Empower, Instruct, Evolve: Become a Kalaripayattu Mentor
Overview
Develop the skills to teach yoga asana, gaining a solid grounding in the classical yogic tradition, at the same time deepen your spiritual connection to yoga and open yourself to profound inner transformation.The Teachers’ Training Course (TTC) is a four-week intensive residential course, based on the ancient gurukula system of India where teacher and student live together. You will be in a traditional Ashram and closely interact with our experienced and dedicated teachers and staff who themselves are immersed in the yogic lifestyle. Connect to an ancient teaching lineage (guru parampara), passed down from guru to disciple through thousands of years, the curriculum is extensive and covers both theory and practice. Devotional practices, traditional to India, are an integral part of the Course.In these four-weeks you will establish a firm foundation of discipline that promotes physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual growth while building a strong base from which to teach others naturally and with confidence.The Course was designed by Swami Vishnudevananda in 1969 with the vision to not only develop successful yoga professionals but to also spread peace in the world through them. A sincere desire to learn and openness to yogic techniques is required – a basic knowledge of yoga postures and philosophy is preferred, but not essential.
Date & Price
RESIDENT INDIAN NATIONAL RATES
Twin Share Room : INR 60,000
Single Room : INR 1,00,000
AC Single Room : INR 1,50,000
INTERNATIONAL RATES
Twin Share Room : USD 1200.96
Single Room : USD 1801.44
AC Single Room : USD 2401.92
Curriculam
Training Future Kalari Teachers: A Curriculum Rooted In Tradition And Discipline
The goal of the programme is to produce qualified and inspiring kalari teachers who are able to draw on their own practice and personal discipline in imparting the kalari experience to others. The curriculum is based on northern kalaripayattu teachings by E.P.Vasudevan Gurukkal and Swami Vishnudevananda, which can be understood as the practical application of thekalaripayattu and traditional four paths of yoga. The intensive daily schedule includes:
> Two satsangs > One kalari class > One asana classes > Two lectures > One hour of karma yoga
- One day a week is lecture-free
- Kalari vandhanam
- Kalari breathing techniques
- Kalari body strengthening techniques
- Kalri stretches
- Asanas
- The twelve basic postures in depth
- Practice of classical advanced variations
- Precise and detailed corrections
- Prolonged holding of the asanas
- Kalari vadivugal(animal postures)
- Deeper understanding of kalaripayattu and hatha yoga
- Pranayama
- Practice of kapalabhati
- Daily practice of anuloma viloma
- Guide to meditation
- What is meditation?
- Why meditate?
- Concentration and thought power
- Effects of and experiences in meditation
- Mantras
- Mantra initiation (optional)
- Yoga Anatomy and Physiology
- Introduction to the eight major body systems
- The effects of asanas and pranayama on the: cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive and skeletal and muscular systems
- Yoga and physical culture
- Yoga Nutrition
- Vegetarianism for physical, mental and spiritual health
- How diet affects the mind
- Principles of nutrition
- Healing effects of fasting
Teaching Practice
- How to teach the 12 basic postures and breathing exercises to beginners and intermediate students
- Setting up of a proper environment for class
- General pointers on teaching a class
- The Basic Atman kalari yoga class
- Beginners’ course
- Advanced postures
- Relaxation
- Detailed correction workshops
- In the second half of the training course, participants will teach each other under the guidance of an experienced instructor.
Hatha Yoga
- Ethical and moral principles Body, prana and mind, From control over the body to control over the mind and meditation
Karma Yoga
- Selfless service: one hour daily in the Ashram community. You will be asked to do various tasks within the Ashram setting necessary for the smooth running of the community. Karma yoga helps to reduce selfishness and egoism, essential for spiritual progress.
Schedule
- 5:20 am – Wake up
- 6:00 am – Satsang (group meditation, chanting and talk)
- 6:30 am – Kalari Payattu & Asana Session
- 8:00 am – Tea
- 10:00 am – Brunch (Indian vegetarian meal)
- 11:00 am – Karma Yoga (selfless service)
- 12:30 pm – Asana Coaching (Optional)
- 1:30 pm – Tea
- 2:00 pm- Lecture (talks on various yoga topics)
- 5:00 pm – Kalari & Asana Classes
- 6:30 pm – Dinner (Indian vegetarian meal)
- 8:00 pm – Satsang (group meditation, chanting and talk)
- 10:00 pm – Lights out
Attendance of the entire TTC daily schedule is mandatory.
One day a week is lecture-free.
Students enjoy occasional Indian cultural programmes that are offered during evening satsangs.
Practical Information
- Two sets of uniform and a TTC manual are provided as a part of the course material and are included in the course fee.
- Simple Indian vegetarian meals are provided at 10:00 am and 6:30 pm.
- Evaluation of students is on:
- Attendance
- Performance
- Theory during the course
- Final written exam
- A minimum combined score of 50% is required to pass.
- Unsuccessful students will have to repeat the entire course with cost to qualify for the certificate
Things to bring: Comfortable clothes, sandals, toiletries, personal items, meditation shawl for cool evenings, yoga asana mat, meditation cushion, notebooks, pens, black towels, sesame oil water bottle and torch.