If you take the Part-time option, the retreat and weekend intensive sessions will include full 8-10 hour days, although you will have longer periods of time between sessions to integrate the information.
If you take Full-time option, you will have five days on followed by one day off throughout the training. There will be 8 contact hours each day, and on top of that there will be assignment work to complete and personal reading.
You could expect to put in an extra 1 to 2 hours per day to absorb the information and complete all assignments.
Please note the Full-time course is very intensive, but we offer it in a retreat-style immersion so you won’t need to worry about the usual routine of life, preparing meals or travelling to and from the course. You will be away from the distractions of city life so you can focus fully on your training – it will be like being in a “yoga bubble” for a whole month.
Part-time course:
During the 7-9 night residential retreats, days will start at 7am and go through until 6pm, although there will be plenty of down time during the day for resting and exploring the retreat environment.
During the Sydney Weekend Intensives, times are: Friday 5pm – 8pm, Saturday & Sunday 9am – 6pm.
Full time course:
7am – 6pm daily, except on days off.
For all courses, the days will start with a yoga class followed by a break for breakfast or morning tea.
Retreat Daily Rhythm:
7am-9am Yoga practice
9am-10am Breakfast
10am-1pm Teacher Training (Theory session)
1pm-3pm Lunch
3pm-6.30pm Teacher Training (Practical session)
You will receive a Certificate of Training for either 200-hour training or 500-hour training, depending on which course you attended. If you do single modules only, you will receive a Statement of Training.
BodyMindLife Yoga’s Teacher Training combines the experience of Nicole Goodwin, senior BodyMindLife Yoga teaching staff, and several honorary guest teachers. Nicole is the co-founder and owner of BodyMindLife Yoga studio and has been teaching yoga for 10 years. She has studied extensively with well-known yoga teachers including Shiva Rea and Baron Baptiste, and holds a Diploma of Health (Yoga Teaching) from Nature Care College.
Other teaching staff members are considered to be the best in their respective fields, and include:
If you have not completed a Teacher Training course previously, you will need to apply for the 200-hour training at a minimum. Alternatively you may apply for both the 200-hour and 300-hour training programs if you wish to gain the full 500-hour certification, recognised by Yoga Alliance.
The 200-hour is the minimum training required to go out and start teaching yoga classes to the public, and to obtain Association memberships and Public Liability Insurance. It will enable you to teach group classes as well as private classes in many of the locations where yoga is generally available.
The 300-hour is an advanced training, designed to be continuing study for Yoga Teachers. However, if there are modules of the 300-hour course that interest you, you are certainly welcome to attend them, and they may be credited towards the 300-hour course once you are enrolled. You just won’t be able to accrue these hours towards the 200-hour course, because of the specific Yoga Alliance requirements for 200-hour training.
If you have already completed a 200-hour Teacher Training at a school other than BodyMindLife Yoga, you may opt to attend the 300-hour training only, and receive certification for 500-hours in total. You will need to specify this on the application form, email a scanned copy of your Teacher Training Certificate issued by a Yoga Alliance registered school. We may like to set up a personal or phone interview with you to determine whether the course will suit your requirements.
In each Element of the training there will be an assignment to complete. Assignments are usually based on your reflections on how you relate to the subject matter being taught, so there will be no need for excessive research or study hours to complete the assignments.
Students doing the Part-time course will need to hand in all assignments at the beginning of the last retreat (you will be advised of the specific dates). Students doing the Full-time course will have one month from the last day of the course to hand in assignments.
The major part of the assessment requires you to teach a 50-minute yoga class to ensure you have embodied the information taught. The course is competency based, which means there is no pass or fail. You may repeat the assessment if necessary until you are able to demonstrate competency.
There will be one several project-based assignments to complete to receive this certificate. There is a degree of flexibility around when assignments needed to be handed in, and you will be given the assignment sheet at the time that you enrol for the course. Basically any assignments will need to be completed before you can request the certificate.
Although we do not advocate a certain “style” of yoga, BodyMindLife Yoga studios offer primarily Vinyasa yoga, and this style is more widely emphasised throughout the training. You’ll find that our unique philosophy and principles of practice can be applied to all major styles of yoga.
If you are enrolled in the 200-hour course Part-time or Full-time in 2010, you must complete the course in 2010. Of course, if life changes happen and you need to defer your studies for a while, we can certainly accommodate that. We recommend that you don’t take more than two years to complete the 200-hour training. By 2011, individual “elements” of the 200-hour training will be available in stand-alone 5-6 day blocks, allowing more flexible study options. As the 300-hour training is more flexible by nature, you may take between one and three years to complete.
You are required to keep up a regular, documented yoga practice while enrolled in a Teacher Training program.
We are not a Registered Training Organization (RTO) and therefore are unable to issue a COE to those wanting to apply to the Australian Immigration Office for a study visa. We happily accept international students into our Teacher Training programs but are unable to assist with visa documentation.
BodyMindLife Yoga is a Registered Yoga School with Yoga Alliance, for 200-hour and 500-hour Teacher Trainings. Yoga Alliance recognizes Yoga Schools who meet certain standards in Teacher Training curriculums.
Upon receipt of your Certificate of Training, you may apply directly to Yoga Alliance to become a “Registered Yoga Teacher”. Forms may be downloaded directly from www.yogaalliance.org.
We are currently in the process of registering our Teacher Training Programs with Yoga Teachers Association of Australia (YTAA). Please stay tuned for further information.
Upon receipt of your Certificate of Training, you may apply for Yoga Teachers Professional Indemnity and Public Liability Insurance through OAMPS Australia, or other Insurance providers.
Taking a Yoga Teacher Training course is a wonderful way to immerse yourself and develop a greater understanding of Yoga and the role it plays in your own life. Many of our students participate with a desire to deepen their own personal practice. Our teacher training offers students an opportunity to look at Yoga not just as a practice, but as a lifestyle, and an effective tool to bringing about greater health, harmony and balance to one’s life. We recommend anyone who is interested in creating lasting good health and wellbeing take this course!