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The Art of Teaching Kula Style Yoga: a 75 Hour Advanced Level Practical Teacher Training

Established 2010

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Kula Yoga Project

85 North 3rd Street #113, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Brooklyn, NY

Purpose

Learn to lead intelligent, inspiring Kula style vinyasa classes and how to refine the art of skillful adjusting.

What to expect

The training begins with two half days of online sequencing study. We then meet in person in the Western Catskills of upstate NY for 6 days of anatomy studies, practice, hands on assists and practice teaching with feedback. The mountain property offers stunning views of the Pepacton Reservoir, a waterfall right in the back yard and a custom built sauna outside your back door. There are plenty of places to hang in a hammock, post up in a day bed, or linger along the slate boulders and forest that line the waterfall.

Style/Lineage

Kula Flow is a style of vinyasa yoga that emphasizes creativity, alignment, and breath-guided movement, often incorporating sun salutations, standing and seated postures, backbending, inversions and bandha practice. Rooted in various traditions including Ashtanga and Iyengar yoga, the term "Kula" itself is Sanskrit for "intentional community". The Kula style was founded by Schuyler Grant in 2001 and is co-parented to this day by Nikki Vilella and Schuyler.

Additional Information

You must have already completed a formal teacher training and have spent at least six months on your feet teaching classes of some kind.

Core competencies

By the end of this program, graduates will be able to…

General Knowledge

How to sequence a class with an understanding of the myofascial connections within major muscle groups
How to communicate physical and philosophical instruction clearly
The core principles of safe and effective hands on assisting

Professional Knowledge

Kula style sequencing

Practice Skills

Hands on adjustments in 6 different classes of postures (backbends, inversions, standing postures, twists, forward bends, balancing postures)
Deconstructing postures in order to put together an inspired sequence that tells a story

Teaching Skills

An intelligent, challenging Kula style vinyasa class
A breath based class with a steady pace/metronome

AYC allows each school to state and evaluate the competencies each student acquires. Students rate how well the program delivered them.

Program Emphasis

Evaluation methods

Program evaluations

Teaching evaluation

Everyone has to teach two separate ten minute practicums with feedback from the lead trainers. At the end of the training each trainee teaches a 45 minute Kula Quickie based upon the teachings presented throughout the week. Feedback is given by the lead trainer. Each trainee also has the opportunity to practice their hands on adjustments during another trainees practicum, and will receive feedback on their hands on as well.