Teaching Yoga Workshop with Dr. Raj Balkaran

Teaching Yoga Wisdom Workshop

How do you integrate Indian wisdom teachings into your modern yoga classes? Should you even be doing so? This is a masterclass for yoga teachers and practitioners who want to leverage the ancient philosophy, mythology, and spirituality from ancient India for ‘next level’ yoga. You will be given core concepts for your curriculum and key strategies for teaching that curriculum. Issues of respectful cross-cultural exchange will also be addressed.

Dr. Raj Balkaran is a Sanskrit scholar, storyteller and online educator. In addition to academic training, Beyond being a prolific scholar of Indian myth, he has been initiated into Indian Wisdom Traditions from multiple lineal teachers and apprenticed with an Indian spiritual master for twelve years. He teaches at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and at The Indian Wisdom School where he applies ancient Indian wisdom to modern Western life. He is also the author of "The Stories Behind the Poses: The Indian Mythology that Inspired 50 Yoga Postures."