This program is a comprehensive, 300-plus hour, four-module course that explores in joyous detail what it takes to live a yogic life and be a truly extraordinary teacher. The course content has been carefully designed to  guide you through a very personal and profound experience of the totality of yoga, and its potential for creating lasting and healthy change in your life and the lives of others.

Our faculty are extraordinary examples of those whose lives are informed by and based upon Yoga. Each teacher is experienced, passionate and inspirational, in their own way.  Faculty will include:  

• Lauren Jay Toolin, Director — veteran Yoga teacher and therapist, senior ParaYoga teacher
• Timothy McCall, MD — renowned Yoga researcher and Yoga therapist and author of the bestselling "Yoga as Medicine"
• Kathryn Templeton — psychotherapist, Yoga teacher, Ayurvedic practitioner
• Susan Neufeld — Yoga teacher, Reiki master, meditation expert
• Ed Dailey — Yoga teacher, registered nurse, Urban Zen Yoga Therapy Program faculty
• Ann Ramsey — Yoga teacher specializing in Pregnancy Yoga and Yoga for Seniors

• Living a Yogic Life
• Yoga Therapeutics
• Yoga, Tantra and Kundalini
• Classroom Skills and the Business of Yoga

Independent study and projects will also be a required part of the course for those on the certification track.

Location: Will vary between HeartSpace Yoga, Albany, NY and Spencer Yoga, Spencer, MA.

Please contact Lauren to be considered for this program.