Advanced Training Module: Waves and Stillness

Restorative Yoga Training

WAVES AND STILLNESS

with Tatjana Mesar and Karmen Mihalinec

17th – 21nd June, 2024

at Somatische Akademie, Paul-Lincke-Ufer 30, 10999 Berlin – Kreuzberg

This advanced Yoga and Buddhist studies module is a part of our 300-hour yoga teacher training. Prerequisite for applying is a completion of any Yoga Alliance certified 200-hour training.  If you have completed your training outside of our school, you are also required to take a self-paced Bridge Program – learn more.

Daily sample schedule

08:30 – 9:30 Eight Movements of Chan + Sitting Meditation

9:30 – 10:00  Breakfast Break

10:00 – 12:00 Training sessions with Tatjana

12:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 – 17:00 Advanced Lectures in Buddhism with Karmen, includes a tea break

Mornings until after breakfast are in silence.

Training Sessions

with Tatjana Mesar, lead teacher in Dynamic Mindfulness school

Dynamic Mindfulness Restorative Flow 

  • Introduction to Autonomic Nervous System
  • Restorative Flow General Guidelines
  • Template Structure of a Session

Virya Paramita in Dynamic Mindfulness Yoga

  • Leadership skills and being process oriented 
  • Nitty gritty stuff of making a living 
  • Presentation of Personal Projects

Advanced Lectures in Buddhism

with Karmen Mihalinec, teacher and director of the Chan Center Hartovski Vrh in Croatia

  • The Essence of Buddhadharma – The 3 Dharma Seals, or the 3 Qualities of All Things 
  • Perspectives on Mindfulness – from the Sattipatana Sutta to Harvard Medical School
  • Buddhist Theory of Mind: 5 Skandhas, Consciousness, and Karma
  • The Four Sublime Abodes (Brahma-Viharas)
  • Chan school of Buddhism – Simplifying and Synthesizing

Required reading for this module:

Sheng Yen: Things Pertaining to Bodhi, The Thirty-seven Aids to Enlightenment

adrienne maree brown: Pleasure Activism

Further readings:

Sonya Renee Taylor: The Body is Not an Apology

Jenny Odell: How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

Carl Cederström and André Spicer: The Wellness Syndrome

Tuition

Early Bird Special Price: 1099 €

fully booked

Available for first 3 applicants who pay the full tuition. Application deposit of 300 € is included in this price.

Full Tuition: 1399 €

3 more spots available!

Application deposit of 300 € is included in this price. Remaining tuition is due four weeks prior to the start date of the training.

Payment plans: available upon request

*Tuition does not include reading materials, lodging and travel costs to Berlin.

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