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Hot Yoga Teacher Training



Bishnu Charan Ghosh

Welcome to our Hot Yoga Teacher Training Course!


Train in the Best of Hot Yoga: The Bishnu Ghosh Tradition


Course Dates for the rest of 2010

Oct 2 - Dec 18


Hot Yoga is now immensely popular across the world.
In this 12 week Hot Yoga Teacher Training Course you will learn the hardest, safest, and the fastest working hot yoga style: Bishnu Hot Yoga. It will whip you into great shape in no time at all!

Bishnu Hot Yoga works in a very balanced and comprehensive way. It is a great form of physical therapy, correcting imbalanced structural and functional patterns in our body - class by class.
As a form of fitness routine, Bishnu Yoga is safe, challenging and balancing.
You will feel AMAZING after each and every Bishnu Yoga class!

You will learn to practise Bikram Hot Yoga, Basic Bishnu Hot Yoga and Bishnu Hot Yoga Level 1. You will learn to teach Bishnu Hot Yoga, Basic and Level 1.

Bishnu Hot Yoga is the Original Hot Yoga you often hear about!

Bishnu Yoga Level 1 is an All Levels Class, based on Bishnu Charan Ghosh's complete yoga posture series.
Basic Bishnu is a Beginner Class, designed to improve on, and replace the Bikram Yoga class.
For more interesting info on Bikram and Bishnu Hot Yoga, click here.

Bishnu Ghosh is Bikram Choudhury's Yoga Teacher.
Bikram Yoga devotees will easily recognize that all the postures practised in a Bikram Yoga class are also part of Bishnu Hot Yoga. And yes, almost all the postures are performed twice, like in Bikram's!

Hot Yoga Toronto is the only yoga school in Canada to offer this yoga series, and where Bishnu and Bikram yoga methods are taught side by side!

This Teacher Training is also aimed at those, who love Bikram Yoga, and who wish to expand their knowledge and yoga practice through the continued study of the Bishnu Ghosh Lineage.

Bishnu Hot Yoga Teacher Training is not available elsewhere in Canada.
Due to its incredible health and fitness benefits, this Hot Yoga system has a huge potential of being highly sought after in hot yoga studios, health clubs and gyms around the world.

"I was lucky to be among the few, and first one in Canada, to learn and teach Bikram Beginning Yoga Class. I consider myself now lucky again and privileged, to be the first person in Canada to also learn and teach Bishnu Hot Yoga - the 'Original Hot Yoga'!    ------- Sasha


This training will be conducted under the auspices of Hot Yoga Challenge.

Essential Information

  • Course Times: Saturdays 5pm - 8pm

  • Location: Hot Yoga Challenge, 720 Spadina Ave, Suite 306

  • Estimated Course Study Time: Over 215 hours
    (36 hrs Workshop with course directors, 60 hrs Practice, ~120 hrs Home Study)

  • Fee: $2,650 (Taxes included), payable in full before the course begins.

  • Early Bird Discounts: $150 off tuition if paid before July 31; $100 off if paid before August 31.
    Refund policy will not apply.

  • Payments by Cash or Cheque only. Cheques are payable to Hot Yoga.

  • Refund Policy: During first seven days = 50% of total fee. After the first seven days = $0 refund.

Course Outline

  • Anatomy - Structural Elements

  • Physiology - Functional Elements

  • Energetics - Fields, Channels, Chakras

  • Yoga Philosophy

  • Practice of Bikram and Bishnu Flows

  • Teaching script & methodology

  • Posture Clinics (teaching practice, body reading, corrections and adjustments, posture benefits & contra-indications)

  • Final Exams

  • Graduation

  • Internship for qualified and interested graduates

Course Methodology and Requirements

  • To keep your cost of the course to minimum, there will be no lecturers. Precious time will be spent on the most important matter at hand, practice and more practice.

  • Training Schedule:
    Mon-Sun - a minimum of five yoga classes
    Sat - 5pm to 8pm Workshop

  • Every week you will be tested on your home assignments.

  • All Teacher Training Course (TTC) graduates will receive a certificate of course completion. Those in good standing will be eligible for an internship at our studio.

  • Our Yoga Teacher Training Standards are among the highest in the hot yoga industry, and exceed those of the Yoga Alliance.

Course Pre-Requisites

  • Application forms and the course balance must reach us before the course begins. Otherwise, admittance will not be possible.

  • To REGISTER FOR OUR COURSE, please let us know by e-mail or telephone, and we will mail you the application forms.
    You can also pick them up in person. Please advise us in advance, so that we can prepare the papers for you.

  • You must provide a written permission, along with your application forms, from your medical physician, stating that you are fit enough to engage in strenuous stretching done in a hot room, with temperatures in 105F-115F, or 38C-45C range.

  • Any previous knowledge or practice of yoga is helpful, but not required.

  • Space is very limited. Register early, to secure your place.

Faculty

Sasha Shkolnikov, Director

Feedback from our Course Graduates



Participating in Sasha and Aranka's Hot Yoga Teacher Training has been one of the best investments I have ever made. Not only have I acquired skills that I can market, I have invested in my own health and well being. Their teaching was effective, patient and thorough and has prepared me to guide my own class confidently. My own yoga practice has deepened and I have gained an understanding and interest in developing a meditation practice. I highly recommend the Teacher Training Program for anyone who wants to teach yoga as a career or simply who wants to deepen their practice and expand their knowledge and experience. Illuminating!

Stephanie Martin

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It was a great course to take to be a yoga instructor. I learned not only teaching yoga postures but yoga philosophy and history which I became more interested in during the course.
I also gained some knowledge about other yoga styles, and got interested in learning them, though hot yoga is the primary yoga style I'm going to teach.
Sasha and Aranka are very knowledgeable and encouraging. I was sometimes disappointed with myself since I had a hard time remembering dialogs and learning teaching, however they encouraged me and gave me some useful and practical advice. It was a great experience and gave me confidence.
I recommend this course to someone who is seeking an opportunity to learn more about yoga.

Thanks, Mie

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If you have ever dreamed of instructing yoga, would like to take your practice to the next level or are just interested in learning more about yoga and meditation, this hot yoga teacher training course is for you. I achieved all of the above by completing this course, and moreover, have never been happier in my life.
Sasha and Aranka are two of the best teachers I have ever come across and they inspired me to become a teacher myself. With their wisdom, patience and creativity, they trained me to teach with confidence and knowledge.
The teacher training course has also taught me to become my own teacher by giving me the tools to self-correct in postures and to maintain a meditative state during practice. Furthermore, this course has taught me how yoga affects every single aspect of the body and has shown me how to incorporate meditation into even the busiest of my days. Thanks Sasha and Aranka- you have changed my life!

Emily

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