Yoga is the embodiment of wholeness. Yoga practice must establish pathways of wholeness from the body to Consciousness. Then the power and wisdom of Consciousness can flow along these pathways into daily life (Ishvarapranidanah). These pathways are established by movement and deepened in stillness. They must activate and integrate all the muscles of the body: motor, structural and respiratory: an integration esoterically known as "the bandhas in the whole body" (Sarvangabandha).
Our Heart of Yoga training will show you how to use movement to sensitise all of your joints, and stillness to integrate all of your muscles. The Teaching Skills Module will show you how to do this for others. The Pranayama modules will provide you with the tools to activate and strengthen the core muscles of your spine, abdomen and throat so that the Heart of Yoga opens effortlessly within the flow of your practice.
No matter what style of yoga you practice or teach, what shapes you use, or sequences you present them in, this training will give you the tools to refine and deepen your own practice so that it becomes the irrevocable fulcrum of a life lived as a gift of peace to the world. It will also show you how to lead others to the same without any need for special skills or extreme abilities, or even familiarity with yoga texts.
The foundation of the Training is four embodiment modules.
Module 1: Embodying the Bandhas
December 7,8,14,15 10.30-13.00 & 17.00-19.00
December 9,13 18.00-20.30
Central European Time
This module will present the three core bandhas, and the two peripheral bandhas as the key to yoga posture practice.
Module 2: Pranayama for the Bandhas Part One.
January 19, 25 10.30-13.00 & 17.00-19.00
January 20,24 18.00-20.30
Central European Time
This module will present Pranayama practices for developing the core muscles upon which the core bandhas depend.
Module 3: Pranayama for the Bandhas Part Two.
February 16, 22 10.30-13.00 & 17.00-19.00
February 17, 21 18.00-20.30
Central European Time
This module will present additional Pranayama practices for developing the core muscles upon which the core bandhas depend.
Module 4: Asana, Pranayama and Patanjali.
March 9, 15 10.30-13.00 & 17.00-19.00
March 10, 14 18.00-20.30
Central European Time
This module will present posture and pranayama practice in the light of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.
Module 5: The Teaching Skills Module
April 5,6,12,13 10.30-13.00 & 17.00-19.00
Central European Time
This module will show you how you can teach what you have embodied to others. It will apply the following to the teaching of yoga postures and pranayama:
Module 6: The Yoga of Patanjali in Practice.
May 10,11 10.30-13.30 & 15.30-18.00
Central European Time
This module will present an integrated practice of pranayama, meditation and postures, grounded in the wisdom of Patanjali. You can attend online, or in person in Istanbul.
This Training will enrich your practice, teaching and life. It is suitable for anyone teaching or training to teach Yoga. It does not require flexibility, strength, agility, nor book knowledge, not even of the Yoga Sutras. All modules will be recorded and available to stream for 60 days after the module ends. Notes will be provided at the end of the Course.
Instalment payments is an option, contact us at: [email protected]
Our Heart of Yoga training will show you how to use movement to sensitise all of your joints, and stillness to integrate all of your muscles. The Teaching Skills Module will show you how to do this for others. The Pranayama modules will provide you with the tools to activate and strengthen the core muscles of your spine, abdomen and throat so that the Heart of Yoga opens effortlessly within the flow of your practice.
No matter what style of yoga you practice or teach, what shapes you use, or sequences you present them in, this training will give you the tools to refine and deepen your own practice so that it becomes the irrevocable fulcrum of a life lived as a gift of peace to the world. It will also show you how to lead others to the same without any need for special skills or extreme abilities, or even familiarity with yoga texts.
The foundation of the Training is four embodiment modules.
Module 1: Embodying the Bandhas
December 7,8,14,15 10.30-13.00 & 17.00-19.00
December 9,13 18.00-20.30
Central European Time
This module will present the three core bandhas, and the two peripheral bandhas as the key to yoga posture practice.
Module 2: Pranayama for the Bandhas Part One.
January 19, 25 10.30-13.00 & 17.00-19.00
January 20,24 18.00-20.30
Central European Time
This module will present Pranayama practices for developing the core muscles upon which the core bandhas depend.
Module 3: Pranayama for the Bandhas Part Two.
February 16, 22 10.30-13.00 & 17.00-19.00
February 17, 21 18.00-20.30
Central European Time
This module will present additional Pranayama practices for developing the core muscles upon which the core bandhas depend.
Module 4: Asana, Pranayama and Patanjali.
March 9, 15 10.30-13.00 & 17.00-19.00
March 10, 14 18.00-20.30
Central European Time
This module will present posture and pranayama practice in the light of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.
Module 5: The Teaching Skills Module
April 5,6,12,13 10.30-13.00 & 17.00-19.00
Central European Time
This module will show you how you can teach what you have embodied to others. It will apply the following to the teaching of yoga postures and pranayama:
- distinguishing between actions and impacts and their instruction
- distinguishing between structural and functional actions, and their instruction
- fertilising the relationship between movement and stillness
- harnessing the relationship between structure (posture) and function (breathing)
- the art of progressive sequentiality (vinyasakrama)
- activating the intelligence of the body
- accessing the Intelligence of Consciousness
- somatic instruction (talking into the body)
- communication dynamics
- power dynamics
Module 6: The Yoga of Patanjali in Practice.
May 10,11 10.30-13.30 & 15.30-18.00
Central European Time
This module will present an integrated practice of pranayama, meditation and postures, grounded in the wisdom of Patanjali. You can attend online, or in person in Istanbul.
This Training will enrich your practice, teaching and life. It is suitable for anyone teaching or training to teach Yoga. It does not require flexibility, strength, agility, nor book knowledge, not even of the Yoga Sutras. All modules will be recorded and available to stream for 60 days after the module ends. Notes will be provided at the end of the Course.
Instalment payments is an option, contact us at: [email protected]