FREE INTRO: Prana Yoga Teacher Training
Filed under Advanced Programs, Bodywork and Movement, Events, Yoga.| July 15, 2012 | ||
| 6:00 PM |
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, 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.
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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