- Loving our Way to Freedom & Living our Loving Presence

with Richard Miller April 10 – April 15, 2012

Yoga Alliance: 30 hours (approximate) RYT500 Tuition includes manual: $550. ($495 early bird*) Add five nights accommodation and meals: Dorm: $395; Private/Share: $510; Private $595; Tent: $320

* Early bird rate applies to all reservations paid in full by January 1, 2012. Please contact the Ashram Reservation Center at 800 858 9642 (YOGA).

This being human is a guesthouse, every morning a new arrival. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. —Rumi

 “An encounter with meditation teacher Richard Miller is an encounter you do not forget. Richard is one of this generation’s most important teachers of nondual wisdom. He reminds us that in our true nature we are already free, enlightened, and awake, and that in any moment we can savor Divine presence.” - Stephen Cope, director of the Institute for Extraordinary Living

The teachings of nondual yoga reveal our innate nature as pure being, pure presence, which expresses itself in our body and mind and in all our relationships as ineffable peace, joy, love, and compassionate loving-kindness. Our presence can never be objectified. But it can be experientially embodied as our moment-to-moment lived experience. This is the reason we are called “human Beings”. This is the path of yoga. This is the path of delight, wonder, astonishment and love. Read the rest of this entry »

John Schlorholtz May 17 – 20, 2012

Yoga Alliance: 20 hours (approximate) Tuition: $240 Add three nights accommodations and meals: Dorm: $245; Private Room/Shared Bath: $330 Private Room/Private Bath: $385; Tent: $170

As our elders change in body and mind they need new approaches to help foster health.  The models for body and mind work that took them through their middle years often are no longer a good fit.  Yoga, with its insights into human development, is well suited to help people age harmoniously.  When yoga teachers and health professionals study the changes aging brings we can serve our elders profoundly by knowing how to creatively and wisely adapt our teaching. Read the rest of this entry »

with Biff Mithoefer June 5 – 10, 2012

Yoga Alliance: 50 hours  RYT500Tuition: $550: Add five nights accommodations and meals:  Dorm: $395; Private Room/Shared Bath: $510; Private Room/Private Bath: $595; Tent: $320

Yin Yoga uses long-held postures that support us in accessing the deeper, more yin parts of ourself. In this 5-day training, we explore how the ancient yogic practice of Yin Yoga can bring balance to our physical, energetic, and emotional bodies.

Guided by Biff Mithoefer, author of The Yin Yoga Kit, we learn how to lead a Yin Yoga class and incorporate yin postures and philosophy into any yoga practice. We discover how to:

- Apply Taoist philosophy in our practice - Practice nonstriving in our life and our teaching - Follow the movement of prana in the body and discover how it can be affected by Yin Yoga - Develop a deeper understanding of anatomy and our own natural anatomical patterns - Sequence a Yin Yoga class - Hold a safe, sacred space for practice

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Timothy McCall, M.D. September 9 – 16, 2012

Yoga Alliance Hrs: 37 (approximate) Tuition: $550. Add seven nights accommodations and meals: Dorm: $465; Private Room/Shared Bath: $590 Private Room/Private Bath: $685; Tent: $315

Join physician, author, and yogi Dr. Timothy McCall to discover—or deepen your appreciation of—the potential of using yoga as medicine for everything from depression to infertility to heart disease. Explore the vast toolbox, including postures, breathing techniques, relaxation, chanting, visualization, meditation, and philosophical ideas, and learn how these tools can be adapted to meet everyone’s needs—young or old, fit or unfit, healthy or seriously ill. Beyond relieving symptoms or even curing disease, yoga as medicine is a path to high-level physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.

Practice assessing students structurally, energetically (including Ayurveda), psychologically, and spiritually, and plan therapeutic programs. Beyond relieving symptoms or even curing disease, yoga as medicine is a path to high-level physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing.

Areas of focus will include:

• The ancient yogic formula for changing dysfunctional habits
• Anatomical principles that deepen yoga practice and make it safer
• The vital link between breath, nervous system and mind
• Reconciling yoga and modern science.
• Practicing safely with various health challenges
• Ayurvedic insights that deepen the therapeutic yoga potential

In addition to lecturing and leading participants through a variety of yoga practices, Dr. McCall will personally conduct a private yoga therapy session on one of the students from the workshop in front of the group for teaching purposes. In addition, there will be group yoga therapy exercises, with some participants serving as patients, and others acting as yoga therapists, under the supervision of Timothy and his assistants.

For yoga students of all levels, yoga teachers and health-care professionals.

Timothy McCall, M.D., is a board-certified specialist in internal medicine and a dedicated yoga practitioner who has traveled to India and throughout the United States observing, training with, and interviewing the world’s leading yoga teachers and therapists. He is the medical editor of Yoga Journal, and is the author of Yoga as Medicine: The Yogic Prescription for Health and Healing (Bantam). Timothy studies with a traditional Ayurvedic Vaidhya (doctor) in Kerala, India and with a Tantric master in Bangalore. His primary yoga teacher since 1995 has been Patricia Walden. He, and dozens of his articles, can be found on the web at www.DrMcCall.com.

“This is a landmark book. Yoga as Medicine provides a remarkable perspective on the breadth and depth of Yoga therapy, and many leading practitioners, both in the West and India, in a uniquely educational, engaging, and inspiring way.” —John Kepner, Executive Director, Int’l Association of Yoga Therapists

“If you care about your body and want to learn to listen more carefully to its messages, and to take good care of it over the long haul, you will find this book a godsend, whether you are young or old, firm or infirm, a new-comer to Yoga or an old-timer.  It is the first comprehensive medical look at the benefits of Yoga and its therapeutic uses.  Timothy McCall has done a great service to the field of mind/body medicine”. —Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Medical School

Testimonials from Recent Workshop Attendees

“(He is) a gem in the Yoga community. The mixture of (his) medical background, Yoga knowledge, and down-to-earth way of presenting is much appreciated. Helping people is what this is all about for me, and knowledge such as (his) provides me with deeper resources and science to back it.”

“Knowledgeable, professional while at the same time humble and not ostentatious. Very helpful in addressing issues and understanding of problems. A great teacher who sincerely wants to share knowledge and help.”

“Dr. McCall offers a very exciting and balanced perspective. He beautifully integrates and examines Western science with holistic approaches to Yoga.”

“Dr. McCall exceeded my expectations.  He offered lots of scientific material and a wealth of knowledge from his unique, professional opinions based on fact and experience.  He gave a great presentation, which was interesting, dynamic and funny.”

“A truly perfect blend of theory and practice. Dr. McCall is a wonderful presenter—great sense of humor, kind, clear.”

“Very helpful. As a physician, I was impressed at his calmness. I haven’t been to a course recently where the “keynote speaker” wasn’t dashing off in a mad hurry to get a plane to go back home. Can really tell he believes and practices what he preaches.”

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

with Mukunda & Chinnamasta Stiles

September 30 – October 7, 2012

Yoga Alliance: 49 hours (approximate)

Tuition: $1450 Add accommodations, meals: Dorm: $465; Private Room/Shared Bath: $590; Private Room/Private Bath: $685; Tent: $315

This 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. Read the rest of this entry »

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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