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Assistant Program

For Yoga Therapist Training

California 2021-2025

Ready to deeply engage in Viniyoga’s approach to Yoga Therapy? The Yoga Well Institute Assistant Program is designed to acknowledge, support, and nourish certified Yoga Therapists in professional growth and embodiment.

We seek to provide an opportunity for continued personal development and ongoing, deep training while also enhancing and supporting our Yoga Therapist Training Programs. Through fulfilling a specific set of responsibilities, Students in the Assistant Program receive ongoing training and development from the Yoga Therapist Training Program Faculty.

We intend for this to serve as a method by which up-and-coming Yoga Therapists train to further their dharma of teaching in this tradition.

Ideal for Yoga Therapists who want to…
  • Deeply engage in Viniyoga’s approach to Yoga Therapy
  • Be trained as Teachers in the Viniyoga tradition
  • Contribute to a quality education for new Yoga Therapists
  • Deepen their capabilities in course planning
 
Qualifications

Those who are in the Assistant Program must meet all of the following requirements:

  • Have completed a Yoga Therapist Training in the Viniyoga Tradition
  • Be a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT), or in the certification process
  • Have had a personal mentor for a minimum of three years
  • Have mentored others for at least one year

Responsibilities

Participation

  • Support the physical space for in-person modules
  • Attend at least 3 modules per year & the majority of the online classes
  • Model Yoga and Studentship while present with program participants

Program Mentorship

  • Create personal Mentor relationship with assigned program students
  • Supervise student-led Individual Yoga Therapy and Functional Group classes during in-person module

Curriculum Planning

  • Participate in grading of homework and assessments
  • Teach assigned practices throughout the program 
  • Participate in quarterly curriculum planning meetings

 

Benefits

Free Enrollment 

  • Free enrollment in the Yoga Therapist Training Program 
  • Free enrollment in Yoga for Meditation and The Application of Meditation online classes

Program Mentorship

  • Receive 1:1 guidance and support from program Faculty
  • Be paid by Students for mentor hours outside of classes and modules

Program Delivery

  • Co-teach a section in at least two modules with a member of the program Faculty
  • Gain experience developing and teaching an integrated and complex program curriculum

 

Applications are due by October 30th, 2020.

Please note that you must have completed a Yoga Therapist Training Program to qualify for the Assistant Program.

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