Prana and Pranayama Yoga Teacher Training
Breath, Pranayama and Yin Immersion April 28-May 6, Portugal
A Unique Immersion into Prana and Life Force
This Breath, Pranayama and Yin Immersion (Pranayama Yoga Teacher Training), focuses on giving you a direct experience of Prana – our life force energy, and on practicing the various approaches to the yoga of energetic cultivation – the techniques which utilize the breath and prana for purification, energetic balancing, health, vitalization and meditation.
Level of Difficulty: Open to All Practitioners, All Levels
Teachers: Randall O’Leary and Hayley Lander
. This Immersion does not involve long periods of sitting and in meditation posture. Much of the work is done from movement patterns and yoga poses called Swara Cycles, which combine the practice of asana with the power of breath, which makes it fun and accessible to all who want to join.
Location,
Dates & Costs
April 28-May 6, 2022
Sept 16-24, 2022
€ 1,300 BASE PRICE with Food and Accommodation
This Breath, Pranayama and Yin Immersion (Pranayama Yoga Teacher Training) takes place at The Shanti Space in Portugal. It’s a warm, sunny and clean place to get deeply immersed in yoga breath practice. Spend 2 weeks deepening your yoga practice with like-minded souls as well as eating well, relaxing profoundly and going to the beach. Yum!
We have a range of accommodation options from shared to private rooms. The price includes 2 meals per day: brunch and dinner and base level accommodation.
Details of the Course
PRANA: Vitality
Prana is the life-giving energetic force which is accessed and amplified through the breath. Classical breathwork is called Pranayama: “The Expansion of Prana”. To know prana is to know the essence of life itself. The course is designed to give you a first-hand experience of prana and help you take your yoga to the subtle energetic approaches to practice.
Breath in Motion
Learn how to use asana, breath and pranayama to affect the quality of your energy. Understand when, why and how to stimulate, expand, circulate, calm or ground your prana. You will learn accessible, take home practices which can be used to flavour and transform your energetic reality and feelings.
PRANIC PRACTICE
Understand how to create practices for yourself and others that are breath and energy focused instead of the usual focus on the physical body. The course will give you literally hundreds of different ways to explore breath, energy and physical practice. This is especially good for teachers who are looking for a deeper and more profound approach to teaching yoga.
BREATH DYNAMICS
Learn about the nature of the 4 parts of the breath, the energetic wave patterns of breath as well as the 5 vital movements of energy (Vayus) within us and how to play with them in yoga practice. Each part of the breath is a unique energetic reality, and by changing the parts, we can change our life force. Learn how to create more energy, calm the prana, balance the energy or get into stillness.
CLASSICAL PRANAYAMA
Our approach opens the doors to classical Pranayama through in-depth practice and exploration of Antara, Bhaya & Kevala Kumbhaka, Viloma, Kapalabatti, Bastrika, Sheetali, Anuloma, Chandra & Surya Bhedana, Nadi Shodhana, Sama & Visama Vritti and other classical techniques.
SWARA YOGA
Our Unique System is called Swara Yoga, which is a type of contemporary pranayama, designed for the modern yoga student. Swara Yoga is a refined system of rhythmic movement and breath that makes yogic breathing accessible to all students, regardless of experience. This practice draws techniques from Classical Pranayama and delivers them in a way which is effortless to practice and highly effective and circumvents the need to sit for long periods to gain access to breath.
5 STEPS OF HATHA YOGA
We cultivate a classical flow of practice, starting with purifications (Kriya), followed by flowing, breath based asana (Swara Yoga), followed by Bandha (Energetic Locks), Mudras and Meditation. The course builds up from the foundation practices and gradually enters into greater depth and intensity as the days go on. This flow is the most effective way to get deep into transformative yoga, for each stage builds upon the one before it.
KRIYA AND PURIFICATION
You will learn a series of purifications (Kriyas) that can be used every morning for cleansing, detoxing and preparing for your day or the rest of your yoga practice. This includes, Kapalabatti, Lion’s Breath, Bhastrika, and other powerful Kriya techniques.This is the first step in yoga practice (classically) and the Kriyas should be done each day at the beginning of a practice to prepare for the deeper work.
BANDHA & MUDRA
The course gradually builds up into the powerful energetic practices of bandha (locks) and mudra (seals), which take us into the next levels of gathering, moving and stilling prana and altering the nature of our consciousness, health and emotions. Bandha and mudra are some of the most transformative of the energetic practices, but one has to build up to them gradually. You will learn how to sequence into bandhas and mudras during the course.
Yin Yoga & Nidra
Each day will wrap up with the juicy and nurturing Yin Yoga Practice, led by Hayley Lander. Some evenings will also explore the practice of Yoga Nidra for deep restoration, integration and inner harmony.
THE 5 VAYUS
The Vayus are the 5 essential energetic flows in the body. Each one controls some aspect of our health, our energy and our awareness. This is a rare opportunity to learn about the Vayus from the perspective of Tantra, Hatha Yoga and Ayurveda , and understand how to practice and teach with these powerful energy flows as your focus.
cHAKRAS & NADIS
We will explore ‘esoteric anatomy’ which deals with the subtle energy channels that move energy in our bodies and basically control all that we are and all that we experience. This includes looking at the Nadis (Rivers of energy) as well as the Chakras (Pranic Plexuses).
Join us for this magical journey
April 28-May 6, 2022
€ 1,300 with Food and Shared Accommodation
