Our 2023/2024 Yoga Therapy training is focusing on “Yoga Tools” and the Classical Yoga Epics: the Ramāyāṇa, Mahābhārata and the Bhāgavad Gīta.

In this unusual outreach, we are opening some of the classes to Yoga Teachers, offering the opportunity for you to broaden your yoga skill set and earn advanced credits for your Yoga Alliance certifications. We are thankful that we can be part of your yoga journey.

Attend one, several or all: 

Ritual as a Therapy Tool
November 27, 2023   11:15 a.m. – 3:15 p.m.
4 hours $64 

Ritual can be a celebration of traditional holidays, celebrating special events (graduation, birthdays, marriage, etc), to establishing a basic bedtime or morning ritual to support consistency in a chaotic world.  Explore ritual as a tool for whole health.

Vastu as a Therapeutic Tool
December 4, 2023 12:15 – 3:15 p.m.
3 hours $48 

Many of us have heard of feng shui, and have you heard of Vastu śastra?  This is the Indian art of arranging a home, office, furniture, etc. allowing for a flow of energy that enhances your living spaces.  We will discover some basic concepts in this session, and how little changes may make a living space more comfortable.

Seva, Dana and Charity as Yoga Therapy
January 8, 2024 11:15 a.m. – 3:15 p.m.
4 hours $64 

Yes, giving and sharing you and your talents in the world as a gift is a yoga practice.  They should be done as an overflow of life, rather than an obligation to tithe.  Mother Theresa says, “In this life we cannot always do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”   How do we enter the world of contributing from our deepest essence, with great love?

Pratipakṣa Bhāvana as a Therapy Tool
January 15, 2024  11:15 a.m. – 3:15 p.m.
4 hours $64

Patañjali says in the Yoga Sūtra, paraphrased for today, if you have a lemon, make lemonade!

He actually wrote, from Swami Satchitananda translation, Verse 2.33, When disturbed by negative thoughts, opposite [positive] ones should be thought of. This is pratipakṣa bhāvana.”  How do we use this as a life tool?  This session will explore tools for empowering svādyāya as a tool for personal insights and growth.

Dṛṣti and Trāṭaka as Yoga Tools
January 22, 2024  11:15 a.m. – 3:15 p.m.
4 hours $64

Dṛṣṭi comes from ‘dṛi’ to perceive and ‘ṣṭi ‘ to make steady.  It is not just gazing.  Trāṭaka is to fix the eyes on an object.  When you steady the eyes, you steady the mind.  There are tools to support stability in a world, for me, often a mental world of chaos, to become secure in how it perceives life.  This yoga tool will be explored in this session.

Each workshop has special pricing: $64.00 (Vastu: $48)

For each course registration,
a non-refundable fee of $20.00 applies if you must cancel 

Taught by: 

Hansa or the Yoga Therapy Teaching Team