Price
Individual Module Price: $100 Early Bird | $120 Regular Rate.
Special pricing for Acharya + ISHTA Members.
Location
In-studio + Online
Free Information Session, May 1 at 12:30 pm (online) with Wendy! Sign up here.
This six module course provides an empowering platform for students to approach and digest the Yoga Sutras from the perspective of Tantra. We will read, practice, and integrate some of yoga’s most foundational wisdom and begin to understand how it affects us in our lives as practitioners and teachers.
Wendy spent six years working closely with Alan Finger on Tantra of the Yoga Sutras, an interpretation of the Yoga Sutras that is accessible to contemporary practitioners of yoga and resonant resonant with the tantric underpinnings of ISHTA Yoga. The new Tantra of the Yoga Sutras course will be offered in six modules.
Each module will include:
A brief historical context that orients students to reading the Sutras from the perspective of Tantra
A somatic yoga, pranayama, and kriya practice to tune the body-mind to listen “beyond the mind”
A lecture on pre-assigned topics from the Sutras
An in-class reading/writing/reflecting exercise
Discussion that empowers practitioners to trust personal insight
Module 1 - Yoga as Philosophy and Practice – The Cyclical Nature of the Four Padas, Sunday May 19
In the ancient world, yoga was understood as a philosophy that was also a practice – which is to say, a practice that gets us in touch with our metaphysical nature. The first module of the Tantra of the Yoga Sutras Specialty Training introduces some of the key concepts from the Sutras and offers a broad perspective on the cyclical nature of the four padas. This module helps students develop a solid platform that inspires the confidence to go deeper into the four padas and create a personal understanding of what the philosophy and practice of yoga really is. Module 1 is a pre-requisite to the full Tantra of the Yoga Sutras Course.
The six modules in this course include:
Module 1: Yoga as Philosophy and Practice – The Cyclical Nature of the Four Padas, Sunday, May 19, 2024 1:00-5:00 pm, Hybrid (In Studio and Online).
Module 2: Samadhi Pada – Gaining Facility with Shifting Our Perspective in Life, Sunday, June 16, 2024 1:00-5:00 pm, Hybrid (In Studio and Online).
Module 3: Sadhana Pada – Getting Conscious of How We Meet Life’s Challenges, Sunday, July 21, 2024, 1:00-5:00 pm, Hybrid (In Studio and Online).
Module 4: Vibhuti Pada – Changing How We Perceive Life’s Experiences, Fall/Winter 2024, Dates TBD.
Module 5: Kaivalya Pada – Freedom to Find a New Way to Engage in Life, Fall/Winter 2024, Dates TBD.
Module 6: Full Cycle – (Re) Integrating the Yoga Sutras into Practice and Teaching, Fall/Winter 2024, Dates TBD.
*All pre-assigned reading is from Tantra of the Yoga Sutras by Alan Finger and Wendy Newton. Selections are meant to be read before the module for which they are assigned.
Registration for Modules 2 + 3 opening soon! This course can also be taken as part of the 300 Hour ISHTA Yoga Teacher Training.