that are common starting points for teachers and students alike.

 

Yoga Alliance Accredited School

PURE Yoga is a registered school with Yoga Alliance. Our teacher training programmes and teachers are internationally accredited, have exclusive recognition and qualify for the 200-hr & 300-hr Yoga Alliance Certification.

Yoga Alliance is an international governing board for yoga teachers and training programmes in the U.S. and globally. Graduates of our programme are automatically eligible to register as a RYT (Registered Yoga Teacher) with Yoga Alliance. Becoming a RYT means having a higher profile and gaining international recognition as a yoga teacher, attributes that many hiring studios look for.

Mission Statement

We offer this training in an effort to grow our community of committed yoga practitioners, empowering those who demonstrate dedication to a personal practice, by sharing the knowledge, skills and tools we have learned so they too can start teaching yoga.

We intend to guide trainees towards a healthy self-confidence, while at the same time invoking in them a sense of humility and excitement, knowing that they are at the beginning of a long journey.

 

Requirements

Students who are interested in participating should bear in mind that this will be a physically and emotionally demanding programme. It will require a strong commitment and personal sacrifice, as well as the support of the student’s primary support network. We emphasise that this programme may not be for everyone.

 

Interested students must:
• Have a deep desire to learn and personally explore the deeper dimensions of yoga
• Have graduated from a 200-hour teacher training with at least one year of teaching experience
• Be free of major injuries going into the programme
• Have a coachable attitude
• Be fully committed and understand that 100% full attendance is required
• Be willing to forgo most other personal or professional commitments for the duration of the programme

 

Upon completion, this training will qualify you to register with Yoga Alliance at the 500-hour level.

 

Preparation tasks will be sent upon confirmation of participation.

Flexible Payment Options
  • Tuition payments can be made at any of PURE studios in Hong Kong. We offer 6 or 12-month interest-free installment plans through HSBC, SCB, and DBS credit cards.

Syllabus

Module 1: OM and the yogic mind
24-27 October & 31 October – 3 November
A broad overview – Seeing the purpose of yoga with fresh eyes

 

Daily morning asana practice

Daily morning pranayama practice

Daily morning meditation practice

 

Introductions, programme outline, expectations, material overview, and group dynamic discussion

Begin practice analysis

Begin teaching analysis and outline path ahead

Schedule for Module 1 progressive teaching

Group Assessment 1

Personal practice log; personal teaching log; personal study group

 

Outline Module 1 study programme: Asana 1; Pranayama 1; Props 1

Module 1 overall lecture and study focus:

  1. Ethics/guard rails of teaching
  2. Opening studentship guidelines
  3. Teaching for class opening & closing
  4. Values discussion and writing exercises: Part 1
  5. Class opening talk: Part 1
  6. Pose analysis: alignment, demonstration, observation, instructional cues
  7. Standing poses, seated poses focus: Learning, studying, observing, teaching, modifying
  8. The knees; the hips; the legs
  9. How to apply props for poses
  10. Which poses, which classes to use props
  11. Experiential education
  12. Assessment of applied anatomy & physiology
  13. Understanding general student misalignments and how to address, instruct and re-teach during class
  14. Alignment/Misalignment clinic 1
  15. Physical adjustments: Step 1 – Introduction
  16. Guna: Sattva, Rajas, Tamas
  17. Understanding the purpose of class and asana through Guna
  18. Intro to Personal Yoga Library
  19. Assignment 1 presented
Module 2: Yama & Niyama
10-17 November 2024
Creating a path for personal growth

 

Daily morning asana practice

Daily morning pranayama practice

Daily morning meditation practice

Expectations review and group dynamic discussion

Practice analysis: Part 2

Begin teaching analysis and outline path ahead

Schedule for module 2 progressive teaching

Group Assessment 2

Practice log, teaching log, study log: Review 1

Outline Module 2 study programme: Asana 2; Pranayama 2; Props 2

Module 2 overall lecture and study focus:

  1. Ethics of teaching
  2. Teaching assessment 1
  3. Values discussion and writing exercises: Part 2
  4. Class opening talk: Part 2
  5. Verbal instruction focus – body part precision instructions
  6. Physical adjustment: Step 2 – Safe & Effective
  7. Pose analysis
  8. Inversion pose, twisting pose focus: learning, studying, observing, teaching, modifying
  9. The neck; the shoulders; the rib cage
  10. Experiential education
  11. Private Yoga focus: exercises and sequencing
  12. Assessment of applied anatomy & physiology
  13. Identifying and understanding misalignments
  14. Alignment/Misalignment clinic 2
  15. Alignment sequencing 1
  16. Classical Yoga asana sequencing vs
  17. Creative Flow sequencing: Learning, experiencing
  18. When and why to use props
  19. Personal Yoga Library review
  20. Assignment 1 review
  21. Assignment 2 presented
Module 3: Grace
1-5 & 10-12 January 2025
Courage and Humility: Leadership combining transformative action with receptivity

 

Daily morning asana practice

Daily morning pranayama practice

Daily morning meditation practice

Module 3 programme outline

Review expectations and group dynamic discussion

Practice analysis: Part 3

Teaching analysis, update teacher review

Schedule for module 3 progressive teaching

Group Assessment 3

Practice log, teaching log, study log: Review 2

Outline Module 3 study program: Asana 3; Pranayama 3; Props 3

Module 3 overall lecture and study focus:

  1. Peer review teaching clinic
  2. Teaching assessment 2
  3. Adjustment clinic and assessment
  4. Verbal instruction focus – types of instructions
  5. Pose analysis
  6. Alignment/Misalignment clinic 3
  7. Alignment sequencing 2
  8. Physical Adjustments: Step 3 – Going Deeper
  9. Backbending, arm balancing focus: learning, studying, teaching, observing, modifying
  10. The spine; the corners of the body; the arms; the legs
  11. Sequencing for levels: Intro level, level 1, level 2/intermediate
  12. Peak Pose sequencing: Asana categorisation, Peak level
  13. Study feedback
  14. Ethics of teaching
  15. Assessment of applied anatomy & physiology
  16. How to teach with care and help students break unhelpful habits
  17. Creating a long-term class curriculum
  18. Bringing discipline into your class & learning when to modify
  19. When and why to use props
  20. Assignment 2 review
  21. Assignment 3 presented
  22. Building a business from the power of your teaching: Part 1
Module 4: Ganesh
17-19 & 22-26 January 2025
Embodying responsibility with power in the Seat of the Teacher

 

Daily morning asana practice

Daily morning pranayama practice

Daily morning meditation practice

Introductions, programme outline, expectations, material overview, and group dynamic discussion

Begin practice analysis

Begin teaching analysis and outline path ahead

Schedule for Module 4 progressive teaching

Group Assessment 4

Practice log, teaching log, study log: Review 3

Outline module 4 study programme: Asana 4; Pranayama 4; Props 4

Module 4 overall lecture and study focus:

  1. Philosophical overview, review and personal analysis
  2. Final teaching assessment
  3. Final practice assessment
  4. Verbal instruction focus – types of instructions
  5. Pose analysis
  6. Full Spectrum Asana focus: Sequencing for interesting & optimal pose family relationships
  7. Overall biomechanics: the symphony of the body
  8. Ethics of teaching
  9. Assessment of applied anatomy & physiology
  10. Alignment/Misalignment clinic 4
  11. Alignment sequencing 3
  12. Physical Adjustments: Step 4 – Therapeutic and Expansive
  13. Clarification of classical form and when to modify
  14. When and why to use props
  15. How to better schedule practice time, study time, teaching hours
  16. Guidelines and communication skills for building and managing good teacher-student relationships
  17. How to best use newly formed Personal Yoga Library
  18. Assignment 3 review
  19. Svadhyaya: How to own the lessons.
  20. How to positively analyse personal pose improvements
  21. Teaching the teachings
  22. Building a business from the power of your teaching: Part 2

 

Location, schedule & fees

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In-Person Module 2: Yama & Niyama [WS2790]
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In-Person Module 3: Grace [WS2790]
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In-Person Module 4: Ganesh [WS2790]
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Online Full Training (Module 1-4) [WS2790]
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Online Module 1: OM and the yogic mind [WS2790]
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HK$15,400
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Online Module 2: Yama & Niyama [WS2790]
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Online Module 3: Grace [WS2790]
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Online Module 4: Ganesh [WS2790]
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In-Person Daily Drop-in [WS2790]
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LOCATION
World Trade Centre
Causeway Bay
Yoga
7/F World Trade Centre, 280 Gloucester Road Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
Patrick Creelman
As the founding teacher of PURE Yoga, Patrick has trained hundreds of yoga teachers in Vinyasa-style flow practice for optimal health. His teachings are rooted in Tantra Yoga philosophy, aiming at experiencing the supreme potential within any moment.