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Teacher Trainings



200-HR VINYASA YOGA TEACHER TRAINING
Recognized by Yoga Alliance

 

At a time when our world is unstable and erratic, inner peace through personal grounding is not only essential but becoming extremely sought after.  This is your opportunity to build a self-affirming and fulfilling career as a yoga instructor, bringing yoga's peace and foundation into your own life, as well as the lives of your students. 

In just eight weeks or our 10-weekend training, you will learn to inspire your students to gain greater knowledge of their bodies, employ the full potential of their minds, and allow them to see that optimum health is achievable.  Enhance your own life while enriching the lives of others.  Don't miss out on this amazing opportunity to spread inner peace throughout the world.

The Always-At-Aum Yoga School offers a thorough and comprehensive 200-hr yoga teacher training  in the Vinyasa style.  Once a student has completed the training they have the option of becoming dual certified
in the hot style by taking additional training.

Training will include instruction on the following topics:

  • Teaching Methodology
  • Yoga Philosophy
  • Sanskrit, Chanting and Mantras
  • Anatomy, Physiology and Injury Management
  • Human Energy and Chakra System
  • Pranayama
  • Meditation
  • Ayurveda
  • Prenatal Yoga
  • Restorative Yoga
  • Contact Yoga

Location of Training:
Always-At-Aum Yoga School
170 Little East Neck Road, Suite #3
West Babylon, NY 11704

WEEKEND Training Schedule for 2012:
Fridays from 6pm-9pm, Saturdays and Sundays from 10am-6pm
  • January 6, 7, 8, 20, 21, 22
  • February 3, 4, 5, 17, 18, 19
  • March 2, 3, 4, 16, 17, 18, 30, 31
  • April 1, 13, 14, 15, 28, 29
  • May 12, 13

8-WEEK INTENSIVE (winter) Training Schedule:
January 17, 2012 - March 2, 2012 from 10am-2pm


8-WEEK INTENSIVE (spring) Training Schedule:
March 26, 2012 - May 18, 2012 from 10am-2pm
NO CLASS April 6-13, 2012

Cost of Training:
The cost of the training is $2800. 

8-Week Intensive Payment Options:

  • Option #1: Pay $2800 by the start of the training.
  • Option #2: Pay $950 when registering for the training, $950 at the start of the training and $950 before the last day of training.  This option is $2850.*

Weekend Payment Options:

  • Option #1: Pay $2800 by the start of the training.
  • Option #2: Pay $950 when registering for the training, $950 at the start of the training and $950 before the last day of training.  This option is $2850.*
  • Option #3: Pay $500 when registering for the training, and 5 monthly payments of $480 that are due by the 1st of each month the training is being held.  This option totals $2900.*

 

*If a trainee decides to drop out of the training before it is completed he/she is still responsible to pay the remaining balance.  They may keep the materials and complete the training at a later time at no additional cost for the training.  They maybe subject to additional fees for materials.

Graduation Requirements:

  • It is heavily recommended that you maintain a daily practice throughout the duration of the training either with an instructor or a home practice. 
  • Complete all written homework and reading assignments.
  • Attend all classes: 8-week intensive training - If you wish to receive a signed certificate at graduation you can miss no more then (6) days of training.  Each day missed must be made up in a 45-minute private session.  The fee for each private session is $50.  To avoid paying the fee you can take the missed class during another training session at no additional charge.  If you miss more then (6) classes you will have to make them up during another training session. Weekend training - If you wish to receive a signed certificate at graduation you can miss no more then (4) days of training.  Each day missed must be made up in a 1-hr private session.  The fee for each private session is $75.  To avoid paying the fee you can take the missed class during another training session at no additional charge.  If you miss more then (4) classes you will have to make them up during another training session.
  • Complete 2 phases of a final examination.

All requirements above must be met before you receive a signed certificate.  If they have not been met by the time of graduation you will be able to graduate with your class but you will not receive your certificate.  Once you have met the requirements you will receive the certificate and be able to register with Yoga Alliance.  It is important to know the Yoga Alliance has no time limit to complete the training so please don't worry if you do need to make up dates in another session.


What to Bring: Some of the sessions will begin with a vigorous yoga practice so wear comfortable clothing and perhaps bring a change of clothes.  You will be given a training curriculum, which you are to bring to each session along with other materials listed on the agenda.  You will also want to bring a pen, highlighter, and a notebook.  Feel free to bring snacks.

 

Deepening Your Yoga Practice:


Register for 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training
or call: (631)235-5307

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SYMMETRY STUDIOS

Register for 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training


Training Schedule:
Fridays from 6pm-9pm
Saturdays from10am-6pm
Sundays from 9am-5pm

Winter-Spring Training of 2012:
  • January 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22
  • February 10, 11, 12, 24, 25, 26
  • March 9, 10, 11, 23, 24, 25
  • April 14, 15, 20, 21, 22
  • May 5, 6, 18, 19, 20
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Location of Training:

SYMMETRY STUDIOS
206 North Main Avenue
Scranton, PA 18504
(570)780-7830

Option #1: Pay 2250 in full by the start of the training.*

Option #2: Pay $1200 by the start of the training and pay the remaining balance of $1200 no later than halfway through the training.  This option totals $2400.*

Option #3: Pay the non-refundable fee of $400 and make 6 monthly payments of $350 that are due by the 1st of each month the training is being held.  This option totals $2500.*

*If a trainee decides to drop out of the training before it is completed he/she is still responsible to pay the remaining balance.  They may keep the materials and complete the training at a later time at no additional cost for the trainig.  They maybe subject to additional fees for materials.


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300-HR ADVANCED YOGA TEACHER TRAINING


The only requirement for our 300-hr Yoga Teacher Training is the completion of a 200-hr Yoga Teacher Training with a Yoga Alliance registered school or one that is approved by the Always-At-Aum Yoga School to be the equivalent. Registration is ongoing and the participants can begin immediately. 

There are (3) components to the 300-hr Yoga Teacher Training:
Totals = 300-hours

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COMPONENT (1) – Practicum (40-hours):
All of the following must be done at the school with a 500-hr RYT or ERYT instructor present.  You will NOT have to make a donation to attend these classes:
  • Take (24) yoga classes
  • (10) yoga classes - assist, observe, give an In Class Private's (ICP)  or teach with a 500-RYT or ERYT indtructor present
  • Video record and critique yourself taking (1) vinyasa yoga class 
  • Video record and critique yourself teaching (1) vinyasa yoga class 
  • Attend (2) 2-hr mentor meetings
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COMPONENT (2) – Classroom Training (90-hours):
Participants are required to complete 90-hours of advanced teaching techniques, methodology and philosophy covering the following topics:
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COMPONENT (3) – ADDITIONAL TRAININGS and WORKSHOPS (170-Hours):
One of the unique aspects of the 300-hr Advanced Yoga Teacher Training at the Always-At-Aum Yoga School is that the participants are given the freedom to decide on the additional trainings and workshops to acquire the 170-hours.  We have arranged for over 500-hours of additional trainings and workshops to choose from.  Your tuition for is included in cost of the 300-hr YTT but you may have to pay an additional fee for training materials.  You will know this information before taking any training or workshop. 

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300-HR ADVANCED TRAINING FEE:

Option #1 - Pay in full at the start of the training = $3050
Option #2 - Pay as you go = $3500 ($500 when registering then $10/hr)

* Please note students from a different 200-hr YTT will need to purchase the Always-At-Aum Yoga School's 200-hr Yoga Teacher Training Curriculum. 


GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS:
The advanced 300-hr YTT was created differently then the 200-hr YTT.  It takes more time to complete and is desinged to empower the trainee to take a more proactive role.  All of the requirements above must be met before the trainee receives a signed certificate.  Once they have you will receive the certificate and be able to register with the Yoga Alliance.  There is no time limit to complete the training. 

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TRAUMA TEACHER TRAINING


DATE:
January 27-29, 2012

TIME: Friday 6pm-8:45pm, Saturday and Sunday 10am-6pm

 

WHERE: Always-At-Aum Yoga School

 

TUITION: $450 (Includes materials)


CLICK HERE TO REGISTER or call: (631)235-5307

~ Receive 20-hours towards your 300-hr YTT or 17-CE's~

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KIDS FOUNDATION TEACHER TRAINING

"I am convinced that this training raises the bar significantly for kids trainings."  ~ Debby Kaminsky

Newark Yoga Movement is an all-inclusive community of individuals who want to help make meaningful change in children’s lives.  Newark Yoga Movement, gladly welcomes anyone to be a part of this mission--yoga teachers, regular teachers, practicing yogis and yoginis, caring citizens.  Yoga teachers have the opportunity to teach yoga in any of the 73 schools within Newark for “paid seva” or charity.  Volunteers have the opportunity to be “mirrors” for the children during a class so that they can see visuals of the poses that the teacher is taking them through.  Everyone has the opportunity to learn and enjoy at one of NYM 20-hour KIDS FOUNDATION trainings.

DATE: February 10-12, 2012

TIME: Friday 9-5pm, Saturday 9-5pm & Sunday 9-4pm

TUITION: $395 if registered by January 5, 2012, $450 thereafter

LOCATION: 434 Old Short Hills Road, Short Hills, NJ

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER or call Debby Kaminsky at: (917)748-0989

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YOGA ED.™ K-8 INSTRUCTOR TRAINING

DATE:
TBD

TIME: TBD

WHERE: TBD

TUITION: $1000 - ($900 - if registered by TBD)

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER or call: (631)235-5307

~ Receive 40-hours towards your 300-hr YTT ~

Click here to request a K-8 Instructor Training in your area


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YOGA ED. HIGH SCHOOL INSTRUCTOR TRAINING - None at this time

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YOGA ED.™ K-8 TWO WEEKEND INSTRUCTOR TRAINING

DATE: 9/28-10/2 and 10/28-10/30

TIME: Fridays 6pm-8:45pm and Saturdays and Sundays 10am-6pm

LOCATION: Always-At-Aum Yoga School
                    170 Little East Neck Road, Suite #3
                         West Babylon, NY 11704

TUITION: $1000 - ($900 - if registered by August 28, 2011

 

~ 300-hr YTT Particpants receive a $400 discount and 40-hrs ~


REGISTER or call: (631)235-5307

 

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WHAT IS REIKI?


Reiki (pronounced ray-key) means "universal life force energy". It’s a Japanese hands-on healing technique used for relaxation, stress reduction and to promote healing. Reiki is gentle, soothing, and non-invasive. The Reiki Practitioner acts as a pipeline for universal life-force energy. They treat their client through a series of specific hand positions placed gently on the body of the person being treated. This facilitates the flow of Reiki energy through the practitioner, manifesting a heightened feeling of warmth in the hands. The Reiki Practitioner merely serves as a conduit for the Reiki energy. Blockages of energy within our bodies can make us feel slow, depressed, and even sick. Reiki therapy works by re-balancing our energy system, on a physical, emotional, mental and spiritual level whereby promoting total healing and peace. Scientists have discovered that every cell in our body is constantly striving for balance. This is called the “homeostatic tendency”. Reiki energy works to amplify this mechanism. Reiki has gained and continues to gain acceptance into the medical community as a meaningful, cost-effective approach to promoting healing. Reiki has demonstrated great success in decreasing the pain of cancer, proven effective in patients with AIDS, lupus, chronic pain, anxiety, postoperative surgery and even childbirth. Reiki has also been shown to:

  • Decrease or eliminate the need for medical intervention
  • Decrease side effects of medicine
  • Reduce a patient’s recovery time from an invasive procedure
  • Strengthen a patient’s immune system and accelerate their natural healing process
  • Dissolve addictive patterns
  • Improve focus and concentration
  • Aid meditation, positive thinking and spiritual growth
  • Increase your intuition and psychic awareness
  • Provide relaxation, confidence, peace, joy and serenity
  • Create balance, harmony and clarity in daily life
  • Encourage personal development, self-love and love for others
  • Help release tension, stress and negative energies

With Reiki, we can take our health and well being literally in our own hands by simply activating an energy, which flows within us all. Reiki creates and maintains physical, mental, emotional and spiritual balance. Reiki offers you the opportunity to reclaim the power to shape and transform your life. You are given the power to consciously create the life you want for yourself. The more you use the energy and wisdom, the more power you have to shape your world according to the design of your highest dreams.

For more information, to schedule a Reiki treatment, workshop or certification training please contact Robin Appel at: (631)235-5307 or email: Always-At-Aum

TRADITIONAL USUI METHOD OF REIKI

Reiki Level I – Cost $200 – 3 Hours (depending on number of students)
First-degree Reiki graduates can easily treat themselves and others--including pets and plants. (Reiki gardeners treat their seeds before planting them.) I've used it for a once-persistent back problem, to sooth crying babies, and for a cat which used to vomit as part of his daily routine. In a Reiki Level I training you will:

  • Participate in 2 group meditations
  • Receive four attunements
  • Learn the history of Reiki
  • Learn the 5 principles of Reiki
  • Learn the hand positions for giving self and for others a treatment
  • Give yourself a Reiki treatment
  • Give and receive a full body Reiki treatment with someone else
  • Be introduced to other healing techniques
  • Receive a Reiki Level I handbook
  • Receive a certification as a Reiki Level I Practitioner
DATE: Saturday, April 9, 2011

TIME: 11:30am-2:30pm (5:30pm depending on number of students)

WHERE: Always-At-Aum Yoga School

TUITION: $200

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER or call: (631)235-5307

 

Reiki Level II – Cost $200 – 3 Hours (depending on number of students)
In second-degree Reiki students learn symbols which focus universal life force energy. The power symbol increases energy and seals its power. The mental/emotional healing symbol helps to balance the right and left sides of the brain, and can be used to calm emotional distress and for healing unwanted habits. One of my students used it to quit smoking; others have used it for weight loss. The distant healing symbol bridges time and space, and can be used to send healing energy across a room, a country, or an ocean, to the past or the future. My students have used it to heal childhood traumas and to manifest their goals. In a Reiki Levell II training you will:

  • Participate in 2 group meditations
  • Receive four attunements
  • Learn the power symbol, which intensifies the Reiki energy
  • Learn the mental/emotional balancing symbol, which helps to balance the right and left sides of the brain, enhances spiritual and emotional growth, and can be used for healing unwanted habits.
  • Learn the distant healing symbol bridges both time and space. Our students have used it to heal emotional wounds from childhood, to empower the realization of future goals, and to send healing to others.
  • Give and receive a full body Reiki treatment with someone else
  • Receive a Reiki Level II Handbook - which includes tips on how to start your own Reiki practice
  • Receive a certification as a Reiki Level II Practitioner
DATE: TBD

TIME: TBD

WHERE: TBD

TUITION: $200 - ($150 if you have taken Reiki level I)

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER or call: (631)235-5307

Reiki Level I & II Combined – Cost $350 ($50 discount) - 6 Hours (depending on number of students)
Course is taught over a 2-day period
DATE: TBD

TIME: TBD

WHERE: TBD

TUITION: $350

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER or call: (631)235-5307

Reiki III Master/Teacher Level – Cost $600 - 6 Hours (depending on number of students)
Course is taught over a 2-day period. As a Reiki Master you will be given the Master symbol. As a Reiki Master/Teacher you will be able to certify others to become Reiki practitioners. In a Master/Teacher training you will:
  • Participate in 4 group meditations
  • Receive 2 attunements
  • Give and receive a full body Reiki treatment with someone else
  • You will learn the fourth and final Reiki symbol, which enables you to initiate and attune others, as well as certify them to the practice of Reiki
  • Students will practice attunements
  • Students will go over practical details of leading Reiki Workshops
  • Receive a Reiki Level III Master/Teacher handbook
  • Receive a certification as a Reiki Level III Master/Teacher, which will allow you to certify others

In addition to the Reiki material covered during the certification workshops, each handbook contains information on the chakras, crystals, flower essences, essential oils, and power animals.

No special meditative techniques are needed for practicing Reiki; you can give yourself a treatment while watching television, having a conversation, or reading. You don't need a background as a healer, either. I have taught postal workers, lawyers, artists, and engineers.

The ideas below, common to Western medicine, can cause difficulties for those who want to explore Reiki:
  • One is that healing is a matter of repairing the body.
  • Another is that medical cures give immediate (or at least speedy) results.
  • A third is that the doctor is the healer, and that your only role is to do what he says.

Reiki operates within a different set of premises.
  • Another is that healing is not necessarily an immediate occurrence but a process of re-balancing on all levels.
  • One is that healing must occur on emotional, mental, and spiritual levels in order to accomplish physical effects.
  • Another is that healing is not necessarily an immediate occurrence but a process of re-balancing on all levels. 
  • A third is that you are the healer.

Multilevel Healing
Reiki doesn't focus on physical healing alone (although physical healing often results from treatments). It's based on the belief (shared by other disciplines in the field called vibrational healing) that health on mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical levels is caused by the free flow of energy. When energy is blocked imbalances result. Stress, for example, is often caused by the mind being burdened by worry. Worry involves thoughts (I have so much to do; how will I ever get it all done) which create an impasse or blockage (I can't), with accompanying feelings (the sensation of fear, panic, etc.) which produce emotional blockages. These can lead to bodily tightening and tension, which can create the conditions for pain and/or illness. Medical, surgical, or pharmaceutical solutions may relieve the physical symptoms, but they or a new set of symptoms will occur if the basic imbalance remains.

Reiki treatments don't focus specifically on relieving symptoms (although, again they are often relieved), but on dissolving the blockages so that energy can flow to re-balance the individual on all levels. The Reiki symbols can be used to accelerate this process.
The power symbol amplifies the energy flow; the mental/emotional balance symbol relieves the pressure on burdened minds; the distant healing symbol, in addition to its many other uses, can send healing energy to past traumas and conflicts (I failed once, I'll fail again; I have to do well because it's always been expected of me) which, in the manner of a low-grade and chronic infection, provide the constant potential for imbalance.

Reiki is Not Penicillin
In saying this we don't want to close out the possibility of immediate results. There have been many instances in which a single Reiki treatment had miraculous results. Imbalances, however, are often a lifetime in development, and though it takes much less than a lifetime to heal them the process isn't a quick fix.
This is one of the reasons why we focus on teaching Reiki. If you are working on dissolving long-term imbalances being able to give yourself daily (or more often) treatments is more cost-effective than going to a practitioner on a daily basis.

We also believe that regular self-treatment can also prevent imbalances and blockages from occurring. If you're going through a stressful period in life regular treatments can help to relax your body, mind, and emotions so that stress, rather than building up, diminishes. In addition, if you have worries about the future, you can use the distant healing symbol to send energy to create those conditions which you desire.

We Are All Healers
Another, related, reason why we focus on teaching Reiki is that we believe that we are the creators of our own health. Any practitioner can tell you that people respond differently to a given treatment. Much of this has to do with someones willingness to be healed, including the willingness to take responsibility for one's healing and well-being.

To learn Reiki makes a material contribution to this willingness. We are then both affirming that we have the ability and the willingness to heal ourselves, and giving ourselves a simple yet powerful way of doing so.

We come into this world as whole and balanced beings. With Reiki we can restore the wholeness which is our birthright.
Reiki Release stress and tension
Dissolve addictive patterns
Enhance your personal and spiritual growth
Increase your intuitive and psychic awareness
Awaken your innate power to heal yourself and others
In Reiki an attunement activates your healing energy and starts a cleansing process, which opens up the body, mind, and emotions. Once attuned you are attuned for life.

Reiki doesn't focus on physical healing (although many such healing has been reported). It's based on the belief that all imbalance originates on the mental and emotional planes. If not corrected an imbalance can affect the physical body. When that happens medical, surgical, or pharmaceutical solutions may relieve the physical symptoms, but they or a new set of symptoms will occur if the basic imbalance remains.
Reiki (with other disciplines in a field called vibrational healing) works on the principle that health on all levels is caused by the free flow of energy. When energy is blocked mental and emotional imbalances are created.
I am often asked exactly what this energy is and where it comes from. In Japanese Reiki means "universal life force energy." The idea is that all life forms are created and maintained by a universal energy source, which we translate into our personal energy. The natural state of things is to be in balance and to feel one's connection to all living things--or, as Einstein said, "A human being is part of the whole, called by us 'Universe.'" He also noted that when we experience ourselves as being separate from that whole we find ourselves in a kind of prison. Energy blockages are the walls and bars of the jail cell.

QUESTIONS

What will I feel when I receive a Reiki treatment?
Everybody feels something different. The most common response someone will give after receiving a Reiki treatment is that they feel completely relaxed and refreshed. Some people go into a deep meditative state, some feel waves of energy washing over them, and others may see colors and images. Most people experience heat come from the Reiki Practitioners hands, while some have stated that they feel a cool sensation.

What can Reiki do for me?
Reiki goes where it is needed most.

Who should receive Reiki?
Reiki is for everyone regardless of age, sex, race, creed, or state of health. Reiki can do no harm and does not interfere with any other treatment.

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REIKI THERAPY CERTIFICATION

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CHAKRA HEALER CERTIFICATION

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Training's We Offer:

All Trainings are recognized by Yoga Alliance

Always-At-Aum specializes in hot yoga and vinyasa teacher trainings, kids yoga teacher trainings and holds yoga classes on Gilgo Beach in Babylon, which is near both Nassau and Suffolk County on Long Island.

We must be the change we wish to see in the world.~Mahatma Gandhi

For more information call us at: (631) 235-5307 or email: Always-At-Aum