August 27 - September 9, 2012 (Module 1)
October 22 - 31 (Module 2)
$2400/$2150 early registration price (before July 27th)
Individual modules $1300/$1175 early bird (paid 1 month in advance)
at Exhale, Venice 245 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA
310.450.7676

In this training, we will explore yoga as a living, evolving tradition of self-inquiry, body-mind exploration, energetic initiation, community support and personal transformation. You will learn tools and perspectives that place the ancient practice of yoga in a contemporary context, so that you can teach in an integrated, effective and transformative way.

By integrating growing-edge information from science and psychology with anatomically intelligent and energetically potent yoga, Buddhist meditation, energetic and structural bodywork  and ecstatic dance - this training combines the best of ancient and modern wisdom and Eastern and Western philosophy.

Hala and Julian will be creating a safe and authentic community setting in which you are encouraged to drop beneath preconceived ideas, agendas or pretensions so that you can initiate the next stage of your own journey.  From the place of direct experience and sincere inquiry, those who are called to the path of teaching will have a grounded, soulful opportunity to find their voice and learn to share this practice with others.

This course will meet the requirements for Yoga Alliance 200 hr certification, and provide the following:

* Intensive asana practice designed to evoke insights into physical and mental transformation and healing

* In-depth anatomical understanding of the function of postures, injuries and therapeutic interventions

* Hands-on techniques for moving energy and shifting structure

* A unique and highly effective energetic map of mind-body emotional energetics

* Daily practice of a progression of Buddhist and Yogic meditation techniques

* Information and practical teaching tools drawn from Somatic Psychology

* The psychology of teaching: understanding transference and countertransference.

* Discovering your unique voice as a teacher.

* Up-to-the-minute practical applications drawn from the exciting brain research of Neuroscience

* The Psychology of Spiritual Growth understood through the work of Ken Wilber, Peter Levine, Abraham Maslow, Jack Kornfield, John Welwood, Pema Chodron and other integrative thinkers

* Yoga Philosophy as the cultivation of viveka or discriminating wisdom, with an emphasis on the practice of critical thinking rather than rote learning or pious belief

* Exploration of the use of music, poetry and thematic tools to weave sacred space and invite students into relationship with their inner worlds

* Ecstatic Dance as a free-form yoga that awakens self-acceptance, community bonding and states of bliss

* Transformational Breathwork drawn from classical pranayama, tantric practice, and shamanic trance work

* The role of ritual in yoga and creating healing spaces.