

Yoga Community Practices
1:30 PM to 5:30 PM. This workshop includes a farm to table wine dinner!
As a part of a Bay Area wide collective of practices, join Samantha and Stacey Rosenberg as they co-teach this dymanically fun, full spectrum practice. Join yogis from all different locations to practice, play and eat enjoying a mixed levels practice with modifications that includes asana, pranayama and meditation followed by a farm to table wine dinner.
Come to the mixed levels practice or the practice & yummy dinner catered by Talya's Kitchen with an optional wine tasting. For pricing options, please see below.

500 Hour Advanced Teacher Training Certification
500 Hour Advanced Teacher Training Program
Our 300 hour Advanced Teacher Training bridge program follows a Shala approved foundational 200 hour Teacher Training program. Shala approved programs comprise of any 200 hour program with a current or formerly certified Anusara Yoga Teacher Certificate.
Our faculty includes Samantha S. Brown, Ashleigh Sergeant, Siri Peterson, Kenny Graham, Kelly Blaser and friends!
Each 100 hours can be taken independently for continuing education credits or as a series for a full 500 hour certification. Prerequisites are required.
300 Hour Program:
100 Hour Mentorship (September 2013 to February 2014)
100 Hour Advanced Practice, Teaching and Business Skills (March 2014 to June 2014)
100 Hour Advanced Therapeutics Training (September 2014 to February 2015)
For more details regarding pricing and other information, click "more" below.
200 Hour Balanced Action Yoga Program (100 Hour Immersion & 100 Hour Teacher Training)
What?
200 Hour Teacher Training Program (may be taken independently OR together to receive a Registered Yoga Alliance Certification):
-100 Hour Balanced Action Yoga Immersion
-*100 Hour Balanced Action Yoga Teacher Training
*Prerequisite for the 100 Hour Teacher Training is completion of any 100 hour Immersion Program.
Balanced Action Yoga's Vision:
Balanced Action Yoga Immersion program with the following vision: "Honoring its roots in Anusara Yoga, Balanced Action Yoga is a heart centered form of alignment based Hatha yoga. BAYoga includes the full spectrum yoga experience- from dynamic flow to precise alignment based asana and therapeutics."
The 100 hour teacher training program will train you to how to share the method and practice learned in the Immersion with others. You will receive the fundamental teaching skills for powerful yoga. The training will focus on learning the central elements necessary for teaching public classes with inspiration and precise alignment.
100 Hour Immersion
This program is directed towards enhancing your practice through the integration of the foundational philosophy of yoga through asanas, postures, and breath. You will be introduced to refined basics for your healing practice that will contribute greatly to your self growth.
The following information will be covered in the 100-Hr Immersion:
*Key biomechanical alignment principles
*Overview and context of yoga philosophy and core *metaphysics
*Basic yoga anatomy
*Pranayama
*Meditation
*Level 1-3 Syllabus postures
*How to build your own home practice
*breath work
*partner yoga
*Thai massage
*Basic AcroYoga
*Meditation
*Subtle body anatomy (chakras and nadis)
*The doshas of Ayurveda
*Prenatal Yoga
100 Hour Teacher Training
The second part of the program will broaden your skills and foundational knowledge to allow for an extension in assisting others.
Skills that will be covered in the teacher training are:
*Inspirational teaching skills and language
*Sharing your authentic voice
*Effective hands on adjustments
*Teaching the Universal Principals of Alignment
*Articulation skills
*Basic sequencing
*Making effective verbal and hands-on adjustments
*The Foundations of addressing therapeutic needs
*The foundations of prenatal yoga
Where?
Shakti Yoga Shala
830 Memory Lane
Boulder Creek, CA 95006
When?
100-Hour Immersion Dates (1 weekend a month for 6 months):
*September 28-29, 2013
*October 26-27, 2013
*November 16-17, 2013
*December 7-8, 2013
*January 11-12, 2014
*February 8-9, 2014
100-Hour Teacher Training Dates (1 weekend a month for 6 months):
*March 8-9, 2014
*April 5-6, 2014
*May 3-4, 2014
*May 31- June 1, 2014
*June 21-22, 2014
Faculty includes Samantha S. Brown, Ashleigh Sergeat, Siri Petersion and Kenny Graham with special guests Kelly Blaser, Alice Kennedy, Michelle Bouvier and friends. Also we are blessed to have singer and songwriter, Shimshai, gifting us with roots reggae and sacred songs for our Saturday afternoon practices.
How Much?
The total is $1650 for the 100 Hour Immersion and $1650 for the 100 Hour Teacher Training if you take them individually. If you commit to taking the entire 200 Hour program to receive your Yoga Alliance certificate, then you receive a discounted rate of $3000.
There is a 2.9% credit card fee. Payment plans available. Please contact Samantha through THIS LINK or call (408) 318-2900.
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Yoga Community Practices
1:30 PM to 5:30 PM at Breathe Los Gatos
As a part of a Bay Area wide collective of practices, Samantha in this dymanically fun, full spectrum practice. Join yogis from all different locations to practice and play enjoying an Int/Adv practice with modifications that includes asana, pranayama and meditation.
Click Here for more information regarding teachers, times, locations, and registration through Bay Area Community Practices.

Immerison, 200 & 500 Hour Registered Yoga Teacher Program
100 Hour Immersion Dates:
September 28-29, 2013
October 26-27, 2013
November 16-17, 2013
December 7-8, 2013
January 11-12, 2014
February 8-9, 2014
100 Hour Teacher Training Dates:
March 8-9, 2014
April 5-6, 2014
May 3-4, 2014
May 31- June 1, 2014
June 21-22, 2014
Participants of the 500 hour program will come the same weekends as the 100 hour Immerison/100 Teacher Training with an additional meeting on Fridays 1:00-5:00PM of the same scheduled weekends.
