YOU KNOW YOU'RE CAPABLE OF MORE...
You just finished your 200 hour teacher training program and you're super excited to teach...but you feel unprepared.
You can call out names of poses and lead a decent sequence, but more often than you'd like, there are these awkward silences in your classes because you're scared to cue the wrong thing. When your student asks you how to more safely do pincha mayurasana because her low back has been hurting in that pose, you stumble through an answer but you know there's something more you could've said.
So you try and review your 300 page anatomy manual that has tons of information, along with the dozens of pages of scribbled down notes, but it's all just words....no one actually ever helped you to deeply understand the concepts, and you feel lost.
If only there was a way for you to understand yoga to the degree that you can feel it in your own bones, then you'd be able to give your students the ideal class you know you're capable of giving.
YOU KNOW YOU'RE CAPABLE OF MORE...
Unfortunately, I've heard this story over and over again from many devoted yoga students who admit they walk away from 200hr programs feeling inundated with too much information, uncertain about their abilities, and sadly unprepared to teach. Lecture-heavy, with little to no time dedicated to the art of teaching, most of these programs focus on dishing out mass loads of information without helping students to actually SYNTHESIZE the material well enough to teach it to others.
Throughout my 20 years of teaching and coaching people all over the world, and after listening to many complaints about numerous training programs and classes, I came to this important conclusion: the number one factor in helping students transform into powerful teachers lies not in the amount of information you give them, but within the teaching method itself.
Think about it...if success was guaranteed through the simple act of receiving the most information, then we could all just google our way to becoming the best rocket scientist, heart surgeon, saxophonist, or yoga teacher around - but that's not the case....so why do most programs focus on information first?
Here's my take: I'm a systems guy. For me, the system and organization of information is much more important that the information itself. Again, you can get boundless amounts of information from google or youtube, but it's not super effective in helping you transform into someone greater, because it's all random input. If I gave you the numbers of my cell phone number but scrambled up the order, you'd have a hard time calling me. The content was there, but the order of the content wasn't taken into consideration.
THERE IS AN ART TO ORGANIZING INFORMATION IN A THOUGHTFUL AND SPECIFIC WAY TO CREATE TRUE LEARNING FOR STUDENTS.
And so I created my own year-round ONLINE yoga school, offering a suite of courses in the 40, 200, and 300 hour formats. These programs were strategically designed to help driven and ambitious workists like you powerfully transform into exemplary teachers and students of asana.
I had YOU in mind when I created Yoga Masterminds.
“I rarely take public yoga classes anymore. There are many well meaning teachers in my area, but they tend to teach the same old thing. Truthfully there’s not even much teaching happening. It’s just calling out shapes.
This guy however is different. Andrew Abaria always challenges me physically and mentally. More importantly, I always LEARN something new. Sometimes it’s a pose, sometimes it’s a question that simply gets me thinking. After all, isn’t that the point of teaching?
Check out Yoga Masterminds. Best yoga teacher training around.”
“Yoga Masterminds is THE 300 hour training for yoga teachers.
Andrew’s focus is clear—helping teachers to learn to sequence and cue a class for students of any level—and he helps you to get there within the first week. While many other teacher trainings will take too much time in the theoretical, this training dives straight into the practical elements of practice and teaching, seamlessly weaving in philosophical and spiritual knowledge along the way.
I learned theory, but more importantly, I knew how to implement it and speak about it on the spot, in any situation, on any given day. There were so many practical exercises and activities that it was nearly impossible NOT to become a great teacher. Students who had hardly practiced yoga before left our cohort as some of the most talented and knowledgeable instructors in our area.”
“I am extremely happy that I signed up for Andrew’s 200 hour Yoga Masterminds course. I grew in conscious awareness of my actions and in being able to self correct and improve. I appreciate the clarity of his teaching. It was very direct and practical, without fluff of platitudes. I’m interested in learning more from Andrew - thank you again for everything!”
