200 hr Yoga Teacher Training 1on1 Course (Hatha, Tantra, Heart of Yoga)

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Minami shares an ancient wisdom that is lost from modern yoga and tantra practices. Intimate private sessions provide healing and directions to one's spiritual path. She also shares 1:1 Yoga Teacher Training for those who want to crack the "code". Find your inner guru with Minami. Sessions available online & in Nelson NZ.

★YTT 200 Hr :

- Private Sessions : 1.5-2 hour x 2-3 times per month

- Self-study : at least 20 – 30 mins per day (including Bhakti Yoga, Karma Yoga, Journaling, Self-Practice, Homework etc )

★Schedule:

- If you live outside of Nelson, we will use the online video conference.

- Start anytime of the year! We decide as we go! Sessions will be held at my place in Tahuna Hill, Nelson, NZ. If you wish to use the online video calling, we can arrange that as well.

★Time Period:

Up to 12 months long

★What do we learn?

- Hatha yoga (origin, key concepts, tradition & its practice)

- Tantra (learn its tradition via ancient texts & its practice)

- Heart of Yoga (“Father of modern yoga” Krishnamacharya, his son TKV Desikachar & their student and friend Mark Whitwell’s traditional & natural method and practice of Hatha yoga / Tantra)

- Energy work (become aware & learn to control energy in everyday life)

- Meditation (approximately 10 different methods)

- Jnana Yoga (yoga philosophy)

- Raja Yoga (yoga of will power)

- Karma Yoga (yoga of action)

- Bhakti Yoga (yoga of love and devotion)

- Eight limbs of yoga (Patanjali’s yoga sutra)

- Mantra (approximately 5)

- Learning from the texts, videos etc

- Journaling

- Self-practice

- How to structure a sequence of asana (poses)

- Health in general (re-evaluate our way of living, eating, acting etc)

- What makes you an effective yoga teacher / healer to yourself and others?

- What yoga is not

★To those who are considering:

Yoga Teacher Training is not necessarily to make you a yoga teacher, but to understand the whole picture of what yoga really is. First and foremost, I would like to invite you to embody the ancient wisdom of yoga.

Once you soak up the core essence of yoga with each and every cell in your body, you will be guided by the universe to teach. Your teaching should come naturally, not forcefully – just like how the seeds sprout, then flower & bear fruit…Natural law is applied.

You have to be happy, to have filled your cup, first. Once you know the abundance, you have extra to share with others. World peace starts from your heart, from within.

Traditionally, (and nobody seems to follow it these days) yoga has been passed on from guru to disciple, privately & verbally in an intimate way, with mutual trust and friendship. I pay respect and practice this ancient way in our YTT.

In this training, I really care that you experience spiritual transformation, or shaktipat (energy transmission). That is why I tailor this learning process for you.

I do have a curriculum; however, it is very important that you ask, become curious, and wonder about what you are learning. It is your will that deepens the knowledge and makes your YTT experience rich, applying the ancient wisdom to your everyday life.

My students say this course doesn't really feel like 'learning', but more like a life coaching, healing session. Yes - that is very true. I care greatly whether you actually applied what you learnt into your daily life. When you feel stuck, together we face the darkness and come through the other side of the tunnel.

If I happen to have some workshops or events during this YTT period, you will be able to attend at a discount. I will let you know as we go.

★I recommend this YTT to you if …

- You have been practicing asana but would like to know what’s behind it

- You have already taken a different YTT but want to learn more philosophy, tradition, and energy work.

- You have never practiced any form of yoga but very intrigued by it

- You want to become your own guru and live your best life

- You want to release dukkha (suffering, heaviness), heal yourself and serve the world better

★Who is your teacher?

Minami Takashima

- Certified Tantra, Hatha Yoga, and Heart of Yoga teacher/

Energy healing practitioner / Spiritual life coach

A yoga practitioner since 19, Minami experienced her first Shaktipat – energy transmission through an energy work / healing method called Kiko. Since then, she developed stronger connection to the universe.

After 6 years working in the advertising industry, Minami noticed that toxic hierarchies & social patterning were compromising her body and soul. She asked herself, “What is happiness? What is the soul’s journey? Who am I?”.

In 2018, Minami completed the Heart of Yoga Online Teacher Training, and in 2019 started teaching yoga.

After marrying and leaving her advertising job, she travelled within Thailand, Bali & India. In Ubud, Bali, Minami spontaneously found her Heart of Yoga teacher, Mark Whitwell, holding a Heart of Yoga Advanced Teacher Training, which she completed. She also took part in many different workshops in Bali, learning the diverse world of yoga.

In India, Minami completed her 200 hours teacher training in Akshara Yoga School, located on the family-owned organic farm in Uttar Pradesh. Her teacher, Saurabh Chaudhary, has studied in the leading yoga institutes in India, holding a Master’s degree in Yoga, and has deep philosophical insights into Yoga and Vedanta. Learning from him almost privately was the richest experience.

During this time, she had personal issues that brought Tantric breakthrough – where you decide to sit with the darkness so intensively instead of looking away or trying to heal, you realise godly light within and without.

After moving to New Zealand in 2020, continued her study through ancient texts etc. Realised how yoga is miss-taught in the world, starts to feel the urgency to teach the traditional yoga method.

Now she continues to teach Hatha yoga and Tantra, to invite people to experience embodied liberation through our ordinary conditions.

She deals with people’s trauma, negative tendencies which discount their innate power, and bring clarity and potential to full blossom.

She has been holding workshops regularly including;

- Vedic mantra workshop

- Law of attraction workshop

- Spiritual alchemy workshop

- The world of Veda workshop

- Heart of Yoga Sangha

- Hatha yoga & Tantra workshop

- Yoga for musicians workshop

- Embodied Tantra workshop series
- God'dess Circle (monthly workshops)

- Heart of Yoga Japan Tour with Mark Whitwell & Rosalind Atkinson

etc…..

Please feel free to ask more questions, via email or social media.

We can also arrange a meeting at my place to have a chat.

yogawithminami@gmail.com

facebook.com/yogawithminami

Instagram.com/yogawithminami

https://www.yogawithminami.com (Bio, story of Heart of Yoga, Podcast etc)

Thank you & let your light shine through!