Offers New Hot Yoga Alignment Based Teacher Training

by Deborah Metzger
Press Release: November 21, 2011

Wanted: Hot Yoga Teachers

Princeton Center for Yoga & Health is offering Hot Yoga Alignment Based Teacher Training

In this economy, many are thinking of new ways to earn an income. Why not get a jump start on the New Year this holiday season and explore a possible new career? Or if you’re already a yoga fan, learn how to deepen your practice. The Princeton Center for Yoga & Health (PCYH) is offering a free introductory class on Hot Yoga Alignment Based Teacher Training on December 10th from 2 to 4 pm and again on January 8, 2012. The actual training begins January 20, 2012 and meets Friday through Sunday one weekend per month through June 2012. A 500-hour Advanced Alignment-Based Teacher Training begins on July 20, 2012. The Center’s teacher training program is a designated Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga School (RYS®). A detailed schedule and price information click here .

Hot Yoga Alignment Based Teacher training may sound somewhat specialized, but there is a demand for yoga teachers. In fact, PCYH is currently seeking hot yoga teachers. The Center plans to expand its hot yoga offerings in the New Year, to include not only Hot Yoga, but Hot Vinyasa Yoga and Hot Yoga Basics. Hot yoga classes are one of the most popular, reports PCYH founder and director Deborah Metzger.

“There’s something addicting about them. Once people take a class, they come back for more. I think because they’re enormously detoxifying, the warmth increases flexibility, and people see results quickly. Often when people work out, they want to sweat, and (though it may sound gross), community sweating is bonding for people!” Metzger goes on to explain that hot yoga appeals to a wide range of people from those new to yoga to people suffering from conditions such as arthritis or fibromyalgia who get therapeutic benefits from the heat.

The Hot Yoga Alignment Based Teacher training is a unique, comprehensive program. It will not only prepare students to teach hot yoga, but many kinds of yoga, such as gentle yoga, power yoga, basic therapeutic, and restorative yoga. In addition, the course covers sound healing with crystal singing bowls. It also focuses on alignment, which is the foundation for teaching as well as practicing any kind of yoga. There are many yoga teachers out there who would benefit from the course. “I’ve interviewed prospective teachers who don’t understand alignment. And to prevent injuries, a teacher must have a deep understanding of proper body alignment in the poses.”

So perhaps you love yoga but lack the confidence to stand in front of a room to teach. Good teacher training classes can build confidence and naturally lead you to teach. After her training, Metzger wanted to share what she loved with others. Finding a great teacher, she feels, is key, and the charming Jeanine Dietz, E-RYT, who is leading the Hot Yoga Alignment Based Teacher training is well equipped to inspire.

“I love yoga. I live, eat, breath, sleep yoga” says Jeannine Dietz, who has about 1500 hours of yoga teacher training under her belt. “The more you learn, the more you realize you don’t know. Yoga feeds my soul.”

Jeannine Dietz was a professional photographer for 10 years before dedicating her life to the healing science of yoga. Brought to yoga because of her own injuries; she has been practicing, teaching and healing since 1995. She was first registered with the Yoga Alliance under The Barkan Method (Hot Hatha Yoga) with Jimmy Barkan. Her trainings have expanded to include Anusara 400 Hours, 500 hour Hatha Yoga -RYT, 150 hours Therapeutic Yoga, 200 Hour Kundalini Yoga, Restorative Yoga with Roger Cole, and she also is trained in Pre-natal, Bikram and Baptiste Power Yoga.

A fall and a car accident, which left her with chronic pain and herniated discs first led Dietz to yoga. “When a friend asked me to come to a yoga class, I was like ‘I don’t want to sit it a room with a bunch of people.’ But after my first class, I wanted to puke, pass out and die,” she says with a laugh. “I like to challenge myself and it was the most challenging thing I ever did in my life. Yet, I knew yoga would heal my neck. It changed my life. We have the power to heal ourselves and that is what I teach.”

PCYH is currently seeking teachers. The center has given many local teachers a start in teaching and offers its teachers mentorship/enrichment programs with Jeannine Dietz. Interested parties are encouraged to come to the center to meet Dietz between 2 and 4 pm on December 10th for a free introduction to Hot Yoga Alignment Based Teacher Training or to take one of her classes. For a complete schedule of classes at the Princeton Center for Yoga & Health, visit www.princetonyoga.com.