500Hr: NYTT Certification

An NYTT 500 HR certification is a complete and thorough training meeting the standards of a Naada Yoga certified yoga teacher. Our dedicated faculty of internationally recognized teachers have worked closely together to develop a well rounded program that will empower you to see yoga as a living and evolving practice.

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NYTT 201 | Accessible Asana: Foundations, methods, and practice

Instructor: Elizabeth Emberly

This training focuses on establishing an understanding of modern and classical postural yoga and its effects on alignment, breath and overall health. This education will help develop your personal asana practice while offering you essential tools to begin to share yoga with others. Naada Yoga embraces the philosophy that yoga can be accessible to all students. In this light an emphasis will be placed on exploring a variety of modifications in order to nurture both accessibility and inclusion within a group class environment.

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Date: Sept. 6th – 27th 2020

Group zoom or in-studio discussions 11:30am-1:30pm Sept 6, 13, 20, 27
3 hr segment of home online study required before each group session
Group zoom session October 3rd 11:30am-12:30pm
Private 1/2hr session with mentor booked within one month after the last group session.

NYTT 202 | Functionally Anatomy: Biomechanics of Movement

Instructor: Joanna Abbatt

This course will provide an introduction to the basic anatomical and physiological principles essential for yoga training and teaching to deepen our understanding of the harmonious ways the body functions anatomically. We will also explore the body’s “energetic” anatomy from a yoga perspective and how the subtle body helps us better understand physical alignment in all areas of our lives.

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Date: October 4th-25th, 2020

Group zoom or in-studio discussions Oct 4, 11, 18, 25 11:30am-1:30pm
3 hr segment of home online study required before each group session
Group zoom session October 31st 11:30am-12:30pm
Private session with mentor booked within one month after the last group session.

NYTT 203 | Progressive Asana: Beyond the basics

Instructor: Elizabeth Emberly

This course is intended to take individuals deeper into an exploration of the principles of alignment, inner and outer form of the poses, and how to instruct clearly from the principles of foundation, breath and movement. We will explore variations on the key poses from the NYTT Accessible Asana course, as well as introduce modifications for certain conditions. How to introduce more advanced principles of alignment to take students safely into more demanding poses will also be covered.

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Date: November 1st -22nd 2020

Group zoom or in-studio discussions Nov 1st, 8th, 15, 22 11:30am-1:30pm
3 hr segment of home online study required before each group session
Group zoom session November 28th 11:30am-12:30pm
Private session with mentor booked within one month after the last group session.

NYTT 204 | Yoga Philosophy: History and Culture

Instructor: Mark Singleton

This course will provide an overview of yoga from a historical and philosophical perspective to situate its evolution and application in our culture and our times. The philosophical foundation of yoga and the key teachings of the tradition (including traditional texts: Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads) will be covered.

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Date: November 29th-Dec 20th 2020

Group zoom discussions Nov 29th, Dec 6, 13, 20 11:30am-1:30pm
3 hr segment of home online study required before each group session
Group zoom session January 2nd 2021 11:30am-12:30pm
Private session with mentor booked within one month after the last group session.

NYTT 301 | Restorative Yoga: The art of stillness and deep relaxation

Instructor: Elizabeth Emberly

This course will examine the basic principles of a restorative yoga practice and how to use a variety of props to create positions of ease and comfort that help facilitate relaxation and health. As we navigate an extremely stressful world we are without a doubt dealing with illness on a myriad of different levels. In this course you will learn about the adaptability of restorative yoga, no matter what the condition, and how to best support yourself and your students to find maximum ease in each of the postures. We will also examine the numerous effects of a variety of postures, including inversions, in more detail and how to create a safe and supportive practice environment for students in these poses.

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Date: Jan 10th-31st 2021

Group zoom or in-studio discussions 4-6pm Jan 10, 17, 24, 31 11:30am-1:30pm
3 hr segment of home online study required before each group session
Group zoom session with mentor February 6th 11:30am-12:30pm
Private 1/2hr session with mentor booked within one month after the last group session

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NYTT 302 | Empowerment through interoception

Instructor: Donna Farhi

Most historic Yoga lineages and methods have relied on models for teaching that are hard wired to ensure the student’s dependence upon the teacher as the ultimate (and sometimes only) point of reference. This pedagogic model has persisted within contemporary Yoga styles with new yoga hybrids simply filtered through the same archaic lens. Encapsulated in the phrase “Simon Says”, teachers are trained to deliver authoritative instruction with students striving to obediently replicate a posture or practice. This makes for students who become passive recipients of information rather than active participants engaged in shared inquiry and adaptive learning. This externally referenced model for teaching can gradually erode people’s ability to access and trust their own perception, kinesthesia and interoception. Donna will explore the conscious steps teachers can make to create a context for students to become adept at investigating, deducting, adapting and evolving their yoga practice. We will learn about the conditions that foster people’s ability to perceive, process and integrate the signals from within their bodies. Not only can this approach yield exceptional results for students; crossing the bridge from Simon Says to Self-Sovereignty teaching can make teaching a satisfying lifelong career.

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Date: Feb 2021 specific dates TBA

Group zoom
3 hr segment of home online study required before each group session
Group zoom session with mentor March 6th 11:30am-12:30pm
Private 1/2hr session with mentor booked within one month after the last group session

NYTT 303 | Sequencing: Methodologies for building creative, safe and purposeful yoga classes

Instructor: Kreg Weiss

Like people, yoga sequences come in a variety of shapes and sizes and because of this makes sequencing yoga classes an art form. This course is intended for new or experienced yoga teachers looking to enhance their sequencing skills and inject creativity, education and inspiration into their classes. This module will take you through a variety of experiential and anatomically based yoga sequences in order to deepen your understanding of yoga asana. These sequencing methods will be examined, dissected and emitted back to you so that you may offer clear guided instruction through safe and effective practice sequences.

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Dates: March 7th-28th, 2021

Group zoom discussions with Kreg Weiss March 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th 9:30-11:30am.
3 hr segment of home online study required before each group session
Group zoom session with mentor April 3rd 11:30am-12:30pm
Private 1/2 session with mentor booked within one month after the last group session

NYTT 304 | Assisting: Contact and Context

Instructor: Elizabeth Emberly

As yoga becomes more accessible and integrated into mainstream living some of its practices have been challenged as being outdated. There is no question that the controversy of assisting students in yoga classes is on the rise and leaves teachers mystified as to how to navigate skillfully and provide the best support possible for each student. This workshop explores the complexity of this exact subject matter and offers yoga teachers nuanced skills of listening, observing, touching and subtly deepening their students’ yoga practice. Emphasis will be placed on handing back agency to students and supporting the continued development of consent culture while expanding a skillset that supports individual students who are nurtured by kinesthetic touch.

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Dates: TBA

Group zoom or in-studio discussions TBD
3 hr segment of home online study required before each group session
Group zoom session with mentor TBD
Private 1/2 session with mentor booked within one month after the last group session

NYTT 305 | Pranayama: The yoga of breath

Instructor: Richard Rosen

Beginning a pranayama practice is an extremely daunting task. This course is a step by step guide and aims at supporting and educating you to help get you started. Fundamental principles of pranayama will be explored and practiced, deepening your understanding of how the movement of breath affects both the body and mind. The anatomy of breathing, philosophy of breathing, and specific pranayama techniques will be discussed, including instruction on ujjayi, violma, and bhramari breaths that form the foundation of traditional pranayama techniques. Specific techniques of breath, body awareness and how to set up for pranayama practice will also be covered, as well as contraindications and cautions in the practice.

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Dates: July 19th and 26th 2020

Group zoom discussions with Richard Rosen 4-6pm July 19th and 26th
15 hrs of home online study
Private 1/2 session with mentor booked within one month after the last group session

NYTT 306 | Naada Yoga: Sound of Yoga

Instructor: Ann Dyer

Yogis across the centuries have harnessed the power of sound to fuel their yoga practice. Traditionally chanting and deep listening held a central role in yogic practice in India. When yoga migrated to the west the physical practice of asana was emphasized and the place of nada anusandhana (yogic sound practice) faded into the background. In recent years, however, there has been a resurgence in yogic chant in studios across the country for its reputation as the simple, quick, easy yogic path. Discover the traditions of sound in yoga and learn how to integrate them into a modern yoga practice as both a student and teacher with one of North America’s leading teachers on the subject.

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