Dance of Shakti

Shakti Module• 300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training

An Shakti-filled fusion of inner sensation, blissful holistic movement, serene stillness, and boundless creativity that will transform your approach to your yoga, movement and sequencing practice, propelling you towards spacious self-discovery and spiritual growth.

Live-Online: Aug.1-Sept. 25, 2025

 
 

What you will learn

 
    • The Dance of Shiva and Shakti: The Vijnana Bhairava’s teaching of navigating inner and outer reality on and off the mat as a path for spiritual growth

    • Physics, Physiology & The Self: Reconnecting with the Profound spaciousness that occupies a majority of both our physical body and universe

    • Prakasha and Vimarsha: Kashmir Shaivsim’s teaching on the reflection of awareness that encompass both an outer object and our Inner Self.

    • Biological Composition of Fascia as well as its role in coordinating holistic movement

    • Swami Muktananda’s teaching on the spontaneous practice of Hatha Yoga

    • Interoception and Intero-surfing: The neurology of inner sensation, and a key practice for harnessing our Inner Awareness at the onset of every practice

    • Physics, Physiology & The Self: How the Higgs Field and our Connective tissue can help us understand Holistic movement

    • Re-Uniting our Movement Teams: Rolling Sequences that generate more holistic movement and re-unite movement pathways

    • Rippling through the fascial lines: Moving with Effortless Effort through the primary movements of our Asana practice as a method of re-kindling inner awareness

    • ‘Churning’ inner awareness in continuity: Kashmir Shaivism’s teaching on ‘Nāda’, and how our movement can generate more inner awareness.

    • The dynamic flowing essence of awareness: The Pratybhijnahirdayam’s teaching of ‘Cid-Rasa’, how we can learn to move like the Yogic Universe.

    • Teaching From Inside 3.0: The Vijnana Bhairava’s approach to generating inner awareness through the outer circumstances of our life

    • Matrika Shakti & The Three Levels of Speech: Kashmir Shaivism’s teaching on how to teach from the heart, transforming words into energy.

    • Philosophy in practice: Merging inner and outer worlds through a variety of Om-based Mantra practices such as  ‘Rolling OMs’ and ’ Middle Path OMs’

    • Catching the shooting star of Inspiration: The Shiva Sutra’s teaching on how to prepare to receive inspiration when writing a yoga class, or teaching one.

    • The Shakti Flow: The structure and approach to the most important building block of a Vinyasa Flow Class.


    • The Yogic Story of Creation: How we can not only understand but skillfully participate in Kashmir Shavism’s explanation of the ‘5 Acts of Shiva’, an explanation of the Universe’s ongoing means of creation.

    • The Spring of “Unmesha”: Kashmir Shaivism’s description of how reality blooms, and how we can bloom with it on our mats and in our lives

    • Our Inner Spring: Tracing the path of the Spiral line and its role in holistic fully body movement

    • “Gram for Gram, stronger than steel”: The strength and spring of our connective tissue

    • Use it or Lose it: Re-patterning the bounce in our connective tissue through spring and momentum

    • Everyday Unmesha: Rediscovering the spring and spiral of everyday movement in walking and getting up and down from the floor.

    • Dissolving into Stillness: Kashmir Shaivism’s teaching of “Nimesha”, the natural path to profound stillness

    • “Stilling the Thought Waves”: Patanjali’s approach to stillness of body, breath and mind.

    • “Invisible Circles of Stillness”: Using the Vijnana Bhairava to find stillness both in our yoga asanas and in our meditation seat

    • The Strength of Stillness: Anatomy of the Deep Core, and it’s role in generating inner support for stillness in postures

    • The Space Between Activities: Bringing the teachings of Nimesha into the in-between spaces of your everyday life

    1. The ECM & You: The Biology of our Extra Cellular Matrix and its role in Cellular health

    2. Gotta Let if Flow if You Want it to Grow: The supply and demand approach to cellular health, and how Fibroblasts, the most abundant cell in our fascia, get the job done

    3. Cells Need to be Stretched Too: Why movement is key, not only our cellular health, but for informing creation of new cells

    4. Keeping a State of Flow: Swami Rudrananda’s teachings on how to stay open when experiencing tension and resistance

    5. Smooth Motion Cures Commotion: Zen master, Paul Reps’, teachings on how to move like water on your mat as a means of dissolving both physical and subtle tension.

    6. Shakti Vinyasa: The culminating presentation of a Vinyasa Flow Class Structure, incorporating every aspect to the training in one cohesive image and worksheet.