SomaChi Teacher Training Certificiate Melbourne
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The course
The Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training Course has been designed to offer enquiring students a deeper understanding of Vinyasa Yoga and to equip them with the skills and knowledge to teach Vinaysa Yoga to others. As part of the Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training Melbourne, you will learn:
how to teach a range of Vinyasa classes, including class sequencing
in-depth knowledge of asana, including correct alignment, adjustments and anatomical focus
how to work with ‘chi’ and incorporate it into your yoga practice
the history, teachings and philosophies of yoga and Tibetan Buddhism
anatomy of the whole body – muscles, bones, joints, hormonal systems and more
how to connect with your students on an inter-personal level.
Modules covered are:
Yoga Philosophy
Energy and Expression – Physiology
Pranayama and Zapchen Somatics
Basic Functional and Applied Anatomy
Introduction to Asana Practice and SomaChi Sequences
Energetic Alignment & Adjustments
Designing and sequencing of classes
Dynamics of Interpersonal Relationships
Mantra, Meditation and Mudra
Spirit, Soma and Intensive Asana Practice
Accreditation
On successfully completing all units of the training, participants will recieve a 200 hour accredited Yoga Teacher Certificate from the Australian Association of SomaChi inc. The training is registered with the Yoga Alliance as 200-hour Accreditation.
What is Unique about SomaChi Yoga Training
It is one of the most integrative courses around. We understand that to be the best yoga teacher you can, you must embody the process - and this takes time, it cannot be cramped into 30 days. Even if it is a 6 Month or 12 Month course it has to be spacious, because it is in the space that yoga resides. It is here we find the integrity and the beauty that yoga is.
SomaChi honors tradition but allows for contemporary methods that suits our modern lifestyle.
The course brings in specialized teachers to educate you within the 200 hours.
SomaChi is akin to Ashtanga and Iyengar. This means you are trained specifically in a style that is establishing itself in the community.
When Identity is established community can develop from common interest.
We are accredited with Yoga Alliance, which is an international body so this can enable you to teach overseas as well as in Australia. And just as important, we have our own Association which maintains high standards for the continual development of our teachers and training.
The SomaChi Yoga Teacher Training Melbourne concentrates on the personal and professional development of our students. Not all Yoga Teacher Training courses are equal. Many courses offered are short, so remember to ask what is their success rate of students actutally becoming working professional teachers. Our course is kept at a maximum of 12 students, and we are proud that more than 90% of our students who have completed our course are currently teaching.
SomaChi may offer students a 6 month traineeship after they have completed their 200 hours. This is very rewarding as you can continue to receive training and experience within a studio environment.
SomaChi Yoga
Soma is described as body 'alive body'
Chi is described as energy 'aliveness through the body' aliveness in and of the environment.
Yoga is described as union 'uniting energy through the body' - 'union and integration of self, community, and environment'.
Energy moves in cycles and waves. In this yoga we explore the movement to find aliveness of the 'asana' through OUR body.
We want to find our creativity to unravel into the posture - we then start to recognize our inherited sense of self.
In this course we aspire towards the traditional and are inspired by nature - natural self, our innate intelligence of being.
About the teacher
Lianne founded SomaChi Yoga in 2000, she was asked by students to develop a teacher training and in 2004 the first SomaChi Yoga Teacher Training was underway. By 2007 her school was accredited with the international body of Yoga Alliance.
Her unique style encompasses the influences of physical theatre where She received sponsorship to study Grotowski and experiential theatre in Europe; to travels of the east including Nepal to study Buddhism. Her classes are described by her students as refreshing and experiential. Her style was also described by the Melbourne Age ‘fun classes that swoop into trikonasana (triangle pose) in dance like rolls from the waist, and cycles of sun salutations”.
Lianne's Vinyasa has been influenced by taoism and tai chi and the yoga world of Cyndy Lee, Shiva Rae, and Wade Imre Morrisette. She has an advanced diploma in Zapchen Somatics (Buddhist and Western body psychotherapy), where her principle teachers are Tony Richardson and Julie Henderson. For the past 12 years she has been studying Buddhism with Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche. Lianne has also completed level II and III in Shambhala contemplative meditative practices.
Lianne has been in great demand as a teacher. She has taught yoga, Improvisational and Somatic Movement, Pilates and SomaChi. She has given instruction at Chunky Moves, Melba Conservatorium of Music, and was a teacher trainer for Somatic Pilates at The Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre. She has also been flown to outback Australia to run Yoga and Pilates Workshops. In 2011 she taught sensory applications of functional anatomy to medical students of Melbourne University. Her past students are teaching today around Melbourne in SomaChi and Vinyasa, and some are venturing into their own studios.
Her passion and motivation for yoga stems from traditional Eastern and Western contemporary influences. Paying utmost respect for her own teachers, Lianne continues to go beneath the structure of asana, asking the question of how you find spontaneity and energy to express these ancient postures, as it is here we can experience great joy.
Price
Price Includes 6 Month membership to the SomaChi Studio for unlimited Yoga to further your Yoga Practice. This is valued at $770.
Price also includes Assessment Fees
| Full Price | $4000 |
| Early bird (Pay Full Amount before November 29 2010.) | $3800 |
A $500 deposit is required to confirm your place.
Before the $500 is accepted all people wishing to participate in the training must be interviewed by Lianne and a member of the Australian association of Somachi. This must be arranged no later than Tuesday November the 30th.
For more information and our Training module outline, please email lianne@somachi.com.au or call Lianne on 0403 217 619, or 03 8060 2718. You can also complete the above form.
Dates for 2012 Teacher Training.
January
Friday 27th Time: 7 to 9pm
Saturday 28th Time: 11.30 to 4.30pm
Sunday Time: 11.15 to 4.15
February
Wednesday 1st Time: 6 to 9pm
Wednesday 8th Time: 6 to 9pm
Saturday 11th Time: 11.30 to 4.30pm
Sunday 12th Time: 11.30 to 4.00
Wednesday 22nd Time: 6 to 9pm
Wednesday 29th Time: 6 to 9pm
March
Saturday 3rd Time: 11.30 to 4.30pm
Sunday 4th Time: 11.30 to 4.00pm
Wednesday 14th Time: 6 to 9pm
Saturday 17th Time: 11.30 to 4.30pm
Sunday 18th Time: 11.30 to 3.00pm
Wednesday 21st Time: 6 to 9pm
April
Saturday 14th Time: 11.30 to 4.30pm
Sunday 15th Time: 11.30 to 4.00pm
Wednesday 18th Time: 6 to 9pm
Wednesday 25th Time: 6 to 9pm
May
Saturday 5th Time: 11.30 to 4.30pm
Sunday 6th Time: 11.30 to 4.00pm
Wednesday 9th Time: 6 to 9pm
Wednesday 23rd Time: 6 to 9pm
Saturday 26th Time: 11.30 to 4.30pm
Sunday 27th Time: 11.30 to 3.00pm
June
Saturday 2nd Time: 11.30 to 4.30pm
Sunday 3rd Time: 11.30 to 4.00pm
Wednesday 6th Time: 6 to 9pm
Wednesday 20th Time: 6 to 9pm
Saturday 23rd Time: 11.30 to 4.30pm
Saturday 30th Time: 11.30 to 4.30pm
July
Wednesday 11th Time: 6 to 9pm
Saturday 14th Time: 11.30 to 4.30pm
Wednesday 25th Time: 6 to 9pm
Saturday 28th Time: 11.30 to 4.30pm
August
Wednesday 8th Time: 6 to 9pm
Wednesday 15th Time: 6 to 9pm
Saturday 18th Time: 11.30 to 4.30pm
Saturday 25th Time: 11.30 to 4.30pm
September
Saturday 8th Time: 11.30 to 4.30pm
Saturday 22nd Time: 11.30 to 4.30pm
October
Saturday 6th Time: 11.30 to 4.30pm
Retreat
Thursday 25th to Sunday 28th - total of 29 hours
9 hours and 20 minutes of assisting in beginners course.
Testimonials
Stephanie Day - Completing the SomaChi Teacher Training was an incredible learning experience, one which will always resonate with me. THe course was interesting, fun and challenging on many levels, exploring topics/issues which continually broadened my perspective. I found it to be an amazing personal journey in a very supportive/open environment. I felt an instilled confidence in me as a future instructor and much to my surprise I began teaching earlier than I had expected. I gained my first teaching job through my connections with the studio, and since this time have found that it is through the SomaChi network of teachers that other work has come my way. It's an incredible feeling to be sharing something you love with others. SomaChi is a great community of people who care and love what they do. I'd highly recommend the course to anyone.
Marina Locke - I finished my SomaChi Teacher training in 2007, I have my own yoga studio in the beautiful sea side town of Agnes Water/1770 in QLD. The teacher training was by far the best and most comprehensive training I have undertaken. I felt thoroughly supported throughout my year of study, it was quite simply a life changing experience. The training was personalised, Lianne took on board our life experiences and backgrounds, I certainly wasn't just another number in another yoga course, like I have been in other trainings. I left this training feeling confident enough two years later to open my own studio and couldn't recommend it highly enough.
PS. I have just had my first child and believe my background in yoga, my training with Lianne in meditation and breath helped me achieve my dream of a totally drug free, natural, incredible birth of my baby!
