200-Hour In-Depth Yoga Study and Teacher Training Program taught by Carrie Morgan, Mel Robin & Megan Ridge assisted by Alysha Pfeiffer & Jessie Thompson March - November 2010 Please note! The start date of our upcoming session of our teacher training program has been extended to March 13th! If you are interested in registering, please contact the studio and we'll give you all the infomation you need about the program. Early registration price extended to February 28, 2010.
The Yoga Loft 200-Hour In-Depth Yoga Study and Teacher Training Program is a comprehensive course designed to deepen your understanding of yoga practice and philosophy. This program is open to those who are interested in taking their yoga practice to a deeper level as well as those who want to teach. Our program is registered and approved by the National Yoga Alliance, and those who complete all components of the program will be eligible to apply for RYT (Registered Yoga Teacher) status.
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Knowing others is intelligence. Knowing yourself is true wisdom.
EXCERPTS FROM TT
Personal Benefits of practicing Surya Namaskar A: Why I Practice.
In a general sense, I have come to realize that practicing yoga is so much more than the physical stretching I first anticipated when I began my practice.It has evolved into something that involves my whole being; my breath and its rhythmic connection to movement, my mind and its surrender to the meditative state, my spirit as I grow connected to all life on this planet sharing the air we breathe.
Specific to Surya Namaskar A is the initial feeling of stability and strength as I stand in Tadasana.I feel taller.Maybe I actually am taller as I compensate for weaknesses in posture that creep in when I am not paying attention.I've noticed there are times when I'm not doing formal yoga, like when I am walking the dogs, that I become aware of posture and strive to be more Tadasana-like.I've even noticed that my cycling posture is changing; straighter back, bending forward more from the hips than from rounding my spine.Uttanasana releases my spine to lengthen, stretches my very tight hamstrings, and relaxes my neck.I can feel the blood flowing into my head. My sinuses swell and I experience a minor discomfort, which is more that offset by the release of the swelling when I am once again upright. Ardha Uttanasana continues the good stretch begun in Uttanasana.Plank and Chaturanga Dandasana challenge and strengthen my relatively weak upper body.Urdhva Mukha Svanasana brings my heart forward and open giving a nice stretch to the front of my body.My attitude seems to be mirrored in this heart opening.My spine is strengthened and massaged.Adho Mukha Svanasana brings me into a place of recovery, reconnecting with breath and calming the mind. Hamstrings continue their much needed stretch.The cervical spine gets to relax and expand.
John Cosgrove
TT 2007
Yoga Sutra 1.2 - yogah cittavrtti nirodhah 'yoga is the cessation of the fluctuations of the mind'
"I have lived Sutra 1.2 very few times in my life, but I often find these moments when driving alone with the radio off. My mind will become so turbulent with the day's events, work to be done, and events yet to happen. Suddenly I will go blank. And then I notice the natural world. Driving to work on Thursday I was running late and thinking about grades. I took a breath and focused, only to notice the shape of the snow flakes on the window. My mind was quiet."
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