Nithya Yoga Teacher Training

The 200-hour Nithya Yoga Teacher Training curriculum includes:

Daily Nithya Yoga practice including the traditional asanas revealed by Shiva
eN Fitness – whole body fitness training
Nithya Kriyas – 108 yogic techniques to sustain and restore health
Anatomy & physiology of yoga practice
Ayurveda – Principles of 3 doshas, vata, pita & kapha.
Yogic Nutrition – optimal health
Saptanga Yoga – The 7-fold Path of Yoga revealed by Paramahamsa Nithyananda
Pancha Kriyas – 5 Yogic cleanse to purify the body
Nirahara Samyama – Live food free technique (optional)
Pranayama, Bandhas, Mudras – Traditional methods to awaken inner potential energy
Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras – deeper understanding of the sacred secrets
Devotion and Mantra Chanting
Energy Systems (chakras, nadis, koshas, kundalini, etc)
Study of sacred Scriptures: Bhagavad Gita, Shiva Sutras, etc
After completing the training, you will be empowered with the capacity to teach:
11 Nithya Yoga Vinyasa Kramas for all levels
eN-Fitness – powerful workout to build a yogic body
108 Nithya Kriyas to sustain and restore health
Yogic Living Program – 1 day practical introduction to the yogic lifestyle

Is your yoga routine is getting a bit stale? Do you desire to express your passion for yoga while enriching yourself and others? If you are ready to make yoga a lifestyle choice rather than merely a practice, then the Nithya Yoga teacher training is for you! Our unique program is designed provide a venue for teachers and aspiring teachers to take their practice to the next level by fostering the tools required to share the gift of yoga with the world. Regardless of your level of advancement, Nithya Yoga is structured to meet you wherever you are, expanding your vision while addressing any personal challenges.

Based out of the international headquarters of world renowned Enlightened Master and Guru, Paramahamsa Nithyananda, the Nithya Yoga teacher training promises to offer a unique yogic experience and remains unparalleled in authenticity and adherence to the sacred teachings of Patanjali. Nithya Yoga continues to pioneer this ancient traditional art form with its dual focus on both form and context.

Nithya Yoga is a practice that focuses internally rather than externally; it is a discipline of balancing mind-body with Being. The regenerative powers of our sequences awaken the kundalini, unleashing the power to transform yourself and the world by de-mystifying the path to living in the space of eternal bliss. Through re-programming the muscle memory, our holistic and unifying approach assists in discovering any negative thought patterns, so that you can radiate health and live in sync with your higher purpose. Nithya Yoga offers the quantum possibility to re-build your body and mind through facilitating and maintaining enlightened consciousness through heightened awareness. It offers the possibility to reverse the aging process so that you can achieve the yogic body, vedic mind, and zen living.

This ability to create and manifest your reality is made possible through understanding life from the proper context: through the experience of living advaita (unity with all). Nithya Yoga offers a powerful venue for facilitating the experience of advaita through the understanding and application of our four powers: the power of words, power of thinking, power of feeling, and power of living. Only with this fundamental understanding can you rewrite your future, going from self-doubt to self expression, from self-hatred to self-love, from self-denial to unlimited potential, from impossible to I’m possible! In this way, Nithya Yoga provides the framework required to become a spiritual activist and to inspire others through doing what inspires you. The Nithya Yoga experience includes a variety of traditional yoga techniques including asanas, kriyas, meditation, philosophy, and so much more. It’s time for you to open up to your higher self. Stop postponing. Live it!

 

Watch Your Breath

In his first Sutra, Shiva gives this most simple meditation. Buddha used this technique and called it ‘Vipassana’ which means sitting with the Self, or sitting with God. Indeed, this method is the essence of Buddhism. No other technique has brought so many millions to enlightenment. When asked if he had to pick one of the millions of meditation techniques, Nithyananda says that this is the one he would choose because if all spiritual knowledge on the planet were lost, this is the one that could keep enlightenment alive.

The secret lies in the simple observance and bringing awareness and presence to the breath. The process of breathing in and out is not a parallel movement as one might think, but rather a circular movement. Between the in breath (down) and the out breath (up) and again between the out and in breaths there are gaps.

When reaching the gap the mind stops. Fear of losing identity causes a jump over the gap because identity doesn’t exist there. There is avoidance of maintaining awareness in this gap because the fear of losing identity is stronger than the fear of death. What may happen to “me” after “I” dies is a less terrifying thought than “I” won’t exist. This creates the impulse to protect the unreal or comparative reality (identity) from the real existential reality (pure consciousness).

Here Shiva is creating the subtlest possible technique. A human being as such cannot work directly on the ether or mind. It can only be touched through the breath and this is the bridge between the individual and the Universe. It is the bridge between the body and the mind. Humans are composed of 5 elements, but it is only when the breath happens that mind happens. The body is matter. The mind is ether. The breath is the bridge.

The breath and the mind are very closely related. The length, breadth, and depth of the breath correspond directly to the number of thoughts experienced. With long slow deep breaths, the number of thoughts is reduced. Being aware of the unconscious fear and slowing the thoughts enhances the ability to drop into the neutral zone, just as when driving a car it is necessary to go into neutral before changing gears.

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Quiet the mind with long, slow, deep breaths
2. Bring awareness to the gap just at the end of the in (down) breath, and just before it turns up into the out breath, and again between the out (up) and in (down) breaths.
3. Relax. Allow the breath to carry you into your inner space, the zone where neither breath nor mind exist.
4. Surrender. Allow yourself to become more and more comfortable with this neutral zone. If you are able to relax into this zone with awareness, an explosion of consciousness can happen.
5. Be patient. You cannot bully yourself into a sense of security.
6. In every breath God is knocking at your door.

Article published on Nithyananda Times on August 20, 2013

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Completion

Swapoornatva

What is an incompletion?

Any action that remains unfulfilled as per our fantasy, either due to hindrance from the outside world or from within can be termed as an incompletion. This can be either with ourselves or with another person. If we want a friend to live up to certain expectations that he or she can not honour, then it leads to incompletion.

“ Because of your self-doubt, self-hatred and self-denial, we forgot that our life is nothing but possibilities, we started thinking that our life is nothing but impossibilities”

~Paramahamsa Nithyananda

About the technique:

The process of completion starts with (swapoornatva) completing with yourself. When you start learning to listen to yourself. Listen to your heart's complaints about yourself and about others. Don’t sweep anything under the carpet. Talk to your reflection, your chaaya. You will be surprised, listen to you and relieve yourself from many of your fears, many of your lust patterns, many of your attention need patterns, many of your guilt patterns.

·        - Sit in a comfortable position facing the mirror

·       -  Connect with the person in the mirror

·      -   Look directly into the eyes of the person in the mirror

·     -    See the 1 year old or 2 year old or the 3 year old or the 4 year old or the 10 year old in the mirror which is the incomplete half of you

·      -   Go back to earliest memories of your life and relive incidents/situations in your life where you have experienced low level energy emotions such as anger, guilt, frustration and agitation with yourself (incompletion in some form) from those incidents/situations

·      -   Now take responsibility for liberating yourself from this incompletion you are carrying within you which you have kept alive all this time

·       - Re-live those incidents/situations completely. Then, talk aloud with the person in the mirror till you experience completion happening both for you and for the person in the mirror.

Causing

Become the kalpataru tree, the boon giving tree. Create and cause your reality and be the cause of other’s causing their reality. When you become a catalyst to help others create their reality, you will experience expanded energy, intelligence, and others actually will cause your reality. The Cosmos will shower you with so many blessings! From sharing a meal to donating money, or time to teaching others the spiritual truths, or building a temple, there are many ways you can be the cause for other’s reality. Let us be a sincere catalyst, experiencing Cosmic energy and joy flowing in our lives!

Many times, whenever you want to cause your reality, manifest your desires, you will hear self sabotaging thoughts like - this is too good, it will not happen to me, it is too much for me, I will not have the energy for it. These thoughts will prevent you from causing your reality - they are incompletions. These thoughts are called SDHD - self doubt, self denial and self hatred cognitions from your past. Complete with them, drop these inadequate cognitions.

When you realize the gap between your inner and outer image (how you see yourself and how you project yourself), you create self-doubt. After that, because you still continue to play this drama, you start hating yourself. Soon after your desire to retire, your desire to withdraw from people is born, that is the denial in you. This is how SDHD is born.

When you have self-doubt, you will constantly be doubting your husband/wife. When you have self-hatred, you will constantly be hating others. Whatever is inside you, that only is outside you, and whatever is outside of you, the same only is inside. All relationships are just extensions of you. Relationships, not only mean other people, but also money, wealth, health...everything.

Listening

Listening is an independent, intelligent technique which can directly lead you to the higher space and higher reality. Hearing and listening are different. In hearing, sound enters the ears, gets processed and creates different emotions. Right listening means that when sound enters your system, it gets absorbed into your system and leads you from sound to silence. The possibility for right listening happens greater in the presence of an enlightened master.

Listening is always connected with your ability to handle reality as it is, without creating your own unconscious ideas and conclusions. When you don’t have listening, you always come to a conclusion even before the information is cognized in you. That is why the very first step in Hindu spiritual practice is integrated listening – Shravana

When was the last time you really listened to your own words? We never really listen either to ourselves or others. When you start listening to yourself, you will naturally become more aware of the words you give yourself and others. You will also have the ability to listen to others’ words with integrity.

Listening brings integrity to your words. Listening to yourself brings awareness to your words to you and others. You will also have the ability to listen to others words with integrity.

The right words start with YOU. Who is the first person to hear the words you utter? YOU

Listen authentically to yourself. In the beginning, do not believe what your mind tells you but listen authentically. First thing the mind does is, throw tantrums. It will cry, then it will make you feel bored, then tired. Listen to all the three. Only after that, you will know what are the incompletions you are carrying. Listen authentically to everything that your mind sings. Don’t pass any judgement to say if it is right or wrong. I’m not asking you to believe and same way I’m not saying don’t believe. Just listen!

Catch what are your incompletions by providing authentic listening to yourself. Go on listening .. even when you are talking, driving, sitting. However much you try to practice, only by listening, you will achieve it. Only when you listen, practising starts. You will also learn all the wonderful good things in you. You will also learn how to cause enlightenment in others when you practice authentic listening.

Enriching

Enriching and the Power of Living

Living is a power

Everyday, you are walking, talking, thinking, feeling and so on. All this put together is living. Living itself is a power. You can harness the power of living in you when you adopt the lifestyle of enriching.

What is enriching

Enriching is you taking responsibility with integrity and authenticity, committing to continuously enriching, which is expanding yourself and life in and around you.

When you are committed to enriching yourself and all around you, Life showers you with the best of everything. You not only experience Life within you, but also outside of you with others. When you enrich, the Power of Living is awakened in you.

Everything is part of you

All your struggles in life begins the moment you start thinking that others are separate from you. Understand, there is no one called “other” in your life. The “other” is only the forgotten and disowned parts of you. Your struggles with others are nothing but your struggle with the forgotten side of you. When you enrich others, you are naturally enriching the neglected side of your own being. So, the more you enrich others, the more you enrich yourself. Above all, you wake up to the truth that everyone and everything is part of you.

Enriching gives rise to all the powers

With integrity, you experience the space of positivity; with authenticity, you experience the space of possibility, and with responsibility, you experience the space of leadership. With enriching, you experience the space of enlightenment itself. Enlightened living is nothing but harnessing all your inner powers and using them to enrich yourself and others. So the Power of Living includes all the other powers in itself.

So, if you have integrated listening(shravana), authentic thinking(manana), and make a responsible declaration(nidhidhyasana), you are living an enriching lifestyle. Enriching alone can burn any lack of integrity, inauthenticity, or irresponsibility in you. It is taking responsibility for everyone and everything, including others inauthenticity and lack of integrity – because they are a part of you.

Why should I enrich others

You do not live in a desolate cave or forest. You live with people. So, naturally when your life is involved with so many people. For any transformation that you want in your life, you have to work and transform other lives as well. Otherwise, you may raise yourself to a very high level of joy and bliss, but the moment you come back to your house, your spouse can bring you down in less than ten minutes. Only when you enrich others, can your life go through any transformation.

Taking responsibility for others does not mean that you will accept everyone’s non-integrity or inauthenticity, and take the blame for it. NO! It means that you will commit to inspire and empower everyone to experience the four inner powers of life.

Empowering others

Having makes you naturally responsible for sharing. A person with power is responsible for making powerless people become powerful. If you are wealthy, you become responsible for making the poor wealthy. I am not saying distribute your wealth. NO!. If you pick up ten poor people and distribute your wealth, we will have eleven poor people. I am asking you to take responsibility for educating them and making them wealthy. You become responsible for sharing anything you own and making it grow.

Some truths about enriching

· Enriching is your very nature. Whatever you do is enriching others. Even your very breath is enriching the plants on planet Earth.

· Enriching others enriches you as everyone is part of you.

· The moment you convince your heart that life is for others, all the suffering in your heart leaves you.

· Enriching others to live at their peak possibility is the ultimate way you can enrich them.

Don’t give up on you and people

Do not give up on yourself and people. If we turn your back on people, we are not living dharma because when we give up on others, we have also given up on ourselves. When you are frustrated with others’ failure, understand that it is nothing but your own frustration towards your own failures. If we turn our back on people,we are not living dharma because we have also given up on ourselves.

Exercise to unlock your Power of Living

· Write down the first time you felt that you were exploited by life and only you had to take care of yourself.

· Complete powerfully with that root thought pattern which is making you feel separate from others.

· For the next 48 hours, see everything and everybody you meet as extensions of yourself and serve them joyfully out of a space of completion

Responsibility

Responsibility and the Power of Feeling

What is responsibility

Responsibility means living and responding to life from the truth that you are the source of, and therefore, responsible for all happenings in and around you. The Power of Feeling is nothing but your ability to realize yourself as the source of all the happenings in your life. This understanding gives you tremendous control over your own life and gives you the power to be a positive influence in the life of others.

A person who does not feel responsible for even his own actions lives like an animal – he lives a very low level of consciousness. A person who feels responsible only for his own actions, is a human being – he lives in middle –level consciousness. A person who takes responsibility for others’ actions is divine – he lives in leadership consciousness.

Reason vs Responsibility

So, how can I be responsible for everything happening around me? How can I be held responsible for what is happening outside me? If an accident happens in my life, how can I be responsible? Everybody asks this question.

There is an important difference between being the cause of something and being responsible for it! Sometimes, you may not be the reason for a certain happening, but if it is affecting your life, you ARE responsible for that happening. For example, you may not be the cause of political corruption in your country, but as a citizen of the country, you ARE responsible for it. You may not be the reason, as per your logic, but that doesn’t mean that you are not responsible in truth.

You need to know that unless you take responsibility, you are neither going to improve the situation, nor are you going to expand your inner space. “I am responsible for myself, other people, the world, Life”.

Your bigness frightens you

You always believe that you are suffocated by your smallness. NO! you are suffocated by your bigness. Whenever bigness is demanded of you, whenever you feel you are being forced to expand, you shrink even further into your comfort zone. Your tiredness, weakness, powerlessness – all these are nothing but the resistance you have to seeing your own bigness.

That is why, when someone tells you that you are weak, poor and a sinner, it is so easy to accept it. But, if someone tells you that you are divine, powerful, you are complete, your whole identity starts trembling with fear !

But, life always demands expansion, because, expansion is the natural law of life. That is why you carry such a deep fear of life, especially life in the form of other people – because people are the most living expression of Life. The more you engage with Life, the greater the expansion that will be demanded of you.

Whenever you are feeling weak, tired, powerlessness, the first thing you should do is this: immediately take on ten responsibilities and commit to fulfill them within a certain time. Shake your inner space so powerfully with that commitment that there will be no way for weakness and tiredness to grow inside you.

What does it mean to feel you are responsible

The moment you hear that you are responsible for everything happening around you, you think, “But if I feel responsible for all the garbage in the streets, I will be stuck cleaning it up the whole day! I will not be able to do anything else”. Please listen: I am not saying that if you feel responsible for the streets, you will need to clean them yourself. I am also not saying that you will not clean them yourself. Anything may happen – but don’t be afraid to dive into the feeling of responsibility just because of your imaginary complications. Don’t stop yourself from feeling it at all. Complete with those imaginary complications. Take a little time to let this feeling sink inside you and sync with your actions. It has to sink inside you and sync with your actions. Then, responsibility will become energy.

Responsibility makes you powerful

We always feel responsibility is a burden. NO! It is a power. Responsibility directly leads you into leadership consciousness. As long as you feel responsible only for your family, you are head of just your family. When you feel responsible for the community, you become leader of the community. As your feeling of responsibility expands, your leadership quality also expands. The decision to feel responsible for the whole of Cosmos is enlightenment.

Feeling responsible for the Whole, and declaring to live by your feeling is responsible declaration, known in Hindu spiritual practice as nidhidhyasana. Responsible declaration unlocks the Power of Feeling in you.

The science of feeling

You can feel anything as joy or anything as pain – it is your freedom. Even the greatest achievement can bring pain to you and even the worst experience can be a joyful learning. You have the ability to decide how you want to feel.

Whenever you feel empowered, you are joyful. Whenever you feel powerless, you experience suffering. All your sufferings- pain, anger, guilt, fear, jealousy, frustration – is nothing but powerlessness expressing in different ways. When you feel responsible for everything that happens in your life, you will feel that everything is joyful – because nothing can make you powerless. So empower yourself with responsibility and unlock the Power of Feeling.

By unlocking the Power of Feeling, you will -

Always act from a space of power and completion.

Start focussing on the solution and not the problem.

Expand your inner space and open up new possibilities.

Gain a high degree of control over your life and raise yourself to the next level of success.

Evolve into a new being.

An Exercise to unlock your Power of Feeling

· Write down all the areas of your life where you shrink from expressing yourself fully, for example, at work, in relationships. For each of these areas of your life, write down the thoughts you have, the words you utter, and the actions you take.

· Identify where you are not taking responsibility for that aspect of your life, where you are waiting for the eternal situation to change instead.

· Choose any one area and declare responsibility for creating that new situation. Identify what has to change for that to happen.

· For one week, follow up with yourself and record your progress.