Yoga teacher training is NOT something I would normally write about as a hard nosed health writer but after spending two weeks at Viniyoga Teacher Training as an observer I feel compelled to tell you about what I believe is the finest yoga teacher training in the western world.
I also have to tell you that yoga teacher training is taking on a whole new meaning now American Viniyoga Institute founder Gary Kraftsow has released free online audio previews of his viniyoga teacher training seminars.
But first let me tell you a little about Gary Kraftsow…
Gary is highly respected worldwide in the yoga community. He is the author of two groundbreaking books “Yoga For Wellness” and “Yoga For Transformation” and speaks regularly at major yoga conferences across the world.
But Gary is also known as being an outspoken advocate for a revolution in way yoga is taught and practiced in the western world.
His viniyoga teacher training emphasizes changing and adapting postures, breathing and sequences to each individual with the intention of creating specific therapeutic effects.
And Gary’s philosophy and approach are gaining ever increasing credibility.
He designed the yoga sequence for the recent study published in the December 2005 issue of the Annals Of Internal Medicine. This double blind study showed yoga practice can relieve lower back pain.
More studies with vinyoga sequences designed by Gary are either running or in the process of being developed.
Gary Kraftsow’s yoga teacher training free audio previews challenge some of the widely held preconceptions and beliefs common to yoga practitioners in the western world.
While most yoga teachers focus their efforts on learning the many different yoga postures Gary believes understanding the underlying fundamentals and performing and teaching yoga practices with specific intention for each individual creates a far lower injury risk and far more powerful overall holistic physical, mental and emotional effects.
But the mainstream yoga community in the western world still hasn’t grasped this vital fundamental.
So for the first time Gary is revealing the viniyoga fundamentals from his closed door exclusive yoga training classes in free audio previews at http://www.viniyoga.com/yogateachertraining.html
As it says so eloquently at the viniyoga.com web site “we want you to know the spirit with which we teach and share our work.”
Andrew Cavanagh is a professional health writer and a member of the Australasian Medical Writers Assocation. He is the author of several books including a groundbreaking book on depression and the hilarious Undersizeme diet and lifestyle manual. He appears regularly on over 40 commercial radio stations across Australia as one of the world’s leading diet and lifesytle authorities.
Andrew highly recommends the teachings of Gary Krafstow as exceptional in the field of yoga and physical therapies.
You can listen to free audio previews of Gary live at Viniyoga Teacher training at… http://www.viniyoga.com/yogateachertraining.html
