 The Saraswati River Yoga Teacher Training Program is offered to serious students who are ready to deepen their practice, understanding and experience of Yoga. This program is appropriate for veteran and aspiring teachers alike. David Pittenger, senior teacher at Saraswati River Yoga, coordinates an experienced and dedicated staff of teachers to offer an ever more challenging and insightful teacher training. SRY is a Yoga Alliance registered school.
The 2007 curriculum will be comprehensive, reflecting the philosophy of the Saraswati River Yoga tradition, while qualifying the student for certification with Yoga Alliance. The Saraswati River Yoga School and center was founded by renowned yogini of the Bhairavi Maha Yoga tradition, Parvathi Nanda Nath Saraswati and the highly trained SRY staff continues to maintain the highest standards of service to truth. This is authentic lineage yoga recognizing that Yoga is immeasurably more than asana. Lineage yoga imparts more than knowledge, it is a living tradition that can uplift both teacher and students and may impart the seeds of learning and opening for a lifetime. The apprenticeship/teacher training program will provide the in-depth instruction, individual attention and time for the full experience of yoga to bloom and emerge.
6 & 12 Month Teacher Trainings with David Pittenger & the SRY Staff
Option 1. 200 hours over 18 weekends over 6 months
Option 2. 500 hours over 12 months includes 12 week Tantric Studies Immersion Level 1
Starts January 2009 at Saraswati River Yoga & Yogasphere
SRY’s complete curriculum weaves together the physical, mental, spiritual and philosophical aspects of this ancient science. It covers, but is not limited to the following:
* Asana: principles and components of alignment; injury prevention; ethics and practice of hands on assists to stabilize and deepen; sequencing.
* Therapeutic Yoga & the Use of Props: modifications and key postures for working with injuries; routines and modifications for working with a variety of conditions: physical, emotional and mental.
* Pranayama: breath as the gateway into deeper realms of being and a tool for meditation and health.
* Tantra: as yoga is the union, Tantra is the weaving of the science, philosophy and methodology of Yoga. This is the path that yogis who are not renunciates have taken and perfected.
* Sanskrit: the basics of the alphabet and pronunciation, chanting and asana names.
* Devi Gita: the Song of the Goddess, which lays the groundwork for the philosophy of Tantra, & explores the esoteric layers of the chakras, nadis & mantras.
* Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: the textbook for unraveling the contents of mind.
Teacher Training Itensive,
at Saraswati River Yoga
with Parvathi Nanda Nath Sarasawti & David Pittenger
Learn in-depth teaching techniques in an authentic linage yoga tradition. Join Parvathi Nanda Nath Saraswati for this rare opportunity to learn from a master teacher in yoga & tantric methodology. Parvathi will instruct teacher students in the principals of Mantra, Pranayama, Yoga Nidra (yogic sleep), Yoga philosophy and many other tantric techniques. Saraswati River Yoga senior teacher David Pittenger will teach asana alignment, sequencing & assists
Saraswati Vidya: The Wisdom Teachings with David Pittenger 
Two Wednesdays a Month
12:00-3:00 pm at Saraswati River Yoga, New Hope, PA
This 3-hour class is for experienced students wanting to dive deeply into the realm of self-exploration and learn practices designed to support awakening. This class explores several modalities of transforming body and mind towards a state of freedom and beauty.
Utilizing asana, pranayama, chanting, inquiry meditations and Tantric techniques like Bhutta Shuddi (cleansing of the energetic body) we will look deeply into the nature of the mind. This class will emphasize direct experience in group sadhana (practice). Practicing in community also provides a powerful matrix for honesty and accountability. David has received direct transmission from Parvathi to impart vidya teachings. This class is a prerequisite for new students to Tantra wanting to do advanced studies with Parvathi. It is David’s humbling life work to both personally practice and offer these teachings.
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