300 Hour Yoga SAY Teacher Training Program
Deepen Your Practice, Increase Your Knowledge and Sharpen Your Skills
At Smart Asana Yoga/Inner Light Yoga Center at Yoga Alliance RYS
To begin you must have a 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Certificate from a Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga School. Your 200 Hour plus this 300 Hour Training equals what used to be called the 500 Hour Teacher Training
The structure for the 300 Hour TTP:
We will offer weekend courses varying in length. Some will be Friday-Sunday, some Thursday-Sunday and some may
be Friday-Monday. The courses and description will be posted online and emailed to those enrolled in the program. Each course will be worth different hours depending on the length of time. You will be able to choose which courses you want to participate in. Some course will be required*, others will be electives. You will have 2.5 years to complete the required hours and courses to receive your 500 Certification. The required courses will be offered each year.
There is a $50 application and administration fee. This is a one-time fee and is non-refundable.
You may begin the program at any time and you get to choose which weekends you want to attend.
The tuition for each weekend courses will vary.
Smart Asana Yoga is a Registered Yoga School with Yoga Alliance at both the 200 and 300 Levels.
Lead Instructor: Tarra J Madore, DC, E-RYT 500
Dec 3, 4 and 11 Yoga and Cancer
Explore plans for yoga practice for individuals living with and survivors or cancer. Learn about cautions and contraindications as well as safe ways to help lift spirits and empower people.
2021 Oct 1-3 Yoga and Athletes
What is the common link in many sports? How can you provide a workshop for a specific sport if you don’t play it? Explore these and other common questions. Put sequences together for a variety of athletes.
This is part of our 300 Hour YTTP. You do not have to be enrolled in the program to take the course. You need to enroll to get hours for this course toward your certification. Learn tecniques to help athletes with their focus and movement. All types of athlete benefit from a yoga practice. What you learn here can help you instruct anybody doing movement-based activies. You do not have to play a specific sport to help athletes reach their maximum potential through yoga.
Friday 5:30-9:30pm
Saturday and Sunday 8am-5pm
$375 ($350 if signed up before Sept 14)
Oct 18-20
Meditation and Pranayama – from the Himalayan traditions and Metta (Lovingkindness). Guided meditations and breath work to connect to the subtle body. This will help you reach a place of peace and give that to your students as well.
Learn to bring meditation into classes, workshops, trainings and workplaces.
Common Conditions -Sept 14-15 $280
Become familiar with common (and not so common) conditions yoga teachers see in their classes. It is important to know what people experience while living with certain conditions. As yoga teachers and yoga therapists, we do not diagnose or treat conditions. However, if you are teaching a variety of people you should be familiar with these conditions and how to enhance the student experience. Lecture and Asana included
Friday 6-9:30pm
Saturday 12-6pm
Sunday 10am-5pm
Deepen Your Asana
Saturday, March 17 – $35 with advanced registration by March 10
Deepen Your Asana 1 – we will work on lengthening and opening the hamstrings and side body.
1:30-3:30pm
Workshop counts toward 300 hour TT
Deepen Your Asana 2
March 18 – $35 with advanced registration by March 10
Deepen Your Asana – we will focus on backbends.
12:30- 2:30pm
Workshop counts toward 300 TT
The Art of Using Props
Props are often used to enhance poses. Learn how to use them for students who help with certain postures, to make postures more stable, to help deepen postures. Props have so many uses. We will explore uses of blocks, blankets, straps, wall and chairs.
Yoga Business Model
Learn about the yoga business model for instructors and small businesses. We will answer questions you have about your current situation. We will explore what studio owners are looking for when hiring teachers, how to contribute to the overall health and wealth of the studios you teach in and financial considerations when looking for jobs. We will explore what it takes to own and operate a studio.
Leslie Freyberg Guest Lecturer
Certified Iyengar Yoga teacher Leslie Dillingham Freyberg came to Yoga from twenty years in the dance and theater profession. While a member of the Jean Erdman Dance Theater, she met Ms. Erdman’s husband, the renowned mythologist Joseph Campbell. It was through Campbell’s seminars on the mythology of India that Leslie received her first exposure to Sanskrit, the language of sacred sound, ancient Indian texts, and of Yoga.
Years later, Leslie met the late Mary Dunn, her first yoga teacher, and embarked on her study of yoga as
disseminated by Shri B.K.S. Iyengar.
Leslie has studied Sanskrit extensively with Vyaas Houston (director of the American Sanskrit Institute), Edwin Bryant, John Campbell, Manorama, and Dr. Ram Sharma of the Yoga Societies of San Francisco and New York. It was while attending Yoga retreats with acclaimed Iyengar Yoga teacher Patricia Walden that Leslie, through Walden’s inspiration and guidance, began to develop chanting sessions with fellow participants. The chanting of Sanskrit mantras proved to add an enriching dimension to the Yoga practice. More Information