Through this training you will:

• Increase self-knowledge, acceptance and love through “embodied-inquiry”, asana, pranayama, meditation and philosophical study.

• Discover “whole–body–support” templates for strong, comfortable, injury free asana practice.

• Learn to weave postures, breath and movement into progressive depths of experience.

• Discover the grace and wisdom of the body-mind-spirit in movement and in stillness.

• Develop a depth and beauty in your yoga practice that remains constant when you step off the mat.

• Learn to share this experience with others through teaching.

 

 

Module 1

• Blueprint for Optimal Movement 1: Cellular Breathing – Navel Radiation

• Principle of a Quiet Spine

• Discriminating Core & Periphery – Finding Union

• Standing Postures 1 – Our Foundation: Pelvis, Legs & Feet

• Surya Namaskar: Sun Salutations & Vinyasa

• Skeletal Structure

• Ease in the Ilio–psoas Complex

• Yield and Push of the Legs

• Inversions 1: Shoulderstand & Handstand

• Pranayama 1: Ujjayi

• Yoga Nidra: Tantric Technique for Deep Rest

 

Module 2

• Standing Postures 2 – Dynamics & Alignment, Integrating Upper & Lower Body

• Ribs, Shoulder Girdle, Arms and Hands: Alignment & Integrated Movement

• Yield and Push of the Arms

• Lower Back Fundamentals: Sacroiliac & Lumbar Health

• Standing and Supine Forward Bends

• Lungs, Conchas of the Nose & Breathing Diaphragm

• Embodying Organs & Glands

• Breath in Asana Practice

• Patanjali’s Eight Limbs of Yoga

• Cultivating a Rewarding Personal Practice

• Meditation

 

 

Module 3

• Principles of Backbends 1: Organ & Glandular Support

• Arm Balances 1

• Twists and Hip Openers 1

• Inversions 2: Headstand and Shoulderstand Cycle

• Savasana

• Pranayama 2: Viloma, Prana Vayus

• Bandhas – Integrating Core

• The Kosas: Spiralic Sheaths of Awareness

• The Systems of Yoga

• Meditation

 

Module 4

• Blueprint for Optimal Movement 2: Spinal Patterns

• Integrated Whole Body Movement in Yoga Practice

• Precision Vinyasa — Flow and Hold

• Neuro–Endocrine System

• Balancing Sympathetic & Parasympathetic Nervous Systems

• Temporal-Mandibular Joint, the Skull and Palate

• Backbends 2

• Twists, Hips and Arm Balances 2

• Pranayama 3: Nadi Shodhana and Kumbhaka

• Restorative Yoga

• Chakras, Nadis and Kundalini

• Tantra Yoga: The Expression of Life Lived in Fullness

 

 

Teaching principles integrated throughout the program

• Principles of Observation, Instruction, Demonstration & Touch

• Art and Science of Sequencing

• Planning and Teaching Classes

• Principles of Teaching

• Philosophy and Ethics of Teaching

• Teaching as a Profession

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Price: $3000 in full or $800 per module