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IKYTA Teacher Resource Book 3HO IKYTA 6 Narayan Ct Espanola, NM 87532 Phone: 505-629-1708 Fax: 424-731-8348 E-mail: [email protected] ©2011 3HO IKYTA IKYTA Teacher Training Resource Book Contents Greetings from 3HO IKYTA .......................................................................2 Greetings from the Director of Training, Gurucharan Singh Khalsa, Ph.D. ............................................................3 Time Honored Tips for Teachers Gurmukh Kaur and Gurushabd Singh Khalsa, ...................................... 5 Golden Bridge, Los Angeles, CA and New York, NY, USA Mehtab Singh, Yoga Yoga, Austin, Texas, USA......................... ............ 6 Shakta Kaur and Hari Dev Singh, .......................................................... 6 Kundalini Yoga in the Loop (KYL), Chicago, IL, USA Sat Tara Singh, Mexico ...........................................................................7 Eight Awesome Curricula 1) Breathe Your Way to Inner Calm: An Introductory Series in Kundalini Yoga and Meditation .................................................8 2) Balancing the Chakras ................................................................... 15 3) The Ten Bodies ................................................................................. 16 4) Weighty Matters ............................................................................ 18 5) Boost Your Immune System .......................................................... 22 6) Yoga for Seasonal Change ............................................................. 27 7) The Power of the Mother: A Series of Pre-Natal Yoga Classes..................... ....................... 28 8) Mastering the Tattvas: Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Ether ......... 30 Five Fantastic Workshops 1) Cultivate Peace Within (with sample flier)..................................32 2) Connecting Women for Peace (with hand-out) ............................33 3) Yoga for the Artist (with hand-out) .............................................. 36 4) The Lunar Woman (with hand-out) ................................................ 38 5) Japji Sahib: The Song of the Soul (includes hand-out) ................. 39 Articles—You’re in the “Yoga Business” Now! Your Marketing Train ...............................................................................41 How to Easily Create Your Own Fliers ..................................................43 Charging for Yoga Classes—5 Steps to Success....................... ............ 44 Establish Yourself on the Internet......................... ................................ 49 Instructors’ CD Package ........................................................................52 A list of musical selections that every new instructor of Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan® should have in their collection. Resources Ancient Healing Ways .............................................................................55 Invincible Music........................................................................................56 Spirit Voyage ............................................................................................56 PDF Files for Five Fantastic Workshops.................................................56 IKYTA Teacher Training Resource Book Contents Greetings from 3HO IKYTA .......................................................................2 Greetings from the Director of Training, Gurucharan Singh Khalsa, Ph.D. ............................................................3 Time Honored Tips for Teachers Gurmukh Kaur and Gurushabd Singh Khalsa, ...................................... 5 Golden Bridge, Los Angeles, CA and New York, NY, USA Mehtab Singh, Yoga Yoga, Austin, Texas, USA......................... ............ 6 Shakta Kaur and Hari Dev Singh, .......................................................... 6 Kundalini Yoga in the Loop (KYL), Chicago, IL, USA Sat Tara Singh, Mexico ...........................................................................7 Eight Awesome Curricula 1) Breathe Your Way to Inner Calm: An Introductory Series in Kundalini Yoga and Meditation .................................................8 2) Balancing the Chakras ................................................................... 15 3) The Ten Bodies ................................................................................. 16 4) Weighty Matters ............................................................................ 18 5) Boost Your Immune System .......................................................... 22 6) Yoga for Seasonal Change ............................................................. 27 7) The Power of the Mother: A Series of Pre-Natal Yoga Classes..................... ....................... 28 8) Mastering the Tattvas: Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Ether ......... 30 Five Fantastic Workshops 1) Cultivate Peace Within (with sample flier)..................................32 2) Connecting Women for Peace (with hand-out) ............................33 3) Yoga for the Artist (with hand-out) .............................................. 36 4) The Lunar Woman (with hand-out) ................................................ 38 5) Japji Sahib: The Song of the Soul (includes hand-out) ................. 39 Articles—You’re in the “Yoga Business” Now! Your Marketing Train ...............................................................................41 How to Easily Create Your Own Fliers ..................................................43 Charging for Yoga Classes—5 Steps to Success....................... ............ 44 Establish Yourself on the Internet......................... ................................ 49 Instructors’ CD Package ........................................................................52 A list of musical selections that every new instructor of Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan® should have in their collection. Resources Ancient Healing Ways .............................................................................55 Invincible Music........................................................................................56 Spirit Voyage ............................................................................................56 PDF Files for Five Fantastic Workshops.................................................56 IKYTA Teacher Training Resource Book IKYTA Teacher Training Resource Book Greetings from Gurucharan Singh Khalsa, Ph.D., Greetings from 3HO IKYTA KRI Director of Training Dear Kundalini Yoga Instructors, Dear Level 1 Graduate, Sat Nam and congratulations on completing KRI It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to the Level 1 Teacher Training! This is a great first step international community of Certified Instructors of on the path to becoming a Kundalini Yoga Teacher! Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan®. With the We encourage you to stay connected and completion of your 220-hours of training you are now participate in the 3HO Kundalini Yoga Teachers certified by the Kundalini Research Institute (KRI) and Association—IKYTA. Here you will have the may teach Kundalini Yoga and Meditation anywhere opportunity to be part of a global association/ in the world. Most importantly, you have laid a solid network of Kundalini Yoga Teachers, and continue pursuing your own professional foundation upon which to build a bright future as a and spiritual growth and excellence as a Teacher. consciousness educator in your local community. IKYTA has some great benefits for Teachers, including: When Yogi Bhajan envisioned the course of study that you’ve just complet- • Marketing Tools—including a beautiful, professionally designed Kundalini ed he used the analogy of a Bachelor’s, Master’s and Ph.D. degrees to describe Yoga Brochure in which you can list your own contact information the stages of personal growth each of us must traverse. Completion of Level 1 is equivalent to completing your “Bachelor’s” degree. Levels 2 and 3 are your • Many special discounts, including 3HO and KRI Events Master’s and Ph.D. degrees, respectively! • A new Graduation Package to help you get started as a professional KRI’s desire is to produce teachers of Kundalini Yoga who will demonstrate Kundalini Yoga Teacher awareness in consciousness, excellence in teaching skills and also serve as an IKYTA offers a Continuing Education Program which meets Yoga Alliance stan- example of depth and maturity of character. KRI supports you as part of a dards. We encourage all Teachers to continuing learning, learning, learning! global community of Certified Instructors in order to: IKYTA has a Global Teachers Council, with representation from Kundalini APrepare the foundations for the shift of humanity to the Aquarian Age by Yoga Teachers all over the world. The voice of every Teacher counts, and we want applying the legacy of the teachings, the golden chain and the example of the collective voice of Teachers to guide our association. Yogi Bhajan; Teaching Kundalini Yoga is an incredible opportunity to serve by sharing these AServe and uplift individuals to be healthy, happy and holy; and Sacred Teachings. In your purity as a link in the Golden Chain, many lives will be AProvide the opportunity for each person to awaken his or her capacity, char- touched through your practice and your presence. May you be blessed to be guided acter and sensitivity as a self-sensory human being who can be effectively by your highest consciousness to serve and elevate every person who comes to you intuitive, creative and compassionate. seeking Kundalini