100-Hour Meridian Yoga Training
Level 2 – Stress Pattern in TCM
October 4 – 26, 2025
Sa. 11:30 – 20:00 & Su. 09:00 – 15:00
This yoga teaching course intricately weaves together the wisdom of Yoga and Traditional Chinese Medicine, offering a profound exploration of stress patterns and their release through acupressure, trauma healing and body work. By mastering breath and body techniques, you’ll unlock transformative shifts in your physical, emotional, and mental well-being. This immersive journey delves deeply into human energetic and physical anatomy, equipping you with powerful tools to heal 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 Stress Patterns
In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), stress is understood as a disruption of the body’s vital energy, or Qi, which flows through channels known as meridians. When stress occurs, it often causes stagnation or imbalance in the flow of Qi, leading to various stress patterns, each associated with different organs and emotional responses.
What you’ll learn in this course:
The 4 Extraordinary Meridians
The 4 Stress Patterns
The Acupressure Points and the Meridians for stress relief
Asana, Pranayama, & Meditation Practice
Diagnostic Methods in TCM
Healing techniques:
Intro to Acupressure
In-depth: Cupping Therapy
In-depth Moxibustion
Trauma Release
Sample Schedule
Saturday
Asana Practice •11:30-13:30
Lunch •14:00-15:30
Theory and Practice• 15:30-20:00
Sunday
Asana Practice •9:00-11:00
Snack •11:00-11:45
Theory and Pratice•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 research on fascia and connective tissues, 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.