Basics 240 is designed to help more local students to deepen their practice and bring yoga into their workplace & community.

• Firmly establish your home practice
• Investigate yoga more deeply
• Share yoga with family & friends
• Incorporate yoga into your work with
  clients, community & colleagues
• Get certified to teach yoga

Join Yoga Mendocino’s core staff and extraordinary visiting teachers for an exciting, inspiring program of yoga technique, methodology, anatomy in action, yoga and Buddhist philosophy, meditation, teaching/business issues and more.

Yoga Mendocino was founded in 2001 as a non-profit organization
dedicated to the health and well-being of our communities, local and abroad.
Our teachers have the highest standards of education, safety and skill.   We look forward to serving you!

WHAT IS THIS COURSE?

Basics 240 is designed for intermediate practitioners who want to delve deeper into yoga’s rich tapestry, and professionals who would like to use yoga to compliment their existing practices.

The desire to teach is optional.

Completion of the program qualifies you to apply for the 200 hour certification with Yoga Alliance, the national yoga certification organization.

Students may also go on to study more in-depth in our Foundations in Yoga Program 2008 to qualify for higher level certification and the Yoga Mendocino Teaching Certificate.

TRAINING or UNTRAINING?

Is it possible to actually “train” someone in this tradition?

Our philosophy has evolved out of the latin roots of the word “education”: e (out of) and ducare (to lead).

In this program we more accurately and realistically guide students with patience, skilled dedication and heart, out into their own radiance. As with all our teacher training programs at Yomo, we are unearthing the inner guru in the teacher and the student.

LOCATION

All Ukiah classes are held at:
Yoga Mendocino 
206A Mason Street  in Ukiah, CA

The course will allow for a maximum of 20 core students to allow for personal attention.

PREREQUISITES

COURSE CONTENT

Question & Answer Night 
Monday,  March 12^th at 7:15pm

Core curriculum of 110 hours
March 26, 2007 through December 2007
(no classes in summer)

(For those not seeking teaching certification, there is an option to end October 2007)

Curriculum consists of:

• 23 weeknights (no classes in summer)
  • Monday evenings (7:15-9:15pm)
    3/26-4/23,
    9/17-9/24,
    10/8-11/5;
    11/26-12/3
  • Tuesday evenings (7:15-9:15pm) 
    5/15-6/5, 
    8/21-9/11;
    11/13
    
    
• 10 Saturdays
  • 3/31, 4/28, 5/19, 6/2,
    8/25, 9/8, 9/29, 10/27, 11/10, 12/15
    
    
• 1 Sunday 4/1
  
  
• 20 hours of How to Teach Beginners
  August 6-9^th 2007
  (part of Summer Intensive, click for info)
  
  
• 16 hours of anatomy with Baxter Bell M.D.
  
  
• 30 weekly class hours with
  Mary Paffard, Maggie Norton or Traci Joy Burleigh* to be completed between 1/07 and 6/08
  (to be paid separately at time of registration)
  
  
• 40 hours of workshops with core faculty
  (to be paid separately at time of registration)
  
  
• (optional) Saturday 8/4 workshop with Rama Jyoti Vernon
  (to be paid separately at time of registration)
  (part of Summer Intensive, click for info)
  
  
• homework, interviews, practicum and special focus work

(Coast Program
in Fort Bragg)

The coast program has been cancelled.

If you are interested in taking the Basics course, please contact us as there may be carpooling possibilities with the small group interested from the coast.

TUITION

$2100  or $2200 if paid in installments. Payment plan available. Workshops & weekly classes paid separately at registration.

This fee covers all tuition costs for the 11 weekends and 23 weekday evening classes.

Participants are responsible for any other class fee/workshop payments beyond the 110 core program hours.

Some scholarships available.

CORE FACULTY:

Mary began her yoga journey in Europe in the early 70’s. She has been teaching in rural northern California, the Bay Area and other parts of the US and internationally since 1985. She completed the 2 year teacher training at the Iyengar Institute in San Francisco and is very grateful for the important and fundamental information about the human body that was gleaned during her early years with the Iyengars and many of their senior teachers all over the world.

Her website is www.maryyoga.com

Her yoga path deepened to a different level in the early 80s with the beginnings of her Vipassana practice. Her quest is to unearth the inner guru in herself and her students.

In recent years, the breath, belly, and the chakras have provided powerful mirrors in her exploration of the spirit in movement and stillness. Mary has lead a teachers program in Ukiah since 1994 and was part of the core faculty of the Piedmont Yoga Studio’s Advanced Studies Program 2000 -2001. Part of her work is involved in helping the Cuban Yoga Association and she believes passionately in the importance of evolving community - internationally, locally, and internally.

MAGGIE NORTON:

Maggie has studied yoga for 27 years and graduated as a certified teacher in 1983. She has studied in the UK., USA, and India, notably with B.K.S. Iyengar and Angela Farmer. Maggie's yoga practice and teaching have also been strongly influenced by mindfulness meditation and her work as a massage therapist.

As Director of Therapeutics and Medical Liaison at Yoga Mendocino, Maggie has

worked with chronic pain patients in clinical settings, facilitates workplace yoga and burnout prevention programs, and leads Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction courses. Working from within, she encourages a practice of deep exploration and awareness to allow for the possibilities of expansion and ease of movement in each student. Maggie brings a strong sense of compassion and curiosity to her teaching and invites both a mindful and playful approach to practice.

Traci began practicing yoga in 1992. She began integrating Ayurveda and Vipassana studies in 1999. Her life has changed in such appreciated and lovely ways that it has become part of her practice to share this wealth with others. She has a keen interest in yoga off the mat, and practices and teaches in an embodied style that honors the challenges of life and the “flaws” of humanity.

VISITING TEACHERS:

Baxter Bell, MD, RYT 500, teaches Hatha yoga in Northern California as well as workshops and retreats around the US and internationally.  He also maintains a medical practice focusing on the use of medical acupuncture and therapeutic yoga for his patients.  He is featured in Yoga Journal’s DVD “Yoga for Stress”, and has written for numerous publications on yoga and health.  He is involved in teacher training programs around the country and is on faculty at Piedmont Yoga Studio’s Advanced Studies Program.  To learn more, visit his website at www.bellyoga.info

Richard is a contributing editor at Yoga Journal, for which he writes two regular columns and occasional book reviews and articles. His work has also appeared in Yoga International, Ascent, and Shambhala Sun. He's the author of The Yoga of Breath (Shambhala, 2002), a beginners' guide to pranayama, and Yoga for 50+ (Ulysses, 2004), an instructional manual for older beginners. Currently he's working on another pranayama book for Shambhala.

Richard has been teaching yoga since 1987, and is now one of the core faculty members for the Advanced Studies Program at the Piedmont Yoga Studio in Oakland, California.

CERTIFICATION

OTHER CERTIFICATION BEYOND BASICS

For the Yoga Mendocino Teaching Certificate, you will also need to be assessed by two recognized YOMO teachers who will evaluate 2 classes taught by yourself after you have taught for one year. This assessment requires a separate fee of $450.

Yoga Mendocino is an official school with Yoga Alliance for our 600 hour YMTC course which has been designed in accordance with their guidelines.

FINAL REQUIREMENTS FOR YOUR YMTC CERTIFICATE

These requirements can be completed over a longer period than the 2 years and if you are not interested in being officially certified by us, they can be waived.

YMTC - YOGA MENDOCINO TEACHING CERTIFICATE:

All teachers at Yoga Mendocino are required to have the 650 hour YMTC certificate which is officially recognised by Yoga Alliance. We only refer or employ teachers who have this qualification or are in the last stages of its completion under our supervision.

FINAL REQUIREMENTS FOR YOUR YMTC CERTIFICATE
(These requirements are essential before we can give you the 650 hour certificate. Once you have received the certificate, it is a very simple process to apply to Yoga Alliance for your 500 hour certificate as we are an official school.)

- Evaluation by senior teachers of 2 classes - You need to have been teaching for one year & a minimum of 100 hours to apply for these evaluations

- Attendance at a silent Vipassna/Zen retreat* of your choice of 5-10 days (if you have attended a retreat like this within 3 years of the start of the program, this requirement is waived)

- Signed the Yoga Mendocino Educational and Ethical agreements for teachers

-Current CPR certificate.

These requirements can be completed over a longer period than the 2 years and if you are not interested in being officially certified by us, they can be waived.

OTHER COSTS*

Course books fee:
$200 approximately
(less if you already have texts ).

A separate $450 fee applies for those wishing to be assessed for the Yoga Mendocino Teaching Certificate after the completion of Foundation course, one year of teaching and a silent 5-10 day meditation retreat.

ACCOMMODATIONS

ARE YOU INTERESTED?

To apply, complete the application form and send it with a $20 administrative fee to:
YOMO, 206#A MASON STREET, UKIAH, CA 95482

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Further Education Weekends

Summer Intensives

Anatomy with Baxter Bell

Foundations in Yoga

The Faraway Program

YMTC Certificate