Vajra Yoga Teacher Training for
certification or deepening personal practice
with Michele Loew, Robert Thurman
Starts November 6, 2023 | Online with In-Person immersion options.
Join us this Fall for the launch of our 300 hour Vajra Yoga Teacher Training Course- Or Spring if you are joining from Australia!
November 6, 2023-April 12th, 2024
This course can be taken entirely online, but attending the in-person retreats is highly recommended if your intention is to teach yoga or gather greater assistance in your personal practice.
This program is 300 Hours of teachings divided into 2 terms. We begin our course online via zoom November 6th. with an in-person immersion at Menla Mountain Retreat center in New York, which can also be live-streamed for those that can't make it to Menla. And then we continue meeting weekly to study together over zoom with live-stream asana practices, Q+As & philosophy sessions with the teachers.
In-Person Retreat at Menla November 6-13th, 2023.
1st Semester November 6, 2023-January 19-2024 (break 12-23 to 1-4)
Second Semester (January 26-April 12, 2024)
In-Person final retreat at Menla Dates April 25-May 1st, 2024
Weekly Zoom Philosophy sessions with on-demand replays with Robert Thurman
- Fridays 11-1pm Eastern Standard time
Weekly Zoom Asana/philosophy sessions with on-demand replays with Michele Loew
- Saturdays 11am-1pm Eastern Standard time
About the Vajra Yoga Online Program
In collaboration with Professor Padma Shri Robert “Tenzin” Thurman, renowned scholar & practitioner, authority on Indo-Tibetan Buddhist science, Indic spirituality and world philosophy, the course will provide a foundational understanding of the philosophy and science of the Buddhist contributions to success in yoga practice (such as were available interactively for over a thousand years in India with such texts as Paṭāñjali’s Yoga Sutras) Students can learn during weekdays through select, self-paced, on-demand videos of the unique Vajrayoga Archive of inspiring talks given recently by Dr. Thurman to elucidate the Buddha’s personal instructions interwoven comparatively with the Hindu yogas, as well as new live teachings & Q&As.
Michele Loew will teach supporting asana, meditation, philosophy and guided sadhana from Vajrayana, Tibetan Yoga, and Hatha Yoga. The Hatha Yoga is largely informed by the lineage of Krishnamacharya, blending the Vinyasa flow, internal form, and intelligent progression found in the Ashtanga Vinyasa system, the precise alignment instructions and supported poses of the Iyengar System, and infusion modern therapeutics that the lineage left us with. Interfacing with Hatha Yoga are the Vajrayana Buddhist yoga practices and their guiding science of mind and body transformation that we feel informed the Hatha Schools of yoga as they were established, and continue to do so today as they evolve further together—the Vajrayana offerings are in the nonsectarian lineage of H. H. the Dalai Lama, Professor Thurman’s long-time principal teacher, and Michele Loew’s principal teacher since 2014.
Students joining in Australia will have the option of attending live practice sessions with Jude Milan in Perth for review and hands on instruction.
Vajra Yoga explores the philosophical and experiential interface between Hatha Yoga and Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Vajra Yoga traditions. If you are looking for a Yoga Teacher Training course that brings in yoga and the meditative sciences from both traditions, this is the course. The journey is deeply educational and spiritually transformational while giving you the practical skills to support other students on their path.
Working with Vajrayana practices and Hatha yoga, we are supporting His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s 4th aim in life: to bring back the Indian Inner Sciences, “Adhyatma Vidya” and the teachings of yoga and Buddhism back to India to support human beings’ inner awakening for happiness and freedom.
This course is a deeply contemplative and embodied investigation into the yogas of Vajrayana and Hatha Yoga practices with Professor Emeritus, Padma Shri Robert “Tenzin” Thurman and Michele Loew.
REFUND POLICY,
before 9/15/23 receive refund minus $300 Teachable fee/admin.
No Refunds after 9/15/23