We’ve experienced a lot of immersions and teacher trainings and have seen what works wonderfully, and what is less effective. From our own experience and knowledge we have intelligently structured this training in a way that brings together the best of immersive experiences, along with space and time to integrate and meet the material with your preferred learning style.

A month long intensive is great – you learn a lot about yourself in the pressure cooker environment it creates – but we all have a limit to our capacity to take on new information. For most of us that limit is felt at around the 2-3 week mark. Yes, there will be many revelations in the highs and lows of such a training, but when you get back home, sit back at your desk and look at your calendar for the week, much of what you learnt in the training dissappears. It’s jarring, and your life line of support is no longer there.

Part-time weekends are also great – you can neatly fit it around your life – but often it’s hard to completely remove yourself from your daily life to really drop into the potency of the practices. Often a sense of momentum and charge is lacking. And why wait a whole year to really be and become who you are?

We believe the world doesn’t need more yoga teachers per se, but more aware and embodied yogis. So first and foremost, our vision is to usher in more yoga practitioners who are empowered with tools and a love for the practice, that they can then take into how they live their life – be it a mum sneaking in 15 minutes for herself each day, a busy executive managing stress levels, a builder stretching out after a hard day on the tools, or a teenage girl learning how to love her body. That’s why we offer the immersion programme as the first component to the teacher training – to create a container for practitioners to flourish. And from that flourishing – and a consistent daily practice – a strong desire to share it widely with others through teaching classes within the community may become clear.

The timing of the programme gives you the best of both worlds when it comes to deeply immersing in the material, while receiving content in homeopathic doses so you can explore and integrate the practices and insights into your life, without overwhelm. Once the practices are alive within you, you’ll be ready to step into the teaching stream with passion, clarity and confidence.

If you’re not ready to complete the second stream within the same year, or the timing doesn’t work for you, you have the option to register for Art & Science of Teaching Yoga the following year without having to repeat the immersion. Or you may never do it, and that’s wonderful too, as you would have gotten so much richness out of the immersion alone.

While you’ll learn how to be an exceptional teacher, you’ll also learn more about you – and that’s invaluable.
Our focus is on providing the pathway for you to embody the teachings in a way that resonates for you. Rather than staring at text books and external information, our approach is to get inside the teachings. Our playful attitude to embodying the physical alignment and anatomy of the body gives an experiential internal knowing of these essential aspects of self. We approach the yoga philosophy in a tangible way that is down-to-earth and easily applicable to your life. All you need to know is within your own body, and we’re here to help provide the map and support for you to explore your own territory and carve out your own journey.

You’ve no doubt felt the difference in yoga classes when the teacher is speaking from a place of deep knowing and experience rather than regurgitating scripts and yoga platitudes – this is what will make you stand out as a teacher, and as a more aware and awake human in the often messy humanness of life.

Be steeped in empowering philosophy about the nature of the world and your place in it.

Join Adele Kinghan – one of Auckland’s most experienced yoga teachers – and inspiring international guest teachers for a world-class training in embodying and teaching the yogic arts. Become a master of this technology for living and loving life well – and offer what breaks you open to those you love, to those in your community, to those who need it, who need you.

In psychology circles it’s recognised that the transformation that a client has is 20% to do with the actual method, and 80% to do with the facilitator. This is no different.

In studying with Adele, our lead facilitator and RISE directress, you’ll draw upon various philosophies, movement studies, scientific research, personal values and virtues, life challenges and passions. Your teaching will be a mirror of your search for meaning, authenticity and awakening, which will undoubtedly usher in the same process for your student’s to heal, grow and be the best they can be.

Adele has had the privilege of facilitating group yoga experiences since her first teacher training in 2009 at Pure Yoga in Hong Kong with Partick Creelman. Over the years she has studied extensively with her dear teachers and friends Tara Judelle and Scott Lyons, and had the pleasure of assisting them on many Emobdied Flow™ trainings.

Adele is a certified Embodied Flow™ faclitator, and has also completed all the Anusara teacher training requirements – having fallen in love with the heart-centered approach of this system. She also draws upon many vinyasa flow influences including in-depth study with Tiffany Cruikshank on her advanced Yoga Medicine programme, and Fluid Power with Shiva Rea. She teaches through a lens of Tantric philosophy and is grateful for the teachings of Carlos Pomeda and Christopher Hareesh Wallis.

“Put the warmest heart and graceful action with shockingly razor sharp intellect and wit, package it in a beautiful embodiment of a human being and you get Adele Kinghan. I have had the pleasure of knowing Adele for six years, and consider her to be the full package of a master facilitator. Adele has the rare capacity to make anyone feel joyous to be alive. She somehow makes the most complicated things seem easily achievable, and approaches each day and task with untroubled competence evocative of all the world’s greatest leaders. Her depth and breadth of yogic knowledge is paralleled by few. I would highly recommend any training with Adele as a rich tapestry of deep learning, and an elegant dive into being, with a great great teacher.”
Tara Judelle – Embodied Flow™

This is one of the greatest joys of a training like this – the opportunity to meet a community of like-minded people to connect and have fun with. Past teacher trainees are still very much a part of Adele’s life. They offer a web of connection for each other that continues to foster and inspire growth, enquiry and benevolent service to their families, communities and the world at large.

This is firmly established in a post-training six month mentorship programme (delivered online and in person with opportunities to teach classes under Adele’s guidance and feedback) and in the monthly alumni gatherings to practice with other RISE graduates and to continue to evolve with the material.