22 Day 500-Hour Yoga Teacher Training with TK Yoga in Hérault, Occitanie

Why choose TK Yoga Retreat?

• Tina and Keely have been teaching yoga for over 25 years
• They are dedicated to their students and provide ongoing support
• They are a family run business
• Their menu is vegetarian but they try to accommodate all dietary needs
• Their training is very person-centered allowing for authenticity
• They have a dedicated health professional on-board

Build on your 200-hour teaching to advanced teachings with TK Yoga Retreat's 500-hour teaching certificate. You will be required to keep a journal of your additional hours teaching and studying. Please be prepared to make written observations and to complete more written work and modules during your 500-hour yoga teacher training.

You will be expected to have a clear understanding of your learned core values from TK Yoga Retreat's 200-hour teachings and to attend their workshops or training days and to stay at their retreat venue in South West France during retreat weeks.

More emphasis is placed on self-reflection, deeper understanding, and motivation during your 500-hour training. Be aware that this is an intense course. Your teaching assessments and skills will be quantified by TK Yoga Retreat's observation and awareness of their principal and ethics of the "Best Possible Practice".

Completing the Core Elements will be credited towards attaining 1000 hours.

As follows, there are six main lessons to be covered and cross-referenced. The schedule includes practical and self-directed learning and may not run concurrently.

Please detail a short bio of your yogic journey to date. How this has changed your perspectives. Both the positives and negatives (if there are any) and why this has benefited not only yourself but those you teach and have daily contact with.

• Deepening your practice
• Contraindications
• Creating a safe environment
• Facing fears
• Creating more flexibility
• Questionnaire

Explain your understanding of core strength and why this is important. 500 words or more.

• Diet
• Eating habits (core element)
• Nutrients
• The role of vitamins
• The digestive system (core element)
• Calories and diet
• The importance of water
• Ayurveda and lifestyle
• Questionnaire

Write an in-depth essay on your understanding of a balanced approach to nutrition and dietary needs. Give examples of what nutrient and vitamin deficiencies a vegan / vegetarian might experience and how they can find alternative ways to supplement the body’s needs. Use a simple debate to argue the good points of vegetarian / vegan diets against traditional meat and two veg daily diet. No word length.

• Class management
• Lesson planning
• Routines and flow yoga
• Yin yoga
• Lesson planning for special needs (core element)
• Working with recovering students (core element)
• Ethics
• Questionnaire

Give examples of two lesson plans for new students who have done limited exercise before. One example of a lesson plan for a student with limited movement in legs and arms. A practiced example of a short salutation that could be done by all levels of students.

• Working with Chakras
• Chanting and sounds
• Healing
• Incorporating healing during practice (core element)
• Questionnaire

Explain a flow sequence and how good alignment will ensure that students remain in the best physical shape avoiding injury. Explain how you can empower students and create powerful positive energy within the class setting.

• Deepening your understanding of Asana
• Yoga postures continued
• The respiratory system (core element)
• Working with anxiety and depression (core element)
• Restorative yoga (core element)
• Questionnaire

Device three examples of lesson plans with both English and Sanskrit posture names.

• Muscle Synergy and Balance (core element)
• Yoga Nidra (core element)
• Yoga and Trauma (core element)
• Meditation and Stress Management (core element)

Practical assessments will be carried out by both Tina Brewer and Keely Warren.

Breakdown of training hours as required during your 22-day stay.

On-site training

• Yoga techniques, deepening your practice, and incorporating healing during practice - contact hours: 128
• Yin yoga - contact hours: 20
• Yoga Nidra - contact hours: 10
• Restorative Yoga - contact hours: 10
• Total on-site hours = 168

Core elements and classroom activity

• The Digestive system - contact hours: 4
• The respiratory system - contact hours: 4
• Muscle synergy and balance - contact hours: 4
• Yoga and trauma - contact hours: 3
• Meditation and stress management - contact hours: 3
• Working with recovering students - contact hours: 3
• Working with anxiety and depression - contact hours: 3
• Lesson planning for special needs - contact hours: 3
• Total on-site hours = 27 hours

Online study

• Kirk Yoga Anatomy Fundamentals Yoga Alliance
• Online= 36 hours

Supported self-study modules

Module one

• Assignment
• Contra-indications
• Creating a safe environment
• Facing fears
• Creating more flexibility
• Questionnaire
• Total hours = 12

Module two

• Assignment
• Diet
• Eating Habits (core element)
• Nutrients
• Calories and diet
• The importance of water
• Ayurveda and lifestyle
• Questionnaire
• Total hours = 18

Module three

• Assignment
• Class management
• Lesson planning
• Routines and Flow yoga
• Ethics
• Questionnaire
• Total hours = 22 hours

Module four

• Assignment
• A practiced example of a Chakra based short salutation (all levels)
• Working with Chakras
• Chanting and sounds
• Chakra healing
• Questionnaire
• Total hours = 22 hours

Module five

• Assignment
• Deepening your understanding of Asana
• Yoga postures continued
• Questionnaire
• Total hours = 20 hours

Module six

• Assignment
• Yoga and trauma
• Questionnaire
• Total hours = 30 hours

Approximately 124 hours of modules (supported) and self-study

In addition

• Additional Distance Learning (unsupported) C.P.D Meditation Course Work. Total hours = 25
• Anatomy and Physiology (unsupported) C.P.D Course Work. Total hours = 25
• Aromatherapy and Massage C.P.D Course Work. Total hours = 25

Approximately 75 Hours of distance learning

Total hours: 430

Pre-requisites

• At least one full year of teaching experience at 200 hours
• Assuming 2.40 recorded hours teaching per week over 48 weeks = 115 hours

Total hours: 545 Hours

Books / PDF supplied by TK Yoga Retreat (for each student)

• Working Manual PDF 200-500 Traditional Yoga Studies
• Anatomy Crash Course by Joanna Mattan
• Yoga Anatomy by Sally Parkes or equivalent
• Yoga Anatomy PDF by Leslie Kaminof
• Kirk Yoga Anatomy Fundamentals

TK Yoga Retreat also makes sure to keep abreast topical issues and training with handouts and further reading materials.

Suggested reading materials

• Key Muscles of Yoga by Ray Long
• Yoga Alignment by Steven Weiss
• Yoga Sequencing by Mark Stevens
• Yoga Anatomy by Leslie Kaminoff
• Anatomy of Yoga by Dr. Abby Ellsworth
• Anatomy of Hatha Yoga by David H Coulter
• Patanjali Sutras
• Hatha Yoga Pradipiki by Yoga Publications Trust India
• Four Chapters on Freedom by Swami Satyananda Saraswati
• The Royal Path by Swami Rama
• The Bhagavad Gita by Christopher Isherwood
• Path of Fire and Light 1 and 2 by Swami Rama
• The Chakra Centres of Transformation by Harish Johari
• Chakra Yoga by Anodea Judith
• The Path to Radical Freedom by Lawrence Edwards, PhD
• The Yoga Kitchen by Kimberly Parsons
• Plant-Based Cook Book by Trish Sebben-Krupka
• The Vitamin Bible by Earl Mindell
• Bosh! Plant-Based Food by Henry Firth and Ian Theasby
• Ayurveda Lifestyle Wisdom by Acharya Shunya

• Trip to Lamaou-Les Bains on Tuesday mornings
• Supermarket trip on Saturday afternoons

Saint-Gervais-sur-Mare is a medieval village set in the mountains. As the name suggests, the river that flows through the village is the Mare. Saint-Gervais-sur-Mare is famous for its history in tin mining and chestnut harvesting in times past and is on the way of St James pilgrims path to Santiago de Compostela.

TK Yoga Retreat is nestled behind ancient stonewalling and is quiet and private. There are many beautiful walks and rivers close by you can borrow free cycles from the village information center. There are also bars close by, a pizzeria, The L'Ortensia restaurant, post office, Drs Surgery, and pharmacy. TK Yoga Retreat has one small shop and a bakery. You can visit a small market on Wednesdays. You can find larger shops and weekly markets in the nearby market town of Lamalou-les-Bains.

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You will be provided nourishing whole foods, locally available foods, and organic sourced fruit and vegetables throughout your stay.

If you like horse riding then TK Yoga Retreat is very happy to arrange this for you at their nearby ranch. The cost varies depending on the length of the randonnée. You will need to budget between 35 - 40 EUR.

• Full on-site training
• Trip to the local market
• Free transfers to and from Beziers (the nearest town)
• Washer and dryer on-site (for yoga wear only)
• Plenty of off-road parking
• Free local bikes
• All bedding and towels
• Beverages and three meals per day
• 21 nights accommodation (full board)

• Flights
• Insurance
• Personal items
• Shampoo and conditioner
• Additional coffees or teas whilst out
• Additional snacks

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• A reservation requires a deposit of 30% of the total price.
• The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
• The rest of the payment should be paid on arrival.