Annie Carpenter’s
300 HOUR TEACHER TRAINING

MASTER YOUR SKILLS
ADVANCE YOUR CAREER

The 300hr SmartFLOW Teacher Training:
Progress through a series of Advanced Modules

(Yoga Alliance RYS 300)

Welcome to SmartFlow Yoga Advanced teacher training! To complete your 300-hour Advanced Training, you will work at your own pace adding Advanced Level and Teaching Skills modules to reach 300 hours. If you completed your 200 hour with us; then dive in! If not, please begin with our Online Courses and then continue on with the rest of the modules. You may take these in any order to add specific skills and hours to your advanced training within a 3 year time.

All hours, in-class, and non-contact (including readings and homework) must be completed to meet RYS 300 curriculum requirements. Completing your 200-hour with SmartFLOW (or another RYS 200) along with our 300-hr Advanced Training will make you eligible to register as an RYT 500. You can then also work towards SmartFlow Yoga Certification

ONLINE TRAININGS and IN-PERSON

Studios are open!— we will get through this challenging time, Yogis! At this point, all of my current offerings are being offered in-person, open to a limited number of in-person spots. In addition, the trainings are offered online via livestream. The recorded sessions will continue to be offered for replay as well.
I hope you will consider coming in person. Our last training was so inspiring: connecting, sharing, practicing togehter — being in-community! If you want to come in-person, please register early as the studio capacity is still limited for safety reasons. The live-stream options will continue to be offered in the future, keeping us connecting from wherever you live.
Please feel free to email us with any questions you might have.

February 2-March 24
SmartFLOW 200 hour training (part 1)
Extended Weekends
Nest Yoga Oakland, CA
In-Person & Livestream/Replay

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** WAIT LIST ONLY **

April 7-13
SmartFLOW 200 hour training (part 2)
Mexico Retreat
In-Person

May 3-5
SmartFLOW Weekend
SO HAM Yoga  – Geneva, Switzerland
In-Person

May 8-12
PRANIFY! – 35 hour adv training
Yoga Kula Vienna – Austria
In-Person + LiveStream/Replay

May 17-18
Mobility + Stability – 11.5 hour weekend
yogafürdich – Berlin
In-Person

April 26-28
Equanimity in Body + Mind – 9 hour weekend
Yogalives – Zurich
In-Person

June 20-23
FUNctional Movement
+ SmartFLOWYoga – 25 hour training
Nest Yoga – Oakland, CA
In-Personm + LIVEstream

July 18-24
The Essential Arches: Keystones
Center For Yoga – Los Angeles, CA
In-Person + LiveStream/Replay

September 12-15
Teaching yoga: People not Poses
Center For Yoga – Los Angeles, CA
In-Person + LiveStream/Replay

November 6-11
Yoga + Nature 6-day RETREAT
Mauria River Retreat – NEW ZEALAND
In-Person
(selling out fast!)


ONLINE COURSES


The Heart of SmartFLOW 1
15 hour fundamentals
online training

The Heart of SmartFLOW 2
10 hour advanced
online training

Demystifying the Bandhas
5 hour advanced
online training

Training Modules

“The SmartFLOW teacher training was one of the most incredible experiences of my life. Annie has an extraordinary ability to present information in a very fun and accessible way while challenging her students and pushing them to their own individual limits.”

— Tiffany Caronia

PRANIFY!

Our Advanced Intensive on Pranayama

PRANIFY!: Essential Breathing Techniques

Developing your Practice and Teaching Skills for Pranayama

This Intensive dives deep into Pranayama as practice, its theory and application in both healing and transformational applications. Each day will begin with a strong Asana practice, with an emphasis on each PranaVayu and the cultivation of breath awareness and Pranic movement. Afternoons will be a mix of lecture, learning various Pranayama techniques and developing increasingly subtle states of concentration, and energetic effects.

“Breathing in, I calm body and mind.
Breathing out, I smile.
Dwelling in the present moment
I know this is the only moment.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

  •  subtle and western anatomy

  • Prana and the system of Nadis

  • essential practices to sensitize and focus on Pranic flow

  • detailed pranayama techniques and timings

  • developing pranayama sequences for specific intention

  • incorporating pranayama into your classes

PREREQUISITE: This training is designed for teachers and experienced students. If you received your 200-hour TT (or other teaching certificate) from a school other than SmartFLOW Yoga, we respectively request that you complete our Online Training “Heart of SmartFLOW Yoga.”  Those 15 hours, and the Intensive’s hours, can be used towards your Advanced Certification at SmartFLOW or serve as CEUs.

May 8-12
PRANIFY! – 35 hour adv training
Yoga Kula Vienna – Austria
In-Person

Teacher Training Schedule

2024:
OAKLAND California (partial online): Feb 2-April 13 (200 hour certification)
VIENNA, Austra: May 8-13
LOS ANGELES, CA: July 18-24
LOS ANGELES, CA: Sept 12-15

“Although I had been teaching already, it wasn’t until I did the SmartFLOW Teacher Training with Annie at Exhale that I truly felt I powerful as a teacher. With Annie’s loving guidance and never ending knowledge of the human body, pysche, and spirit, have I truly begun my journey into a lifetime a teaching.”

— Jennifer Pastiloff

 

“The SmartFLOW yoga teacher training gave me a comprehensive background in yoga philosophy, anatomy, sanskrit and alignment that allows any yogi to practice pain-free. I exited the program feeling confident in my ability to teach beginners and experienced yogis alike, and thanks to Annie’s great reputation in the yoga community, I was able to immediately find opportunities to teach”

—Kirsten S

SAMKRAMA

Our Advanced Intensive on Sequencing 

Sama: even, balanced.
Krama: to progress, step by step.
The Art of Sequencing: Creating a meaningful and intelligent Yoga sequence is an art, and a skill – that can be learned and honed into a fun and deeply satisfying art for you and your students.

The heart of this 50-hour intensive is in the strong morning Asana practice. Each daily practice will highlight an essential aspect of sequencing; afternoons will be spent mapping the sequence, generating alternate “itineraries” and modifications, and illuminating each of the elements that great sequences all share.

  • Strong Morning Sadhana
  • Sequence Mapping
  • Generating creative and intelligent sequences
  • Drives and themes that are authentic to you
  • Balancing the effort and the return: inspire your students without hooking their egos
  • Including the return to center: rest is an essential element!
  • Creating self-practices that will continue to inspire you as Practitioner and teacher
PREREQUISITE: This training is designed for teachers and experienced students. If you received your 200-hour TT (or other teaching certificate) from a school other than SmartFLOW Yoga, we respectively request that you complete our Online Training “Heart of SmartFLOW Yoga.”  Those 15 hours, and the Intensive’s hours, can be used towards your Advanced Certification at SmartFLOW or serve as CEUs.

SAMA SADHANA

Our Advanced Intensive: Balanced Practice

Sama means even, or balanced as in Samasthithi or even standing pose. This pose teaches us to balance the body right and left, front and back and up and down; further it asks us to sense our feeling of being grounded with our need to feel free. And lastly it suggests that in our personal concerns we acknowledge the truth that we are part of or a greater, spiritual whole. Sadhana is practice: our daily Yogic practice. Sama Sadhana = Even, balanced Practice.

In this Intensive, you will reflect on and aim to balance your body, mind and heart similarly in all the poses we practice and in all the Movement Principles* that we explore. This will be a demanding and transformational workshop, moving you through the limbs of Yoga.

  • Follow each Movement Principle to its fullest, advanced expression along its continuum
  • Sense your own subtle balance of effort and return; and your balanced needs for both power and rest
  • Consider each Movement Principle and its specific supports in all 3 Planes of Motion
  • Assess and practice Hands-on-Assists for each MP family
  • Anatomy to support each MP
  • Learn essential Restoratives for each MP
  • Daily Pranayama
  • Meditation
  • Philosophy (reading assignments will be given)

Sama Sadhana is a 75hr Intensive, as part of Annie’s SmartFLOW 200/300hr Yoga Alliance Certified Curriculum. You will learn primarily through your own daily practice — to advance your own practice and to become a more sensitive and intelligent teacher. There will be also be lectures, demos and lab time. (*Note: Movement Principles are an essential element of SmartFLOW methodology; the online course will ground you in these concepts.)

PREREQUISITE: This training is designed for teachers and experienced students. If you received your 200-hour TT (or other teaching certificate) from a school other than SmartFLOW Yoga, we respectively request that you complete our Online Training “Heart of SmartFLOW Yoga.”  Those 15 hours, and the Intensive’s hours, can be used towards your Advanced Certification at SmartFLOW or serve as CEUs.

2024 TBD

“Annie has been such a fantastic force in my life, as both class teacher and training instructor. I feel so honored to be a part of her yoga world.”

— Kent Galli

 

“Annie makes me grow as a person, a yogi and a teacher. She changed my understanding of yoga : yoga is not a shape, yoga is how you get into the shape, supported by inquiry, effort and return, center, breath, knowing self, presence… And this is what SmartFlow is about. I cherish every moment spent with her. I am grateful to have met her by chance in Paris in 2013. I am honored to be her student.”

— Elodie L

 

SVADYAYA – MENTORSHIP

Advanced Mentorship
Limited space
This program is designed for you, if:
You have been practicing with Annie
You have completed a minimum of a 200 hour training
You have been teaching for at least one year
You need inspiration!
You are ready to uplift your teaching to the next level.
This program requires your full commitment. It will demand you to study yourself(Svadyaya)as a student and as a teacher.
  • Asana and adjustments (Specific verbal cuing for self-adjustments due to Covid)
  • Sequencing for specific effects and populations
  • Relationship and ethics: Appropriate connection and boundary setting with your students
  • Classic yoga philosophy

  • 10 2-hour meetings with Annie(20 hours)
  • 2 weekly classes with Annie(48 hours)
  • 8 Observation classes(12 hours)
  • Seva project: design, create and implement a workshop or class series for a targeted population or issue
  • Study of several of the Primary Upanishads
PREREQUISITE: This training is designed for teachers and experienced students. If you received your 200-hour TT (or other teaching certificate) from a school other than SmartFLOW Yoga, we respectively request that you complete our Online Training “Heart of SmartFLOW Yoga.”  Those 15 hours, and the Intensive’s hours, can be used towards your Advanced Certification at SmartFLOW or serve as CEUs.


2024 TBD

In addition, expect homework, including sequencing, reading and short essays, as well as a write and review of you Seva project
Special meetings with Annie occur via Zoom every other Friday -(9-11am) and Saturday -(3-5pm) hours to be determined based on time zones of students.
This is a very limited program. Apply directly to Annie now.

VIVEKA

Advanced Subtle Body Intensive

Viveka is a beautiful Sanskrit word that literally means discrimination. It describes an ongoing practice through which we discern the un-changing essence of life as distinguished from the impermanent, phenomenal nature of all things.

This training intentionally integrates Subtle practices into Advanced Asana. Each day we will weave multiple layers—Koshas—into our awareness, setting the stage for personal transformation and discerning exactly which practices are essential to each of our needs. Through these practices, we begin to distinguish the increasingly subtle effects each of the practices offer, and over time we determine that which furthers and maintains us – and our students – on our spiritual paths.

DEVELOPING AUTHENTIC PRACTICE:

  • Daily advanced asana, pranayama and meditation practice to awaken the mind, body and spirit
  • Taking the SmartFLOW principles deeper; exploring the edge where avoidance and denial present themselves
  • Creative sequencing for specific populations and intentions
  • Pranayama: observe how the breathing patterns reveal unconscious mental patterns and can help break them
  • Investigation and Integration of the Subtle Body: Koshas, Prana Vayus and Chakras
  • Maha Bandhas in asana and pranayama practice
  • Dharana & Dhyana: paths to focus the mind (find a meditation practice that you will stick to!)
  • In-depth study of the Bhagavad Gita with John Casey, PhD

This 12-day/100hr course is part of Annie’s SmartFLOW 200/300hr Yoga Alliance Certified Curriculum. In addition to the actual in-class time, the course includes reading, written homework and a practicum.

PREREQUISITE: This training is designed for teachers and experienced students. If you received your 200-hour TT (or other teaching certificate) from a school other than SmartFLOW Yoga, we respectively request that you complete our Online Training “Heart of SmartFLOW Yoga.”  Those 15 hours, and the Intensive’s hours, can be used towards your Advanced Certification at SmartFLOW or serve as CEUs.


2024 TBD

“The VIVEKA training has illuminated an incredible depth of awareness for me as a practitioner, and as a teacher. I leave feeling more confident in my ability to guide my students in intelligent inquiry and offer a practice that is both intensely challenging AND safe. In a yoga culture that’s often driven by ego and desire to advance quickly, I appreciate a master teacher like Annie who brings a high level of awareness, refinement, and integrity to the practice. Having trained with her, I feel better equipped to truly serve my students, and that is a profound gift.”

— Tai H

PREKSHA

Our Advanced Intensive on Seeing Your Students Clearly

Preksha: Clear Seeing

Preksha is a beautiful Sanskrit word that means seeing, beholding, reflecting. In this Advanced Module we will explore ways of seeing clearing: Our own practice and lives, and the practices of our students. We will seek out blockages and patterns and look to make clarity and fluidity.

“Everything is magical when you see it with your heart.” 
― Mooji

In this 50-hr Intensive, you will reflect on and aim to balance your body, mind and heart similarly in all the poses we practice and in all the Movement Principles* that we explore. This will be a demanding and transformational workshop, moving you through the limbs of Yoga.

  • Assess: See where you and your students have patterns of holding, blockage and avoidance
  • Assist: Based on this clarity, hands-on-adjustments as well as modifications to poses and the practice as a whole may be made
  • Activate: Form and inspire clear intentions and practice plans for you and your students
  • Strong Morning Sadhana
  • Assessments of Hands on Adjustments
  • Building an action plan for releasing habitual patterns
PREREQUISITE: This training is designed for teachers and experienced students. If you received your 200-hour TT (or other teaching certificate) from a school other than SmartFLOW Yoga, we respectively request that you complete our Online Training “Heart of SmartFLOW Yoga.”  Those 15 hours, and the Intensive’s hours, can be used towards your Advanced Certification at SmartFLOW or serve as CEUs.

2024 TBD

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