About Living Yoga Teacher Training

Our Philosophy

Yoga is a both a system and a methodology for revealing the truth, and its goal is to remove the obstacles that prevent your true nature from expressing itself.  Yoga philosophy says that you cannot force wholeness, as it is already there.

As human beings, we have certain views about how life, people or things are, as a result of our past experiences.  In yoga, these recycled thought patterns are called samskaras.

BodyMindLife Yoga Teacher Training teaches you how to unwind these patterns and to remove the obstacles that temporarily interrupt the flow of prana (life force).

When these thoughts (beliefs and attitudes) are repeated over and over again they resist the flow of prana as it is presented in the moment.  The ways we do this as a body/mind system are to:

1.    Tighten our muscles and consequently turn off other muscles
2.    Constrict our breathing
3.    Hold back our expression, either verbal or through body posture

When this happens, we need to restore pulsation to our bodies and encourage the movement of prana.

Our mind is the most potent force in our lives.  It determines through our beliefs and attitudes (patterning) every aspect of our lives.  These stories and patterns are largely unconscious so our first role as a teacher is to bring awareness to these patterns.  As we embody this understanding as yoga teachers, we are then able to pass that knowledge on to our students.

Methodology

BodyMindLife's Yoga Teacher Training offers a complete methodology of body, mind and spirit that allows yoga to be taught with integrity, honoring the traditional roots of yoga in a modern-day context. Using the wisdom of Yogic and Taoist (Yin/Yang) philosophy combined with Western Science, our unique system of yoga will reveal the inherent unity of life and existence, allowing us to transcend our self-imposed limitations into a life of abundance and vitality, where we are able to move toward fulfilling our goals and dreams. BodyMindLife's Yoga Teacher Training does not offer a specific 'style' of yoga practice. Rather it is an accessible and complete learning method that contains within it the keys to safe and effective yoga practice integrated with functional, practical and assessable ways to bring the “bodymind” system back into balance.

With this understanding and through demonstration of the practical and philosophical application of this art form, you will be able to guide students along their own path to health and wellbeing.

Chakras as a Roadmap

The core of BodyMindLife's Teacher Training Methodology is expressed in understanding the Chakra system. All life is energy and many people are looking to reclaim the lost energy/vitality of their youth. As we have moved away from our centre, our energy flow is inhibited and our potential to live out our dreams and fulfill our goals is diminished. The Chakras are a roadmap to finding where energy does or doesn't flow. We need to reorganize the body, breath and mind back into balance in order to access abundant overflowing energy. We will look at how the Chakras relate to the nervous system and how they affect the various systems of the body. You will learn how you function on a physical and energetic level, and how the systems of the body break down when the Chakra system is adversely affected by the choices we make in life.

5 Pillars of Health & Wellbeing

BodyMindLife's Yoga Teacher Training offers practical tools called “The 5 Pillars of Health and Wellbeing”. These are a combination of Patanjali's 8 Limbed Path integrated with Western medical science that help us reorganize the “bodymind” in the direction of wellbeing. ?Through the Five Pillars, we work on the level of the body, breath, mind, energy systems (chakras), relationships (how we relate to ourselves and others), and through restoring functional rhythms (like getting enough sleep!), to achieve balance and wholesness.

This comprehensive Yoga Teacher Training program takes you through your own personal process of understanding and applying the 5 Pillars of Health and Wellbeing to your life, as the creative and practical source of inspiration for your yoga teaching. It will provide a foundation of yoga practice, technique and philosophy, enabling graduates to competently and safely teach dynamic group and private yoga classes.

Not just a Yoga Teacher Training, this course can help you create the life you’ve always wanted, achieve the good health you’ve always dreamed of, and set you on the path to discovering the amazing human being you really are!