300 Hour YTT Intensive - Apr 1 - 28th, 2018

Envision the sun, white sand beaches, palm trees and the tropics… this is your destination for the next 28 days.

While attending your 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training at our beautiful retreat center in Boca Raton, you will have the opportunity to experience community classes in the park, drum circles in the evening, sunrise beach meditations, field trips and so much more!
What is this so much more you may ask? During your stay with us, you will gain more continuing education credits and certifications in Thai Massage, Stand Up Paddle Yoga and Yin and Restorative are also included in your training. All of this in the same time it takes to go through your 300hr yoga teacher training. If you choose, you can even stay after graduation for the weekend and get certified in children’s yoga.

This 300-hour program provides everything you need as mandated by Yoga Alliance in philosophy, anatomy, business, wisdom, sutras, kriyas, meditation, pranayama, adjustment, the art of teaching, language of energy, and nutrition. We teach Sadhana Shamanic Yoga, the Yoga of Spiritual Practice and the asana practice of Vinyasa, Hatha and restorative flow. Our approach is experiential, contemporary and eclectic. We bring to life the ancient teachings of yoga and Shamanism through accessible spiritual lessons and their relevance today.

Itinerary:

Zen Den Yoga School is based in Boca Raton Florida, offering 200 and 300 hour YTT Yoga Teacher training certifications. Besides our yoga teacher training course, we have a beautiful Yoga Retreat Center with on going retreats throughout the year.

The approach from Ira Ohm and his wife Valerie is contemporary and eclectic, they bring to life the ancient teachings of yoga through accessible spiritual lessons and experiential interactive shamanic activities..

One month intensive courses are Monday through Sunday 7:45am to 5:00pm with 45 minutes for breakfast and 2 hour lunch. In addition to multiple evenings of kirtan and meditation from 6:30pm to 8pm.

The graduates commonly report receiving much more than a yoga certificate from the program. It is often described as a life-changing experience that provides an opportunity for individuals to know themselves and a deep and lasting way. Zen Den Yoga School offers the students the opportunity to embark on a journey that brings them to a place of deeper knowing. The yoga teacher training offers much more than the physical aspect of yoga, it guides you along a yogic and shamanic journey of transformation mind, body and spirit. 

The schedule includes multiple yoga classes, group discussions, as well as other training and bonding events. Prior to arrival you will be required to begin your yoga anatomy online course. Upon arrival, you will receive the 300-hours yoga teacher training manual, The Bhagavad Gita and Yoga Sutras. The students get the opportunity to practice asanas and the respective alignments; explore the meaning of the yoga sutras and Bhagavad Gita; experience and learn several meditation techniques; perform regular peer-teaching; learn business and marketing of being a yoga teacher, including a thorough understanding of how to be advantageous in saturated markets. Training is intensive physically as well, students do a 90 minutes asana practice in the morning and in the afternoon, in addition to 2 to 4 hours of further studies during the day. Then there is the asana and other practice for your homework daily. Be prepared for the challenges of this intensive on all levels – physically, mentally, and emotionally. 

We will do our best to match you with a roommate if you would like to share a twin-bedded room with another student of the same gender. Otherwise, a single supplemental fee may apply for a private room, or students are placed in double rooms and triple rooms based on gender and order of enrollment.

Curriculum:
Learn to create sequences: Ashtanga-inspired Vinyasa and Sivananda Hatha flows with shamanic inspirations.
Daily practice of pranayama
Understand many different meditation techniques
Yoga anatomy & physiology for yoga teachers
Nutrition
Language of Energy
Wednesday night community drum circle
In depth study of select Yoga Sutras ( book 3 and 4)
Understanding of the history of yoga
Focus on integrating Yoga into your life through daily Spiritual Lessons
The Business of Yoga (taught by business consultant Ira Ohm)
Improved personal yoga practice
Art of Teaching Workshops
Regular peer-teaching starting day one.
You will be qualified to register with Yoga Alliance as a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT-300).

Highlights: 
Sunrise beach meditation once a week
Business of yoga field trips
In-depth first class 300 hour yoga teacher training
Regular peer-teaching starting day one
Restaurant field trips
Opportunity for Childrens Yoga for additional Certifications and CEUs
Community Yoga in the park
Weekly drum circle
Cacao ceremony
Ecstatic dance
Optional sacred native american ceremony
Weekly shamanic breathwork 
Tai Chi
SUP Yoga Certification
Yin and Restorative Certification
Regular peer-teaching starting day one

Requirements for the 300-hour yoga teacher training
Zen Den Yoga School accepts participants from worldwide of all levels, students enjoy benefit from having a diverse, often international group to learn with. At the same time, programs will be capped at 12 participants and it is an intimate experience so all students get the most personalized attention throughout their training. Zen Den Yoga School asks that participants make a commitment to complete the course, students are required attend all the hours of the training, teach 5 classes, and complete and hand in their exam in order to graduate.

Yoga Alliance recognition
Zen Den Yoga School is a registered Yoga Alliance 200-hour and 300-hour school. As a Zen Den Yoga School graduate your teacher training certification is recognized by Yoga Alliance internationally. Upon successful completion of the course, you will receive a certificate from Zen Den Yoga School and be qualified to register with Yoga Alliance as a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT-300).

Many of our graduates return for a visit after they graduate; some even come back to teach at the studio, but we all share a bond and stay in touch.