Yoga Therapist Training - Tennessee Program
We are very excited about the journey that we are embarking on together and honored that you have chosen to join Yoga Well Institute! You are such a valuable component to our training and we are confident this training will be a very fruitful experience for everyone involved. Thank you for choosing us to join you on this intimate path of self learning!
There is a passage in the Taittiriya Upanisad that says, first there is the teacher, then
there is the student, and when they interact, wisdom and learning are produced.
This model of relationship is the heart of yoga. Even when we become teachers, we
are still students.
This page is dedicated to our current trainees for the 2015 Foundations of Yoga Therapy Yoga Teacher Training in Nashville, TN. When you hover on the tab for this page, you should find all of the materials you will need for the training. Our in-person location and schedule are listed below and there is a different page for each piece of the training (online classes, homework/ homework review, modules, etc.). Please let us know at The Well if you need assistance of any kind navigating on the site.
Your Teacher
Director of the Yoga Well Institute, Chase has been studying Yoga, Sanskrit, eastern philosophy and religion for nearly 30 years. In 1991, as part of a study abroad program in Chennai, India, Chase took a semester long course on Yoga Theory with Mr. TKV Desikachar that essentially set the direction for the rest of his life. He became a private student of Mr. Desikachar's and spent a total of four and a half years in Chennai (from 1991-2012) studying with him, his family and his senior teachers including serving as a teacher at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram. He served as Director of Therapy and Education at the non-profit Healing Yoga Foundation in San Francisco from 2006-2012.
His depth of knowledge on yoga and meditation are shared through practical, humorous anecdotes that translate to everyday life.