Deepening Practices: Maturing the Foundations or the Esoteric Anatomy weekend
are available for all yoga practitioners who have a
minimum 200 hour YTT certification or permission of the instructor.

The 45-hour advanced course is a Continuing Education Course that also
serves as the prerequisite Bridge Course for
our Yoga Therapy Training, see more here or below.

In-person attendance is preferred, contact us about hybrid options.

Come and learn PranaYoga’s style of teaching before committing to the full PranaYoga Cikitsa Training which requires a total of 500 hours training with 300 hours of advanced yoga training. 

Course fee (non-refundable amount varies by registration date)

$815.00 Early Bird discount for full course

• $890.00 after one month ahead
• $950.00 after 2 weeks out

Course fee (non-refundable amount varies by registration date)

$300.00 Early Bird discount for Esoteric Anatomy weekend only

• $350.00 after one month ahead
• $400.00 after 2 weeks out

Course Overview: The course objective is to create a deeper foundation of basic yoga information. It includes a survey of advanced yoga topics, which may help you to choose further advanced trainings. We will review the cosmology of yoga and the tools to help us remember our truth, and an overview of the basics of āsana, prānāyāma, meditation, dṛṣṭi, mudrā, mantra and bandha. We will delve into the effect of yoga tools in relationship to yogic anatomy and āyurveda. A general, brief overview of many classical yoga texts rounds out the course. See below for topic details, including Esoteric Anatomy which can be taken separately.

Taught by: 

Hansa and Samantha  

Deepening Practices: Maturing the Foundations 

See below for what comprises the full course.

TOPIC
Esoteric Anatomy – also offered as a stand-alone CE course  

Rather than learning about the external manifestations of the cakra, we are going to enter the vibrations of the Divine and explore the inside story. Explore the concept of being an expansion of Divine energy, receiving an opportunity to experience Itself in form.
– Learn about the cakra-s source energy as a vibration of the Divine essence.
– Explore how the movement of the vibration creates a unique vṛtti, or dynamic for us to explore in our life.
– Learn where the vibration moves through the nadi to points on the skin called marma points, kṣetra, or bāhya mātṛka points.
– Acquaint yourself how the channeling of consciousness into form creates our unique doṣā.
– Learn to select movements that tap into the vibration of your expanded Self in āsana, prānāyāma, and meditation to support your personal growth and that of your students.

Handouts will be part of the course materials.

Required, choice of:

Johari, Harish, Chakras, 1987, Destiny Books, Rochester, VT.

or

Radha, Swami Sivananda, Kundalini Yoga for the West,  1985, Shambala, Boston, Massachusettes.

Required, choice of:

Frawley, David, Ranade, Dr, Subhash, and Lele, Dr. Avishash, Ayurveda and Marma Therapy, 2003, Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin.

or

Lad, Dr. Vasant and Durve, Anisha, Marma Points of Ayurveda, 2008, The Ayurvedic Press. Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Suggested reading: Frawley, David, Mantra Yoga and Primal Sound: Secret of Seed (Bija) Mantras, 2010, Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, WI.

TOPIC 
Yoga Tools and Yoga Therapy vs. Yoga Teaching

Classically, yoga was an individualized personal discipline developed to enhance personal growth.  Yoga Cikitsā offers much more than guidance in a group class with an āsana focus or using yoga personally as a tool for self-discovery.  The course will begin to touch on the integration of eastern subtle body anatomy in āsana and western anatomy.  We will review the differences between yoga teaching and yoga therapy.  This is to support our understanding of the scope of practice for different ways to teach and apply yoga tools.

We will experience and discuss how the the body systems are an interwoven fabric, linked together to harmoniously move us through our life.  By acknowledging the musculoskeletal system is “out of whack”, it becomes the Communicator of the Spirit.  Yoga tools become the path through prāna to recreate balance.  We will discuss the many tools of yoga: āsana, prānāyāma, meditation, mudrā, mantra, marma, dṛṣṭi, pratipakṣa bhāvana, and yoga nidrā svādyāyam.  We will experience and practice breathing based on western anatomy and how, when done anatomically, it supports the integration of spinal movement, prāna flow and tools such as the bandha.

Going to the mind, a review of pratipakṣa bhāvana will point us to integrating the mind into interpreting daily living experiences.   The inner journey tools of meditation, yoga nidrā and yoga nidrā svādyāyam will round out this overview of yoga tools.  

Handouts will be part of the course materials.

Suggested reading:

Frawley, David, Ranade, Dr, Subhash, and Lele, Dr. Avishash, Ayurveda and Marma Therapy, 2003 Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin.
-or-
Lad, Dr. Vasant and Durve, Anisha, Marma Points of Ayurveda, 2008, The Ayurvedic Press. Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Calais-Germain, Blandin.  Anatomy of Breathing.  2006, Eastland Press, Seattle, Washington.

Desai, Kamini  Yoga Nidra: The Art of Transformational Sleep, 2017, Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin.