500 Hour Training

This advanced training is designed to encourage your personal yoga practice as well as improve your skills in teaching. This training is accessible to teachers of all ages, body types, and yoga backgrounds. The Kind Yoga School provides its students with many opportunities to learn and teach Hatha Yoga in a supportive environment – both the theory and the practice of asana (poses), pranayama (yogic breathing), mindfulness and meditation. At the foundation, our underlying emphasis is on the eight limbed system explored in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras. We create a learning community of peers to study with.

The curriculum is offered over the course of 3-4 years, in four 75 hour modules to allow integration of the information and learning into your own practice and teaching.  These modules can be taken in any order.  Each module provides 75 hours of instruction and some self study, it is designed to advance your practice, teaching skills, and repertoire.  Module 1 ~ Mindfulness and Meditation, Module 2 ~ Chakras and Koshas, and Module 3: Sustainable Yoga and Community – Making a transformational difference in your world, Module 4 ~ Free your Authentic Self. 
The slow pace of our KYS training is designed so you can truly digest and integrate your learning and get personally mentored along the way.
Here is an interview with one of our guest Teachers –.Megha Nancy Butttenheim.

The modules are listed below:

“The best training I have ever attended. I have attended a lot of programs for my CEUs and personal growth, educational needs. BUT this Program and the Teacher will touch your Mind, Body & Spirit like no other. This Program and the techniques Diane utilizes as she teaches creates a shift from within each individual. Your journey is about to go on a path you can not miss. The experience and education you will leave with, will be with your for the rest of your life, and you will share this with all you meet from that moment on. What a life learning shift to gift yourself. Do not let the class title keep you from this experience waiting for you. If you never teach yoga,( and who is to say you never will ?) what you learn about YOURSELF in this program is life shifting…..” Kathleen Viola. May your Journey begin here.

Kind Yoga 500 Professional Certification 4 Modules:

Module One: An immersion into the practices of Mindfulness and Meditation

Deepen your practice and learn to teach Mindfulness, Meditation and Pranayama.  Book: Luminous Mind: Meditation and Mind Fitness”, J. & M. Levey Mindfulness and Meditation teacher training  Mentoring offered. The mindfulness and meditation training is also open to students as a stand alone certification. (Permission of instructor necessary, with a regular mindfulness practice.)  Includes Mindfulness and Meditation Manual.

Module Two: Yoga Journey to your Authentic Self:

Free your Authentic self in your yoga practice and teaching -Taking your teaching to the next level. You will have the opportunity to explore more freedom around your own style of teaching. You will receive personal coaching and constructive guidance on your teaching of yoga. The use of journaling and diving deeply into the eight limbed path will accompany you on this compassionate journey of radical self discovery. Your results will be authentic and genuine yoga teaching – connecting with your students and your own yoga practice.   (books: Yoga Sequencing – Mark Stephens, The Great Work of Your Life – Stephen Cope)  

Module Three: Sustainable Yoga and Community – Making a transformational difference in your world

Sustainable Kind Yoga – yoga as part of the world, the practice of kindness and compassion, caring for yourself and the environment, mindful eating, living with compassion for all beings, your walk exemplifies your yoga. We will also be refining, reviewing and deepening our understanding and application of certain yoga postures.

Module Four: Exploring the Luminous Energy Body: Koshas, Chakras, Pranayama

The Kind Yoga 500 Hour Certification is designed for yoga teachers already certified at the 200-hour level. The 500 hour certification entails 300 additional hours beyond your 200 hour certification.

The curriculum is offered over the course of three or four years, in four 75 hour modules to allow integration of the information and learning into your own practice and teaching.  These modules can be taken in any order, as they are offered.  Each module provides 75 hours of class/mentoring and individual practice and is designed to advance your practice, teaching skills, and repertoire.
Contact Diane.  508-776-1990 Mid Cape Location for all classes

Most commonly asked questions:

1. Can I take only one module without doing the whole program? yes – if you are looking to increase your learning and practice, even one module will be valuable to you.
2. Can a yoga teacher who graduated from another 200hr. school come and take the 500 with Kind Yoga? Yes.
3. Can we can work out a payment plan? Yes
4. Can I take the modules in any order? yes
5. Why take the 500? It gives you the practice, mentoring, further knowledge, and community connection with your peers.
6. Can I use a combination of other yoga classes and trainings to count toward my 500 Yoga Alliance Registration? No, this is not possible, as Yoga Alliance requires that one school creates and delivers the 300hour curriculum.
7. Will I have fun? YES!
8. Please note that all sessions are subject to a minimum enrollment. In the event we do not reach the required number of participants, you will receive a full refund of your deposit.