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In this issue:
Recipe for a Summer Yogatini
Yoga Teacher Training and Certification
Deepening Your Practice
 
Recipe for a Summer Yogatini
by Tracey Rich
Ingredients:
yoga mat
fresh air
music
you

Recipe:
Mix 1 part ujjayi pranayama infused into every movement with 1 part intuitive asana flow as described in Ganga White's Yoga Beyond Belief, page 116. Stir in your favorite music, or try Ravi Shankar's Tana Mana followed by Steve Roach's Structures from Silence track 3. Add a float of Siva pranayama. Breathe, mix, and flow. Have a beautiful summer and come Yoga with us!
How to Siva Pranayama


Yoga Teacher Training

with
Tracey Rich & Ganga White,
Sven Holcomb and Kent Bond
June 24 - July 9th, 2017


As Yoga speaks to you, eventually there comes that deep desire to give back, to share that which has so inspired and transformed your life that what overflows from you, in your own unique way, can be used to ignite that spark in others. We teach because we care, because we are excited and inspired, because our desire to open the door for others is an innate wish and a natural inclination. We teach to learn more about ourselves and because we feel ourselves being quietly drawn by the deeper pull of what we truly love.

Let White Lotus take you on the journey to begin your mastery, gaining skills and receiving the tools to make teaching your life's artistry. We welcome you to join us on an unforgettable voyage of self-discovery where your knowledge may be challenged but your wisdom will be invoked. Come celebrate your love of Yoga, where in a collaborative environment your ability to "see" and to learn will deepen. Share an amazing sixteen days immersed in the meditation that is your life. We look forward to hosting those who have an excitement to explore, to laugh, to work in the positive pursuit of that which they love, refining their skills and unveiling the masterpiece to come. The White Lotus Yoga Teacher Training and Certification awaits you.



White Lotus Foundation

2500 San Marcos Pass
Santa Barbara, CA 93105
805-964-1944
www.whitelotus.org
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Deepening Your Practice

Continuing Education and
Advanced Training for Experienced
Students and Teachers

with
Ganga White and Tracey Rich
July 15 - 21, 2017

Asana
  • IsoYoga® Over 30 new dynamic torque & counter torque, rotation & counter rotation, sequences you will learn to practice and teach.
  • Flow Yoga–the dance of control and surrender
  • Advanced teaching techniques
  • 3D Yoga®—Multi-dimensional, Multi-disciplinary, Multi-dynamic Yoga
  • Dynamic Flow Opposition Yoga
  • Combining strength and flexibility within poses
  • Bang for the buck—getting more benefit in less time.
  • Dynamic Directional Dancing
  • Using seven classes of asana
  • Protecting and healing your joints
  • Sequencing
  • Creative Use of Sun Salutations
  • Working with subtle energies
  • Potentiating your practice with internal levers and locks
Pranayama

Breath is life. It is our constant reminder of and connection to life force. There are five levels of pranayama, 1. Learning to use the respiratory structure 2. Strengthening and toning it. 3. Using breath to recharge, and restore 4. Using breath to change mental, emotional states 5. Using breath to enter altered states.
Instruction will include:
  • Kapalabhati, Bhastrika, Alternate Bhastrika
  • Kundalini Bhastrika, Siva Pranayama, Anuloma Viloma
  • Teaching pranayama
Meditation

Meditation can be a practice for stilling the mind and for concentration and focus. It can also be a quality of attention that is an awakening that pervades all of life. We will discuss meditation in a way that aims to free one from compulsory and regimented viewpoints that are often the norm.
  • Inquiry into meditation
  • Using sitting practices
  • Breath and meditation
  • Nature as the core of meditation
Shifting the Context of Yoga

Satsang (gathering), Upanishad (sitting together) and Vichara (inquiry). During our discussions and dialogues we will explore the inner philosophical roots of our Yoga practice. Philosophy means love of wisdom and it will be our goal to move from static beliefs to a living awareness that guides us in the moment. When one is freed from the burdens of the past, Yoga can become an effortless, joyous flow. Our goal will be sharing this inspiration.
  • Yoga as a dynamic process vs. a goal
  • Making sense out of conflicting claims, beliefs and systems
  • Shifting the context of Pain
  • Deprogramming the mind
  • Hints, tools and principles to transform your practice
  • Using inner and outer navigation systems
  • Getting past authoritarian Yoga systems
Other Topics
  • Developing workshops, courses, retreats and centers
  • Evolving your next step as a teacher
  • Yoga and Spirituality
  • Using Council to free the group voice