500-Hour Advanced Training in Yoga as a Healing Art
Three year program - 
Preliminaries Begin May 7- 9, 2010
Open to all evolving yoga teachers and dedicated students. Applicants holding a 200 hr certificate from a school other than Lighten Up will be asked to attend 3 preliminary weekends at Lighten Up Yoga in order to establish a foundation in the alignment principles of yoga. If you have training in the principles of alignment please indicate so on your application. We ask that you have a yoga teaching practice and a consistent personal yoga practice.
The 500 hr program at Lighten Up Yoga is a natural continuation of yoga studies for those students who have clearly dedicated themselves to yoga and to teaching. The program will assist participants in integrating the many aspects of yoga to better serve their students, teaching experience, personal practice and their healing journey. Yoga has something to offer on all levels. Uncovering its potential requires time, dedication, study and practice.
Choose Lighten Up Yoga as one of your two Yoga Alliance registered schools and attend 4-6 weekends a year to successfully complete your required 14 advanced training weekend modules in three to four years. *Please note that Yoga Alliance will accept only two training schools toward your 500-Hour registration. Your 200-hour school counts as one.
Graduates of the Lighten Up Yoga Teacher Training 200 hr program have been awarded Preferred Status when registering for the 500 hr program.
Economic support offered through early registration and book discounts - pay plans -
and affordable housing with local students. The options below were created to make your advanced studies more affordable.
Option 1; Transfer students - Attend 3 preliminary 500 hr weekends in 2010. Priced at $795
>> Enroll before April 1, 2009 and Save 10% only $715.50. Pay Plans.
>> Preferred status- Lighten Up Yoga 200 hr Graduates - Review for Only $185/wknd
Option 2; Register for one year of 500 hr Advanced Studies in 2009. Pay Plans.
3 preliminary wknds plus 1 for transfer students, or ...
4 total core wknds Priced at $1060
>> Enroll before April 1, 2009 and save $75.
>> Enroll with a friend anytime and save $75 each! (Only one discount may be applied.)
>> Save 10%($106) - Pay the full $954 discounted amount when you register.
>> Preferred status- Lighten Up Yoga 200 hr Graduates - Pay only $954 on a Pay Plan.
Option 3; Register for two years of 500 hr Advanced Studies in 2010. Pay Plans.
8 weekends in 2 years. Priced at $2120
>> Enroll before May 1, 2009 and save $150.
>> Enroll with a friend anytime and save $150 each! (Only one discount may be applied.)
>> Save 10% ($212) - Pay the full $1908 discounted amount when you register.
>> Preferred status- Lighten Up Yoga 200 hr Graduates - Save $240, Full price only $1880.
Register today by sending a $150 deposit with a $50 application fee and form, total $200.
Receive 10% off all required books and props.
Hours for each weekend:
Friday 2 pm to 9 pm - dinner break 5-6:45pm
Saturday 8:30 am to 6:30 pm - lunch 11:45-1:45pm
Sunday 8:30 am to 3:30 pm - lunch 12-1pm
Download Registration Application (Adobe PDF)
Why a 500 hr program at Lighten Up?
• Clarify the language of teaching, develop class themes and effective sequences
• Deepen your understanding of applied anatomy, physiology, philosophy and the alignment principles of yoga
• Learn Therepeutic applications for common joint and health problems including yoga for back pain, scoliosis, MS, sleep disorders, and other concerns
• Further your ability to read bodies, see your students more clearly and respond to their needs.
Home Study: We ask our 500 hr teachers in training to simply journal their weekly teaching and personal practice time on a grid. Homework assignments are given 30 days prior to each training weekend for that weekend. Following each weekend teachers in training will submit a one page paper and two self-evaluations of classes they have taught.
Preliminaries for Graduates of other 200 Hr programs
As there are many branches of yoga to study and explore, it is necessary for the purposes of this course that students have an understanding of the alignment principles of yoga. To satisfy this goal and to adequately prepare you for success in our 500 hr course, the following 3 weekends are the pre-requisite weekends offered in 2010. Preliminary weekends count as 3 of your total 14 required weekend modules.
1. April 9-11, 2010 ~ Sequencing Formulas
2. May 7-9, 2010 ~ Primary Pose Actions: Foundations and Safety
3. July 30 - August 1, 2010 ~ Language of Teaching : Group Practice
Can I use the 20-Hour Core Curriculum Weekends for Continuing Education Hours?
Yes, you may also select and attend individual Core Curriculum weekends for Yoga Alliance continuing education credits without enrolling in the full 500 hr course. You may attend individual weekend modules for $265. Join Lillah June 11-13, August 13-15, and/or October 22-24, 2010, see below
World-Class Instruction
Lillah Schwartz, 500 Hr E- R.Y.T. and senior student of the Yogic Arts, is the founder and director of Lighten Up Yoga's In Depth Yoga Studies Program. She has been training yoga teachers since 1987 and held an Iyengar teaching certificate from 1987 - 2009. During our 500-Hour Program, Lillah will help you evaluate your progress as a teacher, and learn the skills necessary to be truly effective in helping your students gain radiant health with yoga. Please read her biography here.
For information on the other Talented Healers and Educators who will assist you on this journey Click Here.
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2010 - Four Core Curriculum Weekends:
1. June 11-13, 2010 Weekend
Exploring Chakras as energy and evolution with Laurel Mamet. Unfolding backbends: the path of an open heart. The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali as an evolutionary guide. Weekend to include the physical, physiological and psychological components of the seven chakras, asanas to apply to each chakra, backbend progressions to educate the psoas muscles and improve posture. Pranayama, meditation, and practice teaching.
How to Enroll
2. October 22-24, 2010 Weekend
Healing Our Backs: Understanding back pain, breath and the mind with Lillah. Including applied Back Care for the low back, neck and shoulders, progressions for building abdominal strength, when to use weight bearing and non-weight bearing poses, guidelines for creating a balanced posture. Student models. Pranayama and meditation, and practice teaching.
How to Enroll
3. August 13-15, 2010 ~ Residential Equinox Yoga Teachers Retreat
The 5 Koshas (levels of consciousness) as reflected in asana, pranayama, and meditation. Philosophy: the practice of Bramacharya as intension and moderation in action. Shoulder anatomy, and the application of classic and adaptive yoga poses for carpel tunnel, post computer and travel concerns
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4. November 19-21, 2010 ~ Roger Cole Ph.D. Anatomy and Physiology of Asana
Wknd # 5 - accelerated track - April 23 - 25, 2010 with Aadil Palkhivala
Priced individually @ $350. (Wknd #4 and #5 are interchangeable as wknd #4)
Topics of Study - 3 year program.
• In depth Asana & Pranayama: applications and refinements, movement vs. action,
building progressions.
• Peer teaching & the art of adjusting poses
• Planning a syllabus: themes, duration and application
• The art of sequencing for general classes
• Yoga anatomy and physiology
• Yoga for scoliosis, back pain, M.S. & other special needs
• Asanas to maintain & improve organ health
• Managing sleep disorders • yoga for Seniors • yoga for Heart Health
• Cranial-sacral rhythms in yoga • Somatic release through asana
• The History of Yoga
• Yoga Sutra of Patanjali
• The Five Koshas
• The basics of Ayurveda
• Energy anatomy: charkas and bhandas
• Psychology and Ethics of teaching
• EFT: Emotional Freedom Technique to address samskaras in yoga
This course, recognized
by Yoga Alliance is not associated with the National Iyengar
Association. To become a certified Iyengar Teacher requires years of
study and practice. Graduates of this course are encouraged to move
toward Iyengar Certification by studying with Iyengar Certified teachers.
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2010 - Core curriculum Noted below.
Core Curriculum modules listed;
Module #1 2009
The Gift of Resistance in Asana. Teaching the overly stiff and overly flexible body. The art of adjusting poses; develop language for successful verbal adjustments, hands on adjusting, and application of principles on student models. Introduction to Ayurveda with Haeyoung Grace Kandl. Pranayama and meditation, and practice teaching. Please confirm attendance by May 25, 2009 in order to receive your homework assignments.
Module #2 2009
Yoga for Heart Health and Sleep Disorders with guest instructor Linda Camarada. Weekend to cover the anatomy and physiology of heart disease, contemporary approaches in medicine, and beneficial sequencing from Indra Devis heart program and the Iyengar method. Restorative pose for sleep, pranayama and meditation, and practice teaching. Please confirm attendance by September 25, 2009 in order to receive your homework assignments.
Module #3 2009
Residential Equinox Yoga Teachers Retreat
Successful sequencing and class organization. Finding stability and ease in asana. Yoga philosophy on and off the mat. Includes detailed guidance and handouts on how to create effective sequences, class organization, and how to link actions. Yamas and Niyamas in yoga class, pranayama and meditation.
Module #4 2010
Exploring Chakras as energy and evolution with Laurel Mamet. Unfolding backbends: the path of an open heart. The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali as an evolutionary guide. Weekend to include the physical, physiological and psychological components of the seven chakras, asanas to apply to each chakra, backbend progressions to educate the psoas muscles and improve posture. Pranayama, meditation, and practice teaching.
Module #5 2010
Healing Our Backs: Understanding back pain, breath and the mind with Lillah. Including applied Back Care for the low back, neck and shoulders, progressions for building abdominal strength, when to use weight bearing and non-weight bearing poses, guidelines for creating a balanced posture. Student models. Pranayama and meditation, and practice teaching.
Module #6 2010- retreat setting
The 5 Koshas (levels of consciousness) as reflected in asana, pranayama, and meditation. Philosophy: the practice of Bramacharya as intension and moderation in action. Shoulder anatomy, and the application of classic and adaptive yoga poses for carpel tunnel, post computer and travel concerns.
Module #7 2011
Yoga and the Organ Systems: A study of physiology and corresponding yoga poses. Yoga for Multiple Sclerosis and other special needs, including an overview of MS as a disease process, the particular needs of the MS student, chair poses, and the study and practice of inversions as restoration. Panel discussion and practice with student models who are living with MS. Pranayama, meditation, and practice teaching.
Module #8 2011
Alignment and the Asymmetric Body. How to address sacroiliac joint function and dysfunction, and short leg or spastic piriformis syndrome. Progressions and refinements for an inversions practice. Pranayama, meditation, and practice teaching.
Module #9 2011- Retreat setting
Preventing Yoga Injuries: Knees, Shoulders, and Hips. Philosophy: the study of Ahimsa (non-violence) on and off the mat, The power of Gratitude, the Emotional Freedom Technique as a tool for transformation. Yoga adaptations for osteoporosis and seniors. Tools for accessing the health and abilities of a new student.
Module #10 2012
Classical pose groups, their application, physiology, appropriate use of props, and alternatives when the classical pose is unattainable. Yoga for Scoliosis, study and practice with student models. Educating the psoas muscle, sequences for general classes.
500-Hour
Yoga Alliance Registration Formula through Lighten Up Yoga
| 60 Hours |
A. Preliminary Modules: 3 Weekend trainings required for graduates of other 200 hr programs. These 60 hrs will be applied to group C. in this graph. |
| 180 Hours |
B. Core Curriculum Weekend Modules three times each year in June, August and October with Lillah at Lighten Up Yoga for 3 years. Each weekend session includes verification of all subject categories required by Yoga Alliance and may be applyed individually toward continuing education credits. |
| 60 Hours |
C. One additional training weekend each year for 3 years with Lillah or other qualified instructors Lillah has selected to be part of the program. |
| 30 Hours |
D. Two weekends as a 5th weekend in 2 years, or as part of your 4th year of study.* |
| 30 Hours |
E. Homework. Other than written assignments students are required to document 100 teaching hours to graduate. |
300 Hours Total additional hours to be completed for 500-Hour Registration with Yoga Alliance
*You will be required to attend 4 wknds a year for 3 years, plus 2 wknds in your 4th year, OR add an additional 5th wknd in two of your three years of study in order to graduate.
You may also take 4 years to complete your 500 hr advanced studies requirements, 14 three day weekends. Ex; attend 4 wknds in year 1 and 2, along with 3 wknds in year 3 and 4, or some other similar combination.
Accelerated track: If you wish to take more than 5 wknds of training a year please consult with the director for acceptable options. View our Calender Page, weekend options will be listed there.
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