Teaching Through the Subtle Bodies

This workshop will focus on designing Yoga classes for mind-body wellness by working through the koshas. By understanding these subtle bodies (the physical, energetic, emotional, intellectual, and bliss layers of the self), you can use them as a practical and profound tool to create a deeper Yoga practice for your students and Yoga Therapy clients.

You will learn to work through the koshas with postures, breath-work, and perennial Yoga wisdom (Raja and Jnana Yoga).

You will explore:

• The psychological and emotional impact of Yoga poses
• Working through the mind to heal the body
• Grounding meditation in the different koshas
• Pranayama as a healing tool
• Using the koshas as an assessment tool
• Designing classes/individual sessions using all the koshas

Our goal is to help our students live a life of joy and balance. Yoga can show the way.

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Prerequisites

200-hour Yoga Certification or Yoga Therapy Certification. If unfamiliar with the koshas, some study prior to attendance is required.

Continuing Education Opportunities

• Yoga Alliance (YA): Approximately 24 contact hours
• International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT): Approximately 24 contact hours
• Integral Yoga Teachers Association (IYTA) can provide you a CE certificate of your program’s total contact hours. For more information, email membership@iyta.org.

Testimonials

Swami Vidyananda is the best! — Program Participant

Swami Vidyananda is such a wonderful presenter: brilliant, self-effacing, approachable, funny, and knowledgable. Pure professionalism. — Sivani C.