Online / Onsite Stress Management the Classical Yoga Way Teacher Training
with Swami Sitaramananda, Swami Jnaneswariananda, Swami Dharmananda, Swami Adi Parashaktiananda and Sivakami Chaitanya
July 14 - 21, 2024
Description
Stress Management the Classical Yoga Way – Teacher Training Course empowers Yoga teachers with the skills and techniques to educate and support your students to create healthy coping mechanisms to manage stress and lead a more balanced life. This training is based on the time-tested, Classical Yoga practices and contemporary resources to better understand and develop skills to lead a healthy and holistic lifestyle.
This course qualifies for Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Credits for Yoga Teachers.
Topics Covered
The physiology of the stress response is illustrated and discussed. A basic understanding of the nervous system is presented, identifying sympathetic and parasympathetic response. The psychology of the “fight/flight/freeze” response is explained. Participants are encouraged to share personal experiences to help facilitate understanding of the stress response and the many ways that it presents itself in daily life.
Presentations on the benefits of Asana, Pranayama, Savasana, and Diet provide a comprehensive understanding of Yoga techniques to manage stress in a systematic way.
Emotional benefits of Yoga Meditation include gaining new perspective on stressful situations, cultivating new skills to manage stress, increased awareness of the mind’s tendencies, improved concentration (being present), and the reduction/regulation of negative emotions.
I – Satsang Lecture (45 minutes): 5 Points for Holistic Health / What is Stress?
II – Workshop (2 hours): The 3 Bodies and Body-Mind Integration
III – Skill Training (2 hours): How to Teach the 5 Points of Yoga (Yoga Lifestyle)
IV – Satsang Lecture (1 hour) Physiology of Stress
Day 2 – Tuesday, July 16
V – Satsang Lecture (45 minutes): 5 Causes of Stress According to Yoga
VI – Workshop (2 hours): Understanding the Mind to Cope with Stress
VII – Skill Training (2 hours): How to Teach Asana and Restorative Asana for Stress Relief
VIII – Satsang Lecture (1 hour): Symptoms of Stress in the 9 Systems of the Body
Day 3, Wednesday, July 17
IX – Satsang Lecture (1 hour) Prana & Lifestyle
X – Workshop (2 hours): The 3 Gunas and Balancing Your Way Out of Stress
XI – Skills Training (2 hours): How to Teach Prana, Pranayama and Breathing Techniques
XII – Satsang Lecture (1 hour) – Stress Video “Ted Talk”
Day 4, Thursday, July 18
XIII – Satsang Lecture (45 minutes) – Emotions and Emotional Skills
XIV – Workshop (2 hours): Positive Thinking Techniques & Yamas & Niyamas to Relieve Stress
XV – Skills Training (2 hours) Conscious Relaxation and Pratyahara
XVI – Satsang Lecture (1 hour): Meditation, Mantra and Chanting for Stress ReliefDay 5, Friday, July 19
XVII – Satsang Lecture (45 minutes): Applying the Wisdom of the Four Paths of Yoga
XVIII – Workshop (2 hours): How to Deal with Stress Coming from Karma
IXX – Skills Training (2 hours): Proper Diet and Nourishing Ojas for Contentment and Immunity
XX – Satsang Lecture (1 hour): Self-Inquiry and Self-Affirmation TechniquesDay 6, Saturday, July 20
XXI – Satsang Lecture (45 minutes): Self-awareness to Remove Existential Anxiety
XXII – Workshop (2 hours): Yoga of Relationship
XXIII – Skills Training (2 hours): 9 Modes of Bhakti and Non-violent Communication
XXIV – Satsang Lecture (1 hour): Daily Practices for Stress Resilience and Review
Study time
Asana and Pranayama Class
Exam
Testimonials
Daily Schedule
6-7:30am Satsang: Silent meditation, chanting and Stress Relief Lecture
8-10am Asana and Pranayama Practice
10am Brunch
11am Karma Yoga
12-2pm Workshop
4-6pm Skills Training for Stress Relief
6pm Dinner
7:30-9pm Satsang: Silent meditation, chanting and Stress Relief Lecture
Pre-requisite
There are no prerequisites other than a sincere desire to learn classical yoga.
Tuition: $450 + Accommodations
Teachers
Swami Sitaramananda is a senior acharya of the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers and is director of the Sivananda Ashram Vedanta Yoga Farm, California and the Sivananda Yoga Resort and Training Center, Vietnam. She is acharya of China, Taiwan, and Japan as well. Swamiji is the organizer and teacher of the Sivananda Yoga Health Educator Training…
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Swami Jnaneswariananda joined the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers in 1995 and has been director of centers and ashrams in Canada and Italy. She teaches Hatha Yoga, Meditation, Anatomy, and Vedanta at Teacher Training Courses in North America, Italy and India. Swami Jnaneswariananda took vows of Sannyas in 2001.…
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Swami Dharmananda is assistant director of the Yoga Farm and is in charge of the Karma Yoga program. He is a faculty of the Sivananda Institute of Health (SIHY) and is one of the main teachers of Yoga Philosophy and Meditation at the Ashram. He took sannyas vows…
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Swami Adi Parashaktiananda is a dedicated Sadhak and an experienced international Sivananda Hatha Yoga teacher and trainer in international TTC in USA, Vietnam , Japan and China for more than twelve years. He mainly serves as assistant to Acharya Swami Sitaramananda at the Sivananda Ashram yoga Farm in…
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Sivakami Chaitanya took her TTC in Feb 2017 and her ATTC in 2021. She graduated the Sivananda Yoga Health Educator Training (SYHET) program in 2021. She has been teaching proper diet courses since 2018.
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