BOOK ROCKET TRAINING WITH AMBER JEAN-MARIE IN BRIGHTON - coming 2022 - check back for further details!

Amber Gean is a registered teacher with Yoga Alliance Professionals as a Senior yoga instructor with over 19 years of experience and over 10,000 hours of teaching and teacher training experience.  

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She opened Yoga ah! in 2007 in Cincinnati Ohio with Larry’s blessing as a studio that featured the Rocket system. When her guru Larry Schultz left his body in 2011 Amber began writing and assembling a 500 hour Rocket yoga training course so that she may continue Larry's work on the Rocket. 

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As of 2016 her 500-Hour Ashtanga and Rocket Yoga training course has been recognized by the Yoga Alliance Professional in the United Kingdom. 

She is a pioneer in the modernization of Ashtanga and Rocket Vinyasa Yoga and honors the lineage of Krishnamacharya.

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She has been a part of the Rocket family ever since. She studied very closely with Larry from 2000- till his passing in 2011. 

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Currently Amber Jean-Marie is one of the top Rocket instructors in the world and spent more time with Larry studying than any other Rocket instructors that are currently teaching. She has written and helped improve Rocket materials not only for her school Yoga ah but also has offered writing for It’s Yoga International as well as inspired many other Rocket trainings that you see being offered globally. Some of her students have gone on to open It’s Yoga franchises as well as open their own studios under different names. 

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She is a teacher of teachers and will help you refine your teaching script as well as give you the tools to be more confident in adjustments and sequencing.

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WHAT is ROCKET?

"Larry Schultz originally created the Rocket to make Ashtanga yoga more accessible to the masses." - Amber Gean

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Larry Schultz was an influential American yoga instructor. He studied traditional Ashtanga yoga with Pattabhi Jois for a number of years, starting in the early 1980’s. He then began instructing first in Austin, TX and after that in San Francisco. He was one of the first yoga instructors to develop a yoga teacher training program. Hundreds of yogis traveled to San Francisco every year to learn “The System,” as Larry fondly called it. Larry developed beginner-friendly sets of routines called the Minimum Daily Requirements (MDR) and Modified Primary Series (MPS), in order to make Ashtanga yoga accessible to the masses. He later developed the Rocket sequence of routines while on tour with the Grateful Dead as their private yoga instructor. Named by Bobby Weir, the sequences are designed to help students progress their practice at a faster rate. Larry taught up into the time he left his body in 2011. Today his most dedicated students continue his teachings.

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What is the Rocket?

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Facts about The Rocket 

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- Based in traditional Ashtanga yoga

- Offers routines for every day of the week

- Named from Bobby Weir of the Grateful Dead

- Original Power Yoga

- Flourished in San Francisco at Larry's studio It's Yoga

- Offers cross training methods to "get you there faster"

- Is known for its fun transitions

- Has lots of modifications for beginners

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Rocket yoga consists of three different routines, Rocket I, Rocket II and Rocket III. It has a total of 140 poses (taken from the Primary, Intermediate, 3rd and 4th Series of Ashtanga yoga) and is designed to give students a weekly practice schedule to follow. The routines are sequenced around the joints of the body and provide more strengthening moves and deeper flexibility poses to give students the ability to practice inversions and more advanced poses. The Rocket also provides modifications to the poses, and thus, opens the practice up to many different levels of practitioners. Because it allows all levels of students to practice together, it has been nicknamed “The Montessori School for Yoga.” The Rocket is a modern form of an ancient practice, and as such, we allow the Rocket to guide us on our spiritual path as the yogis that have come before us. We use the Rocket as a tool to clear our minds, strengthen our bodies and ultimately self realization.

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