Deepening your Practice & Teacher Training Paris, France

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Hi everyone,

 

 

 

We are going to soon start the next teacher training. Come to Paris :-)

 

 

 

Namaste,

 

Linda

 

 

 

Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga Intensive Teacher Training

Self Development and Deepening Your Personal Practice

200 hour Yoga Alliance® Registered, February – August 2010

Paris, France

We have developed a special program for those interested in becoming yoga

teachers or deepening their personal interest and knowledge of Ashtanga Vinyasa

yoga. We are very excited to be offering this unique training for the third

year, in support of guiding students to cultivate their inner growth and self

development through a committed practice and self reflection and then using this

inner guide to share their knowledge with others.

 

This teaching intensive will offer a comprehensive overview of Ashtanga Yoga in

a small, intimate group, personally guided by Gerald Disse and Linda Munro.

 

The training will cover the following areas:

 

*Deepening Personal Practice

*Foundations of the Practice; Bandha, Drishti, Ujjayi

*Ashtanga Specific Alignment

*Intro to Anatomy

 

*Ashtanga Yoga Philosophy (Yoga Sutra of Patanjali)

*Introduction to Pranayama & Developing a Daily Practice

*Living a Yogic Lifestyle

 

*Mysore Style Adjustments for Primary Series

*Personalizing Practices for Specific Student Needs

*Mentored Teaching

*Teaching Beginners, Led Primary Series and Vinyasa

*Practice Teaching in a Public Setting

 

*Unlimited classes with Gerald & Linda

 

The course format:

*22 intensive trainings

*80 hours of asana practice (ie: 50 classes minimum)

*35 hours of assisting/guiding classes (ie: 25 classes)

*in between training weekends, home assignments will be given

 

Applications:

 

*Applicants should have practiced Ashtanga for at least one

year or another form of yoga for 2 or 3 years. If we are not familiar with your

practice, please take a class with Gerald or Linda for us to see the level of

your practice.

*Write a brief essay telling about yourself; your yoga, pranayama, spiritual

trainings and practices; why you are interested in this training; and, what you

expect to learn from it.

 

*Application Deadline: December 9th 2009 to receive a 200 euro discount. Or,

Jan (See last page for application form.)

*Pre-course assignments will be given upon your registration to begin your

journey to deepening your yoga practice! We will ask for the assignments to be

submitted to us by January 22nd.

Cost:

*2,500 if registered & deposit paid by Dec 9th. Or, 2,700 euros (possible to

pay in installments), includes teaching manual & unlimited classes with Gerald &

Linda (not including required books).

 

Certificate of Completion:

*Will be rewarded upon completion of all required training hours, including

practice and assisting hours, and homework assignments and the student must

demonstrate reasonable proficiency in practicing and teaching the primary

series. Note: Missed hours can be made up through privates (4 hours missed

equals one and half hours private time 80 €).

 

 

 

 

About Gérald:

Gérald has been practicing yoga for over 18 years. He discovered Ashtanga

Vinyasa Yoga in 1991 with Sri K Pattabhi Jois in Mysore, India. He spent 8

years traveling to Mysore spending 4 – 6 months per visit to learn more of the

system, then going off to some other exotic location to practice daily what

Guruji had taught him. Gérald was taught up to the third series and was one of

the first French students to have been personally authorized to teach by Sri K

Pattabhi Jois. As he had learned directly from the Guru at a time when there

were not so many yoga students in Mysore, he started to give workshops around

the world. He gave Ashtanga workshops in Australia, New Zealand, and around the

USA and Europe.

In addition to his Ashtanga yoga practice, Gérald has done extensive stays in

Vipassana silent meditation centers in India and Australia and continues to

cultivate a daily meditation and pranayama practice.

 

During his travels he visited Auroville, an international spiritual community in

Tamil Nadu, South India. He related with the place immediately. It was a way

for him to remain connected to the spirituality of India and also still have

connection to the west, so he decided to build a house and a yoga shala and

become a part of the Auroville community. Gerald spent 5 years there teaching

daily Ashtanga Mysore style classes in between his workshops around the world;

until 2004 when he decided, after being away for 17 years, to move back to

France. Gérald is now settled in Paris where he has founded a beautiful

community of yoga with Linda and their children.

 

 

About Linda:

Linda was first introduced into Ashtanga Yoga by Diane Bruni and Ron Reid in

Toronto. Soon after she realized that the yoga would be a life time practice. A

practice of asana, pranayama and meditation but also a practice of being

truthful, a practice of being kind, a practice of being fearless, peaceful and

happy. She believes that the practice of “yoga” is continuous; the practice does

not stop when you roll up the yoga mat. The practice of yoga includes the way

you live your life, the way you relate to your family, friends, co-workers and

to the strangers on the street. This is the life long practice of developing

yogic awareness.

 

In 1997 she moved to New York City with her work in the fashion business. The

year 2000 brought her to Paris, France. After thirteen years in the world of

fashion she decided it was the time to move fully into the direction she had

been moving since her first yoga class. She felt a strong desire to strive to

give to others what her teachers have given to her; so she started teaching yoga

as her own study and practice continues. She studies yogic philosophy with Georg

Feuerstein.

 

She considers Ron Reid and Marla Meenakshi Joy her primary teachers from a far.

And her husband, Gerald, along with their two young children, Amaya and

Jonathan, her primary daily yoga teachers!

Proposed Dates of Intensive Weekends (1-5h30):

Jan 29th evening, Jan 16th, 17th, 30th, 31st, Feb 13th, 14th, Mar 13th, 14th,

Apr 3rd, 4th, 5th, May 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, June 12th, 13th, July 14th, 15th,

16th, 17th, 18th, August 14th, 15th.

 

Some comments from Teacher Trainees of 2008:

“I loved the training. It was amazing! I'm definitely sad that it is over

though, especially since I will not be in Paris to continue practicing and

learning from you both. This teacher training has changed my life! My body,

mind, soul and spirit are changed due to both the teachings and the consistent

and intense practicing of Ashtanga yoga”

~ Laura

 

“I started this training hoping to deepen my asana practice and also learn how

to teach it. I ended up doing that, but also learning so much about the yogi

way of life and thinking, the philosophy, and finally acquiring the sense to

enjoy my practice exactly where it is and not " wish " for the next step all the

time. I did not expect this, but what a relief it is! I can say that before

this training I was a bit mystified by what it meant to be a yogi, and now I

feel immersed in it and I am enjoying the path immensely.”

~ Lauren

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Linda Munro Ashtanga Paris www.ashtangayogaparis.fr

 

 

 

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