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Yoga Certification & Registration
The Living Yoga Program offers Hatha Yoga teacher training and Yoga Certification in Austin, Texas. Our yoga certification program is approved by the Yoga Alliance registry, and the Yoga Register. Graduates receive their yoga teacher certification at the 200 hour yoga teacher training level.
If you want to become a yoga teacher and you are looking for yoga instructor training and/or yoga certification, we hope that you will consider The Living Yoga Program's residential yoga teacher training.
What sets the Living Yoga Teacher Certification Program apart?
• Personal Attention: During our residential intensives, we often have a 7-to-1 student-to-teacher ratio.
• Advising: From the day the student enrolls in the program one of our faculty is assigned as an advisor to work individually with the student during the entire program.
• Eclectic Style: The Living Yoga Program does not endorse any one style of yoga over another. We teach what we call “non-denominational” hatha yoga. We work with aspiring teachers to find their own style, to help them reach their full potential within a single style, or to blend multiple styles into their own synthesis of yoga. We encourage self expression so that teachers learn to give of themselves rather than just reciting what someone else told them.
• Accommodating: The Living Yoga Program is designed to accommodate the needs of our students who do not live near Austin. Many of our students are from as far away as Canada, England and even New Zealand. Our program requires participants to travel to Austin, Texas for only one 9-day residential intensive. The remaining requirements can be satisfied in the student's own community and by remote instruction, working with their advisors.
• Ongoing Peer Support: Some of the toughest challenges faced by an aspiring yoga teacher may occur after graduation from teacher training. This is why we encourage our students to form friendships in the program and to learn to listen to each other, share ideas, and support each other throughout the teacher training program and long after the intensive is over.
• Setting: The 9-day residential intensive at the Barsana Dham ashram, near Austin, Texas, provides participants with a small taste of India. Students experience immersion in a slower pace of life. The daily rhythms of the ashram help us to achieve a calm, focused mind and an open heart. A large part of the success of our program can be directly attributed to the beauty and peace of the surroundings.
• Affordable: Students say our program is one of the most reasonably priced programs available.
For more information about pursuing your yoga certfication with the Living Yoga Teacher Training Program, please visit our primary web-site at: www.livingyogaprogram.com.
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Facilitators
 Charles MacInerney, E-RYT-500 hr. Charles has been a fulltime teacher of yoga, meditation and mind/body skills since 1989. He also offers weekend workshops, workplace yoga, specialized classes (such as cardiac care, nursing homes, athletes, dancers). Charles travels extensively, leading Yoga & Meditation Retreats and Yoga & Writing retreats in the US, Mexico and Guatemala. Charles' teaching style is a blend of the precision and alignment in Iyengar yoga, the balanced routine of the Hymalayan Yoga Instute, and input by his students from whom he continues to learn. Visit Charles' personal Yoga website at www.yogateacher.com.
Charles is also a public speaker and trainer. For more information visit www.expandingparadigms.com. Please feel free to call Charles at 512-459-2267.
 Ellen B. Smith, M.A., CYT, E-RYT Ellen is an Intuitive Mentor, Performance Coach, and Certified Hatha yoga instructor. She has a Masters Degree in Spiritual Psychology, and has worked for decades as a mentor to people of all walks of life. Ellen uses her own blend of deep listening, uncanny intuition, and genuine praise to helps others see, claim, and act on their innately fabulous qualities. Ellen has a passion for learning, and integrates information about yoga, qigong, health, disease intervention, nutrition, meditation, psychology, exercise physiology, and countless other topics into her sessions. She offers compassionate instruction with a touch of humor, honoring each student's path and abilities. She is co-founder of Sojourn Retreats www.sojournretreats.com, offering transformational weekend workshops for women. Please feel free to call Ellen at 512-419-1339.
History: We began the Living Yoga Program in February of 2001, and have been operating continuously since then. We are a Limited Liability Corporation, and Charles MacInerney, and Ellen B. Smith are the owners and operators of the program.
Office location: , Austin TX 78757 (Note, this is not the location where we hold the Living Yoga Program training. For that information, please see Training Venue.) |
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