Gretchen Mayhew May 2, 2006

20 minutes six times a week. Developing a constant and regular at home practice everyday is the key to success. Habits create your future. Not something done once a week. If you want to be a yoga teacher or truly deepen your yoga practice you will have to practice, practice, practice. Then when you go to teach it will all be spontaneous. Much of learning yoga is through osmosis. There is a transmission that happens over time. With a lot of time devoted to yoga practice, you will then know the material so thoroughly there will be no hesitation.

Home Practice looks like
Warmup sequence for The Wave, 3 Sun Salutations A, then you decide. Sometimes praanaayaama and meditation when appropriate.

(Of couse, if you already do a much longer home practice, please continue.)

2) Group practice (minimum) one group class per week at Eyes. (minimum) one group class per week at Eyes. Let’s be serious about this. If you want to be a teacher practicing three or four classes a week will give your the physical, mental spiritual strengh to teach 3 or 4 times a week. Once a week and you are at a bare bones minimum. Give yourself over fully to practice. Get into it for the next few months. Theory and practice need to go together. Many of the classes Tom will lead this fall and winter will be utilizing the topics of the weekends and reinforcing what is happening in the teacher training. Best classes: Mon 7:30pm, Thur 6pm, Sat 3pm For certification, you will need a scant minimum of 36 classes by May 1.

3) Study for your test.

Make flash cards on MONDAY.

Do 10 to 15 minutes everyday on the flash cards at night, just before you go to bed.

This way your unconscious mind will repeat the thoughts while you are sleeping. Review them first thing in the morning. Don’t. Don’t try to memorize the test starting the Friday or Saturday morning before the weekend. You need to commit these questions to long term memory, not short term memory. All the questions are cumulative and keep showing up and repeating themselves. This way you will commit them to long term memory. The final exam is 26 pages long with hundreds of technical questions. The way to acquire this material is slowly, one step at a time. Everynight, do the flash cards.

4) Call your Yoga Buddy. At least once per week, preferably on Wednesday.

5) Read Everyday

Do the Scripture download. Scan over the Vedas

a) Gillette: links on line for now

Divine Love
Maxims
Who AM I?
Witnessed Significance
Practicalities
Non-judgmental Awareness
Grace is every moment
vinyasa defintions

b) Freeman Yoga Fundamentalism

(link)

c) BKS Iyengar: Light on Yoga p 19 -23 What is yoga? up to paragraph title “Citta vritti”

d) Yoga the Iyengar way p 8 - 19.

e) Feuerstein: The Yoga Tradition,
a) Impulse toward Transcendence p. xxv-xxxii
b) The Essence of Yoga p. 3- 6
c) The Term Yoga p 7-8
d) Degrees of Self Transcendence p. 8-11

c) Vyaas Houston Sanskrit, a model of a sacred language

d) Kornfield A Path with Heart

ch 1. Did I Love Well?

e) Illustrated Essentials of Musculoskeletal anatomy 5th edition Sieg and Adams

p2- 5
p79 - 81
p85 - 88
p134 - - 135

6) Homework: After reading the Richard Freeman article, write and hand in a short 200 - 300 word description/definition of what Richard Freeman means by “Literalism” and “Relativism”. What is the strength and the shortcoming of "literalism". What is the strength and shorcoming of “Relativism.”. What does he mean by yoga fundamentalism?