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RYT-200 Express Program

program Overview

The four-month Boundless Yoga RYT Express Program is certified by the Yoga Alliance and, like its sister program, the RYT-200 Program, honors the cultural shifts in modern yoga while maintaining yoga’s meditative origins.

All Boundless Programs are designed in the spirit of Krishnamacharya, an Indian teacher whom many believe to be the father of modern yoga. His teachings suggest that the yoga asana class is the design of the individual, woven simultaneously into the community at large. It is the yoga teacher’s role to relate to each student one-on-one, no matter how small or large a yoga community or class.  The yogi or yogini takes the teachings of yoga into the world.

Is This Program for Me?

On joining this program, be prepared for weekly time and effort similar to taking on a part-time job. In addition to your 4x/week practice requirements (see below), you are expected to read and/or work on program assignments, and attend training-related classes 12-15 hours/week. When you complete the program in December, you will have accrued 200 study and practice hours for an RYT-200 Certification from the Yoga Alliance.

Through its more compact and intense offering than the RYT-200 Program, the RYT Express is an immersion program. It is designed for people who:

  • Are self-starters and pace their work easily and well
  • Enjoy intense study and feel that immersion-style learning is the best approach for deep learning and behavior change
  • Want to finish an RYT program in a short period of time

About Kim Weeks, teacher Trainer

This program is led by Kim Weeks, Boundless Founder and RYT Programs Founder, and nearly all the contact hours in the program will be with her. She takes students deeply, clearly, and intensely in to the world of advanced yoga studies and teaching.

Kim Weeks offers the overall picture of the world of yoga, and the Krishnamacharya legacy of seeing bodies one body at a time. Her hope is to develop the right insights and internal alignment to know, specifically, what each body in a classroom needs at any given time. Kim will prepare you to teach a basic-level yoga class through deepening your knowledge, and then trust and instinct, of human anatomy and physiology.

Program Details and weekly commitment

Organizationally, the four-month program is broken down this way:

  • January-February 2012
    • The philosophy, history, and spirit of yoga, including the principles of the Krishnamacharya yoga tradition
    • Anatomy and alignment: how the muscles, skeleton, organs, and energetic body work with one another
    • Introduction to pranayama
  • February-March 2012
    • Anatomy and alignment: how the muscles, skeleton, organs, and energetic body work with one another
    • Seeing Bodies
      • How to feel, see, and know your practice
      • How to think about teaching
    • Basic yoga postures and modifications, Pt 1
    • The principle of karma yoga as taught by the Bhagavad Gita
  • March-April 2012
    • Seeing Bodies
      • Assisting and Adjusting
      • How to teach
    • Basic yoga postures and modifications, Pt 2
    • Sanskrit of poses
    • Sequencing a class
    • Overview of teaching restoratives and special groups and populations
  • May 2012
    • Meditation and the principles of pranayama
    • Practicum, anatomy exam, and final paper (done on student’s own schedule)
    • Practice teaching, if desired

Trainees will meet with Kim every Saturday morning 915-1030 am am as a group and attend her Thursday night classes 630-915 pm. Trainees are also required to attend the RYT-200 yearlong modules January-March.

prerequisites

We prefer that the advanced student be currently practicing in a primarily Indian-based school of yoga (Iyengar, Anusara, Kripalu, Sivananda, Integral, Ashtanga, Kundalini, etc.), though we honor all traditions and are open to all schools and traditions.

Applicants must have practiced yoga twice a week for one full year or the equivalent (breaks in a longer practice are expected and are OK).

Meditation, Pranayama, and/or other spiritual/meditative endeavors are a plus. For more information, or to ask any questions, please contact us.

cost

The cost for the program can be paid in full or through two installments. If paid in installments, the total cost is $3400 with two equal installments of $1700 on January 5 and February 1, 2012. The total cost of the program if paid in full by November 30, 2011 $2720. If paid by December 31, 2011, the cost is $3060.

Price includes unlimited classes at Boundless and all workshops and modules scheduled for the RYT Express Program. Cost does not include books, the $30 non-refundable application fee, and any workshops or events that occur outside the RYT Express Program. Please contact us with any questions!

other requirements during the program

Teacher trainees are expected to fulfill these additional requirements:

  • Maintain a practice of 4x/week for the duration of the program. This will consist of a combination of studio and home practice.
  • Teach one or more classes to the boundless community. Trainees may also choose to sub at Boundless during the program (pending approval by faculty).
  • Complete and pass a final written paper (10-12 pages double-spaced), anatomy exam, philosophy exam and Sanskrit quiz. There will also be other written assignments during the program.

The program starts January 20. The application (download here) is due by December 15, 2011, along with a non-refundable, $30 application fee. To guarantee your place in the 2012 program, the two discounted total payments are due November 30 or December 31. The first full half-payment is due January 1, 2o12. Please send or bring your complicated application to Boundless Yoga, 2001 13th Street, Washington, DC 20009, or email it to Kelly[at]boundlessyoga.com.

For more information, or to ask any questions, please contact us.

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