Yogic Courses
Yoga Nidra | Chakra Dharana | Prana Vidya | Pranayama | Kriyas
Yogi Charu offers classical yogic practices in a 2 hour workshop format which runs for 4 consecutive weeks throughout the year. They are offered at beginner, intermediate and advance levels. Each week the student learns fundamental, practical, transformative yogic techniques and builds on them in the following weeks. Hence you have one week to put into practice what you have learned from the previous class. By the end of the final class you will have a wide variety of yogic skills which you can incorporate into your daily practice as well as to teach if you are a teacher yourself. Because the workshops are limited to a small group of no more than 15 students, you will have close guidance from Yogi Charu similar to the way he was taught. Each workshop is accompanied by relevant notes for the practices. At the completion of the course the student will receive a certificate of accomplishments.
Beginners workshops: Chakra Dharana, Pranayama, Yoga Nidra
Intermediate workshops: Nada Yoga, Kriyas,
Advanced workshop: Prana Vidya, Tantric Meditation
If you desire to host a workshop at your studio please contact us.
Yoga Nidra (Psychic sleeping)
Yoga Nidra is the art of conscious relaxation. It is a powerful practice where the body and mind are liberated from their tensions and anxiety. One learns how to put the body into sleep while the mind remains fully awake. The brain wave drops into the theta state where deep levels of healing takes place on the emotional, mental, and physical planes.
Week 1- Yoga Nidra Part 1 Relaxation of the total body. Release of tension and anxiety from the physical body.
Week 2- Yoga Nidra Part 2 Avoidance of sleep while maintaining awareness. Release of tension and anxiety from the mind.
Week 3- Yoga Nidra Part 3 Rotation of the awareness with OM. Removing blockages in the emotional body.
Week 4- Yoga Nidra Part 4 Yoga Nidra as a healing method.
Chakra Dharana (Chakra Concentration)
Chakra Dharana is a beautiful Tantric concentration technique whereby we tap into the potential of each chakra. Each part of our body’s make up is governed by one chakra. For example, the earth element is governed by the muladhara, or root Chakra. By chanting the bija mantra, while visualizing the yantra (geometrical symbol) for each chakra one allows the prana, or life force, to move smoothly through the chakras. The practice purifies the chakras, resulting in a life of harmony and contentment.
Week 1- Chakra Dharana on Muladhara and Swadhisthana chakras. The root and sexual chakra. Experience the nature of the earth and water element of our being. Solidarity and flexibility.
Week 2- Chakra Dharana on Manipura and Anahata chakras.
The naval and heart chakra. Experience the nature of the fire and air element of our being. Transforming passion into compassion.
Week 3- Chakra Dharana on Vishuddhi and Anja chakras.
The throat and third eye chakra. Experience the nature ether and
the mental body of our being. Empathy which leads into meditation.
Week 4- Chakra Dharana on the Sahasrara Chakra.
The crown chakra. Experience spiritual humility and transcendence.
Prana Vidya (Understanding the science of the life force)
Prana Vidya practice helps one become sensitive to the life energy that moves through the body. One learns about the
sub-branches of energy, how they govern different parts of the body and how to move energy around the body, which is a step for the body’s natural healing.
Week 1- Experiencing the 5 sub- branch of prana in the 4 sub-section of body.
As we inhale prana enters the body along with the air. It then branches out to different parts of the body. Using awareness, color, and concentration one is trained to feel the sub-braches of the prana.
Week 2- Experiencing Prana (upward flow) and Apana (downward flow).
This done by moving the awareness up and down the spinal column along with the natural rhythm of the breath, hence sensitizing the sushumna nadi which the kundalini energy must flow through from the base of the tailbone up to the eyebrow center where Yoga takes place.
Week 3- Anuloma Viloma and Prana shuddhi.
This is psychic Nadi Shodhana. It allows the mind to become extremely focus and steady and leads one into deep yogic trance as it purifies the flow of prana in the body.
Week 4- Experiencing the Nadis (psychic nervous system). Moving the prana around the body as a preparation for astral projection.
Pranayama (Control of the vital energy using breathing techniques)
Through pranayama the body become strong and healthy. In inner Anahata sounds are distinctly heard. The nadis are purified. The mind becomes one pointed. Passion and ignorance are destroyed. The mind is prepared for dharana (concentration) and dhyana (meditation). Steady practice of pranayama arouses the kundalini energy and brings ecstatic joy, spiritual light and peace of mind.
Week 1- Bastrika: Bellows Breathing
Nadi Shodhana: Alternate Nostril Breathing
Ujjayi: Psychic Breath
Week 2- Surya Bheda: Vitality Stimulating Breath
Sitali: Cooling Breath
Sitkari: Hissing Breath
Week 3- Plavini: Gulping Breath
Moorcha: Swooning Breath
Agnisar Kriya: Fire Breathing
Week 4- Maha Pranayama Sadhana
Kriyas (Yogic Cleansing)
The material body is constantly producing waste materials through various cleansing mechanisms; lungs, sweat glans, bowels, kidneys. The purpose of yogic cleansing exercises is to assist nature in removing waste products from the body. All kriyas are especially beneficial during fasting. They speed up the detoxification process tremendously. Fasting with kriyas is nature’s cure for many diseases caused by toxins in the body.
Week 1- Vyutkrama1: The Brain Stimulating Nasal Douche
Jala Neti: Nasal Cleansing with Water
Kapalabhati: Frontal Brain Purification
Week 2- Vyutkrama 2: The Brain Stimulating Nasal Douche
Nasi Pan 1: Drinking water through the Nose
Sutra Neti: Nasal Cleansing with Thread
Week 3- Nasi Pan 2: Drinking Water through the Nose
Gaja karani: Elephant Stomach Cleansing
Trataka 1: Concentrated Gazing using a Candle flame
Week 4- Vastra Dhauti: Cloth Swallowing/ Cloth Cleansing
Trataka 2: Concentrated Gazing using a Candle flame
