Les Leventhal 40-Hour Advanced Training

Les Leventhal

40-Hour Advanced Asana/Sequencing Training

with Les Leventhal
NOTE!! THIS TRAINING HAS MOVED TO 3030 TRAVIS ST. DUE TO REMODELING!!
Monday – Friday, February 20 – 24, 2012.
Class times: 8:00 – 11:00 am and 12:30 – 5:30 pm.
3030 Travis Street

This 40-Hour Advanced Teacher Training is for intermediate and advanced students and teachers who want to deepen their practice. The training will focus on backbends, hips and twists, arm balances and inversion poses and everything that is required to safely warm up and strengthen the body for these poses. All 40 hours of this training qualify for Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Units.

This 40 hour module will focus on advanced asanas, sequencing and adjusting and is meant to guide the intermediate and advanced practitioner deeper into poses that might not have revealed their full potential or ability to access those deeper places, where students sometimes get stuck. It has also been created for teachers to have many different options to up-level and/or to provide a longer hold in poses, so students can discover and/or uncover the Atman within (the true uncluttered nature of oneself).

Vinyasa yoga is a very creative and expressive style of yoga. When teaching vinyasa classes, you might have similar themes from day to day, but you will never follow the same path from class to class. In other words, you can create a sequence of poses to safely reach one particular peak pose, or you can plan a sequence with an extended hot portion that contains a series of several peak poses. Both will be covered in this training. Equally important to remember when teaching a vinyasa class is to provide modifications for poses, so that students who are injured can also be engaged and included in class and not forgotten or left out while in poses. While teaching advanced asanas it is important to remind students to focus not on the end result or how a pose looks, but rather on the ability of students to maintain their awareness of their breath (Ujjayi) and to enjoy moments of stillness, which can promote strength, grace, healing and Ananda (bliss).

This training will elevate your awareness of you are right now in this moment of time in your life and allow you the freedom to express yourself in a very creative and powerful way that opens your heart to continue your journey of sharing your spirit and this very sacred time of being alive.

Cost: $495

Les Leventhal has trained more than 400 hours with Ana Forrest and is a 500 hour certified ERYT Yoga Teacher. Yoga found Les while he was seeking a path towards healing. This allowed him to create a safe environment on the mat for people to discover the truthfulness of the journey during class. “Sometimes I laugh on my mat and sometimes I cry. I kept asking myself what to do with this gift. Through meditation, the directions became clear – share it with everyone. The tremendous gratitude I have in my life for my teachers allows me to continue growing along my own journey on and off the mat.”