200-hour Essential Yoga Teacher Training
with Hart Lazer, assisted by Donna Read

In this essential yoga teacher training, the following components will be taught:

Detailed examination and analysis of over 40 classical yoga postures.

• Learning how to accurately practice and teach asana by breaking down the poses into component parts.
• Learning to adapt poses with the proper usage of props.
• Developing and maintaining a self-nourishing personal asana and meditation practice.
• Exploring how to wisely and safely adapt poses for different body types and different levels of flexibility and/or strength.
• Learning to modify poses or support students with specific needs from gender, age, injuries, pregnancy, menstrual cycle, etc….

Study skills that create good foundation for an effective teacher:

• Basic teaching skills
• Effective verbal communication
• Proper demonstration skills
• Observing, correcting, adjusting
• Classroom management
• Basic art of sequencing and hands on adjusting

The above will be taught through various methods including:

• Developing a home and classroom asana practice
• Developing a well rounded basic meditation practice
• Working with in-depth self exploration
• Group work and peer teaching
• Regular homework assignments
• Examination both theory and practical

We will, as a group, design practices for all major categories of poses including standing poses, backbends, twists, forward bends and inversions. Participants will practice a set sequence of poses from month to month to enhance their familiarity with both the basics of the poses from a teaching point of view as well as refinements meant for their own development.

Hart Lazer

Hart Lazer has been teaching and training Yoga teachers for more than 30 years. 

Something of a cultural hybrid, he thrives in the alchemy distilled in the hatha yoga traditions including Iyengar and Ashtanga systems. Hart’s current teaching contains an emphasis on meditation, derived through the study of zen, Tibetan, and Buddhist practices. Using a tailored and multi-faceted approach, his intention is to guide individuals in their understanding of themselves, and despite the challenges of life, to do so with ease and enjoyment. 

Hart’s major influences in his life and teaching are Ramanand Patel and Ken McCleod.

Being the co-founder of United Yoga Montreal gives Hart a home base from which he teaches nationally and internationally.