Golden Lotus 200hr Yoga teacher training
may 22nd - june 14th 2022
✨This 200 hour yoga teacher training is about developing your own unique feminine sovereignty and inner spiritual leadership. Golden Lotus focuses on yin-centered alignment of the pelvis, the spine, and the breath. It is from this space that asana arises, as a natural expression of movement and stillness within our being.
This 22 day yoga retreat & immersion builds on ceremony and devotional prayer to the Goddess within. It is a place to immerse in the sovereign space of your body - learning how to extend and expand your Inner gnosis, embodiment and peace, eventually to guide in the Golden Lotus way. This yoga training works by deepening your understanding as a facilitator through embodiment - it is an experiential immersion of the genesis of your own mystery.
✨“Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.” - Rumi✨
✨“To embark on this training is to acknowledge and to encourage your deepest wisdom; to support the sacred practices of your path, and to integrate these into the sophisticated leadership which lies at the heart of your own Sovereign Divinity. This practitioner training encourages creativity and confidence, it enhances intuition and individuality, and it expands spiritual sisterhood, self acceptance, and a deep trust in your own embodied knowing & experience.”
- ✨Eva Louise Williams, Founder.
A HOLY SCIENCE
The word Yoga takes its root from the Sanskrit word yuj, which means to join, to yoke together, to unify – to unite into one integral whole. In yoga, the union is between the individual soul and our Divine Reality. The word Asana in the context of the Yoga Sutras is found in the phrase “Sthira Sukham Asanam”. In Sanskrit, sthira means “strong”, whilst sukha means “at ease”. This Golden Lotus Yoga Teacher Training focuses on finding our inner structures of stability, arising from our pelvis and spine, while exploring in depth what it means to breathe, yield, and surrender into ease.
Through surrendering, trusting and yielding, organic ease of movement arises from within. The existence of this movement reveals the timeless transcendent quality present in all Beings.
Golden Lotus merges ancient yogic tradition and modern somatic awareness practice and theory to inspire states of sensual and spiritual experience. During this training we will explore a variety of different tantric & yogic lineages, honouring the traditions and practices which Golden Lotus Yoga resources.
Our 200hr training is based on a deep understanding of the inner transmissions from some of the oldest schools of Jnana & Raja Yoga. In this training - while asana is a large part of our daily practice - our focus is deepening into the body in order to ground and silence the mind, and experience the alchemy within. We invite the direct experience of our own Holy Nature through our embodied expression.
We will explore the Holy Science (practices and scriptures) of Kriya Yoga, Kundalini Yoga, Sivananda Yoga & Tantric Hatha Yoga to give the true focus of yoga a voice from many lenses with just one Aim; the inner states required for embracing deep Spiritual Union with the One, the Self.
Golden Lotus, like all yoga, is a Holy Science.
It is a focused system of spiritual development following set principles and steps aimed towards awakening and inner Union through embodiment and physiological, emotional, spiritual alignment. Our system focuses specifically on the female form, and the Yogic and embodied feminine arts which assist in hormonal balancing, blissful awakening, and Self realisation of one’s own innate and Sovereign Divinity.
This training is written specifically for female physiology.
Overview of the retreat
When you arrive in Marrakech you will receive our bespoke gift-bag which will cater to your needs on this retreat. We will honour your arrival with an afternoon tea Orientation, a starlit dinner and a beautiful Initiation Ceremony.
Every day 3 nourishing vegan meals will be served between learning modules such as energetic & subtle anatomy, yogic philosophy, professional skills, anatomy & physiology, and other grounding activities which assist in your personal and professional practice. Balance, in this training, means giving ample time our body and mind - together - integrating somatic shifts and embodying as we deepen into our immersion. This program is not designed to be an intensive where content is simply given, for you to integrate at a later date. This is an immersion into the state of embodied presence where integration is experienced simultaneous to learning, feeling, and Being in the moment.
We will focus the merging of your spiritual and sensual self through the ancient Awakening Science of Yoga, which can and will deepen your connection to the Divine, your power inside, and your mystery within. We will explore how our embryology, fluid body, nervous system, organs and anatomy informs sensation, alignment, and movement. Throughout the training in general, and in our final days in specific, assessments will be made to assist and review your integration and professional development. By the end of the training you will receive a Yoga Alliance Approved 200hr Yoga Teacher Certificate* and your Golden Lotus Certification.
A DAY OF GOLDEN LOTUS 200HR YOGA TEACHER TRAINING
6:30 - 8:00 : Golden Lotus Sunrise Yoga
8:00 - 9:30 : Breakfast
9:30 - 11:30 : Yogic History & Science
12:30 - 13:30 : Chakra & Energetic Anatomy
13:30 - 15:00 : Lunch
15:00 - 16:00 : Professional Essentials of Yoga Teaching
17:00 - 19:00 : Anatomy & Physiology - Experiential Somatic Learning
19:00 - 20:30 : Dinner
20:30 - 10:00 : Golden Lotus Yin Yoga, Sound Baths, or Celestial Ceremony
10:00 : Silent Time & Sleep
