The Hard & The Soft Yoga Institute
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About The Hard & The Soft Yoga Institute
The Hard & The Soft Yoga Institute is one of the most prestigious and comprehensive yoga teacher training schools in the United States. Directed by Beryl Bender Birch, internationally renowned yoga teacher and author, the school has been training yoga teachers since 1980, offering annual weeklong and weekend programs in the eight-limbed path of classical yoga.
The school derived it’s name from the Zen proverb which says “Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong,” and was founded by Beryl in 1975 in Winter Park, Colorado.
The original teacher certification format allowed students to sign up for weekend workshops, week long retreats at Omega Institute or Kripalu Yoga Center, and vacation/trainings (Culebra, Mexico, Costa Rica, etc), as their schedules allowed, and gather hours toward certification at their convenience.
In 2001 the curriculum was formalized into the 200/500 hour yoga teacher training certification courses, and an additional format offering one weekend per month over the course of a year was developed. Both of these formats for training to be a certified yoga teacher or for individuals looking to deepen their personal practice are still offered by our school.
The Format:
To complete one of our teacher trainings, enroll in a full inclusive 200/500 hour program at a number of our affiliate studios in MA, NY, CT, VT, ME, SC and TX. Most of these programs meet one weekend per month – either for 8 months (the 200 hour program) or for 12 months (the 300 hour training).
For those who cannot attend the weeklong training at Omega, there will be the option to take any of several “elective” weekends to complete the necessary hours, either at Sruti or any of our affiliate studios where we offer teacher training courses (Mindful Turtle in Setauket, NY; Yoga in ME in Eliot, ME; Heartsong Yoga in East Longmeadow, MA or the Open hand Institute in San Antonio, TX.
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