“ABSORB WHAT IS USEFUL. DISCARD WHAT IS NOT. ADD WHAT IS UNIQUELY YOUR OWN.”
– Bruce Lee
The NAI’A® Yoga Teacher Training is a multi-dimensional program based on the NAI’A® Life Alchemy Compass. We use the NAI’A® Life Alchemy Compass and the Magic Square as a resource to orient and situate ourselves in our inner and outer environment so that we can become masterful at navigating our practice and our life.
The NAI’A® Yoga Teacher Training program thus emphasizes living your yoga, being embodied and designing a sustainable lifestyle that continuously evolves.
Transform your body, ignite your spirit, sharpen your self-awareness, develop resiliency, maintain vitality and amplify meaning in your life. Learn all the tools needed to host NAI’A® workshops internationally with various audiences. Break open to yourself and embody freedom, flow, artistry.
Program Details
Nai’a® Yoga is a multi-dimensional practice that incorporates vinyasa flow, movement arts such as mobility, calisthenics and animal locomotion, elemental sequences, breathwork, therapeutics and Wild Sacred Arts to create a full-spectrum and wholesome practice.
We use the NAI’A® Life Alchemy Compass to journey through our 6 pillars and become more embodied beings.
FORMAT
300H & 500H PATHS
- 10-day intensive immersion
- Online Academy: Video, Audio and Photo library, Nai’a matrices and course materials
- Assigned Readings, Projects, Evolution tracking via our online academy
- Continued mentorship
- Elective modules of your choice to complete within 24 months (70 additional hours for 300H, 125 additional hours for 500H)
100H CONTINUING EDUCATION PATH
- Includes the 10 day immersion only.
- No access to online academy or continued mentorship.
PRE-REQUISITE
- Hold a 200H Yoga Teacher Training Program from an approved School
- Or take our 100H Foundational Program
ADDITIONAL INFO
- Immersive retreats are taught in English, French, and Spanish.
- The teaching material is in English with some documents available in French (25%).
- You have 24 months to complete your electives after finishing the core modules
- NAI’A is recognized as an official training institution by the Quebec Government. Training programs are tax deductible.
- Payment plans available.
Program Breakdown
You will gain the techniques, methodology and receive direct transmissions on the following topics during the 10 day in person intensive. The online academy will give you access to the rest of the coursework, resources, personal projects and continued mentorship.
EVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT FOR VITALITY, AGILITY & LONGEVITY 70H LIVE, 30H ONLINE PRACTICES AND COURSEWORK
PART I – Evolutionary Asana practice and Philosophy
NAI’A® Sequences and Movement Matrix, understand how to build evolutionary sequences
Refine your practice and your movement through deeper embodiment,
Discover how to design intelligent sequences with true body-mind-soul connection for specific audiences, Learn how to navigate the Magic Square and Yoga as Sacred Geometry,
Anatomy of Yoga Poses
Pattern Interruption and Neuroplasticity in action.
PART II – Animal Locomotion and Movement Arts
Discover how to substantiate your yoga practice and develop more strength, agility, mobility, longevity and vitality for you and your students.
Structural and Movement Patterns
Body Mechanics
Mobility
Calisthenics & Animal Locomotion
PART III – NAIA Therapeutics for all Bodies
Restoration is just as important to maintain health and increase performance as strength and agility.
Discover NAI’A’s restorative approach to Twists, Forward Folds, Shoulder Openers, Inversions, and beyond.
Learn how to address specific conditions such as scoliosis and structural imbalances and learn how create proper frames for students.
Gain the knowledge to do body readings and offer private sessions.
Feel confident using props and adjusting students.
EVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT FOR VITALITY, AGILITY & LONGEVITY
70H LIVE, 30H ONLINE PRACTICES AND COURSEWORK
PART I – Evolutionary Asana practice and Philosophy
- NAI’A® Sequences and Movement Matrix, understand how to build evolutionary sequences
- Refine your practice and your movement through deeper embodiment,
- Discover how to design intelligent sequences with true body-mind-soul connection for specific audiences, Learn how to navigate the Magic Square and Yoga as Sacred Geometry,
- Anatomy of Yoga Poses
- Pattern Interruption and Neuroplasticity in action.
PART II – Animal Locomotion and Movement Arts
- Discover how to substantiate your yoga practice and develop more strength, agility, mobility, longevity and vitality for you and your students.
- Structural and Movement Patterns
- Body Mechanics
- Mobility
- Calisthenics & Animal Locomotion
PART III – NAIA Therapeutics for all Bodies
- Restoration is just as important to maintain health and increase performance as strength and agility.
- Discover NAI’A’s restorative approach to Twists, Forward Folds, Shoulder Openers, Inversions, and beyond.
- Learn how to address specific conditions such as scoliosis and structural imbalances and learn how create proper frames for students.
- Gain the knowledge to do body readings and offer private sessions.
- Feel confident using props and adjusting students.
CULTIVATING PRESENCE AND SHARPENING THE SENSES, THE SUBTLE BODY & SOMATIC HEALING
35H LIVE, 5H ONLINE
EXPLORE NAI’A’s compass and 6 pillar approach to an embodied lifestyle.
In-depth voyage into the subtle body and its relationship to the breath, movement and the way we think and behave.
Learn how to address physiological, nervous and hormonal imbalances through subtle body activations and somatic healing
Chakras and their body-mind connection
Elements and the body, the seasons, the practice
Sharpen your presence, your ability to see and feel beyond the physical body.
Develop your power of observation, of listening, stillness, awareness through a variety of sitting, breathing, meditations and other dynamics to deepen your experience of both subtle body alignment, meditation, breathwork, and communication skills.
Case studies.
CULTIVATING PRESENCE AND SHARPENING THE SENSES, THE SUBTLE BODY & SOMATIC HEALING
35H LIVE, 5H ONLINE
EXPLORE NAI’A’s compass and 6 pillar approach to an embodied lifestyle.
In-depth voyage into the subtle body and its relationship to the breath, movement and the way we think and behave.
Learn how to address physiological, nervous and hormonal imbalances through subtle body activations and somatic healing
Chakras and their body-mind connection
Elements and the body, the seasons, the practice
Sharpen your presence, your ability to see and feel beyond the physical body.
Develop your power of observation, of listening, stillness, awareness through a variety of sitting, breathing, meditations and other dynamics to deepen your experience of both subtle body alignment, meditation, breathwork, and communication skills.
Case studies.
LUMINARY LEADERSHIP: OUT INTO THE WORLD
10H LIVE, 5H ONLINE COURSEWORK
How do you lead from your true self?
- Know yourself, serve yourself and open yourself.
- Discover how to use the NAI’A® approach and shape it to your own reality.
- Sharpen your voice, your message and leadership skills to take charge of your life.
- Define your why, move beyond boundaries into infinite possibilities.
- Find out how to design your brand, movement, project and communicate it to the world in a way that is authentic to you.
- Attract the people that have both the willingness, heart, and commitment to learn from you or support you and your vision.
- Discover how to apply the NAI’A® approach anywhere, NAI’A® workshop frameworks and template that apply to various audiences outside yoga studios.
- Become a NAI’A® ambassador and organizer or licensed studio.
LUMINARY LEADERSHIP: OUT INTO THE WORLD
10H LIVE, 5H ONLINE COURSEWORK
How do you lead from your true self?
- Know yourself, serve yourself and open yourself.
- Discover how to use the NAI’A® approach and shape it to your own reality.
- Sharpen your voice, your message and leadership skills to take charge of your life.
- Define your why, move beyond boundaries into infinite possibilities.
- Find out how to design your brand, movement, project and communicate it to the world in a way that is authentic to you.
- Attract the people that have both the willingness, heart, and commitment to learn from you or support you and your vision.
- Discover how to apply the NAI’A® approach anywhere, NAI’A® workshop frameworks and template that apply to various audiences outside yoga studios.
- Become a NAI’A® ambassador and organizer or licensed studio.
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