Yoga teacher training students will learn 51 Asanas “postures” plus additional postures and their levels and variations. Practice includes different levels of positions according to students’ abilities from light for beginners up to intermediate level for each asana. We put an emphasis on adjustments, alignment, techniques, corrections, contraindications, physical & psychic awareness, and benefits.

Asanas will be divided into few categories: in group of standing and balancing asanas, forward and back bends, twists and side bends poses, seated and inverted poses, meditation poses, etc. All Asana groups will be taught from beginners to intermediate levels with their variations. In addition to that, the students will be taught how to enter and exit asanas, how to use the breath during the position, how to work out with alignments and how to assist other students in their postures.

Asanas

Ashana means a state of being in which one can remain physically and mentally steady calm, quiet and comfortable in one position. ashana are the specific body position which is done to open the energy channels and psychic centers, by developing control of the body through asana the mind is also controlled. there is around 35 asanas to stimulate the chakras,distributing the generated energy of kundaline shakti all  over the body.the other ashana regulate and purify the nadi, facilitating the conduction of parnic energy throughout the body.

Means is that position in which the yogi can sit comfortable and cecentrate his mind on the supreme spirit

Asanas release mental tensions by dealing with them on physical levels,acting psychically ,through the body to the mind.

Therefore asana divided in different category according to there nature:

• Cultural pose (to make body strong)
• Meditating pose (to set in one place comfortable for long time)
• Relaxing pose ( to relax whole body)
• According to posture (supine , proline , sitting ,standing )
• According to the anatomy and physiology of asana.
• According to correlation with the chakras.

Best Time to practice asanas

• Morning :- Two hours before and including sunrise
• Evening :-  Two hours Around sunset

Meals

• Ashana should be practice empty stomach
• Atleast there should be 3 to 4 hours gap between your practice and meal
• It is advice to fill half of stomach with food , one quarter with water ,one quarter empty

 

Hatha yoga

Hatha yoga is a Traditional style of Yoga Introduced by Yogi Swatmarama, a Sage of 15th Century India, and Compiler of the Hatha Yoga Pradipika. The word Hatha is a compound of the words Ha and Tha meaning sun and moon, referring to Prana and apana, and also to the principal nadis (energy channels) of the subtle body that must be fully operational to attain a state of Dhyana or Samādhi.  Hatha yoga is what most people in the Western world associate with the word “yoga” and is most commonly practiced for mental and physical health.To Understand Traditional Hatha Yoga The Yogi or Yogini have follow these Principle of Hatha Yoga . Disciplines, Physical Postures (Asana), Yogic Purification (Shatkarma), Gestures and Locks (Mudra & Bandhas ), Breathing Exercise (Pranayama), and Meditation.All the Principle have Same Importants as other to  aquire a good result of his yogic sadhana.

In traditional style of hatha Yoga, there need a co-ordination with breath with each movement(poses) the yogi or yogini have to be fully aware of his/her breath with each movement to open the different channels of energies from his /her nadis he/she have to flow in breath. It slow style of Yoga its focus on holding the positions(Ashana),Alignements and Breatha and Bandha(holding your Breath).Hatha Yoga class is good for all yoga practitioners, even beginners, as once you have mastered a posture with integrity then it becomes effortless.  Hatha yoga having many benefits its therapatical yoga for mind and body both. It will help you to make your body strong ,flexibility, proper flow of pranic energy in your body, clarity and help u to grow your mediation help you to take in inner journey of self.

Hatha yoga is the base for all yoga styles. Like a tree having many branches , there is so much knowledge is hidden behind the wise words of ancient saints in scripture which is difficult for people of modern world to understand them properly. The yogis from time to time explore this ancient science to get success in their spiritual path and discover a different yoga styles to getting success in their yogic way by understanding and practing traditional style of hatha yoga, these different styles are focused in different aspects of this traditional art of yoga ,Hatha yoga.There are many branches of yoga some ancients and some are modern like raja yoga , jnana yoga, bhakti yoga , karma yoga ,mantra yoga, kundaline yoga ,laya yoga, tantra yoga , yantra yoga, kryia yoga ,ashtanga vinayasa, iyengar yoga and shivananda yoga.

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Astanga vinyasa

Astanga Vinyasa is a energetic style of yoga  transmitted  by the Sri. K Pattabhi Jois to modern world. This style of yoga involves synchronising the breath with a progressive series of postures – a process producing intense internal heat and a purifying sweat that detoxifies muscles and organs. The result is improved circulation,a strong and light ,body and a relax mind.

Astanga vinyasa, when practiced with proper sequential , gradually leads the practitioner to rediscover his or her fullest potential on all levels of his mind and body to get max physical and psychological benefit and grow his or her consciousness in spiritual path.

Driste – Ujjayi breath  – ashana (poses) – vinyasa (Moving) – bandha ( locks)

 

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