with Durga Leela

October 25 – November 4, 2012

Yoga Alliance Hrs: 80 (approximate) CEUs available: Inquire with durga@yogaofrecovery.com

Tuition, manual: $875 Room, meals: Dormitory: $675; Private Room/Shared Bath: $870 Private Room/Private Bath: $1015; Tent: $460

Yoga of Recovery is the first comprehensive course to combine Ayurveda and Yoga with traditional recovery tools to offer a more holistic mind, body, spirit approach to addiction and self-destructive behaviors. This course is for therapists, social workers, addiction counselors, sponsors, yoga teachers, Ayurvedic practitioners and anyone interested in a more holistic and complete view of the problem and its solution. Bringing the West (12 Steps) and the East (Yoga and Ayurveda) together offers us a truly empowering approach to counseling those who embark on a program of recovery. It is the evolution of the solution.

Upon completion of the course you will have the skills to introduce the healing potential of the holistic sciences of Ayurveda and Yoga into your own life and those around you.

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with Mukunda & Chinnamasta Stiles September 30 – October 7, 2012

Yoga Alliance: 49 hours (approximate) Tuition: $1450 Add seven nights accommodations, meals: Dorm: $465; Private Room/Shared Bath: $590; Private Room/Private Bath: $685; Tent: $315

This yoga teacher training is based on an integration of teachings from Patanjali’s Classical Yoga text the Yoga Sutras and Mukunda’s insights into Ayurvedic Yoga. Much of the material was sourced from teachings given in individual sessions to Dr. Paul Copeland in India during 1971-’73 by Krishnamacharya. Paul was presented a unique practice based on Krishnamacharya’s fundamental teaching principle of “adapting to the individual”. Mukunda learned these practices from ’73-’75. The method incorporates Classical Hatha, Tantra, and Raja Yogas to form a continuum of training that integrated the five bodies (pancha kosha) model of yogic anatomy. It is both profoundly practical and deeply spiritual. The training will cover all practices of Mukunda’s book, Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy (available for Kindle, too) and will be co-taught by Mukunda and Chinnamasta Stiles, Hence it is advisable for students to read the book and his Yoga Sutras of Patanjali – With Great Respect and Love, prior to coming. Open to all with yoga and/or ayurveda background, the emphasize is on personalizing the Sadhana from the book, with option for teacher certification.

CURRICULUM Teaching contact hours: 49 hours • 7 days of 7 hrs class time • Learning 9 vinyasas for the 3 doshas vata, pitta and kapha • Learning all pranayama’s, bandhas and shat karma practices described in the book “Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy” • Understanding of teachings of the elements, the doshas, the gunas, the five pranas • Basic ayurvedic nutrition and life style principles and learning how to prepare an ayurvedic meal. • Daily Spirit teachings of Yoga Sutra’s of Patanjali and how to apply the Ayurvedic principles according to the sutra’s Non-contact hours: 95 hours • 1 hour daily AYT Sadhana for 3 months – 90 hours • 5 hours for writing a resume of 3 pages Teacher certification requirements: For 30 days do the vata vinyasas and pranayama’s followed by you personalized ayurvedic Sadhana. Next month replace the vata practices by the pitta vinyasas and pranayama’s. Third month replace the pitta practices by the kapha vinyasas and pranayama’s. Connect to Mukunda and Chinnamasta to adapt the shat karma cleansing techniques for you. Material to be mastered for certification: • Competence to teach the 9 vinyasas, pranayama’s and shat karma procedures within a class • Understanding and experience of the 5 prana’s within yourself • Understanding of Ayurvedic principles of the elements, the doshas, the gunas, ama, detoxification process • Knowledge of basic ayurvedic nutrition and life style recommendations • Understanding in depth of Yoga Sutras of Patanjali chapter 2 from Ayurvedic perspective and knowing how to apply the principles in class Certification • Certification is given based on approval of a written resume (3 pages) of the personal experiences of all practices in book (all vinyasas / pranayamas and shat karma cleansing techniques done during 90 days) that shows the students understanding and personal experience of the material. • 1 hr private over Skype or in person to show the requested practices and answer questions about the material taught in class Not all students who follow the training will receive certification.

Mukunda Stiles has an incredibly rich and diverse background in classical and contemporary Yoga. His mentors include Swami Muktananda, Indra Devi (the Mother of Yoga) and B.K.S. Iyengar. He developed Structural Yoga Therapy in 1976 and has been an advisor in hospitals and at the University of California. He co-founded the American Yoga College with Rama Jyoti Vernon and has taught the nondual Yoga Vasistha in India. He has been authorized to give personal guidance in all forms of Yoga and to guide students awakening as shaktipat through the Grace of his spiritual teacher, Swami Muktananda. He is the author of four books including Structural Yoga Therapy and a poetic rendering of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali as well as editor of seven books on ayurveda. Mukunda lives in Ojai, CA. www.yogatherapycenter.org

Chinnamasta is a graduate of the Structural Yoga Therapy course and a healer trained in diverse authentic body treatments in a Gujarati-based Ayurvedic center in France. She worked in an intensive care unit for children as a registered nurse in Holland.  Her guidance touches the body at a soul level, often generating spontaneous healing kriyas. She has studied tantra and healing for fifteen years, primarily in UK, US, Holland and India. As a unique devi she offers a special complement to Mukunda’s teachings. The essence of her nature is experienced by her presence. www.shivashaktiloka.com

To enroll, please call: 800 858 9642 or register directly online.