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Satya

Newsletter of SATYA October 2016 Svaroopa® Association of Teachers & Yogis Volume 19, Issue 9

PUBLISHER — Svaroopa® Vidya Ashram [email protected]

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF — Swami Nirmalananda Saraswati

CO-EDITORS — Matrika Gast & Vibhuti King

CONTRIBUTORS:

Swami Nirmalananda Saraswati

Amala Cattafi

Dasi Light Trautlein

Hrdaaya Abplanalp

Jolene Starr

Karuna Beaver

Matrika Gast

Susan Smith

Table of Contents

EDITOR’S NOTE ................................................................................................................................................................. 3

By Matrika (Marlene) Gast .......................................................................................................................................... 3

THE BUSINESS OF YOGA ................................................................................................................................................. 4

MARKETING SECRETS ...................................................................................................................................... 4 By Susan Smith ........................................................................................................................................................... 4

TEACHER TALK ................................................................................................................................................................. 6

TEACHING WITH GRACE ................................................................................................................................... 6 By Dasi Light Trautlein ................................................................................................................................................ 6

HEALING PRESENCE ........................................................................................................................................ 7 By Jolene Starr, M.D. .................................................................................................................................................. 7

ORGANIZATIONAL NEWS ................................................................................................................................................. 9

BOARD OF DIRECTORS RETREAT ...................................................................................................................... 9 By Amala Cattafi, Board President .............................................................................................................................. 9

TEACHER TRAINERS REPORTING ON STREAMLINED YTT 3 .............................................................................. 10 Reported by Matrika Gast ......................................................................................................................................... 10

GEOCENTERS — THEN & NOW ...................................................................................................................... 12 By Karuna (Carolyn) Beaver ..................................................................................................................................... 12

GEOCENTER CONFERENCE ............................................................................................................................ 13 Reported by Matrika Gast ......................................................................................................................................... 13

MORE THAN PHYSICAL BENEFITS ................................................................................................................... 14 By Matrika Gast ......................................................................................................................................................... 14

CONTINUING EDUCATION .............................................................................................................................................. 15

BEST CONTINUING ED YET! ............................................................................................................................ 15 By Hrdaaya Abplanalp ............................................................................................................................................... 15

NEW! TEACHER TUNEUPS ............................................................................................................................. 17 Reported by Matrika Gast ......................................................................................................................................... 17

CERTIFICATES AWARDED ............................................................................................................................................. 18

JUNE 10 — SEPTEMBER 10, 2016 .................................................................................................................. 18

THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS DONORS ................................................................................................................ 18

JUNE 11 — SEPTEMBER 30, 2016 .................................................................................................................. 18

EDITOR’S NOTE By Matrika (Marlene) Gast

As a Svaroopa® yoga teacher, your dharma is to teach. It’s a river’s dharma to flow and a honeybee’s dharma is to make honey. It’s what they do because of what they are. The river and the bee never ask, “What’s in it for me?”

Likely, as a teacher, you seldom (if ever) ask that question. You teach to serve your students with a style of yoga that gives them more than they could have imagined possible. Your classes and private sessions open them inward to peace and empowerment simultaneously. Your own deep immersion in the Svaroopa® Sciences practices enables you to go forward with your dharma, clearly focused on giving to others.

Yet this yoga is all about you, whether you are a teacher or a student. And as yoga teachers, we are always students as well; we are in fact lifelong learners. We are living the dharma described by yoga as the ultimate dharma of a human

being — to know one’s self as the One Self, Consciousness It-Self.

As you follow your path as a Svaroopa® yoga teacher, you know that it’s both personal as well as professional. As you train and as you teach, you are learning the practices for moving ever closer to knowing your Self experientially as well as living in that state. So it’s important to ask yourself, “What’s in it for me?” When you are making decisions about the next step on your path, you may see many options for where to go and what to do. Consider for each choice, “What’s in it for me?” It IS ultimately all about you.

This SATYA! issue seeks to inform and inspire you about your options as a member of SATYA, your professional teaching association. Read on to learn about your options for progress on your path. Get ideas for growing your yoga business through marketing, and be inspired to enroll in your free SATYA Marketing phone course. Read about invigorating new Continuing Ed programs, which you can count on for Current Standing status and so much more. Understand the importance of GeoCenters — engaging in your own or creating a new one in your locale.

Yes, these articles are here to stir you up. When the dust settles take a look at your dharma. Co-Editor Vibhuti King explained to me, “The root of dharma is dhri, which means ‘to support, hold, or bear.’ It is that principle which remains constant as changes take place around it. Our dharma brings us closer to Changeless Self. The change we’re headed for is that Constant. Of course there is resistance, but the change you’re headed toward is the greatest gift of all.”

So as you consider the array of personal and professional options described for you as a Svaroopa® yoga teacher and SATYA Member, do ask, “What’s in it for me?” What is of most benefit to you? What will open you to the most progress toward the goal of your dharma?

THE BUSINESS OF YOGA Marketing Secrets By Susan Smith

I teach marketing fundamentals to SATYA members in free monthly conference calls. As a marketing consultant, I can also work with you individually, by appointment, to customize your marketing strategy and plan. It’s been great to see Svaroopa® yogis get it together and do effective marketing. But most need instruction to clear their hurdle of resistance.

It’s human nature that we go to what we know, and that we shy away from what we don’t know. If you see yourself in this description, plan to take the leap beyond your resistance to marketing. To thrive in the current highly competitive yoga landscape, you need marketing expertise as well as your excellent and thorough Svaroopa® training. You are dedicated to planning your classes and private sessions using highly effective teaching and therapeutic protocols. Your business needs you to market just as systematically and energetically.

In your monthly marketing calls, you learn practical marketing objectives. And you learn how to employ them with relative ease. It all starts with a four-step process:

1. Write a marketing plan with strategic goals, and with tactics that support them

2. Execute the tactics

3. Measure the effectiveness

4. Adjust accordingly based on information yielded from how your tactics moved you to a strategic goal (or not)

For example, a goal could be to grow first-time students in a beginners’ class. Your tactic is to post a seven-minute video snippet of an actual class to your yoga business Facebook page. Then (of course) measure the number of inquires about classes, the number of actual new students who tried the class and the number who bought a class card. If response is at goal level, you’d repeat this tactic in a few months. If not, you’ll know to try something else. When you learn tactics, try them and then measure the results. This feedback helps you overcome resistance to marketing. As with any behavior you want to change, positive feedback helps you break bad habits and form effective ones.

For nearly two years, I’ve provided these types of generalized lessons in your free marketing phone course. These introductory lessons continue in October and November this year. And we’re measuring our results by asking you to complete a

questionnaire about the classes we’ve held and what you want for 2017. Click here to tell us what will best support you!

I love facilitating our phone course discussions. Through insights from a variety of perspectives, you learn benefits and pitfalls of different tactics. When Svaroopis share their individual experiences and someone says a certain tactic didn’t work, I ask, “Why do you think that didn’t work?” The answer leads to finessing the tactic or identifying other marketing approaches with a more reliable return on investment (ROI). These discussions help you avoid pitfalls and focus your marketing budget on proven tactics.

So you always need to analyze and quantify how your marketing is working. At least once on every call, I return to ROI and look at it in different ways. It’s important to look at immediate ROI as compared with lifetime value as well. For example, the ROI for marketing a single event, a discounted newcomers’ class for example, would total the money spent on advertising it and compare that to the total amount newcomers paid for the class. Even a slight profit or breaking even would count as worthwhile in the short term.

But you don’t just do single event ROI. You also look at lifetime value ROI. Compared to the money needed to bring them in, how many newcomers returned for classes, signed up for class cards or paid for ongoing monthly subscriptions? What was the value of that initial expenditure in terms of establishing longtime students? One particular event may be unsuccessful in terms of profit, or even not breaking even, but if some attendees stay with you over years, that event has a great lifetime ROI.

Compared to athletics-inspired yoga, Svaroopa® yoga is a niche market. So you have to set the

right expectations for your potential students and clients. If you attract new students by leading them to expect hot yoga, they’ll be disappointed. That’s when word of mouth in a community is not effective advertising. In marketing, we say you have to be careful to stay in your lane.

Recognize that, ultimately, Svaroopa® yoga is a lifestyle rather than a hobby or a form of entertainment (like some Westernized yoga styles). In your marketing, you need to convey accurately a sense of the whole Svaroopa® yoga experience. It is a comprehensive meditative experience of mind and body together as a spiritual pursuit.

A good way to convey this is visually rather than verbally: pictures of students in Svaroopa® yoga poses, soothing imagery and soothing colors (probably NOT flashing neon!). Pinterest now has Svaroopa® yoga memes that you can copy or download and use on your own website or in printed materials. Click on the icon top, right-hand corner of the svaroopa.org homepage. With a smart phone camera, you can easily photograph your own students (with their permission). To convey the message “this yoga is for every body,” get a group photo showing diverse ages and body types. You can even record video using a smart phone, and post it to Facebook or your website.

In teaching marketing to the SATYA community, I have learned that with Svaroopa® yoga there is a progression. You get students into your classes, you serve them at their entry level and you continue to support them in their progress to the next level and the next. I have seen that hosting a Weekend Workshop, when your students are ready to be supported into the next level, is a great Svaroopa® yoga differentiator. The value that they bring to your clientele far exceeds what other

styles offer. These workshops are extremely well designed and truly life-changing. In your free SATYA marketing course, our calls give you a great deal of information about how to market these workshops.

I also offer SATYA members individual consultations at a deep discount. My services include a wide variety of offerings from strategic planning through execution of brochures, flyers, emails, newsletters and websites. I begin by understanding from you what you want to accomplish, how you want to achieve your goal, how you want your “face to the world” to look, how you want your potential clientele to feel in first encountering you. If you want a website, I can create it for you, as well as teach you how to maintain it and make changes yourself.

My goal is to support you in growing a thriving yoga business, with the least amount of effort. As I walk you through planning and execution, I can show you how to find and use a wealth of online marketing services. Providers such as MailChimp, Constant Contact, Vista Print, Build a Sign.com and more let you find products and price points that work in your marketing budget. These online services are available to you whenever you have free time. I can show you how to “touch it once” and schedule it for publication or production. For example, I can create an email template in the look and feel that you want to brand your yoga business. Then together we plan topics for these emails for the coming year. You can even sit down and write all 12, then schedule them to be sent automatically.

The bottom line is, you can embrace marketing and use it effectively, just as you have learned to be an excellent Svaroopa® yoga teacher. Click here to register for the October 27 “Social Media” call, and here for the November 22 “Creating a Special Event” call. I look forward to getting to know you, working with you and helping you banish any obstacles to marketing. It’s time to take advantage of this SATYA membership benefit. You can’t beat the ROI on a free marketing course!

TEACHER TALK Teaching with Grace By Dasi Light

Trautlein

When I returned home from YTT 3, I had no idea Grace was about to take over my life! Of course at YTT 3, we learned new and challenging poses for deeper openings, concentrating on propping and aligning them. But how I teach has changed at least as much as what I can now teach. The changes in my students' response to my teaching and Svaroopa® yoga are thrilling.

One YTT 3 philosophy talk focused on matrika, the power of words. I have always tried to be careful about the words I use and the message they convey. Yet after this training my communication became so much clearer, easier and more effective. I saw this at home and, more importantly, I started to notice it with my students.

In the Yoga Discussion Group I led a few months ago, one student shared that, at the end of yoga class, her mind was already onto her next planned activity. She could never really experience a deep closing Guided Awareness in Shavasana. Since I returned home from YTT 3, she has “dropped in” in every class. In her weekly Embodyment® session, she is now much more interested in her physical experience as well as what that has to do with her Self, her mind, and her life. Before, she usually focused on her mental experience.

One student has continually ignored my redirection of her turning her palms upward while in Shavasana. While I have spoken to her about the harm this could do to her shoulder joints, it never stuck before. Since I instructed her in Shavasana hand alignment again after my YTT 3, she has not placed her palms down and is proud that she remembers!

A Treating Pain client recently started classes. She has taken the poses I gave her for home practice and made it her own. Without needing pain as motivation, she chooses her own pace and poses, and fits them into her life — for the joy of it.

My longest student (my husband!) started practicing dakshina, giving a monthly contribution to support Lokananda out of gratitude for all he receives from Swamiji and Svaroopa® yoga.

The blankets at my Yoga Center needed to be washed. So I told all my students about another yoga practice called seva, and they took blankets to wash at home. Less than one week later, clean blankets are returning, while more batches are leaving the Center to be washed!

My classes flow much more smoothly, and effectively. The classroom is calmer. The feeling is smoother and clearer with less busy chatter between poses. Students are focused more on experiencing what they are experiencing. I easily use fewer “You’re going to…” instructions and more action words: “lean, slide, soften, lengthen, tip, open, bring, hold, push and pivot.” My students now respond much more quickly in class, and my class time management has improved greatly.

What I am most delighted about is the resolution of the biggest challenge I took with me to YTT 3. My mind’s perfectionist tendencies while I teach are melting away. I feel much more nurturing to myself and my students. Before, whenever I finished a class, my mind would take stock of it to figure out how I can improve my teaching. Then my mind would use that analysis to harass me, telling me I’ll never be that great of a teacher. Now my mind still analyzes my teaching, but the positive is mixed in with the negative, and I am able to come up with constructive ways to address where I can improve and let go of the “perfection pest.” I see this translating into my teaching alignments and adjustments as well. I am softer, more my Self.

YTT 3 has given me the tools I need to be the yoga teacher I have always wanted to be. While I can still see areas to improve, I deeply trust and know that all I need is more training and Grace will remove the obstacles.

Healing Presence By Jolene Starr, M.D.1

Patanjali explains that your mind

is very repetitive.

It repeats the same things

over and over.

Know who you are,

beyond your mind —

know svaroopa, your own Self.2

I recently read an essay in one of my psychiatric journals. Sam, a young woman who has mental illness, wrote “…if you are not your mind, who are you?” Later in the essay, speaking of herself and others with mental illness, she continues, “You are illness…. Disease is not a part of you: it is you…. In some at the base, fundamental sense, this (the disease) is me.”

As I read the essay, I became dismayed because it was apparent to me that no one has explained to this young woman that she is not her mind!

In my spiritual practice, I understand that, while I have a mind and a body, I am more than mind and more than body. Some people call this the “Higher Self, the Source or the Light.” Some people say it is “God.” The words Soul, Spirit and Self with a capital-S have also been used.

The modern era of psychiatry that began with Sigmund Freud’s method of psychoanalysis put the emphasis on mind. Analysis has helped some people recover from mental illness. Yet, since it does not take body into account, it is an incomplete method. Since mind often creates harmful energy patterns in the body, methods which focus only on the body are also doomed to failure, since mind often will just re-create the maladaptive pattern. In order to recover, both mind and body must release the problematic beliefs and the energy pattern that results. Then it is much easier to tune into true Self.

Over 25 years of psychiatric practice, my approach with my patients was to see the illness as something that is temporarily afflicting them, something that is NOT them. With each patient, I would listen carefully. Then I would do my best to tune into the part of him or her that was healthy and look for something I could like, even admire. I often reminded myself that, inside every angry man or woman, is a scared young child. Sometimes I

1 Editor’s Note: Jolene Starr is a retired psychiatrist and takes Svaroopa® Yoga Deeper Practice classes in Boise ID. Her article is in response to Patanjali’s Sutra 1.5: 2 Rendered by Swami Nirmalananda

would ask myself, “What is it that I can learn from this person?”

Seven years ago I treated a woman for depression. Her childhood had been filled with abuse and violence, but she was a Christian. Once, as a child, she had seen Jesus looking out at her from behind the sofa, while her parents screamed and threw things. This image gave her comfort, and over the years she had coped very well, earning a good income and contributing to society. But depression plagued her, so she wanted to try medication. At her follow-up appointment, she told me she had only taken the anti-depressant for a short time. She did not want to take it and did not want to try any other medication. She also rejected my suggestion that counseling might be helpful. So I asked her, “Why are you here today?”

She smiled slyly, then looked down. “I think I came today for you.”

“Can you explain what you mean?”

“I wanted to tell you about my experience of Going to Heaven.” She then described an experience of going into pure Awareness, where she was filled with light and love, and a knowing of her own goodness. She wasn't sure how long she had been in this state, but she had kept alive the memory of it for many years. It still gave her a feeling of serenity.

“That sounds wonderful,” I said. “Why don't you Go to Heaven more often?” I wondered if she had done anything in particular to have this experience, and if so, had she tried relentlessly to “get there” again.

She looked at me with alarm and dismay, “Oh, NO!” she said. “You can't go there every day. It was just a taste of what's waiting for me after death.” Realizing that my belief, Heaven-is-a-Place-on-Earth, would clash with her Christian beliefs, I decided to not explore that statement further. Instead I said, “Thank you for telling me about your experience. I would be happy to see you again if you would like to discuss your concerns further.”

Toward the end of my psychiatric practice, I began to teach my patients to cultivate awareness. When mindfulness is taught properly, the person becomes aware of how many thoughts are negative, harmful and often false. He or she also begins to see how a thought leads to a tightening of the body or a holding of the breath. These physical responses slow down, or sometimes even stop the natural flow of energy in the body and lead to pain: headaches, back aches, frozen shoulders, sciatica, TMJ and other syndromes. But the original thought or emotion that led to the muscle tightening has been long forgotten.

So awareness of thoughts and body reactions is helpful, but not sufficient. We must also become aware of who we are when we are Awareness, Consciousness itself. True healing begins as we learn how to allow ourselves to be in this state of pure Awareness, which is remarkably restful, peaceful and very much alive. Awareness is not Body and not Mind. It simply is. True consciousness is Awareness.

This is what all wise psychiatrists, physicians, and healers from many different persuasions know: real healing does not come from medicines, psycho-therapeutic techniques or body manipulations. It comes from our Presence, the ability to be in a state of Awareness.

My mentor taught me about the healing power of Presence while I was still in my training to become a psychiatrist. When I lamented that patient Y simply wasn't getting better, regardless of the medication I prescribed or method of psychotherapy I employed, she said, “Sometimes all we can do is hold space until the person is ready to change.”

I was reminded again when I struggled in my work more recently. “No matter what I do, some of my patients never improve,” I complained to one of my colleagues.

“All you can do is your best.”

“I do my best, but some of my patients blame me when they don't improve.”

“If they think you are responsible for their healing,” he said, “then they are delusional. If you also think it's your fault, then you are joining them in their delusion.”

Pure Awareness is an energy state that carries a very high vibration. When someone who is in a state of pure Awareness enters a room, we sense it, feeling a calmness in their presence. We can also sense when someone is in a low energy state such as shame, fear, sadness or anger. Someone in these states may hide or lash out. But if we are in a high vibrational state and someone who is in shame appears, we will feel compassion and often try to help that person.

The mind-body will naturally entrain to the vibrations around it. So our job, as healers, is to do our best to

stay at the high end of the vibrational scale.3 For this reason, we need to be careful of how we spend our time and who we spend time with. If we know we will be around people who are likely to be in low-vibrational states (shame, fear, anger, sadness, envy, jealousy), we should be extra vigilant on where we put our attention.

Presence, Awareness, is an essential ingredient for healing, the Presence of the healing practitioner as well as the Presence within the one undergoing healing. With Presence comes acceptance, empathy and compassion. Carl Jung, one of the great psychiatrists of the 20th century, said it this way: “Please remember, it is what you are that heals, not what you know.”

To conclude, I would like to quote Rumi, a more ancient master of Awareness:

Out beyond ideas

of wrong-doing and right-doing,

there is a field.

I'll meet you there.

This 13th-century Persian poet, jurist, scholar, theologian and mystic captures the sense that what heals us is beyond the mind, beyond its wiring for generating judgments and polar opposites.

Beyond the mind, Rumi envisions a place of wholeness and oneness where we are present to one another. In my experience, this Presence in oneself provides the conditions for healing. It is the One Self in both practitioner and client.

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3 For research on the vibrational levels of the different emotions, see Power vs. Force by David R. Hawkins, M.D.

ORGANIZATIONAL NEWS Board of Directors Retreat By Amala Cattafi, Board President

I am writing to you from the dining room table at the Ashram, sending you love and gratitude! We have just finished our annual Board retreat and want to give you a report. In addition to monthly phone meetings, the Svaroopa® Vidya Ashram Board of Directors does an annual in-person retreat with Swami Nirmalananda.

Our four days of meetings are interspersed with deep practices and fabulous food, while we focus on the big stuff! We evaluate and plan for the near and long-range goals, always keeping in line with our vision. At the Ashram’s inception in 2009, Swamiji described our Vision:

To engage in & teach

the worship of Paramashiva,

the all-pervasive divine reality,

focusing on finding and experiencing

the divine within the individual human being.

This meeting, we wrote our Mission Statement. As background, your Vision Statement is who you are and why you exist; your Mission Statement is what you do to accomplish the Vision. In the last few years, we have accomplished so much with the Master Yoga Consolidation, opening Lokananda, and our YTT streamlining, that we needed to update and clarify our Mission. It was quite a lively discussion, because we needed to craft no more than two sentences! We wrote it, and Swamiji tweaked it. Now we are delighted to announce Svaroopa® Vidya Ashram's Mission Statement:

We provide yoga and meditation

programs and services,

teacher training and a vowed order.

As a conduit of Grace in an ancient yogic

lineage, we serve seekers of Self-Realization.

Read the Vision and the Mission together, and feel how they flow…Om Namah Shivaya!

With this clarity, we looked at what we actually do day-to-day and month-to-month, to make sure we are operating in line with our Vision & Mission. We

decided to reaffirm some programs and tweak others:

DYMC: Downingtown Yoga & Meditation Center will focus on meditation programs, with periodic workshops and classes to serve our immersion participants. Swamiji described it this way: “When I opened Master Yoga in San Diego, I couldn’t hang out a shingle as a meditation teacher because no one would come. So I began with yoga classes and introduced meditation after a couple of years. I and many others have contributed to changing the climate in the West, making meditation more visible. So now we really can focus on the most important part of yoga — your own Self!”

Yoga Teacher Training: We reaffirmed our commitment to Teacher Training, especially with our newly streamlined program. We will continue to offer yoga therapy and advanced trainings for those interested in those levels as well as entry level trainings for students of Svaroopa® yoga.

Vowed Order: We worked with Swamiji to refine the Vowed Order plans, which will be published soon. Our Shishya Program has been our first step in this direction, already running successfully for more than five years. Yogis who are interested in making vows, as their deep and amazing “next step” on the path, will be able to submit their applications soon.

Amazing Progress: We have completed our previous 10-year plan in five years! So we created another 10-year plan, continuing our existing services, but with a greater focus on supporting the teachers we train. We also made plans for Swamiji to have time to write and publish the books she has planned as well as to continue serving you through teachings, satsangs, and Shaktipat Retreats.

Finances: Our financial news is very positive. Enrollment continues to grow and we have waiting lists for some programs. We have streamlined our

operations to run more efficiently. With your help we have replenished the reserves we expended in getting Lokananda up and running and are putting on a new roof. Donations provide over 25% of our revenue, thanks to the generosity of so many.

Board Members: We welcome three Svaroopis as new Board members, all of whom bring amazing skills and a commitment to Swamiji, our community and their own practice: Rama (Ruth) Brooke, Dhananjaya (David) King, and Gayatri (Barbara) Hess. We thank them for accepting this Divine seva!! They join me, Kristine Freeman, Karuna (Carolyn) Beaver, Matrika (Marlene) Gast, Saguna (Kelly) Goss, Prakash (David) Falbaum and Peter Gallagher to support Swamiji so she can serve you!

As always, Board members are available to answer your questions. We love your input! Email me at [email protected] with any questions, feedback, or concerns, or just to talk yoga!

Om Svaroopa Svasvabhava Namo Namah

Teacher Trainers Reporting on Streamlined YTT 3 Reported by Matrika Gast

“Even though YTT 3 is now a day and a half shorter, it still seemed just as full and deep to me as ever,” reported Vidyadevi Stillman. “Teachers-in-training were still trained in all of the full inversions, balancing poses and even poses previously reserved for YTT 4. It was full and complete, with the

essential poses and angles for opening them and their students.

“They also got to chant Sri Guru Gita plus a Swami Sunday Satsang on their last morning. Even though our YTT programs are shortened, they are full of Shakti, even more than before, because of the presence of Grace. You get the poses and the Grace. It is impossible to separate the two.” (For

one YTT 3 student’s Shakti-fueled experience upon returning home, see “Teaching with Grace” on page 6.)

“YTT 3 has always been a jump,” says Kusuma Sachs. In Level 1, students open their spines and learn how to work with their body through the poses. In YTT 2, students are given poses that take the yoga out into the world. In Level 3, we dive into the more subtle realms of the poses and beyond. They come in for training with a significant level of teaching experience, so YTT 3 students are ready for a whole new stage of learning. Their level of maturity in Svaroopa® yoga provides a reliable foundation from which they learn the YTT 3 poses. By YTT 3, they are ready to know much more about the experience of Self and Consciousness.

“Our streamlined format brings more clarity to this learning process. With therapeutic adjustments moved to the new YCT (Yoga Classroom Therapeutics) track, YTT 3 has a more sequential approach to learning the poses. Now the course isn’t offering an enormous pot of stew. This updated design is more like a fully nourishing meal, served in courses, that promotes effective digestion for the building blocks of good health. August YTT 3 students learned the poses thoroughly, including how to get into each one and be in it effectively. Then they learned the details of teaching it. We were able to focus on each pose and highlight its unique technicalities. YTT 3 students were able to ‘get the pose in their bodies,’ and work thoroughly with the alignments and propping. They’ll take this training home to help their own students get the most effective poses. It was great to see these teachers-in-training energized by and grounded in propping and alignment details.

“The students also got all the Consciousness talks. The course was not any less deep than in previous formats. It gave them the opportunity to dive deep into Consciousness over and over again in the course. They also received five new short talks on aspects of meditation and Consciousness. These took them deeper and deeper in fewer days and paved the way for them to immerse in Consciousness more and more.

“Some YTT 4 poses, for instance, Trikonasana (Triangle), are now introduced in YTT 3. I call Trikonasana a ’10-year pose’ because it typically takes that length of practice to fully embody it. Getting it earlier in your Teacher Training empowers teachers to begin to develop their experience and skill sooner in their teaching career.

“The YTT 3 students learned Halasana (Plow) near the beginning of the course and even taught it in their Newcomer Classes. Doing Halasana earlier and more often during their training made it more familiar and do-able. Halasana was de-mystified, and any trepidation triggered by the thought of going upside down was dissolved by the end of the training. After all, most of us did it when we were 10 years old! But even those who did not have that childhood experience were able to come into the pose in a very skillful way. The repetition of it made them more confident about it. By their Newcomer’s day, they could skillfully teach Halasana. To build on it, they also learned Ear Closer and the Viparita Karani Mudra, both full inversions.

“Overall, they clearly got more depth in the poses, because the focus was on the alignments and

propping which students can do for themselves. Sometimes students develop a dependency on

adjustments; they want their teacher to take them into the deeper angles of a pose. Instead, giving them the alignments and propping assists them in doing the pose alone. This frees them to go deeper in their own practice.

“Going forward, Svaroopa® yoga teachers can enroll in YCT courses to learn how to make the poses even deeper. Once you are trained thoroughly in pose alignments and propping, you are set to become

completely comfortable and skilled in the pose. Then you are ready to learn the adjustments to take students deeper.”

For a summary of the origin of Svaroopa® YTT through its evolution to the new, streamlined format, read Swami Nirmalananda’s “How Do I Know, What I Know?”

GeoCenters — Then & Now By Karuna (Carolyn) Beaver

Swami Nirmalananda tells the story of how GeoCenters came to be. While directing the yoga program for Deepak Chopra’s Ayurvedic Center, she came into contact with many international students. She was also teaching in yoga conferences nationally and internationally, which led to her being invited to lead workshops in many locations. Her Master Yoga studio in La Jolla CA was already a teacher training facility, and now students began coming from many locales. The newly minted teachers went back to their communities, and nurtured and inspired others to come and train as teachers.

“This is how yoga spread in ancient times. Svaroopa® yoga is based in ‘Kashmiri’ Shaivism because the founding teacher was in the Kashmir region of Northern India. You used to have to go there to study. Muktananda brought it to America, a modern-day representative of the tradition. There are generations coming down, a lineage,” Swami says. “Every teacher shines brightly, but some inspire others to teach, and thus ensure the continuation of their tradition.”

These growing geographical clusters of teachers asked Swamiji (then Rama) for some support, based on the numbers of students they served. They were given a special listing in the Teacher Directory so people could find them more easily, and given priority to bring Swami and the other Teacher Trainers to their communities. Originally, Master Yoga required that a GeoCenter have at least five teachers, SATYA members in good standing, who lived within an hour or so of one another. The members met monthly or quarterly to share information and socialize.

Some GeoCenters still do this, but times have changed, as has our organization. When Rama became Swamiji, her focus shifted to teaching meditation, plus the injury she sustained made her travel decrease dramatically. The light that drew so many of us to teach Svaroopa® Yoga now draws us deeper into the meditative path.

Yoga Teacher Trainings in the West have changed as well. While large national programs such as ours

were the model 10 years ago, now there are many local teacher training schools, even in small communities. Athletic styles of yoga are the norm, whereas Svaroopa® Yoga uses the body to access profound spiritual states.

People even gather differently now. While we used to think nothing of driving a half hour to meet with our peers, we get together less frequently. Now we text, email, or – heaven forbid – call!

Despite these trends, we have 11 GeoCenters, 9 in the USA and one each in Australia and Canada. GeoCenter Members gather to support one another

as well as their students. Each year, Ashram Board Members visit each GeoCenter to hear how they’re doing and what their needs might be. This year the Board learned that many of the GeoCenters are in flux. Swamiji decided it was time to bring people together, specifically to determine how the Ashram can support GeoCenters’ revitalization as well as how the GeoCenters could support one another.

Thus, a first-ever GeoCenter conference will be held at Lokananda, October 9–12 2016. GeoCenters come together around teachers who organize, inform, inspire and lead by example. Each GeoCenter has a Liaison and many have other Leaders, those who have urged others to become teachers. These Liaisons and Leaders

share their enthusiasm and talents with their peers in multiple ways, enhancing their yoga communities. Your GeoCenter Liaisons and Leaders have been invited to our October conference.

Yoga is an inward process, not really a group process. And yet, when yogis are deep and full in their practice, they naturally want to be together. Conference participants will practice together and share the Grace that flows through our Guru and through our practices. They will learn about each GeoCenter’s activities, successes and challenges with interactive reports and feedback. They will be brainstorming new ideas to make your GeoCenter’s experience more meaningful, productive and maybe even more fun! Discussions will include how the Ashram can provide support and guidance. They will come away from their Conference with ideas, and more importantly, simple and effective implementation plans.

These are the Liaisons and Leaders of our GeoCenters. We thank them all for their dedication and look forward to seeing how they revitalize their GeoCenters!

Atlanta GA: Rhoda Joyner

Boise ID: Karuna Beaver, Matrika Gast

Boston MA: Vibhuti King, Yogeshwari Fountain, Deborah Shapiro

Calgary AB, Canada: Laksha Nesta, Rudrani Nogue, Saguna Goss

Chicago IL: Uma Gebraski, Andrea Perry

Minneapolis MN: Bhakta Johnson

QL Australia: DayaMa Ahern, Angela Barnett, Janaki Murray

Rehoboth Beach DE: Ishwari Gardner, Mati Gilbert

Rhode Island: Pam Church, Maria Sichel

San Diego CA: Deepa Mazzi, Sheynapurna Peace, Soraya Pereira

Vermont: Rama Brooke, Aanandi Ross

GeoCenter Conference Reported by Matrika Gast

Our October 9–12 GeoCenter Conference focused on refreshing and fortifying these communities of Svaroopa® yoga teachers and students. Gathering together were Liaisons and Leaders from:

Boise ID

Boston MA

Calgary AB, Canada

Minneapolis MN

Queensland, Australia

Rehoboth Beach DE

Rhode Island

and San Diego CA.

These GeoCenters range from 4 teachers in one studio to 27 teachers in multiple studios in a major metro area. Facilitating our process was new Board member Gayatri (Barb) Hess.

We all have passion for Svaroopa® yoga and meditation in our own lives. It sparks us to teach and foster other teachers, spreading the practices far, wide and deep. GeoCenters nurture vibrant growth of Svaroopa® Sciences worldwide. What are the ingredients and the skills needed for doing it more deliciously, reliably, consistently?

Swami Nirmalananda guided us in finding effective methods. She taught us how to build relationships among teachers, how to sort GeoCenter needs into categories of issues and to identify solutions.

To build relationships within our local teacher communities, Swamiji gave us a new tool: “compliment and to coach each other, with heart, with feeling, with a true sense of compassion and support, yet holding each other to the highest standard possible.” This tool is “peer review.”

None of us liked the idea at first! But we stepped up to “get with the program,” team-teaching classes and then received compliments and coaching from our peers. By the end of our conference, each of us felt that our “gem” had indeed been “polished.”

Compliments were generous and sincere; coaching was the same — precise. to the point, with genuine love. (For more on the peer review process, see “NEW! Teacher TuneUps” in this issue.)

If you are in a GeoCenter, look forward to hearing from your Leader and/or Liaison on how you will grow. If you don’t yet have a GeoCenter, it’s time to grow your own. Clearly, we are all active, strong teachers and leaders— not one wimp among us!

More Than Physical Benefits By Matrika Gast

Teachers benefit immensely from supporting each other. To foster more of this, you have a new benefit — specifically to support you in supporting each other. Since July 1st, 23 GeoCenter members have already reported their private session “trades” with one another, having earned $10 tuition credit for each session. In the first six weeks, $530 in tuition credits has already been granted!

Apply your GeoCenter Tuition Credit (GTC) toward any immersion tuition at Lokananda, for up to half of your tuition, maximum $500 per year. This means you can receive 50 sessions in a year, while getting a big discount on your next program!

When you give sessions, you deepen into your yoga and your Self. Receiving sessions gives you even more benefit. When you trade with another teacher, you have the benefit of a deeper starting point for both of you, so your “reciprocal adaptation” takes you much further.

This benefit is specifically for GeoCenter members who are also SATYA members. It supports you as a teacher plus supports your group as a whole. Click here for more information about how to create a GeoCenter; click here to find out about hosting a Foundations course so you create more teachers.

Svaroopa® Vidya Ashram’s GeoCenters are very important! They are like the arteries that feed your heart. When your heart pumps newly oxygenated blood out, to go through your whole body, the first arteries feed right back into your heart, irrigating and oxygenating your heart muscle. By feeding your heart, your heart can feed your whole body.

This means that, while your GeoCenter supports you at home, it also supports the heart that pumps blood through the whole body of teachers — your Ashram. GeoCenter members have the advantage of being geographically near each other, so they can work together. Their support keeps the Ashram thriving, and the Ashram pumps breath and aliveness through our whole body of teachers. By keeping our arteries healthy, the benefits are physical and more than physical.

Click here to log in to your SATYA member pages (password: SatyaMember) for additional benefits of

the new program “GeoCenter Tuition Credit” (GTC) and go deeper — together.

CONTINUING EDUCATION Best Continuing Ed Yet! By Hrdaaya Abplanalp

There’s never been a better time for your Continuing Education. Our 2017 Course Calendar offers abundant ways to return to Current Standing, to stay in Current Standing or to get well ahead of the curve. With our streamlined trainings, you now have NEW advanced level courses available to you with fewer prerequisites.

Becoming more skilled and confident in teaching Svaroopa® yoga benefits you and your students. Your investment in Continuing Education returns unforeseen treasure to you every time. It’s “Miracle Grow” for you personally, for your yoga business and for your cherished students.

Additionally, you support your yoga business when you are in Current Standing. Your credentials are displayed along with your name and location in our online teacher directory, letting current and potential students see the level of expertise that you offer them.

Here’s a refresher on the frequency of training needed to stay in Current Standing:

After Foundations, every 6 months After Level 1, through Level 3, every year After Level 4, every two years

Continued SATYA Membership is also a requirement for Current Standing.

Remember, you can retake any YTT level you have passed for a 40% discount on tuition.

Review the rich array of 2017 courses, select one (or more!) and enroll now to ensure that the course you want is confirmed. Space is limited; when a course fills, we put you on the wait list. For detailed descriptions, click on the course titles.

January 14-22 YTT Level 4 Program begins at 7:00 pm; last day ends at 12:30 pm.

If you have completed YTT 3 within the previous year, this keeps you in Current Standing.

January 23-29 YTT Level 2 Program begins at 7:00 pm; last day ends at 12:30 pm.

If you have completed YTT 1 within the previous year, this keeps you in Current Standing.

February 3-6 Prep Course: Forward Bends Program begins at 7:00 pm; last day ends at 12:30 pm.

If you’re out of Current Standing, this brings you back, IF you take it in conjunction with Deeper Forward Bends.

February 7-12 Deeper: Forward Bends Program begins at 2:00 pm; last day ends at 12:30 pm.

Completed YTT 3 & ATT 403 — Lower Spinal Release.

March 2-5 EYTS: Foundations Review Program begins at 2:00 pm; last day ends at 12:30 pm.

Brings everyone into Current Standing, even with no training for 10 years, no matter your level of previous certification.

March 5-11 YTT Level 1 Program begins at 7:00 pm; last day ends at 12:30 pm.

Prerequisites: Foundations & SATYA Member in Current Standing.

To be in Current Standing, you can take Foundations Review on March 2, or Foundations within the six months prior.

If you have completed YTT 1, but are out of Current Standing, you can repeat YTT 1 to return to Current Standing.

March 12-19 ATT 262: Yoga Therapy — Treating Pain Program begins at 2:00 pm; last day ends at 6:30 pm.

Prerequisites: YTT 2, Embodyment® & SATYA Member in Current Standing. The course keeps you in Current Standing

March 21-26 EYTS-Deceptive Flexibility 2 Program begins at 2:00 pm; last day ends at 12:30 pm.

Brings you back to Current Standing or keeps you in Current Standing.

Prerequisites: Deceptive Flexibility Level 1, YTT 3 & SATYA Membership.

March 29-April 2 Foundations of Svaroopa® Yoga Program begins at 2:00 pm; last day ends at 12:30 pm.

Brings you back to Current Standing, and keeps you in Current Standing.

April 26-30 EYTS: Teacher TuneUp — Heart Openers Program begins at 2:00 pm; last day ends at 12:30 pm.

Prerequisites: YTT 1.

Brings you back to Current Standing, and keeps you in Current Standing. Enables any teacher to return to the flow of YTT, even if 10 years have passed since your last course.

May 5-7 Radical Anatomy for Yogis Program begins at 2:00 pm; last day ends at 6:30 pm.


May 8-13 Embodyment® Yoga Therapy Training Program begins at 2:00 pm; last day ends at 6:30 pm.

Brings you back to Current Standing or keeps you in.

May 16-21 EYTS: Deceptive Flexibility 1 Program begins at 2:00 pm; last day ends at 12:30 pm.

Prerequisite: YTT 1. Brings you back to Current Standing or keeps you in Current Standing.

June 21-25 Foundations of Svaroopa® Yoga Program begins at 2:00 pm; last day ends at 12:30 pm.


July 14-17 Prep Course: Abs Program begins at 2:00 pm; last day ends at 12:30 pm.

Prerequisite: YTT 2.

Brings you back to Current Standing or keeps you in, IF enrolled in Deeper Abs course (see below).

July 18-23 Deeper: Abs Program begins at 2:00 pm; last day ends at 12:30 pm.


July 29-August 2 EYTS: Teacher TuneUp — Classical Poses

Program begins at 2:00 pm; last day ends at 12:30 pm.


Brings you back or keeps you in Current Standing.

August 5-13 YTT Level 3 Program begins at 7:00 pm, last day ends at 12:30 pm.

Prerequisite: YTT 2 & SATYA Member in Current Standing.

September 7-10 EYTS: Foundations Review Program begins at 7:00 pm; last day ends at 12:30 pm.

Prerequisites: Foundations & SATYA Member in Current Standing.

Brings everyone into Current Standing, even with no training for 10 years, no matter your previous levels.

September 11-17 YTT Level 1 Prerequisites: Foundations & SATYA Member in Current Standing.

To be in Current Standing, you can take Foundations Review on March 2, or Foundations within the six months prior.

If you have completed YTT 1, but are out of Current Standing, you can repeat YTT 1 to return to Current Standing.

September 24- 29 EYTS: Deceptive Flexibility 2 Program begins at 2:00 pm; last day ends at 12:30 pm.

Brings you back to Current Standing, or keeps you in Current Standing.

Prerequisites: Deceptive Flexibility Level 1, YTT 3 & SATYA Membership.

October 7-11 Foundations of Svaroopa® Yoga Program begins at 2:00 pm, last day ends at 12:30 pm.


October 21-26 Embodyment® Yoga Therapy Training

Program begins at 2:00 pm; last day ends at 6:30 pm.


October 27-29 Radical Anatomy for Yogis Program begins at 2:00 pm; last day ends at 6:30 pm.


November 1-4 Prep Course: Neck & Shoulders Program begins at 2:00 pm; last day ends at 12:30 pm.

Prerequisites: YTT 3 & SATYA Member.

Brings you back to Current Standing or keeps you in, IF you are enrolled in Deeper Neck & Shoulders course

November 5-10 Deeper: Neck & Shoulders Program begins at 2:00 pm; last day ends at 12:30 pm.

Prerequisites: Successful completion of YTT 3 (or YTT 3 & YCT3); & SATYA member in Current Standing.

If you are not in Current Standing, you may take the related Prep Course: Neck & Shoulders, which is scheduled immediately preceding this course.

NEW! Teacher TuneUpsReported by Matrika Gast

Take a look at your brand new option for Continuing Ed: a Teacher TuneUp at Lokananda. In 2017 you can delve deeply into Heart Opening poses in April or Classical Poses in July. A Teacher TuneUp refreshes and renews your skills in teaching protocols, propping and alignments while you enjoy a sweet immersion in yoga and meditation.

In addition to being led by Swami Nirmalananda and other Teacher Trainers, the program is designed for you to benefit from the company and coaching of other Svaroopa® yoga teachers. Your fellow teachers are the deepest and most committed yogis you are likely to find. With your peers, you can share your yoga most deeply, as you support and coach each other into excellence.

Swami Nirmalananda has designed this new Continuing Ed offering for upliftment of our whole community. A key ingredient is peer review, so that you receive clear compliments as well as coaching for any drift. These new Teacher TuneUp courses create a climate in which teachers can learn to talk to each other frankly and supportively, clarifying and supporting one another with a lot of love.

Swamiji describes the peer review process as a conscious interaction “where you’re learning how to say important things lovingly, seeing the best along with what needs improvement. This is an extraordinary skill, relationship changing in all avenues of life besides in your teaching.”

She first spoke of Teacher TuneUps in her SATYA Q&A, answering a question about other teachers’ drift in our Shavasana Guided Awareness.4 After explaining the protocol in question, Swamiji asks the submitter why she has not “…spoken to the other teachers about this. If teachers don’t help other teachers improve their skills, how will anyone improve? If you can compliment another teacher on what she or he does well, can you not offer coaching as well?

“This is such a valuable process that I’ve built it into our new Teacher TuneUps. In addition to reviewing our incredibly effective teaching protocols, as well as learning more, you will team up with your fellow teachers to ‘polish your gem.’ Each of you is such a

4 Swami Nirmalananda, SATYA Q&A, Volume 19, Issue 7, August 2016, page 4.

deep yogi and so generous in your sharing with others that you are already a gem. Can you shine even brighter? We’ve been using the Teaching Review process for decades, specifically to help you polish your gem. Next year we step into a new level of consciousness, if you will go there with me: that you learn how to truly talk to one another, about things that really matter to you. That you learn how to compliment and to coach each other, with heart, with feeling, with a true sense of compassion and support, yet holding each other to the highest standard possible. This is Svaroopa® yoga.”

Teacher TuneUps are designed to catch drift and get us teachers firmly on course again with our highly reliable Svaroopa® yoga protocols.

Swamiji explains further, “I have found that if people come in and take courses, they don’t always go home and do self-correction. It’s only when they get a Teaching Review, that they clearly home in on the drift and do an effective course correction in their teaching.

“Remember what it’s like with your YTT Practice Teaching? You receive compliments and coaching from your supervising teacher as well as your peers. It’s as hard to give feedback as to receive it. The whole process is nerve wracking but really ‘gets in there.’ Remember how much clarity you got. If you care about your teaching, it’s going to get in there. If you care about Svaroopa® yoga and your fellow teachers, you’re going to engage in this process for your own upliftment and for your whole community.”

For course descriptions and enrollment, click for Heart Openers & Classical Poses.

CERTIFICATES AWARDED June 10 — September 10, 2016 Pregnancy Yoga Teacher

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Svaroopa® Yoga Basics Teacher

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