Gentle Yoga for All Bodies

This course is geared towards the yoga teachers who wanted to teach Gentle yoga for people with limited flexibility and at the same time is geared towards the students who need modified postures themselves.

Yoga is a complete system of retuning body, mind, and spirit.  The media only pictures young and fit bodies for yoga, but yoga is for all body types and physical fitness levels.  The full benefits of yoga can be experienced using gentle and modified postures along with relaxation and proper breathing and concentration.

Gentle Yoga is designed for students who need to have the basic yoga postures modified due to age, weight, illness, injury or limited flexibility. In our experience as teachers we have found that due to poor lifestyles and chronic stress, many students come to yoga unable to safely practice the postures. In keeping with the principle of ahimsa (nonviolence) we have learned to modify the asanas so that these students can benefit from a physical practice as they build the strength and flexibility to perform the full postures. These are some examples when gentle can be beneficial:

• Beginners who are new to yoga
• People who have not exercised or have stopped and would like to start.
• Overweight, Underweight, or any other bodily weakness
• Stiff, Weak, or Injured Spines
• Office workers, Computer Workers with many hours sitting daily
• People recovering from illness
 
 

Benefits of Gentle Yoga
• Increase Strength and Flexibility
• Gaining confidence in your ability to more your body in an effective way
• Increase your breathing capacity
• Increase energy and vitality
• Learn relaxation techniques to overcome stress
• Learn healthy healing diet
• Detoxify body and mind
• Learn Positive thinking, remove fears and anxieties
• Regain Peace and Joy through Meditation
• Discover and Renew yourself with yoga philosophy
• Develop healthy lifestyle habits

Tuition for both yoga teachers and students (separate workshops for the two groups)
$175 for 8 day retreat plus accommodations.
Reservations in advance. Non refundable deposit $50.

Accommodations Cost
Dormitory (3 to 5 people) $20/day
Double room (2 people) $30/day
Single (one person) $40/day
A/C additional $5/day

Teacher
Tara Durga Devi has been teaching yoga and meditation for 35 years and is the co-founder and owner of 'The Yoga Center', an affiliated yoga center of Sivananda system, in Stockton, CA. She has been trained in Yoga Therapy, and is a graduate of the Sivananda Yoga teacher's training course (TTC) and Advanced Yoga teacher's training course(ATTC). Tara Durga Devi is one of the rare yoga teachers trained by Swami Vishnu-Devananda, with whom she took TTC in 1976.