Week of November 28-December 3, 2010

Urban Yogi: Contemporary Teacher Training in Mind-Body Yoga

Bringing together asana, energetics, anatomy, and somatic psychology, Hala Khouri and Julian Walker place modern yoga in a truly East-meets-West context. During this weeklong intensive for yoga teachers, bodyworkers, helping professionals, and interested students, you will explore yoga as both an ancient shamanic ritual practice and as a contemporary mind-body process. This engaging and multi-faceted workshop incorporates transformational flow, deep stretch, ecstatic dance, as well as group process and practical healing and teaching tools.

Yoga teachers find themselves in a unique role as contemporary spiritual guides. Hala and Julian use their experience creating and facilitating support groups for yoga teachers to address common roadblocks and misconceptions about what it means to be a teacher today. Their post-New-Age philosophy challenges some current beliefs about spirituality and invites you to think critically about what spiritual and psychological growth means.

Workshop topics include:

• The healing process of yoga: practical tools and definitions for body-mind connection, the triune brain, and the physiology of trauma and trauma resolution

• Sacred psychology: the teacher-student relationship

• Fine-tuning asana: instruction and sequencing, including creating sacred space, integrating concepts learned in daily yoga practice

• Practice teaching

• Psyche and spirit: models of psychological development, the chakras, and the shadow

Your presenters have spent over fifteen years integrating yoga and counseling. Hala is certified in Somatic Experiencing and Julian is a transformational bodyworker. Both teach yoga and lead workshops and retreats internationally. For more information, visit www.julianwalkeryoga.com, www.halakhouri.com.

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