YTT Short Course

Prana Vidya:
The Nature of Prana

Prana Vidya: The Nature of Prana

  • Format: YTT Short Course
  • Chose four Short Courses to create an Eclectic Weekend Module
  • Also part of “The Subtle Anatomy of Yoga: Awakening the Pranic Body” YTT Themed Intensive Module
  • Instruction Time: 3 hours

The subject of prana is core to yoga and ayurveda. Prana is the power and the gift of life. Vidya translates as knowledge. There would be no vitality without pranashakti, and no consciousness without chittashakti – ts two components. The Nature of Prana has been coined “the” course on prana and a perfect way to begin a deeper study of one’s subtle body. The course examines the nature of prana, how it works in the body, the five vayus, the four pathologies of prana, it’s association with the human mind, and how yoga works to heal and evolve the pranic body.

It begins with our first breath and ends with our last. Life is found within the pranic flow, which serves to distribute prana throughout the body. Naturally then, the pranic body would become the playing field of the yogi, where growth and development, and the unfolding of yogic consciousness happens. All that we do in yoga serves to strengthen, stimulate, calm, and liberate the flow of prana. Freedom of prana is freedom in life, and without flow of prana there can be no life.

Yoga Alliance: This program satisfies Yoga Alliance requirements for anatomy and physiology, philosophy, lifestyle and ethics, and elective hours.

Course Outline (3 hrs)

  • The Life Force in Different Cultures: East and West
  • The Vedic Paradigm of the Body: The Yogic and Ayurvedic View
  • The Vedic Three Bodies: Physical, Subtle (Pranic) and Causal
  • The Pancha Maya Kosha (5 Ilusive Sheaths)
  • The Pancha Vayus: The Five Flows of Prana
  • What is Prana?
  • The Composition of Prana
  • Vayu: Prana vs Vata
  • Vikalpa: The Yogic Bliss of Flowing Prana
  • Organizing the Pranic Body
  • Relationship Between Chakras, Nadis and Marmas
  • The Anatomy and Physiology of the Subtle Body
  • Traditional Use of the Subtle Body within Yoga, Ayurveda, Kalari, Chinese Medicine, Western Medicine
  • Prana Vidya: Knowledge of the Nature of Prana in Yoga, Spirituality, Consciousness and Longevity

DAY 1 PRACTICES

  1. Prana Sensitizing (sensing our own prana and the prana of others)
  2. Prana Dharana – Awakening to the Life Force Within
  3. Qi Follows Yi
  4. Pranayama Practice
  5. Pancha Vayu Dharana – sensing the 5 Vayus
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