Explore the Schools of Yoga withing the Authentic Yoga Tradition.

The basic criterion of the authentic yoga tradition is to first become a better person inside. Studying the schools of yoga within the authentic yoga tradition is an excellent way to journey toward the center of the Self. The idea of passing on the wisdoms of the different schools of yoga has been on my mind for many years. I contemplated how to teach the different schools of yoga against the backdrop of the present trend of knowledge emerging from modern science. I know that whatever I teach cannot be complete because our finite and limited minds can never explore the infinite and eternal wisdom of the authentic yoga tradition, which is 6000 years old and encompasses 3000 masters and more than 1000 texts.

Despite the limitations of our minds, together we can journey toward human consciousness, knowing that the discovery of self leads to personal, professional, social and spiritual excellence beyond race, cult, dogma or belief.

We will meet 3 hours every month to learn, explore, know and awaken to authentic yoga tradition to become a better person in our personal professional, social and spiritual levels.
Learning together for 3 hours followed by assignments and practices that are required to be done so that understandings in the classes will be applied in our life for human excellence.

We are starting the course in the second week of May, 2012. This course can be submitted to any yoga accreditation either as part of continuing education or part of curriculum for completing some hour sin 200/500 hours of teacher training also. However, the best part of the course is that it will help awaken to your hidden potentials and will create an aura, wisdom, knowledge and practices that will help people who approach you or living around you

(A Brief Description)

Authentic yoga tradition is 6000 years old, have more than 3000 masters and 1000 texts. The history of yoga as understood in the western world cannot write as history in authentic yoga tradition revolves around its philosophy. Therefore, history is more like a circle than linear scripting of events, people, and daily account etc. the history of yoga is more a process of evolution and involution of consciousness. The knowledge and practices passed on to us from great masters present an amazing account how one master evolved the practices for contemporary people living in his/her age. It is based more on the people than a linear account of events, methods, practices.
This course will help understand yoga aspirants, participants the vast nature of authentic yoga tradition in reshaping their life and living aims conscious evolution and transformation.

(Uniqueness and Benefits)

I never thought that I will cover this vast spectrum of authentic yoga tradition but the way my masters who initiated the  teachings and practices , it not only helped me to awaken to the real nature of yoga but also the deeper understanding of human consciousness, mind  and life , it offers. This course aims at understanding the secrets of life and living, human mind and consciousness, feelings and emotions and practical applications to evolve consciously.
It is very important to understand how schools of yoga differ from style of yoga. It is because of unawareness of basic temperament and level of evolution of people, master –disciple tradition started. It is the master-disciple tradition that helped to understand what groups of practices one should follow to evolve consciously. Later many masters evolved the knowledge and practices while dealing with fundamentals, developed many schools of yoga to help to tread the path of yoga without much problems.
Understanding the nature and scope of authentic yoga tradition, course is designed at three Levels. Level-1 will is detailed here as this course will start in May, 2012.   Read how you can join this course.
But know why the course is important for you

• Know the authentic yoga tradition – its philosophy and fundamentals

• Practice it to become a better person within by awakening to inner consciousness

• Help your mind to evolve and excel in personal, professional, social and spiritual lives

• Discover within – Love, Energy, Awareness and peace –

• Enhance your deeper understanding of authentic yoga tradition and improve your chances of professional success in what you are doing

• Bring inner harmony in your social and family life

• Know thyself

(Concept and requirements)

There are many texts, masters, practices, teachings on different schools of authentic yoga tradition. The schools of yoga as explained by many masters differ from other masters also, due to level of consciousness, temperament of people in their period of linear history.
We will start the course with brief history, fundamentals, select masters and their teachings of yoga,. This will help participants to understand the master-disciple tradition. But every contact class will have practices that are required to be repeated at home   for experiential understanding. As many practices can only be understood by practice and applying in daily life.

Let us study, practice schools of yoga in a master –disciple tradition with American values and educational system aims at studying, learning, practicing, applying and awakening the wisdom.

Program Locations and Module

Location is mutually decided based on group, days and time.

Contact hours – 39 hours
Non-contact hours (assignments, practices, research and paper writing) – 195 hours. Every contact hour requires 5 hours of non-contact hours (non-contact hours are given for reading, writing, practice and assignments from home)

Duration – Approx. 250 hours (Contact plus Non-contact hours)
Every month – 3 hours of contact hours and 15 non-contact hours
Every section – 3-6 contact hours

Online meeting – there will also be online meeting to discuss the assignments, paper writing and practices. This meeting may be organized on the day and time convenient to all the participants of the course for 1 hour each time. Maximum two meetings in a month will be conducted online.

Section-1: introduction to Authentic Yoga Tradition in India
Lesson-1 Agama and Nigama -authentic yoga tradition – meaning, philosophy – introduction
Lesson-2 basis of authentic yoga tradition  
Lesson-3 who is the master and disciple – inner and outer traits
Lesson-4 select practices from authentic yoga tradition

Section-2: Schools of yoga - Principles, Philosophy and Practices
Lesson -1 select reading of definition of yoga from the texts – reflections on schools of yoga
Lesson -2 what is authentic yoga tradition – state of consciousness, linear method or awakening
Lesson-3 classifications of schools of yoga – basis and philosophy
Lesson -4 select practices from authentic yoga tradition

Section-3: Basic Principles and Foundations of Authentic Yoga Tradition
Lesson 1-four fundamentals questions and liberation, awakening, realizations
Lesson 2-four divisions / classifications of life to evolve
Lesson 3-three bodies and five layers of existence
Lesson 4- select practices from authentic yoga tradition

Section-4:How many schools of Yoga in the tradition
Lesson 1- brief history, texts and masters
Lesson 2- teachings of masters  - schools vs styles
Lesson 3 – philosophy, basis and organs
Lesson 4- how different schools are interconnected

Section-5: Raja Yoga – philosophy, masters, organs, practices and applications
Lesson 1- brief history, texts and masters
Lesson 2- teachings of masters  
Lesson 3 – philosophy, basis and organs
Lesson 4- practices, relevance and applications

Section-6: Jnana Yoga – Philosophy, Masters, Organs, Practices and Applications
Lesson 1- brief history, texts and masters
Lesson 2- teachings of masters 
Lesson 3 – philosophy, basis and organs
Lesson 4- practices, relevance and applications

Section-7: Bhakti Yoga – Philosophy, Masters, Organs, Practices and Applications
Lesson 1- brief history, texts and masters
Lesson 2- teachings of masters 
Lesson 3 – philosophy, basis and organs
Lesson 4- practices, relevance and applications

Section-8: Raja Yoga – philosophy, masters, organs, practices and applications
Lesson 1- brief history, texts and masters
Lesson 2- teachings of masters  
Lesson 3 – philosophy, basis and organs
Lesson 4- practices, relevance and applications

Section-9: Tantra Yoga – Philosophy, Masters, Organs, Practices and Applications -1
Lesson 1- brief history, texts and masters
Lesson 2- teachings of masters 
Lesson 3 – philosophy, basis and organs
Lesson 4- practices, relevance and applications

Section-10: Tantra Yoga – Philosophy, Masters, Organs, Practices and Applications -2
Lesson 1- brief history, texts and masters
Lesson 2- teachings of masters 
Lesson 3 – philosophy, basis and organs
Lesson 4- practices, relevance and applications

Section-11: Kundalini, Nada and Laya Yoga – Philosophy, Masters, Organs, Practices and Applications
Lesson 1- brief history, texts and masters
Lesson 2- teachings of masters 
Lesson 3 – philosophy, basis and organs
Lesson 4- practices, relevance and applications

Section-12: Bhakti Yoga – Philosophy, Masters, Organs, Practices and Applications
Lesson 1- brief history, texts and masters
Lesson 2- teachings of masters 
Lesson 3 – philosophy, basis and organs
Lesson 4- practices, relevance and applications

Section-13: Samkhya Yoga – philosophy, masters, organs, practices and applications
Lesson 1- brief history, texts and masters
Lesson 2- teachings of masters 
Lesson 3 – philosophy, basis and organs
Lesson 4- practices, relevance and applications

Theme:

Level-1 is an introduction to the schools of yoga as taught my masters of authentic yoga tradition. The emphasis will on philosophy, masters, texts, practices, applications and relevance

Texts

Introduction to the schools of yoga – lights on authentic yoga tradition by Acharya Girish Jha ( it will provided if work is completed before the start of the course)

Course Requirements

Any person above the age of 21 has some background understanding, knowledge and reading of the philosophy of yoga is eligible for the course. The person should be open to understand the divergent and synthetic points of views of philosophy of Tantra and ready to apply in life aims at human conscious evolution leading to excellence in life.

Course grades are based on 9 only for those who want to peruse this course as part of continuing education)

30% - EXAM Ess each with a minimum 300 words. Essays may be as long as necessary but must be at least 300 words each. Each essay written must demonstrate an understanding of main pints of the question and its synthesis with current scientific trend and relevance today. says showing an understanding of the materials covered in class and assigned readings in response to question

30% - Persistent practice and writing and understanding experiences with reference to goal of Tantra Regular, persistent and consistent practices are the keys to understanding Tantra. Each practice will be defined and customized the master to help students to move into experiential learning.

25% - Term project.
The aim of the course is to acquire knowledge, understanding, practice and experience the eternal tradition of yoga as it had been practiced in a master-disciple tradition for over 6000 years. Therefore it is important for every student to write Term Paper to meet the following requirements

• Minimum length of the term Project should be 3000 words.
• The introduction should be a master or author or philosophical position from among those that we talk, discuss and practice in the course. (There are over 800 texts on Tantra and it is in the interest of the students to avoid confusion).
• Research the topic, master, author or the practices as much as possible to collect divergent views present in the modern age so that justice to the topic can be done.
• Minimum 5 references should be used for Term project. A text book, website/s, talks of great masters, synthetic view as postulated by modern thinkers, preferably Authentic Yoga and Tantra masters or well-known scientists to avoid pseudo-science and its explanations. References/bibliography/works should cited with MLA( Modern Language Association) style, can be found online.
• All students are encouraged to read first – how to write a research paper and follow the system /approach in writing paper.
• It is very important to present both divergent and synthetic points of views of science and Tantra in order to arrive at conclusion explaining any position of Tantra, will be highly encouraged.
• A couple attending the course can send term project together. Both are encouraged to use their understanding and can also suggest rational understanding of the topic of the term Project.
• Images, graphics, sketches and other relevant materials are encouraged to clear the point of view of Tantra.
• Email the all papers in word format

15% - quiz questions posted in each lecture.

Quizzes or the test of knowledge in the form of rapid series of questions had also been the part of Authentic Yoga Tradition, however, the format, were different in an oral (master-disciple tradition). The course will introduce the same quizzes after every four weeks of the study to students.
There will be a quiz after every four weeks of lessons of 12 hours. The questions will may be general questions for discussions but many times it will require one to demonstrate a clear and deeper understanding of the topics taught.
A brief of entire quiz session should be sent by email with a paragraph. It is a good practice to paste a picture, address, email in your word file for record and the best answer, after discussion will also be included in the text in future.

Class-Session:

 Session here means weekly 3 contact hours. Every session will have lecture, practice, question and answers, readings from the texts of authentic yoga tradition. 3 hours of lectures, talks and practice will help students to contemplate, read the reference materials for clear and deeper understanding of the tradition. The fifth week will be for brain storm, contemplation, quizzes, questions and answers.

Suggested:

It is expected from all students to devote min 5 hours as non-contact hours for the study, collecting, reading the materials relevant to the course and same number of hours for the practice as learnt in the weekly sessions. It all depends on the level of the students to spend less or more hours at their home.

Online Course:

After the first course, audio and video recordings will also be available for online course on Tantra. It is important some time to include the discussion part of audio-video for clear understanding of the content and the topics. The same will be included with prior permission of the students and participants. However, there is no fee/monetary or any other benefits involved for students.
 

General qualifications for the course:

Master-Disciple Tradition (oral tradition) is a Free /Independent Conscious Evolution and Transformation system where there is a two way communication between disciples and masters.  For the sake of clarity, use of words Master- Disciple and Teacher-Student are different. In the traditional format, master is more concerned about the state of the mind, level of evolution of a student so that he can transmit the knowledge and practices aims at conscious evolution and transformation. In modern system, teacher is supposed to deliver a lecture followed by assignments and quizzes to complete the course. In contrast, master wants every student to evolve much more than gather information and qualify for certification. 
There are few but important guidelines written below to help students to follow the oral tradition.

Tuition / contribution:

The course has been started on the request of many students undergoing teaching in Authentic Yoga Tradition. The cost is kept minimum to $60/hour. This means 3 hours of meeting /month will cost $180/month. The fees for online meeting will be extra; $15/meeting for an hour is optional as this will bear the cost of software and online hosting fees.

Please make sure your availability for the course on day and time mutually decided on weekends, preferably on Saturdays. However, if the participant cannot attend due to unforeseen circumstances, audio/ audio-files may be submitted to him /her for completing the course.

Note:

All papers, assignments submitted will be the property of Shreyas USA LLC, however, author/student can use it for use/printing to media with reference to the Shreyas USA LLC and its course. The selected papers unanimously by the Team of Shreyas and students will become a part of Text Book for future students. Shreyas –USA LLC will acknowledge the name of the author, brief profile and picture in the text at appropriate place. This decision is taken based on the tradition of Tantra (Authentic Yoga Tradition) where evolution of knowledge and practices had been done by over 3000 masters during 6000 years.

Program Locations and Module

Program Location: Location is mutually decided based on group, days and time.

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Over 60000 people have attended this program individually/groups/collectively around the world.  Many people, who have attended the program 20 years ago, are successful in their lives and still in close association with Acharya Girish Jha. there is awakened inner consciousness in participants that inspires them to continue the conscious relationship with the mentor, guide and master teacher.

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