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RYS 200

YogaJaya Vision
Integration/Awareness/Transformation

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YogaJaya Director Patrick Oancia speaks about the YogaJaya Vision in this short film


Directed and produced by award winning
New York based Italian filmmaker and
cinematographer, Marco Franzoni.

See YogaJaya Vision Short Film here.

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Teacher Training


Teacher Trainer Bio's:

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Patrick Oancia
Spain/Canada/Japan
Asana/Philosophy/Ethics/Self Inquiry
www.yogajaya.com

Patrick Oancia is the director of YogaJaya. Patrick has been immersed in practicing raja yoga since 1996. He has traveled around the world attending advanced, intensive workshops and study in several countries. He has studied various hatha yoga asana traditions including Ashtanga, Iyengar, and Sivananda as well as regularly practicing meditation (Dhyana) and breathing techniques (Pranayama). He has also studied yoga, Indian, Taoist, Sufi and Buddhist philosophy.

In addition to the yoga that Patrick teaches at YogaJaya public classes in Tokyo, he also develops curriculum and writes essays based on a contemporary interpretation of yoga lifestyle, facilitates on intenational teacher training programs, and holds workshops and retreats around the world.

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Iva Drtina-Hall
Canada/Czech Rebublic/Japan
Asana/Philosophy/Ethics/Self Inquiry
www.yogajaya.com

Iva Drtina-Hall was raised in the Czech Republic and Canada and has been active in yoga, dance and self inquiry practices for over 20 years.

Ivafs interests have always been in body movement. From an early age, she explored all facets of body awareness, from ballet to jazz dance, African dance, gymnastics and yoga.

Her interest in health, nutrition and alternative medicine began when she studied a degree in Physiology at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

Ivafs aim as a yoga teacher is to be able to help initiate the process of transformation within every student. She invites all to participate not only in asana (poses) but also in the practice of pranayama (breath control), and Dhyana (meditation).

Iva hosts retreats and workshops internationally as well as facilitating on teacher training programs.


Additional teaching faculty info to be posted soon.

Teacher Training 2008

YogaJaya International Intensive Teacher Training
(Yoga Alliance 200 hours)

Tokyo 2009

More Information coming soon.

All courses are conducted in English and Japanese with experienced interpreters. The YogaJaya TT Manuals will be provided in Japanese for Japanese speakers and English for English speakers.

YogaJaya understands that work commitments prevent people from immersing themselves in a consecutive daily training course. So we have designed a course to both intensify the experience and economize the time that students are immersed in the curriculum agenda per week.

What makes the YogaJaya TTs different from other Yoga teacher training programs is the emphasis on the transformation in each and every one of us toward attaining our complete potential in our lives outside the mere physical yoga practice.

The courses are designed to stimulate and revolutionalise an individual's perceptions of yoga practice and how it connects to every aspect of growth. The facilitators that have been chosen for these courses have decades of accumulated experience as yoga practitioners, teachers, therapists and artists.

YogaJaya and its vision have been recognized by some of the leading yoga organizations in the world, and continue to establish its open and diverse mission to clarify a profound but practical outlook on Yoga Lifestyle.


Curriculum will include:

• Body Movement Therapy
-Based on dance, theatre, physiotherapy and yoga. Designed to help the individual break down inhibitions by working with the physical body as the catalyst to complete well-being.

• Self Inquiry
-Based on applied techniques of modern psychology, eastern philosophy, and life coaching to instill a multi-dimensional look at our psychological conditioning and how to manifest our real potential through awareness.

• In-depth Study Of Multiple Modern Hatha Yoga Traditions
-To draw a cross section of how each style can offer different insight into a more broad approach to practicing and teaching. Sub-modules will include specialized techniques, teaching methodology and practical application.

• Anatomy and Physiology
-To instill a scientific understanding of how our bodies work in relation to yoga and the psychic energy system.

• Foundation principles of Ayurveda
-Ayurveda is Sanskrit for gthe science of lifeh. While developed in India thousands of years ago, looked at in a contemporary way itfs teachings offer us valuable insights into how we can maintain health and balance in todayfs changing world. It sees each of us as a unique individual, yet coming from the same source, all interconnected and interrelated. In helping us understand ourselves and others, it provides us with powerful tools to take responsibility for our own health and lives, and in so doing, enriching our relationships with those around us.

• Classical and Modern Yoga Philosophy/Ethics and Lifestyle
-To offer insight into how the open philosophy of yoga can be interpreted and used a vehicle to live in harmony with one's surroundings, and to modify personal lifestyles by bringing greater awareness and welcoming changing circumstances.

• Sustainable Ethics
-This module will dive into the study of the environmental and social crisis today. We will learn that our intentions as yoga practitioners and teachers directly relate to the environment we live in. This study will give us the basis for how to better relate to our world, integrate knowledge, and directly positively influence our surroundings.

• Yoga and Career
-This course of analysis addresses issues related to the integration of yoga in the professional world, ranging from modern business and marketing techniques to promote the practice of yoga as a lifestyle enhancement, all the way to the practicalities of making a career of yoga itself as a certified instructor or yoga school director. Just as yoga blends with nature, it can blend with the man-made environment defined by careers, professional integrity, competition, collaboration, and business fundamentals. This module studies ethics within the contexts of yoga and of western business, seeking a non-contradictory and mutually sustainable common ground. It also lays out a pathway to a transparently pure value system amid the increasingly complicated interactions of yoga, health and economics in the world of modern business.

Those who complete this course will be awarded a YogaJaya International Teacher Training Certificate and Yoga Alliance 200 hour.

The YogaJaya TTs are 100% practical courses.


The YogaJaya TT has outsourced sections to various recognized yoga facilitators experienced in self-inquiry, self-analysis, yoga philosophy, and contemporary cross-cultural ethics. YogaJaya believes that to become a good teacher, it is most important to study oneself and allow flexibility in welcoming change through a compassionate approach. The YogaJaya TT is set up to be an ideal platform for this transformation.

 


YogaJaya Teacher Training Student Testimonials:

"YogaJayafs Teacher Training is based on teacherfs experience and thinking, not simply stuck on what is written in the books. The diversity of teachers and classes offers the opportunity to absorb each individual teachersf philosophy and the content is just outstanding."
"It is wonderful how this training is advocating diversity and letting us learn from different teachers, classes, ways of thinking. Other programs offered by domestic studios tend to be narrowed down to their studio classes and teachers. Teachers in this course have different tastes, choices and interests. Even the way they approach philosophy is very different and this experience is extremely beneficial for me."

"As it is only conducted during weekends, it allows me to experience change whilst econtinuing my usual daily lifef. Of course programs conducted in completely different non-daily environments (i.e. going overseas for 2 months) do have higher possibility of experiencing something completely different. However, choosing to achieve this without abandoning your daily life is extremely valuable."

"Diversity! Diversity has the effect of triggering you to notice many things and it was stimulating. Not confining things into one corner, but opening my eyes to different point-of-views and ways of thinking. Also the class atmosphere of supporting each other led to each of our personal growth. The teachersf role was also unique in the sense that they were not merely lecturers, but also like an escort-runner supporting us all throughout."

"This training will greatly influence my life from now onwards, as it gives me the opportunity to understand myself and think about how I should live in this world."

"I have taken various workshops and teacher trainings in the past, but the YogaJaya Teacher Training translation ability was higher than ever expected and I am extremely satisfied."

 

 

 

 
 
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