Dru Yoga Access Training Course

Dru Yoga Access Training Course

Perfect for everyone who wishes to explore Dru Yoga in more depth.

Deepen your understanding of Dru Yoga and take your personal practice to a new level with this excellent grounding in the essential foundations of Dru Yoga.

This is a stand alone course designed to enable you to develop your own yoga practice. In addition, you can gain entry onto the Dru Yoga Teacher Training Course, with the first quarter credited to you. 


The Dru Yoga Access Course is for...

1   Yoga newcomers who would like a confident personal practice
2   If you are considering the Dru Yoga teacher training course
3   Yoga teachers from other schools who want to teach Dru Yoga in their classes 

 Course Dates

    
201115/16 October
26/27  November
  
2012
14/15 January   
    

 What you will learn...

BOOKS 1-3 of the 16 books of the Dru Yoga teacher training course

Practise with confidence!
Develop a deeper understanding of Dru Yoga and take your personal practice to a new level. An excellent grounding in the essential foundations of Dru Yoga
 
Dru Yoga is a graceful and potent form of yoga, based on soft flowing movements, controlled directed breathing and visualisation. With its foundations set firmly in ancient yogic tradition, it works on body, mind and spirit – improving strength and flexibility, creating core stability, building a heightened feeling of positivity, and rejuvenation your whole being.

Learn the seven keys that will help you unlock the subtleties of Dru Yoga so that you can gain the maximum benefit from your practice.








Principles of Dru Yoga
Principles of activation

Energy Block Release sequence (EBR 1)

Body preparation

Establishing a regular practice

Pranayama
Pranayama Energy Block Release

Pigeon breath

Windmill

Diaphragmatic breathing

Mechanics of breathing

Deep yogic breath—lying & sitting

Asanas
Tadasana—mountain

Vrksasana—tree

Marjariasana—cat

Savasana—corpse pose

Adho mukha svanasana—downward facing dog

Bhujangasana—cobra

Setubandhasana—bridge

Simple inversion

Utkatasana—chair of the heart

Paschimottanasana—sitting forward bend

Makarasana—the crocodile

Sequences
Prithvi Namaskara - Salutations to the Earth
Surya Namaskara - Salutation to the Sun

Meditation
What is meditation? Parts 1 & 2
How to sit properly
‘Relax the whole body’ meditation

Anatomy & Physiology
Overview of the nine systems
The muscular system
 
Subtle Energetics
Understangin the koshas
Understanding the chakras and nadis
The spiral of empowerment.
Chakra dharana sadhana
Chakra awareness
Ajna Centring
 
Philosophy
A brief history of yoga
Patanjali’s Eight Limbs of Yoga
Practical application of the Yamas and Niyamas