Sarah Powers Insight Yoga Teacher Training Intensive
Yin/Yang/Mindfulness
Kripalu
August 3-12, 2012
For teachers and dedicated practitioners with at least 2 years of yoga experience and a strong interest in meditation.
Deepen your understanding of the experiential, philosophical, and practical application of yoga and Buddhist meditation. This intensive draws from Sarah’s book Insight Yoga and will train you in both a receptive yin style and an active slow flow or yang style of yoga, while also focusing on the theory and practice of Mindfulness meditation. We will explore:
~ How, why, and when to practice Yin Yoga safely and effectively
~ Ways to balance the yin style with a slow flow (yang) practice
~ Physical and subtle alignment in yogic postures
~ Yin Yoga sequences for organ health
~ The Four Foundations of Mindfulness meditation
~ Cultivation of the breath body
~ Assisting those with injuries
~ The use of touch and hands-on adjustments
~ Skillful verbal instruction
~ Subtle body anatomy according to yogic and Chinese philosophy
~ Buddhist psychology.
Please come with a basic understanding of the practices by reviewing the materials listed below.
Required reading Sarah Powers, Insight Yoga (Shambhala); Paul Grilley, Yin Yoga (White Cloud Press); and Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, Mindfulness in Plain English (Wisdom Publications).
Recommended istening/viewing Sarah Powers, Yin Yoga CD, Yin & Vinyasa Yoga Practice DVD, and Insight Yoga DVD, and Earth and Heaven Dvd/s; Paul Grilley, Anatomy for Yoga and Yin Yoga DVDs.
Note: Tuition includes a manual. This training can be part of a larger 500-hour Yoga Alliance certification and is a prerequisite for graduating from the Insight Yoga Institute.
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Sarah Powers
Insight Yoga
Sarah’s classes are intended to deepen one’s understanding of the experiential, philosophical and practical application of yoga and buddhist meditation. The physical discipline of Hatha yoga centers on the harmonious embodiment of postures. How we practice these postures (our state of mind) is as important as which asana we choose and how we orchestrate them. Sarah will explore and refine your understanding of how to bring these passive and active yogic shapes alive within you. Her classes will focus on the combination of inner (breath, energy channels and mind training) and outer (cohesion within the bones and muscles) alignment, as well as the focus on bringing one’s full attention to the Hara, or earth center in the belly during postures. Her classes will combine both Yin yoga postures, practiced safely and effectively to enhance organ health, with strong yang postures. She will also include teachings on the subtle body anatomy according to Yogic and Chinese philosophy, Pranayama is the expansion of the life force through breath regulation. It is the profound practice of circulating and redistributing prana in both the physical and subtle body through various breathing and visualization. Sarah will include these methods both in the asana practice, as well as a separate sitting practice.
Sarah feels the essence of a committed yoga practice is meditative focus and awareness. Developing and sustaining a formal meditation practice can be a continual source of insight, rejuvenation and compassion. It is a practice that can reveal and disempower our destructive, fragmented aspects while potentially revealing our essential nature. Meditation can also deepen one’s awareness and acceptance of oneself and of the world, deepening one’s openness and wakefulness. Sarah will focus on Shamatha (calm abidance) and Vipassana (Insight) during her classes.
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