Yoga Sutra: Light on Self-Mastery
A ParaYoga® Master Training and Five-Day Intensive with Rod Stryker
by Madelyn Miller, the TravelLady
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illuminating the practices, challenges, purpose and potential of Yoga as a
spiritual journey, the Sutras map the path to realizing life’s most precious
treasures.
Man’s supreme potential unfolds in the state of Yoga. Yoga is the revelation of perfect clarity, limitless intelligence, lasting peace, and freedom in action. Yoga practice – culminating in the heights of wisdom and compassion – can be defined as those processes that enable us to become what in our heart of hearts we aspire to be. Written in 200 B.C., Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra is the singular text that illumines the path of Yoga more clearly and systematically than anything before or after.
The transcendent wisdom of the Sutras integrates the sciences of awakening body, mind, breath, soul, spirit, and creator. The word ‘Sutra’ means “thread.” The text is called the Yoga Sutra because it threads together all the diverse teachings of Yoga into a single body of knowledge. While the Sutras are intended to be practical, its scope and precision requires the guidance of the highest kind of teacher to reveal its subtle and hidden power. Study of the Sutras accelerates the journey of personal growth as it deepens understanding of the Divine potential of Yoga and life. By illuminating the practices, challenges, purpose and potential of Yoga as a spiritual journey, the Sutras map the path to realizing life’s most precious treasures.
This five-day practice and Teacher Training Intensive is open to all interested students, and is designed to enrich dedicated practitioners, aspiring teachers, or those already teaching. The training consists of two parts: Open Morning Practices and Afternoon Training Sessions.
WORKSHOP OVERVIEW
Morning
practices are open to all dedicated practitioners
(participation in the training is not required). These three-hour practices,
led by Rod, are devoted to unfolding a particular teaching of the Yoga
Sutras. Emphasizing direct experience, these sessions survey the most
relevant and powerful themes of the Sutras by weaving together dynamic
Asana, Vinyasa, Pranayama, and meditation practices.
Afternoon Training sessions are open to all interested students – teachers and non-teachers alike – who are registered for the full five day training program and wish to deepen their exploration through lectures, additional practices, and Q & A sessions. Our focus is to outline Yoga’s path toward self-mastery, and how Yoga can, if properly understood and practiced, remove those things that keep us from experiencing our highest aspirations. As a whole, the Training aims to exalt teachers and non-teachers alike by providing a vision to see oneself and one’s practice (and/or one’s students’ practice) with inspirational understanding, compassion, and crystal-like clarity.
Some
topics covered will include:
· The Effect of Correct Practice and its Aim
· Refinement of the Practices Outlined in the Sutras
· The Constituent Parts and Nature of Mind
· The Causes of Suffering and the Means to Reduce Them
· Pranayama and the Mind
· Patanjali’s Teaching on the Three Paths of Yoga (Mild, Medium and Intense)
· The Role of Faith in Affecting Practice
· Practices for Self-Reflection and Self-Inquiry
· The Different Aims of Particular Approaches to Meditation
· The Tantra of the Yoga Sutras
· Mysticism and Spirituality: Beyond the Psychology of the Yoga Sutras
Recommended Reading:
Four Chapters on Freedom by
Swami Satyananda Saraswati
Materials:
The price of your registration includes your training manuals and will be
provided to you on the first day of the event.
ABOUT ROD STRYKER
Rod
Stryker is widely considered to be one of the pre-eminent yoga and mediation
teachers in the United States. He is the founder of ParaYoga® and has taught
Tantra, Meditation and Hatha yoga for more than twenty years. He is one of
the few western teachers truly capable of articulating an authentic
experience of the Tantra tradition. To learn more about Rod and ParaYoga,
visit
www.parayoga.com
LOCATION: Sammons Center for the Arts DATES: Tuesday, September 9 - Saturday, September 13, 2008
TWO WORKSHOP OPTIONS!
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Full Five Day Intensive
Teacher Training
DATES: September 9-13, 2008
TIMES: 9:00am - 6:00pm
Morning
practice sessions: 9:00am – 12:00pm
Teacher
training: 2:00pm – 6:00pm
EARLY REGISTRATION by 8/9/08: $625
REGULAR
REGISTRATION: $695
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Morning Practice Sessions Only
ALL LEVELS WELCOME
DATES: September 9-13, 2008
TIMES: 9:00am - 12:00pm
REGISTRATION:
1
session: $55
2
sessions: $110
3
sessions: $150
4
sessions: $200
All
five sessions: $225
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
For any additional questions on this or other events,
please contact Living Yoga Dallas at 214-739-1605 or email
info@livingDallasyoga.com
Madelyn Miller is a travel and food writer who has recently discovered the age old practice of yoga. She has lots of catching up to do but loves every moment of it.
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