New Yoga Teacher Training Program Asks Students to Take Their Practice “From the Mat Into the World”
Into this World Productions is offering a unique yoga teacher training program this July for Long Island, NY area yoga practitioners.
(PRWEB) June 9, 2005 -- Students of the Into This World Yoga Teacher Training
and Certification Program learn in a classroom environment unlike most they’ve
previously experienced. Suzanne Cardinal, a Long-Island native and owner of Into
This World Productions, has designed her yoga teacher training to use the on the
mat practice and study of Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayama, Pratyahra, Dharana,
Dhyana, and Samadhi to encourage students to develop a regular, committed daily
practice. More importantly, Cardinal believes that students should take their
yoga practice “From the Mat Into the World”™ through their attitudes,
intentions, and actions in daily life.
“Suzanne definitely practices what
she teaches. That's evident in everything that she does,” says Karen
Passalacqua, a third grade teacher and one of Cardinal’s current students.
Unlike many yoga-training classes, where you can have forty or more students in
the same room, Cardinal chooses only to teach a more personal program with
classes of four to twelve students. According to Cardinal, most teacher training
programs in the US tend to be bigger and tend to be a little more anonymous. She
explains that students are often accepted into classes by filling out a paper
application or they’ve only met their teacher on the phone.
By contrast,
Cardinal pre-qualifies her students, who must have had a regular and committed
yoga practice for at least one year, and then personally interviews them for at
least an hour before accepting them to her class. “In person interviewing is not
necessarily common in the yoga world,” says Cardinal, “but I like the idea of
one-on-one mentoring dynamic. I like the fact that over the eight-month period
of time I get to know each individual well, their practice, and their
personality and how they want to use yoga when they're done.”
In
Cardinal’s current session, which has only four students, the high
teacher-to-student ratio hasn’t gone unnoticed, or unappreciated, “When you only
have four people in the class the teacher is bound to develop a closer
relationship with each student,” says Barbara Adametz, a co-owner of the Pilates
and Yoga Studio of Whitestone. “In a large class, with fifty people in the
class, that's just not possible.” In addition to the small class size Adametz
was also surprised by the range of the topics Cardinal taught. “I've seen the
training manuals from other certification courses and I don't think that they
all go into as much depth as Suzanne does. Suzanne gives a multifaceted course
in terms of extensively going into Yoga’s historical significance, its
philosophy, and its metaphysics, in addition to the postures and
techniques.”
Personal transformation is also a characteristic of
Cardinal’s class that surprises many students. “I didn't know it was going to be
such a personal transformation,” says Passalacqua. “I knew I would learn about
meditation and postures, the history and the different philosophies, but I
didn't realize how the class would affect me personally.” Passalacqua goes on to
say that Cardinal often applies the principles she teaches to “off the mat”
situations. “If we bring up something that is happening in our lives she'll
bring up a topic that we studied in the last section and ask us how might that
apply. So it's never as if we learned something and it's forgotten. We revisit
things every month.”
Cardinal is currently accepting applications for the
next session of her Into The World Yoga Teacher Training and Certification
Program that will start on July 15th. The eight-month program, which will be
given on Long Island, NY, is 319 hours long and satisfies the 200-hour basic
training requirements to become registered by the Yoga Alliance.
Into
This World Productions, founded and operated by Suzanne Cardinal, RYT, is based
in Raleigh, North Carolina. Additional information about Cardinal, and the Into
The World Yoga Teacher Training and Certification Program is available online at
www.intothisworld.net, or by calling
919-388-9503.
Contact:
Suzanne Cardinal, RYT
Into This World
Productions, Inc.
919-388-9503
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www.intothisworld.net
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