ONLINE or LIVE
300/500HR YOGA TEACHER TRAINING COURSE
Advance your teaching and your practice to become a Registered Yoga Alliance 500 hr Yoga Teacher
You do not have to be an advanced practitioner nor an experienced Teacher to join us to learn, improve your practice and get stronger.
The course will include live sessions (either ONLINE or IN STUDIO), lectures, classes, presentations, strength and flexibility training and in person sessions with lead teachers.
LIVE IN STUDIO trainees will also need to watch online videos and certain lectures. Asana work will be done IN STUDIO.
PART TIME
Online or In person – your choice
16 July – 15 August AND 3 September – 3 October
PLACE UPDATE: 2 PLACES LEFT
Fridays 5-8pm, Saturdays 9-6pm, Sundays 9-6pm
Self study via website videos to be done during the week
Wellness Connection 200hr Teachers, students and unemployed Teachers:
ONLINE: R18,000
IN STUDIO: R22,000
Other 200hr Teachers:
ONLINE: R21,000
IN STUDIO: R25,000
Deposit of R5,000 to secure your place
PAYMENT PLAN IN 3 payments
Please refer to the Acceptance Criteria, Payment conditions & Student discounts for YOGA Teacher Training for full details.
All course materials
All daily session recorded and available on our YouTube channel. Please email for details.
300hr YTT Detail Please click here for a more detailed version of content
CRITERIA FOR ACCEPTANCE
We do not expect you to be an advanced yogi, nor super fit or flexible. We expect that you have a yoga practice, a love for yoga and a commitment to the course and to your practice.
We require that you have high standards, accept equity in yoga and commit to doing no harm. You should be ethically aligned with our code of conduct, fully supportive of your fellow trainees, avoid discrimination, keep confidentiality, and commit to no harm.
Please refer to the Acceptance Criteria, Payment conditions & Student discounts for YOGA Teacher Training for full details.
Should a course be cancelled due to Covid-19 concerns and restrictions trainees can either have a full refund or postpone to a course at a later date. We strongly recommend that clients who need to book accommodation and travel insure that they will be able to change or refund their travel arrangements should Covid 19 government policy recommend social distancing or ban gathering. Please note that Air BnB and most Hotel policies have this rule in place but it is better to confirm with the hosts and your booking agent.
To protect our trainees we will not accept any trainee who has recently come from a high risk area nor a person in contact with someone from a high risk area without proof of a negative Covid19 result. Trainees must sign an affidavit confirming no high risk contact and commit to no high risk contact during the course.
WHY DO THE COURSE
This is our 5TH 500HR RYT course. This is when your love of yoga will soar. You will commit to studying on a much deeper level, to become a more empowered, skilful, yoga practitioner.
What matters is your love of yoga. The advanced course is advanced in that we will inspire you, you will go deeper enhancing your yoga knowledge, your practice, your teaching (if you teach) and you will leave loving and knowing yoga even more.
Please contact Catherine if you have any queries, as simple as they may seem. We are happy to help you.
TEACHERS
Our 500hr Teachers called us a Mini Yoga University – and that is what we are. Yoga Education and Training is what we specialise in.
All our courses our Yoga Alliance (US) accredited.
We were the first studio to be qualified to offer a Yoga Alliance (US) Advanced 300/500 hr Yoga Alliance approved Teacher Training in South Africa. All of our staff are 500hr Yoga Alliance Teachers, the highest qualification one can have.We are hugely experienced in both 200 and 300/500 hour Yoga Teacher Training.
To date we have run over 25 Yoga 200 hr Teacher Training courses and 4 Yoga 300/500hr Yoga Teacher Training courses.
THE COURSE
Our course is structured so that we can offer you a real insight into many different aspects of yoga, but with core themes running through each modules that offer a deeper level of practice and knowledge.
The Core Themes are pose practice, strength and flexibility training, peak pose applied anatomy, sequencing movement science and teaching skills.
Around the Core Themes are other areas of Yoga including philosophy, meditation and breathwork as well as our Speciality Areas which include
Yin
Hatha
Hot 26
Modern Vinyasa
Pre Natal Yoga
Iyengar style prop use
Pilates for Yoga Teachers
PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE
We do a significant amount of practical training on the course.
We ask everyone what they would like to work on, and we build a programme to suit the groups needs.
We see transformations in your practice BECAUSE on top of classes and pose workshops we add training time daily to work on strengthening, flexibility and skill work.
POSE ANATOMY AND MOVEMENT SCIENCE
We also understand that most people shudder when they hear the word….anatomy… so for those that fear anatomy, be assured EVERYTHING you learn is completely related to yoga poses – we get up and move and point and see, adjust, laugh, play……and understand. Pose anatomy is our passion and we really know our stuff. Be prepared to be surprised.
We learn what stretching really is, what happens to our muscles in yoga practice, how to use load to strengthen to help us with arm balances, backbends and inversions.
PEAK POSE ADVANCED SEQUENCING
Normal vinyasa flow classes do not help many people advance their practice, and frequently lead to injury as they do not incorporate any progressive strength and flexibility training.
Advanced Sequencing is what we specialise in at the Wellness Connection, a understanding of the anatomical, physical training and cognitive (brain action) needs of a peak pose, and a knowing of how to bring those elements into a well designed Vinaysa Flow class for all levels of practitioners.
TEACHING
You will learn how to structure peak poses classes, private sessions, for beginners, intermediate and advanced levels as well as workshops and courses for beginners and different groups of poses (inversions, arm balances, backbends).
You may not be teaching but this will help you understand how to structure your own yoga sessions.
TEACHERS
The 300/500hr Yoga Teacher Training course is taught by Catherine Wilkinson, Laura Norton, Carla Collins, Bev Slauck, Tarryn James and Claire Weight, all Experienced 500hr Teachers (E-RYT 500). All teachers have been lead trainers on over 25 Yoga Teacher Trainings and have thousands of hours of teaching time registered with the Yoga Alliance. All teachers have studied extensively specialising in yoga pose anatomy and anatomical advanced sequencing for peak poses, as well as their own specialised area of yoga.
CATHERINE WILKINSON
Catherine’s speciality is yoga pose anatomy and sequencing. She has studied anatomy and physiology at BSc and Masters level. Catherine considers Jenni Rawlings @jennirawlings her teacher in applied anatomy and movement science. Other teachers have included Jules Mitchell (www.julesmitchell.com) , Jason Crandell (jasonyoga.com) as well as many others.
LAURA NORTEN
Laura has extensive Iyengar training with David Jacobs, as well as yoga anatomy training. Laura runs her own Aerial Yoga Teacher Trainings and has her own studio, the Yoga Mala.
TESTIMONIALS
ACCOMMODATION
We do not provide accommodation, however the Wellness Connection Studio is situated in a ‘holiday’ area with many, many Air BnBs and lodges within walking distance to suit all budgets. We suggest you search Air BnB Hout Bay Longkloof Road area. Please ask if you need any more help.
The course consists of 300 hours of advanced Yoga Teacher Training, which, with your Yoga Alliance approved 200 hour training certificate, comprises the 500 hours needed to register with the Yoga Alliance.