500-hr Bolivia Advanced Yoga Teacher Training

· In 500, TTC, TTC Peru Bolivia, Vedantin

July 3-August 1, 2012

Isla del Sol, Lake Titicaca, Bolivia (work with Ayamara Shamans)

This is an advanced Yoga Teacher Training Course for current teachers with at least a 200-hr Certification.

Details coming soon.

Empty desert
vast, expansive,
land and sky,
Matter and universe,
Seen and unseen,
Sound and soundless ring,
Becomes experience of existence,
And creation …

White rectangular tent,
Emerged on the horizon,
Disappeared in the air,
Raised again at many places,
In this empty desert …

Light beams,
Emanates from these places
Light beings,
Dancing in the clouds,
Brothers and sisters,
Siting around the fire,
The whole THOSENE, like
Manifestation Factory,
That is
the story of Lago Titicaca
in summer 2012

I did not know why it took me five months to ponder and finally write about the journey to Lake Titicaca, in summer 2012. This morning, March 13, 2012, waking up in the Majave desert, seeing clarity from fuzzy background, hearing outer sound becomes inner voice, sensing inner poetry from outer words … now I know I have been waiting for this moment to unveil my journey – the Journey of Manifestation, to the sacred lake Titicaca, connected souls and Pachamama, land of Bolivia.

Exactly five months ago when I felt the pull from the universe to connect the energetic shift of the cosmos and of the Mayan Prophecies about the change of era. I sensed 2012 is the year of dedicating my energy to and in align with the cosmic change. The energy has called me to start my transformation journey at Mayan highland at the beginning of 2012, continue traveling down to the energetic Ley-line to the Andes in the summer, where the new world spiritual mega center will be emerged for the next 26,000 year based on Mayan prophecy, and wrap up my journey back to the origin of Mayan Calendar at Lake Atitlan, by the end of 2012. I invite you to come along this journey with me, considering it only happens once every 26,000 years.

Yes, this is the journey of manifestation. Spirit has spoken loud and clear. We will manifest our dreams, the wildest dreams we had since we were children. We will reveal the wisdom that is available to us in all dimensions and all worlds. We will recall the gifts that have granted to us that we have forgotten. We will dance like joyful clouds, move like invisible wind, create from unknown, and manifest all that infinite possibilities. We will sit around the fire, counsel with elders, communion with water, the lake, the Andes, and all spirits that are there to support our journey. We will use all means of our tools, asana, meditation, pranayama, meditation, wisdom inquiries, kriya, fasting, mana, selfless service, devotion, surrendering, journeying, healing, and many unlimited possible ways to expand our consciousness and to transform mortality to eternity. We will do our work, shedding the layers and veils that have been conditioned so long beyond our ephemeral memories so we could ecstatically step into our epic soul journey to claim our soul contract and soul destiny and to dream the world into being.

In my world, there is no such a thing as “Advanced Yoga Teacher Training”, this is a Mystical Yoga Teacher Training. Through our encounters of the mystical unknowns and mysteries we are guided to experience the truth, depth, and wisdom of our existence and meaning of our life and the journey in this physical dimension. This was where yoga came from and where we all will return once we are exhausted and finished in the physical dimension. While we are still in our physical realm it is such a privilege for us sentient beings to experience the wunder and creation of the unknown universe and cosmos. This is the intention of the course where we all are capable of diving deep into the ocean of myth and to demystify the unknown through our direct experiences and verification.

Together we will have precious opportunities to learn from the wisdom and gifts of many spiritually adept individuals in a small, intimate study environment including Angel, Ayamaya shaman of Sun Island, Gorge, very connected and innovative shaman of the Andes, Martin, Amazon Ayauaska shaman, and other spiritual teachers and healers when they are called to be present. There are possible others, like mystic Yogins, Ananda, hardcore Yogin, Suriya, Pachamama yogi, Ceci, will join us to share their mystical connection through yoga, spirituality, and ceremony. These individuals who we will work with are inspired to channel and share their profound connection with the creative energy of the universe. Over the past years, Vedantin has made his home at this magical place and is accepted to share this mystical location with all of you, along with all great spirits of the Lake, the Sacred Rock, the Sun Island, all great Apus … Although these teachers will be invaluable to us, the most important aspect of this journey will be connecting to the wisdom of your own inner guru who guide you, enlighten you, and the conscious within you, through deep self revelation and self inquiry.

In this moon circle, 30 days intensive course, we will learn how to deepen our personally spiritual and mystical practices and share our connection with yoga, healing, ceremony, and the energy of the universal through an experiential and spiritually enriched and mystically oriented curriculum, including but not limited to:

Provoking Cosmic Wisdom Seminars
Topic-Specific Yoga Workshops
Guided Sadhana Yoga Practices
Self Exploratory Mystical Yoga Practice
Art of Transformation through the Medicine Wheel
Experientially Mystical Practice – Journey Skills and OBE (out body experience)
Shamanic Healing Arts – Energetic Medicine
Personal Retreats – Ayuvasca and other plant medicine ceremony, Caocao ceremony, silence, fasting once we start flying like eagles there will no limits to see and hear and experience the myth and truth

In addition, the intensive nature of our 30 days (a moon circle) mystical yoga and shamanic healing medicine program will take us to many ceremonies – Healing circle of love n light, pretty much every day as a part of healing practice for ourselves, the public, and the environment. We will be dancing, singing, journeying, tuning, and chanting with fire and with our own creation to experience the healing for us and for others and the mother earth. Each of us will lead or partially lead the group through some forms of transfiguration like chakra dance, ‘bone dance,’ and other forms of dance, singing, and meditation so we all become blissed out and into the state of ecstasy. At that state we integrate shamanic healing medicine and transfigure ourselves into the landscape of divine and creation, where everything is possible, the healing, miracles, and manifestations. It is one of focus of this mystical yoga and shamanic healing art training at Lago Titicaca. We will learn, experience and lead ceremony and healing practice in transmutation, soul retrieval, power animal retrieval, extraction, cross-over assistance as a form of psychopomp and conscious dying, etc. In that short period of time we will have so much to experience, to learn, most importantly, to create our own dreams from the place and the state which has unlimited potential when we open and communicate with the wisdom of the universe.

This course will be divided to four circles, seven days for each circle, following the transformative Medicine Wheel. The ancient medicine system practice will guide us, literally, energetically, and spiritually, into personal transformation, transcendence, and transfiguration experiences. The last circle (the last 7 days), we will fly like eagles and we will let eagles guide us wherever we need to go, we may fly like eagle down to the Amazon Jungle to experience medicine there, La Paz, the high Andes energetic medicine, or Tihuanagu ruin, the ancient Ayamara temple.

The Wind of the South, the Serpent, leads us to shed our personal shadows, hook, stories that prevent us from moving forward.
The Wind of the West, the Jaguar, shows us how to transcend our cultural beliefs and ancestral bondages and transform darkness into light.
The Wind of the North, the Hummingbird, guides us on a journey of sweetness and joy, the epic soul journey where we claim our gifts from the past and the universe.
The Wind of the East, the Eagle, flies us above the mountains and clouds to teach us to see the world as it is so we can manifest the world into existence and co-create our journey and rewrite our contract in the physical dimension.

As you read above, it may inspire you to take on this journey with us, it may worry you, it may scare you, you may be somewhere between. So you make sure that this is what you are called to do, by your heart, spirit guide, guarding angel, and other formless voice. It is not the rational decision time, even though we need to sort out the logistic, but leave that alone first, ponder and discern the difference from the voice of heart or the voice of mind. Please talk to me if you want to hear my voice. I do encourage all of participants talk to me directly at least once via Skype before our journey. The spirits and I will let you know if you are ready for this journey. We may even ask you to leave during the course if it deems appropriate for you, your journey and the course. Remember this is the journey of soul, the journey of myth, the journey of the spiritual evolution.

This program sounds very intense but I would like to see myself and every participant to experience the course in a super relaxed way, “Latino layback style.” My intention is to let the spirit guide each of our actions and tasks during the course. So do not expect the same schedule everyday and better do not even have any expectations for the course otherwise you will disappoint yourself just like everything in life. Each day we will have our own time to relax, dine, and explore our inner and outer longings. So do it from the voice of the heart that guides you and your actions.

Date: Full moon to Full moon
July 3, 2012 Tuesday (starting at 6pm follow by opening fire ceremony)
August 1, 2012, Wednesday (ending at 12am)

Place:

Templo de Yoga, Pasada de Lucio,
Challabamba, Isla del Sol, North of Sun Island, Lago Titicaca, Bolivia

Food, Lodgin and Transportation not included (on your own, approximately $1000)

Food is very inexpensive on the island, between $2-5 a plate. There are several restaurants at the village where we will have our yoga teacher training. The typical local food at the village is rice, vegetables, quinoa, pasta, bread, high mountain lake trout, and other food items. We do encourage you to eat vegetarian diet and local diet so you are fully integrated into the yoga culture and local culture. You will be given enough time to have your food on your own.

Lodging is about $2-5 a day but very simple hostel may not have hot water. Pasada de Lucio is where we will have our training and it has 5-10 rooms and shall be able to accommodate all of us if you desire to stay there. We will reserve 10 beds for our training if you decide to stay there or choose else where in the village. It is a very small village, taking 5 minutes you can get to most of lodging locations.

During the last 7 days of the training, the cost will go a bit higher, for examples, travel to La Paz (boat and bus), Amazon Jungles (flight), food, hotel are more expensive.

Principle Facilitator: Vedantin

Local Assistant: Ceci

Possible Other Facilitators: Ananda, and Suriya,

Who: (10 people maximum) please meet at least one of following criteria

For those who are yoga teachers at RYT 200 or 500 from SchoolYoga Institute and are interested in learning, practicing, and integrating Mystical Yoga and Earth Medicine into Yoga and spiritual practice and teaching.
For those from other yoga traditions who have RYT 200 or 500 (please provide a copy of your RYT card or certification via email) and are interested in learning, practicing, and integrating Mystical Yoga and Earth Medicine into Yoga and spiritual practice and teaching.
For those who have long established yoga practice and willing to take into deeper practice of yoga and are interested in learning, practicing, and integrating Mystical Yoga and Earth Medicine into Yoga and spiritual practice and teaching.
For those who are interested in becoming a yoga teacher training facilitator for SchoolYoga Institute (SYI 800 or 1000) after having obtained RYT 500 from SYI or other tradition and are interested in learning, practicing, and integrating Earth Medicine into Yoga practice and teaching.
For those who are inspired to step into the mystical path of Mystical Yoga and Shamanic Healing Medicine

Required Texts

SchoolYoga Institute Yoga Teacher Training Manual (download online and print it out, make sure to get them before you go. I am not going to carry extra books with me)

Recommended texts (I strongly suggest to read the following books and write some insightful notes down for your contributions to our discussion during the course.)

Yoga Sutra by Dennis Hill
Spiritual Healing and Heath by Vedantin
Upanishads
Baghavagita
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tze
Serpent of Light Beyond 2012 –the Movement of Earth Kundalini Energy by Drunvalo Melchizedek
Text on Ayurveda

Prerequisites

Before you come down and join us, I would like all of you to get yourself prepared in all areas, that will make your journey and our journey a joyful one.

(1) Practice Sadhana Hatha Yoga and Sadhana Vinyasa Yoga at least 5 times each and make sure that you are familiar and even competent in teaching these foundation sequences. We will move beyond the foundation into deeper levels of our experiences, understanding, and connection.

www.schoolyogainstitute.com then click pre-training videos

(2) Listen to 10 hours lectures and discussion on Yoga Sutra from Dennis Hill. It is our RYT 200 foundation requirement. So your deep understanding and experience of the ancient text is very important

(3) Listen to 10 hours yoga Anatomy course recorded through SYI YTTC 200 course. We are not going to cover physical Yoga Anatomy in details but pay attention to Energetic Anatomy of Cosmos.

Weather

Lago Titticaca is above 10,000 feet. It is the winter time in South America during our training. So it is pretty chilly in the morning and evening but sunny and hot during day. Very dry and very little rain. It is around freezing at night and 70s in the day.

What to bring (travel light and be the light)

Backpack is a preferred way of carrying your stuff
Layers of clothes, make sure to have enough warm clothes with you but light weight for travel. For me I carry two long yoga pants, one yoga short, two long yoga shirts, four underwear, one fleece jacket and one pair of fleece pants, one goose down jacket, two pairs of socks, one pair of hiking shoes, one pair of sandels, a warm hat, and a pair of fleece gloves. You also can buy some warm clothes there, like Poncho, a great necessity at the high Andes.
A notebook
Creative tools, for examples, music instruments, painting tools, poetry books, colored pens, and other means of creativity.

Travel Suggestion

Option One (flight to La Paz, Bolivia)

If you arrive at La Paz, Bolivia, you will need to take a bus to Copacobana. It will take about 3-4 hours ride. The bus leaves every ½ hour to Copacobana. Make sure to ask tax driver take you to the bus station to Copacobana. There is no central bus station in La Paz. It costs 17-25 Bolivianos (around $3 American dollars).

Sightseeing in La Paz: For those who want to spend some time in the capital city of Bolivia and do a bit sightseeing, over 2000 years old Tihuanagu ruin, high glaciated mountains, Desert of Moon, or even adventurous death bike ride from Glacier to Amazon.

Hotel in Las Paz:

Hotel La Posada, $28 single, $36 Double, centrally located and walking distance to all shops, restaurants, and tour companies.

www.redcotel.bo/hostal/posada.html

Boat Ride to YTTC Site, Challabamba, Isla Del Sol, Posada de Lucio

Daily 8:30am morning Public boat ride to Challabamba (2 hours), Isla del Sol costs 15-20 Bolivianos ($3 American dollars)

Every Wednesday 1:00pm afternoon community boat ride to Challabamba (2 hours), Isla del Sol costs 15-20 Bolivianos ($3 American dollars)

Private Boat ride to Challabamba (1:30 hours) is about $20-40 American dollars. If you can find someone else come along with you so you can split the cost of the boat ride. There are lots of tourists there willing to split with you.

Option 2

You can book your ticket flying to Cuzco, Peru, then take bus to Bolivia, an overnight ride (see below bus and boat ride)

If you arrive at Cuzco, make sure to take overnight comfy bus ride to Copacobana, actually you can sleep on bus if you buy the first class bus ticket (make sure to have your sleep bag ready to cuddle). Daily bus leaves at 10pm at night and arrive at Copacobana at 9:30am in the morning. It costs 60-85 soles ($20-30 American dollars) per ticket. You will go through Bolivia Custom around 8am in the morning and make sure you have all documents ready, especially if you are American Citizen. Then you will take a local small van to Copacobana, about 15 minutes ride.

Sightseeing in Cuzco: sacred Inca site – Sakswuman, busy and joyful local market, international community, gateway to all Inca Ruins like Macho Piccho and Moray in Sacred Valley, and diverse food choices. You may not want to leave after staying there for a while. Watch out!

Cuzco Hotels: for those coming a bit early to explore the Capital of Ancient Inca. They are centrally located and walking distance to all shopping, restaurants, temples, cathedrals, and sacred Inca site – Sakswuman

San Blas Hostal www.sanblashostal.com $30

Amaru Hostal www.amaruhostal.com $40/night

Bus

Cusco, Peru to Copacobana, Bolivia (overnight departing Cusco at 10pm arrives Copa at 9.30am) 60-85 Soles ($20-30 dollars) Make sure to buy the first class ticket so you can stretch out and have a great sleep and bring your sleeping bag with you. It is cold at night. If you need us to buy your ticket and have someone pick you up at the airport we may be able to arrange that for you. We will let you know how much would cost. Otherwise you can take tax direct to bus station from airport and buy ticket right there or buy ticket through travel agency in town or at airport.

Copacobana, Bolivia to Cusco, Peru (daily at 9.30am) 120 Bs ($20-$30)

Bus Copacobana to La Paz (3-4 hours) leaves ever ½ hour each day 17-25 Bs ($3)

Boat

(at Lake Titicaca – Lago Titicaca)

Public Boat Fare -15 -20 Bolivianos ($2-$3)

Boat to the North of Sun Island (Challabamba, Isla del Sol) 8.30 am each day (2 hours) (Wednesday there is the local boat at 1pm)

Boat returns to Copacobana at 1.30pm each day (4 hours) (Wednesday the boat leaves at 8am)

Private Boat Fare – $20-$40

If you miss the regular boat you can hire the local boat to take you to the island and make sure to negotiate with the boat driver and also find other tourists wanting to do the same things so you can split the boat fare.

Money

You can access ATM in Cuzco, Peru and La Paz, Bolivia. But no ATM in Copacobana, Bolivia. But if you have American dollars cash it would be able exchange at all three cities. Make sure to contact your bank before you leave your country regarding your travel dates so you can access money from your bank.

Exchange rates

$1 = 7 Bolivianos

$1 = 3 Soles (Peru)

How to Contact Us

Please contact us best through email

Email: info@schoolyogainstitute.com

(011) country code 603-831-2281 (USA)

Amazon Jungle and Beyond (Personal Retreat for the last seven days)

The journey will take us deep into the Amazon jungle in Peru where we will experience exotic animals and plants in the forest, where we will even taste the sacred healing plant of the Amazon prepared and supervised by our shaman of the jungle, and where we will learn the sacred plant from our jungle medicine elder. If you want to join us please let us know.

Communication

There is no communication mode in the Sun Island, Bolivia, there is a cell phone available and can be reached in case of emergency. (591)719 48787. However you can reach to Copacobana with two hours boat ride or walk to south side of the Sun Island (two hours walk) where you can use internet and long distance phone call

Course Curriculum

Synthesis of the course will be conducted through the forms of ancient wisdom seminars, topic specific yoga workshops, guided Sadhana Yoga practice, exploratory Mystical Yoga practice, transformative Medicine Wheel practice, daily spiritual healing practice, hand-on mystical Shamanic energetic healing and practice, guided and self sadhana Yoga practice, satsang and ceremony.

(1) Topic Specific Yoga Workshops including our traditional Sadhana yoga, its modification and integration, particularly, Shamanic Healing yoga, Restorative yoga, Gentle yoga, Element Yoga, Mystical Healing Yoga, Art of Teaching, Art of Touching, Pranayama, Meditation, energetic anatomy, and Kriya.

(2) Guided Yoga practice by facilitator and inspired participants will be taken place on regular basis in the morning for the purpose of grounding and expanding and connecting to our inner spirit and embodiment. The practice includes but not limited to pranayama, meditation, journeying, energy self healing, and asana practice You will be guided to experience the mythical creation and co-creation so you can channel the wisdom of the Cosmos and bring it alive into yoga practice, yoga sequencing, healing technique, life mapping, and self-inquiry.

(3) Self Yoga Practice, is arranged whenever we need the connection to our own core yoga practice including but not limited to pranayama, meditation, journeying, energy self healing, and asana practice along the lake of our preferred location to deepen our practice and connect to the Andes mystery here at the lake.

(4) Self-Exploratory Mystical Yoga practice will be incorporated into Topic Specific Yoga Workshop to explore the myth and co-creation of yoga form and formless.

(5) Ancient Wisdom Seminars including Yoga Sutra, Bagavagita, Upanishad, Tantric yoga, Shakara’s Avaita Vedanta, Shamanic Earth Medicine, The Shift Consciousness of Mayan Prophecy, Tao Te Ching, Energetic Anatomy, and Life Science of Ayuveda.

(6) Mystical Shamanic Energetic Healing Medicine. Our learning and practice include but not limited to Astral Travel, Journeying skill, Power Animal Retrieval, Soul Retrieval, Soul Membering, Extraction, Psychopomp, Transfiguration, Transmutation, Healing Earth and Human Toxins

(7) Ceremony and Satsang will be held at each evening to invoke the helping spirits, to healing our wounds, to transform toxins of the earth and our own, to facilitate healing for others, and to reflect our daily sadhana practice and surrender to our day of love n light.

(8) Daily spiritual healing practice will be integrated as a focal point of our personal spiritual and transformative experience. A particular lesson will be chosen for each day based on the book “Spiritual Health and Healing – Art of Living”

(9) Medicine Wheel practice will be integrated into our course and will divided into four circle so each one of us and as whole will journey through four stages of transformation, shedding personal stories and hooks of the past, letting go of cultural beliefs and ancestral bundages, stepping into epic soul journey, and manifesting the dreams into existence, respectively.

Four Stages of Shamanic Energetic Medicine – Medicine Wheel

The scope of AYTTC curriculum will be blended and integrated into the four stages of Shamanic energetic Medicine and Medicine Wheel. The content specific and the materials specific of the curriculum will be centered around the each stage.

Stage 1 Wind of South, Serpent – Learn and practice earth medicine wheel

Content specific: cardinal directions, archetypal animals, cardinal direction yoga, archetypal yoga, Sadhana Hatha flow yoga focus.

Stage 2 Wind of West, Jaguar – learn and practice Journeying skill

Content specific: astral travel, merging, shapeshifting, , power animal, spirit guide, element yoga and chakra yoga (earth, water, fire, air, ether, light, and energy), Sadhana Vinyasa flow focus.

Stage 3 Wind of North, Hummingbird – learn and practice energy healing

Content specific: energy anatomy, soul retrieval, extraction, psychopomp and dying consciously, energetic healing yoga (light, love, contracted air in time and space), restorative yoga focus.

State 4 Wind of East, Eagle – learn and practice healing from spiritual light

Content Specific: transfiguration, transmutation, healing from the pace of creation, healing the human toxic thoughts, healing the earth toxins, and creative, innovative, and authentic healing yoga focus.

Yoga Practice during the course

1) Sadhana Yoga is the primary grounding force of yoga teacher training. We will use its form and formless to ground our body, mind, emotion, and spirit in this physical dimension. Sadhana Yoga is the yoga of spiritual practice. Even though it is derived from different yoga traditions, Ashtanga Vinyasa, Sivananda, Iyengar, Earth Medicine, and Ayuveda but it is designed beyond the forms and traditions. It focus on the essence of yoga tradition which is an instrument to reveal the truth of our existence, to experience the wonders of the universe consciousness, and to live as a spiritual being in the physical body.

Sadhana Yoga has three levels of practice. The first level of practice is the foundation and it has a routine of fundamental postures linked with transitional breath and sequences. The second level is the modification. Based the first level postures and the sequence, student starts to modifying the existing postures to more difficult or easier level. The third level is the integration. Students start integrating the learned routines with personal practice. So the personal practice and sadhana become meaningful pertinent to his or her understanding of the yoga. There is no longer the form of Yoga from SchoolYoga Institute but the expression of the true mystical connection to the wisdom of yoga and the cosmo. Yoga practice and sharing then becomes a spiritual practice.

In this mystical yoga teacher training program we will experience the foundation sequences of SchoolYoga Institute, Sadhana Vinyasa Flow and Sadhana Hatha Flow, rather quickly, due to the fact that most of you have studied and practiced these two sequences as a part of pre-requisite for the course. We will use these two foundation sequences as instruments to lead our workshops into the Art of Teaching Yoga and Art of Touch and Alignment. After exploring the principles of teaching yoga we will start the ‘real work’ – creating Mystical Yoga experiences for ourselves and others, through Chakras, Elements of the universe, Earth Medicine, Archetypal Animal, Ayuveda, and Healing Arts.

2) Mystical Yoga – Shamanic Healing Yoga as an Example

Mystical Yoga is the yoga of form or formless that directly connect our practice, understanding, and the most importantly the myth the reveal in us. So we can bring the myth, the unknown, formless, structuredless of the cosmos into the duality of physical dimension where we experience the manifestation and authenticity of our gift and the gifts of the universe.

Mystical Yoga is when we start practicing yoga and create own authentic and creative yoga practice and forms from the deepest our core and the core of universal unknowns and cosmic wisdom. We as practitioners are the mystic and reveal direct connection and inner knowing. So the practice become formless, nameless, and essentially connects to the origin of creation and manifestation.

Shamanic healing practice and teaching when infused into yoga practice, simply for a sake of naming, called Shamanic Healing Yoga but it is formless and nameless. It is an integrative spiritual practice of two distinctive yet similar ancient traditions, Yoga and Shamanic Medicine. It brings the beauty and light of the ancient practices into modern life at experiential level for all to cherish. It uses the principles of Sadhana yoga as a foundation and vehicle to explore the teaching and healing practice of medicine Shamans in the high Andes and around the world. Yoga brings our awareness into the body and from the body we experience the serenity and tranquility beyond the body whereas Shamanic healing brings us the power and wisdom of the universe to heal the past, shadows, samskaras that keep haunting us and learn to dream the world into being.

This Shamanic Healing Yoga will guide us through a sequence of Sadhana Yoga practice. To begin the practice with the power of energetic healing, followed by a series of asana practice, and end with journeying into the underworld to retrieve our power animal and lost souls. A series of poses are designed to experience the medicine wheel in four directions. The wind of south, the serpent, leads us to shed our shadows and the past. The wind of west, the jaguar, shows us to transform the darkness and death into light. The wind of north, the hummingbird guides us to an epic journey of sweetness and joy. The wind of east, the eagle flies us above the mountains and clouds to teach us to see the world as it is. Through the practice we will experientially explore the healing power of yoga and ancient medicine of the Andes.

After experiential practice of Shamanic Healing Yoga each component will be dissected, discussed so the principles and intricate of ancient healing art can be understood, fully experienced, and learned. The participants will not only experience the healing for themselves through the practice but learn how to share its wisdom that can be integrated into our yoga teaching and daily living.