200 Hour Re.balance Foundation Yoga Teacher Training 

With Senior Yoga Teacher + Body Psychotherapist Sandra Robinson
Assisted by Yoga Teacher + Anatomy Specialist Nataliya Potopalska

This unique teacher training combines ancient Yoga principles with contemporary body psychotherapeutic approaches and theories. It’s a highly experiential training based on the assumption that in order to be compelling and authentic teachers, we need to teach from an embodied place.
 
The training combines online and in person modules and teachings, reflecting the changed landscape and skill requirements of modern yoga teachers. It’s a journey over nine months allowing time in between modules for integration and digestion.
 
The intention of this programme is to teach you:
  • How to sequence and teach a yoga class, taking into consideration different skill levels and injuries.
  • How to modify poses and work with what emerges in the room.
  • How to hold space: physically, energetically and emotionally.
  • How to connect to oneself and the students.
  • How to do hands-on assists safely and in a connected way.
  • How to teach authentically and from an embodied place.
  • How to work with emotions, stress and trauma in the yoga room.
  • How to develop skills to be present and take care of oneself, including body psychotherapeutic skills of centring, boundaries, grounding and connection.
 
This training creates room to explore and connect to who you truly are, creating space for a deeper acceptance of yourself. It hopes to spark curiosity about your own process as well as the process of the people you will be working with.
 
This teacher training is limited to 8 people to give you the attention, space and feedback you need to grow into an excellent teacher.
 
Breakdown:
  • Asana and pranayama: 35%.
  • Teaching practice and methodology, including alignment, hands-on assists, psychotherapy process, principles and theory: 48%.
  • Anatomy and physiology: 13%.
  • Yoga history and context: 2%.
  • Business: 2%.

Format:
4 x 2 days online – Saturday and Sunday
3 x 3 days in person – Saturday to Monday
2 x 6 days in person – Friday to Wednesday
 
Meeting once a month. 9 months.
 
197 hour contact hours.
24 hours non-contact hours, for reading and essay writing. Practice teach and preparation.

Dates:
Module 1: 12th and 13th of November 2022 (2 days online)
Module 2: 10th until 12th of December 2022 (3 days in person)
Module 3: 13th until 18th of January 2023 (6 days in person)
Module 4: 4th and 5th of February 2023 (2 days online)
Module 5: 4th until 6th of March 2023 (3 days in person)
Module 6: 1st until 3rd of April 2023 (3 days in person)
Module 7: 6th and 7th of May 2023 (2 days online)
Module 8: 2nd until 7th of June 2023 (6 days in person)
Module 9: 1st and 2nd of July 2023 (2 days online)

Attendance:
  • Out of the 29 days, 26 of those days must be attended live. If more than 3 days are missed, those days need to be made up. There is a surcharge of £100 per day to make up those days. Individual tasks will be given in those cases.
 
Online handouts and videos are included in the course material and will be made available during each module.

Certification:
  • Part of the certification process are three essays with a word count of between 1500 and 2000 words each. Two of those essays are experience based. One essay will include a mixture of research and experience.
  • There will be ongoing feedback throughout. There will be two yoga classes the training will organise, where you will be teaching members of the public.

Cost: £2800 or £2700, if the taster weekend was paid for. A non-refundable deposit of £500 is required to secure your space. The remainder of £2300 or £2200 respectively is due to be paid by 12th of October 2022.

Cancellation policy: No refund on deposits. No refund for cancellations with less than one month notice. Any refund will incur an admin charge of £8.

Taster weekend: 200 Hour Foundation Yoga Teacher Training 

With Senior Yoga Teacher + Body Psychotherapist Sandra Robinson
​This weekend will offer you the chance to sample the 200 hour Foundation Yoga Teacher Training held at Equilibrium Peterborough starting in November 2022. It’ll give you the opportunity to experience the structure, content and process of this programme. Each morning starts with a 3 hour asana practice, including pranayama and a particular theme for the day. This is followed by a 3 hour afternoon session, where you’ll be learning about basic cuing and hands on assists. Like the foundation training, this weekend is experiential and based on the understanding that in order to be excellent teachers we need to embody our practices and teach from that place. 
 
Saturday, 28th of May
9am to 12pm: Asana, pranayama and intent/theme for the day
12-2pm break
2-5pm: Teaching Methodology: Basic cuing.
 
Sunday, 29th of May
9am to 12pm: Asana, pranayama and intent/theme for the day
12-2pm break
2-5pm: Teaching Methodology: Basics of hands-on assists.
 
Price: £100. If you go on to book the Foundation Training this money will be taken off your booking.
Cancellation Policy: Refund minus £8 admin charge until 20th of May or full credit note. No refunds for cancellation after 20th of May. No exceptions made.

About Sandra Robinson

Sandra is a certified Forrest Yoga teacher, registered as a Senior Teacher with the UK Yoga Alliance and E-RYT 500 registered with the US Yoga Alliance. She thrives on teaching workshops, retreats and continuous education for yoga teachers where space is created for students to fully immerse themselves, have room to simply be and to connect to their spirit. She also works in-depth and in small groups with Forrest Yoga teachers that come out of the Foundation Training with the specific aim to build community, to help them to be the best they can be and to teach them to hold space for themselves and their students in a compassionate way. She has trained at the Cambridge Body Psychotherapy Centre and offers long-term body psychotherapy and biodynamic massage in Peterborough and Huntingdon. She teaches and offers therapy in German and English. Her interest lies in the transformational aspects of being completely oneself and embodied, dissolving the feeling of not being good enough. When we learn to put down our armour, become vulnerable and connect to ourselves and our environment authentically, change occurs. By letting go into who we are and by trusting our intuition and the magic we all carry inside, our relationships will be transformed. In turn, open and honest relationships will have an impact on the individual. Through my extensive body psychotherapy training and through being part of a group of inspirational and courageous people during that time I have come to understand the importance of relationships. www.sandrarobinson.co.uk