Dates & Major Topics of Study:

Friday – Sunday, 8:00 am – 6:00 pm
All Sessions are mandatory to qualify for certification. Each session will include yoga practice and asana study and training.

200-Hour Training

Anatomy
Jan 30, 31, Feb 1
Philosophy
Feb 13, 14, 15
Energitic Bodies & Pranayama
Feb 27, 28, March 1
Meditation
March 13, 14, 15
Teaching Methodology
April 17, 18, 19
Specialty Yoga
May 1, 2, 3
Testing
May 15, 16, 17

300-Hour Advanced Training

9 Weekends
September 2009-March 2010

30 Hour ISHTA Bridge Program

January-May 2009

Alan Finger provides detailed instructions on
correct asana alignment with ISHTA instructor
Sarah Platt at a recent workshop at Thrive.

1321 Rockville Pike
Rockville, Maryland, 20852
Phone: 301-294-YOGA (9642)
Fax: 301-294-3596
Contact Us & Directions

ISHTA Yoga Teacher Training presented at Thrive

2009 Yoga Teacher Training Program (Yoga Alliance Registered School)

The Teacher Training and Yoga Immersion Program is for you IF you are an aspiring teacher or a student seeking to deepen your practice. Our program uniquely:

Condensed weekend formats
A deep and well-rounded training that effectively transfers teaching knowledge.
You will leave confident to teach. You will transform your practice — your life!
Highly experienced topic experts and teachers led by Yogiraj Alan Finger. Rich content and manuals.

The Thrive-ISHTA team

With ISHTA Yoga Teacher Trainings are led by Alan Finger, Sarah Platt, Susan Bowen and senior ISHTA Yoga teachers.

Why ISHTA Yoga at Thrive?

When the student is ready, the teacher appears.
Buddhist Proverb

Many on the path of yoga and self- discovery seek to deepen their knowledge and experience of yoga by studying ancient texts or by seeking wise teachers. Thrive Yoga presents the Thrive ISHTA Yoga Teacher Training Program as part of our vision to bring a broad base of yogic teachings from teachers who have a deep understanding and experience of yoga. Yogiraj Alan Finger, founder of ISHTA Yoga and lead teacher in the Teacher Training, began his study of yoga as a teen under the tutelage of his father, Mani who was first initiated by Paramahansa Yogananda (author of Autobiography of a Yogi, a teacher of Gandhi and founder of the Self-Realization Fellowship) and later studied with Sivananda (a medical doctor who lived by the words "serve, love, give, purify, meditate, realize"). Alan was graced by many of the leading lights of yoga, including Swami Venkatesananda (sage of practical wisdom helping to communicate challenging spiritual concepts in easy to understand & witty ways) Swami Nishraisananda (linked spiritual concepts & modern science) and tantric master Shuddhand Bharati. Seeking to integrate all the different systems and teachings, ISHTA Yoga was created.

The ISHTA Yoga Teacher

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi

As an ISHTA trained yoga teacher, you will teach your students to integrate the physical and energetic tools of yoga. Asana, pranayama and meditation combine into a seamless practice leading to individual self-awareness, inner and outer equilibrium and self-transformation. ISHTA is the science that teaches the individual how to open and align the physical body AND the subtle energetic body.

Students will come out of this course learning how to bring joy, love, wisdom and inspiration into each moment of living.

Believing that the tantric state of liberation, bliss and acceptance is our natural state, and the return of that state is the intent of the yoga practice, an ISHTA yoga teachers guides the practice to bring together asana to stretch, strengthen, and release the physical body; pranayama and visualization to still and quiet the mind; and meditation to expand awareness to the universal state of bliss.

Do you have more questions? Read the Teacher Training FAQs or call Susan Bowen at Thrive Yoga 301-294-9642.