Teaching the Contemplative Side of Yoga
Join Sarah Powers for a five day teacher training course to deepen your understanding of the purpose, method and effects of this contemplative practice for the body, heart and mind.
Each day we will explore the physical and energetic details of Yin Yoga, expanding our appreciation of the importance of balancing our vital energy (Prana or Ki) in our yoga sessions, while exploring how various poses affect the meridian system and specific organs which can enhance an overall harmony of being.
We will also attend to the emotional effect of asana, learning how the health of our organ system is intimately connected with balancing our emotional body, and the importance of learning skillful ways to meet difficult feelings as they move through us. Finally, we will develop methods for calming and freeing the mind using Buddhist Mindfulness meditation, with an interest in gathering the tools to share these practices with others.
This intensive is suit
able for those who want to teach these practices, as well as those who are simply interested in deepening their understanding of Yin yoga and meditation.
Please come with a basic understanding of the practices by having read Insight Yoga by Sarah Powers, Yin Yoga by Paul Grilley and Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante Gunaratana. Please also view Sarah’s dvds Yoga, Yin and Vinyasa, and Insight Yoga before coming to the course, available at www.sarahpowers.com and at the Yoga Moves shop.
This training will be held in a location in Amsterdam:
Club Lite, Jan van Galenstraat 24.
Bring a mat, props, asnack, Sarah’s book Insight Yoga, notebook and pen.
Teacher Biography:
Sarah Powers
Sarah Powers began teaching in 1987. She is the founder and author of Insight Yoga, which interweaves the insights and practices of Yoga, Buddhism, Chinese medicine, and Transpersonal Psychology into an integral practice to enliven the body, heart and mind. Her yoga style blends both a Yin sequence of floor poses to enhance the meridian and organ systems, combined with an alignment based slow flow or Yang practice, influenced by Viniyoga, Ashtanga, and Iyengar teachings.
Sarah feels that enlivening the physical and pranic bodies, as well as learning to open to our emotional difficulties is paramount for preparing one to deepen and nourish insights into one's essential nature--a natural state of awareness. She draws from her studies in Transpersonal Psychology, as well as her in-depth training in the Vipassana, Tantric and Dzogchen practices of Buddhism.
Sarah and her husband Ty Powers live in the San Francisco bay area and have created the Insight Yoga Institute which offers 720 hour trainings with other renowned teachers blending yoga, buddhism and psychology (www.insightyogainstitute.com). She is also co-founder of Metta Journeys (www.mettajourneys.com), a service oriented organization that offers yoga retreats internationally to help women and children in developing countries. Sarah is the author of the book Insight Yoga (Shambhala Publications).
To learn more about her see her dvds Insight Yoga or Yin and Vinyasa and go to www.sarahpowers.com.
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