This weekend will focus on the quality of yoga that is exercise.  In many ways, your first module was about building the container and getting used to the physicality of Yoga Teacher Training.  In many ways, this is your philosophical and deeper practice dive into the YTT.   

Before you can understand the further depths of yoga as spirituality, you must understand yoga as exercise.   We will build context for yoga as spirituality and tradition and then branch into yoga as exercise that brings about deeper transformation that simply stronger muscles, better balance, and more flexibility (and those things too)!  

In this Module You will Learn:   

• About Yoga's History in targeting the Nervous System... hence state of mind. 
• The importance of Myth & Ritual within the Context of Yoga's Cultural Embeddedness. 
• Faith is not belief 
• The great historic Eras & Ages of Yoga's History  
• Interior/Exterior & the divide of focus in the East vs. the West. 
• The Primary Model of 21st Century Yoga on the Mat
• The Importance of Studying Biology, Anatomy, and Physiology for Maximizing the Body's Impact on the Mind.
• Power vs. Force
• Using our Intention to maximize the Mind's Impact on the Body 
• The Cycle of Primary Exercise.  
• Introduction to Asana, Mudra, Chant, and Yoga's Evolution

Weekend Preparations 

• Watch and Take Notes on Section 03, plus do the Keystone Practice  (3.5 hours)
• Read through Chapter 1 in “Yoga Body” & try the exercises at the end of the Chapter.  Write down your questions and bring them to the module.  

Module Schedule
Presentations, Mat Practices, Labs, Discussions

Friday                                                    6:30pm -  10pm
6:30pm        Welcome, Smudge, Check In, HWD   
8pm             Mat:   Evening Restore
10pm           End of Night  

Saturday                                                 9:45am -  5pm
9:45am        Mat:   Faith in the Breath 
11am           DP & Sadhanas  
Noon           Lunch Break  
2pm             Breath Sadhanas 
5pm             End of Night  


HW:   Watch and Take Notes on Section 04 

• Keystone Practice Optional for Sunday, but should be practiced before the next module if you skip it today 

Sunday                                            2:30pm - 7:30pm
2:30pm       Mat:   Orient, Intend, Act in Breath
5pm            Break  
5:15p          PD & HWD  
6:15p          Checkout            
6:30pm       End of Weekend