Vibrant Living Yoga
Teacher Training and Intensive
200-hour Yoga Alliance certification course
with Daniel Aaron Horne
March 12 - April 9, 2006
Ubud, Bali |
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I've dedicated my life to awakening. Awareness of our incredible potential for happiness, and that we are naturally encoded with everything we need to realize it, has led me on amazing personal and professional explorations in the fields of health and consciousness. Yoga has been at the center and continues to delight me as vehicle for guiding others.
Wake up! That's the message of the yoga teacher. We wake ourselves first, we see the perfection in those who come to us and we offer all that we can to encourage them to realize their true Self. |
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Vibrant Living Yoga Teacher Training guides you to experience yourself free of false limitations and empowers you to assist others. Drawing on my extensive yoga practice and training (with dozens of modern masters), you will dive deeply into a spectrum of today's yogic styles, including jivamukti, astanga, iyengar and more. Discover how you share yoga by learning what's come before you. |
Yoga has remained a steady friend and tool, and my education has gone far beyond asana. Using ancient scripture and philosophy in a contemporary context we employ the best tools possible to experience the essence of yoga: meditation (accepting what is), nutrition (optional exquisite living foods), humor, music (live kirtan), guilt-free super chocolate, nature, chanting, kindness, cranio sacral/yogic anatomy. Exceptional experts contribute to your training as guest faculty (see this page again soon for photos and biographies). |
| Vibrant Living Yoga Teacher Training is suitable for any level of experience. Whether you are already teaching or about to begin, deepening skills, understanding, confidence and presence enables you to reach people more effectively through your authentic experience of yoga. Enhance every aspect of your life through a full yogic immersion inviting forth your greater potential. |
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"Daniel is a caring and dedicated yogi who has experienced the fullness of the teachings and brings that fullness to all those with whom he shares ." David Life, co-founder of Jivamukti Yoga, author, master teacher. |
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| Vibrant Living Yoga emerges from my intention to help students accept themselves fully and challenge their limitations. Mixing education, experience, creativity and spontaneity, we create classes that are eclectic, fun and inspiring. I thrive in Ubud, Bali , and offer workshops and retreats around the world. I am most grateful to Sharon Gannon, David Life, Tim Miller, Rodney Yee, Byron Katie, Dharma Mittra , David Garrigues, Paul Lowe, Richard Freeman, Pattabi Jois, Eckhart Tolle, Rod Stryker, Kofi Busia and so many more extraordinary teachers. |
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About Vibrant Living Yoga
My highest aim in sharing yoga is for students to accept themselves fully, to experience Samadhi - Self-realization, happiness and peace - and to acquire tools to access this state always.
As the saying goes 'the truth cannot be said.' It can, however, be heard. It's inherent in each of us. It's who we are. The essence of yoga is remembering who we are.
I create conditions where the truth might be heard through challenging asana (posture), vinyasa (breath and movement), spiritual insight, pranayama (breath exercise), meditation, music, and humor.
Yoga has remained a steady friend and tool, and I have gone far beyond asana. Using ancient scripture and philosophy in a contemporary context I employ the best tools possible. Drawing on my extensive yoga practice and training with dozens of modern masters (Iyengar, Ashtanga, Jivamukti, Bikram, Sivananda, Anusara, Kripalu), creativity and spontaneity, we create classes that are eclectic, fun and inspiring.
Curriculum
Techniques of Yoga - 102 hours
Kriya yoga, Pranayama, Teaching/practicing meditation, Sequencing, Restorative yoga and props, Surya Namaskar, standing poses, forward bends, twists, backbends, inversions, balances, Satsang, Chanting, Kirtan.
Teaching Methodology - 45 hours
Vibrant Living Yoga teaching method, adjustments and assists for Surya Namaskar, standing poses, forward bends, twists, backbends, inversions, balances and Savasana. Teaching privately and special needs including kids classes and pregnancy modifications.
Anatomy and Physiology - 20 hours
Basics of skeletal, muscular, respiratory, cardiovascular anatomy, injury and recovery, esoteric anatomy including chakras, nadis, prana, and bandha, anatomy of adjustments.
Yogic Scripture, Philosophy, Ethics, & Lifestyle - 43 hours
Basic yoga philosophy, Yoga Sutra of Patanjali, Bhagavad Gita, Hatha Yoga Pradipika, Advaita Vedanta/non-dualism, living in the now moment, Gunas, Awareness, Enlightenment, 3 kinds of teachers and students, the pitfalls and ethics of being a yoga teacher.
Group Practicum and Presentation Skills - 16 hours
Includes student teaching as well as observing and assisting in classes taught by others. Class transcriptions focusing on sequencing, theme, and music; teaching in small and large group setting to hone your skills. Yogic languaging skills and elocution. Neuro-Linguistic Programming for yoga teachers.
Sample Daily Schedule
This intensive course is four weeks total; each week includes five full days, one half-day, and one day off. The following is the basic schedule which varies slightly as benefits the group.
| 07:00am - 09:00am |
Vibrant Living Yoga Class |
| 09:00am - 10:00am |
Breakfast |
| 10:00am - 01:00pm |
Lecture, discussion, techniques. |
| 01:00pm - 03:00pm |
Lunch/Break |
| 03:00pm - 05:00pm |
Lecture, discussion, techniques. |
| 05:00pm - 06:30pm |
Techniques, practicum, asana. |
| 06:30pm - 08:00pm |
Dinner/Break |
| 08:00pm - 10:00pm |
Most evenings - Satsang and special activities
(guest lecture, film, kirtan) |
Guest Faculty
Your training includes exceptional experts in the following fields: Iyengar yoga, Astanga Vinyasa yoga, Yogic anatomy, chanting, Vedas and kirtan. Please check back often for updates.
 Govinda Kai
Govinda Kai, age 46, has been involved in Martial Arts, meditative disciplines and Yoga for over 20 years. His father Edward, who died when Govinda was 16 years old, was an accomplished martial artist, having earned his black belt in Judo and his fifth degree black belt in Aikido. From his father, Govinda inherited a deep, abiding interest in those practices that integrate mind, spirit and body development.
At age 18, Govinda Kai began to practice Zen meditation, Martial Arts and Yoga. While attending the University of California at Santa Cruz, where he was enrolled in the Environmental Studies program, he spent 2 years studying Tibetan Buddhism under the tutelage of Sogyal Rimpoche, the author of "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying".
In his 20s, he intensified his involvement in the practice of Aikido, practicing with some of the foremost Aikido instructors in the world (Kanai Sensai in Boston, MA, Shiba Sensai in Berkeley, CA and Yamaguchi Sensai in Tokyo, Japan). At age 31, Govinda began to devote himself solely to the practice of Yoga. He spent 2-3 years studying with senior Iyengar Yoga instructors (including Patricia Walden, Rodney Yee and Judith Lasater) at the Iyengar Yoga Institute in San Francisco, CA.
For the past 13 years, Govinda Kai has been involved full time with the practice of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga as taught by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois of Mysore, India. From 1995-2003, Govinda has visited Mysore 5 times with the duration of each visit lasting 4-6 months. He has also worked extensively with some of the most senior Ashtanga practitioners and teachers (including Richard Freeman, Tim Miller, Danny Paradise and Eddie Stem) attending numerous intensives and workshops. Additionally, Govinda owned and successfully operated a Real Estate Appraisal firm based in San Francisco, CA for 15 years. He retired from his business in 1996 to devote himself fully to teaching and practicing Yoga. He has taught Ashtanga Yoga at several of San Francisco's main yoga studios and has lead numerous workshops. He currently holds the position teaching Ashtanga Yoga at Patanjali Yoga Shala in New York City. Govinda was featured in the 2002 Yoga Journal calendar.
Chris Kummer
 Chris combines his long-standing passion for yoga with a professional interest in health and healing, into a hands-on, practical exploration of the necessary elements of anatomy and physiology for yoga teachers.
Being an experienced yoga teacher himself, Chris is continually exploring further aspects of the mind-body-spirit connection to present to his students into a dynamic and fun and easily digestible format. In addition to his naturopathic practice specializing in soft tissue positioning and alignment in Australia, he has been sharing nationally and internationally with yoga teacher trainees on yoga and movement related anatomy and physiology since 2000.
 Patrick Oancia
Originally from Montreal, Canada, Patrick Oancia has been practicing raja yoga since 1997. Patrick is the director and head teacher of YogaJaya, Tokyo.
He has studied various hatha yoga asana traditions including Ashtanga, Iyengar, and Sivananda. He has had in-depth study in yoga, Indian, Taoist, Sufi and Buddhist philosophy. Patrick has studied with yoga teachers including Josi Vallicherry, Lance Schuler, Louisa Sear, Rachel Hull, David Muehsam, Rajay Mahtani, Francois Chaillou, Emil Wendel, and Danny Paradise.
Patrick has been based in Tokyo for 17 years. He spent many years as a performing guitar player, singer/songwriter in alternative rock bands in Tokyo and abroad. He is still active in music production, performance, composition and DJ-ing, as well as pursuing interests in interior, graphic, and furniture design.
He has developed a dynamic variety of teaching styles to cater to people interested in all of the levels of yoga. He includes an eclectic mixture of asana, pranayama, meditation, yoga philosophy, and self-inquiry to offer a balanced look at how yoga can be utilized to tap into self-realization. He integrates a modern contemporary look at how yoga is not just a physical discipline, but also a fully experiential lifestyle. In addition to the yoga that Patrick teaches he also personally maintains a regular daily yoga practice as a central element in his own continuing growth. He sees teaching yoga primarily as a pleasure of sharing a profound knowledge.
Solomon O'Thello
 Born in New Zealand in 1969 whilst my parents were travelling and living by horse & cart. Upon meeting with Vishnu devotees, Vaishnavas, at the age of 9, Solomon travelled to India alone to attend Gurukula in Vrndavan, UP. There he entered a Vaishnava Ashrama in which he found himself studying Sanskrit, reading Bhagavata Gita, rising before the sun every morning to attend temples for Kirtana, lectures and meditations, and living an Ayurvedic lifestyle. The food was pure vegetarian and it was in these temples where he first started grinding masalas on stone and preparing dishes for the various deities that were worshiped in the temples. After two years of Gurukula in Vrndavan he traveled to Calcutta to attend a Gurukula in Mayapur, Bengal, and continued to cook with great Matajis.
He returned to Australia, graduated from high school and after four years in Europe returned home to help establish the family software business. In 2000 he began catering for Yoga Retreats, Health Resorts and vegetarian cafés in Byron Bay, including Gunnabah, Uki Dreaming and New Govardhana. He was also involved with catering for music and folk festivals, The Australian Vegan Society and other private clients with various retreats.
In 2004 he returned to the Sunshine Coast to live on the family farm and prepared meals at the local Buddhist Studies Instititute, Chenrezig, in Eudlo for the year. Having been introduced to Raw Food, Solomon now serves as chef at the Fountainhead Organic Health Spa, conducting Raw Food Preparation, and Ayurvedic cooking classes on a weekly basis.
It is through openness to new opportunities, new people and new ideas that Solomon finds great inspiration and different perspectives to life and cooking.
 Sky
Originally trained in the Sivananda Yoga tradition, Sky draws from a broad range of traditional yogic wisdom. He has been a devoted student of Yoga, Ayurveda, healing and meditation for over 15 years and has been blessed with the opportunity to live and study with many great teachers in different traditions. He currently teaches in Canada, Sweden, Bali and Thailand where he invites students of all backgrounds to develop a deeper sensitivity to their bodies and minds while opening up to their greater potential. As a teacher and world traveler, he has introduced thousands to the practice and philosophy of yoga as a way of life.
Swami Vagishananda Saraswati
 Swamiji is a senior disciple of Swami Dayananda Saraswati and has been studying and teaching Vedanta and Vedic chanting for the past 25 years.
Fascinated with mystical poetry and non-dual philosophies, he was accepted to a course of study with Swami Dayananda at the age of 19, after which he went to India. He graduated from an intensive three-year residential course in Vedanta Sanskrit and Vedic chanting. Under Swami Paramarthananda, a fellow student and master of Vedic chanting, he studied and practiced Sri Rudra Prasnam (the most exalted Vedic prayer) and the main Vedic Suktas Mantras and Upanishads in the traditional manner. Later, while living and teaching in a Hindu temple in Flint, Michigan, he was blessed with daily private classes in Sanskrit phonetics and advanced chanting for two years under the renowned Vedic pundit Ganapathigal Ravichandran Ayar. Perfecting the South Indian Krsna Yajur Vedic style of his Guru, he was given formal permission to teach all that he had learned. He was a staff member in the four subsequent three-year courses, taught by Swami Dayananda in the United States and India, in which he taught Vedic chanting to the resident students.
Swamiji now travels extensively and conducts many Retreats and Vedanta classes in the United States, Canada, England, Australia, Thailand, Indonesia, and Brazil. He is a master of the Sanskrit language and an accomplished teacher of Vedanta in the traditional methodology called Sampradaaya. He has imbibed and assimilated many qualities of his Revered Guru, which manifest in his person and reflect in his teaching style.
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Bali
The island of the gods, Bali and her people is a culture Yoga International magazine describes as 'living yoga.' Spirituality, harmony with nature, peacefulness - these elements embody the Balinese way of life. Ubud, an artist's Mecca , is the cultural heart of Bali . Embedded in rice terraces, temples and powerful energy, at a slight elevation so cooler than the nearby coastal heat, Ubud's climate has turned it into the perfect yogic destination.
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Anahata Resort
Anahata Villas and Spa Resort is a luxurious retreat for mind, body and soul, located minutes from Ubud, perched amidst luscious tropical forests overlooking the Petanu River . Anahata, the Sanskrit word for the heart chakra, love, compassion and harmony, elegantly combines modern design, traditional Balinese architecture and tropical paradise. Each villas houses three distinct bedrooms, a communal living area and private plunge pool facing scenic natural vistas.
Please see www.AnahataResort.com |
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About Gourmet Living Foods
I choose living food to enhance my life. For most of us, what we eat affects how we feel. Happily I've discovered that the healthiest food is also the best tasting. I eat the best food ever - yummy, vibrant, strong - just in case we are what we eat . |
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Vibrant Living Yoga Teacher Training offers you the option of a month of gourmet, high vibration live food. Delicious cooked vegetarian food will also be available.
Fresh daily coconuts, tropical fruits, organic salads and raw chocolate is the ideal nourishment for the yogic lifestyle. |
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| For more information about the benefits of raw food, please see www.rawfood.com. |
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Prerequisite Reading and Reports
Read the three books listed below prior to the teacher training and prepare a written evaluation (3 total) on your personal impression of each, the most valuable component for you and an elaboration on how this material could be useful as a yoga teacher. Send reports (1000 words, Microsoft Word document) to ytt@radiantlyalive.com , due by March 1st, 2006.
1. Jivamukti Yoga, by Sharon Gannon and David Life
2. The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice, by T. K. V. Desikachar
3. Loving What Is, by Byron Katie
Optional reading:
4. Autobiography of a Yogi, by Paramhansa Yogananda
5. Diet for a New America, by John Robbins
6. The Sunfood Diet Success System or Eating for Beauty, by David Wolfe
7. Power versus Force, by David Hawkins
8. Yoga: The Spirit and Practice of Moving Into Stillness, by Erich Schiffmann
9. Hathayogapradipika, The Bihar School of Yoga
10. Light on Yoga, by BKS Iyengar
11. Textbook of Yoga Psychology, R. Mishra, Brahmananda Sarasvati
12. other versions of Patanjali's Yoga Sutra
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Investment
Fees includes tuition for Vibrant Living Yoga 200 hour Teacher Training, luxurious accommodations at Anahata Villas and Resort for the duration of the training (4 weeks) with all accompanying gourmet, nutritious meals during the training, airport transfer, local transportation to and from scheduled activities. (Does not include travel to and from Bali, and optional activities). |
$3500 Villa Room
Superior first floor room with private bathroom (single supplement $400)
$3900 Luxury Room
Top floor master room with king bed and private bathroom (single supplement $600)
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Registration
Space is limited, so please register early:
- Download an application here or contact Gabrielle at ytt@radiantlyalive.com or +62 81 338 042 536.
- Upon returning your completed application along with a $500 non-refundable deposit, your space for the training will be reserved and you will receive a comprehensive information packet.
- Payment in full is due by March 1, 2006. We offer discounted tuition for early registration (see application for details).
Payment
Options:
- Safe and secure online payments through Paypal with a major credit card. It is a simple, easy and Paypal will accept your own currency. Please click below and follow the instructions provided. Please include a 3% service charge in your payment.
- If you wish to pay by direct bank transfer to US bank account, please email or call and we'll provide the bank details.
- Include your credit card information on the registration form as indicated, and send or fax to Gabrielle.
- To pay by credit card or cash in Bali (including 5% service charge), please call Gabrielle.
Limited scholarship funds are available for students with financial needs. If you wish to apply for financial aid, please send us a letter describing your current work and living arrangements, financial constraints and your request (installments, financial aid, exchange etc.).
Travel and Visa Information
Bali's International Airport is located in Denpasar. Airport transfer between Ngurah Rai International, Bali's major airport in Denpasar, and Anahata Resort will be provided.
Indonesia has recently introduced new regulations with regard to visas, limiting tourist visas to 30 days. A visa fee is payable upon entry to Bali for most countries, however make your own inquiries about the visa requirements applicable to your nationality, as some passports are not permitted a visa on entry and must be organized at your embassy prior to coming. For information about visas, please see Bali Spirit's Travel and Visa Information Section or contact your embassy.
Please check your passport expiration date as you must have six months validity remaining on your passport from the date of your return from Bali.
If you have any questions related to visas or assistance in finding economical air travel, please contact us via phone or email.
Contact us:
Gabrielle by phone +62 (0) 81 338 042 536
or at ytt@radiantlyalive.com
• Downloadable Poster (PDF file)
• Download an application here
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