Teacher Renewal & Recharge: Refine & Deepen Your Love of Yoga & Teaching

Teachers: Jennifer Houghtaling, Andrea Fotopoulos & Neil Taylor

Who This Is For: Students and teachers (current or past) who have completed at least a 200-hour teacher training, or it’s equivalent.

The Training: This informative and in depth training will provide students with an opportunity to learn from three long-time teachers with a combined six decades of experience! Jennifer, Andrea and Neil each bring their unique style and approach to teaching, and having these multiple and varied voices is just one of the things that will make this training so engaging and valuable.

This Teacher Renewal & Recharge is perfect if:

You’re a graduate of a teacher training who is currently teaching, but would like to continue deepening your knowledge and teaching style in a supportive environment.

Life circumstances have separated you from your opportunity to teach and you feel the need to “dust off the cobwebs” before stepping back up to the head of a class.

You would like to refine your skills, dismantle outdated ideas about our approach to alignment, adjusting and teaching, but are not ready to take on the financial investment and time demands of an advanced level training.

Over the course of four weekends, you will be nurtured and guided towards refreshing your love and skill in teaching. Subjects covered will include:

A Review of the 8 Limbs of Yoga
The Kosha
The Klesha’s
Sequencing to a Peak Pose and Ladder Sequencing
Skillful and Responsible Assisting Practices
Anatomy Review
Dismantling Out of Date Cues and Ways of Approaching Asana
Practice Teaching with Guidance

Investment: The financial investment for this unique learning opportunity is $850.

If you are currently teaching at Shanti, or have graduated from any Shanti Trainings, this course is offered at a significant discount. Please reach out to Jen for that info.

This training will take place at our Hopkinton Studio and meet on the following dates:

Weekend 1: February 7, 8 & 9

Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. — Saturday from 12 to 8 p.m. — Sunday from 12 to 8 p.m.

Weekend 2: March 21, 22 & 23

Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. — Saturday from 12 to 8 p.m. — Sunday from 12 to 8 p.m.

Weekend 3: April 4, 5 & 6

Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. — Saturday from 12 to 8 p.m. — Sunday from 12 to 8 p.m.

Weekend 4: May 16, 17 & 18

Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. — Saturday from 12 to 8 p.m. — Sunday from 12 to 8 p.m.

We look forward to this incredible opportunity to grow deeper roots as teachers and students, together! To fill out your application for this training, please click here and follow the instructions.

The Teachers:

Jennifer Houghtaling is the owner of Shanti Yoga and has been teaching in the greater Boston area for over two decades. She brings a love for storytelling to her teaching as well as many years also guiding strength and fitness modalities. In addition to being a Yoga teacher and studio owner, Jennifer is also a Massage Therapist which infuses her Yoga classes with a deep understanding of anatomy and physiology.

Andrea Fotopoulos has been guiding students and teachers on their Yoga Journey for over twenty five years. For her, yoga has become a roadmap that leads Home. Andrea guides her teaching through the lens of asana, alignment, philosophy and therapeutics. Known for her skill, clarity and authenticity, her teaching style is a blend of functional alignment, dynamic movement, and inspiration that allows each student space to learn at their own pace with a precision of intention.

Neil Taylor is a Licensed Massage Therapist, Massage Therapy Instructor, Yoga Teacher, Meditation Teacher and Yoga Teacher Trainer. He has dedicated over a decade of study and practice to the healing arts, allowing him to operate from a basis of experiential knowledge to help people enhance their understanding of practice and optimize their well-being. His classes blend the Western science of Anatomy & Physiology with Eastern wisdom traditions to share a practice that is both rooted in Yoga and still relatable to the modern Western mind.