Yoga Eros™ Yoga Teacher & Facilitator Training
Get ready to embark on an electrifying journey with Yoga Eros™! Imagine a revolutionary curriculum that fuses the timeless wisdom of the East with a modern and edgy twist. It's not your typical yoga – it's a thrilling fusion of yoga, dynamic movement, soul-soothing meditation, invigorating breathwork, conscious touch, and the mystique of sacred sensuality. We are thrilled to announce our first 100 hour teacher training in the summer of 2024.
Your facilitators Dee Yergo, Liz Morris and Jared Dupree are excited to share this incredible curriculum and empower you to change your students' lives.
This 100 hour training is a personal and professional growth journey with yoga and sacred sensuality held at the center. If you desire to learn how to energetically transmit these empowering teachings to your students' to support their confidence, vitality, creativity, motivation, embodiment and emotional resilience this training is for you!
Yoga Eros straddles the line between mystical and practical. We present tools for the body, mind, and breath that unlock the transformative potential of our sensual life force energy, known as Eros - named after the Greek god of love, pleasure and desire. Learning to harness Eros as the vehicle for your life-force revitalizes our soul, creativity, self-love, and overall well-being. Our mission is to bring sacred and conscious sensuality into the mainstream within a tasteful, carefully curated and supportive environment.
This Teacher Training covers
Discover how Eros (sensual energy) can be leveraged for vitality, authenticity, creativity, self-expression and confidence
The inner workings of the nervous system and acquire the invaluable skills to consciously regulate it
Welcoming and working with the dense energies of grief, anger, and frustration
Working with the mind, our relationship to our thoughts, and the subjective nature of reality
The subtle energy body and expanding the capacity to somatically feel, hold and move emotional charge
Explore masculine and feminine energies and creating a happy inner marriage
Yoga Eros asana, pranayama,bandhas, meditation and visualization
Cultivating a sense of deep self-love and body acceptance
Expanding the ability to connect with self and others intimately
Creating new neural-pathways for pleasure and joy
Addressing sexual dysfunction with evidence-based yoga and breathwork
Challenging societal norms of shame
Opening portals to expanded states of consciousness and a connection with the divine
Leadership, creating community and expanding this work throughout the world
This training is taught in 3 modules - two on Zoom and one in person.
This hybrid model requires mandatory in person attendance in either New York or San Francisco for Module 2. Modules 1 and 3 will be held on Zoom and recorded. Live attendance is mandatory for Zoom sessions with the ability to make up no more than three missed sessions by viewing the recordings and submitting your notes.
Topics We Explore
Yoga Eros Asana
Yoga Eros Pranayama
Sensual Meditation and Visualization
Yoga Nidra as an Integration Tool for Transformation
Masculine and Feminine Energies - the Inner Sun and Moon
Teaching Yoga vs. Transmitting Teachings
Spiritual Bypass and Shadow Work
Impacting the mainstream culture
Pleasure and Sex Positivity
Body Positivity
Overviews on Classic Tantra, Neo Tantra
Tibetan Buddhist views on the nature of reality
Development of the Sacred Witness through Mindfulness
The Ten Life Principles of Yoga Eros to live a pleasure-filled life
Soul Work - Identifying your Sacred Purpose
The Subtle Energy Body and Moving Eros
The Nervous System and Creating Emotional Resilience
Primal Release Practices
Adjustments and conscious touch
Trauma informed Practices and Post Traumatic Growth
The Science of Sexuality
Becoming embodied with your confidence, vitality and authenticity
Module 1 - Two 4 hour Zoom Training Sessions.
Module 2 - 4 day in-person training. This will be run twice before module 3. The selected locations are in the Hudson Valley of New York (about 1.5 hours north of NYC) and Mill Valley,San Francisco. You must attend ONE in person weekend to participate in the training. We are possibly adding an additional in person option in Austin, TX! Stay tuned!
Module 3 - weekly Zoom sessions for 3 months
After all 3 Modules are complete, you may schedule your final class. Upon passing the final class, you will be authorized to teach Yoga Eros and issued a certificate of completion. All authorized Yoga Eros teachers will have the opportunity to apply and interview to join our faculty and be represented on our referral list.
The Yoga Eros teacher training is right for you if
You are a 200 hour trained yoga teacher
You feel passionate about the idea of sharing the power of sacred sensuality with your studen
You are interested in facilitating transformative work
You’re ready to build your own community that holds sacred sensuality at the center
You are available to attend, in person, one of the Module 2.
TRAINING DATES
Module 1 In person attendance is required. This will be recorded. (You are allowed to miss two live sessions over the course of the 100 hour training.
Opening weekend June 1-2 on Zoom
June 1 12p-4p Eastern
June 2 12p-4p Eastern
Module 2 - Choose 1 in person training weekend below
San Francisco Bay Area in person June 20-23
Thursday June 20 4p-8p Pacific
Friday June 21 9a-7p PT
Saturday June 22 9a-7p
Sunday June 23 9a-1p
New York in person June 27-30
Thursday June 27 4p-8p ET
Friday June 28 9a-7p ET
Saturday June 29 9a-7p ET
Sunday June 30 9a-1p ET
Module 3
July 11 - Oct 17
Mostly on Tuesday or Thursday evenings 6p-9p Eastern
There will be some weeks that we will skip in this time period
You may miss no more than 2 live sessions and receive recordings
$1850
You are responsible for the costs for room and board for Module 2
We will be providing group housing options when we receive deposits and get a sense of attendees. You are also welcome to book your own housing.
Deposit to hold your spot $200
Application
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