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TEACHING YOGA: A NURTURING CAREER PATH

In these times of a global pandemic looking after our physical, mental, and spiritual wellbeing has become a call of today’s world. More and more people are drawn to holistic approaches and yoga is turning into a popular response for effective support.

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Yoga Teacher Training: Leveraging the synergy of Mind, Body and Soul

Your love for exercise and Yoga drives an aspiration to pursue it as a career where you teach others. Maybe you don’t want to teach, but that gnawing, deep-gut feeling of “I need to know more!” might give an edge to your urge.

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YOGA TEACHER TRAINING: SHIFTING ONLINE

You have heard of the multiple benefits of yoga. Perhaps you have experienced some of them; attended several classes and left feeling simultaneously relaxed and strong, calm yet invigorated. Have you ever wondered why that was?

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Ashtanga Yoga Opening Mantra

The Opening Prayer is an expression of gratitude that we offer to teachers who have been passing this ancient practice so that we can experience its benefits. The mantra prepares the mind and the body for the practice, but it also cleanses the energy of the place of practice.

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The Invocation: Ashtanga Opening Mantra

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वन्दे गुरूणां चरणारविन्दे सन्दर्शितस्वात्मसुखावबोधे ।
निःश्रेयसे जाङ्गलिकायमाने संसारहालाहलमोहशान्त्यै ॥
आबाहुपुरुषाकारं शङ्खचक्रासिधारिणम्।
सहस्रशिरसं श्वेतं प्रणमामि पतञ्जलिम् ॥

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The practice of Yoga has profound effect on all aspects of our life. Yoga not only improves our physical health but also takes care of our mental well-being creating balance between the body and the mind.

Before we start a discussion on Yoga, let us try to be on the same platform so that we can communicate well. As the author, it’s my duty to convince you that small things can make a huge difference. Well, if you are a physicist or just someone who knows a tiny bit about physics, you have probably heard of The Butterfly Effect. Yes, the one where, in theory, a butterfly flapping its wings in Bangalore can bring a hurricane to the Philippines. Then, we would be ready to discuss. But, I would assume that not most of us are hardcore scientists and I’ll begin with a story. A story of a boy whose application for admission into an arts college got rejected twice and later on led to wiping out 3% of the planet’s human population. So, here it goes.

Sometimes we want something so much that we get obsessed with it. Being busy dreaming of the day we are going to achieve our goal, we tend to miss all the beauty on the way. These wonderful moments you get an inch closer to what you want so badly.

What if Yoga itself is an illusion ? Maybe, it was created to understand other illusions. The final stage of Yoga, Samadhi, can be another kind of cosmic manifestation. A manifestation where time is not linear. After reaching Samadhi, one can feel non-linearity of time. We can have experience beyond space-time but experience beyond space-time can be some kind of matrix, some kind of an illusion.

Asana must be established within. Just getting into the posture is not asana. It must be established within in such a way that your posture, breathing patterns and your dristi should synchronize with each other.