300 Hour Teacher Training

JUMP IN AT ANY TIME!

MODULES MAY BE TAKEN IN ANY ORDER!

After students receive their 200 Hours they are often yearning to deepen their studies further. It’s amazing how 200 hours just begins to scratch the surface of this vast world of yoga. Committing to advancing your studies and working toward earning your 300 hours is commendable and is an experience that will greatly deepen your knowledge.

Murti Hower (E-RYT 500) will guide this journey and share his knowledge from 31 years of teaching experience and 18 years of teaching .

• Learn at Honolulu’s high-end fitness club – The Honolulu Club
o This 300 Hour Yoga Alliance Certification Training will be held at the Honolulu Club, a high-end fitness and networking club.
• Access to Spa features!
o Students in our training may use the spa features of this high-end club (wet areas including: pool, hot tub, hot/cold plunges, sauna, steam room).

• Convenient Schedule for busy people
o The hours of the training is scheduled on Friday and Sat. evenings, which is convenient for many work and school schedules, also keeping major holidays in mind.

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Taking Your Practice Deeper: Module 2

JULY 5 – JULY 27, 2019 — 4 Week Course

Standing Poses, Seated Poses, Twists & Supine Prone Poses

Register and more info here!
http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=864zfycab&oeidk=a07egbz4hxg7dce9eeb

4 week course begins – JULY 5TH
Easy schedule…. evening classes on Friday and Sat. nights.

You may take this module on it’s own with no obligation to continue with more later on. If you would like to work toward receiving your 300 Hour certification with Maha Yoga Institute / Murti Hower, this course can apply toward those hours.
For those who are interested in the workshop but not wanting to do the 300 hr training, they may also take this course, as it is open to all.

Taking Your Practice Deeper
Advanced Asana Workshop
Standing Poses, Seated Poses, Twists & Supine Prone Poses
with Murti Hower, E-RTY 500 hr

Come and take your practice deeper with an exploration of standing poses, seated poses, twists, supine prone poses. In addition we will investigate pranayama, pratyahara, and dhyana; the history of yoga asana; as well as hands-on adjustments for the yoga asana covered.

This 4-week course counts towards Maha Yoga Institute’s 300 Hr Yoga Alliance certification as well as Yoga Alliance Continuing Education (CE) contact hours, for Registered Yoga Teachers. For those applying this workshop toward their 300 Hour program, registration in all 4 weeks is required; while those simply wanting to join the course may drop in at any point, any week within the course.

July 5th – July 27th
Friday 6pm-9pm
Saturday 6pm-9pm

Pricing

General Public
$80 – drop in
$140 – per week (Friday & Saturday)
$450 – entire workshop

Members
$65 – drop in
$120 – per week (Friday & Saturday)
$400 – entire workshop
Online deposit to hold ones spot in full workshop only – $30
(Price due after deposit: $370)

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Taking Your Practice Deeper: Module 3

4 Week Course: (Friday & Saturdays)
Aug. 9,10
Aug. 23, 24
Aug. 30, 31
Sept. 6, 7

Inverted poses, Balancing poses, Backbends, and Vyasana

Register and more info here!
http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=864zfycab&oeidk=a07egbz7udybf5c713b

4 week course begins – August 9th!
Easy schedule…. evening classes on Friday and Sat. nights.

You may take this module on it’s own with no obligation to continue with more later on. If you would like to work toward receiving your 300 Hour certification with Maha Yoga Institute / Murti Hower, this course can apply toward those hours.
For those who are interested in the workshop but not wanting to do the 300 hr training, they may also take this course, as it is open to all.

Taking Your Practice Deeper
Advanced Asana Workshop
Inverted Poses, Balancing Poses, Backbends
with Murti Hower, E-RTY 500 hr

Come and take your practice deeper with an exploration of inverted poses, balancing poses, backbends, and vyasana, among others. In addition, we will investigate enhancing your teaching skills; yoga tricks (how to use props); changing perspective (teaching inversions); as well as how to apply the 8 limbs in your teaching.

This 4 week course counts towards Maha Yoga Institute’s 300 Hr Yoga Alliance certification as well as Yoga Alliance Continuing Education (CE) contact hours, for Registered Yoga Teachers. For those applying this workshop toward their 300 Hour program, registration in all 4 weeks is required; while those simply wanting to join the course may drop in at any point, any week within the course.

4 weekends (Friday & Saturdays)
Aug. 9,10
Aug. 23, 24
Aug. 30, 31
Sept. 6, 7

Friday 6pm-9pm
Saturday 6pm-9pm

Pricing

Members
$65 – drop in
$120 – per week (Friday & Saturday)
$400 – entire workshop
Online deposit to hold ones spot in full workshop only – $30
(Price due after deposit: $370)

Non Members
$80 – drop in
$140 – per week (Friday & Saturday)
$450 – entire workshop
Online deposit to hold ones spot in full workshop only – $30
(Price due after deposit: $420)

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Maha Yoga Institute
Yoga Alliance Teacher/Immersion Training – 200 Hour Honolulu Club

Five Star Rated by graduates!

CLICK HERE – INFO PAGE & APPLICATION

Please fill out short online application and hold your spot

with $104 application fee.

($100 is deducted from your training fee. $4 is processing fee.

The application fee is non-refundable.)

TRAINING DATES

Fall Training Date To Be Announced!

Meeting times:

Tuesday: 6:00pm-8pm

Friday: 5:00pm-9:00pm

Saturday: 4:30pm-9:00pm

Sunday: 2:30pm-6:00pm

Contact us to hold your spot now!
murtiyoga@gmail.com
808-954-9310

This training has it all! Learning with a master yoga teacher along with a great price & realistic hours.

Most importantly, when you choose Maha Yoga Institute for your training you are choosing EXPERIENCE for your 200 Hour training!

We hold our teacher training programs at a high-end fitness club – the Honolulu Club!

The market is flooded with teacher trainings lately.
What sets Maha Yoga Institute apart from the rest is the depth of experience and expertise that comes from Murti’s 31 years of teaching experience and 18 years of teaching 200 HR teacher trainings/intensives.

Are you looking to simply deepen your own personal practice or are you interested in becoming a teacher? This training is a perfect fit to satisfy both types of yoga practitioners.

Learn how to share the bliss of yoga practice with others!

Great schedule!
Our program has the best meeting times for your work or school schedule with realistic hours mostly the weekends, which is a perfect to fit for your busy lifestyle!

SCHEDULE

Maha Yoga Institute Instructors

Murti Hower and Larina Hawkins-Hower are a husband and wife team who teach and facilitate yoga classes, 200 Hour Yoga Alliance Certification programs, conscious yoga & dance events and Tantra Partner Yoga for Couples® workshops and retreats. Murti Hower, ERYT500, is a master yoga teacher, well known and respected in Hawaii & Austin, Texas. He has been practicing Hatha Yoga since 1982 and teaching for over 31 years, owning his own studio in Austin, Texas for 12 of those years. Many yoga teachers on Oahu were originally trained by Murti. He credits his main yoga mentor and friend Rodney Yee for his teaching of healing alignment principles. Larina has been practicing yoga since 1994, enjoys facilitating events in yoga and ecstatic dance as well as holding space for couples to connect through yoga.
Her certifications include 200 RYT and Yoga Trance Dance™ with Shiva Rea.

See what our graduates are saying!

“It was obvious from day one of class the love Murti and Larina have for yoga. They have a very honest and pure approach to the practice and transposing to the students so we can appreciate the practice from where it started to what it has evolved to over time. The lineage of yoga is so vast but Murti was able to stay unbiased of each style and communicate what each style has to offer. He was always there to answer any questions we had and was able to do so completely, clearly and concisely. I highly recommend taking this 200ht training to any other aspiring yoga teachers! “
– Scott Pang

“I loved taking yoga with Murti and Larina they are an amazing couple and fantastic yoga teachers I have transformed so much since I took their class. “
– Yu kei Heacook

“I highly recommend to everyone studying with Murti Hower. He is very knowledgeable about the subject of yoga and very warm, personal and willing to share the skills that he has learned with his students. He always positively encouraged each student to grow at their individual level, and never compared students but helps each student to grow to their best at individual level. His teaching is very inspiring, I am so thankful to be in his class. I highly recommend his class! My review with Maha Yoga Institute is “5” stars with confidence!!!!! Much mahalo and aloha to Murti and Maha Yoga Institute! Namaste for the heart opening, beautiful experience and yoga journey !!!!! It’s absolutely lovey. With deepest gratitude, Namaste! “
– Naomi Sheen

“Murti and Larina were amazing in their ability to share their knowledge and practice of yoga in a way that made me feel not only was I profoundly deepening my journey as a yoga student, but they also gave me the confidence to make the transition to teaching. I cannot put into words how lucky I feel to have found Murti and Larina and to have been able to go through their training. Not only are they both two of the most wonderfully nice and loving people I have ever met, they are incredible teachers with the capacity to train. I can truly say that both of their knowledge, experience and compassion made the experience so enriching and insightful – even if I were to not teach, I feel like the transformations I was able to make not only in my yoga practice but in who I am as a person made the training so worth it. I give the highest rating I can to Maha Yoga Institute and feel so honored to be able to write this review.”
– Merideth Cleary

“This was an excellent course and a moving experience.”
– Bruce Sherman

“I would recommend Murti to anyone looking to take a 200 hour training. He is so knowledgable and was the first Master teacher to bring teacher trainings to Oahu. He takes a lighthearted approach to all of his classes while still maintaining the importance of alignment as taught to him by Master Teacher B.K.S. Iyengar. He is a fruitful blend of Iyengar and Ashtanga as he has also been mentored by Rodney Yee and Shiva Rae. He will teach you the importance of alignment and the history of Yoga, and will give you a deep Ayurvedic background. He also has a chiropractor teach the anatomy portions of his class which are amazing and really give you an understanding of how the body works throughout each asana.“
– Emily Salcedo Badillo

 

“Maha Yoga Institute’s course was extremely in-depth, intensive & well-structured, whilst still being hugely enjoyable – and it initiated huge personal growth and awareness for me. Murti gave us such a solid foundation of knowledge of yoga, anatomy & ayurveda, and shared excellent teaching techniques, which gives us wings to develop our individual styles & abilities as teachers. I am s very blessed and lucky to have studied with a teacher of Murti’s caliber and experience – Thank you & Namaste Murti. “
– Pernille Westergaard Davis

“When Murti’s yoga certification course came around, I was thinking about enrolling but was not really sure if it was for me. Murti mentioned it was not only for certification, but to deepen your own yoga practice. He also told me that I would not regret it if I signed on. I decided to take it. From the beginning I realized that I wasn’t even doing the basic poses correctly! This course really helped me improve! You do not need a lot of yoga years under your belt. In fact, if you know very little like it did, it will help you tremendously. I started yoga in February and the course started in April so I was only practicing yoga for less than 3 months. It taught me a LOT about yoga. Not only with the poses but with the history of yoga and with much learning on other things associated with yoga (breath, energy channels, bhandas, body types and personalities, healing, and much more). The single most important thing I learned is that yoga is healing; but if you do not do it correctly, it can harm you. This course teaches you how to do the poses correctly to avoid getting injured. It also gives you alternate ways to work around existing injuries and/or to do them to heal.
The classes are enjoyable. You get to know the people in your class very well. After all, you will be spending 200 hours with them. Murti has an entertaining way when he teaches also. It’s fun while challenging at the same time. Bottom line: As Murti told me…I did not regret signing on!!
Just do it! You will not regret it! I didn’t!”
– K.S., New Student to Yoga

“Having practiced yoga for 14 years, it was time to take my practice deeper. Mainly, I wanted to develop greater knowledge on proper alignment in asanas, or, poses.
Murti’s 200 hr yoga teacher training helped me accomplish this. The importance of having proper alignment in yoga can’t be over-stressed: the true gem uncovered in ones yoga
practice comes from an awareness that yoga poses are meant to ‘open’ the sushumna channel; or, as is revealed by ancient yogic text, to open the main energy channel that runs through the spinal chord…Murti emphasizes that when we practice yoga with proper alignment, as well as with conscious, regulated dynamic movement and pranayama (breathing techniques that help the breath connect to the poses), a deeper inward experience occurs. The para-sympathetic nervous system is activated, which is known to help enter a state of meditation and relates to positive feelings of joy, happiness and compassion and to lower levels of anxiety and other negativity. Throughout the training we also learned about the various kramas, or stages that lead to a peak pose in an asana practice. This is especially important for anyone inspiring to be a yoga instructor so that they have the ability to cater their class to all levels of students. Doing adjustments appropriately was another focus in the training. These serve to assist students reach greater alignment in poses with the spinal chord being the focal point from which the rest of the body extends, elongates and moves.
I appreciate that Murti’s training offered this emphasis as compared to other trainings that may only look at yoga as physical exercise. Yoga is much more and in order to honor its ancient roots and original purpose, it is important to have trainings, such as Murti’s, whose pedagogy centers around the most important principal of yoga: harnessing the sushumna energy along the spine fuels our finest physical, mental, and spiritual development.”
– Alessandra Jann-Jordan, Yoga Practitioner, Intermediate

Contact us for more information or questions:
murtiyoga@gmail.com
808-954-9310

INFO PAGE & APPLICATION Coming Soon!

We hope you will join us on this exciting journey exploring the art and science of yoga!

Jai Namaste!
Murti & Larina