200 HOUR GENTLE YOGA
TRAINING CERTIFICATION
Gentle
Share the Softer Side of Yoga
Our Gentle Yoga Certification gives you the skills to teach any of the following yoga traditions:
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Gentle Yoga
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Gentle Vinyasa or Vinyasa Basics
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Yoga for Beginners
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Yin Yoga
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Restorative Yoga
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and their derivatives
YOGA
YOGA ALLIANCE REGISTERED
SINCE 2006
200 HOUR CURRICULUM
Our 200 hour certification consists of two 100 hour modules, which can be taken in any order:
ANATOMY & KINESIOLOGY
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This module will revolutionize your practice forever and transform your relationship to your body.
Learn to read students' movement, analyze your own, and clearly understand the functional anatomy as applied to poses and transitions.
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METHODOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY
- gentle yoga -
Learn the fundamentals of teaching and sequencing the Gentle styles, working with beginning yoga students, and weaving the rich philosophy of yoga into your classes. Learn how to create nurturing environments, teach meditation, and use yoga as a tool for personal self transformation.
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HOW IT WORKS
STEP
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COMPLETE YOUR FIRST MODULE
Both of our required modules are offered once a year.
Anatomy & Kinesiology starts in the Spring, and Methodology & Philosophy is offered in the Fall. Begin your journey with the next available module. Make up is always available should you have a conflict.
STEP
2
COMPLETE YOUR SECOND MODULE
Once you have completed your first 100-hours, you have 3 years to take the second without re-applying. Make up is always available if you have a conflict.
STEP
3
TEACH YOUR FINAL CLASS
Once you have completed both modules, our Advisor will help schedule your final class at your convenience. You can then invite your friends to share everything you have learnt, and celebrate your achievement.
STEP
4
REGISTER WITH YOGA ALLIANCE (optional)
Our 200-hour Flow Certification is approved by the Yoga Alliance. Once we issue your certificate, you can join their registry at the 200-hour level and use the RYT designation after your name.
A DAY IN TRAINING
WE BEGIN EVERY DAY WITH A NEW LECTURE
MEET YOUR FACULTY
LINDA McGRATH
Linda is the founder and owner of Yoga Source Los Gatos, the largest independently-owned studio on the West Coast and Silicon Valley's most awarded Yoga and Pilates program. She leads trainings, conferences, and retreats in the US and internationally. As the Director of the YogaSource Teacher Training Institute since its inception in 2006, she has nurtured hundreds of successful yoga instructors from across the country.
Linda is a student of modern Buddhism, Jungian psychology and Interpersonal Neurobiology. Her yoga classes are a playful and masterful blend of precision, elegance and breath.
Linda has been interviewed and profiled by YogaJournal, NBC News, ABC's Best of the Bay, Common Ground, Yogi Times, San Jose Magazine, Los Gatos Weekly News and other publications. At other times of the day, she is a mom, a wife, a writer, a designer, and a foodie. Linda is a senior Ambassador for Lululemon Athletica and a board member of Insight World Aid, a local grassroots non-for profit inspired by the Buddhist principles of wisdom and compassion.
ANN WEISMANN
Ann's movement roots began in the dance world with an extensive background in classical ballet and Modern dance. She is a certified Pilates Mat instructor through the Physical Mind Institute and a certified Pilates Apparatus trainer by nationally recognized instructor and body worker, Madeline Black. Ann has taught Pilates since 1999 and loves working with beginners to advanced movers creating functional strength and freedom of movement in an atmosphere where all levels are welcome.
The positive benefits for health and well being led Ann to Yoga where she completed the 500 hour Gentle Yoga Training with Linda McGrath at Yoga Source Los Gatos and Yoga Therapy with Cheri Clampett.
Ann currently teaches Gentle, Yin and Restorative Yoga as well as leads the 65hour Gentle Teacher Training with Nikki Smithson at Yoga Source.
Ann brings energy, humor and compassion to her Gentle Yoga classes and is committed to helping her students create balance in their lives.
NIKKI SMITHSON
Nikki discovered Yoga through a studio around the corner from her apartment. She began to notice many changes beyond just her physical body. She began to unwind with each Yoga class and discovered something she didn't think would be possible. Having anxiety and asthma much of her life, she never thought that anything could calm her mind and allow her to take deeper breaths.
Nikki completed her initial 200-hour certification through Yogasource. She then journey into the teachings of Yin, meditation, Restorative, Medical Qigong, and Kundalini. She recently completed a second 200-hour energetic flow training. Nikki believes that Yoga is a place to unwind and let go in order to discover your true self.
TESTIMONIALS
"... I am super grateful of the opportunity to practice teach. That made a great difference in my progression. By far that was the key to your program – giving us all the opportunity to teach and get used to speaking, yogi-ing, putting together sequences, etc. Thank you, thank you, thank you, for not just filling our brains! You let our brains activate our bodies."
- Kory