200-Hour Kindness Yoga Teacher Training
Directed by Patrick Harrington, RYT 200 and Lindsay Gonzalez, RYT-500
Are you a yoga student hoping to deepen your relationship to contemporary yoga practice? Do you want to lay a strong foundation for success as a yoga instructor? Are you inspired by both tradition and innovation?
You’re in the right place. The Kindness Yoga 200-hour Teacher Training is a powerful opportunity to delve deep into the art and science of yoga with our team of experienced teacher trainers.
Our trainings emphasize studying – and learning to instruct – one of the most popular forms of yoga asana in America: vinyasa (meaning “to place in a special way”). Vinyasa yoga features flowing movement, breath awareness, and deliberately sequencing poses in a way that is safe, intentional, and even transformational.
In 200-hour Teacher Training we strive to help trainees express their individual gifts with grace and confidence. If you seek a training in which everything is boxed up and handed to you, this might not be the one you’re looking for. But if you want to learn fundamental skills that’ll help you delve into your own unique heart and then powerfully share what you discover, look no further.
You’ll practice and polish your poses, learn innovative and effective strategies for creating your own class themes and sequences, and become comfortable with demonstrations, hands-on assists, and the art of leadership. You’ll study alignment, anatomy, history, philosophy, breathwork and meditation. Our approach is more experiential than lecture-based, so you can expect plenty of discussion, peer feedback, and creative and fun drills that build confidence and the wisdom that only comes from experience.
If this sounds like what you are looking for then email our registration director to ask questions and take the next step!
For more information contact Ginny at: ginny@kindnesscollective.com
The Directors
Patrick Harrington, RYT 200
Patrick Harrington is living a life that inspires him. A former serial entrepreneur, Patrick once started businesses he thought would earn him enough money to live a life full of meaning and difference making. He was always searching for the means to an end. It wasn't until yoga teacher training in 2001 that he found a way to combine his love of business with an end in itself.
14 years later, Patrick is the founder-owner of Kindness Yoga, a donation-based collection of studios that hosts scores of teachers and tens of thousands of yoga students annually.
Patrick is the father of two girls and a husband. His life has taken on more and more meaning through his committed explorations into his own patterns of - and addictions to - suffering. His classes reflect this intimate and vulnerable process, and allow his students and fellow teachers to relate on a level that transforms. It is though his own healing journey and movement towards living his dharma that leads his yoga teaching, parenting, relationships and business.
Patrick has taught before tens of thousands of students, lead teacher trainings and mentored teachers over many years as the owner of Kindness Yoga. “We - as yoga studios and teachers - are not in competition with each other,” he says. “Rather, we are in competition with all the unconscious activities out there." Patrick believes that yoga will direct culture towards a more awakened strategy of life. He encourages us to wake up to what we want to contribute in this life and "quit messing around and get on with it!"
Lindsay Gonzalez, RYT-500
Lindsay is a professional SUP athlete and yoga teacher with over a decade of experience sharing her passion for freedom of movement, alignment, and therapeutics. She is a certified personal trainer and an athlete ambassador for Boardworks SUP and several other brands. She was honored as one of Denver’s top yoga teachers by the Mile High Yoga Experience in 2013, and has led festival crowds larger than 1,000 yogis strong! Most recently, Lindsay has been a presenting SUP Yoga Instructor at Wanderlust Yoga Festivals.
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