Forrest Advanced Teacher Training Date: May 24 - June 1 ,2008 Location: North Kingstown Studio Cost: $1650 Pre-Registration required Refund Policy: No refunds, exchanges, or transfers. No Exceptions.

Ana Forrest designed this program to be highly experiential. The training includes chanting, daily meditation, Pranayama, intensive yoga practice, working with injuries, addressing the needs and challenges of students, mentoring your own practice and needs and learning the principles of class sequencing for the setup and optimal implementation of advanced poses. The trainees are taught how to put into practice and teach intermediate and advanced arm balances, backbends, hip openers, abdominals, vinyasas, inversions, and bound poses. Teacher trainees are also shown how to work with people of different levels, abilities and body types.

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Advanced Teacher Training Program

Daily Agenda*

Sat, May 24- Sun, June 1, 2008:
7:00am-7:30am Morning Meditation
7:30am-10:00am Yoga Intensive
10:00am-11:30am Advanced Asanas
11:30am-1:30pm Break
1:30pm-5:15pm Advanced Teacher Training

*Agenda subject to change at the sole discretion of Forrest Yoga.

Meditation & Chanting with Ana Forrest

Meditation practice is the process of asking the question: "What am I?" The tools of meditation are chanting, sitting as well as questions and answers. These tools are used to help quiet the chatter of the mind in order to examine this question with clarity and focus. Developing a meditation practice can have a profound effect on your life. Instead of being controlled by the chatter of the mind, learn to use awareness in each moment to assess your relationship to that moment.

For example, liken meditation to a scale. If one puts ten pounds on the scale it shows ten pounds. When taken off the scale returns to zero pounds. A clear mind works in the same way. When something appears in front of you, you see it for what it is, when it is gone, you let it go and return to the moment. "When your mind is not clear, when you take the ten pounds off the scale returns to one pound; then you have a problem because you cannot see clearly, or weigh accurately, so your actions are not clear," says yoga and meditation instructor Ana Forrest.

Each morning prior to the daily intensive yoga practice Ana will use storytelling, chanting, Kido (chanting and drumming) and sitting meditation to help trainees free their minds from their attachment to habitual patterns of thinking and the resulting habitual patterns of action. The freedom from habitual thinking will have an immediate effect on your yoga and in your life. This meditation class is aimed at helping trainees develop a daily meditation practice and delivers a gentle approach that demystifies Zen meditation offering ample opportunity for questions.

As the foundation of this course the daily intensive yoga practice with Ana will create a heightened sense of physical, emotional and spiritual awareness while challenging every muscle and cell in your body. Through a carefully constructed and rigorous Forrest Yoga series of asanas, Ana will open you to amazing depths and feelings of awareness. You will leave feeling cleansed, refreshed and alive. The intensives are a sanctuary where you can feel safe enough to open up, work through issues that may arise and go beyond your perceived limitations. You will learn about yourself and feel what it is like to have freedom in your own body and mind. The intensives are sure to bring each trainee to new levels within their yoga practice.

Each yoga intensive will become an advanced asana instructional period. Ana will guide the class into advanced poses related to the day's intensive theme, teaching and demonstrating variations, leveling, spotting and assisting along the way. A highly experiential session, this daily advanced asana period is structured so that each trainee works with others in the class in order to gain hands on experience with spotting, assisting (to keep your students safe as they learn the advanced poses), variations and leveling all under the supervision of Ana.

What you will learn:

Poses: Put into practice and teach intermediate and advanced arm balances, backbends, hip openers, abdominals, vinyasas, inversions, deep forward bends, advanced twists and bound poses. You will first practice the poses and then will coach and spot each other in the morning session. Afternoon training sessions will be dedicated to improving your teaching skills and working with the different injuries, abilities, and challenges your students will bring to the yoga room.

Seeing: Hone your "seeing" skills on anatomical and energetic levels. You will learn how to overcome your habitual seeing - as a yoga instructor - to better witness the whole truth of what your students are presenting in class.

Sequencing: Go beyond basic sequencing and delve into the principles of teaching and healing students with specific injuries. Create sequencing for the setup and optimal implementation of advanced poses. Learn to also increase strength, openness, and intelligence in all areas of your body.

Prioritize: Learn how to address the needs and challenges of your students more efficiently. Begin to address the issues that are of primary importance so that your students will yield the most profound results from your teaching.

Interface: Explore issues that are frequently encountered when working with intermediate and advanced students. Learn to interact with your student and their spirit and help them form an alliance. Healing is a slow process that involves time, patience and honesty for both teacher and student. In order to address the myriad of questions that traditionally come up, Q & A forums are regularly scheduled throughout the week. These intimate, safe sessions are designed so that each trainee has the opportunity to tap into Ana's 30+ years of teaching experience for answers to some of the tough questions, situations and scenarios that a yoga teacher faces today. Past questions have included: the trainees specific concerns or problems that they encounter in teaching; their own needs in staying inspired and inspiring; developing skill in becoming creative and effective with addressing their own needs and on to whatever path the trainees' impassioned questions lead us.

Working with Special Needs and Injuries: You will greatly increase your skill working with pregnancy and injuries including back, neck, shoulder, knee, sciatic and hamstring problems as well as post- surgical rehabilitation. Learn to manage the injuries you deal with on a daily basis.

Express the Wisdom of Your Spirit: By observing yourself, others, and receiving direct feedback, you will tighten the circle of understanding between your actions and their effects and become a more effective and compelling teacher. You will also further develop your particular gifts as a teacher to facilitate the greatest results for you and your students. Learn to risk being more truthful and how to speak from the eloquence of your spirit.

Accelerate Your Practice: Through daily intensive yoga and meditation classes you will develop your practice and viscerally experience the poses that you will teach later that day. Each yoga class is specifically designed to relate to the training goals.

What we expect of you:

Willingness, health and strength to go 100% for this event. If you don't have a daily practice, begin one now. To be drug free, including recreational drugs, coffee and tobacco. A list of poses that are problems for you to teach. A list of problems your students have or that you need help with. Bring a Strap, 2 mats or 1 mat and a blanket, neti pot and other personal props and supports (you'll be holding people in poses, make sure your weak places are supported).