Pranayama Intensive for Teachers
with Swami Karunananda, E-RYT 500
November 30 - December 2, 2018
As a Yoga teacher, you are a link in an eternal chain—one that continues with each new student that discovers and embraces the teachings. While asana practice has gone mainstream, the subtler teachings of pranayama, which impact physical health, vitality, mental peace, and spiritual awakening, are not as widely known. This intensive is an opportunity to clarify, deepen, and refine your own practice and to learn skills for imparting these teachings to others. If you teach someone how to utilize the breath properly, you will have given that person a key to a happy, healthy, and successful life.
A thorough exploration of pranayama theory and techniques will cover the following topics:
- Pranayama and health
- Pranic healing visualization
- Prana and the mind
- Dealing with stress
- Prana and the subtle body
- Awakening the kundalini
Additionally, an in-depth discussion of teaching methodology will include instruction on how to design a class, elements of a dynamic teaching style, and ideas for inspiring and guiding students.
Come join us and immerse yourself in these deeper teachings of Yoga. Refine your own practice and leave with tools that will enable you to share these beneficial practices with others.
Course Information
Prerequisites
200-hour Yoga teacher certification.
Continuing Education Opportunities
- Yoga Alliance (YA): Approximately 7 contact hours
- Integral Yoga Teachers Association (IYTA) can provide you a CE certificate of your program’s total contact hours. For more information, email membership@iyta.org.
Testimonials
The integration of theory and practice, the balance set, were bizarrely perfect. Sw. Karunananda was absorbing, extraordinarily attentive, and a joy to listen to and practice with. — Nina
Swami Karunananda has an amazing capacity to explain complex things in an easy way. — Past Participant
My life has changed from doing a Pranayama Workshop with Swami Karunananda. I cannot thank her enough. I have never missed a day and have had so many healing benefits since. I have transformed. — Barbara Prema Brown
Presenter
Swami Karunananda has had 50 years’ experience teaching all aspects of Yoga. She designed and conducts teacher training programs in Raja Yoga and in Meditation. She served as president of Satchidananda Ashram in California and in Virginia, and as director of the San Francisco and Santa Barbara Integral Yoga Institutes. She compiled and edited The Lotus Prayer Book and Enlightening Tales as told by Sri Swami Satchidananda. Her book, Awakening: Aspiration to Realization through Integral Yoga, makes the Yoga teachings accessible and provides inspiration and guidance for the spiritual journey.
Learn more about Swami Karunananda, E-RYT 500