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The
goal of our teacher-training program is to provide all the
resources, teaching skills, and information necessary to teach
traditional yoga and yoga-based hybrid classes to groups and
individuals with diverse needs in various settings. Our teachers
come away well versed not only in the basic vocabulary of
yoga practice but educated in the universal underpinnings
operating during practice. Because we aim high, we go beyond
simply teaching yoga postures or a one-size-fits-all sequence.
Instead we offer comprehensive training in traditional yoga
practice as a universal foundation for creative positive living,
as the bedrock for unique yoga-based classes, and as the frame
of reference for addressing individual therapeutic, remedial
wellness, and movement rehabilitative needs. |
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With
the original eight-fold path (ashtanga) of yoga practice at
its core, our unique program offers complementary training
in universal movement fundamentals. The movement aspect of
our program empowers teachers in these following areas of
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Movement
basics: the fundamental aspects of movement for efficient,
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and expressive action in the world. |
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The
physical-metaphysical: the mind-body connection where
movement |
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patterning
reveals our strategies for living. |
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The
developmental basis of practice: understanding the classical
yoga postures |
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"archetypes of experience" that crystallize
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organization and expression. |
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Spontaneous
movement exploration: "soul yoga" or inner
research where inner |
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intentions
and concerns are encouraged to arise in movement expression
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is witnessed and held in a safe and supportive setting. |
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Yoga
theory and western anatomy are taught experientially so teachers
may refine sensitivity and awareness of how yoga works to
purify, fortify, nourish, and enliven each aspect of material
being. Of the various body systems explored we focus on the
reflexes and primitive actions of the nervous system in their
role of supporting complex action in yoga practice and meaningful
interaction throughout the course of our lives. Yoga's view
of corporeal being is the context within which exploration
is meaningful interpreted. |
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In
addition, the historical and philosophical matrix of yoga
as a science of self-realization along with yogic lifestyle
and wellness practices drawing from Ayurveda (yoga's sister
life science of healing) are included. |
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These
many dimensions of our training provide teachers with a broad
experiential, didactic, and analytical basis from which to
create original programs, exceptional classes, and tailor-made
individual sessions for a vast range of needs using the profound
principles of yoga science and philosophy. |
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Two
training programs are planned for 2006-2007. A 16 day summer
Intensive at Springfield College in Massachusetts, summer
2006 and a year-long, approximately one week-end a month
program beginning in September 2006 in Princeton. Our detailed
brochure and application are available online using the
following links:
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Application |
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instead you would like to receive the brochure and application
by mail or have questions please contact: |
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| Jaime
Schmitt and Spanda Yoga. |
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