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Yoga Instructor Module 3: Community

Entry dependent on successful completion of Instructor Module 2.

Instruct a wide range of practices from the Satyananda tradition with understanding and skill, including:

• Surya Namaskara
• A selection of classic asanas from Forward, Backward, Twisting and Inversion categories, including classic asana such as Paschimottanasana, Vipareet karani asana, Dhanurasana, Ardha matsyendrasana.
• Mantra including Aum chanting, Shanti mantras, three daily mantras.
• Longer and deeper meditation: principally Kaya Sthairyam, Ajapajapa and Antar Mouna.
• Deeper exploration of Nadi shodhana, introducing vitalising pranayamas kapalbhati, bhastrika, cooling pranayamas sheetali, sheetkari.
• Integrated anatomy and physiology for relevant practices including care in practice.
• Instructing to develop a personal sadhana and support resources.
  independent practice and learning.
• Instructing and adapting in different social contexts.
• Instructing shatkarmas, including neti, trataka, simple cleansing.
• Draw on Hatha Yoga, Raja Yoga and Karma Yoga approaches to yoga.
  Work with attitudes, themes, focus and peak practices in classes.
• Prepare general community level yoga courses from foundation to more progressive or more specific situations.
• Encourage regular practice and yoga as a way of life.
• Introduce and foster a field of community application of yoga (without being therapy), as a potential area for further development. Information and guest presenters provided, depending on the area of participant interest, on fields such as instructing yoga with: the elderly, children, in prisons, and/or drug and alcohol rehabilitation.

Upon successful completion the graduates will have the understanding and skills to instruct yoga appropriately, with adaptability and flexibility in a wide range of community situations.