SYSTEMIC YOGA TEACHER TRAINING with ATEEKA

JUNE 11 - JULY 5 2010

SARDEGNA - Il Giardino Incantato

This immersion training is an experiment in being yourself, in relating with others, in exploring life through the practices of Systemic Yoga and yoga tantra. I would be honored to share this with you . . . and guide you in finding your inner creative nature . . . and discover ways of expressing it to others.

This is an immersion course that is for the mature, open-minded and curious yoga practitioner/teacher who wants to inquire deeply into their own personal practice. It is a course that addresses the aspects of teaching yoga yet is very much a personal and group journey of discovery. It is not a course that requires you to repeat or memorize or conform. . . instead I encourage you to open up to new dimensions of yourself that make the Yoga practice very real, personal and authentic for YOU.

We will explore ASANA both traditionally and from a fluid-body perspective . . . honoring and then expanding on traditional yoga studies, allowing your authentic somatic identity to emerge. Asana can be a very personal experience, as we all are in our own unique bodies, physically and energetically. . . as you move, you will learn about your own EMERGENT ANATOMY . . . a body in constant creation and you will understand anatomy from an experiential personal perspective, rather than from a book or chart.
We will spend at least one day exploring yoga movement in a diverse gravitational environment, warm water, which will diversify and expand your understanding of your movement on land.

PRANAYAMA is the initiator of our life movements and the wave on which we ride into uncharted territory of yoga inquiries. Pranayama practices traditional and evolutionary will lead us to experience "full body breathability" and to conserve prana.

Sound is audible breath. Our pranayama practices often lead to an exploration of NADA-YOGA . . . the yoga of divine sound, vibration and rhythm. Sanskrit, mantra and prayer chants arise from an exploration of sound. Find your inner sound and allow it to give rise to your true voice which then will turn you back inside to the place of no-sound.

MEDITATION is a natural state of being, not a practice or method to do. We will explore this natural meditative presence through movement and stillness, sound and silence. Explore ancient meditative traditions and new quantum methods for absorption into an awareness of the One.

I have been revisiting the YOGA SUTRAS OF PATANJALI from a visionary feminine view and continue to discover threads of tantric thought throughout the aphorisms. I will be honored to share with you a fresh new commentary on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, drawing from my experience of being a woman, from the movement of life, from embryogenesis, from the womb-space. Be open and ready for something new!

As I began to unwind Patanjali . . . I found myself immersed in the fluid world of TANTRA. It feels to me that almost all yoga is rooted in Tantra . . . the "woven path" . . . a yoga of fullness, acceptance and relation. We will experientially explore the ancient and sacred Vijnana Bhairava Tantra through the practice of TANTSU . . . a restful and healing tantric meditation practiced in groups of two and three.

The segment of THE ART and HONOR OF TEACHING in this course is essentially the art of communication . . . somatic, verbal, energetic and otherwise. About one-quarter of this immersion course will be spent investigating how we can sensitively perceive and respond to others. The somatic communication skills learned in this part of the course are essential for those who wish to teach, and are very useful simply as human beings, in relation with one another in every moment.

view foto album from the 2009 training in Bali

By participating in this immersion course, you will be part of an amazing experiment of ideas, energy and manifestations in motion.

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Dedicated but very busy people may not always be able to participate in the immersion course format.  For these committed individuals, I also offer a private mentorship training.  To co-create, personal training process, please contact me by email

UPCOMING SYSTEMIC YOGA TEACHER TRAININGS are being planned for OSLO-NORWAY and BERGAMO-ITALIA in fall2010-winter2011  . . . for futher information please send me an email at ateeka111@mac.com