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At Crofton Yoga, we love hearing students express their interest in teaching and helping them transform that interest into reality. We assist in reaching your required training hours and work with each student to ensure you stay focused on your goal.
To accommodate our growing numbers of aspiring future
instructors, we proudly offer the Pranakriya School of Yoga Healing Arts 200 and 300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training (YTT). Our YTT serves to strengthen your practice; deepen your connection to yoga:
Understanding of yoga; and to foster your confidence and comfort teaching in front of a group.
Crofton Yoga holds trainings through the Pranakriya Yoga School of Healing Arts and is a RYS (Registered Yoga School) through Yoga Alliance and adheres to the Yoga Alliance Standards.
Click the links below for more information on these certifications and decide which certification as a Yoga Instructor is right for you!
200 Hour Basic Yoga Teacher Training and Certification: RYS 200
300 Hour Advance Yoga Teacher Training and Certification: RYS 300
You will receive training in these essentials for teaching yoga:
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Leading warm-ups and preparatory poses
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Leading opening & closing centering
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Teaching basic postures (asanas) along with modifications,
variations, benefits, contraindications, and adjustments -
The art of demonstration
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Basic anatomy and physiology as applied to yoga
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Yoga breathing techniques (pranayama)
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Designing, sequencing & leading classes (including languaging,
visualization and hands-on assisting) -
Leading and encouraging body awareness
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Leading pranayama: yogic breathing (5 key practices)
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Leading relaxation and shavasana
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Teaching meditation
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History of yoga
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Yoga Philosophy
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History of Kripalu & Pranakriya Yoga
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Yoga Lifestyle: Yamas and Niyamas
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Right Livelihood: The Business of Teaching Yoga, including
marketing.
You will also engage in many hours of supervised practice teaching. When you have completed the program, you will be able to lead three different types of yoga classes (Gentle Stretch, Meditative Posture Class and Yoga Workout) that will enable you to teach in any setting.
Kim Murphy
200 hr YTT director
Yoga is more than a practice or a class for Kim, it is a way of life. Spend any length of time around Kim and her three passions in life will become readily apparent, fitness, yoga and helping people. Like many people Kim began her yoga journey in a yoga class after suffering from bouts of depression most of her life.
It did not take many classes for Kim to realize that when yoga was part of her everyday routine she was able to see things in a positive way and as a result had more energy, felt alive and was able to face whatever challenge life brought her. Kim’s passion for knowledge and helping others led her to teaching, but she will always be her first student. Certified at the 200-hour level in both Kripalu and Pranakriya yoga and at the 500-hour level in the Pranakriya tradition, and 500-hour Yoga Therapy through the Pranakriya School of Yoga Healing Arts.
Kim is a Thai yoga therapist, a Reflexologist and continues to train with her teacher Yoganand Michael Carroll. Her passion for working with beginners has led her to become a Director of the Pranakriya 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training Program. Kim is Leadership and Intensive certified in Y12SR Yoga for 12 Step Recovery and currently holds meetings in Anne Arundel county. Kim believes that yoga can heal the body from the inside out and is a necessary component for health.