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YOGA
CENTRES
UNDER THE CHAIRMANSHIP OF
MARIA HELENA DE BASTOS FREIRE
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CENTRE OF
YOGA STUDIES NARAYANA |
Narayana is a very traditional centre of Yoga established
in 1965 in South America, São Paulo - Brazil. Its aim is
to teach and spread the deep and extensive knowledge of Yoga as
well as its different schools to promote the Eastern culture, philosophy
and its uses. The centre also mantains the Yoga school with morning
to evening classes of:
Hatha Yoga
Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga
Bala Yoga (for children)
Prakriyas
Yoga Nidra
Mitahara Yoga
Nirvisha Yoga (drug addicts)
Relaxation
Strav Cikitsa Yoga (hormone yoga)
Yoga Cikitsa (yoga therapy)
lyengar Yoga
Pranayama
Vardhakas (for elderly)
Garbhadharana (Yoga in pregnancy)
Feldenkreis
Yoga Drsti
Sat Sanghas
Yoga Teachers Graduation Course
(2000 hours university
level)
Capacity Course for Yoga Instructor
(intermediate level)
Specialization Courses for Continuous Upgrade of Yoga Teachers
Rua Ceará,272
Pacaembu - cep 01243-010 - São Paulo - Brazil
Tel: (55 11)38265549
www.yoganarayana.com.br
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INTERNATIONAL
YOGA TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION |
The IYTA aims at graduating people in Yoga because
of the need of having well prepared teachers. The courses follow
the traditional Yoga based on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (yamas
and niyamas) giving to those who seek Yoga, as their path, the way
to understand both Eastern and Western Cultures. It promotes international
congresses, campaigns as well as it sponsors lectures.
The IYTA's headquarter is in Austrália with representation
in Brazil and many other countries.
Rua Ceará, 272
Pacaembu - cep 01243-010 - São Paulo – Brazil
Tel: (55 11)36667917
www.yogateachers.com.br
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YOCOCEN
International Yoga Co-ordination Centre |
Yococen is the outcome of deliberations taken at
the International Yoga Teacher's Congress held in Panchgani, India,
in December 1976. It is a registered Trust formed to fulfill the
pressing need for collecting, co-ordinating, storing and disseminating
information on Yoga and allied subjects as a documentation and research
centre. It aims at gathering the written material on Yoga either
books or manuscripts scattered around India regardless of the language
in which they are written and also at organizing the translation
into English preserving the most precious and complete works not
only for us but also for future generations.
Rua Ceará, 272
Pacaembu - cep 01243-010 - São Paulo - Brazil
Tel: (55 11) 38265549
www.yococen.com
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YOGA COLLEGIATE
OF BRAZIL
DHARMAPARISHAD |
Self-regulatory entity for the diffusion and
teaching of Yoga.
Dharmo raksati raksitah
(The protected Dharma protects.)
Introduction
The Dharmaparishad Yoga Collegiate of Brazil is an entity that acts
as an organism to regulate and provide continuing education on Yoga
in Brazil. Through the seal Lakshdharma, an assessment exam, the
Collegiate accredits the interested instructor, providing a register
of his qualification and competency to divulge the practice of Yoga.
Through numerous courses of continuing education and specializing
in Yoga (360hrs/class), the Collegiate offers the professors and
advanced practitioners an opportunity to immerse themselves in numerous
classical texts of various traditions within Yoga, as well as their
day to day applications.
History
In 2002, the I.Y.T.A. (International Yoga Teachers' Association
of Brazil, active in the country since 1974), the Narayana Centre
for Yoga Studies (since 1966), the Narayana Graduate Course for
Yoga Professors (founded in 1972) and the Brazilian subsidiary to
YOCOCEN (International Yoga Coordination Centre, founded in India
in 1977) founded CYBD (Yoga Collegiate of Brazil Dharmaparishad),
with the purpose of:
1) To self-regulate Yoga in Brazil, and accredit Yoga educators.
2) To guarantee the pluralism of teaching and diffusion of Yoga
in Brazil.
3) To avoid the control of Yoga by any regulatory entity tied to
public bureaucracy, and assure the independence and freedom of thought
to the branches of Yoga active in the country.
Foundation
The Collegiate directs itself on the fundamentals of the universality
of Yoga, based on the doctrine of adhikarabheda, which recognizes
the plurality of systems and practices derived from distinct psychic
and organic aptitudes inherent to the multiplicity of human nature.
Yoga as a method, as defined by T.N. Ganapathy, is the universal
language that crosses the limits of regional, linguistic and geographical
barriers in doctrines being non-sectarian by nature. This attitude
allowed Yoga to create roots within Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism,
Taoism, Islamism, Christianity, Judaism and Sikhism; and in philosophical
schools such as Vedanta, Sanquia, Tantra and Sufism in the East,
and epicurist and stoic lines in the West, with repercussions in
philosophers such as Shopenhauer and Nietzsche.
The adhikarabheda is succinctly expounded on verse 54 of the second
chapter of Bhagavad-Gita:
“When your mind has overcome the confusion of error, the webs
of illusion, do not concern yourself with the cares and questions
regarding doctrines, nor with the disputes over rites, ceremonials
and other adornments which are superfluous to the clothing of the
spiritual idea.”
The name Dharmaparishad
The word parishad has its roots in “sitting in a circle”,
“around.” It means a collegiate, council, assembly.
The word dharma comes from the root dhr – support, maintain,
contain – it appears in the Vedas with the meaning of “stabilizing
force”, and is associated to the god Varuna, who represents
Law/ Order/ Code, and also personifies cosmic power. The authors
of Smrti identify Dharma with the code of conduct for an individual
and for society. In Buddhism, the word dharma denotes knowledge,
truth, morality and duty. Dharmaparishad is therefore an assembly
of people who study and endeavor to adopt a behaviour and a code
of yoga that does not injure the ethics of man or nature.
Rua Ceará, 272
Pacaembu - cep 01243-010 - São Paulo - Brazil
Tel: (55 11) 38265549
www.colegiadodharmaparishad.com.br
(in this site there are also a few interesting lectures
from Yoga experts)
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