Kamini & Gurudev

From Kamini Desai
Director, Amrit Yoga Teacher Training

It is with great pleasure that we invite you to participate in the Level II Amrit Yoga Teacher Training. This program teaches you how to deliver powerful energetic breakthroughs to your students.

In Level II, the dynamic first half of the pose is held, purifying and stilling the mind and creating a very strong pranic buildup. When the prolonged holding is released, pranic impulses and urges emerge spontaneously and effortlessly - directing our movements from within. This allows us to follow the guidance coming directly from the voice of prana - eventually leading us to the experience of prana awakening where this intelligence fully guides the movements of the body while the mind takes a back seat. This is the state in which the ancient yogis originally experienced poses emerging from within in the forms we now know as Hatha Yoga. It is also the experience that Gurudev had in 1970 that led him to develop Kripalu Yoga and Amrit Yoga.

Kamini & Eric

Combined with his own personal knowledge, direct experience, and the power of the Kundalini lineage, Gurudev has developed a system that takes us step by step to the original core experience from which all postures originate- prana awakening. This system is laid out clearly and simply by myself, our co-director and anatomy expert, Eric Walrabenstein and Senior Instructor, Chandrakant (John Heister). The senior teachers will show you how to bring your own practice toward the awakening of prana as well as instruction, practice and discussion on the elements involved in bringing these ancient teachings into the world in a way that is practical and applicable - a natural evolution and continuation of Level I Amrit Yoga.

As a teacher and a practitioner, you know that many of us have practiced yoga for many years and yet have not received the guidance that can bring us to prana awakening. To have such guidance delivered in a clear, step-by-step, reproducible and teachable manner is a precious gift to be able to receive for yourself and to give to others. Don't miss this very special opportunity.

Jai Bhagwan,
Kamini

Testmonials

Before practicing Amrit Yoga Level II devoted a lot of time to ruminating about the past. I spent even more time projecting into the future. The present received virtually no attention. It took place absentmindedly, occasionally serving as an irritating reminder of what I had failed to achieve, or of how little time I had left to prepare for tomorrow. Enter sadhana-being present on the mat and to myself, the techniques of Amrit Yoga and an hour a day of focused practice.

My life began to change or, I should say, I began to change and my life followed suit. The past and the future have withdrawn from the stage of my awareness. I have begun to focus on life where it is happening - in the present. Everything has become simpler. I no longer waste time reworking the past. I let it stand. I spend less time worrying about the future. It has yet to take place, so why conjure up eventualities that may never occur? I now attend more to the present. What a difference that has made! I live with less stress. I listen better and the people around me are more appreciative. More important, I see and feel more. Life has become much richer than before.

Mason DeChocher

The Level II experience clearly consolidated all the teachings that I have been studying and working toward living since beginning my formal yogic journey seven years ago. I now recognize that my whole life has been teaching me to live the yogic path. I felt prior to the Level II that I was a pretty good teacher. I was, at times, able to live the yamas and niyamas. Now the experience of teaching and living is truly effortless-effort. Of course, the journey continues to be lived and practiced. So much more lies ahead. The enthusiasm for it continues to grow.

Frances LaValley

Graduation Ceremony

Level II training is available only to graduate of Level I Amrit Yoga Teacher Training.
Our 2005 Amrit Yoga Teacher Training Schedule

Please email modini@amrityoga.org to secure your reservation as space is limited.