ADVANCED PROFESSIONAL THERAPEUTIC TRAININGS
The building blocks for the body, mind and heart
STRUCTURAL YOGA THERAPY | AYURVEDIC YOGA THERAPY | TANTRA YOGA SECRETS
These professional training programs offer an all-inclusive, accessible approach, adapting the therapeutics to the person, instead of expecting the person to adapt to a technique that is a "one fits all" approach. The key is to learn to become comfortable within the body, learning how to move with ease and how to adapt when pain is present.
Several components create an in-depth approach to health, healing and beyond. The foundation of this teaching is coming from Sri Krishnamacharya, the grandfather of all yoga teachers of the West. Krishnamacharya, a Master Yogi and Ayurvedic Doctor, applied the Vedas into a model that includes all five koshas and beyond. He solely worked one-to-one with people, offering them an approach adapted to the uniqueness of their current circumstances, creating a personalized Sadhana of living.
All modules can be taken separately and eventually will blend into a complete, multi-dimensional model of healing. The benefit of working with one teacher for a prolonged time is that you dig one well deeply. You grow and sustain a relationship that not only benefits your community, but even more so, your personal growth as a Yogi/Yogini through all ups and downs of your life.
The foundation and the thread that runs throughout the training program that brings the teaching alive is your own Sadhana. You are coming from a place of truth when you have lived through a teaching yourself and have experienced how this challenged and transformed you. This is where your personal Sadhana comes in. Your direct experience is your teacher and this makes you into a compassionate healer, able to hold space for the other seeking help finding their way back Home.
"The fruit of your Sadhana is your Seva to the world." -- Chinnamasta Stiles
Once you learn how to develop a personal Sadhana based on the eight limbs of yoga, steeped in the traditional classical yoga wisdom, your personal transformational experience leads to a clear vision of how you may best serve others. Through your Sadhana, you become sensitive to the needs of your body and mind, and with that, you develop an increased awareness towards the needs of others.
Several components create an in-depth approach to health, healing and beyond. The foundation of this teaching is coming from Sri Krishnamacharya, the grandfather of all yoga teachers of the West. Krishnamacharya, a Master Yogi and Ayurvedic Doctor, applied the Vedas into a model that includes all five koshas and beyond. He solely worked one-to-one with people, offering them an approach adapted to the uniqueness of their current circumstances, creating a personalized Sadhana of living.
All modules can be taken separately and eventually will blend into a complete, multi-dimensional model of healing. The benefit of working with one teacher for a prolonged time is that you dig one well deeply. You grow and sustain a relationship that not only benefits your community, but even more so, your personal growth as a Yogi/Yogini through all ups and downs of your life.
The foundation and the thread that runs throughout the training program that brings the teaching alive is your own Sadhana. You are coming from a place of truth when you have lived through a teaching yourself and have experienced how this challenged and transformed you. This is where your personal Sadhana comes in. Your direct experience is your teacher and this makes you into a compassionate healer, able to hold space for the other seeking help finding their way back Home.
"The fruit of your Sadhana is your Seva to the world." -- Chinnamasta Stiles
Once you learn how to develop a personal Sadhana based on the eight limbs of yoga, steeped in the traditional classical yoga wisdom, your personal transformational experience leads to a clear vision of how you may best serve others. Through your Sadhana, you become sensitive to the needs of your body and mind, and with that, you develop an increased awareness towards the needs of others.
STRUCTURAL YOGA THERAPY™
Move with Ease - Balance Strength and Flexibility - Adapt to the Individual
Structural Yoga™ is a form of classical yoga that allows teachers to adapt yoga to individual needs and provide teachings that translate off the mat into daily life. Structural Yoga™ instructors are trained to teach classes to people with a broad spectrum of needs, from those able to participate in traditional yoga classes to those with movement restriction, injuries or health challenges who require modifications and a very compassionate, healing approach.
Structural Yoga™ relies on a deep respect for the body's innate capacity for safe, healthy movement and healing. This translates to a way of teaching that invites the body to find its own optimal way of moving and building strength, without the use of many props or hands-on corrections that might ultimately hinder self-awareness and the slow, careful development of the muscle structures that are needed to develop a full yoga practice. Structural Yoga students are also gently invited to discover their own yogic path that can carry them through personal challenges, on a path of spiritual growth and transformation. This program is for Yoga Teachers with a minimum of 200 hours certification and for certified Yoga Therapists who wish to expand their understanding about Structural Yoga Therapy.
Curriculum (Total 55 hours)
Structural Yoga™ relies on a deep respect for the body's innate capacity for safe, healthy movement and healing. This translates to a way of teaching that invites the body to find its own optimal way of moving and building strength, without the use of many props or hands-on corrections that might ultimately hinder self-awareness and the slow, careful development of the muscle structures that are needed to develop a full yoga practice. Structural Yoga students are also gently invited to discover their own yogic path that can carry them through personal challenges, on a path of spiritual growth and transformation. This program is for Yoga Teachers with a minimum of 200 hours certification and for certified Yoga Therapists who wish to expand their understanding about Structural Yoga Therapy.
Curriculum (Total 55 hours)
- Daily Structural Yoga Therapy complete Sadhana sequence
- Developing your own Sadhana
- Anatomy and biomechanics of movement / kinesiology
- Range of motion of all joints
- Preparatory poses
- Joint Freeing Series
- 24 asana sequence
- Yoga nidra
- Patanjali's Yoga Sutras
- Tri-guna and the mind
- Pranayama for pain
- Learning how to adapt for individual needs
- Mantra and prayer
AYURVEDIC YOGA THERAPY
Balance the Doshas | Individualize Sadhana | Build Prana, Tejas and Ojas
This training program covers practices of Mukunda's book Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy. It is advisable for students to read the book, as well as Chapter 2 of Yoga Sutras of Patanjali by Mukunda Stiles prior to attending. This program is for Yoga Teachers with a minimum of 200 hours certification, for certified yoga therapists and ayurvedic practitioners, who wish to expand their understanding and deepen their expertise in Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy in a private setting.
This program offers yoga teachers and therapists the ayurvedic vinyasas and other mastered techniques in a group setting or one-to-one session, after the student has practiced and embodied the technique for a minimum of 30 days.
Certified Yoga Therapists will deepen their Ayurvedic skills of observation and interpretation on a multi-dimensional level. They will learn to understand and guide their client, adapting to the individual and their vikruti (current state of being/ imbalance) and bring them back to prakruti (natural state of being). From the appropriate personal ayurvedic yogic Sadhana, the Yoga Therapist develops a sattvic attitude, leading to wisdom and practical guidance to their clients.
Currriculum (Total 55 hours)
This AYT program is approved and listed as a peripheral ayurvedic training program at the NAMA, the National Ayurvedic Medical Association.
This program offers yoga teachers and therapists the ayurvedic vinyasas and other mastered techniques in a group setting or one-to-one session, after the student has practiced and embodied the technique for a minimum of 30 days.
Certified Yoga Therapists will deepen their Ayurvedic skills of observation and interpretation on a multi-dimensional level. They will learn to understand and guide their client, adapting to the individual and their vikruti (current state of being/ imbalance) and bring them back to prakruti (natural state of being). From the appropriate personal ayurvedic yogic Sadhana, the Yoga Therapist develops a sattvic attitude, leading to wisdom and practical guidance to their clients.
Currriculum (Total 55 hours)
- 10 vinyasas balancing Vata, Pitta and Kapha
- Step-by-step development of an ayurvedic yogic Sadhana aligned with Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, Charaka, Sushruta and Ashtanga Hridayam
- Adapting the practice to individual needs
- Pranayamas, bandhas, mudra
- Pancha maha bhutas, 20 tattvas, tri-gunas, indriyas, karmendryas
- Agni and ama
- Prana and apana
- Digestion from Western and Eastern perspective
- Five sub-doshas of Vata
- Therapeutic tools through the lens of an Ayurvedic Yoga Therapist
- Chakra psychology
- Ayurveda and the mind
- Lifestyle principles (dinacharya/ ritacharya/ rutacharya) and techniques to promote sleep (nidra)
- Daily darshan (world view) of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, and how to apply the ayurvedic principles according to the sutras in daily life.
This AYT program is approved and listed as a peripheral ayurvedic training program at the NAMA, the National Ayurvedic Medical Association.
TANTRA YOGA SECRETS
Build Prana | Come Home to the Source | Find Shakti
What would your life look like if you are being your authentic true self, living life fully integrating the sensual, sexual and spiritual aspects in One? Tantra Yoga secrets guides you in eighteen transformational lessons to serenity, radiance and bliss.
Tantra Yoga bridges Ayurveda and Yoga. Ayurveda strengthens the health of the physical body, Yoga stabilizes the mind and Tantra Yoga offers practices to contain your energy, elevate it and let the energy guide you to your authentic self. Classical Tantra Yoga is a Sadhana focusing on spiritual practices such as mudra, pranayama, mantra, ritual, meditation, nyasa, kriyas, bandhas, tantrasana and tandava. These practices refine your sensitivity and build your body container of Prana. From this increased inner sensitivity you naturally feel what the appropriate boundaries are with others. The result is supportive and expansive relationships as a naturally arising fact in life.
Tantra Sadhana opens the pranic body where we hold stuck patterns and conditionings. Once you feel safe, these suppressed feelings will be released. These spontaneously arising kriyas create spaciousness and awaken your unlimited potential to surrender to higher love. This form of love is called Para Bhakti in the Narada’s Bhakti Sutras: The highest form of love of full inner communion in which the boundaries between the Lover and the Beloved dissolve.
Curriculum (Total 55 hours)
Tantra Yoga bridges Ayurveda and Yoga. Ayurveda strengthens the health of the physical body, Yoga stabilizes the mind and Tantra Yoga offers practices to contain your energy, elevate it and let the energy guide you to your authentic self. Classical Tantra Yoga is a Sadhana focusing on spiritual practices such as mudra, pranayama, mantra, ritual, meditation, nyasa, kriyas, bandhas, tantrasana and tandava. These practices refine your sensitivity and build your body container of Prana. From this increased inner sensitivity you naturally feel what the appropriate boundaries are with others. The result is supportive and expansive relationships as a naturally arising fact in life.
Tantra Sadhana opens the pranic body where we hold stuck patterns and conditionings. Once you feel safe, these suppressed feelings will be released. These spontaneously arising kriyas create spaciousness and awaken your unlimited potential to surrender to higher love. This form of love is called Para Bhakti in the Narada’s Bhakti Sutras: The highest form of love of full inner communion in which the boundaries between the Lover and the Beloved dissolve.
Curriculum (Total 55 hours)
- Integration of ayurvedic yoga Sadhana
- Tantrik Sadhana: Step-by-step moving through lesson 1-12 of Tantra Yoga Secrets book, written by Mukunda Stiles
- Weaving Yoga, Ayurveda and Tantra into one way of living
- Tantrik tools of healing: mudra, tantrasana, tantrik pranayama, kriya
- Pranic body work
- Darshan from Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, Bhakti Sutras and Devi Mahatmya
- Rituals
- Practice and pranayama for dying
- Mantra, prayer, meditation and visualization
OTHER MODULES IN ADVANCED THERAPEUTICS & HEALING
Online learning | Soul sessions | Shakti retreat | Trilogy healing retreat
Trilogy embodiment | Advanced pranayama & Pranic healing
In order to meet another person in their fullness we need to develop an experience of ourselves in all layers of our being. It is crucial to integrate tools we receive to return to wholeness on all levels: physical, emotional, mental, spiritual and beyond.
The following modules deepen your personal experience, adapting and applying the tools in real day-to-day life. Each one of them supports you in the relationship with yourself and the dynamics of the world.
The following modules deepen your personal experience, adapting and applying the tools in real day-to-day life. Each one of them supports you in the relationship with yourself and the dynamics of the world.
Online learning and community
* Ayurveda and the Mind
* Patanjali Yoga Sutras Chapter I and II
* Tantra Yoga Secrets: Lessons 1 to 6
* Monthly Support: Satsang with topics from the Trilogy of Yoga, Ayurveda and Tantra
* Case studies, learning how to mentor your clients
Online learning | Online community & resources
Monthly Soul Sessions
Online or in person. Chinnamasta mentors you in any challenge that comes up in your daily life, health, relationship, work, love life, spiritual life style, Usually these session take 1 - 2 hours. The fee for 1 hour is $150. These sessions are offered in person or through Zoom live video call.
The first session includes a complimentary 30-minute "meet & greet."
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Shakti Retreat Weekend
This is a great retreat if you are meeting Chinnamasta for the first time, The retreat focuses on helping you returning back to yourself. During a 3-day Shakti retreat weekend, we dive deep with the group, learning how to weave the trilogy practice in your daily life. Each retreat has a theme we work with and is open to anyone, no matter what your background is. The retreats are always offered at off-the-grid nature locations to help you unwind your nervous system, reset and align with your true nature. It is a great way to dive deep within yourself, pause and bond with like-minded people. It offers you a time of deep nurturing and reflection about your life, where you are at and where you want to go with it. You get to experience freshly cooked ayurvedic vegetarian meals, campfire rituals, daily routines, hikes in nature, lectures, interactive learning, daily full yoga practice adapted to your needs, dance, music and lots of laughter, tears, rest and relaxation.
Dates
Trilogy Healing Retreat
Nine days of learning how to live, love and die. This retreat is the nectar of all Chinnamasta is weaving from all of her 35+ years of experience in Western and Eastern healing into an accessible model in a nine day/night format. The focus is on offering you an accessible experience of how to live fully, love without hesitation and learning how to let go. We all deal with this and we all need practical and sacred tools guiding you every step on your life path and creating the most beautiful footprint possible on this earth.
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Trilogy Healing Embodiment
Fourteen days receiving a pancha karma (deep physical and emotional purification process) and daily lectures on ayurvedic nutrition and practicums in the kitchen, learning how to use spices, combine vegetables and cooking techniques. This is a one-of-a-kind opportunity. This practical, profound and deeply healing program is only offered once every 3 years. The next one is offered February 2021 in Kerala, India.
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Advanced Pranayama & Pranic Healing
This is a 5-day (35-hour) in-person program with mostly practicum and some lecturing on the back ground and precautions for each of the techniques offered. Experience how pranayama can serve you as a powerful tool and bridge between the body/asana and the mind/meditation. Learn how connect to your own breath, how to make it smooth, regular and expansive. Experience the direction and effect of the five vayus in the body-mind-heart. Learn how to guide others verbally and hands-on inviting the breath in all parts and locations of the body: clavicular, intercostal, diaphragm, belly, upper back, lower back, sides of the body and beyond the physical body. Learn step-by-step and experience in detail several pranayamas: wave breath, ujjayi, kaphalabhati, bhastrika, nadi shodana, sitali and how they affect your body-mind-heart. Learn in detail the several yogic and ayurvedic shat karmas to purify the body-mind. Learn and experience several meditation techniques to dive deeper within yourself.
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Scholarships
Chinnamasta offers annually several scholarships for the underprivileged. Contact Chinnamasta directly if you cannot afford a training program to discuss options.
