Yoga Practitioner course Thailand

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Yoga Practitioner

You've been practicing yoga and you are noticing the positive changes on the inside… and outside. You might be wondering at a deeper level, what is yoga exactly? You might be ready for the next level in your practice.

That's why we know you will love this 35 hour multi-level exploration on how to get more from your practice. It's suitable for beginners and it's also the first step along our longer 500+ hour curriculum towards mastery.

So whether you decide to learn our curriculum over a longer stretch of time, or all at once it's your choice!

We'll start exploring what brought you to yoga, and how you can get the most from a deepening knowledge of and relationship to this ancient teaching.

1. 7 Asana-based workshops with focuses on

Surya Namaskar: Go beyond the physical exertion into invoking the radiance of Hindu Solar Deities through the use of pranayama, mantra and chakra meditation.
Lower Body: How to incorporate flexibility and stability to the lower body through proper muscle engagement and movement in standing postures.
Upper Body: How to incorporate flexibility and stability to the lower body through proper muscle engagement and movement in arm balancing postures.
Spine: How to optimize spinal extension in backbends to avoid over-compression and prevent injuries.
Yin Yoga: Reconnect and fall in love with your body, again, through a inner practice in outer stillness. We'll also look into the modern meridian theory to help shed light onto the mysterious spots in our body.
Inversion: Using what we have learned in previous workshops and putting the pieces together for more challenging downside-up asana such as Pincha Mayurasana and Handstand.
Backbend: Using what we have learned in previous workshops and putting the pieces together for more challenging backbends such as Kapotasana and Natarajasana.

2. Yoga 101: An Introduction
We'll take a historical tour down the roots of the ancient tradition, and explore the evolution of Yoga through thousands of years to the way it is practiced now. We'll also go through a short review of the major great systems of yoga, including Hindu, Buddhist and Sufi varieties.

3. Yoga Philosophy 101
The main philosophy of yoga is simple: mind, body and spirit are all one and cannot be clearly separated. Yet there is a multitude of philosophical ideas developed by looking into the deeper dimensions of the body, mind and spirit. Here, we'll get an overview of the major Yogic texts including Vedas, Upanishad, Sankya, Yoga Sutra, Bhagavad Gita and Hatha Yoga Pradipika.

4.Food and Health: An Ayurvedic Approach to Health and Longevity
Learn how to personalize your own dietary program based on your unique constitution and needs.

5.Contemplation and Meditation
Exercise and group discussion to reflect on the wisdom of the various texts; taking the age-old teachings into our heart through embodied experiences - physically and mentally.

	Course Director Adrian Cox is an internationally acclaimed yoga teacher, and a certified trainer of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) under NLP co-founder John Grinder. Adrian is the founder and director of Yoga Elements Studio Bangkok, described as "easily Bangkok's best studio" by Travel and Leisure (-25 Top Yoga Studios Around the World) and as "Bangkok's most inspiring place to study yoga" by Bangkok Post (-The Magazine reader choice awards). Adrian's unique work is an integration of vinyasa yoga, NLP and hypnotherapy, and works with individuals, groups, and companies throughout the world to help them establish the necessary health, beliefs, and behaviors for wellness.
Adrian Cox
	Co-director Shiang Ying, Chan is a certified 500-hour Yoga teacher and Yoga therapist. She is in the process of developing an integrated approach to transformative experience through the embodiment and application of anatomical, physiological, psychophysical and developmental principles - a creative process that will lead to an understanding of how the mind is expressed through the body and the body through the mind.
Shiang Ying Chan

Everyone is welcome to join. Classes will be taught in a foundational way with live translation into Thai. Participants will receive a certificate of attendance upon completion of Yoga Practitioner. Full attendance is compulsory for certification.

Weekday course: 7 - 15 May 2012 (Monday - Thursday 8.30am - 1pm)

Weekend: Saturday - Sunday 9am - 4pm

Cost: 16,000 Thai Baht
price is not include 7% VAT

After completion of this course you are invited to join our
Advanced Practitioner

Call Yoga Elements Studio today for more information: +662 655 5671