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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