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| Can the workshops be taken in any order?
How are students evaluated? What is a typical workshop schedule? Can people already certified take these workshops? Can you take these workshops just for your own education? Do you provide any further support for students National Yoga Certification RYT 200 and RYT 500? How long will it take to be certified? What do the workshops cover? What is Betsy Afton's educational background and credentials? |
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| Can the workshops be taken
in any order?
Yes, as long as all ten different workshops are attended. Return to General Questions Return to Home page |
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| How are students evaluated?
By a combination of class participation and student teaching demonstration to the instructor's satisfaction that material has been thoroughly assimilated. Return to General Questions Return to Home page |
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| What's a typical workshop
schedule?
Fri. 7:00 -10:00 PM Instruction Lecture Sat. 8:00 AM-Noon Lecture/Demo and Yoga Class 12:00-1:00 PM Lunch 1:00-5:00 PM Lecture 5:00-7:00 PM Dinner Break 7:00-10:00 PM Lecture/Meditation Sun. 8:00 AM-Noon Lecture/Demo 12:00-1:00 PM Lunch 1:00-3:00 PM Evaluations Return to General Questions Return to Home page |
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| Can people already certified
take these workshops?
Of course! And then they can apply the hours towards their RYT 200 or RYT 500 National Certification. Return to General Questions Return to Home page |
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| Can you take these workshops
just for your own education, just
one or two classes as suits your interest with no intention of becoming certified? Absolutely! These workshops are a terrific way to deepen and improve your individual yoga practice in addition to meeting and spending significant time with other serious and dedicated yoga students. Return to General Questions Return to Home page |
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| Do you provide any further
support for students
National Yoga Certification RYT 200 and RYT 500? Yes, you can arrange to pick up your practicum (student teaching) with us here at the yoga center. We can also sit down with you and help you assemble your data to submit to the Yoga Alliance for these national certification levels. Return to General Questions Return to Home page |
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| How long will it take
to be certified?
We offer the workshops approximately once a month, so it could take about a year if all are taken consecutively. Return to General Questions Return to Home page |
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What do the workshops
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| What are Betsy
Afton's educational background and credentials?
Betsy has a BA in English from the University of Rochester and a Ms.Ed in English instruction from St. Bonaventure University. She has her Hatha Yoga Teacher's Certification from the Himalayan Institute in Honesdale, Pa., as well as her RYT 500 through the Yoga Alliance. She has taught a wide variety of age and ability groups over the last 30 years and has been the founder and director of the YogaBetsy Yoga Center in Olean since 2000, teaching over 7000 hours of yoga including classes and seminars at area colleges, universities and secondary schools and businesses. In addition to promoting yoga and being instrumental in establishing and providing ongoing support for a lively and vibrant yoga community in Western New York's beautiful and breathtaking Southern Tier Enchanted Mountain area, she has co-starred and co-produced her own commercially available series of instructional hatha yoga DVDs. Return to General Questions Return to Home page |
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