• Teacher Training
“TEACH ONLY LOVE ~
FOR THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE.”
Quest Yoga Studio is excited to announce that we will be offering a 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training program starting in September 2012 and completing in May 2013.
Our 9-Month program is ideal for dedicated yoga students and aspiring teachers that want to deepen their understanding of this powerful and transformational practice and share their love of yoga with others.
The focus and intention of this “Kripalu Inspired” Yoga Teacher Training is to help students develop the skills needed to safely and effectively guide yoga classes that inform, inspire and illuminate.
Although the aim of our YTT is to prepare yoga students to become yoga teachers, this program is also perfect for serious practitioners who want to explore the amazing depth and breadth of the yogic path, even if they do not wish to teach.
The training will be led by Karen Kenney, owner and principal teacher of Quest Yoga Studio. She has been a dedicated yoga student for over 15 years and a full time yoga teacher since 2001. Karen is a certified Kripalu Yoga Teacher and also completed teacher trainings in Ashtanga Yoga, Prenatal Yoga and Thai Yoga Therapy.
Karen’s approach to yoga is also deeply influenced by Marianne Williamson, best selling author of A Return to Love – which offers reflections on A Course in Miracles. Karen was blessed to live and work closely with Marianne, who became her spiritual “mother”, teacher and mentor. The lessons learned from her relationship with Marianne and the guidance that she still receives has opened a door to profound healing, compassion and forgiveness.
The Quest Yoga Teacher Training will also be supported by many fabulous and talented guest presenters. Here are some of the wonderful professionals that will be sharing their knowledge and skills with you!
Quest Yoga
Teacher Training Faculty:
Jeff Mahadeen is the owner of the Muscular Wellness Institute and Treatment Center in Bow, NH. MWI is within a multi-disciplinary office offering Massage, Structural Integration (Rolfing), Physical Therapy
and custom Orthotics.
Jeff specializes in Soft Tissue Manipulation and Deep Tissue Education. For the past 15 years, he’s been teaching hands-on massage techniques including Myofascial Release, Neuromuscular Therapy (NMT), Musculo-Skeletal Assessment workshops and has even offered Dissection workshops nationally. Jeff has also developed massage school curriculum and Yoga Teacher Training modules with topics varying from Anatomy and Physiology to comprehensive Therapeutic hands-on techniques.
In 2006, Jeff was invited to sit on a Federal Licensing committee creating a new national board psychometric exam for the massage profession. He is writing a Neuromuscular Therapy Manual that he
hopes to have published in 2012.
Jeff has also lived and studied with the Yachack Shamans of the Amazon rain forest and the Andes mountains of Ecuador over the last 6 years.
“My goal is to offer quality in-depth education to therapists and body workers seeking to raise their level of training and to enhance the level of their profession.” ~ Jeff Mahadeen LMT, NCBTMB, WITS, Certified Structural Integrator
Rev. Stephanie Rutt is an interfaith minister ordained in 2005 by the New Seminary for Interfaith Studies in New York City. She is founder of the Tree of Life Interfaith Temple and serves as Presiding Minister. She is also the founder and creator of the Tree of Life Interfaith Seminary and the Tree of Life School for Sacred Living, LLC, formally the Tree of Life Yoga Studio.
In addition to being certified in the Kripalu and Kundalini yoga traditions, Rev. Rutt is the creator of numerous year-long spiritual study courses including: Rise Up! The Bhagavad Gita: Job Description for a Spiritual Warrior, Living Our Purpose: The Heart of Spiritual Practice and the Sanskrit Mantra Course.
She is the author of An Ordinary Life Transformed: Lessons for Everyone from the Bhagavad Gita, published by Hobblebush Books in 2006 and The Path of Crow: Journey to Your Inner Treasure.
Avantika Waleryszak is the founder of the Still Point Healing Method and director of Amber Moon Wellness in Portsmouth, NH. She is considered to be a transformational teacher and Spiritual Life Coach. Teaching yoga for the past 13 years, she completed her Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training in 1999 and became an Integrated Yoga Teacher in 2002.
She also became a certified Integrated Healing Therapist in 2003. She has continued her education as a healer and yoga teacher by taking classes for certification in Prenatal Yoga, Reiki, leadership, Integrated Nutrition, consciousness studies and meditation. Additionally, she is in the process of completing her degree in Holistic Psychology through Vermont College.
Dennis Kiley, founder of the Institute for Integrative Living, has a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from the California Institute for Integral Studies. For two years, he worked in a private practice setting in California as a psychotherapist, serving individuals, couples and groups. His therapeutic focus is holistic, integral and trans-personal.
This orientation is reflected in his current private practice: Integrative Wellness, which brings together personal therapy, holistic coaching and spiritual counseling. Dennis teaches yoga and meditation at Cattitude Yoga Studio in Bar Harbor, ME. He has studied, practiced and taught meditation for over twelve years.
Johannah Blackman has been practicing yoga for twelve years and teaching for five. She received her 200-hour teacher certification from the Kripalu Center and has trained with, amongst others, Shiva Rea, Dharma Mittra and Seane Corn. Her style of yoga pulls from many different influences and her interest lies in designing classes that meet the needs of her students, making the practice accessible to all.
Johannah holds a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology and explores the intersection between psychology, yoga and living the best life possible. She strongly believes that yoga is a path that connects us with our strength and teaches us how to live from an integrated, powerful place, while also giving us the tools to meet life fully.
Irene Solea is a chant artist that blends traditional and non-traditional kirtan with soulfully dynamic vocals, urban and world rhythms in a band that has quickly rooted itself within the chant/kirtan world. Trained as a music therapist, she was introduced to the heart-opening potential of kirtan in 2000 and has been hooked ever since, offering concerts and workshops across the country filled with love, laughter and devotion.
She’s been a featured artist at venues including Kripalu (MA), Integral Yoga (NYC), Yoga Tree (SF), Denver’s Yoga Rocks the Park (CO), Boston Yoga and Chant Fest and her home base, South Boston Yoga. The anticipated 2012 release of her second album — eight tracks featuring original melodies, lush vocal harmonies, and Pop/Soul, Latin and Reggae flavors– comes on the heels of her now sold-out 2010 EP release.
TEACHER TRAINING INFO
DATES:
One weekend per month for 9 months – Friday Eve, Sat & Sun
First Weekend: Friday, 9/14 – Saturday 9/15 & Sunday 9/16
Final Weekend: Friday, 5/3 – Saturday 5/4 & Sunday 5/5
* With one other April weekend – as a back up date – for any missed training due to winter weather cancellations.
COST:
Early Bird Special: $2700 – PAID IN FULL (non-refundable) by June 9, 2012.
The Quest Yoga Teacher Training meets the guidelines and requirements of the Yoga Alliance 200-Hour Teacher Certification Program. This will allow students that successfully complete the Quest Yoga YTT to register with the Yoga Alliance at the 200-Hour level upon graduation.
FREE INFO SESSION AT QUEST YOGA STUDIO:
Date: Saturday, June 9
Time: 11:00 – 1:00pm
For more information, please contact Karen Kenney: (603) 608-7590 or email: Karen@QuestYoga.com