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2012 RETREATS AT KAOMAILANNA RESORT
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Retreats designed to give a profound experience
of yoga - and enough time to integrate, reflect,
and connect with like-minded friends on the path.
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THE RETREAT PACKAGE
- 100 hours of Anusara Yoga Teacher Training
- 14 nights at Kaomai Lanna Boutique Resort
- Vegetarian food - breakfast, lunch, dinners
- One 60 min Thai massage treatment
- Transportation to Chiang Mai some evenings
- Full use of swimming pool and resort facilities
We will try to match you with a suitable room mate if you are coming by yourself and would like to share a room.
TEACHING TEAM
JONAS WESTRING, originally Swedish with many years in the USA and Asia, began his yoga journey in 1981 at the Scandinavian Yoga School and hasn’t stopped since. He is the founder of Shantaya Yoga & Bodywork School, certified Anusara® yoga instructor, licensed physiotherapist (PT), E-RYT 500 and has three decades experience in a multitude of yoga styles, therapies and healing modalities. He has also been a pioneer in spreading therapeutic bodywork through his Thai Yoga Certification program in the USA and elsewhere over the past 13 years.
With an extensive background in traditions from both East and West, combined with a lifelong spirit for adventure, travel and personal inquiry, Jonas joyfully transmits the essence of yoga with insight, clarity, and joy. Continually he shares his passions around the world with a full international teaching schedule. Residing in Chiang Mai, Thailand, during the winter time and travels throughout the summer period – Jonas enjoys the blessings of the nomadic yogic lifestyle.
AMY REED is a de voted and enthusiastic student and teacher of Yoga. A Certified Anusara Yoga Teacher, Amy has spent the last 10 years steeped in the teachings of Tantric Yoga, studying Rajanaka Tantra with Dr. Douglas Brooks, Neelakantha Meditation with Paul Muller-Ortega and Anusara Yoga with founder, John Friend.
Amy grew up in a spiritually diverse household with a Quaker mother, Buddhist father, and Presbyterian grandmother. From this foundation she was compelled to study a wide variety of spiritual traditions at a young age, including Yoga and meditation. Throughout her teenage years she explored Iyengar and Ashtanga Vinyasa and Kundalini Yoga styles. These practices were so familiar and yet so profound – they took Amy deep into her own Heart and she knew from inside that one day she would teach yoga.
Through her teaching, Amy weaves the life-affirming & practical teachings of Tantric philosophy with the supremely elegant system of Anusara Yoga. She teaches from her everyday experience with personal insights and humor in an authentic offering straight from her Heart. She is known for her clear and precise alignment instruction and therapeutic knowledge as well as for her sweetness and enthusiasm. It is her highest intention to serve each student in the recognition of her own innate goodness and freedom and to use this individual awakening to serve in the celebration and enhancement of all Life.
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REGISTER EARLY TO GUARANTEE YOUR CHOICE!
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1998-2011 | jonas westring/shantaya.org
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TEACHER TRAINING IN CHIANG MAI, THAILAND
100-HOUR "ART OF TEACHING PROGRAM"
December 1-15, 2012
JONAS WESTRING & AMY REED
SHANTAYA YOGA SCHOOL offers an inspiring and comprehensive 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training program based in the elegant methodology of Anusara Yoga. As an alternative to the many short-term intensive yoga teacher trainings, this training provides enough time to assimilate and digest all the information needed to become an effective and skillful teacher.
By giving the teacher trainee time to be a student first, the foundation to teach from a place of clarity and authenticity is established. This is followed by an in depth study of the art and science of teaching yoga which is the gateway to powerful and successful teaching. We welcome students from all walks of life.
This program will provide those who have never taught yoga before with clarity, confidence and a solid foundation to get started. For those who are already teaching there will be ample opportunity to deepen and refine their skills to the next level of potency. All students of this program will be empowered to flourish and find their unique voice and gifts as a teacher while learning to communicate the life-affirming methodology of Anusara Yoga.
IMMERSION PROGRAM + ART OF TEACHING PROGRAM =
200-HOUR ANUSARA YOGA TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAM
As the Immersion Program curriculum provide the basis for Anusara Yoga it also counts as the first half af the 200-hour Anusara Yoga Teacher Training Program.
PHASE 1: IMMERSION PROGRAM - 100 HOURS
The unique, in-depth Immersion Program designed by John Friend offers a full exploration of the technical aspect of yoga asana biomechanics, as well as yoga philosophy, meditation and pranayama. It covers all Anusara fundamentals while deepening any beginner-to-advanced yoga students understanding and experience of yoga through the lens of their own practice.
PHASE 2: ART OF TEACHING PROGRAM – 100 HOURS
The Art of Teaching Program explores the essential Anusara teaching methodologies that enable participants to effectively share the gift of yoga with others. For those new to teaching, it will create clarity and confidence to launch your teaching. For those already teaching yoga it will help attune, re-inspire, and refine yoga teaching to a high degree.The Teacher Training addresses all essential aspects of the yoga teaching profession including: teaching methodology; organization; class planning; heart themes; language; practice teaching; sequencing strategies, observation, adjustments, demonstration and taking the honorable seat of a yoga teacher. Here students will be guided and mentored through the specifics of how the Anusara method is a powerful vehicle to support and guide the process of transform both on and off the mat.
Pre-requisites: To enroll in Phase 2 you need to have completed the Anusara Immersion Program, or equivalent Anusara studies. Check with the instructors.
CERTIFICATIONS
Those who complete the 100-hour Immersion Program and the 100-hour Art of Teaching Program with Shantaya Yoga School can register with the Yoga Alliance as an RYT-200 (Registered Yoga Teacher at the 200-hour level).
Also, those who become certified as Anusara-Inspired can register with the Yoga Alliance. Please check with Anusara Yoga for the specific requirements for Anusara Certification (Anusara-Inspired and Anusara Certified).
THE RESORT
Kaomailanna Boutique Resort rests on 20 acres of natural land that hold 18 former tobacco curing barns, converted into 36 guest rooms. Outside you'll see old red-brick walls, step inside and you have entered a new world of guestrooms decorated in Thai contemporary style. Yoga space, conference rooms, restaurant, swimming pool and Spa.
RETREAT SCHEDULE
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6:30-7:30
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9:00-12:00
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3:00-5:00
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7:00-9:00
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arrival day: after 1 pm
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register
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DINNER
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SAT
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SUN
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PM 2
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MON
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MED 3
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AM 3
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FREE* & CHIANG MAI TRANSPORT
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TUE
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MED 4
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PM 3
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DINNER
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WED
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MED 5
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THU
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PM 5
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FRI
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FREE* & CHIANG MAI TRANSPORT
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SAT
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DINNER |
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SUN
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PM 7
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MON
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PM 8
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TUE
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AM 11
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FREE* & CHIANG MAI TRANSPORT
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WED
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THU
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FRI
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departure day: after 1 pm
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SAT
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For completion all sessions are manditory:
Meditation & Pranayama (x14)
AM session (x14)
PM session (x10)
Evenings session (x11)
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FOOD
Breakfast buffet is served from 7-8. At 12 noon a Thai style vegetarian lunch buffet is served. Dinner will be served most evenings and some are free to make individual dinner choices either locally or in Chiang Mai.
Fresh, delicious, nutritious Thai coconuts will be available for purchase.
TRANSPORTATION
A prepaid taxi from Chiang Mai airport to Kaomailanna Resort is 470 THB and from the city a taxi will cost 400-500 THB.
For those already in Chiang Mai (or on a budget) local transportation (yellow pick-up trucks = Song-Taews) that function like buses are available. They only operate during daylight and leave outside Chiang Mai gate at the beginning of Wui Lai Road (Saturday night walking street). Make sure it's bound for Chom Tong (city past the resort) and get off exactly at Kilometer Marker 29 (located right on the resort itself). The ride is 20 THB.
FOR YOGA PRACTICE
Bring your own yoga mat! We provide sitting cusions, blankets, belts and blocks.
SWIMMING POOL
The resort has a beautiful, spacious pool - bring a bathing suit.
CLIMATE
Thailand is always warm, regardless of time of year - and during our retreat time we are likely to be enjoying the monsoon season, however global weather patterns havs shown some unpredictable rhythms.
INTERNET
Internet access (and WiFi) is available at the resort for 200 THB/week.
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