"If you want to learn something, read about it. If you want to understand something, write about it. If you want to master something, teach it"
Yogi Bhajan
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The Aquarian Teacher
KRI Level 1 Teacher Training Program
January 2012 to July 2012
(6 weekends with a 1 week retreat)
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About the Aquarian Teacher Program
The Aquarian Teacher Certification program is open both to yoga students ready to become teachers and to those who wish to immerse themselves in the science of Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan.
This certification is internationally recognized and exceeds Yoga Alliance standards, and will qualify you for the YA Registered Yoga Teacher Certificate, RYT (200)
The Aquarian Teacher program is the KRI Level One Certification program in Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan®. In Level One you will become an Instructor and learn the fundamental principles and practices of Kundalini Yoga. You will develop the skills to instruct students in Kundalini Yoga kriyas and meditations as taught by Yogi Bhajan. You will practice teaching Kundalini Yoga in a practicum setting, participate in early morning Sadhanas (spiritual practice), and experience the powerful transformational energy of White Tantric Yoga.
Program Format & Location
As part of this program, you will be taught one weekend a month from January to June, with a final week-long retreat in July at the Shanti Retreat, a beautiful waterfront yoga retreat center! During your monthly training period, you benefit from studying and integrating the teachings gracefully into your daily life, while still being able to maintain your work schedule and personal/family obligations. With our final week-long retreat, you also get to experience an immersion into a yogic lifestyle and the fellowship of a yogic community with your peers and training team, who will share this deep experience of transformation with you.
The Training Team
You will be supported by our local team of dedicated Canadian KRI Trainers who are members of the International KRI Aquarian Academy. You will be able to establish a continuous connection with our local community of teachers, who will be with you for the entire program, get to know you, and guide your development.
Shabad Saroop Singh (Lead Trainer)is a certified Kundalini Yoga teacher trainer and instructor, co-founder and director of Equilibrium in Montreal, and an independent business owner. In 1981, he met Yogi Bhajan and has since studied under his personal tutelage. He has been teaching Yoga for 30 years and regularly travels to study and deepen his knowledge of Yoga. Shabad shares the teachings with warmth, humanity, wisdom and a sense of humour. Teaching for him is a vehicle to serve others and to contribute to the upliftment of humanity.
Sat Dharam Kaur (Lead Trainer)is a certified Kundalini Yoga teacher trainer and instructor, author, mother of three, and naturopathic doctor, practicing and teaching at her Trillium Healing Arts Centre in Owen Sound, Ontario. She has been studying Kundalini Yoga with Yogi Bhajan since 1979 and was told by him to become a "teacher of teachers and healer of healers".She has facilitated teacher training programs in Toronto, Canmore (Alberta), Cambridge (Ontario) and New Mexico. Sat Dharam graduated in 1989 from the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine and was awarded the “Naturopathic Doctor of the Year” award by the Ontario Association of Naturopathic Doctors in 2000 for her work in breast cancer prevention and environmental education.She has written several best selling books: A Call to Women: The Healthy Breast Program and Workbook, The Complete Natural Medicine Guide to Breast Cancer and The Complete Natural Medicine Guide to Women’s Heal
The Teacher Training Team also includes teachers-in-training: Meherbani Kaur (Associate Trainer) and Yoga & Tea Studio owner, Navjit Kaur/Nina (Intern).
The Curriculum
This comprehensive 220+ hour training includes 180 hours of classroom instruction and 40 hours of home study in a well-defined curriculum which includes:
Teaching Kundalini Yoga Postures, Kriyas and Meditation
Study of breath (pranayam), postures (asanas), sound (mantra) and meditation to awaken your body, mind, and spirit!
Yogic philosophy and the origin of Kundalini Yoga
Yogic and Western Anatomy
How to develop a daily yoga practice (sadhana)
How to deal with stress using yogic relaxation techniques
Exploring sound and mantra
How to develop a meditative mind
Practical class preparation
Humanology and 3HO Yogic Lifestyle
Role and Ethics of a Kundalini Yoga Teacher
Yoga & Tea Studio (Ottawa) Practice, study and learn in an idyllic location of rural Ottawa - surrounded by beauty, nature and serenity! For one weekend each month you will train in our cozy studio set on 10 acres of land, free of distractions and full of peace and tranquility.
Then immerse yourself further into the depth of the teachings at our soul-stirring, week-long yoga retreat and experience the lifestyle of a yogi. Create memories and friendships to last for a lifetime! Your life will never be the same...embark on this journey of self-discovery, and allow your true potential to unfold!
See more features and pictures of our studio here....
Shanti Retreat (Kingston)
Features of this location:
vegetarian meals
infrared sauna
hammock
lake swimming
water trampoline
boating
yoga in a yurt!
indoor/outdoor dining
bathrooms for each room
beautiful yoga decor
1000 feet of private shoreline
11 acres on the St.Laurence river
The Schedule
Dates (6 weekends with a 1-week long retreat)
January 27-28-29, 2012
February 24-25-26, 2012
March 23-24-25, 2012
April 27-28-29, 2012
May 2012 (White Tantric Yoga, Toronto)
May 18-19-20, 2012
June 8-9-10, 2012
July 22-29, 2012 (7-night retreat)
Tuition & Enrolment Options
A $500+HST deposit is required to reserve your spot in the program by Dec 31, 2011. Only 5 spots left, it's not too late to register - contact us!
Choose from one of the following options to complete the tuition fee:
Option 1: Pay in full by Dec 31, 2011 $3100 +HST
Option 2: Pay in full by Jan 27, 2012 $3300 +HST
Option 3: Payment Plan $3500 +HST Newly updated! (Deposit of $500 +HST by Dec 31, 2011 and 7 additional post-dated cheques of $500+HST on Jan 27, Feb 24, March 23, Apr 27, May 18, June 8 and July 22 2012)
Refunds (minus $500 admin fee) are available before Dec 31, 2011
Kundalini Yoga Training Text Book and Yoga Manual (452 pages)
Master’s Touch Book by Yogi Bhajan
1 year membership with IKYTA
KRI certification fee
20 class pass of Kundalini Yoga classes at Yoga & Tea Studio
10% discount on purchases at Yoga & Tea Studio during the program
Meals and accommodations at the week long retreat
Home study assignments/projects
Personal mentorship
Tuition Fee Does Not Include:
Meals during classroom instruction at Yoga & Tea Studio
White Tantric Course Fees
Hours
6:30-9:30pm, Fridays
9:30am-6:30pm, Saturdays
9:30am-6:30pm, Sundays
Registration
Register online, in person during studio hours or by calling us at 613-304-6320. Feel free to contact us with any questions!
A $500+HST deposit is required to reserve your spot in the program by Dec 31, 2011!
Complete the following registration form and send it in to Yoga & Tea Studio
For the payment plan, cheques can be written to Yoga & Tea Studio
Minimum registration is 10 students
Maximum registration is 20 students
Register early! Limited spots available and save by paying in full by Dec 31, 2011!
Reasons to Take This Training
This program is life-transforming and is for everyone - whether you are interested in becoming a teacher or looking to deepen your own personal yoga practice and knowledge. Here are some other reasons:
You want better health! The techniques you will learn in this program will provide you with a lifetime of benefits and tools that allow you to maintain your flexibility, balance your glands, tone your muscles, control your mood, state of mind and level of energy in a few minutes.
You need to keep up! The world is changing. Kundalini Yoga is a technology to raise our consciousness to a level where we can adapt to the rapidly changing world and live for one another.
You want to live life to its fullest! Kundalini Yoga will help give you the stamina, courage and insight to manifest your highest potential.
You want to serve your life's purpose! The new millennium is here; leaders and teachers are needed and are in high demand.
You want your life to change! Because Kundalini Yoga is a powerful system for transformation, be prepared for this to happen...
Yogi Bhajan, Master of Kundalini Yoga, arrived in the United States in 1969 with a stated purpose: “I have come to create Teachers, not to gather disciples.”
For over 30 years, he traveled internationally teaching Kundalini Yoga, the Yoga of Awareness. In 1969 Yogi Bhajan founded 3HO - the Happy, Healthy, Holy Organization, based on his first principle “Happiness is your birthright.”
Through The Aquarian Teacher Program, Yogi Bhajan has trained thousands of KRI Certified Kundalini Yoga Teachers. In 1994, the International Kundalini Yoga Teachers Association, (IKYTA), was formed to further spread these priceless teachings through the united efforts of Kundalini Yoga teachers worldwide.
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