Are you ready?
If you’ve ever envisioned yourself teaching yoga or are simply looking to deepen your practice, you’ve come to the right place.
Inspire People, Do What You Love And Changing Lives
Picture this… It’s 7 pm on a balmy Monday night. You walk into a candlelit room, electric with the anticipation of bodies, breath, and spirit. Your students fill nearly every inch of floor-space, as you make your way, greeting and hugging half the room, to the teachers’ mat…
Settling in, you share some thoughts, maybe a few chants and focusing breath-work. You close your eyes to hear the deeply-attuned inhales and exhales of 50 students, rising and falling in unison as hearts begin to beat stronger, bodies are set in motion and sweat begins to bead in a juicy, flowing celebration of movement. You ease through the pulsing room, guiding this magical swell of energy, smiling in every cell of your being as you glisten with pride, compassion, and energy. This is not just living, this is being alive. Pure ecstasy!
The next morning, you throw on a t-shirt and yoga pants and head over to meet the first of four private clients that day. Your 7 am -er, Annie, greets you with a warm smile and shares a bit about her week, as roll your mats out in a sunny corner of the living room.
You spend the next hour working as a team to gently unwind her body and deliver Annie into a glowing, deeply-relaxed state, before leaving with her eternal gratitude, a warm-hug and some money in your pocket. Three hours of work later, you end your day at noon, feeling great about the impact you’ve had on four lives… and the money in your pocket isn’t so bad, either! Do that five days a week and your four-hour days earn you six-figures… and leave you feeling great about the impact you are having on each person’s life! Now, ask yourself, would I like this to be my reality? It can be… if you’re ready to make it happen.
The need for great class teachers and private instructors is quickly expanding from the major yoga hubs in big cities to suburbs and small towns all over the country. Over the last 30-years, millions of people have discovered this amazing practice and, as we experience massive growth in the over-50 population in the next 20 years, millions more will clamor for the healing, stress-relieving, life-enhancing impact. Especially, in a private setting.
So, if you love yoga, if you already talk to everyone you know about it…maybe it’s time to take the next step and invest in a nationally-recognized training program that’ll equip you to ease, at your pace, into the world of teaching yoga classes and private yoga clients. Sounds great, right? So, what’s the best way to get started?
Our program is directed by Sonic founder, Lauren Hanna, and is taught along with a small number of wonderful teachers, including Jeffrey Duval: Asana and Sequencing, Chris Temple: Asana and Anatomy, Keith Partington: Asana and Pranayama, and Taquice Campbell: Asana, Foundations, and Business of Yoga. All handpicked for their advanced knowledge, compassion, and ability to inspire and teach teachers.
Since 2001, we’ve graduated thousands of teachers from all over the United States, France, Spain, the U.K., Russia, Hungary, Poland, Israel, Japan, China, Indonesia, Central and South America, the Dominican Republic, Canada and beyond.
In fact, many of our international graduates have flown to New York City just to take our training and bring what they’ve learned back to their home states and countries.
During your training, you’ll study directly with the school Directors, the dynamic team that heads up Citysearch #1-rated Sonic Yoga NYC and had Yoga Journal proclaiming they “raise the bar for yoga innovation!”
Lauren is the Founder and Director of Sonic Yoga and Center for Yoga Studies. She has taught and trained thousands of students and hundreds of teachers, as well. She studied directly under Shri Dharma Mittra for ten years, before exploring the teachings of a myriad of Vinyasa teachers. Her current teacher, Shiva Rea, she assists on a regular basis and serves as a Teacher Trainer and Mentor in her Prana Flow to teaching program. Lauren’s passion for the marriage between flow and the subtle body and her depth of knowledge of meditation and practice has led her to be known as one of the very-best “teachers’ teachers.” Lauren also regularly leads international retreats and has been featured in the press, including appearances in The New York Times, Bazaar, Yoga Journal, Time Out NY, Hamptons View and more.
Our Facilities — As our demand for our programs has grown, so, too has our space. All programs are taught at Sonic Yoga NYC’s convenient midtown facilities, with the main studio location at 944 8th Avenue between 55th & 56th Street.
You Don’t Need To Be An Asana-Rockstar
We look at passion, compassion, commitment to learning and living consciously and the desire to share the practice much more than a person’s physical abilities. Many people come to our training with widely varying backgrounds, from public school phys-ed teachers who are fairly new to the practice but want to share it with their inner-city students to people who’ve been practicing a lifetime.
We realized early on that, if we excluded people based solely on their physical practice or experience-to-date, we would have kept a lot of amazing people with soaring spirits out of the program, so we decided not to set arbitrary posture requirements that really tell us very little about a person’s ability and desire to become a great teacher.
In fact, we’ve had a lot of people in the program with newer posture practices who were looking to simply teach at their current skill level and expand what they teach as their own practice, knowledge, and abilities developed. We’ve even had a number of pregnant women and students with a variety of physical challenges complete the program.
That said, the vinyasa style of postures that we teach are physical and dynamic and you’ll be practicing a lot, so the fitter and more competent you are with the basic postures and movements, the more comfortable you’ll feel. You should know the basic postures and movements and have a regular (2-4 times a week) practice, before beginning the program. But you don’t have to be an asana-rockstar to complete the program and change peoples’ lives.
Remember, too, whether you’re newer to the practice or have years under your belt, your physical abilities and practice will be in a very different place by the end of the program!
NOBODY’S GOING TO GIVE YOU PERMISSION TO MAKE YOUR DREAMS COME ALIVE!
COMPLETING TEACHER-TRAINING WITH US IS A POWERFUL INVESTMENT NOT ONLY IN YOUR CAREER BUT IN YOUR BODY, MIND, AND SPIRIT.
Sonic yoga raises the bar for yoga innovation.
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Yogic heaven!
Voted #1 yoga studio in NYC 2005, 2006, 2007 & 2008, 2009 & 2010 – Citysearch
“Mindbending”
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Learn & Grow Like Never Before With Our Proven Approach
So many people make resolutions every year that fizzle within a few weeks. Make this year different. Take a giant step toward the fulfillment of your happiness and success. And, equip yourself with the knowledge, abilities and community needed to truly have an inspiring, healing impact on those around you.
Our program is already one of the most affordable Yoga-Alliance schools in the New York area, at hundreds and even thousands less than other schools of a similar caliber and reputation. And, if you enroll in time, you can lock in our early-bird tuition discounts of up to $500!
Even at full-tuition, though, the cost of the investment is modest in light of the future this program will prepare you for. In fact, you’ll likely have earned back the cost of the entire program within the first few dozen private-sessions you teach.
Get A Year Of Yoga For Only $108 a Month After Graduation! Limited-Time Bonus – Lock-in Your Deeply-Discounted ALL ACCESS PASS Upon Graduation! As if market-leading training and extremely reasonable tuition weren’t enough, we just love to inspire people to experience the high of teaching. As a special thank you for joining our program, for a very limited time, you will receive your first 12-months of unlimited yoga, upon graduation, for only $108 a month. If you come three times a week, that’s nearly 50%-off the drop-in price! Fair warning, though, we do not know how long we can keep this special-bonus available for our program grads. But, anyone who applies and is accepted before the end of the year will have guaranteed eligibility, upon graduation.
