Your personal practice is the foundation of all your future yoga experiences. Whether you want to deepen your understanding of Svaroopa® yoga, share the basics with loved ones or teach beginning students, Foundations provides the essentials needed to move forward, beginning with your first student - you!
I don't want to teach...
FOUNDATIONS is accessible to everyone: yoga students, yoga teachers, new yogis, family members, friends and loved ones. Discover how easy it is to make powerful changes in your body by using Svaroopa® yoga's most reliable tools: precision and support. Learn how to get the most out of your own practice by developing your understanding along with your technique. During this four-day intensive you will explore these tools and more, to experience a new depth in your yoga experience. With our expert guidance you'll lay the foundation for profound personal shifts and openings.
I want to teach...
FOUNDATIONS is the first step toward Teacher Training. We know that the best teachers are dedicated students with a strong personal practice. This four-day training provides the foundation necessary for you to deepen your practice as well as to begin sharing what you know and love. Learn how to help others with their alignment and props in the poses, so they get maximum results with minimum effort. Learn how to plan your classes effectively, regardless of their size or length. Begin exploring yoga's profound teachings on the inner experiences that blossom forth, for you and for your students.
Are you ready to learn Svaroopa® yoga's revolutionary methods for personal transformation? Our caring, professional Teacher Trainers will support you all the way! Join the worldwide community of people who have chosen this unique path of enlivened yoga practice. Share the experience; invite a friend to join you at FOUNDATIONS. Support yourself and your loved ones in soaring to new levels of practice and living.
YOGIC INTERWEAVING
Our approach is spherical, encompassing all of yoga, not just asana practice. Everything we teach is based in the ancient tantric texts and teachings, which focus on discovering the divine reality hidden in everyday life: the infinity within this finite world, the cosmic in the mundane, the sacred within the daily practicalities. This course is called Foundations because it bases you in three interweaving elements simultaneously: poses, anatomy and yoga's foundational principles of consciousness.
POSES
Learn the foundational poses of Svaroopa® yoga, the poses that provide reliable spinal opening. These are the key poses of the practice, not merely introductory practices. Your experience of each pose interweaves with what you learn by working with a partner. Understand the pose more fully by helping someone else get the most out of it. Deepen your experience by describing it to your partner, while you get personalized adjustments in the pose and get deeper openings than ever before. Clarify your understanding in the group discussion after each pose, as you personalize the information on your detailed pose handout.
ANATOMY
Transform your understanding of how the human body works. Learn the foundational principles of Svaroopa® yoga anatomy, which clarify the experiences you are having in your own body. We make it accessible and understandable by including it in every pose handout, in your pose-partnering, and in the group discussion of each pose. Your breakthrough comes when we lead you through several pages of the Anatomy Coloring Book, showing you where medical anatomy and yoga anatomy meet, and where they differ. Your new understanding of anatomy supports the deeper openings you are getting in your body, while those openings support your understanding of your own anatomy.
CONSCIOUSNESS
Discover the breadth and beauty of yoga's ancient teachings in the foundational sutras of Svaroopa® yoga. The deeper openings you get in your body will have already made it impossible for your mind to hold onto its old familiar limitations. Your need to understand this process is satisfied by these ancient teachings that guide you to a deeper dimension of your own being. Understand the inner experiences that blossom within, especially in our daily chanting and meditation sessions. These sutras give new meaning to what your are learning about the poses and anatomy, as well as providing a map of the future that yoga promises for you - to know your own self as Consciousness-Itself.
- June 27 - July 1 Malvern, PA
Enrollment: Select date and click Enroll below - July 12 - 16 Atlanta, GA
Enrollment: Contact Ellen Sichel at ellen@ellensichelyoga.com - July 25 - 29 Chelmsford, MA
Enrollment: Contact Becky Bronson at becky.bronson@bbyoga.com - August 1 - 6 Mount Madonna, Watsonville, CA
Enrollment: Contact Mount Madonna at www.mountmadonna.org - August 11 - 15 Fallbrook CA
Enrollment: Contact Jaya Boyce Crivello at taradevi@sbcglobal.net - August 22 - 26 Malvern, PA
Enrollment: Select date and click Enroll below - August 31 - September 4 St Paul MN
Enrollment: Contact Leslie Johnson at leslie99johnson@hotmail.com - October 22 - 26 New London CT
Enrollment: Contact Donna Crisuolo at yogarox@sbcglobal.net - October 24 - 28 Malvern, PA
Enrollment: Select date and click Enroll below - November 5 - 9 Fairoaks (Sacramento) CA
Enrollment: Contact Kaya Mindlin at yogawithkaya@yahoo.com - December 4 - 8 Rockville MD
Enrollment: Contact Sally Broadhurst at shanti1956@aol.com
Prerequisites: None
Members Tuition: early (6 weeks prior) - $ 505,
late - $ 545
Non-Members Tuition: early (6 weeks prior) - $
530, late - $ 575
Materials: $35
Please note: Tuition for Foundations courses held in locations other than Malvern PA will vary. Please contact the host for details.
For schedule information, click here. For more information, contact Caroline Kennedy at 619-718-9642, ext. 5 or myti@masteryoga.org. If you would like our full course catalog, click here.
