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200 Hour Yoga Teacher Certification

Let your yoga journey begin now!

Learn to teach others while immersing yourself in deep study, accelerating your practice, gaining fundamental insights by delving into the ancient science of yoga & the unlimited creativity, energetic principles and aesthetics of vinyasa.

For more information call 425.802.7554 or email us here

Dates //

9 weekends starting Friday, Sep 9th, 2011 – Nov 13th*

Friday Evenings 6 – 9:30pm

Saturday & Sunday 8 – 6pm

* October 28th-30th Fall Break weekend

Rates //

$2,888 early tuition (if paid by July 31st)

$3,288 tuition

$500 non-refundable deposit due with application

You will learn how to:

  • Effectively teach a compelling class
  • Intelligently create your own sequences
  • Adjust & modify to serve your students
  • Connect breath and movement
  • Articulate the attributes of each posture
  • Study Sanskrit & Yoga’s literary heritage
  • Improve & diversify your own practice

Additional Components include:

  • Functional and subtle body anatomy
  • The History, Philosophy, & lineages of yoga
  • Study across a multitude of yoga disciplines
  • Learn the ethics and business of yoga
  • First Aid, CPR and safety techniques

Sattva welcomes Liz Doyle, some of Seattle’s most-respected yoga teachers, and guest master teacher and founder of Tripsichore, Edward Clark

Teacher Bios

Ali Valdez

Ali Valdez has been passionate about all things yoga, philosophy and spirituality her entire life, devoting many of her studies to intellectual history, aesthetics, and comparative religious studies. Since 2000, Ali has embarked on the yoga teaching path and has developed, with the wonderful guidance of her many teachers all over the world, a system committed to bringing out the best in her students and teacher trainees. Ali has certified or created content and curriculum for several teacher training programs and has over a hundred teachers serving the yoga community nationwide. Her devotion to her students does not end after the alignment practicum and conversations about the sutras. She is with her students every step of the way helping develop their practice, deepening their spiritual pursuits, helping them become successful yoga teachers or yoga business owners. With a lifetime of international travel under her belt and several years in the travel business, Ali, under Sattva Yoga, Exotic Adventures in Wellness, has a full service travel agency to help facilitate attending a Sattva retreat, finding another retreat to serve personal preference, or help you build your own. Ali has practiced a multitude of styles, and has studied with master teachers all over the world, primarily developing her yoga sadhana in San Francisco, Singapore, New York and Seattle. She is eternally grateful for the teachers that have been formidable to helping cultivate her gifts in yoga and spiritual awareness, notably John Hoge, Kathleen Hunt, Gregg Caruso, Mikhaila Stettler, Celeste Renee, Andrey Lappa, Vincent Tam, and Edward Clark.

Liz Doyle

Liz Doyle began her yoga career with Kathleen Hunt’s teacher training program, which laid a solid foundation for her further studies. Liz has studied with Andrey Lappa, the father of Universal Yoga, Theresa Elliott a local creative Iyengar teacher, Katerina Wen, completed a year- long apprenticeship with Troy Lucero, and most recently spent a month with Edward Clark of Tripsichore Yoga fame. An avid student of the practice, Liz teaches some of the most creative, challenging and fun yoga classes in the Seattle area. She understands yoga from a philosophical and alignment perspective, which complements her ability to assist students in improving their technique, increasing skills, and going deeper.

Edward Clark

Guest teacher Edward Clark began studying yoga in 1978. Noteworthy among his teachers are Narayani and Giris Rabinovitch, but he confesses huge admiration for the Ashtanga Vinyasa, Sivananda, Iyengar, and Viniyoga practices. The Tripsichore technique is a synthesis of these and many other aspects of yoga. In addition to being the founder and leader of Tripsichore since 1993, Edward was Head of Movement and Dance at the presitgious Webber douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London for 20 years. http://www.tripsichore.com

Clinical Nutritionist, Michael Baiocchi CN

As one of the most exclusive specialists in Metabolic Typing® and Diet Coaching, Mike works for his clients to create individualized counter-measures that eradicate these imbalances and deficits. Simply put, there are few experts in the field at Mike’s level, or with his specific knowledge base. While his services focus primarily on Womens Health, Stress and Hormones, Hormone Balancing, Metabolic Typing® Diet, Food Sensitivities, Digestive Disorders, Eating Disorders, Infertility, Weight Loss, and Athletes Nutrition, Mike’s expertise can help anyone looking to change their lives in a positive and meaningful way. His work on this subject has been published in major medical journals; Mike also hosts discussions with leading authors on his radio broadcast at HolisticRadio.com

Toni Best

Dr. Toni Best is an inspirational speaker, wellness coach and chiropractor. Having struggled with eating disorders for 20 years, she has been on a nearly lifelong quest for healing and wholeness, and a deeper understanding of the human body, mind and potential. This journey led to her Chiropractic degree, with ongoing study in natural hygiene (nutrition), human consciousness, and the magic healing potential of our own breath. She was guided to yoga in 1997 and the result was an extraordinary personal recovery and transformation. She began instructing in 2002 and brings a deep understanding of personal struggle as well as knowledge of health, the human body, and proper alignment to her teaching. She teaches authentically from love and inspiration and enjoys watching her students discover their true essence and heal their own lives through yoga. Dr. Toni breathes new life and inspiration in her classes with her enlightening and rousing view on wellness, human potential, and how to truly incorporate the principles we know and learn into our lives with enthusiasm and perseverance. She is also co-founder of Achieving Wellness Centers and Worksite Wellness with her husband and partner Dr. Darren White and speaks on many wellness topics to companies and groups in search of extraordinary wellness, wholeness and self-mastery

Application and Payments

Download Teacher Training Application (Adobe PDF)

Power Vinyasa Non-Refundable Deposit $500

 

Power Vinyasa Remaining Balance $2388