Light on Shakti - Yoga Teacher Training

Join Jeanie Manchester and Karuna

“Light on Shiva-Shakti”

A Yogini’s Awakening – 200 Hour Teacher Training in Sacred Flow

Vinyasa & Kundalini Yoga

“The Time of The Lone Wolf is Over“

The dark ages: the ancient yogins called “The Kali Yuga” a time of misera, confusion and demise where things are horribly mixed up; politics are corrupt and we face environmental devastation like never before. Women are fighting for the voice of equality in body, mind and speech. She no longer is willing to leave her human form to hide in the safe confines of nature as is told over and over again in the yogic mythic lore. While the devastating reality of these dark ages cannot be denied, there is evidence that we are indeed at the precipice of the age of truth : The Sat Yuga. We see this in the Womens’ movement today as well as the “blessed unrest “ in communities rising up together to find creative solutions to the countless challenges we face in the modern world. Men, also are looking for guidance in how to recognize the feminine within themselves. Ultimately yoga is the marriage of both masculine and feminine energies within our subtle body. We are at a time in history where the healing of our planet depends on each and every human being’s committment to waking up. This means we need the proper tools to help awaken us to our highest potential: our most potent capacities. We must overcome our feelings of unworthiness, doubt and insecurity as well as pride and greed. Its time of RADICAL CONFRONTATION with the way we separate from each other. We go to battle with our ego’s and face the ways we have not been present in life. We must come together, collaborate and learn from one another in order to evolve and shift the old ways of patriarchy. To raise your vibration and peel away the layers of inhibiting beliefs, doubt, and shame is Yoga’s great promise. With proper guidance and practices every human being can learn to harness their potential; step into gifts, and talents and energy for life. The feminine is rising, there is no doubt about it and its time to integrate both masculine and feminine energies within our subtle bodies. This has always been the meaning of yoga: to yolk, to merge, to comingle and as a result heal, so we can stand up more firmly in our selves. To take your seat as a human worthy of your gifts and talents is what we are here to do. In that process of upleveing our creativity we heal our selves and as a result have the energy to create and transform and contribute to planetary healing. We are “over the moon” excited to say that this training is revolutionary as two lineages merge to create something new, something profound, something radical and real. We heal the divisive parts of ourselves when we open to seeing and experiencing in more than one way. This is why we are collaborating in a radical way to shift consciousness rapidly. The time is now

Your Teachers:

Jeanie Manchester is the founder of Anjaneya Yoga Shala in Boulder, CO. She is an (E-RYT500 Instructor and Anusara certified).   She draws on 30 years of dedicated practice and teaching. Jeanie created Sacred Flow, her signature vinyasa classes rooted in meditation, bhakti chant, storytelling, mantra, mudra, meditation and the art of living a daily practice on and off the mat. Her students love her heart based, friendly style of intuitive mentoring and teaching. She is a dedicated senior student of Neelakantha meditation and is an Acharya offering personal initiation into Neelakantha Meditation Practice. She is also a student of the Sri Vidya Goddess tradition of South India. under the guidance of her teacher Douglas Brooks. She offers 200/300 HR Teacher Sacred Flow Trainings, and travels the globe offering retreats in wonderous places. Jeanie’s inspiration and influence stems from a strong lineage of celebrated teachers, including Dr. Douglas Brooks, Sally Kempton, Richard Freeman, John Friend and Paul Muller-Ortega

Karuna (Caroline Ashley) travels the world sharing the teachings of Yogi Bhajan: Kundalini Yoga.  A recognized “Friend” of the United Nations committee for the International Day of Yoga (IDY), Karuna is host editor of Light on Light Magazine, a major publication on spiritual practice and inspired lifestyle which, annually, publishes a special issue with the UN Committee for the IDY: https://issuu.com/unityearth/docs/lightonlight_un_idy and https://issuu.com/unityearth/docs/lightonlight_un_idy_2019

Karuna has taught in America and abroad and is known for her universalizing of the gifts of the great Yoga traditions in a global multi-faith context and her attention to the importance of inspired lifestyle. Yogi Bhajan indentified three core goals for realization and transformation:  to know, to understand, and to realize. His life of teaching created a sacred legacy, a vision for a new age of consciousness, the “Age of the Sensory Human”.  Yogi Bhajan did not come to collect students but to create the teachers of who will love, serve, hold and uplift humanity.

Karuna (Caroline Ashley) and Jeanie Manchester have been teaching in Boulder for 3 decades and are thrilled to be offering a fusion of Sacred Flow Vinyasa & Kundalini Yoga Training.

*200 hour Yoga Alliance approved

Dates: Jan 9-12, January 9-12, February 7-9, Feb 12 (Special class with Wah), March 12-15, April 16-19, May 16-17, June 11-14.

Time: 9-6 PM (some days we will meet for early morning sadhana and other days may start later)

Place: Jeanie’s Boulder studio 1480 Violet Ave Boulder, CO 80304 and/or Karuna’s studio (weather permitting) 1050 Pine Gold Hill St Boulder, CO 80302

AREAS OF STUDY:

History of Yoga, Philosophy of Yoga, Anatomy, Meditation, Mantra, Mudra, Asana, Pranayama

TEACHING SKILLS:

• Come to better understand the story you wish to tell through your body. heart, mind and vocation.

• Learn to teach Vinyasa, Sacred Flow & Restorative Yoga

• Learn to teach pranayama and meditation

• Learn to teach “Sacred Flow “peak pose sequencing, myth,mantra, mudra

• Alignment principles for accessing our central channel and esoteric anatomy

• The Art of the demonstration

• Observation skills & Assisting

• Masculine and Feminine Verbal skills

• Teach to beginners, all levels, intermediate

• Applied anatomy specific to teaching yoga

MYTH MUDRA STORYTELLING:

• Take a journey into ancient myths and how you become each character in a story.

• Tap into your shadow and transform negative thoughts and beliefs.

• Learn powerful and transformational myths and how to embody them through postures, and peak pose sequencing. So much fun and empowering.

PERSONAL PRACTICE/ Daily Sadhana

Jeanie and Karuna believe in daily sadhana practices and self sufficiency

Deepen, renew or begin a personal practice in meditation and asana.

Every teacher of yoga needs their own practice !

MEDITATION & PRANAYAMA & CHANT

• Meditation has the power to reveal your shadows and optimize your gifts.

• Deepen into the power of meditation to transform your life.

• Seasonal sadhana practices for your well being

• Experience a variety of pranayama (breathing techniques) Feel More energy!!

• Tap into the vibrational power of chant and its benefical ways of shifting consciousness.

PERSONAL GROWTH

• Become aware of contractions, inhibitions and shadow aspects that prevent you from moving forward.

• Reclaim the joy you are meant to be!

• Mythic lore and its importance in your life.

• Nutrtional diet

• Ayurvedic lifetsyle & Kundalini Yoga Lifestyle daily practices

• Conscious communications

• Re-birthing sessions with Karuna