Hatha Yoga Intensive
with Durga Ahlund, M. Govindan Satchidananda
July 3-13, 2009 in Quebec Ashram

11-Day Intensive Residential Training as preparation for a 1-year 200-hour Teaching Certification & Registration with Yoga Alliance

As a student of Babaji’s Kriya Yoga, you are cordially invited to become a Teacher of Babaji’s Kriya Hatha Yoga! One of the best ways to deepen your own practice of Kriya Yoga and to serve others is by teaching this wonderful scientific art. This Yoga teacher training has been designed to meet the 200-hour International certification standards, as set up by the Yoga Alliance. A 250-page manual/workbook accompanies the course. On completion of an intensive 11-day residential training, students will begin a yearlong process of teaching and study, completing various assignments, which will not only fulfill training requirements, but which will serve your own wellness and spiritual growth.

This program is largely experiential, with a focus on personal transformation as well as on developing professional skill. Students must be currently practicing Kriya Yoga, taken 1st and 2nd level trainings and have a well-established daily practice. Students must have practiced Hatha Yoga for a minimum of 2 years. This is an intensive training program and all participants should have good physical and emotional health.

The 11-day residential course curriculum covers not only a thorough understanding of the mechanics of 18 asana of Kriya Hatha Yoga, but also the physical benefits and the theory behind the asana selection and what occurs energetically as we practice them. An additional 50 basic asanas will be explored and integrated into our training. Yoga Philosophy is emphasized in this course and there will be an in-depth study of the Su-tras of Patanjali. A deep understanding of energy and prana and the subtle body will be covered. We will delve into the study and teaching of the practices of bandhas, pranayama and meditation. There will be 12 hours given to anatomy and physiology of the human body in relation to the practice and teaching of Hatha Yoga. The course covers the qualities of teaching effectively: modifying the postures for particular needs and limitations and therapy, the importance of coaching the breath, working with the lines of energy, working with intensity and relaxation. The training begins to develop your voice as a teacher by deepening and expanding your own Inner experience of Hatha Yoga.

To receive certification students must complete the following criteria, also demonstrating postures to be best of their ability with precision and presence, and exhibiting the required teaching skills with a yogic attitude:

Criteria 1: 11-day training at the ashram = 115 hrs

Criteria 2: Teach one class weekly (1.5) over 10 mos. = 60 hrs.

Criteria 3: Practice daily sadhana including 18 postures

Criteria 4: Recording in a journal of one's daily sadhana, including #3, observing silence one day each month and recording meditations and reflections or observances of one's own behavior (submitted) = 40hrs

Criteria 5: 1Level 1 & 2 Babaji’s Kriya Yoga trainings =30hrs

Criteria 6: Study of M. Govindan's translation of the Sutras of Patanjali and the Bhagavad Gita with written reflections on prepared questions (submitted) = 25hrs.

Total credit hours = 270 hours

Also Required:
Completion of Final Exam
Teaching Practicum
Advanced Kriya Yoga Training adds additional credit hours of 90 hours, applied toward 500-hour certification

The Instructors

M. Govindan Satchidananda is the Spiritual Teacher of Babaji’s Kriya Yoga. He is the Founder and President of Babaji’s Kriya Yoga Order of Acharyas, a non-profit organization and has been conducing initiations into the 144 Kriyas of Babaji’s Kriya Yoga for the past 15 years. He has taught Babaji’s Kriya Yoga to more than 8, ooo people around the world. He is the Founder and Publisher of the Kriya Yoga Publications, Inc. and writes extensively on Yoga Philosophy and Sadhana. He teaches with the depth and insight of one who teaches precisely what he has practiced for more than 34 years.

Durga Ahlund is a professional certified Yoga teacher, and practitioner of Yoga for more than 35 years. She has taught various forms of Yoga for over 22 years. She has been certified in and taught Hatha Yoga, Kundalini Yoga, Raja Yoga, and Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy. She has been teaching in the U.S. since 1982 , but during the past 4 years has been traveling and teaching Hatha Yoga in Canada, India, Japan, Brazil, Germany, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Austia, and Estonia. Her intensity of study of spiritual Yoga lead her to several Spiritual Masters in the U.S. and in India. Kriya Babaji has been the guiding Light on her path for over two decades. She has has over the past 11 years practiced with full concentration on the techniques of Kriya Yoga and is an acharya in Babaji’s Kriya Yoga Order of Acharyas and teaching 1st level initiation seminars. She developed this 200 Hour teacher training course. She developed and writes the monthly correspondence course for Babaji’s Kriya Yoga with M. Govindan Satchidananda, which has now expanded into a second year of lessons.

Registration and Introduction July 2nd 8 p.m.

Daily Schedule:

July 3 to 13, 2009

Morning sadhana: 6:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.
First class: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. noon

Segments included in the 11-day Intensive:

-Philosophy of Yoga and Kriya Yoga Philosophy
-Sutras of Patanjali and the 8-Limbs of Ashtanga Yoga
-The 3 stages of practice and the 6 stages of Ashtanga Yoga
-Kriya Hatha Yoga Philosophy
-Principles of practicing asana
-Understanding and working with prana
-Practicing and teaching pranayama (complete breath, ujjayi, kapalabhati, alternative nostril)
-Warming up the Body – centering and inviting the body to move
-Practice of 50 additional postures, taught in series
-Principles of practicing and teaching the 18 Kriya asanas
-In-depth practice of the 18 Postures
-Teaching Techniques: Universal Principles of Alignment, Assisting, Coaching the Breath, Lines of En-ergy, and The Edge
-Guiding the 18 postures through 5 stages
-Adapting and modifying postures for individual needs
-The Psycho-spiritual elements of the postures
-Anatomy and Physiology
-Identifying muscular extension and flexion within the 18 postures
-Physical Effects of the 18 postures
-Basic postures and recommendations for therapeutic use
-The Subtle Body: kundalini and the chakras and nadis
-Philosophy II: You think the body makes the Consciousness?
-Discrimination, the key to transforming Karma into Dharma
-Living effortless in your daily life: An advaita vedantic teaching”
-Teaching Meditation: Hamsa meditation and Yoga Nidra
-Developing your voice as a Yoga teacher
-Practice teaching

Suggested Contribution: $1100.00 for the training. A deposit of $300 is required to reserve your place. The fee for meals and lodging is an additional charge- $70/day. Please inform info@babajiskriyayoga.net when the transfer is made. For more information contact Durga at 1.888.252.9642 or durga@babajiskriyayoga.net

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To move from being a practitioner of Yoga to being a Yoga teacher has its requirements. These can be devel-oped, except the main requirement, which is a desire to share. Sharing is love and from that state, all things will spring and flow. It has been said that anyone who loves and is loved can be a good teacher, for in love there is presence. When we are truly present not only to our self, but also to others we are in the here and now, as if there is no other time. In this state, there is self-love and a non-judgmental acceptance of our self and others. And truly, only in that state are we consistently able to be a good teacher.

In addition, a teacher must be willing to constantly learn, grow, and be a student forever. And a good sense of humor is helpful in reminding us who the student really is. These qualities develop our humility and a sense of gratitude for all our teachers, some of which will be our students. This creates a vehicle that purifies and nour-ishes us and stimulates inner love to flow. This flow of Love is the highest goal Yoga.

Enthusiasm is so important. If we do not have enthusiasm for what we teach, students will not care to hear what we to say. Most of all, a teacher must practice intensely so that we teach from our experience. When we practice Hatha Yoga regularly, something happens inside of us. At one level, it is a feeling beyond words, a sense of balance and a harmony with the whole universe. It is the penetration of the force called Love. In or-der for that Love to flow, all our energy must be peaceful and balanced, physical, vital, mental. Only when our inner state reflects that balance are we able to share that state with others. That state is really the most important thing all we have to offer.

M. G. Satchidananda and Durga Ahlund
Babaji’s Kriya Yoga ®
196 Mountain Road, P. O. B ox 90
Eastman, Quebec, J0E 1P0
Canada
U.S. & Canada: 1.888.252.9642
International: 1.450.297.0258
Fax: 1.450.297.3957
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