Besides conducting Yoga Teacher Training Courses in various parts of the world, we have long time ago introduced Corporate Yoga Training programs in India, and it has been a great experience. We have introduced new methodology of training the employees by integrating modern activities and the concept of Multiple Intelligence and Experiential Learning . These activities have been developed by The Yoga Institute of Santacruz and tested with thousand of students . They are used for bringing about more body awareness and control, concentration, relaxation and make it easier the understanding of the Yoga Philosophy – through conceptual games. All that, of course, along with traditional yoga asanas, pranayamas, kriyas and meditation . Our aim is to use all this technology to give a broader perspective to physical and mental fitness, taking in consideration of the modern day set-up of an office environment and functioning. ...
Yoga Education - Part 1 Yoga Education - Part 1 The ultimate purpose of pedagogy, the science of teaching, is the attainment of human maturity. It is this that distinguishes this art from other disciplines, distinctly defining it in its own essence. Maturity is obtained by different traditions of education all over the world. Nowhere does it achieve greater results though, than, when the education process itself is studied objectively devoid of dogma. Yoga, it has been established, has very specific educational functions. It helps in achieving a higher state of consciousness on the evolutionary scale of individual development. It is the discipline of the body and mind and in that sense it is education, because education leads to discipline. Yoga a Science of Life Yoga is as old as life itself. In essence it is a specific way, a manner of living. Basing its insights and discoveries on the observation of nature, Yoga impar...