The labyrinth circle of learning is supportive and collaborative in alignment with living that yoga ideals that’s not competitive but collaborative; not judgmental but open-minded.
While us yoga teachers do have to sustain ourselves as we all do with our choice livelihood, some are in a more enviable position. This is so great that I had to share – Click Here if you or anyone you know are interested in learning more about yoga, living yoga and giving back to the community … by teaching and spreading the ideals of yoga but cannot afford the high quality teacher training one must undergo for certification with Yoga Alliance, this is such an opportunity. I had no idea that there was such a scholarship… for someone to make a difference. Maybe a college student who has the passion but limited in funds; maybe those in the arts and music …
The Integral Health Fellowship (IHF) Program is an intensive 2-year program that awards need-based scholarships to participants with low-income, to become Certified Yoga Teachers through Niroga’s 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training. Fellows pay forward their scholarship by committing to teach 100-hours of yoga to underserved communities within one year of the completing the yoga teacher training.
While yoga has become more and more commercialized as reflected in the “business of yoga”, isn’t it refreshing that Niroga is really that Karma yoga put into practice. I am so proud to be part of this NPO as a student of yoga therapy, thereby having as teachers, not only the awesome founder, BK Bose, but …with teachers, each with the expertise in their specialization. So far in the last one year, we have covered:
Skeletal System
with Baxter Bell MD, RYT-500Ayurveda and Yoga
with Durga Leela RYT-500Muscular System
with Baxter Bell MD, RYT-500Cardiovascular System
with B.K. Bose, PhD, E-RYT 500 and Rosalind Lwin, CYTRespiratory System
with Saraswathi DeviEndocrine System
with Baxter Bell MD, RYT-500Nervous System
with Antonia Fokken LMFT, E-RYT 500Immune System
with Mitch Hall PhD, RYT-500Digestive System
with Baxter Bell MD, RYT-500
The above was last year and this year … the journey continues to focus on special population where yoga can and do make a marked difference for the better:
Aging Gracefully
with B.K. Bose, PhD, RYT-500 and Will Meecham MD, MATrauma Informed Yoga
with Antonia Fokken LMFT, E-RYT 500Prenatal and Postpartum
with Saraswathi DeviCancer and Yoga
with B.K. Bose, PhD, E-RYT-500 and Rosalind Lwin CYTYouth and Education
with Danielle Ancin RYT-500, Annika Hanson CYT, and Jonathan Relucio, RYTAddiction and Recovery
with Antonia Fokken LMFT, E-RYT 500Adaptive Yoga
with Saraswathi DeviYoga for Life Cycles: Puberty through Adulthood
with Miriam Shipp MD, MPH, CYT and Baxter Bell MD RYT-500Sports / Occupational Health
with Baxter Bell MD, RYT-500Chronic Pain
with Tianna Meriage-Reiter, PT, DPT, WHC and B.K. Bose, PhD, RYT-500
Obviously, with each of the module, we can spend a lifetime on that subject but just enough to make a difference as a yoga therapist, and that, is the intention.
I am full of gratitude for the opportunity to delve deeper with these studies.
