It’s Your Journey:  Explore, Discover, Evolve & Blossom

Learn Through Experience, Discernment, Intuition & Assimilation

De-emphasizing the role of classroom lectures and memorization assignments, our trainees will receive a highly experiential, yet comprehensive training highlighted by extensive yoga practice, group discussions, journaling, multi-media presentations, Q&A sessions and teaching practicum.  Topics covered will include the art and science of yoga asana, including an in-depth investigation of sophisticated, elegant and skillful sequencing, yoga anatomy and physiology, therapeutic applications, teaching beginners, and the integration of multi-layered themes into a single class.  Other topics include down-to-earth yoga and Buddhist philosophy, and the practical application of pranayama, meditation, and subtle anatomy.  Through personal experience and evolution, you will witness and feel the transformative power of practice in your life.   Through discernment, intuition and self-study, you will embrace and retain that which resonated with your deepest longing and knowing, leaving you with the skills to teach from the heart with compassion, authenticity and presence. 

There is no path to happiness.  Happiness is the path.  -- The Buddha

A Comprehensive & Well-Rounded Curriculum for Practitioners of All Traditions

• The Art & Science of Yoga Asana, 

• Vinyasa Krama (The Art of Sequencing), 

• Yoga Anatomy & Physiology, 

• Pranayama, 

• Meditation, 

• Philosophy, 

• Hands-on Adjustments, 

• The Art of Verbal Instruction, 

• The Physiology of Relaxation, 

• Restorative Yoga & Therapeutics, 

• Kinesiology of the Spine, 

• Yoga Ethics & Lifestyle, 

• The Subtle/Energetic Body, 

• and much more.  

Developing a yoga practice according to the ideas expressed in the Yoga Sutra is an action referred to as vinyasa krama....It is a fundamental concept in yoga having to do with constructing a gradual and intelligent course for our practice.  -- TKV  Desikachar

Robert Cuozzi, E-RYT (Director) is a dedicated practitioner of Hatha yoga, Shambhala Buddhism, metaphysics and emerging sciences that explore the interrelationship between body, mind and spirit.  Rooted firmly in these profound traditions, his personal practice and teaching are a skillful fusion of precision, flow, dynamism, concentration, stillness, mindfulness, sound, observation, and meditation.  During classes, Robert invites students to fully inhabit their bodies in a relaxed, safe and uplifted environment that fosters self-discovery, exploration, expansion and celebration. Robert's main certification trainings and assistantships have been with American Yoga Master Rod Stryker.  Additional influences are John Friend, Pema Chodron and, especially, Cyndi Lee.  Robert is also certified to teach restorative yoga by Judith Lasater, and is a Relax & Renew Trainer™ .

Cyndi Lee is an internationally renowned master teacher and a longtime practitioner of both Tibetan Buddhism and Hatha Yoga. Founder of OM yoga center and creator of the highly regarded Joining Heaven & Earth Yoga Teacher Training, she has taught yoga internationally for more than twenty years. She is known as a nurturing and compassionate teacher with an offbeat and playful style. She writes on yoga for several magazines and is the author of several books including Yoga Body, Buddha Mind and OM Yoga: a Guide to Daily Practice.

Lauren Toolin, RYT, is a nationally recognized yoga instructor and a senior student and teaching assistant of both Rodney Yee and Rod Stryker. Her instruction is an engaging synthesis of the clarity and precision of the Iyengar system and the joyful, energetic inquiry of Tantra. Always insightful, inspirational, and infused with humor, Lauren's teaching conveys her passionate belief in Yoga's boundless potential for creating a healthy, successful and loving existence.

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• Required

  • A Unique Teacher Training Manual
  • Yoga The Iyengar Way by Mira Mehta
  • The Heart of Yoga by TKV Desikachar
  • Yoga Body, Buddha Mind by Cyndi Lee
  • Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit by Donna Farhi
  • The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (translation t/b/a)
  • Individual Articles & Essays t/b/a

• Very Useful & Highly Recommended

  • Relax & Renew:  Restful Yoga for Stressful Times by Judith Lasater
  • Anatomy for Yoga with Paul Grilley, DVD 
  • Jivamukti Yoga by Sharon Gannon and David Life

• Recommended & Supplemental

• Yoga For Wellness by Gary Kraftsow
• Yoga & Ayurveda by David Frawley
• Wisdom of Yoga:  A Seeker's Guide to Extraordinary Living by Stephen Cope
• Yoga: The Spirit and Practice of Moving into Stillness by Erich Schiffmann
• Awake Mind, Open Heart: The Power of Courage and Dignity in Everyday Life by Cynthia Kneen
• Awakening The Spine by Vanda Scaravelli

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Cyndi Lee is a brilliant yoga teacher because she blends the knowledge and experience of life itself into her teaching of yoga -- Rodney Yee

Cyndi Lee at OM yoga in NYC