Ashiyana Yoga Teacher Training

Feb 21st to March 21st 2010


This training has been created in response to the very particular time in which we live. On the one hand mankind is, in the main, not flowing harmoniously with nature, we are impacting quite dreadfully on our earthly biosphere, and most people clearly lack a sense of wellbeing and inner peace. Yet on the other hand, all is somehow just as it is meant to be, since life has no one and no thing to answer to - it just is.

How do we reconcile this apparent paradox? We live at a time when we are being called to wake-up and address our human plight, so that we may remember that we are infact ,deeply at peace within. When we realize this, our peace affects positively all that is around us, and outer peace begins to manifest. So it is, that "inner ecology must precede outer ecology".

There is a need to see yoga in the context of the world today, so that it may best be presented and practiced according to the challenges and possibilities of life, here and now. Man has realized incredible achievements outwardly, though in the main, he is painfully unaware of the pressing call to journey inwards. We are all seeking to love and be loved, though for most, this is a distant dream.


Who is this training for -

Anyone who has an earnest desire for self-knowledge and for whom the words on this page resonate. You may be a yoga practitioner or teacher who is lacking direction or clarity, or you may be new to yoga, either way it is not important, since ideas of beginner and advanced are just that - ideas.

It is not necessary that you go on to teach yoga after the course, our intention is to inspire you to be more of yourself - authentic, confident, loving, clear, and flowing with life. In this way you will discover ever more about your divine purpose here on earth.


Our Vision -

We see the yoga teacher, and indeed all humans, as unique beings who have the possibility to experience their inner peace of being and thence invite others towards the same. Our course is far more about you within, than it is about you the body-mind. For if you know yourself more fully, then you grow to love yourself and hence flow with life rather than against her. As this realization expands, you are able to experience what you teach, and live who you are.


The course -

The course will be framed around the four main paths of yoga - Jnana, Raja, Karma and Bakhti. There will be an examination of the traditional and most common interpretation of yoga according to Patanjali's eight limbs of Raja yoga. However, this will be set against a varied backdrop of alternative perspectives on yoga and life, such that you may realize your own vision of what yoga means for you in today's world. We intend to inspire, provoke and challenge you.

The course will be presented by a group of people who come from different backgrounds and sets of conditioning, yet share a similar vision that yoga offers a path to liberation, not in some theoretical future possibility, but in the realization of our own inner peace of being. The course is based on seven realizations:

* To transcend suffering, we must first acknowledge its existence
* We are all one  - nature, humans, animals and all of life
* Yoga is not just a physical practice - we may go beyond the form and discover the essence of our being
* When we are well we vibrate this message to all that is around us
* We are here on earth to learn to love and be loved in return
* There is not "one who knows" and "others that learn and follow" - we wish to empower you to find your inner guru such that you are self-inspired and that you grow from your own inner wisdom
* We may flow with Life

We will be offering the possibility of teaching/facilitating at Ashiyana, after completion of the course, for those who are interested.

[This course is a 200 Hr. Yoga Register Registered Course]


For Further info and to book  please contact us.



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