Eligible Participants
Aspiring teachers, experienced teachers, yoga students who are ready to move deeper within themselves and increase the mental acuity needed to explore the rich tapestry of Forrest Yoga.
Yoga students with as little as three months and as extensive as thirty years experience will enjoy the transformative benefits of this program. It is not essential that you aspire to become a teacher, it is essential that you have a dedicated and resolute commitment to yourself and this training. We expect you to have the willingness, health and strength to commit to 100% of this teacher training. You will receive a letter of completion only upon 100% completion of the teacher training. This is important in order to enroll into the Forrest Yoga Mentorship Program, to proceed to become a Forrest Yoga Certified Teacher and to register as a RYT-200 with the Yoga Alliance.

Training Overview
Taught by Ana Forrest and assisted by Steve Emmerman & Talya Ring, the 22-day intensives and teacher training follow a streamlined curriculum that has been developed over the course of Ana's nearly 40 years teaching experience to offer you a solid foundation in the art of teaching Forrest Yoga® and a transformational experience fostering personal and professional growth and promoting powerful insights that provide deeper integration with your true authentic self.

Meditation and Intensives
6-9am
Each day starts off with a ceremony involving chanting, drumming and meditation to set the intent for the day and create the space for healing and connection to your Spirit, followed by a 2-hour intensive that will create a heightened sense of physical, emotional and spiritual awareness while challenging every muscle and cell in your body. Through a carefully sequenced Forrest Yoga asanas, Ana will open you to amazing depths and feelings of awareness. You will leave feeling cleansed, refreshed and alive. The intensives are a sanctuary where you can feel safe to open up, work through issues that may arise and go beyond your perceived limitations. You will learn about yourself and feel what it is like to have freedom in your own body and mind. The intensives are sure to bring each trainee to new levels within their yoga practice. Injuries and special needs are addressed so that each trainee experiences these classes as part of his or her own healing practice.

Teacher Training
11:30am-5pm (Mon-Fri)
12:30-6:30pm (Sat & Sun)
The afternoon sessions encompasses a five to six hour sessions of training and instruction. Working from a comprehensive manual of over 300 pages, distilled from Ana's nearly 40 years of experience, trainees begin practice teaching on the first day - initially in small groups, eventually teaching beginning-level yoga students during the "Introduction to Forrest Yoga" workshop. Trainees will hone their skills through a variety of exercises designed to help them to master the essential elements of teaching, including:

- class sequencing
- seeing and understanding physical structure and energy
- use of safe and effective hands-on adjustments
- communication by verbal and non-verbal means
- effective use of class dialogue and tone of voice
- continued development of a more engaging presence and self-awareness in your class

"Introduction to Forrest Yoga" Workshop
Two weekend workshops titled, Introduction to Forrest Yoga, are offered to the public. Trainees team-teach these workshops, rotating between teaching class, assisting and adjusting under Ana's supervision. These workshops are videotaped for review. This hands-on experience leads to informative feedback for trainees as they develop their teaching style and skills, regardless of their teaching experience.

Functional Anatomy for Yoga Teachers

This dynamic three-day anatomy intensive will give teachers new tools to communicate the benefits of yoga.

Ellen Heed has a gift for translating the complex language of western anatomy into usable, practical concepts that yoga teachers can successfully integrate into their teaching. You learn names of bones, muscles, and connective tissues and how to locate them in both your own and your student’s body. Why and how we are different from each other becomes the basis for how to use yoga as a tool to develop your strengths and strengthen your weaknesses.

Forrest Yoga Business Course
Taught by Steve Emmerman & Talya Ring, this interactive course is specifically designed to support trainees with the necessary know-how and skills to continue the transformation that trainees started in the Teacher Training, both in teaching and in life. Trainees will be equipped with practical skills to integrate into their real lives the insights they have gained, the epiphanies they have had, the skills they have developed and the transformations they have gone through in the teacher training. Trainees will learn how to organize themselves to start teaching, how to deal with finances and how to create teaching opportunities for themselves. The Forrest Yoga teaching community is a growing community of powerful and intelligent yoga teachers, many of whom own their own businesses and are able to offer valuable support in the process of building a career path teaching yoga. Through the Forrest Yoga Mentorship ProgramForrest Yoga Guardians provide guidance to beginning Forrest Yoga Teachers to help them in their development as yoga teachers. Each Forrest Yoga Guardian teaching this course brings with them valuable insights from their own experience walking the path to becoming a great Forrest Yoga Teacher.

Curriculum Themes
- Yoga as a healing path
Ana is a pioneer in the practice of using yoga to transform physical and emotional pain into a journey toward freedom and healing. She will teach you the tools to take control of your life and rid your cells of unwanted pain and trauma, so you may bring the same healing to your students.

- Walking the path of your Spirit
The training's objective is to guide you into a greater understanding of your own challenges, both in your yoga practice and in your everyday life. This awareness will allow you to teach from truths that are discovered rather than from a dogma. Teaching authentically is more effective and compelling for both you and your students.

- Teaching through discovery
Through a tightly woven circle of teaching modalities including lecture, videotaping, group circles, practice teaching and partner work you, will participate in a wide variety of teaching activities where learning is achieved through discovery of experiential knowledge. You will learn principles of alignment, class sequencing, working with injuries and energy, modifying yoga postures to address an individual's needs and teaching private, beginning and intermediate classes. There is opportunity to teach beginning level students, see and diagnose injuries and energy as well as proper use of touch and adjustment to maximize your teaching impact. The training format encourages trainees to discover their own wisdom while offering guidance so that you can effectively convey this wisdom when teaching.