Thursday, May 6, 2010
Yin Yoga Teacher Training – The Theory & Practice of Yin Yoga 30-hour Training By Victor Chng , Founder of Yoga in Asia
Date : 1 Sept to 4 Sept 2010
Time : 8.30 a.m to 5.00 p.m
Venue : The Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre (klpac)
Sentul Park, off Jalan Ipoh
51100 Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Course Fees : RM1350.00
Early-bird special : RM1280.00 (by 8 August, 2010)
Group (3 or more ) discounts available upon request
Contact
To register for this training, please contact Yammie at yammieymwong@gmail.com or 6012-3222018
Monday, May 3, 2010
The Benefits of Yoga
The benefit of yoga practice goes far beyond the actual time you spend in the poses. One of the most common reasons why people begin practicing yoga is to improve their health and well-being.
Yoga means union. It is a union of the mind, body and breath, so all aspects of your life are impacted by your practice.
A major benefit of yoga is physical.
Yoga improves your flexibility. - The stretching that you engage in during every practice helps lengthen and stretch muscles, which helps reduce the risk of injuries.
It helps to improve your balance. - The majority of yoga practices include some type of balancing in the poses. A significant number of people, especially as they began to get older, start to have problems with balance, which can lead to major injuries due to falls. By having a greater sense of balance, you are able to move more easily and safely.
Yoga can help reduce pain. - Tense muscles often contribute to pain. Relaxing muscles helps to minimize muscle tension and the pain that is associated with it. Also, breathing deeply into muscles helps lessen pain by altering your perception of it.
It tones your muscles. - Yoga works all the muscles in your body. It helps strengthen and tone them and also builds endurance and stamina.
It helps to increase your level of energy. - Carrying tension in your body takes an enormous toll on your energy reserves. By learning how to relax through your yoga practice, you benefit by enjoying higher levels of energy so you can more thoroughly enjoy your daily activities.
Yoga helps promote a sense of relaxation.- Most people breathe high in their chests. This not only does not allow them to get sufficient oxygen, it also triggers the stress response, which contributes to feelings of anxiety. Breathing deeply as practiced in yoga, helps relax your muscles and also brings much needed oxygen to your cells. The deep sense of relaxation also leads to better quality sleep.
Each yoga practice ends with some type of relaxation. Since your body and mind are one, by relaxing your body you also relax your mind. Many yoga experts believe that a relaxation pose is the most beneficial pose in any yoga practice.
Another benefit of yoga is mental.
Yoga clears your mind and helps you focus your attention. - During your practice, you are focusing your attention on your breath and turning inward. This concentration allows you to withdraw from the distractions in your environment. A significant benefit of yoga practice is that you can take this ability to focus your attention into every aspect of your life.
You can be fully present with whatever you are doing instead of worrying about tomorrow or regretting yesterday. Not only will your actions be more productive, you can also enjoy them in a greater way.
Yoga helps reduces stress.- Deep breathing helps reduce the hormones that are released when you are feeling overwhelmed, overloaded, and frazzled. The internal focus that accompanies the poses helps create a relaxation response in your body.
Yoga can help release stuck emotions.- Often stuck emotions find their way into our bodies. Remember, your mind and body are one, and if you are suppressing any painful emotions, you will often experience that as pain in some part of your body. A benefit of yoga is that by breathing deeply into places in your body that hold tension, you can help release the emotions that may be buried there. You can then examine these emotions and let go of those that do not serve you.
Also, as you take your body past the limits of where it has been, you start to feel that you can move past other limitations in your life as well.
You gain a sense of peace and tranquility. - Most yoga practices include some time for meditation. Regular meditation helps your mind reach a state of inner calm. It helps you gain control over your thinking instead of being at the mercy of wayward thoughts.
As you can see, the benefit of yoga has far reaching effects in every area of your life. Maintain a regular yoga practice, and you will see for yourself, how yoga can benefit you
Monday, April 26, 2010
The Theory & Practice of Yin Yoga 30-hour Training
Do you want to gain flexibility in a safe way? Do know that flexibility is only part of
the reason why you cannot do a pose? Do you want to teach yoga more intelligently?
Do you want to teach a successful yoga class that brings deep relaxation to the body
and mind? This is a course that enables you to achieve all of these.
Yin Yoga is a quiet practice that emphasizes on long holding of each posture as well
as muscular relaxation while in the pose. As opposed to a dynamic practice such as
Ashtanga, Vinyasa, Power etc, Yin is the complete opposite. The goal of the practice
is to target the joints by lengthening deep fascia surrounding them. As such, muscular
relaxation will effect changes to deep tissues by creating more space in between the
bones. This is a safe way of cultivating more flexibility in the body.
At the pranic level, Yin Yoga works along deep meridian channels that target the 5
primary Yin organs in the body. Each organ represents a transformational energy that
keeps the body in balance and in good health. Liver (Wood Element) creates, Heart
(Fire Element) dissipates, Lungs (Metal) absorbs, Kidney (Water) stores and Spleen
(Earth) transforms. By holding in the pose, meridians are stimulated to effect the
organs in the body.
Yin Yoga emphasizes on relaxation. Deep relaxation first comes from letting go of
muscular tension in the body and penetrates to the emotional and mental layers. As
each pose is done with relaxation of the muscles, it encourages the working of the
parasympathetic nervous system, which is essential for deep relaxation. When the
body is in a state of relaxation, it forms the basis to further practices on pranayama
and meditation.
In this course, you will develop a complete understanding on the principles of Yin
Yoga, the nature of your joints & its limitation, and successful teaching techniques for
Yin Yoga. We have developed the programme to empower teachers to have a more
complete view on developing a balanced practice for oneself and sharing yoga in the
same way with students.
About the Instructor
Victor was not born with a flexible body and having learnt yoga in his late twenties
did not help. He was very much practicing dynamic yoga such as Ashtanga and
Vinyasa in the beginning. His body became stiff and had developed a slight hamstring
and knee injury. Yin Yoga is the solution which he had found most therapeutic and
healing. During this period where he had to back-off from his active nature to
confront the silent nature, he developed new insights in his practice. Like many, he
had his physical and emotional struggle in the beginning with Yin Yoga. However, he
finds this practice most rewarding in bringing him back to his “centre”. The yoke of
both his dynamic and passive nature has been discovered and developed through this
practice. Victor is passionate to share his process of transformation, which has
inspired many.
Testimonial Quotes:
“…I want to teach yoga that lasts for one’s lifetime, as a companion, not something
that is a fad or “in” thing for now. Yin Yoga training has taught me to teach with
patience, and understanding”. – Adeline Tien, True Yoga Singapore.
“The course gave me new ideas and helped me to see asana practice from new angles.
To understand or to learn more about the range of motions in a human body and to
understand the interaction of flexibility and strength will not only help me to become
a better teacher but also support my own yoga practice”. – Angela Burns, Bangkok,
Thailand.
“The course has given me so much information to digest before I can pass it on in a
proper way to students. It has really confirmed my belief that I will remain a student
of yoga for all my life, even after becoming a teacher”. - Mia Öhrn, Bangkok,
Thailand.
“…I like what Victor said “The art of teaching is about bridging the gap: how you can
help and what you can do for your students to bring them from the stage of unknown
to the stage of known. Thus, you must understand what you are doing!” – Pim,
Absolute Yoga Bangkok.
“A yoga teacher needs to inspire, motivate, educate and lead by example.
This course really inspired me to do just that. Victor really fulfilled all these qualities
and I feel that I want to be able to learn from him…”. - Jennifer Marostica, Singapore.
“After this 3 day course, my knowledge and understanding of Yin Yoga have
improved and this gives me the confidence to teach Yin Yoga in my studio…” -
Agnes Chai Meng Fong, Malaysia.
“…I get so much of this valuable information by the clear explanation and practical
theory by Victor Chng. I realized the importance of the joint stress compare with the
contraction of the muscles which are elasticity. I can feel the sensation of the region
by holding the poses and relax my body…”. - Karen Lai Kwan Wai, Malaysia.
“…I’m most grateful to have met good teachers like Victor, exposing me to the
knowledge of Yin Yoga … with his profound knowledge of Chakra theories, and his
excellent knowledge of body anatomy and meridian theory” . – Cindy Ho, Singapore
Do you want to gain flexibility in a safe way? Do know that flexibility is only part of
the reason why you cannot do a pose? Do you want to teach yoga more intelligently?
Do you want to teach a successful yoga class that brings deep relaxation to the body
and mind? This is a course that enables you to achieve all of these.
Yin Yoga is a quiet practice that emphasizes on long holding of each posture as well
as muscular relaxation while in the pose. As opposed to a dynamic practice such as
Ashtanga, Vinyasa, Power etc, Yin is the complete opposite. The goal of the practice
is to target the joints by lengthening deep fascia surrounding them. As such, muscular
relaxation will effect changes to deep tissues by creating more space in between the
bones. This is a safe way of cultivating more flexibility in the body.
At the pranic level, Yin Yoga works along deep meridian channels that target the 5
primary Yin organs in the body. Each organ represents a transformational energy that
keeps the body in balance and in good health. Liver (Wood Element) creates, Heart
(Fire Element) dissipates, Lungs (Metal) absorbs, Kidney (Water) stores and Spleen
(Earth) transforms. By holding in the pose, meridians are stimulated to effect the
organs in the body.
Yin Yoga emphasizes on relaxation. Deep relaxation first comes from letting go of
muscular tension in the body and penetrates to the emotional and mental layers. As
each pose is done with relaxation of the muscles, it encourages the working of the
parasympathetic nervous system, which is essential for deep relaxation. When the
body is in a state of relaxation, it forms the basis to further practices on pranayama
and meditation.
In this course, you will develop a complete understanding on the principles of Yin
Yoga, the nature of your joints & its limitation, and successful teaching techniques for
Yin Yoga. We have developed the programme to empower teachers to have a more
complete view on developing a balanced practice for oneself and sharing yoga in the
same way with students.
About the Instructor
Victor was not born with a flexible body and having learnt yoga in his late twenties
did not help. He was very much practicing dynamic yoga such as Ashtanga and
Vinyasa in the beginning. His body became stiff and had developed a slight hamstring
and knee injury. Yin Yoga is the solution which he had found most therapeutic and
healing. During this period where he had to back-off from his active nature to
confront the silent nature, he developed new insights in his practice. Like many, he
had his physical and emotional struggle in the beginning with Yin Yoga. However, he
finds this practice most rewarding in bringing him back to his “centre”. The yoke of
both his dynamic and passive nature has been discovered and developed through this
practice. Victor is passionate to share his process of transformation, which has
inspired many.
Testimonial Quotes:
“…I want to teach yoga that lasts for one’s lifetime, as a companion, not something
that is a fad or “in” thing for now. Yin Yoga training has taught me to teach with
patience, and understanding”. – Adeline Tien, True Yoga Singapore.
“The course gave me new ideas and helped me to see asana practice from new angles.
To understand or to learn more about the range of motions in a human body and to
understand the interaction of flexibility and strength will not only help me to become
a better teacher but also support my own yoga practice”. – Angela Burns, Bangkok,
Thailand.
“The course has given me so much information to digest before I can pass it on in a
proper way to students. It has really confirmed my belief that I will remain a student
of yoga for all my life, even after becoming a teacher”. - Mia Öhrn, Bangkok,
Thailand.
“…I like what Victor said “The art of teaching is about bridging the gap: how you can
help and what you can do for your students to bring them from the stage of unknown
to the stage of known. Thus, you must understand what you are doing!” – Pim,
Absolute Yoga Bangkok.
“A yoga teacher needs to inspire, motivate, educate and lead by example.
This course really inspired me to do just that. Victor really fulfilled all these qualities
and I feel that I want to be able to learn from him…”. - Jennifer Marostica, Singapore.
“After this 3 day course, my knowledge and understanding of Yin Yoga have
improved and this gives me the confidence to teach Yin Yoga in my studio…” -
Agnes Chai Meng Fong, Malaysia.
“…I get so much of this valuable information by the clear explanation and practical
theory by Victor Chng. I realized the importance of the joint stress compare with the
contraction of the muscles which are elasticity. I can feel the sensation of the region
by holding the poses and relax my body…”. - Karen Lai Kwan Wai, Malaysia.
“…I’m most grateful to have met good teachers like Victor, exposing me to the
knowledge of Yin Yoga … with his profound knowledge of Chakra theories, and his
excellent knowledge of body anatomy and meridian theory” . – Cindy Ho, Singapore
Thursday, April 22, 2010
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