Content of TTCs and FAQs, 300-hour TTCs
Author:dominique Updated:2019-05-30
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200-hour TTCs contents - Q&As
Author:administrator Updated:2019-05-29
YOGAYANTRA's TTCs - CONTENT & FAQs
LEVEL 1: 200 HOURS
CONTENT OF THE COURSE
Important Note: This TTC is for MEN and WOMEN alike. “Yoga” was created by men for men, and not just for women. So guys, join us!
300 小时瑜伽老师培训
Author:dominique Updated:2019-05-29
SAVASANA or SHAVASANA
Author:administrator Updated:2019-05-28
SAVASANA
Savasana has been wrongly translated by “Relaxation Pose”. I firmly believe that yoga teachers must make an effort to teach the words in Sanskrit, like Judo is taught in Japanese, etc.
This mistranslation—due to the laziness of native English-speaking yoga teachers— has led practitionners to misunderstand this practice, which is done after each session of what we call “asanas” and often after a session of pranayama.
It is not a relaxation, Shava doesn’t mean relaxation. Shava means ‘corpse’ (it has the same radical as Shiva) and a corpse doesn’t need to relax. In Shavasana, the body dies to itself, the mind remains alert and the entire person re-creates itself. In Shavasana we integrate all the changes brought up by the asana and pranayama practice.
Savasana has been wrongly translated by “Relaxation Pose”. I firmly believe that yoga teachers must make an effort to teach the words in Sanskrit, like Judo is taught in Japanese, etc.
This mistranslation—due to the laziness of native English-speaking yoga teachers— has led practitionners to misunderstand this practice, which is done after each session of what we call “asanas” and often after a session of pranayama.
It is not a relaxation, Shava doesn’t mean relaxation. Shava means ‘corpse’ (it has the same radical as Shiva) and a corpse doesn’t need to relax. In Shavasana, the body dies to itself, the mind remains alert and the entire person re-creates itself. In Shavasana we integrate all the changes brought up by the asana and pranayama practice.
12 September 2018 and a huge risk for a typhoon
Author:administrator Updated:2018-09-12
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3528284 This is the website that I follow.
We need a backup plan because we are in the countryside, 5 of us stay in a tent. If there are 200 km per hour winds, the tents will become flying rugs!!!
I have already experienced earthquakes, but never a typhoon.
SCARY
We need a backup plan because we are in the countryside, 5 of us stay in a tent. If there are 200 km per hour winds, the tents will become flying rugs!!!
I have already experienced earthquakes, but never a typhoon.
SCARY
Urdhva mukha svanasana & dhanurasana
Author:administrator Updated:2018-05-24
Please click on the link to open the pdf document.
http://www.yogayantra.com/Pancho.pdf
This answers a question asked by one of my TTC students
http://www.yogayantra.com/Pancho.pdf
This answers a question asked by one of my TTC students
My day, 25 January 2018 (when everything goes wron
Author:administrator Updated:2018-01-26
25 january 2018, our trip to Nice
we left our village, my sister and I, and parked her car at Chateauneuf to catch the public bus Grasse-Nice. We stopped over at Cap 3000 as I had to buy a part for my computer. We then took a (nice) city-bus to Nice centre. I bought the 2 tickets, and both rushed to get a seat. A few stops later, a team of 6 men got on the bus to control tickets. I give my 2 tickets, one guy says, ‘come out with me.’ I call my sister, we get off the bus, which goes away. I had not ‘validated’ these two tickets (each 1.5 euros) because we did not know they had to be validated, and because we did not see any sign, though there are, to mention that.
I paid a 40 euro-fine per person, i.e. 80 euros for not having validated two 1.5 euro-tickets!!!! I was in a rage! It was humiliating to be treated like a thief, like one of those young North African who come as ‘immigrants’ to my country and refuse to abide by its laws.
Anyhow, we were to meet an old friend of mine, and have lunch together. We go to our favourite restaurant, with provençale cuisine, and a lovely atmosphere. To the table next to ours, two women sit, mother and daughter. Suddenly in the street where we were, two muslim women pass, completely covered with a burqa. The daughter started bravely I must say, to verbally abuse the women, saying they had to go back to their country, that we French women spent generations and generations to be treated equally with men, and that this backward attitude had nothing to do here.
The shops around also belong to Muslims, and they shouted back at the woman. They even threatened her to death. The restaurant owners, 3 old ladies, asked the woman to leave, they offered her the lunch, no matter. The woman did not want.
we left our village, my sister and I, and parked her car at Chateauneuf to catch the public bus Grasse-Nice. We stopped over at Cap 3000 as I had to buy a part for my computer. We then took a (nice) city-bus to Nice centre. I bought the 2 tickets, and both rushed to get a seat. A few stops later, a team of 6 men got on the bus to control tickets. I give my 2 tickets, one guy says, ‘come out with me.’ I call my sister, we get off the bus, which goes away. I had not ‘validated’ these two tickets (each 1.5 euros) because we did not know they had to be validated, and because we did not see any sign, though there are, to mention that.
I paid a 40 euro-fine per person, i.e. 80 euros for not having validated two 1.5 euro-tickets!!!! I was in a rage! It was humiliating to be treated like a thief, like one of those young North African who come as ‘immigrants’ to my country and refuse to abide by its laws.
Anyhow, we were to meet an old friend of mine, and have lunch together. We go to our favourite restaurant, with provençale cuisine, and a lovely atmosphere. To the table next to ours, two women sit, mother and daughter. Suddenly in the street where we were, two muslim women pass, completely covered with a burqa. The daughter started bravely I must say, to verbally abuse the women, saying they had to go back to their country, that we French women spent generations and generations to be treated equally with men, and that this backward attitude had nothing to do here.
The shops around also belong to Muslims, and they shouted back at the woman. They even threatened her to death. The restaurant owners, 3 old ladies, asked the woman to leave, they offered her the lunch, no matter. The woman did not want.
Summary of the 300-hour TTC in India, 2017
Author:administrator Updated:2018-01-26
The Indian 300-hour TTC was quite eventful. Even before I went to India, three Hong Kong students cancelled because the relationship between China and India had soured (quite normal with China who has trouble with all her neighbours, Vietnam, Japan…) and these women claimed that they were afraid that Indians would be aggressive toward Chinese citizens. It’s ridiculous but they would not hear me.
Then I flew to India and some students were already there, most would come after me. I need to arrive earlier to prepare a TTC, to adapt myself to new climate, new food, new environment, and so on, which is always demanding on the body and spirit too. Added to that the jetlag and the long flight!
The organiser finally moved me to another place than his place, where, he said, there were 19 rooms, just that many rooms were simply not acceptable—no windows, mouldy, dark. Finally some of us stayed in his place, 5 minutes from the TTC-hotel. The yoga room also was not ideal, two blind walls, one wall with 2 windows facing the hills, and the back of the room hot, often too hot. Added to that, ill-conceived and I always need walls, for handstands for instance.
Anyway, I accepted because I knew that everywhere, there are problems, nowhere is perfect. The main thing was to teach that TTC.
Three Chinese women arrived together. I took them to the “market”, introduced them to Rishikesh. Next day, one of them freaked out, she had not said a word for one day, and she left. I think she could not cope with the mess that India is.
Then I flew to India and some students were already there, most would come after me. I need to arrive earlier to prepare a TTC, to adapt myself to new climate, new food, new environment, and so on, which is always demanding on the body and spirit too. Added to that the jetlag and the long flight!
The organiser finally moved me to another place than his place, where, he said, there were 19 rooms, just that many rooms were simply not acceptable—no windows, mouldy, dark. Finally some of us stayed in his place, 5 minutes from the TTC-hotel. The yoga room also was not ideal, two blind walls, one wall with 2 windows facing the hills, and the back of the room hot, often too hot. Added to that, ill-conceived and I always need walls, for handstands for instance.
Anyway, I accepted because I knew that everywhere, there are problems, nowhere is perfect. The main thing was to teach that TTC.
Three Chinese women arrived together. I took them to the “market”, introduced them to Rishikesh. Next day, one of them freaked out, she had not said a word for one day, and she left. I think she could not cope with the mess that India is.