Forrest Yoga Advanced Teacher Training Course

The Advanced Teacher Training Program:

Meditation practice is the process of asking the question: “What am I?” The tools of meditation are chanting, sitting as well as questions and answers. These tools are used to help quiet the chatter of the mind in order to examine this question with clarity and focus. Developing a meditation practice can have a profound effect on your life. Instead of being controlled by the chatter of the mind, learn to use awareness in each moment to assess your relationship to that moment.

For example, liken meditation to a scale. If one puts ten pounds on the scale it shows ten pounds. When taken off the scale returns to zero pounds. A clear mind works in the same way. When something appears in front of you, you see it for what it is, when it is gone, you let it go and return to the moment. “When your mind is not clear, when you take the ten pounds off the scale returns to one pound; then you have a problem because you cannot see clearly, or weigh accurately, so your actions are not clear,” says yoga and meditation instructor Jonathan Bowra.

Each morning prior to the daily intensive yoga practice Jonathan will use storytelling, chanting, Kido (chanting and drumming) and sitting meditation to help trainees free their minds from their attachment to habitual patterns of thinking and the resulting habitual patterns of action. The freedom from habitual thinking will have an immediate effect on your yoga and in your life. This meditation class is aimed at helping trainees develop a daily meditation practice and delivers a gentle approach that demystifies Zen meditation offering ample opportunity for questions.

As the foundation of this course the daily intensive yoga practice with Ana and Jonathan will create a heightened sense of physical, emotional and spiritual awareness while challenging every muscle and cell in your body. Through a carefully constructed and rigorous Forrest Yoga series of asanas, Ana will open you to amazing depths and feelings of awareness. You will leave feeling cleansed, refreshed and alive. The intensives are a sanctuary where you can feel safe enough to open up, work through issues that may arise and go beyond your perceived limitations. You will learn about yourself and feel what it is like to have freedom in your own body and mind. The intensives are sure to bring each trainee to new levels within their yoga practice.

Each yoga intensive will become an advanced asana instructional period. Ana will guide the class into advanced poses related to the day’s intensive theme, teaching and demonstrating variations, leveling, spotting and assisting along the way. A highly experiential session, this daily advanced asana period is structured so that each trainee works with others in the class in order to gain hands on experience with spotting, assisting (to keep your students safe as they learn the advanced poses), variations and leveling all under the supervision of Ana and Jonathan.

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