Mindfulness yoga

500 hours Advanced Mindfulness Yoga Teacher CPD Training

Remedial Yoga and Applied Mindfulness Training

Do you have students in your class with back problems, knee problems?
Have you wondered how to work with commonly encountered musculo-skeletal issues in your teaching?
Have you seen the powerful healing capacity of a careful and judicious yoga practice?
Do you want to take your yoga knowledge deeper and to another level?

Bodhiyoga offers a 500 hours training, open to any 200 hour trained teacher, forming part of your Continuing Professional Development (CPD) as a yoga teacher.

Through the combination of practices and theoretical frameworks we offer a comprehensive and detailed multi-dimensional 500 hours training.

Next course runs 6th to 13th November 2020

Video call

If you want to train with us we offer a 45 minute video call (Zoom, Skype, Facetime) to talk over any questions and details regards our training.

Please contact Sudaka or Sadhita at info@bodhiyoga.es

Ideally you would attend a workshop or retreat with us before the teacher training to get to know us and how we teach.

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Core themes

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The three core themes of the 500 hours training are:-

Yoga applied to six musculo-skeletal problems through seven practice sequences (low back, hip and knee problems, upper back, shoulder and neck)
An exploration of how to apply Mindfulness teaching to hatha yoga
How to develop your meditation practice and bring it into your yoga classes

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Preparation for the course

We ask existing 200 hour yoga teachers to do some preparatory study and begin to keep a working diary of their meditation practice.

The pre-course study guides you through some preliminary investigations and readings. We ask all students to read Living with Awareness and Living with Kindness by Sangharakshita, Satipatthana by Analayo, and be familiar with the content of the 200 hour Bodhiyoga Teacher Training Manual (we will send you the PDF when you book

In the 500 hours Manual (139 pages) we cover:

An exploration of structural alignment and assessment of our bodies
An overview of relevant anatomy and pathology
Yoga asana sequences- remedially applied
Meditation and Mindfulness teaching

Students combine the week long Advanced training with a week long yoga and meditation retreat. Some home study and preparation make up the required hours to Certify for 500 hours.

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An integrated approach to Yoga

The full programme is designed to show existing yoga teachers how to apply Mindfulness to Yoga to deal with specific musculo-skeletal issues. We show how to work with pain, stress and adversity in our own experience and others'. Through seven carefully constructed sequences we analyse and look at the application of this remedial or therapeutic yoga to work with common problems and conditions encountered in your students. We explore low back and upper back, hips and shoulders, knees and neck issues. This enables you to work safely, help your students rebuild strength and stability in their bodies as well as design more intelligent classes.

How to apply Mindfulness To Yoga

Through contemporary and traditional Mindfulness practices we show how to concretely employ Mindfulness in yoga. We recognise that though distinct spiritual lineages, Yoga and Mindfulness form a powerful synthesis in working directly with our experience. We draw extensively from the Buddhist Satipatthana tradition as well as modern approaches to Hatha yoga and body work.

Deepening your Meditation practice

Meditation teaching forms an integral aspect of the 500 hour training. Here we deepen and broaden our knowledge of working directly with the mind. As the Bodhiyoga system of practice is essentially a contemplative yoga, the skills we acquire from meditation aim also to translate into and transform our yoga. We learn how to teach and communicate four key practices:-

How to set up meditation posture
Body Scan
Mindfulness of Breathing
Loving-kindness (Metta bhavana) practice

Background to Mindfulness yoga

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We further our understanding of yoga and mindfulness to work with pain, stress and difficult situations. We have carefully adapted and designed the yoga asana sequences to be applied to six commonly encountered musculo-skeletal problems that you will typically find in your yoga classes. Using yoga, mindfulness and meditation as tools, we learn how to alleviate the physical and emotional issues related to these common conditions.

On a deeper level, we learn to transform our mind and therefore see adversity, in or out of yoga, as a way to understand ourselves, coming to terms with the existential situation as human beings. Our training offers a practical vehicle for spiritual transformation. We are principally concerned in providing conditions for the development and deepening of greater awareness, confidence and self-discovery.The 500 hours CPD training is based around the Satipatthana (Mindfulness) teachings. During the course, we delve deeply into this material principally emphasising a pragmatic experiential approach.

We want to take our students towards a greater understanding of life and of themselves. Having a human body means at some time or other experiencing pain or discomfort. How we approach to dealing with this makes all the difference. We have the opportunity to grow through waking up more fully to our expeirence just as it is. This approach to practice could be called, “Taking adversity as the path”.

Suryavana retreat centre

Suryavana Retreat Centre

This is the newly established retreat centre. A country house up in the hills some 60 km to the North West of Valencia. It is situated in a delightfully hidden valley, surrounded by arable olive and almond trees as well as pine and oak woodlands. Much love and care goes into creating an ideal place to practice.

More about Suryavana...How to get there? What to bring? Accomodation and food

Course Programme

7.00 Rise
7.30 Meditation & yoga practice
10.00 Breakfast
11.00 Morning workshop
14.00 Lunch
17.00 Afternoon workshop
20.00 Evening meal
21.00 Meditation and poetry

Essential reading

Living with Awareness - Sangharakshita (2004)
Living with Kindness - Sangharakshita (2004)
Satipatthana - Analayo (2004)
Introduction to Human Anatomy and Physiology - Eldra Pearl Soloman (2008)

The 200 hour Bodhiyoga Teacher Training Manual (we will send you the PDF when you book)

Booking and Payment

Places are limited so do book book early.
The full cost of the training is £ 1250 (£950 if booked 90 days before) £ 335 single room supplement

Write to us to make a payment to Bodhiyoga. Please contact us via info@bodhiyoga.es and we will ask you fill out the application form.

Cancelations policy

Should any participant withdraw from our trainings before the end of the event, any refund of course fees is at the discretion of the Bodhiyoga course facilitators. In principle payments to Bodhiyoga are completely non-returnable under any circumstances and only transferable to trainings the following year. All such requests should be made in writing and sent to Bodhiyoga.

Testimonials

Check out our teachers listing to see what our students do post course

Sadhita and Sudaka's comprehensive training course solidified my confidence in teaching Dharmic yoga. Their seamless weaving of yoga asana and mindfulness practice allow me access a depth of integrity when communicating the Buddha's teaching. I am grateful tothem for doing this pioneering work and enabling me to transmit the teachings of mindfulness and kindness through yoga. Andrea Campbell, Norwich, U.K.

A really inspiring course which explores remedial yoga, mindfulness, Buddhist principles and meditation in a perfect balance. It deepened my knowledge and understanding of yoga spiritually, personally and practically. Would highly recommend. Jo Newman, Birmingham, U.K.

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