Yogea ArtFlow Teacher Training Spring 2012
As I reflect back upon the recent graduation of the first Yogea Art Flow YA Certified Teacher Training my heart is filled with gratitude and wonder. Gratitude for the opportunity to initiate six souls into the sacred art and science of spiritual wisdom, wonder at their spiritual transformation, as I watched in awe and delight how each one tapped their resources, unfurled their creative wings and gained insight into their life purpose.
A yoga teacher training is not about obtaining a certain amount of specialized asana, meditation, or anatomy coaching, it is about ushering individuals into the well of latent potential and offering multiple psycho-physical tools to harness their original self as they contribute to the wellbeing of the planet. It is just a commencement into a life-long creative and spiritual quest. Today the yoga industry is producing millions of yoga teachers across the globe every month. Mountains of certificates are being awarded to graduates after a month or two of intensive training. Yes, countless yoga instructors, and very few yoga teachers. Why? Perhaps, because the teachers are manufactured through a cookie cutter mold and the certificate programs, just like the regular yoga classes offered in every gym and studio, have become standardized, pretty much identical in structure and variety of poses and themes. We go to class ready for the usual drill, we know the pose routines, the flow sequence, the words of wisdom sound familiar to us. We switch to the autonomic nervous system response, and simply rob the body from its inherent creativity, the brain from the luxury to change itself.
Besides the usual immersion into the science of asana, anatomy, physiology and meditation, Yogea ArtFlow Teacher Training offers a unique in-depth theoretical and practical study into all sources of Yoga around the world (Vedic and Buddhist traditions, Ayurveda, Chinese Yoga and Qi-Gong, Alchemical knowledge and Kabbalah, Shamanism and Natural wisdom, Zen Yoga and Feng Shuei, Theosophy, Quantum Physics, Esoteric Healing, and Comparative Religions), affording participants the opportunity to engage in a dynamic self-study as a catalyst for bettering the world within and around them. This engaged spirituality allowed us to reconsider creativity as the precursor of spiritual awakening in a time of cultural and spiritual cross-current. The massive theoretical fund was backed by practical exercises from every spiritual tradition, as well as visual diagrams and documentaries.
In the course of three months students sailed through an ocean of information and experience, moving from Authenticity, Exploration, Service, Healing and Illumination to finding their inner voice and coming home in their bodies, a remarkable voyage that led us to embrace consciousness in motion, as we invited vulnerability and change. Through days of physical fatigue and mental strain, emotional roller-coasters and quiet gratitude; cathartic transformation and creative genius, we walked the path in full surrender and gratitude. We walked the path, strung by the mala of unity, compassion and love.
The result was the process itself and the sense of wonder of how our human design was synchronized with the natural orchestration of the universe. The training turned out to be a gateway to align with the rising vibrations of the Earth. It was a body-affirmative and soul- inspiring way to refine our inner state, so it creates a coherent outer ecology: it changed our thoughts, our chemistry and consequently our destiny. It partnered us with the laws of Nature and allowed us to access all her resources to fulfill our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual potential through a creative and urgent lens. We learned to perfect our relating with ourselves and others, with all beings with a strong sense of consciousness and compassion. We tested out each theory and established our own truth. And from that space of our personal transformation and integrity we found our temple – our body, our multitude of selves. Like a diamond, each facet was a reflection of the whole, and the whole an embodiment of each facet. Like the beads of a mala, the molecules of water, the dew drops, the clusters of bees… Namaste!
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