B.1.1 Welcome Video + Coming Together: Anatomical & Energetic Reasons to Chant
Yoga Teacher Training Material - Fall 2018 – 21m
More than any other video in the training, please watch this video in a quiet space where you can sit alone, undisturbed. This is our opening ceremony. We’ll be connecting to a lineage of teachers through a beautiful opening exercise. Have cushions (and props as needed) nearby to take a comfortable meditation seat.
Covered in 1.1:
-Guru Chant, Meaning + Grounding Meditation
- Anatomical reasons to chant
-Creates vasopressin
-Stimulates the pituitary and releases endorphins
-Triggers the relaxation response
-Slows the breath and elongates the exhale
-Energetic reasons to chant
-Brings community together
-Helps students find their voice
-Creates a connected “vibe” or energetic frequency
-Signals a division between the outside world and your practice; forms a sacred space
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B.1.2. Individuality + The Pose is No...
Sutra 1.1 Atha Yoga Anusasanam
Only in “the moment of now” can Yoga beginCovered in 1.2:
-Most injuries occur when we are entering or exiting a pose
-We are all vastly different, down to our bones
-Demonstration of the differences in femur length between two specimens
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B.1.3 The Big Picture
Sutra 2.1 Tapah Svadhyaya Ishvara Pranidhana Kriya Yogah
Yoga is the balance of discipline and surrender through the study of the selfCovered in 1.3
- Our aim is to balance effort/muscular energy (tapah) and softening/surrender (ishvara pranidhana)
- This tight rope walk is navigated thro... -
B.1.4 Yoga is a Sweet, Steady Seat
Sutra 2.46 Sthira Sukham Asanam
Translation: Yoga is a comfortable steady seatCovered in 1.4:
-One of the very few sutras that deals directly with how asana should be performed
-“Asanam” defined as how do you “sit” in relationship to the postures (and everything else in your life)
-We’...
