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Education forms for yoga studies
This table shows education forms for various study plans.
Free plan offers yoga theory, practice and insight in classical methods of yoga.
Basic plan offers in addition to the free plan more detailed insight in classical methods of yoga and consulting of Yoga Teacher.
Advanced plan in addition to Basic plan includes Personal Yoga Teacher, insight in the advanced methods offering faster development in yoga.
Teacher training is offering yoga theory and practice, consulting, personal Yoga Teacher, classical kinds of yoga, advanced methods of yoga, certificate of yoga teacher, and group mates to share mutual way in the studying of yoga.Yoga studies for beginners
- Your yoga IQ.
- Structure and content of OpenYoga courses. The language of the courses.
- Requirements for studying yoga – tangible and intangible. Yoga diary.
- Characteristics of yoga students. Importance of time management in studies.
- Site rules. Important notice! Why are the courses offered for free?
- Facts about yoga today. Why has yoga become so popular?
- Education plans. Personal tutor. Skype consulting.
- Home task #1 and certificate.
What is Yoga? Introduction to Yoga.
Also you will find out about the attitude of yoga to religion and science, take a small insight in yoga history. With this course you will start forming strong foundation for your yoga studies.
What is yoga? (Course 001)
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Yoga definition and the method of yoga
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Two basic yoga principles - forming the foundation of the teaching
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Goal of yoga
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Classification of yoga among other teachings and systems
- Creators of yoga
- Yoga and religion
- Yoga and science
- A little bit about yoga history
- Finding the right yoga school for you
- Costs of yoga studies
- Aspect of freedom in yoga
- Few new terms you need to know when getting to know yoga
- Homework #1 and certificate.
Yoga teachers, Yoga instructors program and yoga schools
Yoga beginners often feel confused on the beginning of yoga path. They wish to find their own school and teacher. However, it is not like finding traditional university or a tutor when a lot of things are determined by publicly accessible information and price. This course reviews questions on what to search for and what to do while searching the yoga teacher and/or school. And how to compare different yoga schools?
Some people confuse yoga with sports. Here you will find why yoga is not sports and if it is possible to do both of them at the same time.
- Who is a Yoga Teacher and who is not? Where to find a true Yoga Teacher?
- What is a yoga school and how to find the one for you?
- Question of immortality
- Yoga and sexuality - taboo or not?
- Yoga and sport - friends or foes?
- Certification of yoga and Yoga Teachers
- Fast answers to yoga beginners about learning of theory, superpowers, age.
- Possible problems on the yoga path beginning
- Language of yoga materials
- Homework and certificate
Basic principles of yoga. First & second yoga principle.
How do you make your decisions? Do you follow pure logic or trust only your heart? Do you ever analyze your decisions? Yoga highly evaluates freedom, including when making different decisions. Yoga also offers specific sequence how to make the best possible decisions. In this lesson you will find out more about this algorithm.
Connection of the First and the Second Principle of Yoga
Yoga is ancient and modern teaching at the same time. It offers non-aging methods for people to become happy. Each yogi needs to stand strong on basic yoga principles and terms. Thereby this course is devoted to the following topics:- Fundamental yoga principle: Principle of kindness and Principle of efficiency
- Understanding the duty and Dharma
- Connection and contradictions between fundamental yoga principles
- Decision making and yoga. Formula for better decisions
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Review of some questions asked by Open Yoga students
KINDS OF YOGA, YOGA TYPES & STYLE
How many kinds of yoga exist?
So how many kinds and directions of yoga exist? There are as many kinds of yoga as there are ways a people can express themselves. We have a physical body. We can make static poses. So we have hatha yoga. We have a possibility to breathe. So there is pranayama or breathing yoga. We have eyes. Sometimes our mind reacts on forms, which we see, without realizing it. It creates the grounding for yantra yoga. Composers have a possibility to hear the music of spheres and write it down. This is the nada yoga. The capability to demonstrate the dominance skills was a precondition for the appearance of the raja yoga. This list could be continued on and on.
Guide to basic yoga styles & types.
This is introductory course about different kinds of yoga. Including
- Pre-historyof yoga
- Yoga journey
- Numberof existing kinds of yoga
- Dominating kind of yoga
- Test about the material studied
- Homework and certificate
- Keyword for the next course
Basic kinds of yoga
Introductory course on five basic kinds of yoga on www.YogaOpenYoga.com. This course will give the first insight in hatha, kriya, mantra, pranayama yoga and meditation. Everyone is welcome to study yoga from very basics with International Open Yoga University!
Yoga kinds for beginners
Yoga is classified in different ways, firstly, in classical and advanced kinds of yoga. In order to start and for the foundation for the advanced kinds of yoga we require basic kinds of yoga. Open Yoga studies these kinds of yoga in great detail. In this course you will learn about:
Advanced yoga methods
Yoga is one teaching with many directions and areas to study. Everyone can find their kind of yoga. Open Yoga offers more than 15 kinds of yoga for closer explorations. visit FREE yoga learning site www.YogaOpenYoga.com.
When people have studied fundamental kinds of yoga well they may explore many other aspects and more advanced kinds of yoga. Combination of fundamental kinds of yoga and advanced kinds of yoga give even better results. Open yoga offers wide possibilities to study these kinds of yoga and this course will include small review of the following kinds of yoga:
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Laya and kundalini yoga
- Nyasa yoga
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Homework on the work accomplished during this course
Hatha yoga. Basic principles of Hatha Yoga.
What do you know about hatha yoga - the most widely practiced kind of yoga in world at the moment? This step is a small review of this kind in order to warm up for the following course full of wisdom of yogis to improve the way we feel.
Guide to Hatha Yoga
Welcome to the exciting and interesting course on Hatha yoga. Hatha yoga has many shapes and ways to do it. You can adjust it to your needs. To do it, learn the basic theory behind this topic. In this course we will cover
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Principles of Hatha yoga
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The great secret behind simplicity
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How to get prepared for Hatha yoga?
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What is necessary for Hatha yoga practice?
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Hatha yoga methods
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Hatha yoga poses
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Where to start?
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10-minute class of Hatha yoga for beginner
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Closer look on one Hatha yoga pose – Cobra pose
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Benefits of Hatha yoga
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Yoga and modern lifestyle
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Meaning of the term “ha-tha”
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Some advanced level questions on Hatha yoga
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Hatha yoga by Patanjali, one of the most ancient sources
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Hatha yoga pose descriptions with PHOTOS
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Ancient Hatha Yoga Narrative with photos – the most essential information you need to know about this teaching. All in one. Prime resource we recommend to follow. Text with multiple layers of meanings
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Homework – your feedback about the course
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Hatha yoga course CERTIFICATE
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Possibility to forward to the next course for FREE.
Course includes texts, video materials, tests, photos.
KRIYA YOGA TECHNIQUES. How to practise Kriya Yoga?
Kriya yoga is perfect for this. It will give your body movements that are required for the body to feel good. Kriya yoga will give positive impact on emotions, too.
Course of kriya yoga will be divided in two parts – theoretical and practical. Each step will contain both of these areas to improve the results. Practical material will include a review of each kriya individually. You will find out about the areas of the body to focus on in each kriya as well as about the effect promised by the ancient kriya yoga treatise.
Start Kriya Yoga Studies
- What is Kriya yoga?
- What is the main goal of Kriya yoga
- Meaning of "Kriya"
- 4 yoga axioms - basic yoga theory
- How Kriya yoga works?
- Levels of Kriya yoga - Surface level of Kriya, Deeper level of Kriya
- Benefits of Kriya yoga
- Kriya and Karma, how to determine what kind of Karma we have
- Kriya and Prana
- Transformation - what to expect from the practice of Kriya yoga
- Who are we - body, mind, soul?
- Work with thoughts and emotions
- Conditions for successful Kriya yoga practice
- Work with our blind zones with Kriya yoga
- Aspects of intellect and mind in our life
- Source of happiness
- Kriya yoga know-hows, aspect of here and now, aspect of the right moment
- Source for studying Kriya yoga - ancient Treatise on Kriya yoga
- Kriya yoga theory
- Physical, subtle and causal aspects in Kriya yoga
- Combining of Kriya yoga with other kinds of yoga: yes or no
- Finding the inner rhythm
- Exciting Tests, Homework for review of the course & Awarding Yoga Certificate
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Guide to Kriya Yoga
Every practice has three parts. Entry (introduction), the practice itself and conclusion or exist from the practice. We don’t simply jump in the practice. We need to get ready for it, to immerse in ourselves, to bring mind in very active state.Like in any other kinds of yoga the main thing is harmony!!! Be gentle to yourself. And especially in kriya yoga, even more than in hatha yoga as kriya yoga primarily works on finer level than hatha yoga with its static exercises.
Pranayama for Beginners - Learn About the Practice - How to Start Pranayama?
It is very exciting you learn Pranayama yoga! There are so many possibilities offered by our ability to breath. Breathing lets us to be here and now. It is incredible. Without breathing there is no life. If we learn to breathe properly we receive immediate positive reaction in many areas of our life. Pranama is the next recommended step after physical kinds of yoga –e.g. Hatha yoga! Why so? Find it out during the course.
Scientists and doctors have proven positive impact of breathing exercises. At the smallest of them is stress reduction that bothers 99% of people in the world. However, Pranayama is beyond this simple fact of breathing. It is direct link to our initial vital energy Prana.
Basic Pranayama Breathing tehcnics.
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Introduction to Pranayama yoga or Basic Pranayama
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What is Prana and pranayama?
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Pranayama vs. simple breathing exercises
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Pranayama and other kinds of yoga
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Let’s see how Prana works
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What does it mean if somebody has high or low level of Prana?
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Are there and dangerous aspects related to Pranayama practice?
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How can we increase our life energy?
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Practical moments to take into account during the practice of Pranayama?
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Practicing of Pranayama in modern conditions of life
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Risk management for Pranayama practitioners
This course on Pranayama yoga contains tests for verification of the material you will have studied. Access to the next step is granted after successful completion of the test.
Free on-line Pranayama studies
Never before yoga and pranayama knowledge have been so available!
Remember this course is for serious studies of yoga. To ensure successful and complete understanding of this Pranayama course, it is regarded that the student has completed the previous courses on what is yoga, basic yoga principles, fundamental yoga theory, kinds of yoga in a sequence of offered on the site of YogaOpenYoga.com. It is also recommended to practice Hatha yoga and Kriya yoga at least twice a week to prepare body for Pranayama breathing exercises. Open Yoga also offers Masterclass of Pranayama yoga to review this topic in more detail and to receive practical recommendations for practice.
