Me - Jane Hallowell
Me again at Yoga & Nia for Life
I have taken several styles of yoga throughout my life. After my first Svaroopa® Yoga class, I felt relief from 16 years of chronic neck & shoulder pain, and so, I began teacher training shortly thereafter. I am now a CSYT (Certified Svaroopa® Yoga Teacher) for 700 hours, a certified Embodyment® Yoga Therapist, and a RYT (Registered Yoga Teacher), certified with the National Yoga Alliance.
To elaborate…seven years ago, I began my training as a Svaroopa® Yoga teacher. I was so excited to discover something that eliminated my chronic pain after trying several other healing modalities over the years. Since I was a born teacher, having taught piano and English when I lived in Japan, I decided to shift gears, delve into this type of yoga, and become a teacher. I wanted to help others discover what I had.
- With my students. I’m on the left.
To be a certified Svaroopa® Yoga teacher (CSYT) for 700 hours , I learned how to teach poses, including alignments, propping, and adjustments. (CSYT certification automatically qualified me as a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) through the National Yoga Alliance.) I also studied yogic philosophy, anatomy, and did lots of meditation.
Specifics of my training include:
- Svaroopa® Yoga Foundations Course
- YTT (Yoga Teacher Training) Weeks 1 – 4
- DTS (Develop your Teaching Skills) – four sessions, after each YTT training – where we spent hours studying every pose in detail and how to sequence them, while creating lesson plans that encompassed 12 different themes. We submitted our lesson plans to a senior teacher, who spent more hours with us on conference calls to guide us on the most effective plan structure.
- Embodyment® Yoga Therapy
- Experiential Anatomy
Some of these courses were from 7:00 a.m. until 9:00 p.m., and I can’t tell you how wonderful it was to do yoga all day for as many as nine days at a time.
Teacher training is just the beginning, though. Gaining experience and maintaining certification are other chapters along the way.
Namaste, Jane
(SVAROOPA is a registered service mark, and EMBODYMENT is a service mark of S.T.C., Inc., used under license.)
