Annie Carpenter’s
300 HOUR TEACHER TRAINING
MASTER YOUR SKILLS
ADVANCE YOUR CAREER
The 300hr SmartFLOW Teacher Training:
Progress through a series of Advanced Modules
(Yoga Alliance RYS 300)
Welcome to SmartFlow Yoga Advanced teacher training! To complete your 300-hour Advanced Training, you will work at your own pace adding Advanced Level and Teaching Skills modules to reach 300 hours. If you completed your 200 hour with us; then dive in! If not, please begin with our Online Courses and then continue on with the rest of the modules. You may take these in any order to add specific skills and hours to your advanced training within a 3 year time.
All hours, in-class, and non-contact (including readings and homework) must be completed to meet RYS 300 curriculum requirements. Completing your 200-hour with SmartFLOW (or another RYS 200) along with our 300-hr Advanced Training will make you eligible to register as an RYT 500. You can then also work towards SmartFlow Yoga Certification
ONLINE TRAININGS and IN-PERSON
Please feel free to email us with any questions you might have.
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May 3-5
SmartFLOW Weekend
SO HAM Yoga – Geneva, Switzerland
In-Person
May 8-12
PRANIFY! – 35 hour adv training
Yoga Kula Vienna – Austria
In-Person + LiveStream/Replay
May 17-18
Mobility + Stability – 11.5 hour weekend
yogafürdich – Berlin
In-Person
April 26-28
Equanimity in Body + Mind – 9 hour weekend
Yogalives – Zurich
In-Person
June 20-23
FUNctional Movement
+ SmartFLOWYoga – 25 hour training
Nest Yoga – Oakland, CA
In-Personm + LIVEstream
July 18-24
The Essential Arches: Keystones
Center For Yoga – Los Angeles, CA
In-Person + LiveStream/Replay
September 12-15
Teaching yoga: People not Poses
Center For Yoga – Los Angeles, CA
In-Person + LiveStream/Replay
October 25-Nov 3
Viveka 7 Day Advanced 300-Hour Course
Power Living – AUSTRALIA
In-Person
November 6-11
Yoga + Nature 6-day RETREAT
Mauria River Retreat – NEW ZEALAND
In-Person
(selling out fast!)
ONLINE COURSES
The Heart of SmartFLOW 1
15 hour fundamentals
online training
The Heart of SmartFLOW 2
10 hour advanced
online training
Demystifying the Bandhas
5 hour advanced
online training
Training Modules
PRANIFY!
Our Advanced Intensive on Pranayama
PRANIFY!: Essential Breathing Techniques
Developing your Practice and Teaching Skills for Pranayama
This Intensive dives deep into Pranayama as practice, its theory and application in both healing and transformational applications. Each day will begin with a strong Asana practice, with an emphasis on each PranaVayu and the cultivation of breath awareness and Pranic movement. Afternoons will be a mix of lecture, learning various Pranayama techniques and developing increasingly subtle states of concentration, and energetic effects.
“Breathing in, I calm body and mind.
Breathing out, I smile.
Dwelling in the present moment
I know this is the only moment.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh
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subtle and western anatomy
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Prana and the system of Nadis
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essential practices to sensitize and focus on Pranic flow
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detailed pranayama techniques and timings
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developing pranayama sequences for specific intention
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incorporating pranayama into your classes
May 8-12
PRANIFY! – 35 hour adv training
Yoga Kula Vienna – Austria
In-Person
SAMKRAMA
Our Advanced Intensive on Sequencing
Sama: even, balanced.
Krama: to progress, step by step.
The Art of Sequencing: Creating a meaningful and intelligent Yoga sequence is an art, and a skill – that can be learned and honed into a fun and deeply satisfying art for you and your students.
The heart of this 50-hour intensive is in the strong morning Asana practice. Each daily practice will highlight an essential aspect of sequencing; afternoons will be spent mapping the sequence, generating alternate “itineraries” and modifications, and illuminating each of the elements that great sequences all share.
- Strong Morning Sadhana
- Sequence Mapping
- Generating creative and intelligent sequences
- Drives and themes that are authentic to you
- Balancing the effort and the return: inspire your students without hooking their egos
- Including the return to center: rest is an essential element!
- Creating self-practices that will continue to inspire you as Practitioner and teacher
SAMA SADHANA
Our Advanced Intensive: Balanced Practice
Sama means even, or balanced as in Samasthithi or even standing pose. This pose teaches us to balance the body right and left, front and back and up and down; further it asks us to sense our feeling of being grounded with our need to feel free. And lastly it suggests that in our personal concerns we acknowledge the truth that we are part of or a greater, spiritual whole. Sadhana is practice: our daily Yogic practice. Sama Sadhana = Even, balanced Practice.
In this Intensive, you will reflect on and aim to balance your body, mind and heart similarly in all the poses we practice and in all the Movement Principles* that we explore. This will be a demanding and transformational workshop, moving you through the limbs of Yoga.
- Follow each Movement Principle to its fullest, advanced expression along its continuum
- Sense your own subtle balance of effort and return; and your balanced needs for both power and rest
- Consider each Movement Principle and its specific supports in all 3 Planes of Motion
- Assess and practice Hands-on-Assists for each MP family
- Anatomy to support each MP
- Learn essential Restoratives for each MP
- Daily Pranayama
- Meditation
- Philosophy (reading assignments will be given)
Sama Sadhana is a 75hr Intensive, as part of Annie’s SmartFLOW 200/300hr Yoga Alliance Certified Curriculum. You will learn primarily through your own daily practice — to advance your own practice and to become a more sensitive and intelligent teacher. There will be also be lectures, demos and lab time. (*Note: Movement Principles are an essential element of SmartFLOW methodology; the online course will ground you in these concepts.)
2024 TBD
SVADYAYA – MENTORSHIP
Advanced Mentorship
- Asana and adjustments (Specific verbal cuing for self-adjustments due to Covid)
- Sequencing for specific effects and populations
- Relationship and ethics: Appropriate connection and boundary setting with your students
- Classic yoga philosophy
- 10 2-hour meetings with Annie(20 hours)
- 2 weekly classes with Annie(48 hours)
- 8 Observation classes(12 hours)
- Seva project: design, create and implement a workshop or class series for a targeted population or issue
- Study of several of the Primary Upanishads
2024 TBD
VIVEKA
Advanced Subtle Body Intensive
Viveka is a beautiful Sanskrit word that literally means discrimination. It describes an ongoing practice through which we discern the un-changing essence of life as distinguished from the impermanent, phenomenal nature of all things.
This training intentionally integrates Subtle practices into Advanced Asana. Each day we will weave multiple layers—Koshas—into our awareness, setting the stage for personal transformation and discerning exactly which practices are essential to each of our needs. Through these practices, we begin to distinguish the increasingly subtle effects each of the practices offer, and over time we determine that which furthers and maintains us – and our students – on our spiritual paths.
DEVELOPING AUTHENTIC PRACTICE:
- Daily advanced asana, pranayama and meditation practice to awaken the mind, body and spirit
- Taking the SmartFLOW principles deeper; exploring the edge where avoidance and denial present themselves
- Creative sequencing for specific populations and intentions
- Pranayama: observe how the breathing patterns reveal unconscious mental patterns and can help break them
- Investigation and Integration of the Subtle Body: Koshas, Prana Vayus and Chakras
- Maha Bandhas in asana and pranayama practice
- Dharana & Dhyana: paths to focus the mind (find a meditation practice that you will stick to!)
- In-depth study of the Bhagavad Gita with John Casey, PhD
This 12-day/100hr course is part of Annie’s SmartFLOW 200/300hr Yoga Alliance Certified Curriculum. In addition to the actual in-class time, the course includes reading, written homework and a practicum.
PREKSHA
Our Advanced Intensive on Seeing Your Students Clearly
Preksha: Clear Seeing
Preksha is a beautiful Sanskrit word that means seeing, beholding, reflecting. In this Advanced Module we will explore ways of seeing clearing: Our own practice and lives, and the practices of our students. We will seek out blockages and patterns and look to make clarity and fluidity.
“Everything is magical when you see it with your heart.” ― Mooji
In this 50-hr Intensive, you will reflect on and aim to balance your body, mind and heart similarly in all the poses we practice and in all the Movement Principles* that we explore. This will be a demanding and transformational workshop, moving you through the limbs of Yoga.
- Assess: See where you and your students have patterns of holding, blockage and avoidance
- Assist: Based on this clarity, hands-on-adjustments as well as modifications to poses and the practice as a whole may be made
- Activate: Form and inspire clear intentions and practice plans for you and your students
- Strong Morning Sadhana
- Assessments of Hands on Adjustments
- Building an action plan for releasing habitual patterns
2024 TBD
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