Carter Twitty
My introduction to “doing” yoga was with my college soccer team. Our coach was married to a yoga teacher and brought her in to help us with our flexibility and help prevent injury. I had never been as fit and that year, our team went to the NCAA DI Final Four. Yoga seemed to have benefited us all.
It wasn’t until a few years later that I re-started yoga through another soccer coach- this time when I was playing in Japan professionally. He had us do yoga as part of our warm up in every training session and before every game. Again, my fitness level was through the roof.
Finally, the yoga thing started to stick. I moved to Vail, where, still in training mode as a professional athlete, I found a teacher and a method that had a name: Argie Ligeros/Yoga 4 Athletes. Within months I was enrolled in Argie’s teacher training. Before that training was over I was teaching classes throughout the Vail valley.
After teaching many classes, students interested in knowing more about yoga started showing up for me. I wanted to be able to answer the questions they were posing, so I started to seek out trainings. Thus began my 10 year + quest for information and education. I went to countless workshops and intensives and learned a lot. I gained new knowledge and a lot of inspiration. I was able to answer some questions.
On one rainy day in a random studio in Brooklyn, I walked in and met my new teacher and now beloved friend, Sri Andrei Ram Om. Since that day, I have been earnestly and humbly studying the yoga science. Through Andrei Ram’s living example of wisdom in action and skillful integration of yoga techniques in daily living, I have been inspired to figure out what lies within my own heart. I have been gently nudged toward, not answers, but the tools to figure out the answers to my own questions. Although I am a reluctant yogi and a very slow learner, I offer my deepest gratitude for Sri Andrei Ram Om’s shining light in my life. Every day, I give thanks to all the great yoga masters that have sacrificed so much to pass along the yoga science to humanity and to Sri Andrei Ram Om. I now offer my own Self to the service of those interested in the great wisdom that lies within us all.
Charry Morris
The purpose of this course is to offer inspiration, motivation, and the practical tools to any individual, whether they intend on teaching yoga or not, necessary to practice on one’s own- at home, necessary to develop a Self-Practice.
If you are interested in teaching yoga one day, you need some Self Knowledge and Practice to teach from. If you don’t have an understanding of what is happening in your own practice, and you can’t practice on your own (i.e. you need to go to a class to do your yoga), the base for your teaching will be faulty. Just like the foundation of a house, this is the essential first step/foundation in the progression to having something to “teach” people.
If you are not interested in teaching, but are looking to deepen your practice and integrate the wisdom tradition of yoga into daily living, this is the perfect “next step” in your development as a householder yogi. Who knows where the course may lead you! You will certainly have the foundational knowledge and experience to do yoga on your own after the course. You might become interested in opening your own studio. You might find your greatest purpose through the learning/exploring process that this course will be.
This course is the beginning to a deeper realization of your own personal human potential.
Course Information
February - June 2016
$1850 (course materials not included)
* Plum Perks Members receive 10% discount
Course Curriculum - 100 Hours Total
Monthly Weekend Immersions - 40 Hours
Homework - 20 Hours
Practice at PLUM - 30 Hours
Practice at Home - 10 Hours
Space is Limited, Growth Potential Infinite
Establishing a Self-Practice
100 Hour Certification
About Teacher Training
Course Schedule
February
2/25 5:30-7:30pm Introduction to TT with Charry and Carter (Class + Introduction to the Course)
March
3/19-20 Weekend Immersion on Understanding General Movement and Practice Methodology (2-6pm each day)
April
4/22-24 Weekend Immersion on Understanding Asana- Pose Breakdown For Safer Practice
(including workshop with visiting Yogi Rebecca Kovacs)
May
5/14-15 Weekend Immersion on Finding Balance and Flow Through Experiencing the Breath
(2-6pm each day)
5/21-22 Weekend Immersion on Yoga Anatomy and Philosophy- The Energy inside and the Path of Yoga
(2-6pm each day)
June
6/3-5 Weekend Immersion Course Wrap Up
(2-6pm each day)
Meet the Instructors
I have always been searching for discipline to free myself from the imbalances in my mind. From a young age, I was drawn to the stories of Spartan and Samurai warriors.
I began attending Bikram Yoga classes my sophomore year when I moved into the fraternity house. Eventually, I began attending exhale’s Vinyasa classes. In 2007 I graduated Phi Beta Kappa and took a job cold calling for property and casualty insurance. After nine months, I quit my job and told my parents (via email at 2am) that I wanted to become a yoga teacher.
Upon quitting my sales job, I asked my favorite Dallas yoga teacher, Sabra where I should go to get my certification. She had two words: Dharma Mittra. I had more than two: Where is that? What is that? Oh, who is that? I went home, looked up dharmayogacenter.com, and applied almost immediately. All I can say is, "It didn't even feel like a choice. I didn't even feel like I made a decision." I went to the 200 hour training in June 2008.
The first day of training was the first day I ever laid eyes on Dharma. He is like an old child. That's the best way I can describe him and I mean it with the truest reverence and devotion. At the end of this training I was open. Wide open. Dharma, his students, and his teachers had melted my heart and opened my eyes. In the fall of 2009, I attended Camp Dharma up in the Catskills which led to Dharma’s 500 hour training the winter of 2010-11.
A seminal moment happened at my friend and teacher Ben's Lux Yoga retreat in the Fall of 2014. Since that trip I have been exploring Ido's Method. I began to study under Ido and his team in their online coaching program. This, combined with yoga, rock climbing and gymnastics, is my current movement practice. Those movements, combined with Dharma's esoteric teachings on compassion, meditation, and life, are my life's practices.
I continue to teach yoga in the style of my teacher, Sri Dharma Mittra.
Located in Lowest Greenville, on one of the hottest blocks in Dallas, Plum: a yoga community is not your typical yoga studio. With an artisanal tea lounge and thoughtfully curated boutique, Plum is built around the way you live your life. In our East Inspired Studio, we serve the needs of anyone who has been afraid to yoga for the first time to anyone interested in deepening their understanding of the yoga practice. Our West Inspired Studio offers mindfulness-based fitness programs with gymnastics’ style rings, strength and flexibility classes and core conditioning. Our classes and programs are designed to improve your quality of life in the “real” world and to help you relax, reboot and connect.
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1924 Greenville Ave | Dallas, Texas 75206
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