Education. Inspiration. Empowerment.
We welcome to our home yoga space in Boulder, Colorado for an in-person three hundred hour training. Our location is our new home in the mountains above North Boulder (logistics packet coming soon for registrants). We will meet in-person for five day intensive modules, plus an all online day in-between modules, and lots of supplementary online video content. If you cannot make every module, you can attend live online (or catch up via the archive); there are plenty of ways to participate.
Graduates attest that our 300-Hour Teacher Training, whether online or in person, is the very best product of its kind. We do not produce cookie-cutter yoga instructors. We challenge and educate you to better know yourself as a teacher and grow your capacity from your ability to make sound decisions based on your needs and the needs of your students. This training will challenge you to investigate the why of how you teach, and ask questions that may not have occurred to you to consider, so that you can ultimately deliver your own lessons and curriculum with clarity and confidence.
We have intentionally put the highest standards in place and have received the highest praise from our students (via Yoga Alliance’s mandatory rating system). Our students graduate with a vast breadth of teaching knowledge and skills. Our online program consists of SIX 50-60 hour modules (see breakdown of topics in the curriculum section below). Each module has “bonus” video classes & optional assignments for you to complete on your own time, if you wish. Resources & Materials include access to our thousand page 200 YTT Manual.
Students (you) are empowered to decide whether to view the training modules in recorded format as soon as you purchase, OR to participate in real time (see date schedule below) online (or join us for an in-person module). You may also choose to combine the options to craft a program that fits your specific needs. Your access to training materials and videos will never expire. In fact, we encourage and urge you to revisit sessions. A beauty about learning online: there is always more to learn and repetition helps deepen all learning processes.
Procedural:
Core areas of study:
As a graduate of this program, you will:
Note, the below information is for in-person training. For information on our live online training (same dates as below) click here. For those of you who wish to complete this program via independent study on your own time frame, click here (enrollment is rolling and you may begin anytime).
If you wish to start with us from the beginning with live participation, which we prefer if possible, we suggest working with the schedule below, anticipated live meeting times between 9 am to 5 pm PST (if you are in a different time zone you can participate in real time in your waking hours and communicate via community channels to have questions answered and dialogue with us) sequenced with pre-recorded videos.
Complete participation is strongly recommended. However, life events and circumstances sometimes take priority, and we are as flexible and reasonable as we can be with our students. Makeup options are available. Please see our Makeup Policy for more information.
THIS TRAINING IS TAUGHT ENTIRELY BY NOAH MAZÉ
Module 1: ESSENTIAL TEACHING SKILLS TUNE-UP.
Welcome to advanced teacher training! In this module, we will lay the groundwork and re-establish the essential knowledge and tune-up the skills for progressive teaching, starting from where you are at as a person and a teacher. This module’s focus will center around clear and effective verbal instructions, full spectrum sequencing, pose knowledge, pose regressions and progressions, clear and potent postural demonstrations, skillful observation, and presence. We will encourage you to think about yourself holistically, and what you currently offer to your students as a teacher.
Module 2: ASANATOMY; THE WONDER OF YOUR BODY.
Continuing on with progressive teaching, we will dive deeper within the body to further solidify your understanding of kinesiology, anatomy and applied biomechanics within postures. From major muscle groups to skeletal regions, we will examine how the body functions to allow the body to enter and sustain various asanas, as well as common injuries and modifications. We will focus on creating and teaching anatomical body region classes, facilitating muscular activations, with best practices for demonstration within class.
Module 3: SVADHYAYA; TAKING THE TEACHINGS TO HEART.
How to teach to a theme can be difficult. It can also be overbearing and can feel “preachy” to students. Our discussions will include background in storytelling, folklore and oral and aural traditions of memory, recitation, interpretation and commentary. We examine how yoga has come to be associated with posture, asana, and the dissemination of yoga to the west and subsequent proliferation of modern postural yoga. We will examine how to properly teach to alignment of postures, and how to best set up your class sequence geared towards inter-weaving themes with postures.
Module 4: SEQUENCING; SKILL IN ACTION
Sequencing can be challenging. Sequencing with proper alignment and to a theme can be even more challenging. In this module, we will examine how to properly teach to alignment of postures, how to create and teach focus pose classes, and how to best set up your class sequence geared towards a peak posture.
Module 5: VINYASA KRAMA; FORM, FUNCTION, FLOW.
What is vinyasa…really? With many broad definitions out there, we will look at modern vinyasa in its current form today and identify elements of vinyasa together to better understand this style. Progressions and regressions of asanas will be evaluated to accommodate mixed-level classes.
Module 6: LEADERSHIP, FACILITATION AND PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER.
The culmination of this course will build your current toolbox that you carry around as a teacher. There are many that we may possess, but either do not utilize them, underutilize them, or do know how to utilize. This module will focus on how to maximize tools like teaching skills, understanding your class as a whole, and how to communicate effectively.
“I would wholeheartedly recommend this training. A lot of 300 hour trainings will teach you aspects of yoga. The The Mazé Method training is singularly focused on teaching you how to teach those aspects, and that’s a critical distinction. You get the content, but more than that you get the skills to deliver that content to your students.” –Taylor Trussell
“This is the hardest and the most rewarding training I’ve ever done. I really loved it. I love the non-dogmatic approach and the openness to other points of view. The content is solid. The instructors are all knowledgeable. I felt inspired and supported. Noah is a bad-ass teacher and amazing human being. I loved everyone on this team – thank you all!” –Aria Morga
The Mazé Method School was created to provide the highest quality yoga education through our in-person and on-demand programs.
This is the hardest and the most rewarding training I’ve ever done.
Studying with Noah has opened up possibilities I hadn’t known existed.
This experience was transformative. I was challenged, affirmed, inspired, and reminded of what a gift it is to be a yogi.
I will forever be grateful for this experience. It was exactly what I hoped for and exceeded my already high expectations.
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