100-Hour Meridian Yoga Training
Level 2
June 1 – 30, 2024
Sa. 11:30 – 17:45 & Su. 09:00 – 15:00
This yoga teaching course is an interweaving of Yoga and Traditional Chinese Medicine. You’ll learn in-depth body work and trauma release. Learning to use your breath and bodily manipulations can create profound changes in your body, emotions, and mind. This is a deep and practical immersion into the human energetic and physical anatomy leading to the development of powerful skills and techniques for genuinely helping yourself and others.
Traditional Chinese Medicine
Ancient Chinese believed that humans are microcosmos of the larger surrounding universe, and are interconnected with nature and subject to its forces. The balance of yin and yang symbolizes and represent the mutual dependence of opposites. This is one of the Taoist’s concept of between health and disease. TCM treatment seeks to restore this balance through treatment specific to the individual.
Yoga
The power of yoga lies in the traditions’ deep understanding of mind-body relation. What at first may seem to be just a spiritual practice, works by first healing the body, calming the emotions and allowing the mind to focus so that the natural wisdom of the Self my arise.
The Meridians
The Meridians are pathways in the body that forms a continuous web-like network along which Qi, blood, and vital fluids flow. They do not have visible structures, they do however, travel through the physical pathway of the fascia and the connective tissues within the neuro-myofascial web of the body. The 12 regular meridians are named after the abdominal organs they connect in a circuit that cycles every 24 hours.
What you’ll learn in this course:
The 8 Extraordinary Meridians
The Acupressure Points and the Meridians
The Fascia and the Science of Stretch
Asana, Pranayama, & Meditation Practice
Diagnostic Methods in TCM
Healing techniques:
In-depth: Acupressure
In-depth: Cupping Therapy
Tui Na
Trauma Release
Sample Schedule
Saturday
Asana Practice •11:30-13:30
Snack •14:00-14:30
Afternoon Session •14:45-17:45
Sunday
Asana Practice •9:00-11:00
Snack •11:00-11:45
Afternoon Session •12:00-15:00
The Meridian Yoga Training here at Manas Yoga Studio is a registered Yoga Alliance Continuing Education which allows graduates to use the title, “Certified Meridian Yoga Practitioner.” You can use these techniques to create yoga sequences for yourself and for your students. This Meridian Yoga certification program consist of 60 hours of in-person classes and 40-hours of interactive online/recorder classes. This training does not provide graduates with a legal license to practice massage, bodywork, or acupressure in Austria.
Investment
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€ 1,800*
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Erika Smith Iluszko
I’m a yoga student and English yoga teacher based here in Vienna, Austria. As a young child in Asia, I was treated with either one or a combination of acupressure, acupuncture, moxa, dry cupping therapy, or herbs from my grandmother’s garden whenever I get sick. When this did not work I was given western medicine. When I got a bit older and moved to India, I saw yoga’s holistic way of healing the body. It sees well-being as extraordinarily intricate and that doctors, scientist, and sages do not have all the answers. Yoga and Samkhaya are based on logic and experience of the qualities (Gunas) and functions (Kriya).
These two ancient philosophies have shaped my way of seeing all beings. In combination with my education in psychology and social psychology, they have allowed me to understand that the heart of healing lies in our abilities to listen, see, and perceive the body and mind as one. That ultimately they are the sides of the same coin.
This is what I want to share with you – Traditional Chinese Medicine which at first seems to be a healing science, based on spiritual practices that restore and balance the mind and consciousness, and Yoga which at first seems to be a spiritual practice, but works by first healing the physical body, calming the emotions, focusing the mind and then allowing wisdom of the Self to bloom.
I am convinced that Yoga, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Psychology are powerful attempts to explain the same thing – THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE.