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22 Day 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training in Cragsmoor, New York, USA
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing,191 Cragsmoor Road, Cragsmoor, New York 12566, USA
USA Yoga Teacher Training in New York
During this three-week immersion residential teacher training program, earn your 200-hour Yoga Alliance-approved training certificate of completion. Led by two engaging senior yoga instructors in Dharmakaya’s private, personalized atmosphere, this is a rare opportunity to focus on and advance your practice in seclusion. This training provides a solid foundation of various forms of yoga, giving students the ability to teach a variety of forms as well as the foundation to specialize after the training.
Meet the instructors
Anna & Donna
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Highlights
- Learn anatomy and physiology
- Topics include philosophy, ethics, teaching methodology, and techniques
- Eligibility to register for Yoga Alliance certification upon successful completion
- Delicious all-vegetarian meals with locally sourced ingredients
- Interactive sessions with question-and-answer periods
- 21 nights accommodation
Skill level
- Intermediate
Styles
20 days with instruction
Accommodation
Check-in Time:
15:00
Check-out Time:
13:00
Facilities
- Air-conditioned public areas
- Air-conditioned rooms
- Dining area
- Environmentally friendly
- Fireplace
- Kitchen
- Lobby
- Lounge
- Smoke-free property
- Terrace
- Yoga studio
- Free parking
- Free Wi-Fi
- Library
Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing's two residence halls offer a simple, peaceful environment that supports your retreat experience. Rates include breakfast, lunch, and dinner. To maintain an atmosphere of calm, the rooms do not have televisions, telephones, or internet access.
Each participant will have a private bedroom for rest and study.
Program
Certification
Students who complete the training are eligible to register with Yoga Alliance as Registered Yoga Teachers (RYT®).
Prerequisites
Some yoga experience is highly recommended. Before registering, Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing will send an application form for you to fill out and discuss your application.
Program description
Each day includes a total of 10 hours of yoga, learning sessions, and homework. There will be a total of 3 weeks of sessions to meet all of the 200-hour Yoga Alliance training requirements. You will learn:
- Yamas and Niyamas
- Different types / styles of yoga defined
- Anatomy and physiology
- Philosophy, ethics, lifestyle
- Teaching methodology and techniques
- Mantra, meditation, asana, pranayama, sequencing, forward and backbends, inversions, and twists
- Meditation, breathing, relaxation techniques, including yoga Nidra
- Kundalini yoga sets and meditations, as well as the chakra energy systems. You will have the opportunity to study and enjoy the benefits of yogic eating as well as lifestyle information about various approaches to food and diet (raw, fasting, cleanses, etc.).
Upon completion of the training and exam, the teacher trainer will be able to teach alignment-based Hatha yoga as well as Kundalini.
Training highlights
- Intimate setting with personal access to the teacher
- Interactive sessions with question-and-answer periods
- Shamatha and guided meditations
- Delicious all-vegetarian meals with locally sourced ingredients
- Option to extend stay on Personal Retreat
- Extensive library of dharma books
- Expansive wooded grounds with beautiful flora and fauna
Training requirements
To receive your teaching certificate, you must attend the entire program of 181 contact hours. You can miss up to 12 hours of this, but anything more than that must be made up in a private session (1 hour of private tutoring per 3 hours missed) at a rate of 95 USD per hour.
If you miss more than 19 contact hours, you cannot make it up in private sessions, and you will not receive a teaching certificate, even though you have paid in full for the training.
You must complete all homework assignments (including teaching, giving, and receiving feedback) and the final exam.
Sample schedule (subject to change)
Friday, January
- 15:00 - 18:00 Check-in begins (reception hall)
- 18:00 - 19:00 Dinner (dining room)
- 19:00 Welcome (meditation hall)
- 22:00 Lights out
Daily schedule
- 06:00 - 06:30 Coffee or tea
- 06:30 - 07:00 Morning meditation (meditation hall)
- 07:00 - 09:00 Morning yoga (meditation hall)
- 09:00 - 10:00 Breakfast (dining hall)
- 10:00 - 13:00 Learning session (meditation hall)
- 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch (dining hall)
- 14:00 - 16:00 Learning session (meditation hall)
- 16:00 - 17:30 Afternoon yoga (meditation hall)
- 17:30 - 18:00 Learning session (meditation hall)
- 18:00 - 19:00 Dinner (dining room)
- 19:00 - 20:30 Personal study time
- 20:30 - 21:00 Optional evening meditation (meditation hall)
- 22:00 Lights out
Instructors
Anna Winkler
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Amba Winkler has been studying, teaching, and practicing yoga since 1988. She is the director and owner of Shakti Yoga and Living Arts, a yoga and wellness studio in Maplewood, New Jersey, where she also offers massage and bodywork. She has been a student of Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche and Khenchen Rinpoche since 2003.
Donna Davidge
Donna Amrita Davidge, E-RYT500, YACEP is the Director of Sewall House Yoga Retreat. Donna took her first yoga class in college in the 1970s but it was not until the mid-1980s that she immersed herself in learning yoga, first teaching Kundalini yoga and then branching out to teach other forms of yoga-based. She has taught full-time for over 35 years in New York City, and since 1997 at her yoga retreat in northern Maine. Her teaching ranges from Restorative to active Vinyasa, including Nidra and Yin. Her love for chanting, pranayama, and meditation came out of her studies with Kundalini yoga.
Location
Perched on a beautifully wooded hillside in the village of Cragsmoor, New York, this 90-acre campus is a world apart, a place to shed the intensity of modern life, a place to find yourself. The design is intimate, elegant, and simple, with outdoor spaces for walking meditation and two terraces with lovely views of the woods.
Distances
- New York city - 2 hours
- Philadelphia - 3 hours
- Boston - 4 hours
- Washington DC - 5.5 hours
Features
General
- Air-conditioned public areas
- Air-conditioned rooms
- Dining area
- Environmentally friendly
- Fireplace
- Kitchen
- Lobby
- Lounge
- Smoke-free property
- Terrace
- Yoga studio
Services
- Free parking
- Free Wi-Fi
- Library
Food
Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are included in your accommodation fee. To promote good health, they serve delicious, varied, nutritious vegetarian and vegan meals. Their menus often include rennet-free cheese and non-fertilized eggs. They also use onions, garlic, and other herbs.
Delicious all-vegetarian meals with locally sourced ingredients are included. Hot water and a selection of black and herbal teas (as well as a selection of dairy and plant-based milk and sweeteners) are available in the dining hall and the tea stations in Birch and Oak Houses throughout the day.
There is always a bowl of fruit available in the dining hall. Sometimes there are cookies, too.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Snacks
- Drinks
The following drinks are included:
- Water
- Tea
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Vegetarian
- Vegan
If you have special dietary requirements it's a good idea to communicate it to the organiser when making a reservation
What's included
- Learn anatomy and physiology
- Interactive sessions with question-and-answer periods
- Topics include philosophy, ethics, teaching methodology, techniques
- Eligibility to register for Yoga Alliance certification upon successful completion
- Delicious all-vegetarian meals with locally sourced ingredients
- 21 nights accommodation
- Use of all campus facilities
- Certificate of completion
What's not included
- Airfare
- Airport transfers
How to get there
Recommended Airports
EWR
Newark Liberty International Airport
109 km
Transfer not provided
SWF
Stewart International Airport
29 km
Transfer not provided
LGA
LaGuardia Airport
107 km
Transfer not provided
JFK
John F. Kennedy International Airport
124 km
Transfer not provided
Arrival by car
These services offer local car services from Stewart Airport, the Middletown, NY train station, or the bus stop in Ellenville, NY. Please check with individual companies for rates and restrictions. You may wish to book a taxi a day in advance.
- Uber
- Lyft
- Jim's Taxi and Medical Transportation
- Busy Bee Cab
You can also rent a car at any Enterprise Rent-a-Car and they can give you a discount.
When you arrive at the center, drive up the hill to drop your luggage at the Reception Hall. Follow a staff member back down the hill to the lower parking lot. They will shuttle you back up to the Reception Hall where you’ll check in.
Arrival by airplane
Please book your flight to arrive at Stewart International Airport (SWF), LaGuardia Airport (LGA), Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR), or John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK). Airport transfer is not provided. You can reach the venue by car rental or via train to Middletown, New York.
Arrival by bus
There are two choices for bus travel from the New York Port Authority to the Cragsmoor area; from either, you can continue to the Center via one of the car services listed above. The Shortline Bus stops in Ellenville, New York, approximately a 15-minute drive from the Center. This is the closer option, but offers fewer travel times
The Trailways Bus stops in New Paltz, New York, approximately 40 minutes from the Center. There are more than 20 buses scheduled most days
Arrival by train
You can take the train from New York Grand Central Station, New York Penn Station, or Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR).
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 100% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
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