Certifications
200-Hour Yoga Teacher Certification
As a student at Yoga Mountain, you are part of a legacy going back seventeen years, 3000 years actually, because we are steeped in the ancient tradition. We focus not only on the physical, so called, ‘fitness’ aspect of yoga but on meditation, mindfulness, breathing exercises, the body’s energy centers, social activism through yoga, and therapeutic healing.
The 200-hour program is divided into three levels, and each level has specific postures, breaths, and mindfulness/meditation techniques to be thoroughly explored. Anatomy, the philosophy of yoga, teaching methodology, corrections and enhancements, the history of yoga, these are some of the many elements of the program. The student is required to attend a minimum of 180 hours in classes with the teacher trainers, who are all certified 500-hour experienced teachers. We get to know you well, for our program is individualized and hands-on.
We meet once a week on (your choice of) Wednesday nights from 7:30 to 9:30 pm, Thursday mornings 10-12pm, and once a month for week-end workshops. Some students fly through the program, attending every available class, and others take much longer due to family, illness, or work demands.
The program is on-going. It continues throughout the year. When you finish, you graduate. The pace is controlled by you, the student. We do everything we can, however, to keep you on track and moving along rapidly.
The cost is $2,950, which includes your orientation packet and all workshops and classes. Books on the reading list are separate, but you will want them for your personal library.
Call Gail Walsh 845-451 7975 for information and the application packet.
To Apply for Yoga Mountain Teacher Certification, Please click Link Below and Print out Application to mail it in:
Teacher Certification Application
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(300)500-hour Certification
Congratulations on your completion of a registered 200-hour certification program. As you continue your studies in yoga, you delve more deeply into all its myriad elements, and focus perhaps on specializations that broaden your employment range. At Yoga Mountain, we offer a wide range of experiences and studies in different fields of yoga: yoga for old people, yoga for children, yoga in the classroom, vinyasa yoga, healing yoga, yoga therapy, yoga research, yoga publication, or simply a generalized-all round yoga education. The program includes 190 contact hours, 165 elective hours, 30 hours practicum, 50 home study and projects.
Like all the YM Certification Programs, the (300)500-hours is highly individualized and hands-on. The price is $2950. Meeting times may include Monday evenings, Friday mornings, Friday evenings, Wednesday nights, monthly workshops, all of which are flexible. Call Gail Walsh to interview for the (300)500-hour program. 845 461-7975
Professional Yoga Therapy Certification Program
The Professional Yoga Therapy Program is a one-year program consisting of 100 contact hours and 100 hours of field work (including case studies). A registered 200-hour Teacher Certification completion is required before entry. If you have already completed a registered 500-hour certification program, the hourly requirement is lowered to 50/50. The therapy program is commonly (but not always) embedded into the (300)500-hour YM Teacher Certification Program as a specialty.
The curriculum is presented through lecture, discussion, observation, hands-on practice, diagnostic process and prescriptive practices. The skills that will be developed are intake, client-therapist relations, process plan creation, implementation, adaptation, documentation, evaluation of effectiveness of process, and follow-up.
Yoga Therapy has become widely accepted as a viable form of alternative healthcare.
Yoga Mountain has been a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT) since Gail Walsh was approved by Oxford Health Plans and HIP as an alternative caregiver in 1992. We are charter members of the IAYT, and published an article on yoga for children with learning and/or emotional disabilities in the Journal Supplement at their international convention in LA in 2007.
Gail Walsh (gailwalsh@verizon.net) has certified Yoga Teachers to specialize as Yoga Therapists in this field since 2005. She is approved by Oxford Health plans and HIP, NY as an Alternative Health Care Provider since 1998.
Gail Bentley Walsh and Lynn Milstein published a study about the Yoga Mountain therapeutic yoga program in the Rockland BOCES School System in the supplement to the IAYT Journal in 2007.
Workshops/Intensives/Immersions
These delightful extended times together take us deeper into the practice. They are designed for all certification students, 200, (300) 500, and Yoga Therapy Certification; but they are accessible and open to all yoga students of all levels, ages, and traditions.
Bring a yoga mat, water, snack, and come join the day-long happiness.
All delightful extended times together include rest periods, meditation, asana practice, dialogue and support/communication intervals, contemplation.
March 20, 2010: Anatomy and Physiology of Yoga
April 24, 2010: Precision and Alignment, Heat and Healing, Presence and Consciousness in Yoga
May 22, 2010: Vinyasa Flow, Healing Flow, Pacing, Sequencing, and the three Gunas. Integration of awareness, intent, mindfulness, energy and body-matter
June 19: In-depth, day-long investigation, practice and study of Desikachar’s “The Heart of Yoga.” (a required book on Yoga Mountain certification reading list)
Price, location and schedule for Weekend workshops:
Saturday Workshops start at 12:30 pm and end at 7pm.
They are held at The First Unitarian Society of Rockland County, 130 Concklin Road, Pomona, NY 10970 (exit 12 off the Palisades Parkway)
Weekend workshop fee is $130 for certification students; half-price for others. You are welcome to join workshops for a half-day for $65 from 12:30-3:45pm or 3:45 -7:00pm.
Full day equals 6.5 certification contact hours.