This is the first time Sivananda Yoga Teacher's Training Course is offered in beautiful Vietnam and in South-East Asia. It will be comfortably accommodated in the Wellness Center Ba Thuong in Cu Chi, South Vietnam, about one hour drive from the airport in Ho Chi Minh City. Transportation to the location can be arranged.
Benefits of Yoga Immersion course (TTC)
This 4 week course, which offers a profound personal experience, will allow you to transmit the knowledge of yoga to others. The benefits of yoga are fully experienced through a combination of repeated practice and inspirational lessons. Among the many benefits that students report are greater self-awareness, a sense of connection, a new-found sense of self-discipline, enhanced self-esteem, improved power of concentration and increased strength and flexibility.
Teaching Certificate
A teaching certificate from the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center is awarded upon successful completion of this immersion course. This is certified through Yoga Alliance (USA) at the 200-hour Yoga teacher certification.
Curriculum
The curriculum includes asanas, pranayama, meditation, Vedanta philosophy, anatomy/physiology, Bhagavad Gita, mantra and kriyas.
Languages
The course will be offered in English with senior Sivananda teachers from US and Germany. It will be translated simultaneously in Vietnamese and Mandarin Chinese. The course will be held in Cu Chi, 45 Miles Northwest of Ho Chi Minh city.
Registration
For US and International Students:
Please inquire for a brochure and register online at the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm in Grass Valley, CA, (yogafarm@sivananda.org) by filling out the application form and submitting a non-refundable deposit of 300 USD. The remaining balance needs to be paid prior to arrival, in the same manner.
For Vietnamese nationals:
Register with Thanh Son in Ho Chi Minh city.
Email: thuphapthanhson@yahoo.com
Tel: 090.372.9446 (ask for Ngoc My)
For more information on the course schedule, topics of study and course books, please follow the link below.
Yoga Vacation
There will be Yoga Vacation programs at the same time of the Teacher Training Course for those who are not ready for four-week intensive, but still would have some time (1 or 2 weeks) to experience partially the energy of the course and practice yoga and meditation daily, in a parallel class.
Yoga Tour
There will be a yoga pilgrimage tour organized after the course from March 29 - April 5, 2010. We will be visiting the coastal Cham temples and ruins and enjoying the beautiful beaches of Vietnam. We plan to visit Phan Thiet, Mui Ne, Nha Trang, Hoi An and My Son.
Please inquire separately.
How did this course come about?
Vietnam is the native country of Swami Sitaramananda. Swami Sitaramananda returned to visit Vietnam after 35 years of teaching yoga in Canada and the US, and was impressed by the beauty of the country and the peacefulness and warmth of the people. She was also aware of how yoga will benefit the developing Vietnam, whose cities are crowded and whose people are eager to learn the way to deal with stress and experience health and peace of mind.
Swami Sitaramananda has taught many yoga retreats in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, My Son (Central VN), Da Lat and Vung Tau. The attendants were a mixed group of Internationals from all countries, Vietnamese of all ages, and Taiwanese.
After living for most of her life in Indian Yoga Ashrams, in America and in India itself, Swami Sitaramananda discovered that her birth country was historically influenced by the (Indian) Cham tradition, which was a Hindu kingdom for 10 centuries. From the 5th to 15th Century, Cham kingdom occupied nearly 2 thirds of the country. The Cham Tradition was originally worshipping Lord Siva, the symbolic deity of Yoga, thus, the presence of many temple ruins and statues.
Since 2006, Swami Sitaramananda has organized tours to visit the Cham temples in Central and South Coastal area of Vietnam.
" Health is Wealth, Peace of MInd is Happinness, Yoga shows the way" - Swami Vishnu-devananda
Date of arrival: Friday, February 26, 2010, afternoon, or Saturday, February 27, 2010, morning
Date of Departure: Sunday, March 28, 2010, morning
Cost of the one month TTC certificate program, including all classes, instruction, course manual and meals, is as follows:
Dormitory 1 (4 people) $1,900
Dormitory 2 (3 people) $2,125
Double (2 people) $2,175
Single (1 person) $2,325
To book a room with air conditioning - please add $100 to the cost. A/C is not available for Dormitory 1 (4 people).
There are massage treatments available, sauna (dry and steam), laundry, internet services, postal services, medical services, transportation from airport, field trips and cultural events.
