4-Beat 50hr Teacher Training
27th – 31st August
£795 (£755 Early Bird until May 31st)

 

A 50hr immersion into 4-Beat: the dynamic vinyasa flow born out of the Rocket Yoga system in which the core of the practice is the alignment of the breath to the slow, regular beat of the music.

Course Content

Join 4-Beat creator Marcus Veda for this five-day, 50-hour teacher training. Born out of the Rocket Yoga system, 4-Beat is a dynamic vinyasa flow style that is rapidly becoming one of the most popular styles of yoga in London. The core of the practice is the alignment of the breath to the slow, regular beat of the music.

 

On this course we look into the philosophy and methodology of teaching and practising to the beat. We will delve further into traditional pranayama breathing practices and the neuroscience of where breath, music and yoga intersect.

 

Focussing on the backarch branch (🧊) of the 4-Beat sequence learn how to safely and calmly orient spinal extension poses, on your back, on your front, standing and upside down, from the perspective of both the practitioner and the teacher.

 

Maintain your cool in the poses that many people find the most challenging, and improve your own understanding and experience of the key poses from the basic to the difficult through active manual assisting.

 

Prerequisites
This TT is for people who have already completed a 200hr training in any style of yoga or experienced practitioners who want to go deeper into the connection of the beat and the breath. Attendance to part 1 (🔥) is not required and they can be taken in any order.

Learning Outcomes

On this 50hr TT you will learn:

  • Effective techniques for teaching to the beat and how to incorporate this into any sequence/style of yoga you teach.
  • How to make the standard sequences work For beginners to frequent flyers, injuries, all abilities, ages and levels of experience. Choose how “up” or “down” a class without changing the sequence.
  • How to “hold it down” when the energetic level of the practice ramps up, maintaining balance of the nervous system.
  • How the beat can be used to regulate the pace and rhythm of your teaching and create smoother transitions between poses in your practice.
  • Counting, cueing, & aligning the voice with the rhythm of the music.
  • How to work backbend inversions, hand balances and trickier transitions into your own practice and how to teach them to your students.

Teaching Team

Marcus Veda

Marcus, the founder of 4-Beat, teaches one of London’s biggest and most popular yoga class at Mission. The co-founder of Good Life Yoga School, and author of “Greed, Sex, Intention: Living Life Like a Yoga in the 21st Century,” Marcus’ former life as a DJ and current life as a family man helped inform the creation of 4-Beat, a unique and transformative practice that brings all senses into one-pointed focus.

 

Marcus co-teaches this training with Emily Mergaert, alongside Nino Russo, Zo Rahm and Ruki Roy.

Schedule

Tuesday

9:30-10:00 Ujjayi
10:00-11:45 Practice
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-13:30 Opening circle
13:30-14:30 Music lecture
14:30-15:30 Sequence: blocks
16:00-18:00 Asana breakdown

 

Wednesday

9:00-10:00 Suryas of the mind
10:00-11:30 Practice
11:30-11:45 Asana breakdown
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30 Breath lecture
14:45-15:45 Sequence: backarches
16:00-17:30 Asana
17:30-18:15 MV Yin
18:30-19:45 MV 4-Beat

 

Thursday

9:15-10:00 Lecture
10:00-11:45 Practice
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30 Teach to the Beat
14.45-18:15 Sequence: standing + Asana breakdown/assists
18:15-19:30 EM 4-Beat

 

Friday

9:00-10:30 Lecture
10:30-11:45 Practice
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:00 Neuro lecture
15:15-16:15 Methodology of instructing to music
16:30-18:30 Asana breakdown/assists
18:45-20.00 Practice

 

Saturday

10:00-11:30 MV 4-Beat Practice
11:30-11:45 MV Pranayama
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:45 Teach to the beat/tempo hot seat – cuing in time
15:00-16:30 4-Beat Yin/Restorative/closing poses
16:45-18:30 Practice
18:45-19:30 Closing circle/graduation
19:30 Finish