500 Hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training

The 500 Hour Yoga Alliance
Advanced Yoga Teacher Certification
(300 Hours of Advanced Yoga Training plus Your 200 Hour RYT Certificate)
Registration Is Now Open for the 2012 sessions!
The first training module starts in June 2nd of 2012!
One time only offer Early Registration fee Until March 31st is $2800!
(Regularly $3300, a $500 Discount)
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Power Yoga Works RYT 500-Hour Teacher Training Program is open to all who wish to advance their knowledge and practice of yoga beyond a 200-hour RYT certificate. Our 300-hour program when added to your 200-hour certificate or equivalent experience produces a 500-hour certificate. If you have a 200-hour certificate from any school, or the equivalent experience, we invite you to embark on an integrated exploration of various types of yoga with nationally recognized teachers Beryl Bender Birch, Simon Park, Ed Harold, and Power Yoga Works senior teachers Bill Raup & Joe Nowlan.

You can start the program at any time. To get a one-time $500 discount you must sign up and pay in full by March 31st, 2012. The first 30 hour module starts in May 2012 and second 60 hour module will start this summer. The 12 to 60 hour modules will be held over a two to three year period on the weekends and will be continued forward in the coming years. You do not have to complete the training in a specific time period since there is no time limit on completing the training. Typically you will have to complete about 10-12 modules over time to finish the 300 hours need for the certification. It is possible to finish the 300 hours in one year in our accelerated program or could take longer depending on your availability on the weekends. You can customize your training based upon your availability. To accelerate the training you could take other PYW workshops at your cost for additional hours held at any of our studios throughout the year.

At the completion of your 300 hour advanced yoga training and the verification that you have a current 200 Hour YA RYT certification, Power Yoga Works will issue you your 500 Hour Yoga Alliance Certificate.

The 500 Hour certification program fee is $3300.
A one time early registration discount prior to March 31st, 2012 is $2800 paid in full.
A monthly payment plan can be set up with a deposit of $1000 with the remainder paid over 1 year ($200 a month for 12 months thru AutoPay plan).

See a description of the each presenter and their modules they will teach. We will be adding other modules and teachers in the coming months & years. You can be customize your training to fit your schedule. We will glad to help with you to chart your customized course towards a 500 hour YA Yoga Certification.

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200 Hour & 500 Hour Yoga Teaching School.

Our 500 Hour Teaching Staff

Simon Park, ERYT & Senior Prana Flow Teacher Trainer
Simon Park began his yoga journey 15 years ago with Shiva Rea in the World Arts and Cultures Department at UCLA. Fast forward to the present where he was recently featured in Yoga Journal as “one of the most influential and gifted…next generation of yoga teachers”. He weaves inspiration from many styles into his teaching, including Vinyasa, Ashtanga, Iyengar, and Thai Massage.

His core teachers, Shiva Rea, Maty Ezraty, Joan White, and Dharma Mittra, are master teachers in their field. Simon travels worldwide to teach workshops and teachers trainings in Prana Flow Yoga, the Vinyasa Flow style of Shiva Rea. Simon is dedicated to sharing the teachings of Shiva Rea, his first teacher. He leads workshops and teacher trainings in Vinyasa Yoga and Thai massage worldwide

“Simon is one of the top Global Teachers of Prana Flow Yoga, which he offers fertilized with his own refined skills and inspiration from the path. You are in the hands of a vital, joyous, creative and awakened being who embodies the flow of yoga.” – Shiva Rea

Simon Parks Website

Beryl Bender Birch, ERYT 500
Beryl Bender Birch is the best selling author of Power Yoga, one of the most successful yoga books available today, and of Beyond Power Yoga, the poetic and philosophical exploration of the 8-limbed astanga yoga method. She was named one of seven American women “innovators shaping yoga today” by Yoga Journal in 2000 and was featured in the 2003 Barnes and Noble book, American Yoga. She was the asana columnist for Yoga Journal in 2004.

A spiritual teacher, yoga therapist, and author of Power Yoga , Beyond Power Yoga, and Boomer Yoga (Sellers Publishing) has been an avid student of yoga and the study of consciousness since l971. With degrees in philosophy and comparative religion, Beryl has traveled extensively in India, has been teaching the classical system of ashtanga yoga for 33 years, and training yoga teachers as “spiritual revolutionaries” since l980. In 2000 she was named by Yoga Journal as one of only seven American women in their “Innovators Shaping Yoga Today” issue. She is the director-founder of The Hard & The Soft Yoga Institute and a founder of The Give Back Yoga Foundation.

Beryl’s Website

Ed Harrold, ERYT 200
Edward Harrold, “The Athletic Yogi”, is an owner of Comfort Zone Center for Whole Self Healing, a Director of Yoga & Sports Training for The Kripalu Institute For Extraordinary Living in Massachusetts and originator of Flexibility For Athletes® & Weight Loss …The Yoga Way. Ed is a Life Coach on the human potential, yogic sciences and emotional intelligence. Ed leads programs at Kripalu, Satchidananda Yogaville, International Yoga Therapy Conference and other recognized venues.

Inspired and amazed by the effects of yogic breathing, Ed explored and mastered advanced forms of Pranayama weaving them into his athletic background. He began to uniquely sequence basic, intermediate and advanced forms of Pranayama to facilitate Inspiratory Muscle Training. Ed found a way to fuse the worlds of yoga and sports in a revolutionary way. He brings yogic breathing, Cross-patterning yoga and meditation into the western sports paradigm either as a primary training tool or hybrid within an athletic environment and created the Flexibility For Athletes® performance training program. He has a series of instructional DVD’s, podcasts and a fully integrative yoga streaming video website.

Ed Harrold’s Website

Bill Raup, ERYT 500
Bill is the founder of Power Yoga Works in Philadelphia, PA, Bryn Mawr, PA and Malvern, PA. Bill has been named one of the “Area’s Best Yoga Instructors” by Philadelphia Magazine in 2010. Bill’s studios also have been awarded “Best of Philly” for yoga by Philadelphia Magazine. Bill has been a teacher and student of Baron Baptiste since 1995. Bill was personally certified to teach power yoga by Baron Baptiste in 2000 and is a currently a certified senior Baptiste teacher. Bill also is certified to teach ashtanga yoga by Beryl Bender Birch, director of The Hard and The Soft Astanga Yoga Institute In New York.

Joe Nowlan, ERYT 200
Give it your all to discover more about yourself through your practice is the example Joe sets when he teaches. Joe is a highly experienced yoga instructor who has completed training with Baron Baptiste, Rolf Gates, Beryl Bender Birch, Michael Buck, and Bryan Kest, to name a few. Joe has over 1500 hours of hands on teaching experience to draw from and continues ongoing education by attending the various workshops provided at PYW. Joe continues to inspire and motivate his students by designing and presenting innovative yoga workshops.

In addition to teaching, Joe assists Bill Raup in the PYW 200 hour teacher training program, and mentors teacher training assistants. Other teaching highlights include assisting Baron Baptiste in his MS yoga program and all day Philadelphia Immersion. He hopes that everyone leaves their mat a little lighter, and inspired to love from a deeper place of gratitude.

The 500 Hour Teacher training includes and topics studied:

The training will be held on weekends. If you are unable to do some weekends you will be able to make up the hours at any future teacher training modules at no cost.

The 500 Hour Certification Teacher Training weekend dates for 2012 and beyond are below. These sessions will be held in Malvern and/or Philadelphia and will be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday or just Saturday and Sunday. Exact dates will be posted as we closer to the actual weekend trainings.The dates can change over the next two years. This is an ongoing training with no time limit to complete the training. We will have future dates in years to come in order for you to complete the 300 hours needed for your 500 hour certification. For your convenience and customization of your own schedule, there are over 700 hours of training hours below to pick from to complete the training in 2 years and more. Besides the listed weekend trainings, there will be additional workshops that can be taken at your own cost to accelerate your certification and accumulate more training hours.

  • Spring of 2012 – June 2nd & 3rd – Principals of Yoga Anatomy with Bill Raup (30 hours)
  • Summer of 2012 – June 16th thru July 29th – Teaching Essentials of Power Yoga, Advanced Postures & Creative Sequencing with Bill Raup (60 Hours)
  • Summer of 2012 – August 11th & 12th and August 18th & 19th – Fundamentals and Advanced Techniques of Assisting with Joe Nowlan (20 hours)
  • Fall of 2012 – September 15th thru October 28th – Teaching Essentials of Power Yoga, Advanced Postures & Creative Sequencing with Bill Raup (60 Hours)
  • Fall of 2012 – November 16th thru 18th – Shiva Rea’s Essentials of Prana Flow Yoga Teacher Training with Simon Park (20 hours)
  • Winter of 2013 – January 11th thru 13th – Pranayama, Postures, & Peak Performance with Ed Harrold (20 hours)
  • Winter of 2013 – January 26th thru March 10th – Teaching Essentials of Power Yoga, Advanced Postures & Creative Sequencing (60 Hours)
  • Spring of 2013 – March 23rd & 24th – Fundamentals and Advanced Techniques of Assisting with Joe Nowlan (20 hours)
  • Spring of 2013 – Teaching Essentials of Power Yoga, Advanced Postures & Creative Sequencing (60 Hours)
  • Spring of 2013 – Ashtanga Yoga with Beryl Bender Birch (12 hours)
  • Summer of 2013 – Fundamentals and Advanced Techniques of Assisting with Joe Nowlan (20 hours)
  • Summer of 2013 – Yoga Anatomy (30 hours)
  • Summer & Fall of 2013 – Teaching Essentials of Power Yoga, Advanced Postures & Creative Sequencing (60 Hours)
  • Fall of 2013 – November 2013 – Prana Flow Yoga with Simon Park (20 hours)
  • December of 2013 – Yoga Flexibility For Athletes with Ed Harrold (40 hours)
  • Winter of 2014 – Teaching Essentials of Power Yoga, Advanced Postures & Creative Sequencing (60 Hour module)
  • Spring of 2014 – Yoga Anatomy (30 hours)
  • Spring of 2014 – Ashtanga Yoga with Beryl Bender Birch (12 hours)
  • Summer of 2014 – Fundamentals and Advanced Techniques of Assisting with Joe Nowlan (20 hours)
  • Summer & Fall of 2014 – Teaching Essentials of Power Yoga, Advanced Postures & Creative Sequencing (60 Hours for each module)
  • Fall of 2014 – November 2014 – Shiva Rea’s Essentials of Prana Flow Yoga Teacher Training with Simon Park (20 hours)

Note: We will update the weekend dates during the course of the training years. The weekend dates are subject to change.

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Your deposit or full payment can be made clicking on this link below.
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You can also make payment by email with a credit card or you can bring payment (check or cash) to one of the studios or mail a check payable to Power Yoga Works to the Malvern Studio at: Power Yoga Works 81 Lancaster Ave, Malvern PA 19355, to the attention of Bill Raup.

Teacher Training Refund Policy:

  • All payments must be paid when due.
  • Refunds for cancellations up to one week prior to date of teacher training, minus processing fee of $100.
  • Only credit to a future teacher training is given less than seven (7) days of teacher training.
  • If Power Yoga Works cancels the teacher training, a full refund will be issued.
  • Power Yoga Works reserves the right to amend this policy at its sole discretion.