Classical Yoga:
Mind-Body Sciences Yoga Alliance Training
Designed for yoga teachers, aspiring yoga teachers, healers, and dedicated students of yoga.

Florida is home to pink spoonbills, blue herons, and the rising sun of the Florida Yoga Institute (FYI). We are the pioneers of our region’s only Mind-Body Sciences Classical Yoga Teacher Training. If you are a yoga instructor, aspiring yoga instructor, or dedicated student of yoga, welcome to Florida, to our studio, and to your yoga home away from home.

Classical Yoga Teacher Training Overview

Vital Body. Steady Mind. Tethered Spirit. More and more, yoga lovers everywhere choose yoga and meditation as a path toward physical, emotional, and spiritual recovery. Today’s yoga students seek teachers who can take them deeper into their practice. Classical Yoga (Raja) is the path toward a vital body, steady mind, and tethered spirit. Francesca and her energetic team will lead you on a journey that will catapult your practice, deepen your relationship to yoga and meditation; and enhance your spiritual life. If you seek to transform and be transformed, you have arrived. Welcome home.

New Yoga Intelligence: Yoga’s Foundational 25 Asana. Trainees get exclusive access to the most recent and extensive research on Yoga’s 25 foundational postures. These key postures are studied in depth through employing yogic myths and legends, movement dynamics, anatomical and biomechanical features, therapeutic aspects, and opportunities to adapt each asana to students of diverse abilities. This knowledge is featured in the upcoming yoga book Teaching Down Dogs New TricksTM written by yogini and program leader Francesca Vanegas. This multidimensional learning is an integral part of the classical yoga instructor training.

Mind-Body Sciences. The Florida Yoga Institute’s yoga teacher training moves well beyond an elemental understanding of the body’s biological systems. The human body has more magic and mystery. Teacher trainees develop a grounded and comparative understanding of the body through the eyes of the Western medical model, Eastern healing modalities, and contemporary mind-body sciences.

Meditation Studies. Meditation is the heart of yoga: so said yoga’s first scholar. Our training wholeheartedly bows to this philosophy. The Buddha and his teachings on freedom from suffering come alive in engaging books and ancient texts, group discussions, 20 hours of guided meditation instruction, and interesting and meaningful lectures on philosophical currents in ancient India and Tibet and the intellectual backdrop of the times. Participants also learn key principles for guiding brief meditation sessions within a yoga class.

Business Mastery. Manifest your dreams as a yoga professional with our business mastery intensive. Learn to create your vision and mission statement; understand the essentials of marketing communications, web marketing, and media relations. Whether you plan to own a studio or teach independently, this business mastery intensive is fundamental to creating and enjoying a fulfilling, thriving, and conscious businesses.

Wisdom Training and Personal Mastery. You are the leading creative force in your life. Personal mastery is the ability to use that force to create desired results time and time again. Once you make the conscious choice to own that creative force, anything is possible. For these intensives we rely on the liberating wisdom teachings of the Buddha and Patanjali. In addition, we study fundamental principles of creative and communication processes through the works of contemporary personal-mastery ‘gurus’ Robert Fritz and Peter Senge.

Our Promise

On graduation day you will know Yoga and meditation in your bones, heart, mind, and spirit. You will feel ready to teach any student (whether they are 20, 40, or 80 years old). You will teach safely, with authenticity, intelligence, and integrity. Our 200-hour+ Classical Yoga teacher training is comprehensive, noncompetitive, safe, and friendly.

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Here are three ways to contact us to learn more:

• Telephone:
  239-498-0222
• Email:
  director@flayogainstitute.com
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