200h SYNERGY YOGA
TEACHER TRAINING:

5 – 27 August 2024

Comprehensive, transformative training for teachers and practitioners to develop their skills & knowledge 

SYNERGY FUNDAMENTALS IMMERSION:

5-11 August 2024

A week-long dive into the foundational practices and principles of the Synergy method

 WHO IS THIS INTENSIVE TRAINING FOR?

This will be a formative and transformational experience for all who join –  whether you are a yoga/movement practitioner interested in deepening your personal practice, you want to go into teaching, or you’re someone already teaching who wants to bring their transmission of yoga and wellness to another level. Come to immerse yourself in daily practice, learning not just what to practice but how and why, with experienced and inspiring teachers.

You will leave this training with:

• a comprehensive foundation for understanding yoga, and how to make yoga and other practices effective for modern bodies, on physical, physiological, energetic and mental levels;
• how to lead classes with safety, confidence and authenticity;
• plus a deeper personal practice supercharged by daily sessions that will inspire and invigorate you!

WHAT IS SYNERGY YOGA?

Synergy is “Yoga for the Modern Body”

Traditional yoga practices often require a level of spinal mobility, joint flexibility, and active movement that is simply not present for many modern people. Thanks to our increasingly sedentary chair-based lifestyles, habitual postures with computers and phones, modern diets, and contemporary approaches to exercise and sports, there are many aspects of our bodies that are different to people living a traditional lifestyle (such as those in which yoga was originally developed) – and so we also have different needs for practice, to be able to gain the same benefits from our yoga.

Backed up by extensive studies of many styles of yoga, physiotherapy, molecular biology and neuroscience, the Synergy method offers deep insight into how our personal practice can best address the unique needs of modern life.

In this training course you will learn practical solutions to make your yoga practice and teaching both safer and more effective for all bodies and levels, making you and any future students stronger, more flexible, and more energized.

The principles of the Synergy method can also enhance any other style of yoga, movement, martial arts or dance that you practice through increased precision, efficiency and power.

WHO ARE THE TEACHERS?

Half of the training will be taught by Yoga Synergy founder and master yoga teacher, Simon Borg-Olivier. With 4 decades of international yoga teaching experience, including 23 years as a Registered Physiotherapist with a Master’s degree in biology and genetic science, Simon’s life’s work has been to bring the depth, power and insight of traditional Hatha yoga together with well-researched and innovative techniques for improving yoga practice and teaching for modern people.

Simon’s new 5-Dimensional Flow Yoga online course is included as part of the training, giving you the opportunity to begin learning as soon as you register. You’ll develop foundational skills that will help you get the most out of the in-person training, and receive the distilled benefits of lifelong research and practice from one of the world’s foremost Western yoga teachers.

Morgan Palmer Hubbard and Ben Dessard are the resident yoga teachers at Amara Valley. Drawing on many different yogic trainings including in-depth training with Simon Borg-Olivier since 2013, as well as graduate studies in psychology, exercise science and nutrition, they offer a vibrant, modern approach to yoga practice and lifestyle deeply inspired by Yoga, Vedanta, Buddhism, Burning Man, kirtan and bhakti yoga, shamanic ceremony, and the beautiful nature of Amara Valley.