A practical system for developing the entire personality, yoga's benefits include good health, happiness, professional success, and peace of mind. Yoga Vidya teaches a holistic approach to classical Yoga. It is an integral style, as developed by Swami Sivananda of Rishikesh. We present a synthesis of all the major techniques of yoga, and students find that continued practice enhances all aspects of life.

1. Introduction
Philosophy and Aim of Yoga
History of Yoga
Paths of Yoga: the Main Schools of Yoga
Masters of Yoga

2. Hatha Yoga in survey
As a path to general well-being
Stress-management
Therapy and healing
As a means of developing mental powers
As physical approach to psychotherapy
As spiritual excercise

• Preparatory exercises
  Sensitivity and physical awareness
  Mental excercises
  Warm-up exercises
  Eye exercises
  Sun Salutation

• Relaxation
  Classical relaxation, Yoga-Nidra
  Relaxation techniques for daily life
  Autogene training according to Schulz
  Progressive Muscle Relaxation according to Jacobson
  Modern stress-research and stress-management

• Asanas (Yoga Postures)
  Rishikesh sequence with its 12 basic postures
  Asanas for relaxation
  Yoga for the back and spine
  Yoga in comparision to other forms of physical training<
  Yoga and sports training
  Asanas and physiological research
  Asanas for general fitness
  Introduction to demanding sequences
  Asanas for the flow of life-energy: prolonged performance of asanas, combined with chakra concentration, special breathing techniques, mantras, bandhas, mudras Asanas for personal growth and development

• Pranayama (Breathing Techniques)
  Breathing techniques for daily life
  Breath control
  Easy pranayama for relaxation and recharging
  Samanu: psychic cleansing
  Advanced pranayama according to Hatha Yoga Pradipika

• Kriyas (Yoga Cleansing Excercises)
  Shatkriyas according to Hatha Yoga Pradipika: Tratak (eye cleansing), Neti (nose cleansing), Kapalabhati (lung cleansing), Dhauti (throat- and stomach cleansing), Nauli (small intestine cleansing), Basti (colon cleansing). Shank Prakshalama (total intestine cleansing)

• Physiology and Health
  Understanding the physical body in relation to yoga excercises
  Muscle and bone structure
  Respiratory system
  Digestive system
  Nerves and Hormones
  Physiological effects of Yoga
  Physiology of movement
  Sport medicine theory and research

• Health
  What is health? Reasons for disease
  Healthy, holistic living
  Yogic remedies for the treatment of minor illnesses like colds, hayfever, headache, allergies and constipation
  Yoga as therapy: remaining healthy well into old age
  Healing through mental training

• Ayurveda
  Health and disease
  The three Doshas
  Correct living according to your body type
  Ayurvedic food

• Nutrition
  Natural nutrition. Reasons for a vegetarian diet
  The mental and energetic effects of food
  Nutrition and advanced Hatha Yoga
  Fasting. slimming and staying slim
  Special nutrition and diets

Parapsychological phenomena: clairvoyance, channeling, mindreading, psychokinetics, extramental perception.
The Raising of Kundalini: methods, experiences, dangers and security measures
Techniques of Kundalini Yoga: Mantra, Laya, Yantra, Nada, Hatha Yoga.
White, red and black Tantra.
Sexuality and relationship.

4. Raja Yoga: mental training and meditation
The human psyche: subconsciousness, consciousness, super-consciousness. Thought-power and positive thinking Thoughts as creator of destiny Development of memory, willpower, concentration, creativity and intuition. Dealing with feelings and emotions. Contact the higher self: what is it I really want? Affirmation and visualisation. Charisma and personal charm. How to overcome negative habits. Yoga-Sutras by Patanjali. Levels of consciousness. Expanded consciousness. Raja Yoga and modern neuroscience. Indian and Western psychology in comparison.

Members of the Yoga Vidya Teachers Association are committed to the ideal of classical integral Yoga. In cooperation with Yoga Vidya, the Association offers teachers trainings and advanced courses, publishes Yoga literature, cooperates with other Yoga associations and supports its members in their work.

"Bund der Yoga Vidya Lehrer" is Europe´s leading institution in the education of Yoga Teachers. It offers an extensive range of continuing education, advanced training and courses in Yoga and related issues to teachers regardless of their various and varying traditions. Examples of this program include in-depth training courses in teaching Yoga to children, Yoga during pregnancy, Yoga Therapy, Yoga Psychotherapy, Relaxation Trainer, Breath Trainer, Meditation Course Leaders' training, Ayurvedic Consultant and many more. The wide range of courses is enabled by a close cooperation with the Yoga Vidya Association of Health Consultants, a member of the European Federation of Yoga Teachers´ Associations (EFYTA). Upon receiving your certificate you may become member.

July 11 - August 08, 2010

Also possible to divide into 2 x 2 weeks

Basic Information

An opportunity to connect to your intuition, awaken your life energy, and enhance your personal aura. There will be lectures and workshops giving you the necessary theoretical skills to teach. You will also work in smaller groups to refine your practical skills. This course is also recommended for people who simply wish to experience Yoga at an in-depth level.
Intensive courses may be compared to the rapid methods of learning languages when living in a foreign country. During this intensive coures, you will be living and practicing Yoga 24-hours a day, for four weeks.

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2009. Yoga Therapy Training 4 Weeks Intensive, Bad Meinberg, Instructor: Acharya Harilalji

A highly qualified advanced Training Course for new and deeper expert knowledge, widened competence and qualification, enrichment of your yoga classes and additional professional chances. An excellent chance for trained yoga teachers to specialize in the field of therapeutic yoga and deepen their teaching expert competence decisively.

A certified training course. Precondition: completed yoga teachers' training course BYV, BDY or Sivananda, others on request or at least 350 units and 20 self-led practical yoga classes of a started yoga teachers' training course. With this advanced training course you can extend your class programme by offering classes for people with special needs such as yoga for asthmatics, handicapped, people suffering from pain, heart diseases, allergies, arthritics, depression etc.; you can do counselling and create classes for particular patients or make use of your therapeutic knowledge for your own health and yoga practice. English with German translation. Intensive Yoga Therapy Training according to the system of the renowned sVYASA-Instituts in Karnataka/South India. The sVYASA is a famous, approved non-profit institution in the sense of a yoga university which for 25 years has been executing studies about yoga and yoga therapy using most modern equipment at the Prassanthi Kutiram Campus, Karnataka with connected hospital.

You will learn:

• the model of Panchakosa Tatwa (the five sheet existence of life) from Taitariya Upanishad as the basic concept of yoga therapy
• the application of Yoga Therapy as described in the „Yoga Vasishta“, another classical scripture of yoga
• techniques used in Yoga Therapy and Yogic Physio therapy, breathing movements, Asanas, Pranayamas, Shat kriyas, cyclic relaxation, Prana chanalizing technique, counselling, meditation etc. which works in 5 different Kosas.
• exercises and techniques of Yoga Therapy which can be used for any psychosomatic diseases and for common diseases like asthma and allergy, back pain, knee pain, head ache, arthritics, anxiety and depression etc.
• to teach the practices and do counselling useful for a particular patient after enough consultation with the patient. The patients can practise themselves for a certain period and once the diseases are controlled or cured they can practise normal yoga for a better life.

1st week: anatomy and physiology for yoga teachers, basics of yoga philosophy, Indian scriptures and philosophy systems, basics of teaching yoga to non yoga teachers

2nd and 3rd week: training in different practical teaching techniques applied for different problems and diseases, breathing movements, special techniques, asanas, pranayamas, kriyas = the yogic cleansing techniques, cyclic relaxation, PCT = Prana Chanalizing Technique (Pranalenkungstechniken), different meditation techniques and much more

4th week: you will be practising and teaching the learned methods, practise consultations, counselling, diagnosis, treatment in groups of two or more participants.

Certificate

This training course concludes with a written exam, a final ceremony with banquet, ceremonial presentation of the certificates and spiritual blessing. On the condition that you will be successful with the examination and fulfil the conditions for taking part in this course you will obtain the certificate „Yoga Therapeut/in BYAT“ (Yoga Therapist BYAT) of the Professional Association of the Yoga and Ayurveda Therapists (BYAT). 400 units.

Required literature

„The Yoga Teachers' Training Manual“, „The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga“ by Swami Vishnu Devananda „Anatomy of Hatha Yoga - A Manual for Students, Teachers and Practitioners“ by H. David Coulter

Fee: Shared room 1.928 €, double room 2.320 €, single room 2.684 €, dormitory/tent 1.648 €.

Arrival and Departure

Arrival time on the starting day is 1.00 p.m., your room will be ready from 3.00 p.m. onwards.
Departure time on the final day is 1.00 p.m.. Due to the intensity of training it won´t be possible to arrive later or depart earlier, or to miss a day in between.

There is a fee shuttle service from the train station in Horn-Bad Meinberg (please notify us at least 3 days prior to arrival).

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Haus Yoga Vidya Bad Meinberg
Wällenweg 42,
D-32805 Bad Meinberg, Germany
Tel. ++495234/ 87-0, Fax 87-1875

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Acharya Harilalji completed his Yoga Teachers' training course and Advanced Yoga Teachers' Training course at Sivananda Ashram in Neyyar Dam, Kerala, attaining the title Yoga-Acharya. Afterwards he lived and taught yoga in Sivananda Ashram both in Kerala and the Himalayas for 1 1/2 years. Furthermore he completed a seven months full-time diploma course/ practice in yoga therapy (Yoga Therapy Instructors Course) at Prasanthi kutir, Bangalore with 'A' grade. In his teaching he easily recognizes both weak and strong areas in his students physicality and accordingly
can suggest different asanas or variations depending on the individual. He is also the tutor in 'Nagelil' Ayurveda Medical College in Idukki district, Kerala and focusing on bringing the different aspects of yoga together in his teaching.

Sukadev Bretz is the founder of Haus Yoga Vidya and the Yoga Vidya organisation. From his adolescence he was fascinated by the possibilities of the mind, learned fast reading autodidactically
and attended concentration and memory training courses. At the age of 20 he graduated in industrial management from Munich university, with a minor in psychology. In 1981 he did his yoga teachers training with the Sivananda Yoga Centres.
Swami Vishnu-devananda gave him the title of „Acharya“ (yoga master), charged him with the building up of yoga centers as well as the training of yoga teachers and assigned him one of his successors. In 1992 Sukadev founded the first Yoga Vidya
Centre in order to teach a yoga practice that can easily be integrated into every-day life. His courses and trainings combine theory and practice to a holistic experience of the development of the body, spirit and soul.

All prices include board and lodging, lacto-vegetarian meals, complete training, meditation, mantra chanting, Yoga classes.