Vajra Yoga + Meditation: 200 Hour Teacher Training
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 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.
Dates:
May 25-27, June 2/3, 9/10, 16/17, 23/24, 30 + July 1, 7/8, 14/15, 21/22, 28/29
Weekend hours are 10 AM to 5 PM, with 1 1/2 hour lunch break.
What the 200 hour Training offers: (there's an application at the bottom of the page)
Meditation
You will finish the training with an established and sustainable meditation practice. The practices you will 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. Breath will be your key to the sublte energetic or emotional body furthering your insights into your own mind.
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 and how interdependent the mind and body are. 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. How to move beyond projection into thoughtful understanding of someone else.
Compassion Practices
The development of compassion, and ways to contribute to your community, your self, your business, and family through compassionate, skillful action.
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.
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: $3200 before March 31, after March 31 $3300
Payment plans upon request
Teachers:
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.
Diana Slattery, OTR/L, RYT, is a certified yoga instructor through Yoga Alliance at the 500 hour level. She has also worked as an occupational therapist for over 15 years, specializing in the rehabilitation of adults with neurological deficits. An engaging speaker, Diana has provided lectures and workshops to several Occupational Therapy programs, including Dominican College, Mercy College, and The New York Institute of Technology. Her workshops often focus on integrating the best of western and eastern medicine to optimize health and healing. Diana fully embraces the powerful ways that we can impact our own physical and psychological wellbeing through the multi-layered gifts of yoga. She completed her training with Jill Satterfield’s Vajra Yoga Social Action Teacher Training in 2009. Through this program, she is working to bring the benefits of yoga and meditation into healthcare settings for those who suffer from chronic pain and illness. Her classes emphasize self reflection and compassion towards oneself to allow an intelligent and mindful deepening of our yoga practice.
Additional guest faculty to be announced
Vajra Yoga Teacher Training Application
Please cut and paste the questions below, and send to jill@vajrayoga.com
Name:
Address:
Cell Phone:
Home Phone:
Do you have a regular yoga posture practice? If so, how long have you practiced?
Do you have a meditation practice? If so, from what tradition?
Have you attended any silent retreats? Please list:
What is your current job? Or, if you are currently in school, where and what are you studying?
Are you on any medications ? If so, please list:
Have you had personal experience with:
Anxiety
Depression
Schizophrenia
Bi-polar disorder
PTSD
If so, please describe:
What population/s are you most interested in working with and why?
If you are interested in the training for yourself personally, not to teach, please say a little about that.
Please tell us a little more about yourself!
