Chakra Sadhana Training
This is a residential course for yoga teachers who would like to work more intensively with the chakras. Deepen your own practice and integrate concepts of sound and breath into your existing classes.
At Sivananda Yoga Vidya Peetham near Goa, India
22 December, 2024 - 5 January, 2025
Student-teacher contact hours are balanced with personal practice:
• Daily classes, lectures and meditations
• Extensive hand-outs (PDF)
• Guided practice teaching
• Personal mentoring with Swami Saradananda
• Delicious vegetarian meals
• Simple, comfortable, clean accommodation at the Sivananda Yoga Vidya Peetam Ashram
Introduce students to the concept of chakras and how they relate to yoga practice. Simultaneously deepen your own understanding of these swirling vortexes of psychic energy. In this innovative course for yoga teachers, Swami Saradananda shares knowledge she has gained from years of study and personal practice, much of which is embodied in her books “Chakra Meditation" and “The Essential Guide to Chakras”.
What you, as a yoga teacher, will get out of this course
• Through a combination of prānāyāma, chanting, meditation and group discussion, this course equips you with the knowledge and skills to take your teaching and personal practice to a more profound level.
• A uniquely practical as well as theoretical approach to chakras with philosophical understanding of their nature and function.
• Adapt your own yoga and meditation practices to move energy upward to higher consciousness.
• Ways that you, and your students, can use the chakras to manifest your ideas and dreams into more creative embodiments.
• An enhanced meditation practice
• Ways to integrate chakra work into asana classes, group meditations, workshops and retreats
• Pranayama practices specific to chakra work
• Effects of lifestyle and diet on the chakras
• Online teaching methods
Requirements for participation:
• Completion of yoga teachers’ training
• You must make your own way to the Sivananda Yoga Vidya Peetham in Amboli, Maharastra, India, which is just outside of Goa.
• Possession of a copy of “Chakra Meditation” and “The Essential Guide to Chakras” by Swami Saradananda (as books or in Kindle format)
Attendance: Participants are expected to attend all classes and meditations. If you are unable to attend because of illness or other emergency, you must inform the tutor before the start of the class. Participants who do not reach the required attendance will not receive their certificate. Participants must complete each assignment to the tutor’s satisfaction before going on to the next assignment.
“I really got a lot out of the ‘Yoga Teachers Guide to Chakras’. It helped me understand and integrate the different aspects of yoga and how different practices can work together. Swami Saradananda brought such a range and depth of knowledge together in such a simple way - it was very impressive. It will really help me bring new perspectives to my own practice.”
- Shanti, retired yoga teacher and long-term practitioner, Epsom, Surrey
“Thanks again for all your sharing and guidance. I learnt more than I expected. The structure of the course and the homework were very helpful to keep the practice and integrate all the new insights.”
-Madhavi Maria Alejandra Valero, yoga teacher, Rotterdam, Netherlands
“I am so grateful to have done this in depth course it has helped to clarify how to work with our chakra system as a tool for transformation.”
- Maria B. Annibal, yoga teacher, Ruislip, MIddx
