Whether you plan to teach yoga or want to develop your own personal practice, our Foundational Training is the first step towards enhancing your relationship to yoga, and making it an integral part of your life.
Become a Yoga Teacher and awaken your potential!
InYoga presents Yoga Teacher Training programs for aspiring and experienced yoga teachers, as well as for dedicated students. Deepen your practice, unlock and engage your potential on and off the yoga mat. Our unique programs offer a dynamic, integrative approach to the art of living and embodying yoga, with a complete pathway from 200 to 500 hours and beyond.
If you want to transform your own life, become empowered, and share the benefits of yoga with others, then our programs are for you!
Our philosophy
InYoga's Teacher Training programs provide complete pathway of training with an integrated approach to yoga practice and philosophy, giving students the tools to make lasting changes in their lives. We draw from the timeless teachings of Ayurveda, Tantra, Hatha and Raja Yoga, and blend this traditional information with Western science and a modern understanding of the human body and energy system.
The modern world is full of stress, and most people will experience stress-related issues at some point in their lives. Many people are actively seeking ways to reduce stress and maintain optimum health that don't involve pills or prescriptions. This is why yoga has reached new heights of popularity in recent years - it's a well known fact that yoga is good for you!
The goal of yoga is simple: to create awareness in our bodies and in our minds that support a natural flow of energy and allow us to reach our fullest potential. We do this by:
- Nurturing the physical body (our vehicle) through healthy movement practice (yoga asana), balanced breathing (pranayama), nutrition and hydration;
- Harmonising our mind and body through movement & meditation;
- Creating better relationships with ourself, others and our natural environment through yogic knowledge.
Yoga is a complete system of wellbeing, and InYoga's Teacher Training programs will inspire you to take charge of your own physical, mental and emotional health through simple yet powerful practices. We acknowledge the traditional roots of yoga, and present the knowledge in an accessible and practical way, allowing you to embark upon your own journey of personal growth.
More than just a teacher training course, this process encourages you to be a living example of health and vitality, and from this solid foundation you will be inspired to share your experiences with others.
Why train with InYoga?
Our Teacher Training courses and curriculum are designed and facilitated by Nicole Walsh and Rod Galbraith, founders of InYoga. Nicole has been training yoga teachers for more than ten years, and together Nicole and Rod have personally trained and mentored hundreds of yoga teachers who are actively teaching yoga all over the world. InYoga’s Teacher Training Programs continue to evolve each year, keeping up with international standards and ensuring their graduating students receive high quality training that is delivered with integrity.
Nicole and Rod are joined by a faculty of exceptionally qualified professionals, who are leaders in their chosen fields of yoga, meditation, anatomy and physiology, health and nutrition.
Pathways to higher learning
We recognize that once you step on the path to becoming a yoga teacher, you embark on a life-changing journey of never-ending self-improvement. Our Teacher Training program consists of an integrated pathway through 200, 350 and 500-hours of training, as well as modules for special interest and continuing professional development.
200 hours
350/500 hours
Upon graduating from our 200-hour teacher training (or a 200-hour training with another school), we off er an accessible schedule of 50-hour modules to continue your training, deepen your knowledge and grow your skills. Our commitment is to equip you with everything you need to keep evolving in your teaching.
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These modules have been carefully crafted to enhance your teaching skills and give you a boost of encouragement and confidence to stay fresh and inspired on your teaching journey.
Elective Modules
We are honoured to collaborate with some wonderful teachers to bring you further training modules to enhance your teaching journey, improve your skills, and fuel your passion and inspiration for teaching yoga. Modules are facilitated by highly recognized Australian and international teachers who are all leaders in their field.
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Foundational Vinyasa Teacher Training
200-hours
Whether you plan to teach yoga or want to develop your own personal practice, our Foundational Training is the first step towards enhancing your relationship to yoga, and making it an integral part of your life. We believe that yoga is for every body. Our focus is on creating healthy yoga practices that are empowering, rejuvenating and transformative, and you’ll be equipped with the skills to start your teaching journey with confidence and clarity. Completion of this course will give you the ability to create and teach a well rounded and cohesive yoga class with skill, integrity and compassion. You will be able to register with Yoga Alliance as a RYT-200, and with Yoga Australia as a Provisional Member.
Our emphasis is on offering practical and experiential studies that are in rhythm with our individual life situations, so our courses are designed to fit people’s busy schedules. We are pleased to offer two formats for the 200-hour Foundational Training:
The Full Time course is a month-long immersion into yogic lifestyle and studies. Ideal for those who enjoy an accelerated learning environment, this four-week program is offered face-to-face with our highly experienced teacher trainers at our purpose-built training centre in Surry Hills. We place great value on cultivating the teacher-student relationship during this formative training, and all of our trainees are personally guided by Nicole and Rod, and also receive the support of our studio teachers and assistants. The Full Time course format requires pre-reading of two specially selected text books, and a short written assignment needs to be handed in after the course in order to receive a teacher training certificate.
The Part Time course is delivered over a three-month period, commencing with an eight-day residential retreat in a beautiful bushland setting, followed by seven weekend immersions. This option makes the course accessible to those who have non-negotiable career, study or family commitments; or who prefer to absorb and integrate the study material over a longer period of time.
What you'll learn
Yoga Asana
- Physical and energetic alignment and benefits of yoga asanas
- Modification of asanas for beginners and for a range of physical limitations
- Techniques for teaching yoga asana safely, effectively and with confidence
- How to give clear and simple instructions for maximum benefit
- Key points for teaching beginners
- Principles for sequencing yoga asanas into intelligent routines
- Use of verbal cues, demonstration and hands-on-assisting
- Creating a safe and inspiring space from which to teach
Anatomy and Physiology
- Effects of yoga on systems of the body, with particular emphasis on the musculoskeletal system, nervous system, circulatory system and respiratory system
- How muscles and joints work in yoga
- Preventing common injuries
Yogic Anatomy and Physiology
- Energetic effect of yoga on the body and nervous system (yin/yang)
- Prana and vayus (movement of energy through the body)
- Chakras (energy centres) and nadis (energy pathways)
- Koshas (layers of the energy body)
Yogic History and Philosophy
- The roots of yoga - where it came from and how it has evolved over time
- Yoga's journey from its origin in India to the West
- Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, and applying these teachings to the life of a modern yogi
- The Radiance Sutras, a modern poetic translation/interpretation of the ancient Tantric text, the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra
- Hatha Yoga Pradipika, a traditional yoga text for hatha yogis
Pranayama and Meditation
- Practice simple yet powerful breathing techniques to increase life force
- Practice a variety of meditation techniques to cultivate a sense of effortless calm for a vibrant life
- Experience Yoga Nidra relaxation
Yogic Lifestyle and Wellness
- Ayurveda, the ancient Indian system of healing body, mind and spirit
- The yoga of eating - a modern view of health, busting myths about diet and nutrition
- Healing and sustaining energy through whole foods
Yoga Teacher Ethics and Life Skills
- The teacher-student relationship
- How to get started as a professional yoga teacher
- Voice in Yoga - freeing your natural voice for communication and expression
Essential Reading
The Heart of Yoga, TKV Desikachar
Wheels of Life, Anodea Judith
Recommended Reading
The Radiance Sutras, Dr Lorin Roche
Yoga Anatomy, Leslie Kaminoff
Key Muscles of Yoga, Ray Long MD
JANUARY 2019 FULL TIME COURSE - MORE INFO, DATES & PRICES
APRIL 2019 PART TIME COURSE - MORE INFO, DATES & PRICES
AUGUST 2019 FULL TIME COURSE - MORE INFO, DATES & PRICES
If you would like more information on upcoming courses, our next Teacher Training Information Session or to receive a Student Handbook:
Advanced Teaching Modules
350/500 Pathways - 50hr Modules
Upon graduating from our 200-hour teacher training (or a 200-hour training with another school), we offer an accessible schedule of 50-hour modules to continue your training, deepen your knowledge and grow your skills. Ongoing study is essential to your development as a teacher, and our commitment is to equip you with everything you need to keep evolving in your teaching.
We’ve identified key areas that you will have likely touched upon in your 200-hour training, that are ripe for exploring with more depth and breadth. Around these key areas, we’ve created six individual 50-hour modules that offer a technical, practical and inspirational framework so that you may address your students’ needs in class, feel confident in the knowledge you are offering, live in the wisdom of yoga, and stay on top of your own personal growth and self-care.
Each of these modules is completely self-contained (ie there are no prerequisites other than a 200-hour training), as well as being completely integrated with all our other modules which, when combined, serve as a rich tapestry of practical tools, yogic wisdom and heartfelt inspiration. You may take the modules in any order, and over the period of 12, 18 or 24 months, or longer if you wish!
Each module is offered over five full days, and each one is held twice per year. Please check the website for dates and details, as some of them are offered as residential retreats and include accommodation and meals, while others are 'urban retreats', held in our studio.
Advanced Teaching Modules
- Alignment, Assisting & Anatomy
- The Art of Sequencing
- Meditation Teacher Training - The Subtle Arts
Alignment, Assisting & Anatomy - 50 hr Module
This in-depth journey into finding the anatomical and energetic intelligence in your students bodies will give you the knowledge and skills to use hands-on enhancements and assists to help students refine their understanding and practice of yoga asanas. A skilful hands-on assist is an exceptional teaching tool, and can be transformational and empowering for your students.
A good foundation in Anatomy is essential for yoga teachers to keep students safe, prevent injuries and deal with common anatomical and physiological issues that can often present in yoga classes. We'll move towards a deeper understanding of the human body through the structural alignment of the musculoskeletal system and the effect of yoga practice on the body.
What you'll learn
- Energetic and structural alignment - understand movements of energy through the body and how the key actions of any asana are enhanced by this knowledge.
- How to see people’s bodies rather than just poses - techniques of observation so you know who, when and how to assist.
- How to cultivate trust and connection - techniques to connect to a student prior to offering a hands-on assist.
- The principles of assisting and adjusting - how to be clear about your intention, and adjust with clarity and purpose.
- How to help support, stabilise, awaken and deepen your students’ practice through different types of touch.
RECOMMENDED READING
Yoga Anatomy, Leslie Kaminoff
2019 COURSE DATES, PRICING & MORE INFO
The Art of Sequencing - 50 hr Module
Sequencing is both an art and a science, and through this course you’ll learn a variety of sequencing techniques that prepare bodies safely and intelligently as they progress from simple to complex asana. Through this practical course, you will unlock a toolkit of yoga class sequencing and teaching skills that will inspire you with confidence to take your teaching to the next level!
What you'll learn
- Sequencing techniques to take your students on empowered journey through their asana practice.
- Create your very own sequences, following the application of Vinyasa Krama (intelligent sequencing), that are safe, inspiring and empowering for all types of students.
- The skills to sequence and teach a 'multi-level' yoga class, taking into consideration different types of students
- How to sequence towards a peak pose with integrity, creating an intelligent pathway for students to progress in their practice.
- Receive 20+ tried and tested sequences that you can adapt and vary according to your students’ individual and collective needs, and different levels of ability.
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Meditation Teacher Training - 50 hr Module
The Subtle Arts of Yoga
Meditation and the art of Mudra, Pranayama and Mantra cultivates a quality of attention, curiosity and wonder that can transform a yoga practice and your life.
In this course you will learn the wisdom and skills to guide your student’s awareness through the 'koshas', or the layers of one's being from gross to subtle. These layers of our being have an innate ability to find a healthy balance and harmony. However our modern lives can disconnect our awareness from these natural instincts, creating blockages to natural health and wellbeing.
The subtle arts of yoga refine our skill in accessing our body’s natural instincts and expressions in finding health and vitality. You will discover how to weave these elements through a yoga class, allowing students to become awakened to the full potential of yoga. Helping to guide your students in a natural, life-affirming approach to meditation is a wonderful gift, whether you aim to teach meditation as part of an asana class, or in dedicated meditation sessions.
What you'll learn
- The language and presence to guide meditation instinctively and effortlessly.
- Timeless meditation practices from the yoga tradition.
- The science behind how and why these meditation practices work.
- Skills to awaken natural instincts as doorways to effortless meditation.
- How to create and hold the space for a truly relaxing and restorative savasana.
RECOMMENDED READING
The Radiance Sutras, Dr Lorin Roche
Meditation Made Easy, Dr Lorin Roche
Meditation Secrets for Women, Camille Maurine & Lorin Roche
2019 COURSE DATES, PRICING & MORE INFO
25 September - 29 September 2019
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If you would like more information on upcoming courses, our next Teacher Training Information Session or to receive a Student Handbook:
Empowered Teaching Modules
350/500-hours
Upon graduating from our 200-hour teacher training (or a 200-hour training with another school), we offer an accessible schedule of 50-hour modules to continue your training, deepen your knowledge and grow your skills. Ongoing study is essential to your development as a teacher, and our commitment is to equip you with everything you need to keep evolving in your teaching.
We’ve identified key areas that you will have likely touched upon in your 200-hour training, that are ripe for exploring with more depth and breadth. Around these key areas, we’ve created six individual 50-hour modules that offer a technical, practical and inspirational framework so that you may address your students’ needs in class, feel confident in the knowledge you are offering, live in the wisdom of yoga, and stay on top of your own personal growth and self-care.
Each of these modules is completely self-contained (ie there are no prerequisites other than a 200-hour training), as well as being completely integrated with all our other modules which, when combined, serve as a rich tapestry of practical tools, yogic wisdom and heartfelt inspiration. You may take the modules in any order, and over the period of 12, 18 or 24 months, or longer if you wish!
Each module is offered over five full days, and each one is held twice per year. Please check the website for dates and details, as some of them are offered as residential retreats and include accommodation and meals, while others are ‘urban retreats’, held in our studio.
Empowered Teaching Modules
- Teaching with Passion & Purpose
- Language, Theming & Philosophy
- Advanced Teaching Skills Immersion
Teaching with Passion and Purpose - 50 hr Module
This empowering step on the pathway to awakened teaching will give new and experienced teachers the opportunity to continue their growth and evolution as yoga teachers, discover their purpose, and communicate from their own personal connection to yoga with clarity and authenticity.
Discover what inspires and motivates you as a teacher, find your “WHY” and learn how to teach from a place of passion and purpose. Dive into inspiring topics such as sequencing and theming, develop your speaking and presentation skills to take your teaching to the next level and connect to the hearts and minds of your students.
What you'll learn
- Clarify and refine your teaching goals and aspirations, connect to your passion and discover your purpose as a yoga teacher
- Communicate your “WHY” with clarity and authenticity, as a source for both teaching and marketing
- Improve your presence and connection in the classroom
- Refine the art of teaching "multi-level" yoga classes
- Using language that is authentic and relatable to inspire and uplift
- You’ll receive one-on-one mentoring and guidance to empower your teaching and work through any blocks
RECOMMENDED READING
The Radiance Sutras, Dr Lorin Roche
2019 COURSE DATES, PRICING & MORE INFO
18 June - 23 June 2019 Retreat
Language, Theming & Philosophy - 50 hr Module
THE ART OF AWAKENED TEACHING
As yoga teachers we are essentially communicators or guides to an experience that is often beyond words. Because of this, it's sometimes challenging to find the right words to express the desired sentiment when you're teaching a yoga class. Learn to teach skilfully by weaving your own personal experience of yoga, with the wisdom that flows from the practices and language of self-inquiry. This dynamic combination of elements results in a class that involves much more than the technical instruction of asana. In this practical course, delve into the art of essential language to inspire and uplift your students.
Artfully link together anatomical awareness and yoga philosophy in a way that speaks to your students’ bodies, hearts and minds. Develop your own unique language and teaching style that offer students the exploration of yoga asana through form, function and feeling.
What you'll learn
- Develop your own unique language and teaching style that offerS students the exploration of yoga asana through form, function and feeling.
- Learn to layer your teaching instructions with clear and relevant anatomical detail, while sharing your understanding of the benefits of the asana.
- Discover ways to speak directly and succinctly, using essential language cues.
- Learn the language of self-inquiry that will allow your students to delve into their own unique experience of yoga.
- Create your own language style that is inspiring and heartfelt, so you connect to your students' hearts and minds.
- Weave yoga philosophy into your classes in relevant, inspiring ways
RECOMMENDED READING
The Radiance Sutras, Dr Lorin Roche
2019 COURSE DATES, PRICING & MORE INFO
Advanced Teaching Skills Immersion
INSPIRING THE TEACHER'S JOURNEY
Whether you are just beginning your yoga teaching journey or are a long-time teacher, this immersion is dedicated to supporting the evolution, progression and development of yoga teachers through empowering practices and techniques, supportive sangha (community) and personal coaching.
This course offers meaningful and actionable strategies to enhance your teaching, and you'll be guided lovingly through the following areas:
- The art of leadership, holding & creating sacred space for your students.
- Understanding the sacred alchemy of a yoga class experience from gross to subtle, and inner world to outer world.
- Refine the skills in crafting your voice as a teacher, expand the art of language and verbal expression.
- How to cultivate Dinacharya (daily rhythm) of personal practice and self-care that will be a potent and nourishing source of inspiration through your journey as a teacher.
- Receive personal mentoring, guidance & feedback from Rod and Nicole, on all aspect of your teaching.
RECOMMENDED READING
The Radiance Sutras, Dr Lorin Roche
Tending the Heartfire, Shiva Rea
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Request our Student Handbook
If you would like more information on upcoming courses, our next Teacher Training Information Session or to receive a Student Handbook:
Specialist Teacher Training Modules
We are honoured to collaborate with some wonderful local and international teachers to bring you further training modules to enhance your teaching journey, improve your skills, and fuel your passion and inspiration for teaching yoga. Modules are facilitated by highly recognized Australian and international teachers who are all leaders in their field. Whilst most of these modules are specifically for yoga teaches, some of them may be available to those who wish to take them as special interest courses to deepen their own experience of yoga - please enquire with us directly.
Yin Yoga Teacher Training with Melanie McLaughlin - 100-hour Module
InYoga is pleased to present an annual Yin Yoga Teacher Training with Melanie McLaughlin. This is a unique opportunity to explore your “yin-side” over a 9-day Urban Retreat at InYoga studio. Open to those who are either already 200-hour qualified yoga teachers, and who want to deepen their knowledge and practice of Yin yoga, you will cultivate teaching skills that will allow you to facilitate this powerful practice for your students. Dedicated students wanting to dive in and learn more for their own personal practice and enjoyment are also welcome to participate.
Yin yoga is growing in popularity, largely in response to what has become a very “yang”-dominated yoga culture. People are discovering the benefits of a quieter, more still practice – not just in their physical bodies, but also in their nervous and energy systems.
What you'll learn
- A study of Yin asanas
- An alternate look at anatomy and physiology for yoga
- Explore the differences between a yin and yang practice
- Muscle meridian theory and related organs (courtesy of Dr Motoyama & Paul Grilley’s research)
- Fascia research and its function and qualities relevant to YIN
- The concept and importance of Chi
- Pranayama and meditation in a Yin practice
- The energy system and Chakras
- Yin sequencing and class themes
- Teaching styles and methodologies in Yin yoga, including “partner yin” and “wall yin”
Essential Reading
Yin Yoga, Paul Grilley
Recommended Reading
Insight Yoga, Sarah Powers
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Free Your Voice Training for Yoga Teachers with Carmella Baynie - 12-hour Module
This workshop is for yoga teachers wanting to connect to their students in a more authentic way and to feel confident in expressing their voice.
Carmella Baynie is an accredited voice coach and yoga teacher with 30 years professional experience in the practice of yoga, voice, drama, martial arts and singing. Now an internationally acclaimed world music singer and grammy-nominated artist, Carmella shows dedication to teaching the art of expression and communication, and techniques to help yoga teachers express their 'inner voice'.
We all know that yoga connects you to your breath and body, enabling you to have greater control over your vehicle. Yoga teachers who learn how to tap into the energy of the breath take care of their voice as a tool of the trade. You will learn techniques in yogic breathing to tune the vocal pipes, making them strong, flexible and resonant. Carmella will educate you with tools to keep you grounded, connected, and clear in your expression.
During this two day workshop you will free your voice, become empowered, and break through the blocks that hold you back from expressing your true self as a yoga teacher. This course is suitable for yoga teachers, actors, presenters and anyone who wants to connect to their authentic voice.
What you'll learn
- Breathing and centering skills
- Increasing volume and power in your voice
- Energy release movement
- Deep breath work
- Mind-body connection activities
- Connecting your breath to sound
- Understand the power of sound vibration
- Meditation and your voice (Nada)
- The power of intention and visualization
- Chakra sounds meditation
- Mantras to connect to the heart
- Yoga and leadership
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Meditation Teacher Training with Dr Lorin Roche and Camille Maurine - 40-hour Module
You are invited to participate in this in-depth training with global leaders in the field of meditation, Dr Lorin Roche and Camille Maurine (USA). This training is specifically designed for yoga teachers to discover valuable tools and techniques to incorporate meditation into their yoga teaching, or use it as a stand alone modality to enhance the wellbeing of their students.
Meditation has become mainstream in our western culture, with millions of people practicing some form of meditation daily. It's now well-known in the scientific and medical worlds that meditation is an essential part of a healthy lifestyle, for people to feel less stressed and more connected to what's important in life.
"In the modern West, there is a revolution underway, an awakening, such that yoga and meditation have become completely mainstream. The challenge now is to train enough meditation teachers to meet the need. It will be decades before there are enough skilled meditation teachers. Let's get to work."
~ Lorin Roche
What you'll learn
- The science and practice of meditation - meditation is a completely natural and instinctive capacity that every human has - understanding the body's innate regulatory function of rest and renewal is key.
- Recognizing spontaneity and rhythm - we all experience spontaneous meditative states, and a skilled meditation teacher will learn how to cooperate with their student's inner nature.
- The subtle senses - develop the ability to recognise and utilise the five senses as gateways into meditation
- Instinctive wisdom - recognising and honouring our powerful and innate wisdom for self-healing and self-evolving
- The five elements - meditation teachers need to be intimate with the five elements (Tattvas) of earth, water, fire, air and ether, as revealed by the five senses.
- Mandala of emotions - understand the full spectrum of emotions that make up a large part of everyone's meditative experience - one of the biggest challenges meditators face.
- Language and listening skills - meditation teachers need a new language to guide students into their inner world, and also require skills for effective communication and listening to their students' experience.
- Meditation techniques - there are literally thousands of techniques of meditation, and skill is required to find the right technique to suit individuals. The Radiance Sutras presents 112 different doorways into meditation to help you guide students to find what they love about meditation, and dive in.
- Meditation secrets for women - as women make up around 70% of yoga and meditation students, learning to vary your approach for teaching meditation to women will open up doorways to a radical understanding of how to relate to female students. Presented by Camille Maurine.
- The opportunity to meditate daily with acclaimed meditation teachers and authors, Dr Lorin Roche and Camille Maurine
- Daily morning asana practice to integrate asana and meditation
Essential Reading
The Radiance Sutras, Dr Lorin Roche
Recommended Reading
Meditation Made Easy, Dr Lorin Roche
Meditation Secrets for Women, Dr Lorin Roche & Camille Maurine