advanced practitioners

Advanced Practitioner training 2010
Is
an opportunity to give priority to one's own practice in an energising and inspiring environment with a senior and certified teacher of Sri K P jois.
is
a small and select group of ashtanga yoga practitioners who request to deepen their practice with a 3-year commitment under the guidence of Dena Kingsberg.
Intense periods of study with Dena take place for three months in three consecutive years.

On going studies continue between these dates.
is
a two-way commitment for the pursuit of truth in each other
Is not
a teacher training

Those seeking to become Ashtanga Yoga teachers will need to continue their studies at the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute, Mysore South India and gain Authorisation from Shri K. Pattabhi Jois and Sharath Rangaswamy.  www.ayri.org

there is no qualification, expectation or promise that one will receive or attain any level of knowledge or understanding, only an invitation to the possibility

that some level of this may occur.
however
We use the broad spectrum of Patanjali’s brush to quieten the mind.
Other methods involved as content of this course will hold their value not only in their direct and obvious form, but more essentially,  in the way you will have to extend yourself in order to embrace and integrate them.
possibly resulting
in growth
In an ability to conduct one's self with equilibrium.
and with the tools required to assist in a  Mysore style class and conduct a traditional primary series.
just in case
The light of yoga shines through you and you do choose to share it.
Is
by selection on application.
only open to those who have met / studied with Dena.
Is
costly.

starts

February 2010
now what
email me at

centreofbalance@hotmail.com 

and I will send you details.

If you would like to talk to someone who has  completed an advanced practitioner trainning feel free to email

Sam    samveith@msn.com

Susi     susiq@divinegoddess.com.au

Emma  uoiretos@gmail.com

Claudia   clauoriental@hotmail.com

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faces I love

THE SECRET LIVES OF US

A GLIMPSE OF ASHTANGA

Each morning, in the velvet hour before dawn, silent figures walk toward a glowing candle-lit room in the quiet of Byron Bay. Shedding the mantle of outdoors, yoga mats are spread, limbs are folded, breathing cultivated and a peace descends. Here in this space, this beautiful shala, are the advanced practitioners of Ashtanga Yoga, brought together with the common purpose of deepening their understanding of the practice under the inspired tutelage of Dena Kingsberg.

For three years, these students have put aside regular routines and devoted months at a time to the Byron Bay classroom. And as the shala gently surrenders to the morning light, so the practitioners stand at the end of their mats and the sequences of asana, or postures, begin. This room bears witness to moments of incredible beauty, of extreme physical and inner challenge, to awakenings and discoveries and, sometimes, peals of infectious laughter. I have the privilege of practising among these people every day.

Ashtanga Yoga is the system taught by Sri K Pattabhi Jois and his family in Mysore India. Through marrying the breath to the progressive series of postures, an intense inner heat floods the body and ultimately the practice becomes a pure and illuminating moving meditation. This I know: to stand on the mat in the liquid light, immersed in the deep and flowing breath of those around me, alive to the measured adjustments and murmured instructions of my teacher, is seductive.

Dena and Jack have teaching histories that span two decades and Ashtanga students from all corners of the globe follow them back to Byron Bay. Amongst the eleven advanced practitioners, France, Sweden, Japan, Germany and Brazil are represented. Significantly, several of the group are Byron Bay locals, people who move among us, with careers that seem far removed from their yoga lives. I think of Joan, whose smile lifts the hearts of any who encounter her at the IGA; of Graham, the accountant whose bendy limbs would astound all who face him over a tax return; of Emma, the warm hearted dancer from WA who’s making her life in the Bay; of Sam, who left his actor life in Melbourne to pursue the path of yoga; of Susie, the market retailer who flies fearlessly over her mat then resumes her role of mother of two. In the corner is Tom, who completed his training with a previous group and maintains his practice in the shala.  These people carry the flame of yoga within them, a flame that they would now like to share with you.

Jeni Caffin