Teacher Training Intensive with Max Strom
In addition to his three workshop sessions Max Strom will hold a unique 16-hour Teacher Training Intensive from February 9, 2012 through February 12, 2012.
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from one of the most respected teacher’s teacher.

This teacher training intensive is designed an introduction to Max Strom's system of transformation and healing. His system includes a philosophy for living, self-enquiry, breathing exercises, yoga postures, and meditation. Max’s teachings are a culmination of his life experience and decades of study and application.

If you are looking to become a teacher or simply have the desire to deepen your knowledge and practice of personal transformation, you will find this course inspiring, practical and indispensable to your journey. Ultimately, it will change the way you see yourself and others as you gain greater understanding of yourself and others.

Course Description:
Why and How to Teach Breathing
Emotional Healing / Internal Transformation
Ethical Precepts
Meditation
Philosophy
Posture Alignment
Working with Beginners
Seeing Bodies
Safety
Principles of Sequencing Vinyasa
Techniques for Adjusting without Touch
Skills for Effective Teaching
Enhancing your Communication Skills and Confidence
Wisdom Beyond the Mat

Author of „A Life Worth Breathing“ (Skyhorse, 2010), Max Strom teaches personal transformation and yoga worldwide. His methods address the internal, emotional, and spiritual aspects of our life, as well as physical healing. He is known for inspiring and impacting the lives of his students. He has taught tens of thousands of students, and trained several hundred teachers.
You can see more of Max Strom’s work on his DVDs "Learn to Breathe, to heal yourself and your relationships", and "Max Strom Yoga – Strength, Grace, Healing", or on his website under www.maxstrom.com


The Teacher Training Intensive with Max Strom will take place from Thursday, February 9, 2012 through Sunday, February 12, 2012 at AIRYOGA, Fabrikstrasse 10, 8005 Zurich.

Schedule:
Thursday, February 9, 2012 from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and from 1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. (5,5 hours training)

Friday, February 10, 2012 from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and from 1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. (5,5 hours training)

Saturday, February 11, 2012 from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. (3 hours training)

Sunday, February 12, 2012 from 8:00 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. (2,75 hours training)

Breakdown of content of training (approximate):
Philosophy/ethics: 2 hours
practice of postures: 6 hours
study of teaching methodology of postures and sequencing: 2 hours
meditation (study and practice): 1 hour
breathing (practice and teaching methodology): 2 hours
personal transformation lecture: 2 hours
The Power of the Human Voice: 1 hour

Requirements:
• Students wishing to enroll need to have a passionate interest in transformation and healing and at least two years of studying Hatha yoga.
• One must have practiced with Max Strom before or with his DVD’s.
• Required reading includes his book, "A Life Worth Breathing“ (available in English and German).


The Training can only be booked as an entire block. Enrollment is limited and by permission only. Please contact zuerich@airyoga.com for further information.

Max teaches in English.

The cost is Fr. 400.- for the entire training (16 hours).
The whole training including three workshop sessions costs Fr. 575.-.

Informationen about the workshop sessions of Max Strom see here...

Registrations can be made via email to zuerich@airyoga.com.
Space is limited.

The Middle Way: Life Touching Practice – A Hatha Yoga Immersion with Michael Hamilton
AIRYOGA teacher Michael Hamilton will offer a unique 4-day Easter immersion from April 6, through April 9, 2012.

This Immersion is intended for students interested in developing a practice for living in today’s complex world using the traditional techniques of asana, chanting, meditation and basic pranayama found in Yoga. These techniques can often be presented in a way that is fragmented. Instead we will seek connections that assist students in developing the tools for using the heightened awareness achievable through yoga practices to see the empty nature of the constructed self. This way body practice becomes meaningful and we become enriched by the tools which inform our practice, rather than becoming obsessed with the physical culture of yoga. Drawing on insights from studies in Buddhist and Advaita Vedanta lineages, Michael delights in sharing his direct experience.

Morning asana practice will draw from the Hatha Yoga tradition, freely moving from flow sequences to structured analysis of the subtlety of inter-related forms, assisting us in connecting body practice to subtle shifts in consciousness.
Afternoon lecture classes focus on treading the path of non-dual open awareness, drawing on sources from Buddhism, Advaita Vedanta, Tantra, and Classical Yoga (yoga sutras).
Mindful sitting will form the basic lens through which all other practices are viewed, teaching us to look deeply into our minds, its evolutes and its ability to complicate our lives by attaching to things which cannot give lasting peace.

This Immersion will take us deep into our own inner world where we hold our ideas, our belief systems, and our strategies of avoidance. By using the tools of yoga practice to hold up a mirror to ourselves we can see where we get stuck, using different practices to address issues and to help us get unstuck, become complete individuals, living in the beauty of the present moment.

Michael Hamilton originates from South Africa. He has studied yoga with many prominent teachers in the Krishnamacharya lineages, focusing on Iyengar and Ashtanga. Michael is authorized to teach Ashtanga by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois of Mysore in India.
Michael spent time in monasteries in Asia and America studying meditation, which form the foundation of his teachings on yoga and its integration into our daily lives. With an eye for detail and alignment, Michael leads traditional Ashtanga based Mysore and led classes, and conducts workshops throughout the world. He is currently based in Zurich.
For more information please see www.michaelhamiltonyoga.com


The Hatha Yoga Immersion with Michael Hamilton will be led at AIRYOGA, Oberdorfstrasse 2, 8001 Zurich on the following days:

Good Friday, April 6, 2012
9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (3.5 hours): Asana practice and pranayama: different planes of the body, surya namaskar, and the central channel (nadi shodana)
2:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. (2.5 hours): Chanting and sitting practice.
Lecture: What is non-duality?

Saturday, April 7, 2012
2.15 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. (3.5 hours): Asana practice and pranayama: interconnected spirals, bandhas, and standing postures. Lecture: The middle way

Easter Sunday, April 8, 2012
9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (3.5 hours): Asana practice and pranayama: hip openers and their relationship to forward and back bending
2:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. (2.5 hours): Chanting and sitting practice. Lecture: The absolute and the relative

Easter Monday, April 9, 2012
9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (3.5 hours): Asana practice and pranayama: arm balance and the bandhas
2:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. (2.5 hours): Chanting and sitting practice. Lecture: Tools for living a spiritual life in our times (conclusion)


The immersion is open to all levels.
Participants attending all sessions will get a manual.

Michael teaches in English.

The cost is Fr. 490.- for all sessions (incl. manual)
Fr. 90.- per 3.5-hour session
Fr. 70.- per 2.5-hour session

Please sign-up by e-mail to zuerich@airyoga.com.
Space is limited.