cYs Practitioner Training Programme 2004 Retreat Extract 4

Session 1 – Self Planning & Self Practice

Building and working with Complex Sequences

This was a six day early morning Āsana, Mudrā, Bandha  & Prāṇāyāma planning and practice project for year Four students within a four year Practitioner Training Programme.

The format was:

• 5′ Pulse taking
• 15′ Practice Planning the previous day/s for:
  – Āsana practice  35′
  – Prāṇāyāma practice 10′
• 5’ Sitting
• 5′ Pulse taking
• 5’ For recording your pulse, personal notes or reflections from the practice

The Bhāvana practice proposition and Āsana, Mudrā, Bandha  & Prāṇāyāma practice techniques that set each mornings focus, technique and crown ratio are shown below.

For those needing clarification around the Prāṇāyāma Planning Techniques, a PDF handout on the Primary Prāṇāyāma Techniques as taught by Krishnamacharya and Desikachar can be viewed or downloaded from the link below.

• Primary Prāṇāyāma Techniques as taught by Krishnamacharya and Desikachar

The above post on this particular Self Planning & Self Practice exploration can be downloaded as a PDF.

• View or Download this 5 day year Four Prāṇāyāma planning and practice project as a PDF

Furthermore, this post will sit within a series of Practitioner Training Retreat Self Planning and Self Practice Extracts, illustrating both short term and longer term developmental examples of the Viniyoga of Āsana, Mudrā, Prāṇāyāma and Bandha.

• cYs Practitioner Training Programme Retreat Extract 1 – Self Planning & Self Practice
• cYs Practitioner Training Programme Retreat Extract 2 – Self Planning & Self Practice
• cYs Practitioner Training Programme Retreat Extract 3 – Self Planning & Self Practice