Overview Intensives · Blissouts Workshops · Children's Yoga Teacher Training Workshop · Introduction Into Sanskrit Retreats · Yogic Studies Weekend · Clinical Issues in Teaching Meditation	Upcoming Intensives, Workshops and Retreats: Meditation Evenings – Blissout! "Bliss Out": A chance to sit for three hours in meditation. No Charge The real discipline of YOGA lies not in body movements, but in learning to observe the mind and getting out of the habit of identifying with the things the mind fancies. The route is through stillness meditation. You won’t know how good it is unless you try it!! Short breaks to stretch the muscles - and it’s ok to wriggle or adjust if you need to!! Forthcoming dates for Blissouts are · Friday 16^th September, 2011. 7.00 – 10.00pm Contact the College for bookings or further information about Blissout evenings
	Children’s Yoga Teacher Training Workshop Weekend Saturday 20^th – Sunday 21^st August, 2011 This workshop is designed to help Yoga teachers and trainees learn more about the unique aspects of delivering yoga programs to children, and manage working with children and their parents. Involvement in this two day workshop consists of: · Lecture style delivery of aspects of children’s development · Ways children learn and principles of teaching children · Practical participation in small group tasks and brainstorming complex scenarios · Developing class plans · Practice delivering sections of “yoga for children” classes. This workshop will be conducted by Judy Johnston and Liliana Bosancic, who both have a Diploma of Classical Yoga from ACCY. Judy brings over twenty year's experience in the field of Early Childhood Education as a teacher, lecturer and consultant. She currently delivers Parent Education programs across the Geelong and South West Coast, and runs Bellarine Classical Yoga Studio. Liliana is an ACCY graduate, and has several years experience teaching children's yoga. Yoga Teachers: This course Earns you 11 YTAA CPD points. When: 20^th-21^st August, 2011 Where: Waverley Yoga Studio, 6 The Highway, Mt. Waverley. How Much: $195. Deposit of $100 is required to secure your place. For bookings and further details, contact Robert on Ph: 03 9833 4050 Email: robert@classicalyoga.com.au
	Clinical Issues in Teaching Meditation Friday 2^nd – Sunday 4^th September, 2011 This weekend covers issues that are significant to the large number of professional people and ordinary meditators who take the approach that meditation is an adjunct health therapy. Many of the public who come to you will be of the same opinion, and, while you ought to be able to offer them the deeper understanding of Yoga – the proper understanding of meditation – nevertheless, it is beneficial to learn about the more clinical aspects of meditation, too. The weekend will be an in-depth study of physiological and psychological issues that meditation teachers may encounter. We will look at: · Ancient and modern approaches to meditation · What does “therapeutic mean in the context of meditation? · Who would/would not benefit from “meditation therapy”? · Biological and mental states in meditation · Stress response and relaxation response · Herbert Benson, measuring meditation · Cognitive factors in learning meditation · Therapeutic factors in teaching meditation · Mental disorders, screening clients, emergencies · How to find further research in clinical and therapeutic meditation, and understand the reports. The Clinical Issues in Teaching Meditation Workshop will be led by Swami Shantananda. Mataji has a long standing practice of still-mind meditation herself, and has been teaching meditation for over 20 years and training meditation teachers for over a decade. Mataji has qualifications in Psychology and postgraduate qualifications in Health Psychology. She has formerly been Secretary of the Shiva Meditation Centres, Founding Secretary of the Gawler Foundation, President of the Yoga Australia (formerly YTAA); she is a life member of that association and a member the Australian Association of Meditation Teachers, endorsed to teach Therapeutic, Personal and Spiritual Meditation This is a residential workshop, and will be held at Eldon Park Retreat, Tyabb (on the Mornington Peninsula). Yoga Teachers: YA CPD points apply. When: Friday 2^nd – Sunday 4^th September, 2011 Where: Eldon Park Retreat, Tyabb (Mornington Peninsula) How Much: $450. Deposit of $100 is required to secure your place. For bookings and further details, contact Robert on Ph: 03 9833 4050 Email: robert@classicalyoga.com.au
	Yogic Studies Weekend Friday 14^th – Sunday 16^th October, 2011 A weekend in Tyabb, on the Mornington Peninsula, to revise and deepen your understanding on asana, meditation and the Sutras. This retreat is fun, and challenging. A great revision for trainees and graduates, for teachers who want to brush up on their knowledge, or anyone interested in learning about Yoga and asana than is normally offered in a 'holiday' retreat. What is in this retreat for you? Meditation · Deep, extended meditation is the essential practice of non-dualist spirituality. The space that is at once the deepest spiritual state of the individual, and the space where individual functioning is optimised in many, many ways. Anatomy and Asana · During the weekend, you will be guided through the muscular system and the physiology of movement, always in relation to Asana. · Each day commences with a 2 hour yoga class, where we start with a guided focus on the skeletal system during a practice of Shavasana. Yoga Darshan · You will explore just how challenging the perspective of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras really is. · You will get an intensive insight into the radical point of the Sutras, and how the reasoning and progression of the Sutras supports the understanding to be gained. Swami Shantananda is the Spiritual Director of the Australian College of Classical Yoga. She is author of Path through the Yoga Sutras, and Eight Steps to Stillness, the Learn to Meditate Program at ACCY. Matharacarya Sally Dawson teaches the Asana and Anatomy program of the Australian College of Classical Yoga, and runs Waverley Yoga Studio. When: Friday 14^th – Sunday 16^th October, 2011. Where: Eldon Park Retreat, Tyabb. How Much: $330. A deposit of $00 is required.  Book now to secure your place! Contact the College for bookings or further information about the Yogic Studies Weekend
	Introduction To Sanskrit Saturday 29^th October, 2011 This is a fun day devoted to learning a little bit about the Sanskrit usually encountered in Yoga. You don't need to be a linguist, nor a Master Yogi – simply interested in knowing a little more behind the terminology used in Yoga and Asana! · Pronunciation of Asana names · An introduction into Sanskrit grammar (and why this matters). · Read and write a little in the Devanagari alphabet. · Try your hand at a little translation. · A little history of the language. When: Saturday 29^th October, 2011 Where: Australian College of Classical Yoga, 32 Jenner St Blackburn Sth. How Much: $75. For bookings and further details, contact Robert on Ph: 03 9833 4050 Email: robert@classicalyoga.com.au
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