Intensive Hatha Yoga Teacher Training with Yogananth Andiappan, Montreal, Canada

Performing, accomplishing and offering the pose

This module focuses on mastering the main intermediate and advanced yoga poses and on understanding their many variations. Taught by internationally recognized masters, this “direct contact” module includes postural corrections and explorative sessions allowing you to build your skills as both a practitioner and a teacher.

Vegetarian meals
Superfood breakfasts
Scandinavian hot-cold bathing (evening outdoor ritual)

Philosophy
The source of alignment: yogis and siddhas at the origin of the asana and the discipline
Bhavana kosha: gracefulness borne from a pose
The true purpose of our practice: the attainment of the Self
Saucha: purifying the body and mind for an optimal practice
Methodology & Practice
Torsions and forward bends
Backward bends
Inversions and balancing poses
Seated poses, kriyas, mudras, bandhas & pranayamas
Drishtis and object of focus

Typical daily schedule

6:00 am Kriyas
6:30 am Pranayama & bandhas
7:00 am Morning shake
7:30 am Hatha yoga poses (int. & adv.) / methodology & practice (2hrs)
9:30 am Breakfast
10:30 am Philosophy and teachings (tradition, bhava and saucha)
12:30 pm Lunch
2:00 pm Teaching lab (overcoming personal challenges, team work, etc.)
4:30 pm Hatha yoga poses (int. & adv.) / methodology & practice (2hrs)
7:00 pm Supper
Svadhiyaya (study), ishvara pranidhana (contemplation), kirtan and seva.

What you will learn
Gain a better understanding of the context in which yoga and the poses evolved, from the origins to their current-day variations
Understand, practice and correct intermediate and advanced poses
Deepen knowledge of shatkarmas
Integrating drishtis into the asana practice
Integrate the power of thought in the asana practice
Develop your personal practice
Awaken the pleasure of sharing, being supported and opening one’s practice to others!
An illustrated teaching manual will be provided to participants.

Recommended reading
Yoga From the Heart
Bringing Yoga to Life by Donna Farhi

Teaching faculty

Dr. Yogananth Andiappan (Hong Kong)

Originally from India and today living in Hong Kong, Yogananth Andiappan is one of the world’s most competent hatha yoga masters. He was initiated from the age of two on into the sacred science of yoga by his father Guruji Andiappan, one of the most respected yoga masters from southern India (Chennai). Inspired by the teachings of Tirumular, Yogananth advocates a proper alignement based on the therapeutic and energetic role of the asanas.

Yogananth holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in yogic science and naturopathy from Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Chennai, India, and recently completed his PhD in yoga therapy for cancer . He is the founder and director of Anahata Yoga Center, Hong Kong.

A title-holder of numerous national and international yoga championships, Yogananth holds seminars, demonstrations and teacher training around the world. He has published the book Yoga from the Heart, which is a forerunner to his current, in-progress project of publishing an encyclopedia of 3000 yoga poses. He is editor-in-chief of Asana – International Yoga Journal.

Sylvie Tremblay, yogacharia, E-RYT, IYF, FFY (Canada)

Founder and director of Centre Yoga Sangha, Sylvie Tremblay looks back on more than 25 years of yoga practice and 19 years of teaching yoga. She teaches throughout the world and has led workshops and retreats in Europe, Central America, South America, Asia, and the United States.

In 2008, she received the title Yogacharia (yoga master) by the International Yoga Federation and the Fédération francophone de yoga and the Great Saraswati Price in 2013, for her work and her many years of teaching experience. She is known in Quebec for her daily television show Absolument yoga! and her two Best Sellers DVD Box set Absolument yoga Hatha and Hatha Flow.

Her travels to India, studies under Swami Muktananda (Siddha Yoga), training at Shivananda schools and the Bihar School of India, studies under Sri Dharma Mittra (Vinyasa Yoga) in New York and, more recently, the Asana Andiappan for Therapetic Research Center have allowed her to develop a style that aligns the power of physical body work with the spiritual quest. Mystical, creative, and inspired, each of her classes and training are experiences for the soul as well as for the body.

In 2005, Sylvie Tremblay received the title Sri Om Anandamayi from Mahavatar Babaji, the great master who reintroduced the divine science of Kriya yoga to the modern world.

She is the mother of two wonderful children.

Registration is now open.
Limited spaces.

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http://www.yoga-sangha.com/FormationProfessorale/ModuleHathaIntermediaire.aspx