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The role of the yoga teacher is to CREATE and HOLD the space for conscious healing and spiritual awakening. Beyond that firm belief, the Living Mandala School of Yoga (LMSY) values all prospective teachers’ perceptions of what it means to be a yoga teacher, an energy guide for your students , in our evolving world.
The training is comprehensive and approved by the Yoga Alliance as a 200-Hour program. All graduates evolve toward their own teaching methodology, developing a unique philosophy through which their classes become fluid expressions of the vinyasa experience. The program emphasizes:
v Honoring your personal, unique TRUTH: All students move toward creating their “Heart Project,” the cumulative, final assignment in which students align yoga teaching with their own values, beliefs, and interests.
v Cultivating CREATIVITY: There is a strong emphasis on prana shakti throughout the program, the creative life force energy. All students keep a personal journal, in which they record, both visually and in writing, their journey in the teacher training. Every module, we use mandalas as a form of spiritual note-taking, and the journals evolve along with the students
v The ENERGETIC CONNECTION between teacher and student: The essential difference between an at-home practice and a studio practice is the teacher’s energy. All students undergo a Reiki (universal energy) training as part of the curriculum in order to strengthen the student-teacher connection, more readily assess students’ needs, and be more attuned to energetic alignment in asana.
v The WHOLE student: The training focuses on both subtle body elements (chakras and aura) as well as the physical body. The anatomy text used in the training emphasizes muscle meridians and the deep core line instead of fragmented, individual body parts. The human being is an organic system in which a constant exchange occurs between the heavy body and the chakral network; the anatomy portion of the curriculum strongly focuses on how this exchange manifests in students.
v SUSTAINABILITY in yoga teaching: Only balance is sustainable, and this program uniquely communicates how the yoga teacher can balance a teaching practice with the other aspects of their lives while contributing to and cultivating their local community.
v BALANCE of the five elements: Pan-sensory, element-based awareness supports the vinyasa practice, as students move through the solidity of the earth element via bandha-engagement and grounding practices, the fluidity of the water element via fluid vinyasas and wave motion sequencing, the heat of the fire element through core-empowering practices and cardiovascular energy-raising, the softness of the air element through the mastery of balancing, pranayama, and chanting, and the intangibility of the ether element through drishti and meditation.
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