Fundamentals of Yoga Education in Teacher Training

Experience a healthy lifestyle during our YTT course!

Participants doing morning meditation!

Morning Asana class

Our Yoga teacher training programs apart from guiding an individual to become a Yoga Teacher serves other purpose too.  A very good benefit of our Yoga course that is being held in Thailand and Bali is that the people will really experience living a Yogic Lifestyle. A healthy routine involving in waking up early and experiencing deep silence through meditation. Doing Yoga Asanas, breathing excercises will help to detoxify, rejuvenate and give a sense of well-being to you.Then, a healthy breakfast which is often neglected by many of us will help to balance your bodily requirements.

Our Yoga course is a blend of discipline, fun, relaxation and recreation :-)

Participants out for a trekking!

Next benefit is that the Yoga Teacher Training course emphasizes on self-awareness and self-discipline by giving you time limits to accomplish your personal tasks. After breakfast you have 2 hours for your personal care and study. Apart from this there is time for recreation where you have a chance to the connect to yourself and relax. On Saturday you have free time after lunch and a full day off on Sundays. On these days you can do recreational activities visiting cultural places, relaxing on the beach, morning walks etc. Yogic Relaxation will be also systematically taught and the participants will go through the process of Yogic Relaxation after lunch for efficient digestion, detoxification and rejuveanation. This will relieve them from nervous tension and calm the mind and body. Yogic relaxation is a very powerful and deep technique to bring a deep & positive change in the human personality.

During the Yogic Relaxation class

Yoga learnt through experiential learning!

Daniel teaching Bhagvad Gita in the green!

Study, Share & learn Yoga!

Our Yoga teacher training emphasizes on Yoga philosophy as well, which can help you to look at life with a broader perspective and encourage you to challenge your weaknesses. You will get the opportunity to learn Sanskrit words and meaning of it. You will be learning so many different aspects of life and Yoga that will help you to look deeper into your self and help you to discover your inner potentials!

Philosophy class with Jeenal

Healthy food habits is a part of Yoga!

A photo of a healthy
breakfast served in the YTT, Chiang Mai
in Thailand

Of course, food is something that can really make us feel healthy or sick. But here we will eat healthy varieties of food at proper time, and dinner will be around 6.30 in the evening as we will be going to bed early. Everyday we will be having varieties of fruits, vegetables, cereals and dairy products at regular timings and intervals. This will nourish and replenish the body with different vitamins! And having a discplined routine harmonise the biological clock of the body. It is like having a new life!

A deep positive transformation is the aim of our Yoga Teacher Training!

Conceptual activities class!

Learning different cleansing techniques, practicing Asanas, studying philosophy, connecting back to nature, everyday meditation, breathing teachniques and relaxation techiniques will bring tranquility and clarity in your physical and mental levels. This is one of the aim of our Yoga Teacher Training. Then one can experience the joy of being free from inhibitions, stress and pressures of a fast life.

Out in the nature for recreation!

Discovering a new path of life & sharing the knowledge with others!

Yoga Teacher Training group in Brazil

You will be learning to impart this knowledge to various groups of the people in the Yoga methodology class. The greatest benefit for many will be when they realize that they want to bring this spritiual and hoilistic education for other people around them. With all this knowledge of Yoga, you can go ahead to help and uplift people's lives. The postive change that you have experienced will be worth sharing with other people. There are so many different people like senior citizens, teenagers, parents, children, people with health problems, corporates and proffessionals, householders etc. that you can help.

Your teachers - A beautiful couple dedicated to Yoga :-)

Jeenal and Daniel is a lovely couple from India with whom you can share, and they are open to share their experiences about their yoga life. They have an in-depth knowledge and expertise in Yoga are experienced Yoga teachers from India. They have spent 5 years living, learning and teaching Yoga with their Yoga Gurus from India. They have trained hundereds of students till now. To know what their students say about them, please click on this link : Testimonials.

Daniel teaching Pranayamas
 in a Teacher Training course in Chiang Mai

Jeenal and Daniel in the mountains of Mantiqueira of Brazil

They have trained hundreds of students in Teacher Training course from various countries coming from different backgrouds and of different age group. They will be the main teachers guiding the group and staying along with the participants. Jeenal is a blend of western and Indian culture. She is an Indian woman who grew up in a traditional Indian family with Yogic values while studying in an International school. And, Daniel was born in Brazil in a brazilian family. He grew up doing various martial arts, adventurous activities such as mountain biking and diving. He lived in United Kingdom and Europe before arriving to India to learn Yoga. Now he is living in India since 2006 and both of them travel worldwide to teach Yoga. In 2006 Jeenal and Daniel met the Yoga Institute of India and ever since that they have dedicated their life studying and sharing Yoga with others.



Jeenal teaching Yoga Sutras in a course in Brazil



The Wise Living Yoga Academy Team invites you to join their Yoga Teacher Training to experience this beautiful journey of positive transformation, of self discovery, of self love and spiritual realisation!

Yoga Teacher Training Certification day
in Chiang Mai, Thailand - July

The course is recognized by The International Board of Yoga, The Yoga Institute - India which is the worlds oldest Yoga Organisation and accredited by Yoga Alliance - USA (RYS-200 Level). Please follow the links to know more about our YTT course 200 hours in 2012:-

- Yoga Teacher Training Course in Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Yoga Teacher Training Course in Bali, Indonesia
- Yoga Teacher Training Course in Chiang Mai, Thailand

Teacher Training Group Chiang Mai, Thailand - June

For more information please contact us at:

Email - info@wiselivingyoga.com or

Website - http://www.wiselivingyoga.com

You can visit our webiste www.wiselivingyoga.com for more information or write to us on info@wiselivingyoga.com.

Namaskar,

Wise Living Yoga Academy Team

Teaching Yoga to Kids :-)

Every time I teach Yoga to kids I feel renewed. Teaching them is always a new experience to me. Even after teaching thousands of children till now, yet I learn something so different and new every time I come across a new child. I feel that every new kid brings with him or her a new expression, a new vision, a new idea and a new motivation for life.

In this month of November I taught for four days in two separate Children’s Yoga Camp at the Yoga Institute and I am so grateful to have this opportunity. I am always amazed to see the extraordinary abilities of these small and little ones. In one of the camp I started the camp by asking them “what is Yoga?” and I was so surprised by their brilliant answers...they said mam..’Yoga is concentration’, someone said ‘Yoga is meditation’ and another said ‘Yoga is a way to connect to God’…well these were the answers from kids who were around six to ten years old!! One little boy said with gleaming eyes ‘Yoga is to be wise’. Another kid said ‘Yoga is a way to cure diseases’!! After, I made them play a memory game standing in a circle where they were around 30 of them with around 10 trainee students. Everyone had to say their names aloud and then I asked the kids to give me at least 10 names. It was astonishing to see the kids come one by one and say out the ten names. Such is their memory!

The kids had a lot of fun imitating a tree, a lotus, a fish, a tiger, a snake, a rabbit, etc. It was a treat to see them do these asana with great enthusiasm. Kids have a tendency to get distracted and bored quickly if they do not feel involved and motivated by the teacher. So at every point I would encourage the kids by asking them questions and teaching the asana by putting them into a story. Kids are very imaginative, so it is great to make them imagine or visualize a story with animals and plants while making them do asanas.

I made them learn to say all the eight steps of Yoga with examples, stories and sharing. While teaching them Niyamas I asked them that how could we keep our mind clean, and trust me they gave marvelous answers to me. Like, ‘ by reading good things’, ‘by praying’, ‘by not seeing or hearing dirty things’ and one eight year old girl called Rayna with a cute bandana on her head said ‘ we should not think anything bad because germs can enter our brain then’. I found this answer so profound that it put me into thinking. Kids make things so simple and we adults sometimes make things so complicated. We all sang and danced, colored the Diyas, did potting of plants, played so many games, went for nature walk and did juggling. Thanks to all the trainee students of the Yoga Institute!

Every time when I teach, I learn. I learn to keep my heart and mind open. And I learn a lot to express, to feel, to imagine and to appreciate every time when I teach the little wonders of the world. They teach me to be patient, because to deal with children while making them do Yoga, especially the ones whom you do not know at all can be very demanding on your mind, as you have to forbearingly listen and answer to all their questions. But at the end there is a sense of achievement and joy that I get when I nurture them with moral ethics and value education. It is so much important to teach values and ethics to kids in a practical way to bring peace and love for the next generations to come.

As a Yoga teacher it is so essential to be aware and vigilant with your own behavior and moral conduct in order to educate the children whole heartedly. It is so insane to see when the kids are being exposed to alcohol and smoking by their own parents. Like the last night when I was eating out in a restaurant, I was deeply upset and stunned to see a father holding a glass of alcohol in front of his own five year old child. It has become so normal to drink and so normal to drink in front of children!! Sad. Very sad. We are already seeing so many serious problems in the world due to the consumption of alcohol, especially when we lose control over ourselves under the influence of alcohol. And sometimes children get adversely affected by this as their minds are so sensitive. But then, I know I have to practice the Parikarmas and alot of Vairagya! May we all get wiser for the welfare and the well being for ourselves and for our future generation.

The children do not know the difference of rich and poor, of black and white, till we adults teach them. Let’s teach them that being poor or rich does not make a person's character. It's about the values that we carry, the humility that we show and the love that we spread which makes a man's character. It is not about in which country you live, which liquor you have in your bar, which car you possess, how much jewellery you own, which skin colour you have or which parties you attend.

I thank my gurus and my parents to guide me to educate the little children with yoga ethics, values and lessons on morality. This will go a long way...I have faith that the good that they learn today will be passed on by them to the generations to come...and the cycle continues:-) forever and it is my responsibility, your responsibility and everyone's responsibility to educate each and every child around you.

Namaskaar!!
Jeenal