ANA FORREST

WHY is privileged to host the Forrest Yoga Continuing Education for Teachers Course (FYCET), offered for the first time in the United States. Taught by Ana Forrest - world-renowned instructor and practitioner of yoga, creator of Forrest Yoga, and founder of Forrest Yoga Institute – this training focuses on intense personal and professional growth. It will promote powerful insights that provide deeper integration with one's true self. Forrest Yoga Continuing Education for Teachers Course is designed for instructors aspiring to improve their teaching and personal practice. It is for those who are ready to move deeper within themselves and increase the mental acuity needed to explore the rich tapestry of Forrest Yoga.

This course will open you to deeper truths and perceptions and teach you how to apply these truths to your lives - both in and out of the yoga studio.

• FYCET is open to all teachers of any yoga style.
• Morning intensives (description below) are open to all students. You may register for these separately from the FYCET. Intensives will be sold in sets of 5 only.

You will have the opportunity to:

• Study, tailor and improve your own yoga practice
• Learn to work with injuries
• Teach clearly and specifically
• Enhance communication skills
  Gain a greater understanding of the poses and their effect
  Explore optimal personal nutrition
  Students will be given sadhanas (spiritual exercises)
  Develop personal and professional ethics and boundaries in teaching
• Learn about Sequencing - the process of aligning poses in a way that you can go into progressively deeper poses smoothly, without a kink or injury. Included in this study is also the skillful warming down of the muscles so they are not sore or susceptible to injury.
• Gain insight into your own habitual behaviors and learn the tools and skills needed to change them
• Strengthening your authentic voice
• Teaching Critiques - You will teach and be provided with feedback regarding your teaching.

"The teacher training process is the most effective tool that I have developed to mend the hoop of the people. Through this journey you will begin to discover your correct relationship with yourself, others and all forms of life."   - Ana Forrest

Walking the Path of Your Spirit
The aim of the training is to make you more skillful, passionate, and intelligent as a teacher so that you are better equipped to deal with the challenges you face throughout your life, and to teach from a place of truth and authenticity.

Trainees will be encouraged and empowered to develop both as individuals and as teachers. Ana and her assistant teachers mirror the compassion, introspection and self-awareness necessary to teach yoga. Through meditation, intense daily yoga practice, group instruction, trainees can begin to discover the voice of their own spirit, which leads to a truly authentic life path.

FORREST YOGA PROGRAM DESIGN

Prior to the daily intensive yoga practice Jonathan will use storytelling, chanting, Kido (energy meditation) and sitting meditation to help trainees free their minds from their attachment to habitual patterns of thinking and the resulting habitual patterns of action. The freedom from habitual thinking will have an immediate effect on your yoga and in your life. This meditation class is aimed at helping trainees develop a daily meditation practice and delivers a gentle approach that demystifies Zen meditation offering ample opportunity for questions.

Daily Forrest Yoga Intensives
Open to all students
$250/ five intensives, December 7 - 11 (Sessions are available as a 5 session package only. Exception: If you have taken the FY Foundation Course, you may purchase individual sessions)
meditation: 6:00 - 6:45 am
yoga intensive: 7:00 - 9:00 am
As the foundation of this course the daily intensive yoga practice with Ana and her teaching assistants will create a heightened sense of physical, emotional and spiritual awareness while challenging every muscle and cell in your body. Through a carefully constructed and rigorous Forrest Yoga series of asanas, Ana will open you to amazing depths and feelings of awareness. You will leave feeling cleansed, refreshed and alive. The intensives are a sanctuary where you can feel safe enough to open up, work through issues that may arise and go beyond your perceived limitations. You will learn about yourself and feel what it is like to have freedom in your own body and mind. The intensives are sure to bring trainees to new levels within their yoga practice. Injuries are addressed so that each trainee experiences these classes as part of his or her own healing practice.

Training & Instruction
(12 noon - 4:00 pm)
Daily four-hour sessions of training and instruction comprise the afternoon portion of the course. Using skill-building exercises, trainees will work with the essential elements of teaching, such as: class & posture sequencing, optimal personal nutrition, spiritual exercises, study of personal and professional ethics, the use of safe and effective hands-on adjustments, and effective clear, concise and powerful communication, eliminating mind-dulling habitual phrases, and tone of voice as well as the continued development of a more charismatic presence and honesty in your class.

Please note:

• Participants to the FYCET will receive a training manual, included in the cost of the training.
• Participants are required to purchase (unless you already own one) a 5 – Day Intensive CD/book package (available at WHY for a special price of $100). You will need this before the course begins so that you will have an opportunity to use it for your home practice.
• Participants are required to purchase both of Ana’s DVD’s – Pleasure of Strength and
  Strength and Spirit (available at WHY for the special price of $30 for both).

To register please call WHY at 860.953.9642.  All major credit cards accepted. Non-refundable deposit of $300 required. Tuition is due in full by November 6, 2007. Unfortunately, if we do not receive payment in full by this date we will not hold your space.

Refund Policy
Refunds of any money paid over and above the non-refundable $200 deposit are available for cancellations made by November 6, 2007. NO refunds, credits or transfers for cancellation made after November 6, 2007.

Ana Forrest, founder of the Forrest Yoga Circle, has a unique and powerful philosophy and approach toward yoga. Her intent in teaching yoga is to do her part in healing the Hoop of the People; “to inspire people to clear through the stuff that hardens them and sickens their bodies so they can walk freely and lightly on the earth in a healing way, a beauty way.”

Trained in a multitude of healing modalities including Native American medicine and ritual, Ana guides her students toward healing by teaching them how to change their relationship to their past and how to embody their spirits through yoga. One of Ana’s greatest attributes is her ability to hold a sacred space for her students and teach them how to use yoga to celebrate the beauty of life and the power of spirit.

For more information about Ana Forrest visit ForrestYoga.com.