Key Information: Tour Duration: 5
- 22
day(s) Group Size: 1
- 30
people Destination(s):Costa Rica Specialty Categories:Yoga & Spiritual ExperienceEcotourism Season: October Airfare Included: No Tour Customizable: Yes Minimum Per Person Price: 12 US Dollar (USD) Maximum Per Person Price: 12 US Dollar (USD)
Have you or anyone with whom you have studied taken the time to totally immerse into the lifestyle of a forest yogi? This twenty-one day training is the perfect opportunity for you to join with other serious students to prepare for and experience the higher stages of yoga.
This course is only for those students who practice frequently and with regularity. It is a distillation of the one-month training. All extraneous practice has been eliminated. This means that all participants have both physical and mental fortitude. There will be hours of instruction in classical asana and pranayama and Kriya Yoga. For those not familiar with Kriya Yoga, it is best described as the rotation of Awareness through the Chakra System, coupled with mudra and bandha.
Awareness and Conscious Relaxation are the matrix for all the techniques we will be learning. The yogi knows that without these two attributes all yoga practice will fail. The inclusion of these two conditions promote spontaneous arising of pratyahara, dharana, dhyana and Samadhi.
Remedial exercise will be covered in detail. These exercises assist in determining the causes behind any feeling of restriction and/or pain in movement. Based on orthopedic physical therapy the accurate movement created in remedial exercise not only helps in diagnoses but can also be the treatment needed to improve motion or reduce pain.
A sample schedule:
6 - 8:00 a.m.- Early morning class: Warm up movements and inversions.
8:00 a.m. - Breakfast
9:00 a.m. - Hike down and up hill.
10:30 - 12:30 a.m. - Second morning class: all standing poses.
1:00 p.m. - Lunch.
2:00 - 4:30 p.m. - Bodywork exchange and private practice.
4:30 - 7:00 p.m. - Final class: hip openers and kriya practice. [After kriya practice silence will be practiced during dinner.]
7:00 p.m. - Dinner.
During classes some bodywork instruction will be given. This course is a part of the apprenticeship program offered by Glenn Black. Glenn Black has over three decades of experience in the practice of and teaching of yoga and bodywork. He has taught at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in Rhinebeck, New York since 1982. This year he has workshops scheduled in New York City, Omega, Kripalu, Europe and this course in Costa Rica.
Notes:
Airfare is not included in the tour price.
The price mentioned in the tour is per 1 yoga lesson.
