2009 (Dates TBD)

Introduction:
Our yoga teachers training and intensive workshop will be a 3-week journey into Healing, Releasing and Learning. It will be a great honor to meet and journey with all those who participate. Friendship and community is one of the special by-products of this journey. I hope to see the students at least from time to time to hear about their current endeavors. For all who are interested in attending this Instructors Workshop, BEWARE! I am not your normal person. If you come to my training expecting things to happen a certain way or for a certain curriculum to be emphasized, you will either be pleasantly refreshed or totally repulsed. Please know this ahead of time so you can gather all the info there is about my course prior to enrolling; talk to me and/or e-mail students (references online) who have attended. Read my web site inside and out to get an idea of my perspective. Then decide, still knowing you're taking a chance.

About the Training:
Teaching is sharing the knowledge of experience. Let's cultivate an understanding of yoga and let's live that understanding. Let the teaching be our life example. What we say and what we do after this is teaching yoga. My intentions are not only to deepen our understanding through dialogue and practice, but also I want everyone to come home feeling amazing, strong and healthy, calm and clear, fresh and energized, motivated to continue this sacred practice of Yoga which seems to be a valid well source of our potential.

Course Topics attempted to be covered:
-Increasing our knowledge in many aspects of yoga, including schools of yoga thought
-Practicing asanas and meditation
-Learning Sanskrit names of asanas
-Learning to correctly perform asanas
-Learning to correct others performing asanas
-Learning how to create and teach a flowing routine
-Creating a dialogue
-Working with injuries, etc...

All courses have a natural flow and chemistry, which means different things may be emphasized in different courses pertaining to the group. Although the above list mentions many of the topics and possibilities, what exactly will happen is hard to know beforehand. Yoga is an immense topic which could never be fully covered in this training or any other training for that matter. I am simply sharing my experience and understanding. Also, there may be things you really want to learn that I am not fit to teach due to those things not being a part of my practice. Please be clear about this training being right for you, because your satisfaction is my highest priority.

Course Goal:
Whatever the direction our journey may be, our goal is to create masters by facilitating a well-rounded understanding of yoga and yoga practice through the knowledge of experience. Another goal is to create excitement about and support for our yoga practice which spills out of each one of us to all that we touch, as well as cultivating the art of sharing, teaching, instructing, and giving.

About Bryan Kest:
Bryan has been involved with yoga practice since he was 15 years old starting in Hawaii around 1978/9 with David Williams, the first person to bring Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga to the USA. He started sharing his new found experience almost immediately through his excitement and deep affinity with yoga thought. Through the years of study, practice and sharing he has acquired a certain amount of experience and understanding that he brings into this class, which include almost 3 decades of practice but also over 12,000 classes he has instructed. He has had successes and has made mistakes, helped people and hurt people, all of which will be laid out for us to examine and learn from.

Bryan's Perspective:
All true wellness and health come from a calm and peaceful mind. A calm and peaceful mind is

• Less dominated by habits and addictive behavior.
• Less reactive to outer situations (less stress).
• More centered and objective.
• More accepting of life and its fluctuations.
• More in tune with the body breath, feelings and intuition.

So, the poses naturally need to be infused with a purpose and meaning which brings insight and energy to an otherwise mundane physical practice of poses, or eastern calisthenics. In this way, the poses become asana or "meditation in motion." As we excel in this practice, our yoga begins to transcend the yoga room and permeates our life. In other words, a strong physical practice needs to be grounded in a strong mental practice.