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yoga teacher training in Rikhia peeth , India – Part 1
Filed under: ashram, diary, meditation, review, Uncategorized, yoga | Tags: ashram, india, satyananda, teacher training, yoga
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I arrive in Delhi and thought I was going to be prepared since this is my second visit. Imediately I have a taxi driver grabbing my arm and trying to sell me a ride. I offer some advice to a doctor student from Kenya who is in Delhi for his first time and we decide to share a prepaid taxi. I remember thinking ” what am I doing here ?” during the intense and totally unsafe ride into town. Now I remember Indian traffic. Honking , honking and then some more honking. I decide to scout the New Delhi train station to see how it is organised. I am really close to fall for a scam at my arrival and I dodge it by taking aim at a military guy in uniform and insisting on talking with him. In the tourist office I talk to a guy from United States and I am so happy having another westerner to talk to right now. We decide to have lunch together and decide to go to a place called The banana Leaf. almost every Indian person who wants to talk to us on the street is offering us help on finding the tourist office. From Lonely Planet I know this is a common scam to get you to visit a travel agent where “the street seller” get commission. An Indian guy gets really confused when I offer to show him the nearest tourist office 
the information boards is not updating in the train station and I have to walk around quite a bit with my big back pack to get on the right train. Well on board I am so happy that I bough a first class ticket and I really enjoy the silence and polite atmosphere. The train journey is smooth and one of the passengers which I talked to the previous day starts to do yoga in the morning. I think he does it to show me since he yesterday referred to himself as a master of yoga.
I arrive in Deoghar and the athmosphere is different here and people are not so aggresive in selling you things. Several times I notice that they do not even take any extra money because you are a westerner. But a thing that makes it a bit more complicated is that very few people know a little bit of english and I am the only westerner werever I go. The whole lesson in trust is completed when I arrive at the ashram and there is no sign in English. I have arrived at the right place and everybody is friendly. I arrive early and a man named “Pragia” is showing me my room. He is from Denmark and have been in the ashram for 8 years. The room is basic and clean. there are blankets and pillows availible so bringing a sleeping bag was not really nescessary.
Review: Yoga Teacher training in the North of Sweden
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Leave a Comment Satyananda Yoga Sweden offers a 2 years yoga teaching training course. First i think it is misleading to say it is a 2 years course since the amount of teaching is just 2 months roughly.
The price is 80.8 Euro each day you stay in the Ashram ant the total for the course is 4672,364 Euro (58 days at the ashram). Just for the fun of it I made the comparison between the prices in India and in Sweden
Course in Yogic Studies – Four Months in Bihar Yoga Bharati, Munger, India is 1,200 Euro
4 Months at the Satyananda Ashram in Sweden would cost roughly 9720 Euro ( 120 days times 80.8 euro ).
The teacher training started with a week of introduction and we all got together in this big house in Bollnas, Sweden and cooked food together and off course did yoga. We had discussions as part of the schedule and the teaching training was only on theoretical level during this week. No hands on classes where you hold lectures to each other. They were clear to point out that the teaching was not supposed to be curing illness but rather to give relaxation and relieve stress. I felt in general that i was doing postures which would be great if I was 80 years old and had sever problems with my back. I was sitting in the padmasana posture one day and our main teacher told me that this posture is not good for the knees. This was a big suprise to me since I know people in India sit in this posture for months in a row. In general i did not feel that I was learning anything new regarding yoga and regarding the actual teaching part I was very alarmed that we did not actually held any lectures to each other. All of this was a bit alarming since I was paying 484 Euro for this week and I actually lost income because I was away from work. Maybe I am bit hard here but if it is an introduction week you should at least get a taste on how it is to teach to a group of people. We got copies from the Asana, Pranayama, Mudra , Bandha book and in general they were referring to different books by Satyananda. During this week I felt that I was doing practices that maybe are good if you are a total beginner but I for sure missed my daily program which I usually do at home.
The staff were friendly and the course was held in a very nice old swedish building. A lot of friendly people in the group and in general it was a very nice atmosphere in this place.
To sum up I think this is a great course for beginner since they can learn from the classes and they are happy with the level. If you want to go deep with your personal sadhana or want to become a full blown yoga teacher on all levels I think there are much better courses availible.
I do not write a full review of it because I only took part in the introduction week and I never enlisted for the full teaching course.
more info: satyananda yoga sweden (text in Swedish)
At an early age I got interested in Buddhism and the prince who left his kingdom in the search for truth. How can I apply this story to my own life ? to be able to sit I took up the study of yoga. Is there a contradiction between yoga and science ? Sure we can get a theoretical understanding through books, but without the experience we are stuck. Why is it so hard to practice non-violence when the mosquito is landing on my neck ?
