Yoga Foundation Course

Are you an individual who wants to bring more to the world? Someone who strives to make it a better place?

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The Gift of India Yoga School offers in-depth training for those who wish to partake in an authentic training experience. Training underpinned by yogic philosophy and delivered by a practitioner with unsurpassed experience. 

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The Yoga Foundation Course is a 40 hour course, running over 6 days of 7 hours

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Aims: to supply the participants with the knowledge and experience of all the yoga practices, their nature, history and text evidence, provide the basis to continue to a Yoga teacher Training or other further paths on the Yoga Journey, to give the participants the clear understanding of what Yoga is and what it is not.

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Leaning outcomes:

By the end of the course the students should know and be able to explain:

• the classical Yoga practices

• some basic facts about the history of Yoga -History

• some details about the most common classical texts

By the end of the course the students should be able to:

• practice asana in the attempt of sthira sukha

• name all the 8 limbs

• avoid dangerous practiced

• relate to the purpose of classical Yoga scriptures

By the end of the course the students should feel and sense:

• an inspiration to delve deeper into the Yoga

• drawn to the scriptures

• their Yoga practice having deepened

• enthusiastic to continue the yoga journey into a teacher training or other further development

The participants are expected to:

• attend all meetings, in case of being unwell zoom links will be provided

• pay the full course fee in advance. There is no refund if the course is not completed.

• arrive at the course meetings in time and stay to the end

• revise the course material

There is no course work or assignments, the purchase of some books is recommended but not obligatory, handouts will be provided.

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Day 1:

• Wellcome, course overview and ‘what is Yoga’

• Asana, what are they, text evidence, history, purpose, process and practical

• What we are, the koshas

• The 8 limbs, yamas interpreted and applied

Day 2:

• Asana practical following Patanjali 2,26-487

• Yoga History and India Culture

• Prana, pranamaya kosha chakras, nadis vayus

• Niyamas, interpretation and application

Day 3:

• Gita, Upanishads, Bhakti, Karma and Raja

• Asana practical with sthira shukha asanam

• Asana benefits: physical, pranic, mental and spiritual, text evidence

• Dangers in Yoga?

Day 4:

• Pranayama as in Patanjali and Hatha texts, not respiratory practices

• Patanjali Yoga Sutras

• Asana practical with pranayama

• Meditation, samyama in Gita Upanishads and Patanjali

Day 5:

• Asana practical with pranayama and bandhas

• Hatha Yoga and the Hatha Yoga Pradipika

• Kundalini, sushumna, granthis

• Mudras and Bandhas text evidence and interpretation and practice

Day 6:

• Surya Namaskara in detail

• Mantra Yoga and chanting

• Becoming a yoga teacher, way, purpose and joy

• mantra meditation

• Samadhi

 

For more information contact Angela on info@angela-ashwin.co.uk and visit www.angela-ashwin.co.uk