Miami Yoga Teacher Training

Miami Yoga Teacher Training starting June 29th and September 7th 2013 then January 2014.

Sunny Miami in Florida is the ideal location for a Yoga Teacher Training in the United States. Fred Busch has been leading Teacher Training Programs in Miami for over 10 years and is considered to be one of the country’s top Yoga Training gurus. Study Yoga with the best! Fred Busch and Allaine Stricklen are experts in Yoga Therapy and Yoga Philosophy.

Fred Busch Power Yoga sequences are widely practiced all over the world. Brickell Hot Yoga is Fred Busch’s home studio and the host of the widely renown Power Yoga Teacher Training. This training includes some of the most powerful lectures given in any Yoga Teacher Training in the United States:

The Famous Fred Busch Food Talk Yoga Sutras of Maharishi Patanjali Fred Busch’s Healing Sequences for Power Yoga Chakras Workshop Fred Busch Power Yoga and Hot Yoga in Miami, Florida Power Yoga, Hot Yoga, Vinyasa Yoga 200/ 300/ 500 Hour Yoga Alliance in Miami, Florida 

Contact Fred Busch
fredb@miamiyoga.com 305.606.2169
 

Residential Yoga Teacher Training in Colorado

FRED Busch HOT POWER Yoga Teacher Training in Colorado at Salamadhi Ranch

17 Day Yoga Teacher Training Residential Program Intensive Begins May 31st

Fred Busch is the international leader in Hot Power Yoga Instructor Courses with locations in Europe, South America and USA.  Fred Busch is the Director of FRED Busch HOT POWER Yoga's Brickell Yoga in Miami.  

For more information visit www.fredbusch.com

and www.salamadhi.com

Graduates of the Fundamentals of Teaching and Advanced Practice are fully qualified to teach Power Yoga, Hot Yoga, Vinyasa Yoga, Meditation and Pranayama and will have a strong knowledge of Healing Sequences and Yoga Therapy and Philosophy.   Students will be able to teach private and group classes and be trained in the marketing and business of Yoga in the west.

Did You Know – the Importance of Probiotics?

Did you know? Did you know that probiotics (good bacteria) are one of the most important supplements we can take?

More and more studies are demonstrating disproportionately huge benefits from making sure that our intestinal micro flora are healthy. The good bacteria in our intestines works as a synergistic ally helping us both by producing important compounds like vitamin B-12, and also by making sure that the surface area of our intestines is not left unguarded and vulnerable to the more nasty bacterial strains.

I even had a heart surgeon tell me once after my FOOD 101 lecture that I needed to emphasize the importance of probiotics more than I did, since in his words; 'probiotic bacteria and a healthy gut are the absolute key to the immune system.'

And...No we do not recommend yogurt as a way to get the bacteria because yogurt is a dairy product which has many undesirable effects.

PROBIOTIC

- Pro = “for”, “in favor of.”

- Biotic = “pertaining to life”, “of or relating to living organisms.”

The word probiotic is a composite of the Latin preposition pro (“for”) and the Greek adjective (biotic), the latter derived from the noun bios (“life”).

The ideal balance between the bacteria in your body is 85 percent good and 15 percent bad.

The ideal balance between the bacteria in your body is 85 percent good and 15 percent bad.

The probiotics in your stomach and intestines play an important role in helping numerous functions throughout the body, such as:

• Digesting and absorbing certain nutrients and carbohydrates.
• Producing vitamins, assisting the body in absorbing minerals and eliminating toxins.
• Keeping bad bacteria in check.
• Preventing allergies…These friendly bacteria train your immune system to distinguish between pathogens and non-harmful antigens, and to respond appropriately.
• Providing essential support to your immune system. These beneficial bacteria have a lifelong, powerful effect on both your gut’s immune system, and your systemic immune system as well.

One Washington University professor compared the functioning of this intestinal microflora in your body to that of an “ant farm that works together as an intelligence to perform an array of functions you’re unable to manage on your own.”

Natural Ways to Get Probiotics

In the distant past and continuing today, people have used (and still use) fermented foods like sauerkraut to support their digestive health, as these foods are rich in naturally beneficial bacteria.

Fermented foods have been part of nearly every traditional culture. As far back as Roman times, people ate sauerkraut, not only because they liked its taste but because of benefits to overall health. In Asian cultures, pickled fermentations of cabbage, turnips, eggplant, cucumbers, onions, squash and carrots still exist today.

If you were to eat a diet rich in unprocessed fermented foods that have NOT been pasteurized (which kills the probiotics), then you will likely enjoy great digestive health.

On the other hand, if you eat a lot of processed foods or rely on mostly cooked foods, the balance of bacteria in your digestive tract will have a hard time remaining at an optimal level. Sugar is also an incredibly efficient fertilizer for growing bad bacteria and harmful yeasts in your intestinal tract, so if you indulge in a lot of it you’re fueling the bad bacteria. In addition to taking antibiotics, stress, pollution and other environmental factors can further upset the balance in a negative way.

Since helpful bacteria are increasingly absent in most people’s diets, it is important to purposely include foods that contain live probiotic bacteria in your diet, or take a good probiotic supplement.

Make your own Probiotics…

“*CABBAGE REJUVELAC:” (*Excerpted from “The Colon Health Handbook” by Robert Gray)


Cabbage Rejuvelac

  “Cabbage is a vegetable that is teeming with lactobacteria. No starter is needed for making rejuvelac. Just start one morning by blending together 1 3/4 cups (420ml) distilled or purified water plus 3 cups (720ml) coarsely chopped, loosely packed fresh cabbage. Start the blender at low speed and then advance the blender to high speed and blend for 30 more seconds. Pour into a jar, cover, and let stand at room temperature for 3 days. At this time, strain off the liquid rejuvelac. The initial batch of cabbage rejuvelac takes 3 days to mature, but succeeding batches take 24 hours each.

“Each morning after straining off the fresh rejuvelac, blend together for 30 seconds at high speed 1 1/2 cups (360ml) distilled or purified water plus 3 cups (720ml) coarsely chopped, loosely packed fresh cabbage. Pour into a jar, add 1/4 cup (60ml) of the fresh rejuvelac just strained off, cover, shake and let stand at room temp. until the next morning.

“You can also make cabbage rejuvelac without a blender by chopping the cabbage very fine and using 2 1/2 cups (600ml) finely chopped, loosely packed cabbage listed above. The amount of distilled or purified water used should remain unchanged.

“Good quality rejuvelac tastes similar to a cross between carbonated water and the whey obtained when making yogurt. Bad quality rejuvelac has a much more putrid odor and taste and should not be consumed. Always avoid using tap water when making rejuvelac because chlorine has been added to it for the purpose of killing bacteria of any kind.

“Drink each day’s rejuvelac during the course of the day by taking 1/2 cup (120ml) 3x a day, preferably with meals.”

Why Study Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras?

An outline of their content and importance...

There are many paths claiming to lead to Self-realization, but one taught by Patanjali in his Yoga Sutras excels in the training of the mind. Step-by-step the mind is examined scientifically down to its subtlest detail until it reaches a point of understanding itself. This is accomplished through engaging gradual exercises which produce great powers of concentration, contemplation and meditation. The mind then, collected and focused to a degree hardly imaginable before, gathers all its inherent powers into one point and demonstrates mastery over the physical universe.

Additionally and in accord with the worlds principle spiritual teachings, Patanjali offers a training of the moral/ethical nature, as well, this so that powers attained through one-pointed focus of the mind are not misused at the expense of others. Ahimsa (non-injury) is the first principle in this training, and it’s an all-inclusive precept directed not only toward other sentient beings but also toward oneself.

The Essence of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras (AKA; Raja Yoga)

In Sanskrit, Raja Yoga, literally means the kingly yoga, is the greatest contribution of Maharishi Patanjali. His descriptions of the levels of the mind often read like the most contemporary and enlightened schools of psychology. Just by reading the text the student will gain a certain clarity and objectivity in identifying the various processes of the mind.

Briefly, the four books (or chapters) of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras encompass the following subjects:

Book 1: Samadhi-Pada (Concentration) - Through various concentration and meditation practices, one may disentangle the mind from its constant “chattering”, removing obstacles and providing solutions, and the means to stabilize the mind. This chapter describes the different stages (or levels) of spiritual experiences available to the mind, as it ascends toward the attainment of the highest level of such experiences.

The 51 Sutras of Book 1 have been divided into 9 sections:

1. What is yoga? (1.1-1.4)
2. Witnessing and “Un-coloring” thoughts (interfering mental impressions) (1.5-1.11)
3. Practice and non-attachment (1.12-1.16)
4. Types of concentration (1.17-1.18)
5. Efforts and commitment (1.19-1.22)
6. Direct route through AUM (1.23-1.29)
7. Obstacles and solutions (1.30-1.32)
8. Stabilizing and clearing the mind (1.33-1.39)
9. Results of stabilizing the mind (1.40-1.51)

Book 2: Sadhana-Pada (Practices) - Chapter 2 outlines specific tools of attention that are used to systematically cut away the obstacles of the inner mental shield, obstacles that are blocking the light of the Self within. This includes the first 5 of the 8 rungs of yoga, known as Ashtanga yoga. Through proper training of the body and moral nature, one gradually purifies the personality of its idiosyncrasies so that it can become a vehicle capable of carrying the consciousness to higher and higher levels of spiritual experience.

The 55 sutras of Book 2 have been divided into 9 sections:

1. Minimizing gross coloring (2.1-2.9)
2. Dealing with subtle thoughts (2.10-2.11)
3. Breaking the alliance of karma (2.12-2.25)
4. The 8 rungs and discrimination (2.26-2.29)
5. Yamas and Niyamas, rungs #1 and 2 of 8 (2.30-2.34)
6. Benefits from Yamas and Niyamas (2.35-2.45)
7. Asana, rung #3 of 8 (2.46-2.48)
8. Pranayama, rung #4 of 8 (2.49-2.53)
9. Pratyahara, rung #5 of 8 (2.54-2.55)

Book 3: Vibhuti-Pada (Progressing) - Chapter 3 starts by presenting the last 3 of the 8 rungs of yoga, which are concentration, meditation, and samadhi, collectively known as samyama. The rest of the chapter explains how samyama is used as the finer tool to remove the subtler veils of ignorance. This constitutes the highest focusing power of the mind and the extraordinary supernormal powers which can be attained.

The 56 sutras of Book 3 have been divided into 9 sections:

1. Dharana, dhyana, and samadhi, rungs #6-8 of 8 (3.1-3.3)
2. Samyama is the finer tool (3.4-3.6)
3. Internal is seen to be external (3.7-3.8)
4. Witnessing subtle transitions (3.9-3.16)
5. Experiences from samyama (3.17-3.37)
6. What to do with experiences (3.38)
7. More from samyama (3.39-3.49)
8. Renunciation and liberation (3.50-3.52)
9. Higher discrimination (3.53-3.56)

Book 4: Kaivalya-Pada (Final Liberation) - Chapter 4 explains how the mind is constructed and veils the inner light of the Self. It describes how the yogi deals with the natural breaches in enlightenment, and how the primal building blocks of the mind resolve back into their cause, allowing final liberation. The ultimate goal of this Sutra is to experience the sublime state of complete freedom from the effects of the physical plane, while still living in the physical body.

The 34 sutras of Book 4 have been divided into 12 sections:

1. Means of attaining experience (4.1-4.3)
2. Emergence and mastery of mind (4.4-4.6)
3. Actions and karma (4.7-4.8)
4. Subconscious impressions (4.9-4.12)
5. Objects and the three gunas (4.13-4.14)
6. Mind perceiving objects (4.15-4.17)
7. Illumination of the mind (4.18-4.21)
8. Buddhi and liberation (4.22-4.26)
9. Breaches in enlightenment (4.27-4.28)
10. Perpetual enlightenment (4.29-4.30)
11. Knowables become few (4.31)
12. Gunas after liberation (4.32-4.34)

There are many paths or methods of attaining Yoga (Union with the Self). Five of the principle paths are:

1. Karma Yoga - The technique of remaining in touch with the spiritual worlds while engaged in the actions of daily life.
2. Jnana Yoga - Seeing and experiencing the light of the Spirit everywhere.
3. Bhakti Yoga - Devoted attention, service and love toward the One Life present everywhere.
4. Raja Yoga - Training of the mind to return to the pure and complete consciousness behind the intellectual and intuitive faculties.
5. Hatha Yoga - Training of the body and breathing processes, to achieve consciouness of the presence of Spirit in the cells of the physical body.

*Each individual Yoga student may be inclined by their temperament or abilities to emphasize one of these paths over the others, but they intermingle and overlap and, ideally, should all be present to some degree as limbs of a complete Yoga practice.

Did you know? Did you know that suffering is optional?

Suffering is an internal condition that is actually not at all related to external factors as generally believed. We are often convinced that the world around is the cause of our happiness (or suffering). This may be the greatest illusion of all and leading more people to bondage and suffering than any other.

When we observe that people who are the least comfortable on the inside, we see that they usually seek to acquire the most 'comforts' in their material life and as a result they are never satisfied or fulfilled. People with the most comfort on the inside require the least amount of 'comforts' in their material life since they are firmly established in the knowledge that nothing material, nothing external, can ever deliver a true sense of wellbeing because that wellbeing is an internally derived state!

With this realization comes great power and an extremely deep and unshakable peace.

“Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.”... Buddhist saying

Pain is unavoidable and we all experience pain in our lives. Ironically, our attempts to manage or control pain often turn it into suffering instead of type of relief. As a result we may choose to ignore the pain, but then we don’t learn anything from it and we continually repeat the same habits that create suffering.

We might experience pain in the form of depression or anxiety and perceive it as a solid, unchanging wall; when in reality it is full of gaps and moments of opportunity for freedom.

Rejecting our pain also leads to suffering because when we do that we make an enemy of our experience. Experience is just that and it is meant to be experienced. Rejecting experience (including our thoughts and feelings about it) is fruitless, deepening the conflict that we would like to eliminate from our lives.

Physical pain (including mental/emotional pain) may be effectively addressed by looking clearly, directly and impassionedly at what is actually happening, without rejecting it, clinging to it, ignoring it, or elaborating upon it. When we choose to do this, we will notice the true nature of pain as being transitory, mutable and impermanent. It is not solid and seamless. It appears and then dissipates over time, like all manifest phenomena .


By keeping an open mind we perceive
our situation clearly and accurately.


By keeping an open mind we perceive our situation clearly and accurately. By learning patience we may sit with it and observe without attempting to alter, judge or make any assumptions. We need to realize that we are never alone. Any pain or suffering we feel personally has also been felt by others. No one’s life is free from pain and of course everyone wishes to be free from pain and suffering. We all deserve compassion for we are all in this together.

Simply watching, observing our pain, without attempting to change it we will notice that it changes on its own. Practicing in this manner brings great comfort and reassurance. We notice that pain is no more permanent than anything else and that suffering doesn’t arise out of the pain but instead from our thoughts and feelings about it. Through this practice we will gain confidence in our ability to work with and through whatever might arise in the present moment.

As an old Buddhist expression goes; “If you can do something about it, no need to worry. If you can’t do anything about it, no need to worry.”

So focus on the power of observing what is, and letting go of the thoughts and feelings that tend to develop a storyline and you’ll see that the storyline supports the suffering and without it suffering disappears. One thing is certain, pain is sure to repeatedly come our way in this life. It is inevitable. But the good news is it is possible to choose whether or not we will turn our pain into suffering, or simply leave pain as it is, to arise and dissolve on its own, without our interference, elaboration or rejection. This is always our option, always!