Advanced Diploma in Yoga Teaching
Australian government accredited course code: 30849

The Advanced Diploma of Yoga Teaching is advanced yoga teaching that is conducted over two academic years. It continues to expand you with the teachings of enlightened leadership, and advanced yoga topics and comprises training in transformative change, incorporating the Yogic ways into your own path as a leader in designing and facilitating participative approaches for individuals and groups. It offers you opportunities to explore teaching at a deeper level with an understanding of the physical, emotional and restorative effects of the postures, together with facilitating students in asana work. Such skills which include selecting, adapting and transferring can be applied across a range of roles in a variety of contexts and are a valuable opportunity to share your practice and understanding. With the great challenges facing human society, it is important to find simple ways to bring compassionate and strong leadership to the world, even in small ways.
Pre-requesite: Diploma of Yoga Teaching.
Summary:
You will be required to attend:
- Five, bi-monthly, Saturday supervision practicums, for supervising, sharing, discussing, listening, giving feedback and making decisions using yoga principles (every two months), for the first year @ 2-5pm.
- Five, bi-monthly, Sunday afternoon tutorials, to deepen your understanding of yoga (also via streaming), together with the practical nuts and bolts of running your own yoga business. 2-5pm.
- Personal practice
- 8 week-end, residential time-out retreats with yoga duties, over the 2 year duration i.e. 4 a year.
Course Tuition includes
• Classes
Unlimited Yoga, Meditation, Relaxation and Breathwork classes at the Shanti Yoga Health Institute for the first academic year of your study. You will need to fund classroom attendance for the second year.
• Retreats
8 residential, time-out weekend retreats with yoga duties at Nirvana Wellness Retreat. These include shared accommodation, delicious vegetarian meals and program (@ $596 per weekend) to immerse you in a lifestyle curriculum where you can expand and consolidate your experience and knowledge through discussion, satsung, study and practice, participate in seva, hiking, yoga, organic meals, gardening, healthy eating, meditation and pranayama. Massage, wellness treatments, single room upgrade and special diets are available as optional extras.
• Tutorials
5 tutorials a year (10 in total)
• Practicum
5 practicum a year (10 in total)
• Materials
• Contact journal
Monitoring attendance.
• Assessment and Certification.
Text Books
You will need to purchase the following text books:
- The Art of Being…in Business by Shanti Gowans
- Hypertension and You. Drugless, yogic management for high blood pressure by Shanti Gowans
- The Long Search by Shanti Gowans
- Reflections of a Yogi by Shanti Gowans
- The Art of Teaching Yoga by Shanti Gowans
- Anatomy colouring-in book
- The Bhagavad Gita
- The Long Search by Shanti Gowans
- Reflections of a Yogi by Shanti Gowans
- The Art of Teaching Yoga by Shanti Gowans
- Anatomy colouring-in book
- The Bhagavad Gita






