How to Meditate

We live in a fast-paced world filled with lots of responsibility and struggles. Our lives are filled with pressure and stress and our mental attitude and emotional experience reflect this fact. In our own ignorance, we make a habit of looking for happiness, peace, joy and content where they are not.

Inside you there is an ocean of peace and happiness and a well of strength that never runs dry. To experience it, all you have to do is go to that place inside yourself where this power exists naturally. The means to accomplish this is Meditation. Meditation will quiet your restless mind and settle your nagging emotions. Meditation is not something foreign or separate from you. When properly understood, Meditation is actually your natural, free state of being.

In this series of four classes you will learn to meditate effectively using a time-honored approach to Meditation that has been practiced for centuries. You will learn techniques for making your mind quiet so that you can experience the thought-free state of Meditation and the benefits that accrue naturally from this thought-free state.   This course is an introduction to Supreme Meditation.

Fee: $60 per person. Pre-registration is required by Sunday, 07/12.

Classes are lead by two instructors: Lakshmi Satya Devi and Linda Robinson.

Lakshmi Satya Devi and Linda Robinson have been studying Supreme Meditation for several years. They have been teaching this course for the last two years and have been trained to do so by their Meditation Master, Acharya Kedar

Lotus Gardens 200 Hour Teacher Training & Certification

March 7 - November 8, 2009
Saturdays 8am - 5:30pm & Sundays 8am - 4:30pm

Tuition: Pre-registration $2,400 on or before February 21, 2009
Registration and Payment Plan before September 21, 2009 $2,700

(Includes all textbooks, manual and free classes with Lara Ward from March – Dec 09.
Discounts on all Lara’s workshops and you’re invited to return for a refresher to our 200 hour training any time!)

            The first Yoga Alliance register school in CT since 2001 - we are experienced, organized, professional and a pleasure to learn from.  At Lotus Gardens we are dedicated to educating knowledgeable, compassionate and professional yoga teachers who are prepared to instruct the varying levels of students encountered daily as a yoga teacher. Our posture practice is based on a comparative study of the best of the major styles instructed in the U.S. such as Anusara, Ashtanga, Bikram, Iyengar, Kripalu, Kundalini and Sivananda.

At the 200 hour level you will develop your own speciality such as:  children, mom & tots, pre & post natal, cardiac rehab, cancer care, chronic fatigue & fibromyalgia, depression and other common concerns. 

Our excellent staff of alternative/traditional physicians and therapists will prepare you to guide clients in private settings as well as group classes. When you emerge from Lotus Gardens' training you will be prepared to manage a classroom of various abilities and conditions from gentle and therapeutic to intense and power yoga for athletes.

This is a complete 200 hour Yoga Alliance approved training program.

The following topics will be covered:
• 40 Postures & Sun Salutations
• Sanskrit Terminology
• Anatomy of Body Systems
• Breathing & Cleansings Techniques
• Working with Medical Ailments, Special Needs & Pre Natal Students
• Meditation & Energy including Nadis, Chakras, Bandhas & Mudras
• History, Philosophy & Reading of Yoga Sutras & Bhagavad-Gita
• Student Teaching & Hands-On Experience
• Study of Sequencing Postures

Our Course Requirements for graduation are:
• Mandatory 165 hours group class time
• 12 hours assisting in public classes
•   3 hour private lesson under staff guidance 
• 20 hours of independent research & study

Join Director Lara Azzarito Ward in learning the true art, science & philosophy of Yoga while earning your Yoga Alliance approved 200 hour Yoga Teacher Certification. No previous teaching experience required! Applicants must have a minimum of 6 months yoga practice (one year or more preferred).

For more information, please contact Lotus Gardens.