Firstly, proceed immediately to your local/virtual purveyor of books and purchase Teaching Yoga: Essential Foundations and Techniques, by Mark Stephens. You need this book, and you need it now. Why, you ask? Well, you see, it has The Goods; it's what our asana lab sheets would read like in our wildest 200 hr training dreams. Nearly 100 pages go over how to instruct each individual asana + the transitions to & from, 30+ pages on sequencing & sequences, a huge appendix listing the prep, supporting, & counter poses for every asana, and that's just the highlights. It goes into all the other important stuff, too, of course; depth is the key word here. I reckon many of us have been craving a little more of that.
That said.. I need input, please. I finally checked out (three months too late) the Yoga Alliance's standards for the 200 hour certification. Page 1 of this curriculum approval paperwork futher explains what can & cannot qualify as contact or non-contact hours.
Two concerns/talking points and I'll leave it:
1) To be fair, I'm bad with math, but, according to the standards (i.e. lunch breaks & the studio yoga classes on Sat. & Sun. don't count).. our contact hours come up short.
2) The Practicum category. Minimum 5 contact hours spent actively teaching, in the presence of Robin or Teresa. When.. how?
I'm sorry that this is all I ever talk about, especially sorry that this is the only side of me some of you ever see. :(
Have a great weekend, loves,
Heather
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