Interested in deepening your practice?
Taking your practice to the level of teaching?
Exploring your teaching on a deeper level?

At Yomo, we are evolving a very comprehensive teachers program with many different options.

We have some of the best teachers in the country participating in our courses and we pride ourselves on having not only high standards of education and experienced and respected instructors, but also community based programs that speak to a participants need to see their practice as part of the bigger whole. Our teachers intentions are to lead you into your own understanding of Yoga with as much support, depth and enjoyment as possible.

Our programs have evolved in accordance with the national Yoga Alliance certification standards and we feel that they go way beyond those standards.

Yoga Mendocino is a non-profit organization and has a strong foundation in the local and Californian communities. Our programs are concerned not only with maintaining a healthy dialogue with the medical community but also bringing the health communities together and helping our teachers understand the importance of the medical motto: "First, do no harm!". We bring anatomy on an experiential and energetic level right into the practice of asana and emphasize the foundations of alignment and structure in teaching. We also have a strong meditational quality to our practice and this - based on the Vipassna tradition - is at the heart of many of our main teachers yoga perspectives and a core part of our programs.

Our core faculty, Mary Paffard and Maggie Norton, enjoy sharing their investigations and delight in the inner body and encourage students to seek their own inner guru in all aspects of their lives and practice.

There are five main programs that we offer.
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1. 100 Hour SUMMER INTENSIVES

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Each summer we have a 100 hour intensive for teachers and trainees.

The summer intensive is a core element of our Faraway 675 hour program or it can fill a requirement for the YMTC (Yoga Mendocino Teaching Certificate) a 650 hour certificate.

July 25th - August 8th, 2008

HEART, BELLY and BREATH

with Mary Paffard

Guest teachers include:

Abhayaghiri Monastery,
Baxter Bell MD,
Traci Joy Burleigh
Maggie Norton;
Richard Rosen

FRIDAY 7/25

SATURDAY 7/26

SUNDAY 7/27

1st WEEK 7/28 to 8/1

  • 7/28-7/30, 8am-5pm
    Monday thru Wednesday
    Soft and Strong:
    How to weave Belly work into the core of the practice and the body.
    with Mary Paffard
  • 7/31 Thursday, 8am – 5pm 
    Women’s Health and Yoga
    with Mary Paffard & Traci Joy Burleigh 
  • 8/1 Friday, Free Day! 

2nd WEEKEND 8/2 TO 8/3

2nd WEEK 8/4 to 8/8

Entire Intensive: $1200/$1300 after 5/1/08.

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and individual workshop pricing 

The Faraway 2 year 675 hour Program begins with each summer intensive – let us know early if you are interested

"The participants have been wonderful and create a lively force at the summer intensives."

click here to download a detailed flyer
(69k pdf download)

Please contact the Yoga Mendocino office to be put on our current teacher training mailing which goes out annually in January.

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2. YOGA IN THE COMMUNITY-
THE BASICS!
240 Hour Program

this program will begin again in 2010

Call Traci for info
415/515 0052, or email breathofire@earthlink.net

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

Approved at the 240 hour level, this program involves a committment of 1 evening a week and 1 Saturday a month over a 9 month period (no classes in summer).

This course runs only once every 3 years and is recognized at the 200 hour level by Yoga Alliance.

A minimum of 1 years yoga study is required before applying for Basics 240.

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

Traci @ 415-515-0052, or email breathofire@earthlink.net

or call Yoga Mendocino 707-462-2580

This program can be combined with the Foundations program for completion of the 650 hour Yoga Mendocino Teaching Certificate (YMTC) and replaces the Summer Intensive requirement.
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3. FOUNDATIONS IN YOGA
450-600 Hour Program

Yoga Mendocino will be offering a 450-600 hour advanced studies
teacher training program "Foundations in Yoga", beginning in
September 2008 and running until June 2009.

For more information, please call Traci
at 415 515 0052.

Foundations in Yoga 2008

450-600 hr Teacher Training

with Mary Paffard, Maggie Norton, Richard Rosen, Patricia Sullivan, Ike Lasater, Abhayagiri Monastery, Traci Burleigh, and Dr. Baxter Bell

September 2008- June 2009

yogamendocino.org
707-462-2580

A 450 hour program leading to our YMTC 600 hour certificate with the addition of a Summer Intensive or a complementary 200 hour Yoga Alliance program.

It is the core component of our 650 hour Yoga Mendocino Teaching Certificate which is Yoga Alliance approved at the 600 hour level.

Our last 450 hour program commenced in September 2005 and ended in summer 2006. Its core content extended over 10 monthly weekend intensives.

Students are also required to complete 65 hours of weekly classes and 25 hours of elective workshops among other requirements that can be done wherever they live.

Participants either need to be graduates of the Basics program or have practiced yoga for a minimum of 5 years before attending.

As with Basics 240, it is not necessary to wish to teach but it is essential that you are willing to use teaching as a metaphor for practice and you are able and willing to commit to one year of intense study.

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click here for an application form

download previous Foundations brochure
(831.6 KB pdf)

Further Education courses are expected to resume sometime in 2010.

During the years when there is no Foundation Course, Yomo offers a program of 3 special teachers weekends to continue the education of current teachers and more experienced trainees. Some of these workshops are suitable for advanced students as well.

These weekends have one of the core faculty teaching for one day and then a senior visiting teacher leading the second day of the weekend. It is possible to attend individual weekends or parts of the weekends.

Upcoming:

Anatomy with Baxter Bell:
coming to yomo 10/08-5/09

Richard Rosen- Feb 22, 2009, 10am -4pm

Ike Lasater - November 15th 2008, 1-5 pm

Patricia Sullivan - April 12th 2009, 10-4pm
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4. THE FARAWAY PROGRAM
675 Hour Program

currently taking applications
...next cycle begins July 2008

 An indepth 675 hour ADVANCED STUDIES AND TEACHER- TRAINING program designed for serious, self-motivated practioners with impossible schedules or who live faraway!

This program combines the best of live class experience, personal contact with experienced & exciting teachers and a comprehensive home program.

We emphasise a deep respect for the tradition of Hatha Yoga , the principles of alignment, and the importance of a healthy relationship to the well being of the student & of the whole community. We also see Yoga as a profoundly spiritual path and all our teachers seek to unearth the inner guru in themselves and their students; we emphasize the meditative aspect of the practice in our long standing connection to the Vipassna tradition and feel this aspect is very complimentary to our work with the inner body and the willingness to be present in each moment.

This program is based on the attendace of 3 Summer Intensives and other Teacher Training workshops and more advanced practice retreats e.g. Presence in Yoga. It also requires a 2 year study committment with specified class requirements and homework. It is designed for those who live out of the area, internationally or have challenging schedules.

This course when successfully completed will give the student a 650 hour Yoga Mendocino Teaching Certificate which is recognised at the 500 hour level by Yoga Alliance.

Tuition:
$6500 for the entire tuition if paid in full.
$6800 for the entire tuition if paid in 2-3 installments over the 2 year period.

Tuition does not include book and tape costs, basic course texts, weekly classes, workshop hours and silent retreat.

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download a flyer (122k pdf download)
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650 HOUR YOGA MENDOCINO TEACHING CERTIFICATE (YMTC):

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Yoga Mendocino is an official Yoga Alliance School at the 200 and the 500 level.

The teachers that teach at our studio and those that we refer need to have completed this certificate.

To apply for this certificate, you need to have completed one of the following options + fulfilled the YMTC extra requirements listed below.

Options:
1) Completed Basics 240 and Foundations 450 programs
2) Completed Foundations 450 and one Summer Intensive 100 hour program
3) Completed the 675 hour Faraway Program
4) In selected situations, where a participant has attended another complementary 200 hour program and the Foundations 450 program

Extra requirements:
a) Taught for a minimum of one year and 100 hours
b) Attended a silent vipassna retreat of your choice of 5 - 10 days (a minimum of 50 hours)
c) Signed Yoga Mendocino's Ethical and Educational agreement
d) Paid an extra $400 fee which covers all administratvie details, certification expenses and 2 full evaluations of 2 classes by senior teachers who are either the core faculty or work in a complementary way.
e) Current CPR certification

Congratulations! to our YMTC Graduates:

QUESTIONS??

If you are interested in Teacher Training but are uncertain about the best place to start,
please contact YOMO at 707/462-2580 or yomo@pacific.net
or Traci Burleigh at 415 515 0052 or breathofire@earthlink.net

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