Program
Outline
Yogi Desai is an internationally renowned yoga master and author
in the field of yoga and holistic living. He began teaching yoga in
1960 and is one of the earliest pioneers of yoga in America. He has
been honored by several prestigious organizations for his historic
contribution to yoga. Soon after a profound awakening, Yogi Desai
developed a spiritual dimension to the practice of yoga postures and
named it Kripalu Yoga: Meditation in Motion, in honor of his guru.
Today, the methodology he developed is taught and practiced by his
students worldwide. He continues to develop and teach his
experiential approach in the form of Amrit Yoga. Yogi Desai has an
extensive background in designing courses and training teachers, and
today thousands of teachers worldwide are certified in the
methodology he developed. A prolific author, some of his books
include Amrit Yoga and Expand and Experience the Spiritual
Depth of Yoga. This is a rare opportunity to learn directly from
a world-renowned yoga master.
PROGRAM
OUTLINE
All of Yogi Desai’s lectures complement and reinforce the
authentic principles of the morning yoga practice offered onboard
the ship. Each session includes chanting and a guided meditation
experience.
Workshop 1: Yoga For Everyone on All
Levels of Body and Being
Painful transition periods,
relationships and crises can become opportunities and openings for
personal transformation. Amrit Yoga empowers you with powerful
techniques to release physical stress, emotional fatigue and mental
restlessness. When you change one thing in your life, everything
else stays the same. When you change, everything changes in your
life.
- Explore the ancient yogic teachings that will empower you to
face the challenges you encounter in your personal and business
life.
- Learn conscious interaction to dismantle the self-defeating
impact of your emotional reactions.
- Experience guided mantra meditation and relaxation.
Workshop 2: Searching for the Ecstasy of
Love - Discover the Secrets of
Relationships
Regardless of how you are enchanted by
the love you seek from another, it invariably comes with silent
demands and dependency that diminish your ability to love and
ultimately turn the relationship into conflict.
- Explore the yogic approach to the mysterious dimension of
love.
- Learn the art of communication that resolves conflict and
works every time, everywhere and with everyone that you encounter.
- Learn a revolutionary approach to restore harmony and regain
peace in your intimate relationships: love life, family life and
professional life.
Workshop 3: Food for the Body; Food for
the Soul
Food is one of the biggest challenges you
face in dealing with your health.
Food that you feed your body is often infused with emotions and
fears that introduce more toxins than the body can clear. When your
energy is consumed in dealing with these excess toxins introduced
through food and your emotions around it, your energy is not
available for the healing that your body desperately needs.
- Learn how to maintain radiant health, vitality and prevent
premature aging through the conscious practice of diet and yoga.
- Learn how to face life’s challenges in a non-reactive way that
will free you from the emotional component affecting your health
issues around food.
Workshop 4: The Interrelationship Between
Stress and Yoga Nidra
Doctors and researchers
recognize that stress is at the core of most physical, mental and
emotional health issues we face today. The ultimate solution to all
stress related illnesses is to learn how to restore the balance
between the body, mind, heart and soul. Yoga Nidra extends
relaxation to its ultimate levels, penetrating and dissolving mental
and emotional blocks and imbalances. This releases trapped energies
that facilitate regenerative, self-healing processes of the body at
their optimal levels.
- You will be guided into an experience of breathwork as a
powerful medium for submerging the mind into subtle levels of
tranquility, stillness and peace.
Practice: Experience being Undivided,
Integrated and Whole, Experience Yoga Nidra! $50 per
person
The practice of Yoga Nidra takes you
effortlessly into deeper states of relaxation than most people are
able to achieve after long years of meditation.
When you are submerged in the slower alpha brain waves your whole
body and being merge into the deepest state of tranquility and
stillness. Here, you tap into the source of all regenerative
energies that eliminates stress and self-defeating habit patterns
undermining your health and peace of mind.
In Yoga Nidra you:
- Connect with your higher self and all prayers and affirmations
are actualized with effortless ease.
- Stimulate the hormone melatonin which is known to: Reduce
stress and induce restful sleep Accelerate healing and prevent
premature aging Strengthen immune system and reduce high blood
pressure.
This workshop gives
insight into the core spiritual principals of Yoga Nidra along with
the direct experience of entering the deepest levels of relaxation.
Yoga Nidra, or yogic sleep, is one of the least explored esoteric
practices. This is a simple practice, yet profound in impact. It is
a non-linear and non-logical direct approach. It ignites the fire
that burns the old karmic patterns that are built into our biology
and psychology.
Yoga Nidra is the unique
combination of alert awareness and deep relaxation. It takes you to
the alpha-theta state of consciousness, which ordinarily happens
between waking consciousness and sleep. The normally hidden
integrative powers of the subconscious are activated and awakened at
the Ajna chakra. Here you have access to the extraordinary abilities
of your own intuition, creativity, health and abundance. This is the
center where intention and visions become reality.
Ancient yogis used Third
Eye meditation to release the mystical powers of Ajna chakra.
Science is rediscovering what yogi's have known for millennia. New
research is exploring the therapeutic impact of the pineal gland
hormone, melatonin, which is reactivated by focusing on the Third
Eye. Yogis called it amrita, the nectar of immortality, which
takes you into the timeless transcendent state of unity. Scientific
studies confirm that melatonin is a compelling agent in helping
to:
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Retard premature aging.
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Boost the immune
system.
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Eliminate stress
patterns.
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Induce more
restful sleep.
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Reduce high
blood pressure.
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Reverse
degenerative processes.
Yoga Nidra initiates the shifts from the deepest core
of your being, providing you with powerful tools to banish
self-destructive unconscious fears, beliefs and habits. It can be
used to banish old unconscious karmic patterns. The practice of Yoga
Nidra helps you to reshape your entire life. You can use it to rebuild
your health, love life, family life, and professional
life.
For more details on Amrit Yoga and Yoga Nidra,
please visit www.amrityoga.org.
