Awake Heart Yoga + Mindfulness 200-Hour Teacher Training
a 200-hour, 5-month journey home to the heart
coming October 2024!
Would you like to:
Open your mind to possibility?
Increase your capacity to heal your body?
Fall in LOVE with life?
Serve humanity?
If so, then there’s no time like the present.
Curriculum
Origins & history: honoring the spiritual heritage of yoga
The power of mindfulness: practical tools for living your life with an AWAKE HEART
Alignment-based & Embodiment-based asana (yoga postures): Vinyasa flow, hatha, yang + yin, inversions, restorative yoga, modifications and skillfully utilizing props to amplify the practice for each individual
Traditional wisdom & philosophy foundations: key texts of ancient yoga, Classical yoga, Patanjali’s 8-limbed path (Ashtanga), nondual Tantric Shaivism, Karma yoga, Bhakti yoga
Emerging wisdom: relevant mindfulness research, somatic psychology, contemporary neuroscience, functional anatomy, relevant application of ancient wisdom to modern life
Ayurveda for wellness: holistic health through aligning intelligently with nature’s rhythms and understanding your unique constitution
Divine architecture: Anatomy, physiology & body mechanics theory and exploratory movement to understand the form and function of the complex matrix of the human body
Your “invisible” anatomy: a map for the embodied understanding of the vayus, koshas, chakras, journey of kundalini and the energy of consciousness
Yoga & the psyche: how spiritual awareness helps to illuminate our conditioning, free up limiting beliefs and shift our relationship to self, each other and the world as we know it
Pranayama, the secrets & science of breath: revealing sacred practices from an honored lineage passed down to you with the experiential understanding of their transformational power
Mantra: basic sanskrit, japa, kirtan, prayer & sacred sound vibration to elevate intention
Mythology of yoga: enrich your teaching with Ganesha, Shiva, Shakti, and other heroes + heroines’ journeys as mirrors for inner illumination and liberation
Art of teaching (pedagogy): creating a safe learning environment, effective instructional strategies & communicating core values
Teaching methodology: designing classes, effective verbal cuing, skillfully integrating movement with breath, sensible sequencing & creative theming
Bhakti yoga: path of devotion
Jai Maa: Prenatal & Postnatal yoga
Karma yoga & seva (selfless service) as a path to awakening
Mudras: energy flow at your fingertips
Hands-on assisting & the art of touch
Dharma, leadership and your role as a teacher: sharing with integrity, authenticity and cultural humility
Yoga for all: strategies for accessibility and inclusivity for people of differing abilities, backgrounds, and social locations; trauma-sensitive teaching
Be the change: yoga not only for personal healing, but also a powerful tool for collective change and social transformation (not for spiritual bypassing!)
Sadhana: cultivating a daily practice for clarity, presence and opening to grace
Schedule
The 5-month Awake Heart teacher training begins with a foundational 5-day training to establish the potent container for our journey, and continues with one weekend per month for a span of 5 months.
November 9-13
December 9-11
January 13-15
February 3-5
March 3-5
November Immersion hours:
Wednesday 6-8pm (Opening Circle) Thursday 8:30am-5:30pm
Friday 8:30am-5:30pm
Saturday 8:30am-5:30pm
Sunday 8:30am-5:30pm
Weekend Hours (December-March):
Friday 8:30am - 5:30pm
Saturday 8:30am - 5:30pm*
Sunday 8:30am - 5:30pm
*With some surprise bonus programming on select Saturday nights + live online content for integration throughout the in-person training.
“In 13 years of yoga practice I have never felt so at home as I do in Hannah’s classes. Her ability to empower, calm, soothe, and educate are a balance like none other I have experienced. She uses the power of her words to help her students remember the sweetness inside ourselves, the wholeness of our hearts and the power of community. The outpouring of love and joy from her soul are infectious and delicious. She is love, she gives love and she encourages love. Her rich and vast knowledge of Asana, Prananyama, Myth, Song, History and Therapeutic Anatomical Alignment make her all the more powerful an instructor. I am eternally grateful for all I have learned from sweet sweet Hannah.
Hannah’s training has helped me manage depression and self doubt, heal physical pain and see the world with clearer, more loving eyes. My sex life is better, my marriage is better and I am expecting a baby this summer - hooray for yoga and for the ever loving Hannah Muse.”
Meet Your Guide
Hannah Muse (she/her) is a midwife of possibility, and a beloved teacher of mindfulness, mysticism and yoga. With deep devotion to social change and the spiritual path, Hannah is known for her profound ability to weave the opposites, integrating the mythical and practical, spiritual and physical, the intellectual and mystical. In her retreats, yoga teacher trainings, morning meditations, and Yoga Church classes (all available online now), she has a rare gift of grounding ancient wisdom into the relevant realities of modern life, making practices accessible and applicable to the students who find her.
Hannah has received in-depth training in various areas of yoga, meditation and healing. Some of her most influential teachers include Baba Hari Dass (yoga & yogic philosophy), Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield (mindfulness meditation & Buddha dharma), Tom Myers and Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen (anatomy), Dan Siegel and Rick Hanson (neuroscience of mindfulness), Peter Levine (trauma healing), Judith Lasater (restorative yoga), Dr. Vasant Lad and the distinguished faculty of Mt. Madonna’s health counselor program (Ayurveda), Michelle Johnson (yoga and social justice), Joanna Macy (Buddhism, general systems theory, deep ecology).
For the past decade Hannah has guided dozens of retreats and teacher trainings in India (alongside Christopher Hareesh Wallis, scholar of classical Nondual Saiva Tantra, and with Sri Ram Ashram, the orphanage founded by her root teacher Babaji), Bali, London, Guatemala, Mexico, Portugal, and across the U.S.
Hannah’s teachings have been called paradigm-shifting, an agent of fierce compassion, radically tender, and life-giving. Hannah lives and loves between the redwoods and the sea in Santa Cruz, California, where you can find her in the ocean with her greatest teacher/11 year old daughter Ruby Bea, organizing for equity, justice and collective care, dancing wildly, or meditating quietly.
“Anyone who has taken a class with Hannah Muse knows what an amazing teacher she is, as they have felt her cultivated-heart transmit love. As a yoga teacher and life coach myself, I have taken hundreds of yoga classes with teachers from all over the world, but Hannah leads by far the most powerful and potent yoga class I have ever experienced. Weaving in mantra, mudra, mythology, and pranayam, our singing Santa Cruz sangha is always eager to be led through her teachings. Hannah’s classes are the most heavily attended classes at multiple Santa Cruz studios as she is truly able guide her students into experiential understandings of the energetic and spiritual body. Due to her awesome alignment cues, I am often surprised at my body as it eases into deeper versions of poses that I practice every day!
Hannah’s blazing beauty does not even compare to the magnificence that is emitted from her heart. She is graceful and contained, and powerfully potent. Hannah is a dedicated practitioner of asana and studier of philosophy and Eastern medicine, but her commitment to daily sadhana (seated meditation practice) is what I know makes her such a rare and effective teacher. Although she would never admit it, Hannah is famous in Santa Cruz and the role she plays here is invaluable. The wisdom she shares helps me experience and remember my heart and I am forever grateful I trained to become a teacher with her. It has impacted every aspect of my career and my life.”
If you can check ONE of the boxes below with a resounding YES in your heart, then Awake Heart is the training for you:
You are a student of yoga who has practiced for at least one year, and are seeking to deepen your understanding and experience of this powerful practice.
You are ready to fall in love with life through an integrated journey of personal empowerment and spiritual awareness.
You are inspired to share the teachings of yoga in some capacity, whether as a yoga teacher or as a compliment the other gifts you share in your life.
You are looking for a teacher training that goes beyond postures, and honors the spiritual heritage of this rich tradition.
You are already teaching and wish to re-awaken your heart and serve your students by re-committing to the deeper foundations of yoga and expand your teaching toolbox.