VAJRA YOGA • SEPT 9, 2024 - NOV 11, 2024
200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training
Learn to teach or deepen your practice with the classical yogic inner sciences from India and Tibet.
200 hrs of teachings with one in-person retreat and 7 weekends of online livestreams
Course completion qualifies you for RYT-200 certification with Yoga Alliance
Tuition costs: $2000 early bird pricing (with additional retreat costs starting at $700)
About The Program
Our program is designed to support self-discovery and growth, lasting joy and physical health and happiness. We focus on alignment based Hatha Yoga, Vinyasa Yoga, Tibetan Healing Yoga, breathing practices, meditation and philosophy from the Buddha and the Yogis.
Whether your goal is to teach yoga or deepen your practice, you will find the tools that light your path.
Program Highlights:
Learn Tibetan Healing Yoga
We explore and learn to share the basic practices of Tibetan Healing Yoga and preliminary practices for Tsalung Trulkhor, the subtle body practices from Vajrayana Buddhism preserved in Tibet.
This course will focus on the foundations that are needed to safely practice and teach.
This is a yoga teacher training that focuses on the intersection between Hatha Yoga & Vajrayana and Tibetan Buddhism
Alignment Based Yoga Asana
Practice and take refuge in this supportive community of friends, yogis, and caring teachers, while gaining awareness, clarity, strength, flexibility, and a balanced state of being.
This training includes an Unlimited Studio Class Pass for zoom livestreams daily throughout the course with Michele and her staff of amazing teachers!
Study with Tenzin & Michele On The Following Topics:
• The Theory & Practice of Yoga (intensive asana, philosophy, pranayama and meditation study)
• Therapeutic Applications (learn to teach alignment based yoga as you gain a strong understanding of anatomy & physiology as applied to yoga asana.
• Art of Teaching (gain the confidence and tools to be an effective teacher using voice, body language, gentle assists, & the art of sequencing, as you practice teaching.
• Yoga Philosophy, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, The Bhagavad Gita, Sutras of the Buddha, Mahayana Buddhism.
Course Structure
We begin this program with an in-person retreat at Menla on September 9-15, 2024.
The rest of the training will be held over livestreams with Michele over the course of 7 weekends.
Menla Retreat Schedule: Check-in at 4pm on Sept 9, 2024, Check-out at 12pm on Sept 15 2025
Livestream Fridays: 7-9pm Eastern | Philosophy & Meditation/Yoga Nidra
Livestream Saturdays: 11am - 1pm Eastern | Asana Technique & Practice
Full Curriculum
Week 1 (in-person retreat)
September 9-15, 2024
Yoga asana, philosophy, meditation, pranayama yoga Immersion with Michele Loew & Robert Thurman.
Week 2 (zoom livestream)
September 20, 21, 22
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Buddha's sutra teachings, Standing poses and Sun Salutations, Tibetan healing yoga
Week 3 (zoom livestream)
September 27, 28, 29
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Forward folds, Tibetan Healing Yoga.
Week 4 (zoom livestream)
October 4, 5, 6
Bhagavad Gita & Shantideva; Twists in Hatha & Tibetan Yoga
Week 5 (zoom livestream)
October 11, 12, 13
Bhagavad Gita; Comparative teachings from Buddha; Hip Openers; teaching practicum, Tibetan Breathing practices
Week 6 (zoom livestream)
October 18, 19, 20
Backbends; Restorative Yoga; Bhagavad Gita, Tibetan Yogas Teaching Practicum.
Week 7 (zoom livestream)
October 25, 26, 27
Non-Dual Teachings in Indian Philosophy; Pranayama; Core; Beginning Inversions; Tibetan Yogas; Teaching Practicum, Meditation.
Weekend 8 (zoom livestream)
November 1, 2, 3
Closing Weekend, Art of sequencing a flow-based class; Pranayama, Yin, Tibetan Healing Yoga; Restorative Yoga, Subtle Body, taking seat of teacher.
The course will also include elective hour options to choose from in daily asana practices, philosophy homework, practice teaching, or November in-person Menla retreat.
After registering for the course tuition, we will send you a link to book your Menla Retreat accommodations. Prices for the retreat run from $700 camping to $1900 single room.
Your Teachers
Robert Thurman
This is a rare opportunity to study, in the context of a yoga training, with Professor Emeritus, Padma Shri Robert “Tenzin” Thurman—Vajracharya in the lineage of H. H. the Dalai Lama, world renowned scholar & authority on Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Science, Indic spirituality, and world philosophy. He will elucidate the Buddha’s teachings and offer inner scientific, philosophical, and spiritual inspiration for our yoga practices.betan Tengyur the 5000+ originally Sanskrit works from India’s long lost “Library of Alexandria,” the Ratnodadhi Library of Nalanda University, into English and other modern Indian and world languages, creating a necessary database for the 21st century collaboration of the Indian and Tibetan Inner Sciences (adhyatmavidya) with modern, “outer,” materialist sciences.
Michele Loew
Michele Loew is the founding director of the Vajra Yoga School of Comparative Buddhist and Indic Yogic studies and the owner of The Yoga Space in Portland.
She will lead the asana, meditation, philosophy, and guided sadhana livestreams rooted in Vajrayana, Tibetan Yoga, and Hatha Yoga.
She has taught, practiced, & studied avidly since 1998, and is known for her ability to see each student and address their individual needs both therapeutically and energetically. She is a master at hands on assists, alignment, and greatly enjoys teaching spirituality and philosophy that provides a path to happiness for all.
I’m excited for you to participate in our Vajra Yoga 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training!
Join us in uncovering our joyous original nature at $2000 (plus additional retreat costs) with early bird pricing until June 15, 2024!