Purusha Yoga School - 500 Hour and 200 Hour
Yoga Teacher Training: Sept - Dec 2010

Many yogis have a heart of gold and a general dislike for business. The demand for new and accessible information about your services is ever changing and increasing. The good news is this; keeping up with this modern pace can be achieved with a few key techniques and strategies.
In this workshop you will achieve:
• Clarity in what it is that your life’s work and services are truly about.
• Clarity about what is you want and need from your business.
• A clear statement of business intention and mission based on these personal and professional discoveries.
• Methods and practices to overcome beliefs about money that are no longer serving you and the means to create a new paradigm for earning.
• Communication skills that will enable you to deliver your message in a result oriented way that speaks to your customers needs and desires.
• An understanding of basic entrepreneurial skills and self employed guideliness for structuring and maintaining a professional business.
• General pricing, bookkeeping, record keeping, and administrative practices of the specific trade you are in.
• Social Marketing, Media, Promotion, and Advertising choices that are designed to deliver your message with integrity and attention to your bottom line financial needs.

This course will be led by Adnan Iftekhar and Joy Ravelli.

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In this Partner Yoga course we will be fosuing more on therapeutics and inversions. We will go in depth on certain advanced partner poses as well as building the foundations to keeping your partner afloat for longer periods of time.
In this workshop you will learn:
• Universal alignment principals for weight sharing.
• Chakra energy patterns to create steadiness and comfort in your body and mind.
• Partner Inversions for all ages and stages of life.
• Authentic expression/ movement methods for groups and individual clients.
• Protocols for creating a safe space & therapeutic relationship.
• Conscious co-existence practices.
• Technical assist methods from Acrobatics and Martial Arts.
• Purusha’s unique method of 5 Element assists.
• Therapeutic rejuvenation and release techniques.

This course will be led by Adnan Iftekhar.

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(Contact Joy to experience this work with individual coaching.)

A unique system has been developed by the Purusha School and Joy Ravelli that provides a systematic method of exploring classic yoga philosophy and one's own life.
Through the Sutras of Patanjali and this system of self study you are invited on an adventure of a life time into the real heart and soul of who you are as an individual and what matters most to you as an individual.
As we walk along this path we have two ways of moving: One is to adopt empowering practices, the other is to shed that which is no longer serving us. Giving and taking, receiving, and letting go- we arrive gradually at a place that offers us our birth right- complete and utter happiness.
Through this work you will experience:
* Being moved toward deep contemplation
* Invigorating group discussion
* Authentic expression through movement, writing, art, chanting, and low key performance.
* Guided Visualization, meditation, and Relaxation
* Opportunities to develop your own life's path
* Purusha's 8 steps of Transformation
* Understanding yourself in a completely new way
* An opening in your acceptance and ability to love others
* Clarity in regard to your future life's purpose
* A connection to Divine Nature
* Keen discernment in regard to your ego and true self
* 8 limb system of Raja Yoga for optimal health on all levels: physical, mental, wisdom, energetic, and spiritual.

This course will be led by Joy Ravelli.

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In this professional level training, you will learn:

• Comprehensive postural and health analysis, including the means to provide an individual with specific exercises to improve flexibility, strength, circulation, and alignment.
• The 15 fundamental Pilates/Yoga exercises that provide therapeutic release, realignment, and improved mobility to the pelvis, spine, and shoulders.
• The complete "Total Body" class format for a Pilates/Yoga class, which incorporates modifications for specific concerns and can be utilized in a one-on-one or group setting.
• A unique teaching method that utilizes the "Tell-Show-Do" model and includes verbal/ physical cues and gentle assists.
• Chakra-power breathing exercises that enhance control, awareness, and well-being of the muscles and organs in each center of the body.
• How to connect and direct the flow of energy through your body using bandhas and breath.
• Client tracking and business techniques that follow the eight-limb path of yoga.
• Motivation, coaching, and personal training techniques in order to provide individualized programs and quality private instruction.

This course will be led by Joy Ravelli.

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• Eight limbs of Yoga and their overall application to health and healing: Asana, Pranayama, Yama, Niyama, Pratyahara, Dhrana, Dhyana, Samadhi. (postures, breathing, life style choices, personal choices, sensory perceptions, concentration, meditation, enlightenment.)
• Understanding, modifying and specific program design for common health concerns such as; heart disease, diabetes, asthma, postural deviations, back injury and care, depression/ anxiety, post traumatic Stress Syndrome, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, cancer, osteoporosis and more.
• Health screening, postural analysis, fitness assessment, stress assessment, blood pressure monitoring, general nutrition screening, goal setting.
• Designing programs to accommodate an individual's life style, needs and specific goals.
• Practical Assisting techniques to use with individuals with specific needs.
• Business and marketing skills
• Introduction to Chakra Therapy and it's potential application
• Introduction to Ayurveda and it's potential application
• Introduction to Yogic Nutrition and it's potential application
• Eastern and Western perspectives on the healing process and new research on the mind/body connections for health and healing
• In depth sutra study and yogic philosophy applied to today's life style choices and health concerns.

This course will be led by Joy Ravelli & Helaine Sheais.

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• Eight limbs of Yoga and their overall application to health and healing: Asana, Pranayama, Yama, Niyama, Pratyahara, Dhrana, Dhyana, Samadhi. (postures, breathing, life style choices, personal choices, sensory perceptions, concentration, meditation, enlightenment.)
• Understanding, modifying and specific program design for common health concerns such as; heart disease, diabetes, asthma, postural deviations, back injury and care, depression/ anxiety, post traumatic Stress Syndrome, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, cancer, osteoporosis and more.
• Health screening, postural analysis, fitness assessment, stress assessment, blood pressure monitoring, general nutrition screening, goal setting.
• Designing programs to accommodate an individual's life style, needs and specific goals.
• Practical Assisting techniques to use with individuals with specific needs.
• Business and marketing skills
• Introduction to Chakra Therapy and it's potential application
• Introduction to Ayurveda and it's potential application
• Introduction to Yogic Nutrition and it's potential application
• Eastern and Western perspectives on the healing process and new research on the mind/body connections for health and healing
• In depth sutra study and yogic philosophy applied to today's life style choices and health concerns.

This course will be led by Joy Ravelli & Helaine Sheais.

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• Eight limbs of Yoga and their overall application to health and healing: Asana, Pranayama, Yama, Niyama, Pratyahara, Dhrana, Dhyana, Samadhi. (postures, breathing, life style choices, personal choices, sensory perceptions, concentration, meditation, enlightenment.)
• Understanding, modifying and specific program design for common health concerns such as; heart disease, diabetes, asthma, postural deviations, back injury and care, depression/ anxiety, post traumatic Stress Syndrome, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, cancer, osteoporosis and more.
• Health screening, postural analysis, fitness assessment, stress assessment, blood pressure monitoring, general nutrition screening, goal setting.
• Designing programs to accommodate an individual's life style, needs and specific goals.
• Practical Assisting techniques to use with individuals with specific needs.
• Business and marketing skills
• Introduction to Chakra Therapy and it's potential application
• Introduction to Ayurveda and it's potential application
• Introduction to Yogic Nutrition and it's potential application
• Eastern and Western perspectives on the healing process and new research on the mind/body connections for health and healing
• In depth sutra study and yogic philosophy applied to today's life style choices and health concerns.

This course will be led by Joy Ravelli & Helaine Sheais.

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Thai Yoga Massage has been practiced in the temples of Thailand by Buddhist Monks for 2500 years. This unique practice combines assisted yoga postures, massage and the mindfulness of Metta (loving kindness) into a flowing dance of continuous rhythmic motion. Through this rhythmic dance, the giver experiences meditation in motion while the receiver is in a state of balanced energy and tranquility. Join us as we study, experience, and explore the unique benefits, techniques, and healing qualities of this ancient living art form. A certification of the “Foundations of Thai Yoga Massage” will be awarded upon completion of the workshop and practicum.
This course will be led by Caressa Mathews and Joy Ravelli.

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Explore the ancient system of the chakras as a means toward understanding and creating a complete yogic lifestyle that is appropriate for you and your student’s individual nature. Each of the seven major chakra centers are related to specific physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and energetic qualities. It is at each of these seven locations that subtle forces and bodily functions merge into each other. In this course you will learn specific conscious practices that will penetrate this multi-dimensional realm.

This course includes:
• The Study of the ancient texts that include the Chakras such as Tibetan Mysticism, and Tantric Yoga.
• The application of modern practices and research that has been applied and documented in regard to the Chakras.
• Specific techniques of applying the known psycho-spiritual and emotional dimensions of each chakra to the physical body and the mind.
• Guided Meditation techniques for the purposes of overall intake of individual clients as well as specific meditations for each of the seven major Chakras.
• Bio energetics, postures, sound, mantra, breathing, and touch for each chakra center.
• Authentic movement and art as a means of allowing the student to identify with deep rooted emotions, blocked energy and patterns.
• Exercises to rest, rejuvenate, and replenish each of the seven chakras utilizing breath, restorative postures, conscious communication and lifestyle habits.
• Neuromuscular reeducation as well as repatterning habits of the mind/body to other systems such as endocrine, immune, digestive and reproductive.
• Creating a safe and sacred environment and therapeutic relationship that is essential for your clients to thrive in a way that will nourish and inspire their self -inquiry and growth.
• Business skills and career coaching that will be personalized to guide you in developing your own method of applying and teaching this method.

*Certification is rewarded only with the completion of mentoring, apprenticeship, and practicum hours that are additional to these weekend ‘group’ hours. Details upon request.

This course will be led by Joy Ravelli.

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