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Yoga Retreat in Rishikesh - Maa Yoga Ashram, India

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Maa Yoga Ashram – Yoga Retreats in Rishikesh, India , offers affordable yoga retreats in India which cover yoga asana, pranayama and meditation classes with complimentary Ayurveda lifestyle guidelines and one Ayurveda massage per week. One can also avail services like panchakarma, Shirodhara etc. by paying extra. We sometimes occupy ourselves with our daily routine and do not make time to look deeper into our inner selves. Yet spiritual awakening is absolutely necessary to find inner peace. With inner peace, we understand the beauty of life and become more compassionate people. The aim of our retreats is to transform you into a better person, bringing light & bliss into your life. We wish you to have the optimum balance of a healthy body & mind. In our  Yoga Retreats in Rishikesh, India , we share with you the knowledge, the theory, treatments and sattvic ambiance (pure and natural) for sadhana (discipline undertaken in the pursuit of a goal). The rest depen...

Mental Benefits of Yoga

Mental Benefits of Yoga As yoga practice increases all over the world studies are being carried out to understand whether yoga brings any the mental benefits to the practitioner. The conclusion is that yoga not only helps to remove minor mental problems like stress but is even helpful in tackling conditions like depression and ADHD. The practice of postures alone brings in fewer benefits but along with asanas if we practice breath control or pranayama the effect on mental health increases. Learning the correct pranayama for your condition from a trained and experienced yoga teacher and then finding the time to practice breath control is necessary. Meditation practice and the use of the right chant also helps to keep the mind calm and at peace. Whether you want to manage the everyday stress, work pressures or just improve your focus and concentration yoga has an answer to all. However, you need to find the time to practice asanas, pranayama, and meditation as only in the combina...

Yoga School in India - Samatva Yogalaya, Rishikesh: RYS

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200-300-500-hour residential hatha yoga teacher training courses in India registered with Yoga Alliance at yoga school Samatva Yogalaya, Rishikesh . Among the many yoga schools in India , Samatva Yogalaya has quietly made a name for itself as a school that imparts quality yoga teacher training programs in India. Since its inception, Samatva Yogalaya has climbed upwards and is now registered with Yoga Alliance as both RYS 200 and RYS 300 where 200, 300 and 500-hour yoga teacher training is imparted in traditional hatha yoga, hatha yoga in Iyengar style and hatha yoga in Ashtanga style.   The fee charged for the various courses is reasonable as compared to some yoga schools in India. The yoga students get a single-room, clean accommodation with attached bathrooms. There are 24-hour water supply and provision for hot water. The food provided is vegetarian but wholesome and definitely healthy. The yoga instructors at Samatva Yogalaya are well informed in their subjects and e...

200 and 500-Hr YTT: December 2014

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200, 300 and 500-hour yoga teacher training in India starting from December 1, 2014 - https://starlim.co.in/ Reconfirmation Request: All the yoga students registered for 200 & 500-hour yoga teacher training starting from December 1, 2014  are requested to reconfirm their participation by October 30, 2014. In case, you are unable to attend this course, your deposit will be valid until November 2015. Wait-listed students will be allotted seats from October 31, 2014. Thank you. 500 Hour Yoga Teacher Training in India Yoga Teacher Training in Italy Yoga Teacher Training in Himalaya Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Yoga-Teachers-Training-India

200 and 500-hour TTC - June 2014

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200, 300 and 500-hour yoga teacher training in India starting from June 2, 2014. Reconfirmation Request: All the yoga students registered for 200 & 500-hour yoga teacher training starting from June 2, 2014  are requested to reconfirm their participation by April 28, 2014. In case, you are unable to attend this course, your deposit will be valid until June 2015. Wait-listed students will be allotted seats from April 29, 2014. Thank you. Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/Yoga-Teachers-Training-India/events/155599062/ 500 Hour Yoga Teacher Training in India Yoga Teacher Training in Italy Yoga Teacher Training in Himalaya

Yoga Teacher Training Italy

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Yoga Teacher Training in Italy Yoga teacher training in Italy, 200-hour residential hatha yoga instructor course, registered with Yoga Alliance, USA. Sunday 28 April – Saturday 25 May 2019 Sunday 2 June – Saturday 29 June 2019 Sunday 07 July – Saturday 03 August 2019 Sunday 22 September – Saturday 19 October 2019 MISANO ADRIATICO, (RN) Italy   Brace yourselves to learn yoga in the beautiful surroundings of Rimini in Italy. Yes that’s right yoga is coming to Rimini and you will love the location as it is right by the Adriatic Sea, which nature lovers will find just as fascinating as the mountains of Rishikesh. So yoga lovers, if you like the idea of freeing your body and mind then click below to subscribe to our Italian yoga courses. For more info, please  visit: https://starlim.co.in/yoga-teacher-training-italy.html 500 Hour Yoga Teacher Training in India Yoga Teacher Training in Italy Yoga Teacher Training in ...

Yoga Teacher Training India - March 2014

Reconfirmation Request - TTC March 2014: All the yoga students registered for 300-hour yoga teacher training course starting from March 17, 2014, are requested to reconfirm their participation by Jan. 24, 2014. Wait-listed students will be allotted seats from Jan. 25, 2014. Thank you. Fabienne Mouret - France Alexandra Pronyakova - Russia Jennifer Griffith – USA Jordan Moniz - USA Kim Thanh Barcenas - USA Lindsey Johnson - USA Jane Manchon - USA Mandy K Lippmann - Germany Emily Kane - Canada Janelle Jovellanos - USA Matti Torma - Finland Anagael Silva - Guatemala Jonathan Lewis - UK Cara Ferrara - USA John Sheehy - Ireland Ruben Darius - Romania William Moore - Canada Jessica Moser - Canada Ana Tortolero - Mexico Eve Irvine - Canada Maija Meijere - Latvia Angela Kaliappan - Australia Malene Lykkebo - Denmark Heidi Wetzel - USA 500 Hour Yoga Teacher Training in India Yoga Teacher Training in Himalaya

Yoga Teacher Training India - February 2014

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All the yoga students registered for 200 and 500-hour residential hatha yoga teacher training in India are requested to reconfirm their participation by December 30, 2013 . Wait-list students will be allotted seats from December 31, 2013. In case, you are unable to attend this course - your deposit can be used for any of our forthcoming courses until January 2015. Please apply for " TOURIST VISA " only. Arrival at Delhi airport on February 1 or 2 is recommended - Yoga FAQs . Those students who want to book a taxi/car through us are requested to send their flight details by January 25, 2014. Please note that a car/taxi booked through us costs approx. 60% less than the fee charged by airport taxi operators and it is outsourced through reliable and known transporters. We also arrange carpooling provided 2 or more students arrive at the same time. Thank you. Andrea Landler – Denmark Shaun Alexander McLean – Canada Diane E Terrusa – USA Jacqueline Carino – ...

International Yoga Festival India 2019

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The Annual International Yoga Festival in India, conducted under the aegis of Uttarakhand State Tourism Department just gets bigger year by year as yoga enthusiasts from all over the world flock to the holy city of Rishikesh in the Himalayas. Hotel Ganga Kinare has been the venue of the Yoga Festival for almost a decade now. The site of the hotel, which is beside the Ganges, adds to the yoga experience that is different. The in-house teachers will conduct Hatha yoga sessions, take meditation classes and will demonstrate pranayam techniques. Besides typical yoga sessions, yogic chants are also the focus of the festival as these benefit the mind and spirit. Interactive sessions give you the freedom to ask questions and improve your knowledge of yoga. The yoga sessions held outdoors on the sands of the Ganges River makes a natural stage with the Shivalik Range as the backdrop. The entire atmosphere is geared to inform and enlighten yoga enthusiasts and so grea...

Yoga Teacher Training India

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Yoga Teacher Training in India: 2019 200, 300 and 500-hour yoga teacher training in India in 2019 registered with Yoga Alliance, USA and conducted at yoga school Samatva Yogalaya, Rishikesh - RYS 200, RYS 300. 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training in India - 2019 200-hour yoga teacher training in India in 2019 at Samatva Yogalaya, Rishikesh - RYS 200 & RYS 300, a yoga school registered with Yoga Alliance, USA. » 18 March 2019 to 13 April 2019 :: US$ 1700 (Yoga Alliance - RYT 200 Certification in Rishikesh, India) » 27 May 2019 to 22 June 2019 :: US$ 1700 (Yoga Alliance - RYT 200 Certification in Rishikesh, India) »  05 August 2019 to 31 August 2019  :: US$ 1700 (Yoga Alliance - RYT 200 Certification in Rishikesh, India) »  14 October 2019 to 09 November 2019  :: US$ 1700 (Yoga Alliance - RYT 200 Certification in Rishikesh, India) 300-Hour Yoga Teacher Training in India - 2019 300-hour yoga teacher training in India in 2019 at...

Yoga teacher training in India - week 5

It is already the second last week in Rishikesh . It started to set in that we will not be here forever and I found myself feeling more present in my experience this week. We began to teach each other and had some awesome workshop themes, including Tantra, Thai Yoga massage, Chinese Medicine and foot massage, Creating healthy lifestyles and essential oils, Ayurveda, Prenatal Yoga, Critical thinking to apply yogic knowledge, studying the Sacro Iliac Joint, releasing emotions through hip opening and awakening love with Kundalini Yoga. All my fellow 300 hour yoga teacher trainers have so much to offer and it was nice to be given the opportunity to learn from everyone. In the Tantra workshop, we learned that Tantra is about balancing Shiva and Shakti (masculine and feminine) energy. It is a way to see the spark and eternal flame in your partner not just the being in front of you. There is left hand tantra and right hand tantra. The ultimate goal is right hand tantra which is th...

Yoga Teacher Training in India - Week 4

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500-hour yoga teacher training in India We have made it through one month of our yoga teacher training in India . I feel so close with all of my fellow students, we all release a lot this week and the energy feels much lighter now. I personally have shifted a lot since being here and am back in a space of feeling grateful and present for each moment in India. Rishikesh is a holy city and is fully vegetarian. I am a vegetarian and it is nice to know that there is not any meat being prepared anywhere here. It is like a different world, a world that is connected to nature. Living in oneness with nature keeps things real. Sometimes I look around and see the foothills of the Himalayan Mountains and see a monkey and think wow, here I am, in Rishikesh. It is so surreal! If you visit India take advantage of all the amazing ayurvedic products you can buy here for so cheap and definitely get yourself some treatments! I had the most amazing massage yesterday where they pour oil...

Yoga Teacher Training in India - Week 3

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After three weeks of intense yoga teacher training things came up for me literally and metaphorically. I feel that I have grown more this week than I thought possible. I got sick and for anyone traveling anywhere in India, I recommend taking a probiotic, oil of oregano and a wellness formula daily. Emotions come up while traveling in India and it truly is a beautiful healing process. If we don’t ever look at any of the old energy we are holding onto we can’t heal it. I will be the first to admit that it does not always feel good to look at your old beliefs and emotions. But the journey to enlightenment is all about shining light on old beliefs that no longer work, as hard as it may feel at times, so I am truly grateful for this experience. Deep healing was the intention that I set for this training; and you know what they say, ask and you shall receive. The weather cooled off and it began to rain this week and I feel that the plants are happy; it is lush and green here. Betw...

Yoga Teacher Training in India - Week 2

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Things really heated up this week in Rishikesh . It is hot in May, the heat is helping to keep my muscles loose and aiding in detoxification that’s for sure! We continued our 5:30 am to 8:45 pm schedule this week and I really feel that I am getting into the groove of the day and it flows quite well. This week we began to teach each other in the afternoons. This really gives us the opportunity to learn from each other and receive feedback on how we can improve and become better. We are given the space to discover things on our own, but when the inner guru doesn’t suffice, Krishna or Roshan step in. We have a new evening yoga instructor , Jeet who is teaching us Ashtanga Vinyasa in the evenings, it is a very challenging class but I leave feeling liberated! After three days of Jeet teaching us, we began to break into groups to teach each other sun salutations: Surynamakasar A and B as well as a few other asanas or postures. Repetition of these short sequences creates a context for go...

Yoga Teacher Training in India - Week One

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Yoga teacher training in India at  Rishikesh  - RYS 200, 500 . I arrived in Rishikesh seven days ago to join the 300 hour hatha yoga teacher training in India . I came here with a purpose of self-healing and to deepen my yoga practice and knowledge. I did not expect that I was about to meet so many amazing new friends. I have never been surrounded by so many beautiful souls. The people who work here and all the students here are absolutely lovely.   Being in the yoga capital of the world on the Ganges River at the foothills of the Himalayas is truly magical. I feel right at home here and can sense a genuine, loving and open vibe from everyone I meet. We start the day bright and early with morning tea and sinus cleansing using a neti pot, which can feel awkward the first time but it really cleans out your sinuses so you can breathe! After cleansing our sinuses we go up for morning practice, then breakfast with a lot of fresh fruit followed by theory...

Attributes of an Accomplished Yoga Teacher

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Yoga teacher training and instructor courses in India - RYT 200, 500. A good yoga teacher is one who has acquired a good training and is a certified teacher as that is the minimum qualification required to begin teaching. The teacher needs to be familiar with all aspects of yoga in order to answer any questions that a student could ask. Along with parting instructions, a good teacher will grow their own personal practice and enhance knowledge on a continuous basis. Just like the teacher is an individual a yoga teacher must realize that each student is an individual, with individual needs and a body that may not be able to cope up in a collective teaching environment and would need some individual attention. Any teacher who can understand the needs of each of their students by merely studying the body is definitely accomplished.   A teacher must understand anatomy so thoroughly that they know exactly what effect the moves are having on the muscles, bones, and joints ...

Yoga Dreams - Why I Decided to Go to India

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I showed up to my first yoga class when I was 16 years old. I can’t remember what got me interested enough at such a young age to pursue it, but I kept showing up every week for more. I think the teacher liked me because I was so young, by far the youngest in her classes. One thing I will always take away from these beginning days are the loving smile and support of my very first yoga teacher, and her wonderfully relaxing savasanas topped off with Bergamot-infused shoulder and neck alignments. That smell is still nostalgic for me today. I found yoga to be a magical, happy place where anything lingering on my mind would melt away and my body and breath came to life like a well-oiled machine. It was nurturing, honest, luminous. I felt whole. Over the years, I’ve relocated a few times and explored many yoga studios and teachers. I’ve recently deepened my practice and begun to create my own routines at home, infusing them with meditation and energy practices. For the majority of ...

Yoga As Therapy

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If you would like to use yoga as a therapy or as an alternative medical treatment then you will have to learn yoga differently than what is offered in a general yoga class. You would probably like to target a particular medical condition like cancer. For this, you will require a personalized yoga program and a yoga teacher who is not only trained with good anatomical knowledge but who has experience in conducting yoga classes for someone with your kind of condition. Yoga Teacher training in India Yoga Chikitsa or yoga treatment uses natural methods including Ayurveda to treat medical conditions. Yoga therapy is mostly used as a preventative method but is now being used along with other modern medical interventions as a curative measure too. Traditionally yoga is a practice that leads to spiritual awareness and yoga was used to ensure that the body remained in good health so deep meditation, which required being in one position for long periods of time, would not have a negat...

Importance of Breath in Yoga

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Yoga is being seen more and more as a means of merely exercising the body and keeping it slim. Breathing which is the most important aspect of traditional yoga like hatha yoga is being overlooked. Without breathing in the correct way when undergoing yoga asanas the benefits of the asana will only be superficial. Breath is the vital force that energizes the body. It helps to harmonize the body, mind, and spirit and when all three aspects are in harmony then healing and immunity will ensue naturally. Somehow we have forgotten how to breathe in a deep and beneficial way through the belly. We all breathe in a shallow way and through the chest. This does not bring oxygenated breath to the lungs fully and so does not circulate in the body with energy. Yoga in Rishikesh, India Besides the physical benefits, breath is the source that can take us to through that space where peace is supreme and this can only be achieved through the correct method of breathing which makes us awar...

Stress-free Workplace With Yoga

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The corporate environment is bristling with the stress that comes from having to meet deadlines, making a deal or just office politics or it could be related to stressful situations like traffic congested roads or home and work balance issues. Physical health problems could arise from constantly bending over computers or sitting for long hours at the desk. Executives need to be in a relaxed frame of mind to be productive. This is the reason that corporate bosses are now encouraging regular wellness programs in the office which includes relaxation techniques and regular yoga practice that will bring mental relief, health benefits and raise energy levels. Corporate yoga is now of age and yoga packages are being designed exclusively for office personnel. The yoga kriyas are such that they can be done in work clothes and besides the office desk easily and without yoga mats.   Yoga trained teachers who have corporate yoga experience are now being sought out by businesses who w...