Spring 2025
1 MONTH INTENSIVE YOGA TEACHER TRAINING
DATES: MARCH 22ND-APRIL 13TH
NEXT TRAINING DATES : SPRING 2025 - March 22nd - APRIL 13th
WE ARE YOGA ALLIANCE REGISTERED
Deepen Your Practice & become a Teacher
We will introduce you to classic styles including traditional Hatha, Ashtanga, Yin, and Vinyasa - as well as proven systems for integrating elements of traditional practice into a style that is authentic your own.
You will be transformed – more uniquely and beautifully YOU.
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or
Early Bird Special Available until
January 31st, 2025
$2500 / $2700 after
we also have payment plans and scholarships available to anyone in need
email: studio.dayayoga@gmail.com to inquire
Transform
Your training is so much more than just learning yoga poses. Sure, you’ll learn the technical things you need to be a great teacher – anatomy, sequencing, cueing, and all that other stuff. But you’re also taking a deep, transformational journey of self-discovery, self-acceptance, and self-love. When it’s done you’ll be a different person… not a person who’s changed, but rather a person who has a truer understanding of who you really are. You’ll see the beauty and grace inside of yourself, and you’ll be ready to share it with the world in your own unique way.
Off the mat
You’ll learn an advanced teaching style (called “off the mat”) that allows you to teach like a pro, starting with the very first class you teach! Instead of demonstrating every pose from the front of the class, you’ll learn to teach while walking around the room so that you can really see your students and help them deepen their practice. This is an absolutely essential tool if you want to be a top teacher!
You’ll be able to create your own class plans, with endless creativity and variety! You will get an understanding how to work with students of all levels and we will give you tools to work with different injuries.
During the training we will meet on the weekends following a strict schedule we have designed based on working with people for over 10 years.
Friday 7-9pm
Saturday: Morning 8-9:30am & 2:30-9pm
Sunday 2-6:30pm
among the group hours, more flexible based on your schedule hours
will consist of
Practice hours - 5x a week - in your own time
Mentoring hours - 2x in a month with lead teacher
Homework, Karma Yoga, Group practice 5 hours a week
20 hours of teaching community classes - can be finalized after training
After the training:
we ask that you teach at least 20 community classes to gain experience
from there you have the opportunity to teach with Daya
your teachers and mentors:
Dayamama - Anna Lesniak, Georgina Berbari, Shri Marley Ilumina, Jodie
Dayamama - Anna Lesniak
Founder of Daya Yoga Studio, Yoga Teacher, Movement Lover & Artist, Farmer forever
Teaching Yoga , Bhakti, Kirtan also offering Holistic Services since 2007
Life dedicated to creating Community around the world
NYC, CT, Guatemala & Poland
studied under : Science of Self with Rose Erin- Advanced Yoga Training & Meridian Therapy, Atmananda Yoga , Yoga Sukhavati, Ketonah Yoga, Kundalini at the Golden Temple in Guatemala, Michael Gannon in Mexico - Ashtanga, Fara Marz - Bhakti, India and many more I’m a student forever
Georgina Berbari
multidisciplinary artist and yogini in NYC. Practicing and teaching for over a decade
“Im devoted to inner transformation in service of healing “
Advanced Yoga, Yoga Therapy, Meridian Work, Acupressure, Bhakti & Meditation
Marely Ilumina
Yogini, Curandera, Kambo facilitator, herbalsit & artist
Based in Hudson Valley, facilitating all around the world.
Course Outline
Table of ContentS
Family Tree (Yoga Styles and History of Yoga)
Pranayama
Asana (Intro to Surya A, B)
Yoga Anatomy / Anatomy of Asana / Asana Lab
The Art of Assisting (Adjustments)
Sequence Building
Finding your voice
Chanting, Kirtan
Choosing Direction (Yin, Power…)
Teaching & Sequence
Intro to Chinese Medicine & Ayurveda
Energy Body - Chakras, Meridians
Business of Yoga
Course Calendar & Curriculum
WEEK 1
3/22 Saturday 8 - 9:30am Yoga Master Class - Dayamama - Bushwick
2:30pm - tune in with mantra /Yoga Mat - Understanding the practice - Dayamama - Ridgewood
4pm - 8 Limbs of Yoga - Intro to eastern Body Western Mind - everything benign the heart - the root - Dayamama - Ridgewood
5:30pm -8pm - Asana Lab - Surya A and B - Dayamama - Ridgewood
3/23 Sunday 8 - 9:30am Yoga Master Class
2:30pm - Check in ---Chinese medicine
4pm - Yoga Sutras - Yoga History Mythology and Sacred Text
6pm - 9pm - Asana Lab
WEEK 2
3/28 Friday 6-9pm - Pranayama & Meditation & Yin approach
3/29 Saturday doors open 7:30am to check in
8-9:15am - Yoga Master Class
2:30pm - tune in with mantra
Eastern body western mind 3 lower chakras
Energetic Body / Chakras /Kundalini
4-6pm - Asana Lab / Daya Yoga Sequence
7-9pm Puja & Kirtan - field trip
3/30 Sunday 8-9:30am - Yoga Master Class
2:30pm - Asana Lab - Practice teaching
6pm - 8:30pm Finding your voice & Healing Sessions
WEEK 3
4/4 Friday 6pm - 8:30pm - Teaching Methodology/ Restorative Asana/ Yin Approach
Savasana adjustments
4/5 Saturday 8-9:30am - Yoga Master Class
2pm - Asana Lab
4pm - Teaching Methodology & making sequences
6pm - practice teaching - finding your voice & Healing Sessions
4/6 Sunday 8-9:30am - Yoga Master Class
2:30-3:30pm pm - Asana Lab - Advanced Asana (arm balances)
4-7pm - Anatomy
WEEK 4
4/11 Friday students tandem class - checking in
4/12 Saturday Finals - yoga classes by students
4/13 Sunday Kirtan - Graduation
Required Texts
Read Before Training
Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System As a Path to the Self - Anodea Judith (Good reads Author)
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (any version)
Bhagavad Gita (any version)
Texts to Have in Your Library
Yoga Anatomy - Leslie Kaminoff
Light on Yoga - BKS Iyengar
Autobiography of a Yogi - Paramahansa Yogananda
Hatha Yoga Pradipika - Muktibodhananda Saraswati