You are registering for the free Introductory class on Sunday, July 15 at, 6pm. To sign up for training program, see Prana Yoga Teacher Training.

Led by Jeff Migdow, MD, with Robyn Ross, RYT

A Registered Yoga Alliance Course

Prana is the Sanskrit word for universal energy or “life force,” analogous to the Chinese concept of “chi” or what homeopaths call “vital force.” In the yogic tradition, prana is seen as pervading and animating the universe, flowing through all things, including us. Yogic practices are designed to increase the flow of prana in our bodies and minds to facilitate healing and expand consciousness. Increased pranic flow enhances mental clarity, emotional stability and physical vitality. In this Prana Yoga teacher training course, you will learn how to practice and teach yoga as a profound science that unites movement, breath, sound, concentration, meditation and prayer. Approached in this way, yogic practice becomes a deeply potent healing and transformational path. This course will enable you to become a teacher of yoga at its essence and greatly expand the depth and power of your practice and the healing experiences of your students.

This course which takes place over an 11 weekend period will include:

• Learning to practice and teach 22 basic postures in a deep and healing way
• Practicing prana yoga together for one hour at the beginning of each session
• Learning specific breathing techniques and mantras/sounds for each posture
• Learning the optimal way to enter the postures for best alignment and safety, including modifications for many different conditions to facilitate healing in yourself and your students
• Basic Western and yogic anatomy and physiology, including how prana yoga impacts each part of our physical and subtle bodies
• The history and philosophy of yoga, including the study of ancient yogic texts, such as the Bhagavad Gita and Yoga Sutras
• Direct experiences of prana in your body through meditation techniques, mantra chanting and specific chakra techniques
• Three full-day practice teaching sessions in a safe setting to help you gain confidence as a prana yoga teacher

We will learn, play and teach together in a relaxed yet focused way. To help keep you in touch with the training between sessions, there will be practice teaching assignments, inspirational and practical reading, journaling of your personal experience and ways to stay in touch with each other. Jeff and Robyn ask that you agree to practice prana yoga at least five days a week during the course to stay in touch with the practice and yourself. Also, in order that we all begin with a basic knowledge of the postures, you must have practiced hatha yoga regularly for at least three months and/or have taken at least six months of weekly classes.

The course will build on whatever form of yoga you have been trained in. Yoga teachers and students from all schools and traditions are welcome. Join us for a nine-month journey into the essence of yoga and the healing power of prana. A teaching certificate will be given upon completion of course requirements.

October 2012–June 2013
(11 weekends), 9am–5:45pm
2012: October 13 & 14,November 10 & 11,
December 15 & 16
2013: January 19 & 20, February 9 & 10, March 2 & 3,
March 23 & 24, April 20 & 21,
May 18 & 19, June 8 & 9 and June 22 & 23

Full Payment:
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$2,500 (No discount)

Payment Plan Available:
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$2,800 (No discount). A non-refundable deposit
of $700 is due upon registration. Three
further payments of $700 are due December
13, February 2 and March 27.
Automatic Credit Card Payments Only.

Note: There will be a $130 materials fee, for a course manual and 10 support CDs, payable to the instructor at the first class.

Jeff Migdow, MD

Jeff Migdow, MD, is the director of the Open Center’s Prana Yoga Teacher Training program. He has had a holistic medical practice since 1980 and has practiced yoga intensively for over 30 years, including living in a Kripalu Yoga ashram for 13 years. He is the former director of the Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training Program and has written and taught widely about yoga, holistic health and medicine. He combines his expertise in yoga with his knowledge of anatomy and physiology to offer us a truly complete approach to this ancient and profound discipline.

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Other Classes Taught By This Teacher:

Yoga for the Nerves, Glands & Immune System

Yoga and the Cardiovascular and Lymphatic Systems

Prana Yoga Teacher Training

Priti Robyn Ross, RYT
Priti Robyn Ross, E-RYT, holds advanced level teacher certifications with over 25 years’ experience in yoga and health. She is currently the co-director for two yoga teacher-training programs: Kripalu Yoga and Prana Yoga. A published author, featured on network television and in leading magazines, Priti creates programs in medical and corporate settings along with workshops, yoga classes, therapeutic yoga sessions and worldwide retreats.

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Other Classes Taught By This Teacher:

Prana Yoga Teacher Training

Jeff Migdow, MD

Come experience and learn about the profound effects yoga practice has on revitalizing and “purifying” the heart and kidneys and the circulatory and  lymphatic systems. We will see and feel how yoga postures, breathing techniques, visualizations, and mantras can strengthen and heal our hearts, open our blood flow, increase the detoxification capacity of the lymph system and kidneys, and rejuvenate our whole body, mind, and spirit.

Note: This is one of two two sessions taking place today that are designed to deepen our understanding and the effectiveness of our yoga practice, whether for ourselves, if we’re students, or for our own students’ sake, if we’re teachers. It is recommended but not mandatory to take this workshop and Yoga for the Nerves, Glands & Immune System  together.

A HALF-DAY WORKSHOP
Sunday, July 15, 2:30–5:30pm
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Members: $50 / Nonmembers: $55
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Jeff Migdow, MD

In this workshop we will learn about and experience the deep healing effects that yoga practice can have on our nervous system and glands: reducing stress, boosting immune system strength and mental functioning, balancing menstruation, smoothing menopausal symptoms, combating glandular disease, etc. We will explore in depth how yoga postures, breathing techniques, and sounds directly balance and strengthen the nervous system and glands.

Note: This is one of two two sessions taking place today that are designed to deepen our understanding and the effectiveness of our yoga practice, whether for ourselves, if we’re students, or for our own students’ sake, if we’re teachers. It is recommended but not mandatory to take this workshop and Yoga and the Cardiovascular and Lymphatic Systems together.

A HALF-DAY WORKSHOP
Sunday, July 15, 10am–1pm
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Members: $50 / Nonmembers: $55
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Jeff Migdow, MD

Yoga for the Nerves, Glands & Immune System
In this workshop we will learn about and experience the deep healing effects that yoga practice can have on our nervous system and glands: reducing stress, boosting immune system strength and mental functioning, balancing menstruation, smoothing menopausal symptoms, combating glandular disease, etc. We will explore in depth how yoga postures, breathing techniques, and sounds directly balance and strengthen the nervous system and glands.

A HALF-DAY WORKSHOP
Sunday, July 15, 10am–1pm
12SBY16M For CEUs click here
Members: $50 / Nonmembers: $55
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Yoga and the Cardiovascular and Lymphatic Systems
Come experience and learn about the profound effects yoga practice has on revitalizing and “purifying” the heart and kidneys and the circulatory and  lymphatic systems. We will see and feel how yoga postures, breathing techniques, visualizations, and mantras can strengthen and heal our hearts, open our blood flow, increase the detoxification capacity of the lymph system and kidneys, and rejuvenate our whole body, mind, and spirit.

A HALF-DAY WORKSHOP
Sunday, July 15, 2:30–5:30pm
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Members: $50 / Nonmembers: $55
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Jeff Migdow, MD, director of the Open Center’s Prana Yoga Teacher Training program and a holistic physician since 1980 with 30 years’ yoga experience, was former director of the Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training Program.

Lakshmi Voelker with Tracey Eccleston

This training is for yoga teachers, teachers-in-training and healthcare practitioners with yoga experience who want to teach Chair Yoga to help those limited by age, weight, handicap or inflexibility. A knowledge of Chair Yoga can open many opportunities to teach yoga in such settings as hospitals, senior centers and nursing homes, bringing the healing benefits of yoga to those who have hitherto been unable to take part in even a gentle yoga class. In this  comprehensive certification course, along with breathing and relaxation techniques, chanting, meditation and foot reflexology, attendees will learn how to adapt a number of classical yoga asanas to a chair (or chairs) and how to use light weights while seated to build muscle and bone mass. Participants will leave with a certificate for 25 hours of teacher training in Lakshmi Chair Yoga and the skill and confidence to offer one-hour classes to varied audiences.

In this training, you will learn to
• Teach a one-hour therapeutic chair yoga class
• Choose appropriate postures and breathing techniques according to individual need
• Adapt postures to differing levels of flexibility
• Understand precautions and contraindications for poses and breathing techniques
• Include other Eastern modalities to improve health and well-being

Notes: Bring a pair of one- or two-pound weights (dumbbells). Tuition includes an illustrated teacher’s manual, a DVD and a CD with a tutorial booklet. After registering, please contact Bruce Binder at (760) 774-1752 or bruce@getfitwhereyousit.com with your e-mail address or phone number so Lakshmi can contact you prior to the program.

AN EVENING & 3-DAY TRAINING
Tuesday–Friday, August 21–24
Tuesday, 7:30–9:30pm
Wednesday & Thursday, 9:30am–6:30pm
Friday, 9:30am–5:30pm
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Members: $515 / Nonmembers: $545
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Mark Whitwell

Yoga is not a linear process; it is direct intimacy with life, and it is available to everyone. Today, Mark Whitwell will offer yoga’s advanced practices in a way that you will be able to integrate and make your own, whether you are just beginning to practice or have years of experience. This workshop involves an interwoven promise. You promise to practice yoga, and in return you receive the promise of yoga’s gifts, including health, intimacy, well-being, and joy. In order to experience these benefits, your yoga practice must be adapted to you, not you to yoga. With Mark’s skillful and heartfelt guidance, you will: explore the five principles of advanced personal practice; dive into asana, pranayama, and meditation as a seamless process; discover how yoga transforms life into an intimate celebration with Everything; experience the nurturing principle as a constant in your life from now on and return home with understanding and the embodied felt sense of your own joyful practice. This program is a juicy and inspiring event that will continue to reverberate through your daily life in very practical ways.

Note: Recommended reading: Yoga of Heart and The Promise.

A ONE-DAY WORKSHOP
Saturday, August 11, 10am–5:30pm
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Members: $120 / Nonmembers: $130
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You are registering for a FREE INTRO on Tuesday, July 10, at 6pm. To sign up for the weekly course, see Viniyoga: Harmonizing Breath, Body and Mind.

Andrew Sugerman

Viniyoga is a meditative form of yoga that combines mindful movement, precise breathing patterns, and the cultivation of sustained mental focus in a deeply healing, powerfully transformative practice. In this class we’ll learn how to control and time our breath so that our breathing perfectly matches and leads our physical movements; get the most benefit out of each yoga posture (asana) given our own personal, unique bodily structure; and make our yoga practice truly mindful so that breath, body and mind can work in real harmony, permitting us to enter into deeply serene meditative states, and move toward much higher levels of self-development.

A WEEKLY COURSE
(4 sessions) Tuesdays, July 17–August 7, 6–7:30pm
12SBY03T
Members: $60 / Nonmembers: $70

Andrew Sugerman

Viniyoga is a meditative form of yoga that combines mindful movement, precise breathing patterns, and the cultivation of sustained mental focus in a deeply healing, powerfully transformative practice. In this class we’ll learn how to control and time our breath so that our breathing perfectly matches and leads our physical movements; get the most benefit out of each yoga posture (asana) given our own personal, unique bodily structure; and make our yoga practice truly mindful so that breath, body and mind can work in real harmony, permitting us to enter into deeply serene meditative states, and move toward much higher levels of self-development.

Free introductory class on Tuesday, July 10, at 6pm.

A WEEKLY COURSE
(4 sessions) Tuesdays, July 17–August 7, 6–7:30pm
12SBY03T
Members: $60 / Nonmembers: $70
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You are registering for a FREE INTRO on Thursday, July 19, at 6pm. To sign up for the weekly course, see IntenSati©.

Emiliya Zhivotovskaya, MAPP

IntenSati© is a unique form of exercise that brings the power of positive psychology to the body. It combines aerobics, dance, fitness and yoga movements, with positive affirmations, visionary intentions and purposeful living. IntenSati© trains the body by “Increasing cardiovascular endurance, removing toxins and developing coordination, stamina and balance.” It trains the mind by creating a “greater ability to focus, heightened awareness of negative thought patterns, and an increased ability to cultivate a positive mental attitude.” And it cultivates the spirit through an emphasis on “life changing transformation, greater understanding of universal laws and principles, heightened awareness of love, peace, gratitude, joy and faith.” Use this high energy workout to reinforce the change you want to see in your life, and leave empowered and inspired.

A WEEKLY COURSE
(4 sessions) Thursdays, July 26–
August 16, 6–7:30pm
12SBM23T
Members: $80 / Nonmembers: $90

Emiliya Zhivotovskaya, MAPP

IntenSati© is a unique form of exercise that brings the power of positive psychology to the body. It combines aerobics, dance, fitness and yoga movements, with positive affirmations, visionary intentions and purposeful living. IntenSati© trains the body by “Increasing cardiovascular endurance, removing toxins and developing coordination, stamina and balance.” It trains the mind by creating a “greater ability to focus, heightened awareness of negative thought patterns, and an increased ability to cultivate a positive mental attitude.” And it cultivates the spirit through an emphasis on “life changing transformation, greater understanding of universal laws and principles, heightened awareness of love, peace, gratitude, joy and faith.” Use this high energy workout to reinforce the change you want to see in your life, and leave empowered and inspired.

Free introductory class on Thursday, July 19, at 6pm.

A WEEKLY COURSE
(4 sessions) Thursdays, July 26–
August 16, 6–7:30pm
12SBM23T
Members: $80 / Nonmembers: $90
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