Yoga Meditation Teacher Training With Dr. Lorin Roche
Meditation is the human instinct to savor life's beauty and wonder. It's as natural as listening to music you love, gazing out over the horizon, or taking a deep breath as you smell something delicious. Yoga has given us a wealth of techniques for accessing our inner wisdom, using all the senses. In this training, the emphasis is on spontaneity and playfulness, so that meditation can become a natural part of your life and your teaching of yoga. The practices include mantra (sound), pranayama (breath), and mudra (energy gestures), as gateways into dhyana (meditation).
You don't have to be good or virtuous to practice yoga meditation. The techniques focus on catching yourself whenever you are restless, lonely, loving, tired, excited, nostalgic, or quiet.
Come immerse yourself in the direct experience of these joyous and life-affirming practices and find approaches that match your unique inner nature and outer life. Learn skills for handling all the experiences that arise during meditation, in yourself and in your students.
A teacher of meditation since 1969, Dr. Roche is the author of The Radiance Sutras, Meditation Secrets for Women and Meditation Made Easy. He holds a doctorate from the University of California at Irvine for his research on the structure of meditative experience.
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- The 21 human senses (indriyas) and their role in meditation
- The instinctive nature of meditation – homing, resting, gathering, exploring, bonding, purifying, nourishing
- Elemental mix – space, earth, fire, air, water
- Understanding speed - to the brain, half a second is a long time
- Pranayama: air is our primary food, we breathe 22,000 times a day (but who's counting)
- Shakti spanda, the pulsating life force as we perceive her in motion, as light, as vibration, and as sound
- Developing a daily meditation practice
- The physiology of meditation and scientific research on the benefits of daily practice
The Radiance Sutras
Friday May 13, 7:15PM - 9:30PM
$50 Paid in advance (or included in Yoga Teacher Training tuition)
Meditation Practices with Lorin Roche
Saturday, May 14, 10AM - 1PM & 2PM - 3:45PM
$75 Paid in advance (or included in Yoga Teacher Training tuition)