ROD STRYKER
Yoga Sutra: Light on Self-Mastery - A ParaYoga® Master Training and Five-Day Intensive

LOCATION: Sammons Center for the Arts DATES: Tuesday, September 9 - Saturday, September 13, 2008

TWO WORKSHOP OPTIONS!

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Full Five Day Intensive
Teacher Training
DATES: September 9-13, 2008
TIMES: 9:00am - 6:00pm
Morning practice sessions: 9:00am – 12:00pm
Teacher training: 2:00pm – 6:00pm
EARLY REGISTRATION by 8/9/08: $625
REGULAR REGISTRATION: $695

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Morning Practice Sessions Only
ALL LEVELS WELCOME
DATES: September 9-13, 2008
TIMES: 9:00am - 12:00pm
REGISTRATION:
1 session: $55
2 sessions: $110
3 sessions: $150
4 sessions: $200
All five sessions: $225

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By illuminating the practices, challenges, purpose and potential of Yoga as a spiritual journey, the Sutras map the path to realizing life’s most precious treasures.

Man’s supreme potential unfolds in the state of Yoga. Yoga is the revelation of perfect clarity, limitless intelligence, lasting peace, and freedom in action. Yoga practice – culminating in the heights of wisdom and compassion – can be defined as those processes that enable us to become what in our heart of hearts we aspire to be. Written in 200 B.C., Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra is the singular text that illumines the path of Yoga more clearly and systematically than anything before or after.

The transcendent wisdom of the Sutras integrates the sciences of awakening body, mind, breath, soul, spirit, and creator. The word ‘Sutra’ means “thread.” The text is called the Yoga Sutra because it threads together all the diverse teachings of Yoga into a single body of knowledge. While the Sutras are intended to be practical, its scope and precision requires the guidance of the highest kind of teacher to reveal its subtle and hidden power. Study of the Sutras accelerates the journey of personal growth as it deepens understanding of the Divine potential of Yoga and life. By illuminating the practices, challenges, purpose and potential of Yoga as a spiritual journey, the Sutras map the path to realizing life’s most precious treasures.

This five-day practice and Teacher Training Intensive is open to all interested students, and is designed to enrich dedicated practitioners, aspiring teachers, or those already teaching. The training consists of two parts: Open Morning Practices and Afternoon Training Sessions.

WORKSHOP OVERVIEW
Morning practices are open to all dedicated practitioners (participation in the training is not required). These three-hour practices, led by Rod, are devoted to unfolding a particular teaching of the Yoga Sutras. Emphasizing direct experience, these sessions survey the most relevant and powerful themes of the Sutras by weaving together dynamic Asana, Vinyasa, Pranayama, and meditation practices.

Afternoon Training sessions are open to all interested students – teachers and non-teachers alike – who are registered for the full five day training program and wish to deepen their exploration through lectures, additional practices, and Q & A sessions. Our focus is to outline Yoga’s path toward self-mastery, and how Yoga can, if properly understood and practiced, remove those things that keep us from experiencing our highest aspirations. As a whole, the Training aims to exalt teachers and non-teachers alike by providing a vision to see oneself and one’s practice (and/or one’s students’ practice) with inspirational understanding, compassion, and crystal-like clarity.

Some topics we will cover include:
· The Effect of Correct Practice and its Aim
· Refinement of the Practices Outlined in the Sutras
· The Constituent Parts and Nature of Mind
· The Causes of Suffering and the Means to Reduce Them
· Pranayama and the Mind
· Patanjali’s Teaching on the Three Paths of Yoga (Mild, Medium and Intense)
· The Role of Faith in Affecting Practice
· Practices for Self-Reflection and Self-Inquiry
· The Different Aims of Particular Approaches to Meditation
· The Tantra of the Yoga Sutras
· Mysticism and Spirituality: Beyond the Psychology of the Yoga Sutras

Recommended Reading:
Four Chapters on Freedom by Swami Satyananda Saraswati

Materials:
The price of your registration includes your training manuals and will be provided to you on the first day of the event.

ABOUT ROD STRYKER
Rod Stryker is widely considered to be one of the pre-eminent yoga and mediation teachers in the United States. He is the founder of ParaYoga® and has taught Tantra, Meditation and Hatha yoga for more than twenty years. He is one of the few western teachers truly capable of articulating an authentic experience of the Tantra tradition. To learn more about Rod and ParaYoga, visit www.parayoga.com

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
For any additional questions on this or other events, please contact Living Yoga Dallas at 214-739-1605 or email info@livingyogadallas.com.

For more information on Rod, visit www.parayoga.com.

WHAT TO BRING:
A well rested and well hydrated body; an open mind, body and spirit.
Your own yoga mat, towel and props that you utilize in your practice.

Full day participants for teacher training are recommended to have several yoga blankets on hand. Also bring your own mat, a meditation cushion, pen and paper and anything that you utilize in your practice and study that will assist in making your participation comfortable and enjoyable.

Please bring your own bottled water.

LODGING:
There is no lodging or meals provided for this weekend. Visit our Resources section for hotel recommendations with special rates for Living Yoga Dallas workshop participants. The closest hotel is the Holiday Inn; however, all hotels recommended are within 5 miles of the venue.

LOCATION:
Sammons Center for the Arts
3630 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, Texas 75219
Phone: 214-520-7788

CERTIFICATES OF COMPLETION:
Certificate of completion is awarded based on attendance at all sessions and completion of all contact hours is mandatory. Certificates will only be issued on the basis of hours completed and offered at the close of the training. Certificates are not available for participation in the morning practice sessions only.

CANCELLATION POLICY:
Due to the nature of this teacher training event, special cancellation policies apply. Up to 30 days prior to the event, there will be a non refundable $100 cancellation fee and any balance remaining may ONLY be applied to a future ParaYoga/Rod Stryker event. Within 30 days of the event, no cancellations will be accepted. Refunds requested, due to emergency situations, less cancellation fees, will be addressed on a per case basis and subject to the discretion of the presenter. Click here to review our full event policies.