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PRANAYAMA & MEDITATION 100 HOUR YTT
This 100-hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training in Pranayama and Meditation is designed for yoga teachers who want to deepen their understanding and skill in guiding both pranayama and meditation practices. Often, 200-hour trainings don’t cover these areas in depth, leaving teachers without the confidence to lead these powerful techniques effectively. In this program, you’ll explore and practice a variety of pranayama and meditation techniques with a focus on how they can support mental health.
The training is structured to introduce you to mantra meditation, an advanced meditation technique, and develop a twice daily personal practice of mantra meditation. You'll also journal about your experiences. By the end of the training, you'll have a solid foundation in various meditation scripts, multiple pranayama techniques, and you'll conclude by leading a community workshop, demonstrating your knowledge in creating personalized practices that meet various mind body states.
THE PROGRAM
WHAT YOU WILL
Learn
​Module 1: History of Yoga/Meditation, Foundations & Developing a Personal Practice
In this module, Alex will introduce you to the history/context of yoga and meditation. Then, you will learn from a Vedic Meditation teacher how to develop a personal practice of Mantra Meditation.
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Module 2: How to Teach Meditation
In the second module, we will learn how to teach a variety of guided meditations, including metta, yoga nidra, visualizations, and buddhist meditations. You will also learn body scan meditations, the RAIN meditation, and more. Alex will teach context of mental health and meditation, including philophy from Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, The Doshas, and the Gunas.
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Meditation Curriculum:
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Personal Daily Practice: Mantra Meditation (Learning How to meditate & establishing a practice)
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Meditation History & Philosophy & Context within Yoga - and Mindfulness Based Practices
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Mental Health from a Science Perspective & External Focus Based Practices (Trataka)
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The Structure of the Mind According to Patanjali & Thought Awareness Practice
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Sutras on Meditation and Body Scan for Progressive Relaxation (Anxiety)
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Sutra 1.33 on Animosity and Compassion Based Practices (Metta) for cultivating positive emotions
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Mantra Chanting Meditation Practices (External)
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Mantra Based Meditation (Internal)
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Yoga Nidra & The Gunas
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Visualization for Cultivating Calm (Anxiety)
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Visualization for Cultivating a Hopeful Future - Future Self (Depression)
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Visualizations for Difficult Emotions
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Reiki Self Healing for Chakra Balance & Alignment
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RAIN Meditation for accepting emotions (Buddhist Technique)
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Manifestation Practices to Visualize your Future
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Module 3: The Power of Prana and Teaching Pranayama Practices
In this module, led by a Balinese teacher who is an expert in pranayama, you will learn how to teach many classical pranayama practices, including:
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The Dosas & How they apply to mental Health
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The Gunas & How they apply to mental health
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8 limbs pranayama philosophy
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Energy & Subtle Body Anatomy
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Breath Teaching Restrictions & Cautions
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Healthy & Restricted Breathing
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Natural, Effortless Breathing
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Basic Breath Training
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Allignments of Sitting Asanas
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Prana Vidya (Knowledge of prana)
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Preparation for Pranayama (30 Mins):
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Khumbhaka
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Nadi Shodhana
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Samavritti
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Bhastrika
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Durga Pranayama
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Uujayi
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Surya Bhedana
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Sheetali
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Chandra Bhedana
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Brahmari
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Viloma
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This class is suitable for Yoga Teachers, as well as Yoga Students. It counts as a 100 Hour CEC (Continuing Education Credit) if you are a Registered Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance.
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Final Project: The final project will be leading a meditation/pranayama workshop for the community on a mind body state.
YOUR TEACHER
MEET YOUR GUIDE, Alex
Alex is a 500 Hour Registered Yoga Teacher, Certified Life Coach, entrepreneur, podcaster, and Ontario Certified Teacher. Since a very young age, she was drawn to yoga as a way to calm her mind and manage an undiagnosed mood disorder. She began practicing yoga daily at the age of eighteen and completed her first 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training in 2014 at Yandara Yoga Institute in Mexico. In 2017, she completed her 300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training at Zuna Yoga in Bali.
Since then, she has taught yoga internationally, and she now resides in Bali, Indonesia. Alex has participated in several additional trainings, including Yoga Workshop Design for Teachers with Rolf Gates, Prenatal and Postnatal Yoga, Yoga for Kids and Trauma Informed Yoga.
TESTIMONIALS
SOME KIND WORDS FROM OUR
Program Students
Meet our students who've been part of past programs.
Meditation part: I really enjoyed learning a new meditation technique called the ‘Mantra Meditation’. I am familiar with doing guided meditations through different apps but it was very valuable to learn a different technique and to gain more knowledge about the basics of meditation. That meditating is something we can do effortlessly and that it is accessible to everyone.
Pranayama: it was fascinating to learn more in depth about all the breathing practices. I didn’t realise there are so many and that every one of them has a different function. By having the knowledge about these practices I am now able to implement the ones that suit me and my students into my classes.
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JAIMY
Netherlands
"Soooo happy to be 4 months alcohol free. Honestly the best decision ever. Massive thanks to @alexmcrobs for inviting me to the Sober Girls Yoga challenge to get me started. Are you sober curious? This movement is growing - come join the fun!"
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SABRINA
UK
