October Event
This Saturday 10/15/2011
10:00-Noon

Experiencing The Five Prana Vayus and Understanding Their Therapeutic Application 

Want to step your yoga teaching up a level?  The focus of this month’s YTOC (Yoga Teachers of Colorado) event is being hosted by NamasteWorks Yoga + Wellness.

Come take an experiential journey through the five prana vayus; Prana, Apana, Udana, Samana, and Vyana. Prana vayus are the “winds” of our bodies and they are a very powerful and very subtle forces.  

With awareness we can quite literally find the flow of prana through the prana vayus! In this workshop, we will tune into these forces through the use of mudras, pranayama, and body awareness.  

As a yoga instructor, this workshop will enhance your knowledge of these energy currents, and enable you learn how they assist in yoga as a healing art or create classes to support a specific flow of energy.  

 Presenter: 

Nancy Levenson, founder of NamasteWorks Yoga + Wellness, a boutique wellness center offering yoga as a healing art.   A highly regarded PYT, professional yoga therapist, Nancy’s mission is helping others restore optimal health through mind, body and spirit practice.

Nancy describes her style of yoga as compassionate and expressive.  She focuses on an individual’s overall wellbeing by placing an equal emphasis on their physical, energetic, emotional and spiritual dimensions.  She received her 500-hour Yoga Therapy certification with Joseph & Lillian Le Page through Integrative Yoga Therapy and also holds a restorative yoga teaching certification.   

This event is free to YTOC Members and $20 for non-members.

Location:
5860 South Curtice Street
Littleton, Colorado 80120-1909
303.725.1434

200 HR INTEGRATIVE YOGA THERAPY TEACHER TRAINING 
Free Program Spotlight
September 7th, Wednesday Evening
5:30-6:30 pm

Jeanne Thornton and I held our second “Teaching the Inspired Class” – A Workshop for Yoga Instructors to help re-ignite that source of inspiration from which they teach, day after day, week after week, year after year.

I loved Jeanne’s introduction on Inspiration (In`spi*ra”tion) – too breathe life into. While the program is designed to assist teachers, it also re-inspires my own teaching. I continue to be awed by the amazing creativity that exists all around us. The opportunity to see everything with new eyes and to know that no two of us perceive an event, sound, sight or thought in exactly the same way. That we each find inspiration in different sources and that this inspiration can extend from one thought to another – flowing with unlimited motion. I thank all of the participating teachers for also breathing life into me.

©NamasteWorks Yoga + Wellness, LLC, http://www.namasteworksyoga.com, by: Nancy Levenson

These are my personal recommendations in finding a yoga school that is right for you.

Rather than simply going to the studio closest to your home or taking classes from a teacher whose schedule fits yours, it is worthwhile to look for the right school and the right person to train you. You need to find someone who is experienced and well trained and whose teaching style and personality you find inspiring.

It really depends on what you want out of yoga training. If your interest lies in getting into teaching as fast as you can with limited focus on the eight limbs of yoga, anatomy, physiology, kinesiology, asanas adjustments, pranayama, mediation, philosophy, Koshas, etc. then choosing a weekend program may be right for you. However, if you want an in-depth understanding of the yogic process, a well accredited school is worth every penny spent.

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Yesterday, I had the pleasure of facilitating a yoga teacher workshop, Teaching the Inspired Class, with Jeanne Thornton. This workshop, targeted to new and experienced yoga instructors, was designed to help teachers “breathe life back into their classes.” Through a series of exercises, practice, meditation and small team breakouts, teachers were able to reconnect with their own source of inspiration and meet new teachers in the community. Below are some of the comments from the participating teachers.