WELLNESS AS A WAY OF LIFE

WELLNESS AS A WAY OF LIFE
Expanding Personal Yoga
Into the Whole Human Experience
with Christopher Baxter

June 19-21, 2015
Friday Evening 7:00-9:00 p.m., Saturday & Sunday 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

20 CEUs

TUITION: $240
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This is a required course in the Discovery Yoga 500-hour Master Yoga Teacher Certification Program.
It is open to serious students as well as yoga teachers.

We see the word wellness with increasing frequency, but what is it and how does it relate to yoga?

Through recognizing wellness as the original setting for all yoga practices, we can deepen and expand the benefits of yoga, and awaken more of our whole human potential. Through learning an integrated approach to well-being rooted in yogic principles and practices, we develop a more fulfilling, humane way of life that also benefits those we connect with.

In this seminar the focus is on wellness as an entire way of life, and yoga as a core set of lifetime skills. Building on this foundation in yoga, you will learn how to deepen, expand and integrate into your entire life enhanced, practical awareness of your:

Physical Body – develop a core approach to yoga that fully integrates asana with pranayama to:

• open, lengthen and strengthen the core of your body
• develop joint stability and mobility in your spine, hips, knees and shoulders
• support chronic pain release throughout your life
• enhance strength, flexibility and stamina for daily walking, sitting, and standing
• detoxify and strengthen all your body’s systems - organs, glands, cardio-pulmonary, etc.

Emotions and Energy – learn breathing practices that can be used, even in the midst of crisis, to:

• increase personal energy and counteract fatigue
• reduce stress and calm anxiety
• clarify your thinking and enhance mental focus
• pacify your emotions relax your nervous system
• release emotional contractions and open inner spaciousness

Mind – explore a series of Tibetan Buddhist mind-training practices that enable you to:

• counteract depression and dissolve negativity
• release doubt, fear and worry
• open the heart and clarify choices
• strengthen kindness and deepen compassion
• develop a more fulfilled and generous life

Christopher Baxter, a practicing architect and yogi for more than 30 years, is the author of "Kripalu Hatha Yoga".
As a founding member of Kripalu Center - the largest yoga training facility in North America - he was founding director of the Kripalu Yoga Teachers Association and was instrumental in the development of Kripalu Yoga and Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training. He currently lives in St Augustine, Florida where he leads teacher trainings, seminars and classes at the Discovery Yoga Center. . He can be reached by email at innerskyyoga@gmail.com or by phone at 904-687-8482.