Lead Trainer (E-RYT 500, RPYT, RCYT)

Navjit Kaur Sidhu

Navjit Kaur is the founder and director of the award-winning Yoga & Tea Studio (2008-present) and continues to teach and provide training programs in the area and abroad. As a mom, wife, Professional Engineer and Yogipreneur, Navjit Kaur enjoys sharing how yoga philosophy and techniques help you to deal with modern day issues relating to stress, health and relationships. Her approach in teacher training programs is to provide you with the experience of being a student first, and from there how to develop a personal practice, so that you can be of better service to those you teach based on your own experience of what you have practiced. Her gentle, friendly demeanor, joyful attitude, and effective communication and organization skills, make her programs accessible, provide introspection and growth, and an opportunity for you to heal, and be challenged to excel.  She is also a Food For Life Cooking Instructor and demonstrates how plant-based diets can help to prevent and reverse illness.  Since 2005, Navjit Kaur has taught over 4000 hours and continues to deepen her own personal practice and the art of teaching by taking continuing education. See her complete profile here...

Curriculum

This comprehensive training includes 30 hours classroom instruction  in a well-defined curriculum which includes:

• Philosophy of Yin Yoga

  • History of Yin Yoga

  • What is Yin Yoga?

  • Yin & Yang

  • Yin & Yang tissues

  • Theory of Exercise

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• Physiology of Yin Yoga

  • Overview of the Kosha Model

  • Benefits of Yoga on the Physical Body

  • Overview of the Physical Body (Muscles, Fascia, Bones, Joints)

  • Overview of the Energy Body (Yogic View, Daoist View, Western View)

  • Overview of the Mind Body (Yogic View, Budhist View, Western View)

  • Meridian Theory & Energetics (Traditional Chinese Medicine, organ pairs, meridians)

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• Yin Poses

  • Getting into poses safely, how to hold poses, common workarounds, meditative focus, creating space, working with injuries, how to safely come out of poses, benefits of poses and meridians stimulated

  • Yin Pose Variations (to go deeper or to work with limitations)

  • Counter Poses

  • Yin Yoga Sequencing

  • Meditation Practices

  • Breathwork (Pranayama)

  • The language of Yin (teacher cueing, student self-awareness, how to set intention and allow for inner work, the difference between teaching Yin and Hatha)

  • How to develop a Yin self-practice and to teach to the needs of the individual

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• Qi Vitality

  • Digestion and elimination: their role with connective tissue, joint health and overall vitality

  • Healing with whole foods according to Traditional Chinese Medicine

  • The physiology of warming and cooling foods

  • Excess and deficiency (how to self-diagnose, identify symptoms, body-type)

  • Dietary recommendations for excess and deficiencies

Program Format & Location

The training takes place 1 day a week for 4 weeks, as a weekday part-time yoga teacher training program.  This will allow you more time to assimilate the theory, put it into personal practice and come prepared for the next day of training with your questions and observations.

The program format will be presentations on theory, history, anatomy, and include guided practices, hands-on teaching and partner work.  Participants are expected to review the material and practice at home in the time between training days, so that questions and observations can be discussed in the following training day. Participants should allocate at least 1 hour a day for experiential practice, reading and homework.

[Enjoy free, ample parking, access to yoga props, complimentary tea, and lunch will be provided with a cooking demo of foods that can help detox and build healthy connective tissue for the season that we're in.] * Not applicable during Covid

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Covid Update, System Requirements:

• A webcam or smartphone with a camera

• Fast, reliable internet connection

• Laptop or desktop

• Dedicated, uninterrupted space to practice yoga, demo yoga poses, participate in online learning

• You must have your video turned on during online contact hours in order to prove your attendance

Schedule

Hours

9:00am-5:00pm, Wednesdays

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Dates (4 weeks)

April 7, 2021

April 14, 2021

April 21, 2021

April 28, 2021

Tuition Fee

Yoga & Tea Studio is recognized as a Certified Private Educational Institution by HRSDC and the CRA.  Participants in our training programs are eligible to receive an official tuition fee receipt (T2202A) for Tuition and Education Tax Credits for personal income tax.

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$749 +HST (early bird special)

Payment made by March 17, 2021

Save over $50 off the regular fee!

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$799 +HST (regular fee)

Payment made between March 18 - 31, 2021

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Book your spot! Pay a non-refundable deposit payment of $125+HST. You will be contacted to make the remainder of the tuition fee.

Tuition Fee Includes:

• 30 hours of classroom instruction

• Training manual, textbook and meridian chart (valued at $100)

• Certificate of completion. For 200 hour certified Yoga Teachers the credits for this training can be applied towards a 500 hour certification and is eligible for CEUs with Yoga Alliance.

• 5 class flex pass valid at Yoga & Tea Studio

• 15% discount at Yoga & Tea Studio for the duration of the program for items such as mats, bags, cushions, CDs, books, jewelery, etc

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Registration and Refund details:

• Maximum registration is 10 students

• Registration deadline is March 31 or when max number of registrants has been met

• Refunds (minus $125 admin fee) are available before March 17, 2021

• No refunds after March 17, 2021

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 REGISTER HERE 

Only 10 spots available!

Save over $50 until March 17!