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PranaYoga provides yoga beyond the basics.
Our goal is to include breadth and depth so serious sādhaka (yoga students) can enhance their foundation as one grows their yoga endeavors. Studies offer an integration of philosophy and practices in one’s educational and spiritual pursuits: the philosophy helps one understand why yoga works, and the tools are our opportunity to dive deeper into experiences of connecting body, mind, emotions and Spirit.
As a well-practiced ācārya (teacher), Hansa has taught Yoga Teacher Training, Advanced Specialty Yoga Topics, and Yoga Therapy Training all informed by Ayurveda. She continues to study, especially Subtle Anatomy, Ayurveda, Jyotisha, and Sanskrit. All of Hansa’s offerings reflect her many years of study and teaching, based in a therapeutic approach.
Future trainings, workshops, and courses are based on your requests. And, Hansa aims to share her love for yoga philosophy, yoga tools, esoteric anatomy, expanded yoga topics and whatever her passion of the moment is! There are workshops or courses done in collaboration with other yoga friends too!
SWaHa yoga workshops are specifically Studies With Hansa
Swaha is a yoga term meaning “oblation, offering.” Hansa wants classes to be an offering of yoga knowledge. To study means, “devotion of time and attention to acquiring knowledge.” The classes and workshops are designed to facilitate acquiring knowledge, for ALL of us. (Students are Hansa’s greatest teacher!) Studying yoga can be a challenge due to learning another language along the way, books were written cryptically, and applying the principles outlined in the context of a different time and location! How do the studies apply to today? Our studies will be about the integration and application of yoga wisdom to everyday life. Yoga is more than a practice. It is expanding off the mat and using the information gleaned on the mat to living fully day to day. This is really Hansa’s passion!
Some courses may require that you must have 200 hours of basic yoga education or be a C-IAYT Yoga Therapist.
SWaHa Offerings include:
Yoga Teaching or Spiritual Mentorship
Yoga Therapy APD courses
– C-IAYT Approved Professional Development for Yoga Therapists
YACEP® courses
– Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Courses
Topics include:
Tools of Yoga and Ayurveda: Mantra • Mudrā • Āyurveda • Prānāyāma • Yoga Nidrā • Pratipaksa Bhāvana
Cosmology and Philosophy of Yoga: Esoteric Anatomy • Kaśmīr Śaivism
Classical Texts: Patañjali Yoga Sūtra • Bhagavad Gīta • Hatha Yoga Texts
Our Yoga Therapist certification is the PranaYoga Cikitsa Training
Our training is a 1380-hour program. Only advanced professional yoga teachers are accepted.
Requirements include that you must have 200 hours of basic yoga education and an additional 300 hours of advanced training before you can register. Our bridge program gives you the necessary foundations for the full training and it can count toward the required advanced training hours.
Deepening Practices: Maturing the Foundations
This required bridge program provides an overview of advanced content required for the full training.
Sample topics for the bridge program and the full training include these, plus much more:
Cosmology and Philosophy of Yoga • Classical Texts • Ayurveda • Pranayama • Yoga Nidra • Pratipaksha Bhavana • Tools of Yoga and Ayurveda
FORMER OFFERING
Our Basic 265-hour Training is the Contemplative Yoga Teacher Training
This 265-hour program is available to those who want to become yoga teachers as well as those who want to deepen their yoga practice. Our program is open to students who have practiced yoga for a minimum of one year.
The purpose of this foundational program is to teach and introduce asana basics, pranayama, meditation, basic anatomy and physiology, styles of teaching, marketing skills, and to offer opportunities for spiritual attunement. The information is wrapped into the Philosophy of Yoga which encourages that yoga be taken beyond the mat to a lifestyle of wellness and stillness.
Yoga Alliance Approved RYS® 200.
FORMER OFFERING
Our Advanced 300 Hour + Training is the PranaYoga Teacher Training
300-hour trainings are typically the next step for teachers to accumulate a minimum total of 500 hours training.
Join us in our expansive program: We offer the option to attain that and more in our 300 Hour + training, with more than 1000 hours of optional classes available including the required 200 hours of core courses. You must have a 200-hour YTT certification or permission of the School Director before you can register. Courses can be used as continuing education.
Yoga Alliance Approved RYS® 300.
Sample of core topics include these and more:
Chakra, Tantra, and Esoteric Anatomy • Hatha Yoga Classical Texts • Patanjali Yoga Sutras • Yoga Teaching Methodology • Ayurveda for Yogasana Teachers • Bhagavad Gita
Sample of special interest elective courses include:
Children’s Yoga • Prenatal Yoga • Senior Yoga • Yoga Nidra • Sanskrit • Yoga as Therapy • Classical Texts