500 Hour Program
Our program is designed for Yoga Teachers who have already successfully completed a 200-Hour program approved by Yoga Alliance. (This includes programs other than Yoga & Polarity Center) Our program will be offered in such a way that participants will be able to complete their 500-hour course of study in a non-restrictive fashion over a 2-year period. It complies with the requirements of the Yoga Alliance and offers a course of classroom hours that help the student meet his or her requirements for completion of the 500 hour recognition by providing the additional 210 hours of classes and mentoring for completion of 90 hours of offsite work. With the help of our Program Director, each student will develop a plan of participation that works for him or her.
Participants may sign up class by class, or for the entire program.
Participants signing up for the entire program will benefit by receiving a discount on classes. However, signing up for the entire program does not mean that the student must take all the workshops for that year, it simply means that the student contractually commits to completing the program with the Yoga and Polarity Center during a three-year period.
Each student will be required to procure their own mentor.
This mentor can be chosen from the list of Faculty, or can be a choice outside our Faculty with approval of the Dean. Charges for Mentorship are individual and can be arranged with your Mentor without going through the Dean or Director. The Mentor will give a written report periodically to the School to allow us to review your progress and to make structural suggestions for your continued progress.
All administrative questions can be directed to the Program Director at 516-578-2898, or be submitted in writing to: Yogaschool@aol.com.
All technical program questions may be directed to Dean of Students (Jane McQueen) at 516-508-0390.
Note: All classes are held from 11 am until 6 pm.
REGISTRATION
Click here for a contract application that submits your intention for participation in the full program.
If it is your intent to do this, please complete the contract as soon as possible and return to Yoga & Polarity Center with a deposit of $50 for the first class you wish to take (include class name on check). If you wish to use a credit card, please indicate this on your form.
To mail in, send to:
Yoga & Polarity Center
Attn: Heather Principe, Director
32 Church Street
Malverne, NY 11565
Any questions, please call our office at 516.596.0397
COURSE LISTINGS
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REQUIRED COURSES
Y501
Advanced Pranayama (Part 1)
Details
- Learn and practice breathing practices based on the four parts of the breath, Uraka: Inhale, Antah-kumbhaka: Holding Inhale, Recaka: Exhale, Bahya-kumbhaka: Holding Exhale
- Learn how changing the ratio of holding the breath or the length of inhale to exhale create different effects on the mind and energy body
- Learn how the practice of pranayama affects the 5 vayus
- Practice pranayama techniques and learn how to combine them with yoga asana to affect the vayus
Date
October 3, 2009
Time
11:00am – 5:30 pm
Cost
$125
Credits
Technique 6 credit hours
Instructor
Jane McQueen
Dean – 500 Hour Yoga Teacher Training
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Y502
Advanced Pranayama (Part 2)
Details
- Learn breathing techniques based on valving the nostrils in different combinations
- Learn techniques that affect the major nadis and the energy body
- Learn when to use bandhas to increase the effects of pranayama
- Practice and learn the following techniques: (nadi sodhana, anuloma ujayii, viloma ujayii, surya bhedana, chandra bhedana)
Date
October 4, 2009
Time
11:00am – 5:30 pm
Cost
$125
Credits
Technique 6 credit hours
Instructor
Jane McQueen
Dean – 500 Hour Yoga Teacher Training
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Y505
Chanting in Yoga Practice (Nada)
Details
- Experience meditation through sacred sound vibration supported by the use of the Harmonium
- Understand how sound vibration can awaken the inner sound and facilitate meditation
- Chant the Bija sounds and Mantra to awaken Kundalini energy
Date
October 24, 2009
Time
11:00am – 5:30 pm
Cost
$125
Credits
Philosophy 6 credit hours
Instructor
Mindy Frenkel
Lead Instructor 200 & 500
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Y506
Practicing Ahimsa in Communication
Details
- Learn to recognize the violate nature of classroom teaching methods
- Learn to recognize somatic experiences of students
- Learn to communicate with others/students practicing Ahimsa
Date
October 31, 2009
November 7, 2009
November 14, 2009
Time
11:00am – 5:30 pm
Cost
Cost $375
Credits
Methodology 18 credit hours - 3 days
Instructor
Heather Principe,
Program Director - YTT 200, 500, Polarity
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Y507
In-depth Study of the Yoga Sutras
Details
- Learn background history of Patanjali & Yoga Sutras
- Learn and understand the themes of each of the 4 chapters
- In-depth study of selected sections of the yoga sutras
Date
November 21, 2009
Time
11:00am – 5:30 pm
Cost
Cost $125
Credits
Philosophy 6 credit hours
Instructor
Jane McQueen
Dean – 500 Hour Yoga Teacher Training
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Y508
Advanced Standing Balance Yoga Postures
Details
- Learn postures for your needs and students needs to receive the maximum functional benefit of each asana using props.
- Fine tune and learn more detailed alignment techniques based on the iyengar tradition
Date
December 5, 2009
Time
11:00am – 5:30 pm
Cost
$125
Credits
Technique 6 credit hours
Instructor
Anu Butani
Lead Instructor 200 & 500
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Y509
Artful Assisting for Yoga Postures
Details
- Experience how the body opens more deeply into postures through hands on assisting
- Practice specific assists with partners in different yoga postures
- Learn safe and appropriate touch when assisting each other
- Evaluate and discuss the best assisting techniques to use for each person’s present physical, mental and emotional state
Date
December 12, 2009
Time
11:00am – 5:30 pm
Cost
$125
Credits
Methodology 6 credit hours
Instructor
Mindy Frenkel
Lead Instructor 200 & 500
Register online here
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Y510
Energy Anatomy & the Medical Model
Details
Text not included – six evenings (Wednesdays)
Date
November 4,11,18, 2009
December 2,9,16, 2009
Time
6:30 – 9:30 pm
Cost
$375
Credits
20 credit hours
Instructors
Heather Principe
Program Director - YTT 200, 500, Polarity
Jane McQueen
Dean – 500 Hour Yoga Teacher Training
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Y511
Advanced Postures: Seated
Details
- Learn how to prepare and strengthen the lower body for leg balances
- Learn principles of alignment
- Practice balance postures with props, partners in order to adapt/modify for students needs
Date
January 9, 2010
Cost
$125
Credits
Technique 6 credit hours
Instructor
Anu Butani
Lead Instructor 200 & 500
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Y512
The Pancha Maya model of the Taittirya Upanishad
Details
- Learn the 5 “koshas” -levels of human beings as defined by ancients
- Learn practices for the first 3 levels (anna, prana, and manoymaya)
- Learn philosophy and practices to enhance connection with each level moving progressively higher toward the “ultimate” connection
- Reinforce connection with the first 3 levels of human dimension.
Date
January 16, 2010
Time
11:00am – 5:30 pm
Cost
$125
Credits
Philosophy 6 credit hours
Instructor
Jane McQueen
Dean – 500 Hour Yoga Teacher Training
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Y514
The Art of Sadhana
Details
- Learn how to design your own home asana practice
- Learn ways to establish a regular meditation practice
- Discover ways to bring your practice from your home into your life
Date
January 30, 2010
Time
11:00am – 5:30 pm
Cost
$125
Credits
Technique 6 credit hours
Instructor
Mindy Frenkel
Lead Instructor 200 & 500
Register online here
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Y515
Sanskrit Beginner Weekend
Details
PERFECTLY REFINED, Sanskrit is the language of yoga. Anyone can resonate with Sanskrit’s timeless sounds-and connect to words and ideas incredibly beautiful and profound.
REWARDS ARE MANY for those who take the time to see, hear and feel the power and elegance of Sanskrit. Those interested in yoga philosophy particularly benefit from this study.
This weekend workshop will give you intimate familiarity with the unique points of resonance in your own palate that support Sanskrit’s sacred sounds. And you’ll be firmly grounded in proper pronunciation of this ancient language.
Along the way you’ll learn the alphabet-itself a lovely chant-and you’ll receive the tools you need to explore your favorite sutras and chants in the beautiful script of Sanskrit, devanagari. ASI’s teaching method, developed over many years by Vyaas Houston, makes learning Sanskrit stress-free and FUN!
Dates
February 5, 2010 (6:30-9:30 pm)
February 6, 2010 (11:00-5:30 pm)
February 7, 2010 (11:00-5:30 pm)
Cost
$300
Credits
Technique 14 credit hours
Instructor
Jo Brill
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Y516
Adapting Yoga Postures for Different Needs
Date
February 13, 2010
Details
-Learn to access the potential functional benefit of classical yoga postures through adaptation.
-Break habitual, mechanical patterns and deepen the level of conscious attention to your practice.
-Explore the possibilites that lie within postures and avoid inherent potential risks.
-Learn adaptations of postures that meet specific conditions of the body.
Cost
$125
Credits
Methodology 6 credit hours
Instructor
Jane McQueen
Dean – 500 Hour Yoga Teacher Training
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Y517
Inversions: Practicing Headstands & Shoulderstands Safely
Details
- Learn the benefits and contra-indications of inversions
- Learn preparation/warm-up for inversions and proper modifications
- Learn details of alignment
- Practice safely with support: wall, partners.
Date
February 27, 2010
Time
11:00am – 5:30 pm
Cost
$125
Credits
Technique 6 credit hours
Instructor
Anu Butani
Lead Instructor 200 & 500
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Y518
Balancing the Gunas
Details
- Learn how the yogi’s divided the body into 3 parts according to the Gunas, (sattvic, rajasic, and tamasic) and how they developed practices to create lightness in the body/mind
- Learn the areas of the body and their functions related to each of the gunas
- Practice specific yogic exercises for increasing the sattvic energy and reducing the effect of tamas in the tamasic area of the body
- Learn and understand how different yoga practices can help reduce imbalances in the different parts of the body related to the gunas.
Date
March 6, 2010
Time
11:00am – 5:30 pm
Cost
$125
Credits
Technique 6 credit hours
Instructor
Heather Principe
Program Director - YTT 200, 500, Polarity
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Y519
Restorative Yoga - Creating a Class
Details
- Understand the structure of a restorative class and how to create the weave between Relaxation and restoration postures
- Learn techniques to help your student release energetic blocks in the Nervous System
Date
March 13, 2010
Cost
$125
Credits
Technique 6 credit hours
Instructor
Mindy Frenkel
Lead Instructor 200 & 500
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Y520
Yoga Posture Clinic: Mastering Backbends
Details
- Learn the benefits and contraindications for simple and advanced backbends.
- Learn correct alignment and adaptations for practicing and teaching safely.
- Learn sequencing to gradually open the spine for more challenging back bends.
- Practice with the support of partners to deepen your own experience.
Date
March 20, 2010
Cost
$125
Credits
Technique 6 credit hours
Instructor
Anu Butani
Lead Instructor 200 & 500
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ELECTIVE COURSES
YT701A (ELECTIVE)
Thai Yoga Therapy for Beginners (Therapeutic Track)
Details
- Learn basic partner technique to bring your client to an asana that fully opens and supports their practice.
- Learn hands-on techniques in a safe manner to position and enhance alignment. - Experience partnered techniques and practices that bring the living art of yoga to a deeper experience.
- Experience partnered techniques and practices that bring the living art of yoga to a deeper experience.
- Text not included
Dates
June 11, 2009 6:00-9:00 pm
June 12, 2009 10:30-4:30 pm
June 13, 2009 10:30-4:30 pm
June 18, 2009 6:00-9:00 pm
June 19, 2009 10:30-4:30 pm
June 20, 2009 10:30-4:30 pm
Cost
$575
Credits
Therapeutic Technique 30 credit hours
Instructor
Dina Fraboni
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YT7001 (ELECTIVE)
Thai Yoga Therapy Intermediate (Therapeutic Track)
Requirements
Pre-requisite: Y5027
Details
- Experience the next level of Thai yoga therapy. Hands on partner work. Text not included.
Dates
September 9, 2009 6:30 -9:30 pm
September 10, 2009 6:30 -9:30 pm
September 11, 2009 10:00-5:00 pm
September 12, 2009 10:00-5:00 pm
September 13, 2009 10:00-5:00 pm
Cost
$575
Credits
Therapeutic Technique 24 credit hours
Instructor
Dina Fraboni
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YT700 (ELECTIVE)
Yoga as a Theapeutic Tool (Therapeutic Track)
Details
- Learn principles of yoga therapy and the process of empowering the individual to manage health challenges.
- Learn how to apply asana practices to improve functional motor patterns.
- Learn pranayama practices to balance the emotions.
Date
April 10, 2010
Cost
$125
Credits
Technique 6 credit hours
Instructor
Jane McQueen
Dean – 500 Hour Yoga Teacher Training
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YH602 (ELECTIVE)
Vinyasa- Dynamic Progression through the Asanas (Hatha Yoga Track)
Details
- Learn how to teach a dynamic flow yoga class principles of alignment, sequencing, utilization of breath
- Learn to help students develop personalized vinyasa that support their own sadhana
Date
April 24, 2010
Cost
$125
Credits
Technique 6 credit hours
Instructor
Mindy Frenkel
Lead Instructor 200 & 500
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YH603 (ELECTIVE)
Yoga Nidra – the Art of Trance in Yoga Sivasana (Hatha Yoga Track)
Details
- Learn to create a safe trance that helps the student deepen the prana that regulates the relationship between the Ajna chakra and the Lotus.
- Develop methods and techniques that most suit your style to help your student arrive at the veil between the conscious and the unconscious.
Date
May 1, 2010
Cost
$125
Credits
Technique 6 credit hours
Instructor
Anu Butani
Lead Instructor 200 & 500
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YH604 (ELECTIVE)
Art of Adjustments (Hatha Yoga Track)
Details
- Learn how to use hands-on- adjustments SAFELY
- Begin to deepen your own understanding of how adjustments deepen the core experience for the student.
Date
May 8, 2010
Cost
$125
Credits
Methodology 6 credit hours
Instructor
Mindy Frenkel
Lead Instructor 200 & 500
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YH605 (ELECTIVE)
Arm Balancing (Hatha Yoga Track)
Details
- Explore the foundation principles of arm balancing
- Master the poses that lead to arm balancing
- Learn various arm balancing poses and their modifications
Date
June 5 , 2010
Cost
$125
Credits
Methodology 6 credit hours
Instructor
Mindy Frenkel
Lead Instructor 200 & 500
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YH606 (ELECTIVE)
Introduction to Sanskrit I (Hatha Yoga Track)
Details
- This weekend immersion takes as its foundation the points of resonance discovered in the American Sanskrit Institute’s Introduction to Sanskrit.
- Enhance your ability to read the beautiful script of Sanskrit - devanagri - by mastering compound consonants, refine your pronounciation of familiar words, and learn to chant select sutras, slokas and passages from Upanishads.
Date
June 25-27, 2010
Cost
$300
Credits
Philosophy 15 credit hours
Instructor
Jo Brill
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YH607 (ELECTIVE)
Introduction to Sanskrit II (Hatha Yoga Track)
Requirements
Pre-requisite: Y515
Details
- Building on the first weekend, learning the next level of the sacred language and taking it into your practice and life.
Date
Too be announced
Cost
$300
Credits
Philosophy 15 credit hours
Instructor
Jo Brill
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YM801/P101 (ELECTIVE)
The spirit body and the three Gunas (Marma Yoga Track)
Details
- Learn the pathways of energy as understood by the ancients of Vedic Medicine
- Learn to “hold space” to touch students
Date
January 23, 2010
January 24, 2010
Cost
TBA
Credits
Marma Yoga Technique 10 hours
Philosophy 8 hours
Instructor
MaryClare Chiofalo
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YM802/P102 (ELECTIVE)
The Vedic Elemental Body – the Vedic Concept the Elemental Body(Marma Yoga Track)
Details
- Learn the Vedic Body – Elementally
- Learn 5 bodywork protocols to enhance the movement of elemental energy in the body
- Learn how to elementally support the practitioner through basic elemental nutritional practices
- Learn a basic understanding of Doshas
Dates
February 19, 21, 26, 28 and
March 5, 7,12, and 14, 2010
Cost
TBA
Credits
36 hours
Instructor
MaryClare Chiofalo
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YM 8003 (ELECTIVE)
The Reflex Body – Cosmic Connections withing the Temple Body(Marma Yoga Track)
Details
- Learn the Reflexes in the body and how to address them in a yoga class or work on them in a body work model
- Learn self-reflex techniques to enhance opening energetic pathways in the body
- Learn protocols to create reflex release in a student or client
Dates
May 14, 15, and 16, 2010
Cost
TBA
Credits
Instructor
MaryClare Chiofalo
the Yoga and Polarity Center malverne, new york 516-578-2898 yogaschool@aol.com