LifeForce Yoga®
is Yoga plain and simple. It doesn’t really need a name, but
in this day and age, when there are so many ways of practicing that
are called Yoga, it’s important to identify a practice that is
intentionally designed to work with and manage the mood. The
many styles of Yoga practice that are flowering in the West are like
doorways. Eventually, each door opens the practitioner to a
deeper connection to Self, an inner and outer knowing that we are
not separate. Yoga, no matter what “style” you have been
trained in, begins, as you practice regularly, to unite the
polarities within and without. The sense of separation, which
is the literal source of depression, is diminished and the sense of
connection to oneself and others is enhanced.
Among the many doorways to Yoga or union that exist
in the West, some focus on fitness and strength—the literal meaning
of “Hatha” or physical force. Others focus on structural
therapeutics. Other doorways take as their mission to raise
the Kundalini energy, or to reach Nirvana or union with the Divine.
But reaching implies absence. LifeForce Yoga® understands that
there is no separation from the Divine, that we are intimately,
eternally connected.
LifeForce Yoga® is practiced as
the first yogis practiced, resting on the fundamental belief that
all that we need is already within us; that we are that which we
seek. That everything in the universe is infused with God.
To make it simple,
LifeForce Yoga® is a practice of compassion that
creates a big enough container to embrace and accept all the
dualities of mood. The practice is adapted to the student, so
each individual can move into a more balanced (satvic) and positive
emotional, mental, and physical state of equanimity and
self-awareness.
Click
Here For The LifeForce Yoga Mood Handout
The Role of the Certified
LifeForce Yoga® Practitioner
Our job as
LifeForce Yoga®
Practitioners is to clear away the obstructions, first
within ourselves, so that we know that the energy awake within us
and the energy that surrounds us are one and the same. Second,
our job as
LifeForce Yoga® Practitioners is
to create and maintain a safe and compassionate container for our
students and clients, so that in an atmosphere of acceptance and
love, they can learn the tools to clear their own inner space of
whatever is preventing them from realizing and sustaining their
positive mental health. These Yogic tools include:
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Asana
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Pranayama & Kriya
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Mantra
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Bhavana
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Samkalpa
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Mudra
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Meditation
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Yoga Nidra
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Therapeutic Long holding of posture
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Nondual Strategies for working with negative
self-talk
Upcoming LifeForce Yoga® Practitioner Trainings
Level One
Trainings:
How
do I become a Certified LifeForce Yoga® Practitioner?
If you are a Yoga Teacher, certified by Yoga Alliance
at the 200-hr level, or a mental health professional with an
on-going yoga practice, you may enroll in the CLYP Training program.
If you do not meet either of these criteria, but work as a healing
professional, we will consider your enrollment on a case by case
basis.
There are currently two levels of training.
Level –
I (40 Hours)
prepares the Practitioner to work with groups
and individuals, offering training in the Yogic strategies described
above.
Level I training is currently offered twice a year:
January in Tucson
July at
Kripalu in Lenox, MA
Please click here for a description
Please check the web site schedule to ascertain exact
dates.
Level II (43 Hours)
Continues training in the Yogic strategies for balancing mood,
with more practice teaching. The emphasis here is working
one-on-one an leading workshops. Level I is a pre-requisite.
Level II training is offered twice a year, in October at
Kripalu, and beginning in 09, in Tucson in May. Please check
here
for exact dates or
changes.
