Price
Individual Module Price: $100 Early Bird | $120 Regular Rate.
Special pricing for Acharya + ISHTA Members.
Location
Online Live Stream
Module 5 is up next! Kaivalya Pada – Freedom to Find a New Way to Engage in Life
This six module course provides an empowering platform for students to approach and digest the Yoga Sutras from the perspective of Tantra. We will read, practice, and integrate some of yoga’s most foundational wisdom and begin to understand how it affects us in our lives as practitioners and teachers.
Wendy spent six years working closely with Alan Finger on Tantra of the Yoga Sutras, an interpretation of the Yoga Sutras that is accessible to contemporary practitioners of yoga and resonant resonant with the tantric underpinnings of ISHTA Yoga. The new Tantra of the Yoga Sutras course will be offered in six modules.
Each module will include:
A somatic yoga, pranayama, and kriya practice to tune the body-mind to listen “beyond the mind”
A lecture on pre-assigned topics from the Sutras
An in-class reading/writing/reflection exercise and demo
In-class discussion that empowers practitioners to trust personal insight
Exclusive access to prompts for practices and journaling assignments that you can upload directly to the teaching tool for Wendy to review
Receive feedback from Wendy in live-streamed discussion sections held Fridays between modules
Module 5: Kaivalya Pada – Freedom to Find a New Way to Engage in Life, October 27, 1 - 5 pm.
Who doesn’t want to experience more freedom in their life? But what, exactly, is this elusive nectar? Tantra philosophy acknowledges that if we are living a human life, which is precious and sacred, then we are here working out our karma. Our life experience, our karma, can be alternately painful or easeful and often both at the same time! Many of hold a belief that freedom is having the power to manifest what we want when we want it, and this often sets us up for failure because it creates in us an attachment to an idea of success. Kaivalya Pada proposes a more life-affirming idea: that we have the power to respond to our life experiences (even painful ones!) with the grace and equanimity that arises from our practice and that this state of being influences how our karma plays out. In ISHTA language, we can live FROM samadhi, which is where our practice ultimately leads us.
Join Wendy for her signature combination of self-study, close reading, practice anddiscussion to explore how Kaivalya Pada can guide you on your path.
Interested in purchasing Module 1, 2, 3 or 4 on demand?
Take 50% off the on demand module if purchasing with a second module at full price
Module 1 gives a brief historical context that orients students to reading the Sutras from the perspective of ISHTA Tantra
Introduces key concepts for a full understanding the modules that follow
To purchase email rumika@ishtayoga.com. *All pre-assigned reading is from Tantra of the Yoga Sutras by Alan Finger and Wendy Newton. Selections are meant to be read before the module for which they are assigned. You can purchase this book here!
The six modules in this course include:
Module 1: Yoga as Philosophy and Practice – The Cyclical Nature of the Four Padas, Sunday, May 19, 2024 1:00-5:00 pm, (Online). In the ancient world, yoga was understood as a philosophy that was also a practice – which is to say, a practice that gets us in touch with our metaphysical nature. The first module of the Tantra of the Yoga Sutras Specialty Training introduces some of the key concepts from the Sutras and offers a broad perspective on the cyclical nature of the four padas. This module helps students develop a solid platform that inspires the confidence to go deeper into the four padas and create a personal understanding of what the philosophy and practice of yoga really is. Module 1 is a pre-requisite if you are signing up for all six modules, or the full Tantra of the Yoga Sutras Course.
Module 2: Samadhi Pada – Gaining Facility with Shifting Our Perspective in Life, Sunday, June 16, 2024 1:00-5:00 pm, Online..
Module 3: Sadhana Pada – Getting Conscious of How We Meet Life’s Challenges, Sunday, July 21, 2024, 1:00-5:00 pm, Online
Module 4: Vibhuti Pada –The Power to Change How We Perceive and Engage in Life, September 22, 1 - 5 pm.
Module 5: Kaivalya Pada – Freedom to Find a New Way to Engage in Life, October 27, 1 - 5 pm.
Module 6: Full Cycle – (Re) Integrating the Yoga Sutras into Practice and Teaching, Fall/Winter 2024, Dates TBD.
This course can also be taken as part of the 300 Hour ISHTA Yoga Teacher Training.