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Vajra Yoga + Meditation: 200 Hour Teacher Training
July 7, 8, 14, 22, 28 & 29


Join Jill Satterfield MBC/RYT-500 founder of Vajra Yoga and its sister not for profit – School for Compassionate Action for this unique 200 hour Yoga Alliance certified teacher training co-sponsored by the Tibet House.


Vajra Yoga + Meditation integrates Buddhist meditation and philosophy directly into the practice of yoga. It is contemplative, contemporary and practical. The School for Compassionate Action : Meditation, Yoga + Education for Communities in Need and Those Who Serve Them, takes Vajra Yoga + Meditation’s foundation of yoga and meditation one step further into compassionate social action.


Through the direct experience of the body as the home for the mind and heart- physically and energetically - we can arrive at a state of full well- being and self-knowledge. If you have been seeking a practice that is meditative, personal, compassionate and sane, we invite you to join us. Whether you are interested in teaching in a yoga studio, on meditation retreats, a hospital, school, nursing home or just delving more deeply into a meditation and yoga practice, this is for you.

What the 200 – hour Training offers:

Meditation: You’ll graduate with an established and sustainable meditation practice. The practices you’ll learn are drawn from the Buddhist Vipassana and Tibetan traditions.

Yoga: You’ll have a deep experiential wealth of knowledge about all of the foundational yoga postures: standing poses, inversions, hip openers, backbends, twists and balance postures. You will develop a personal practice that allows you to self prescribe depending on your needs.


Breath Techniques: You’ll know why you breath where you do and why not where you don’t. You’ll learn how to increase your capacity for breath and experience the interdependence of breath, mind and heart.

Visualization Techniques: Visualizations become actualizations; harnessing the heart and mind to create wellness and deeper inquiry.


Inner and Outer Alignment: Energetic and subtle alignment as well as physical, structural anatomy – how the two are inseparable. This includes practice with the Central Channel and subtle Bhandha’s.

The Psychology of the Body: Yoga and meditation as therapeutic interventions. How to “see” and how to “prescribe” according to need.


The Verbal and Physical Poetics of Teaching: How to develop kind and direct language skills, the artful gestures of adjustments and creating metaphors to enhance the ability to meet people where they are.

Compassion Practices: The development of compassion, and ways to contribute to your community through compassionate, skillful action.

Meditation and Yoga for Communities in Need: Applying these traditions and techniques to work with specific populations. Teaching those with living with chronic pain and illness, PTSD and at – risk youth.

Cost for the program: $ 3200 if paid by March 31, 2012, $3300 thereafter.

Presenter:

Jill Satterfield is the founder of Vajra Yoga & Meditation, a synthesis of yoga and Buddhism that combines meditation, yoga postures, visualization and contemplation practices. She is also the founder and Director of the School for Compassionate Action: Meditation, Yoga and Educational Support for Communities in Need. SCA is a not for profit that trains teachers, psychologists, social workers, and health care providers to integrate mind and body into their professions. SCA also offers classes to at-risk youth, people suffering with chronic pain, illness and trauma. Jill turned to meditation and yoga over 30 years ago to successfully heal from a debilitating physical condition coupled with acute chronic pain. Her personal triumph became the inspiration and drive to guide as many people as possible in utilizing and understanding their own mind, heart and body to help them selves.

Jill is on the founding faculty of Spirit Rock Meditation Center’s Mindfulness for Yoga Training and the Kripalu Institute’s Integral Leadership Program for young adults. Jill was scholar and teacher in residence at the Kripalu Center in 2004, and was named one of the four leading Buddhist and yoga teachers in the country by the Shambhala Sun Magazine. . Jill’s work has been featured in The New York Times, Tricycle Magazine, MORE, Shambhala Sun, Crains, Self, Fit Yoga, Yoga Journal, amongst others. Her story of healing, and the founding of the School for Compassionate Action in NYC was included in “Freeing the Body: Freeing the Mind. Writings on the Connections between Yoga and Buddhism” by Michael Stone.

As a pioneer in the field of mind body awareness, Jill has been teaching, consulting organizations and instigating mindful, creative educational programs for over 20 years. www.vajrayoga.com, www.schoolforcompassionateaction.org

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