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REQUIRED ELECTIVE WORKSHOPS FOR THE RAMAYASA TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAM

These workshops are also open to the public!

Students will choose four Elective Workshops that are included in the cost of tuition for the teacher training program. All workshops listed below run from approximately 12:00 noon to 9:00 pm. For more details and to sign-up for any of these workshops, click here. The cost for each workshop is $100 ($80 for Bhava Yoga Center students).

THAI YOGA: A Rythmic Dance of Giving with Jen Yarro
Sept 18, 2010

Thai Yoga Massage is a unique practice which combines assisted yoga postures, massage and the mindfulness of Metta (loving kindness) Meditation into a flowing dance of continuous rhythmic motion. Through this rhythmic dance, the giver experiences meditation in motion while the receiver is in a state of balanced energy and tranquility. Join us as we study, experience and explore the unique benefits, techniques and healing qualities of this ancient living art form, utilizing proper body mechanics, introduction to energy lines, breath work, meditation, and yoga.

About the Instructor
Jennifer Yarro is a certified teacher of AcroYoga, Hatha & Vinyasa Yoga, Meridian Yoga, and Thai Yoga Massage. Co-founder of New England School of Thai Yoga Massage, she has studied and trained in Thailand and now travels internationally to teach. In addition, she is a licensed massage therapist with a focus on therapeutic structural alignment. Jennifer is the owner & director of Frog Lotus Yoga in the Berkshires of Massachusetts and on the staff of three Yoga Alliance teacher training programs. www.jenniferyarro.com.

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ORGANIC NUTRITION/ YOGIC LIFESTYLE with Suzanne Young
Sept 25, 2010

This workshop is about bio-balancing and nutrition including about how to:

  • Embrace and live a healthy life
  • Have a strong immune system
  • Posess energy and vibrancy
  • Maintain a fit body internally and externally
  • Through eating well and joyfully, without drugs
  • Finding pleasure in food, not stress

This workshop offers some very informed advice, right down to the particulars of the biochemical level, in a very comprehensible, practical, and down to Earth way. It will be broken into three main sections:  Plants, Animals, and Lifestyle.  Each topic will include a lively and informative lecture and group discussion. Additionally, wonderful yoga asanas and flows promoting and maintaining healthy digestion will be practiced between the first two topics.  Between the second and third topic, the digestion-related meridians (stomach, intestines, and other digestive organs such as kidney, liver, spleen, and bladders) will be nurtured with some yin yoga and gentle self-massaging techniques.

Topics will include:

  • what your body needs to have a strong immune system
  • what an antioxidant actually is; where to find them; what they do; why you need them
  • which dietary supplements are useless to your body
  • what amounts of macronutrients (proteins, carbohydrates, and fats) you need and how your body processes, uses, and stores them
  • what the chemicals are in processes food and from where they originate
  • where the greatest source of dietary fat resides (you’d be surprised; it’s far from obvious!)
  • what a good fat composition is and where to find it and balance it
  • which animals are bred and fed to be obese (do you think a body can be slim eating anything with an obese biochemical make up?!)
  • which foods supply hallow calories with about as much nutrition as a paper towel
  • how your nutritional needs change as life progresses
  • whether you need vitamins, minerals, or other supplements
  • if you want to take vitamins or supplements,  what variety is best
  • which calories have a maximum impact on stressing your body and on your weight
  • why some diet fads work, fail, or, most typically, work for a while then fail
  • what parts of fad diets are right and wrong or essential
  • which foods lie to your body and confuse it generating wrong responses that drag you into unhealthy eating
  • whether it really matters how food is produced
  • what the labels and classifications on food actually tell us
  • which production methods damage overall ecology and land health
  • what the focus of the food industry is and how it’s achieved and what its effect on you is

Healthy living, feeling satisfied, and having pleasure are not only accessible to everyone; they are your most basic rights.  Come learn and forever banish the dysfunctional relationship with food and start really eating well and right without numbers or stress. (And fear not – chocolate and wine are in!)

About the Instructor
Suzanne has a Ph.D. in Amino acid metabolic mechanisms and isotope chemistry from Harvard University.  She is also a professor of chemistry and has taught and lectured all over New England, and occasionally abroad, in Biochemistry, as well as, Organic, Analytical, Physical, Materials, and Introductory chemistries.  

Additionally, after practicing yoga for over a decade, Suzanne completed the Rasamaya-200hr, and is delighted to have even more to give to the community her adaptations of Chakra, Yin-Yang, and Tai Yogas.  She believes in balance: in body; in mind; in life; and in energy as a means to balance all the way to your atomic level (your biochemistry).  Essential to a good life is good health. Good nutrition is a vital part of the base of that balance.

For contact, email: SeaZanne@aol.com.

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AYURVEDA: The Art of Daily Living with Betty Moylan
Nov 6, 2010

This workshop introduces the fundamentals of Ayurveda, the 5000 year old natural medical system of India, and how to apply those principles into our daily lives to create better health and well being.  It is suitable for anyone who is new to Ayurveda or for those who desire to deepen their personal understanding and self-practices.  Through lecture, discussion and demonstrations we will learn about:

  • Doshic theory (what is Vata, Pitta and Kapha)
  • Understand our Prakruti/Vikruti (our individual nature and what causes imbalance)
  • Agni (our power of assimilation and digestion)
  • Tissue Nutrition (how the 7 tissues are formed)
  • Explore the six tastes and their relationships to Vata, Pitta and Kapha
  • Understand the qualities of food
  • Recipe building and the treatment paradigm (how to make food work for you)

About the Instructor
Betty Moylan is a registered yoga teacher, an Ayurvedic consultant and educator, and a licensed massage therapist, providing tools to restore a sense of balance, health and happiness in your life. By combining ancient wisdom with contemporary reality, she can cultivate awareness towards your lifestyle, diet and exercise habits, rest, relaxation and spiritual practice and how these can impact your overall health. Betty offers simple, sensible and practical recommendations for all those open to taking responsibility for their own well-being. The rewards yield balance, peace of mind and inner beauty that radiates for the world to see.

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KUNDALINI YOGA: The Power of the Breath with Daniel Orlansky
Nov 13, 2010

Pranayama is the control and expansion of life energy through various yogic breathing practices and inner locks. Kundalini Yoga, as taught by Yogi Bhajan, combines a strong pranayama practice with movements, asanas, deep relaxation and chanting meditations to awaken a great power within us, known as kundalini energy. In this mini-training we will learn the fundamental principles of Kundalini Yoga, gathering the power of prana through our breath and concentration, through opening the meridian energetic pathways, and through mantra meditation in the tradition of Kundalini Yoga.

About the Instructor
Daniel Orlansky, M.A., E-RYT 500 a yoga teacher for many years, is certified in Meridian Yoga, Kali Ray TriYoga and Kundalini Yoga. He holds a master's degree in Expressive Art Therapy/Dance Therapy from Lesley University and has been a visiting lecturer in movement studies at Tufts University. He has taught in many locations including the Kripalu Center, the Omega Institute, Mass College of Art, Interface, the Dance Complex, YogaSpirit Studios, the Waltham Athletic Club, Charles River School of Shiatsu, Finding Inner Peace Yoga Center, and the Kali Ray TriYoga Center, as well as various schools in Germany and Austria. He is currently on the staff of several yoga teacher training programs in the US and in Europe. www.meridianyoga.com

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ART OF SEQUENCING with Peter Rizzo
Dec 4, 2010

This workshop will cover basic principles of sequencing.

  • Why and how we sequence yoga asana
  • Sequencing as it relates to yoga philosophy
  • Fundamentals of intelligent sequencing (do's and dont's)

During lunch, students will have the opportunity to design new classes or revamp old ones. In the afternoon, we will critique, anonymously, several classes handed-in by students. Students should walk away with a deeper understanding of how to go about designing an intellegently, sequenced class.

About the Instructor
A student of yoga since 1987, Peter Rizzo has been teaching yoga since the early nineties. He was certified at the 500- and 200-hour levels at Jivamukti Yoga with Sharon Gannon and David Life in 1997.

In his own practice and teaching philosophy, Peter combines the breath and physical intensity of Ashtanga, the rigorous alignment of Iyengar, the rare humanity of Desikachar, and his own innate intelligence and creativity. The result is the opposite of yoga as the formulaic business model that is so popular the western world—easy-answers-to-easy-questions. Instead, it brings a focused investigation into knowledge of our essential being.

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