A Strong Foundation
Only Yogalates fuses principles of core stability with foundation Yoga Therapy.  Our teacher training provides the best foundation for your personal practice, for your yoga teaching journey and for further exploration and study. Yogalates is compatible with other styles of yoga and supports other modalities such as physiotherapy, massage, occupational therapy, and fitness instruction.

Leading Reputation
Yogalates is the longest running teacher training in the Byron Bay area, with a well developed curriculum and resources, and an international reputation for safety and accessibility.  Yogalates teachers work closely with allied health professionals; physiotherapists, chiropractors and massage therapists confidently refer their patients to Yogalates classes. See Testimonials

Expert Faculty
Our teachers are skilled educators with decades of yoga practice and total commitment to the Yogalates ethos, which make the Yogalates method available to the full spectrum of students. See staff biographies for more details.
   
Comprehensive Integrated Curriculum 
The Yogalates curriculum has been used as an example of best practice by the Australian Industry Accreditation Board. Yogalates has developed educational resources to support the teacher training which include:

• 300 page Teacher Training Manual (10th edition)
• Detailed Instructional DVD
• Yogalates Anatomy Manual (3rd edition)
• 6 Award Winning DVDs
• Published Yogalates Book
• Products 

First Hand Teaching experience
Our training incorporates a wide variety practical teaching experience.  Students teach friends and family, each other, private clients, and finally classes to the general public.  We gradually raise the bar so when you step onto the teaching platform you have the confidence to teach in any environment. See studios and classes

Professional Certification
A Level 1 Yogalates Certificate gives you a 200-hour Yoga Alliance Certificate. A certified Yogalates teacher may choose to enter into private practice, open a studio, work at health clubs and wellness centres, teach public classes and retreats to a variety of populations and all levels of ability.

Ongoing Professional Support
The Yogalates™ Teachers’ Association runs an annual update workshop to association members. This ensures that the high standard of teaching skills and professionalism, that the Solomon Yogalates™ Method prides itself on, is maintained.  See Association page

Yogalates is the fusion of core stability with foundation yoga therapy.
With 10 years experience in training teachers, Yogalates has developed a multi layered education process that helps students discover the teacher within. Yogalates provides a sound foundation whether it be for your yoga teaching journey, deepening your personal practice or as a compliment to body work and further study.

How to be a teacher, not just an instructor. 
The Yogalates Teacher Training prepares you to educate students about their bodies, learning the intention of a pose, not just the pose itself.  You will be able to help your students develop a heightened sense of awareness, and your teaching will be present, confident and safe. 

How to create safe, mixed ability yoga classes
Develop skills for sequencing and teaching a safe flowing Yogalates class for a wide variety of students. Learn an “intention based” approach to poses and exercises that will allow you to creatively modify poses for special needs and beginners or safely extend poses for experienced students. We pride ourselves on our ability to make yoga accessible and affirming for everyone.

Teaching and presentation skills. 
Being good at yoga does not make you a good teacher. The Yogalates training emphasizes the teaching and presentation skills that are involved in engaging and motivating students. Not all students learn the same way; some need to be told, some need to see and others need to feel. You will learn to use a variety of teaching methods to suit different learning styles. 

Applied anatomy, physiology, and kinesiology
Yogalates teachers learn to choose poses and exercises that enhance functional movement patterns, avoid pain and injury, and develop the efficient and healthy recruitment of muscles during poses. Yogalates teachers understand how to use the whole repertoire of yoga techniques and the core stabilising pilates techniques to support students in their individual safe practice.

Pranayama techniques
An understanding of the breath and its effects on the physiology of the body is a fundamental part of any yogalates practice. The Pranayama module will combine both theory and practice with a focus on precautions and contraindications.

Restorative Yoga, Relaxation and Meditation.
Relaxation is a foundation principle of Yogalates. Yogalates teachers know how to incorporate savasana, yoga nidra, restorative yoga poses and meditation into their sessions in a way which connects deeply with and supports healthy function of the neuro-musculoskeletal system.

Yoga Philosophy 
Yogalates students study and apply yoga philosophy to their daily life and practice.  Many students comment that the philosophy component of the course deeply connected their teacher training study and practice to the larger intention of their lives.

WHERE EAST MEETS WEST- ORIGINS
'Yoga is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble' Patanjali

Solomon Yogalates^TM is an internationally acclaimed exercise system fusing the best of ancient yogic spiritual practice with the core stabilizing, functional, and regenerative dynamics of Pilates. Yoga dates back to around 3000BC and aims to create union between the body and mind, improving overall wellbeing. It enhances strength, stamina, aerobic capacity, flexibility, balance and mental clarity. Yoga has a deep profound history of bestowing emotional well-being, focusing the mind on the movement in a very meditative way. For this reason it can be a strong spiritual practice for some.

Pilates, founded by Joseph Pilates in the 1920’s, is a system of muscular skeletal exercises and is the culmination of years of human endeavour to perfect body development & physical training. These exercises demonstrate how the body works in functional movement through isolating specific muscle groups, in particular the postural muscles. Both Pilates and Yoga share similar postures, Pilates however, emphasizes the importance of utilizing the stabilizing muscles of the body while in movement to create a very safe and strong foundation to exert movement.

Solomon Yogalates^TM is a complete and comprehensive fusion of Yoga and Pilates. It is an ever evolving method at the cutting edge of the latest medical and scientific research into how the human body functions during movement, combining theoretical knowledge and practice. Key to the Yogalates^TM method is the wholistic integration of the very best of two historically and widely acclaimed exercise systems. It is a movement system that stretches and strengthens all the major muscle groups developing a streamlined slenderness rather than bulk. At the same time it has excellent therapeutic value for calming the mind and spirit.

During a session particular attention is paid to building strength and endurance in the body’s core postural muscles (the stabilizers). This promotes “core stability” which enhances spinal/pelvic awareness protecting the spine against injury whilst supporting the internal organs and promoting good posture. Resistance bands are also used in Yogalates to replicate the resistance training of the Pilates machines, excellent for strengthening, lengthening and balancing the musculature of the body, helping to bring about balance in the whole being.

Much more than a movement system, Yogalates places emphasis on the breath throughout a session. The Pilates thoracic (chest) breathing is incorporated to help increase lung capacity and enhance stamina and endurance. This breath activates the abdominal and pelvic floor muscles helping to protect and strengthen the lower back, tone the belly, trim the waist and assist with core stability. Different Pranayama, Yogic breathing techniques are also used, some to energize and invigorate others to calm and soothe the nervous system aiding relaxation and the release of stress and tension.

Yogalates is a safe practice which promotes unity of the body and mind, freeing up energy to flow unhindered through your entire being. It is ideal for those needing to strengthen their backs, those suffering from arthritis or osteoporosis, and post natal women. It is excellent for developing general tone and fitness in the body while creating a sense of inner calm, relaxation and overall wellbeing.

At the end of each Yogalates session we finish traditionally by all repeating the Sanskrit word NAMASTE ……..which is a greeting used in India and Nepal. It has many definitions the more common one being “The Divine in me recognises the divine in you”……………Mutual respect is acknowledged between the teacher and student.