FOREST ACADEMY
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Integrating Education, Health and Higher Consciousness:
All academy courses, diplomas and programs are based on the fact that education, health and higher consciousness are all intimately connected. The academy therefore incorporates the Science of Consciousness (Science of Unity) and Mind Body Medicine in all educational and health programs.
Knowledge of consciousness (the 'field' of Unity),
is knowledge of the inner most 'field' of life,
- it is the most valuable of all knowledge
- for it is the origin of ALL energy, peace, wisdom, love and happiness in life.
In times of darkness we crave the Light
we ache for the Light to the depths of our Being
(and yet it is often just a feeling, a longing
we don’t even have the words to describe)
The Forest Academy is this Beacon of Light
The Light of Knowledge and Life
The Light of Compassion and Understanding
The Light of Guidance and Support
The Flow of Light – The Flow of Love
UPCOMING COURSES beginning in September 2011:
Yoga Teacher Training 200 hour and 500 hour certification
Ayurveda
Jyotish (Vedic Astrology)
Enlightenment
Every 200 or 300 hour course describe below includes FREE instruction ($1250.00 value) in Samadhi Meditation and a Weekend Residence Course ($395 value) as described below.
Samadhi Meditation (Buddhi Yoga): The Meditation of Self-Realization and Psycho-Neurological Integration
Practice of a Deep Meditation or Ascension Technique is essential along with participation in any course. If you have not learned a Deep Meditation or Ascension Technique (which includes innocence, surrender and non-resistance), then Samadhi Meditation will be offered to you free with participation in any 200/300 hour program.
Without the conscious experience of the core of our being - the 'State of Unity', health improvements and understanding of the course material will not be as profound and the course will not fulfil its intended purpose of awakening higher consciousness!
Samadhi Meditation (or Buddhi Yoga) is the ultimate in vibrational medicine - using the vehicle of thought (the highest manifestation of prana / chi / ki / etc.) and primordial sound (mantra) suited to the individual. It is the highest form of meditation because it directly leads to Self-Awakening - the experience of 'Buddha Consciousness' - the experience of wholeness in the super-conscious state of samadhi. This is the 'Path of the Self' where our awareness is guided by the Self back to It’s Source. This experience fine tunes the intimate connections between body, mind, spirit and brings the qualities of pure consciousness (energy, wisdom, love) to meet the challenges of everyday life. This technique releases stress, anxiety, fatigue; increases energy, alertness, creativity and lifts every aspect of life to a higher level.
Weekend Residential Program: To Accelerate Awakening of Higher Consciousness:
This weekend residence course offers an oasis; a time and place to deepen one’s knowledge and experience of wholeness; an opportunity to accelerate personal awakening and growth; to return home in a better state of well being.
This is a unique opportunity to:
• Experience the deep rest necessary to release accumulated stress and fatigue.
• Learn more of the practice and philosophy of Yoga, Meditation and Mind Body Medicine.
• Just let the gentle routine carry you through the weekend and leave restored, refreshed and rejuvenated
Descriptions of 200 & 300 hour Yoga Teacher Training Courses
CYT 200: Certified Yoga Teacher 200 hours and 500 hours - 200 and 500 Diploma Credit Hours: These two courses qualifies graduate to become a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT 200 hours and 500 hours) with Yoga Alliance.
CYT 200: Certified Yoga Teacher 200 hours - 200 Diploma Credit Hours:
Content: Integrative Yoga Techniques: asanas, breathing, meditation, relaxation techniques. Teaching Methodology: Include principles of demonstration, observation, assisting/correcting, instruction, teaching styles, qualities of a teacher and the student’s process of learning. Anatomy and Physiology: Physical & subtle (chakras, nadis, etc.) Philosophy/Ethics/Lifestyle: Yoga scriptures (Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, Bhagavad Gita, etc.), ethics for yoga teachers, ‘living the life of the yogi/yogini’, Practicum: Student teaching, observing and assisting in classes taught by others. Ayurveda: Basic understanding and balancing of mind/body types.
CYT 500: Certified Yoga Teacher 500 hours - 300 Diploma Credit Hours:
It provides 300 hours additional training beyond the CYT 200 hour program. It gives more in-depth knowledge in all of the same categories as the 200 hour program. Other topics include: Pathological/Health Conditions. Yoga Therapy (Asanas, pranayama, basic relaxation/meditation) for specific health issues and Ayurvedic mind body types. Prerequisite: “CYT 200" from Forest Academy or equivalent. Includes: Learning Samadhi Meditation (not to teach others) and 1 weekend residence course.
Descriptions of 200 & 300 hour Ayurveda Training Courses
Training in AYURVEDA - A 200 hour and 500 hours programs - 200 and 500 Diploma Credit Hours:
Ayurveda and the Fundamentals of Health, Education and Higher Consciousness - 200 Diploma Credit Hours:
Note: This course is a mandatory requirement for earning any of the 1800 hour Diplomas. This course is a prerequisite for the "Certified Ayurvedic Educator - 500" Program Course
Objective: This course teaches you how to take a more hands-on, and responsible role in your health and well being. It provides the fundamental knowledge of Ayurveda sufficient for the participant to understand and use basic ayurvedic modalities and lifestyle recommendations to help restore balance to the individual's mind body type. This course prepares one for a deeper pursuit of Ayurveda and is a prerequisite for the "Certified Ayurvedic Educator - 500" Program.
PART 1: Understanding Ayurveda Ayurveda: its meaning, origins, history, philosophy, objectives. A general comparison of the East and West models of health care. Become familiar with the play and display of the five elements (forces of nature) which are fundamental, enduring and evident throughout nature - whether you are speaking of the world at large or the human body in particular. Understand the qualities of the five elements and how they determine the characteristics we associate with nature and each mind body type.
PART 2: Constitutional Analysis: Each person is unique. At the heart of Mind/Body healing and Ayurveda is the concept of different mind/body types. Learn how to determine your unique mind body type and current state of imbalance through observation, questionnaire and pulse diagnosis to discern the conditions of the 3 doshas and 15 sub-doshas. This is the key to holistic and integral health care, and the true basis of any treatment or preventive medicine. Learn the origins of the 3 'doshas' and their characteristics in both a balanced and unbalanced state.
PART 3: Ayurvedic Treatments and Lifestyle Management: Learn how to apply (based on your mind body type) a variety of self-help methods including: yoga, exercise, relaxation techniques, meditation, breath-work, environment, spices, food, herbs, self-massage, aroma, sound, music, colour, gems, routine, etc. Learn a personalized home purification (panchakarma) program. Includes: Learning Samadhi Meditation and 1 weekend residence course.
Certified Ayurvedic Health Educator 500 hours - 300 Diploma Credit Hours:
This program provides 300 additional hours of Ayurvedic knowledge and experience sufficient for the Ayurvedic Health Educator to educate & guide others in the use of basic ayurvedic modalities & lifestyle recommendations to help restore balance to the individual’s mind body type.
TOPICS:
Ayurvedic Anatomy and Physiology: Basic gross and subtle anatomy and physiology: Balanced and aggravated characteristics of the five Elements, three Doshas, twenty-four Attributes, seven Dhaatus (body tissues), fourteen Channel Systems (Srotamsi), Ojas (life energy), Malas (body’s waste).
The Disease Process: What is health and disease. What is balance and imbalance. What are the causes, stages, symptoms and prognosis of disease.
Constitutional analysis: How to determine an individual’s unique mind body type and current state of imbalance.
Pulse Diagnosis: A more advanced experience and understanding of the pulse diagnosis for the three doshas (prakriti and vikriti) and fifteen subdoshas.
Ayurvedic Treatments and Lifestyle Management: How to apply and educate others in a variety of self-help methods including: yoga, exercise, relaxation, meditation, breath-work, food, herbs, self-massage, aroma, sound, colour, gems, routine, lifestyle, etc. Home Panchakarma (Purification) Program.
Prerequisite: Ayurveda and the Fundamentals of Health, Education and Higher Consciousness – 200 Diploma Credit Hours. Includes: 1 Weekend Residence Crse.
Descriptions of 200 & 300 hour Vedic Astrology Training Courses (Note: 300 hour Certified Vedic Astrolger course is not offered this year - see Certificate Courses for course description.
Vedic Astrology (Jyotish): The Science of Light - Part 1: 200 Diploma Credit Hours
This knowledge is essential for every seeker of enlightenment. Vedic Astrology is intimately personal and intensely practical. This course includes a computer program that calculates basic birth charts. Learn how to interpret and understand your horoscope. Discover the basic impulses motivating your various activities and relationships. Discover latent faculties inherent within yourself and the blueprint of your life's mission. Find out what the various impediments to your path of awakening are. Learn why and how we are the architect of our own destiny - how your past actions (karma during previous incarnations) have shaped the circumstances of your present life. Learn how to live more in harmony with the rhythms of the universe, to neutralize negative influences of the planets and enhance the positive influences, resulting in greater success, health and happiness.
Main Topics Include:
The Basic Descriptions, Meanings, Symbolism and Significations of:
• 9 Grahas (Planets): The Great Cosmic Significators
• 12 Rashis (Signs) of the Zodiac: How Planets Transmit the Influences of the Stars.
• 12 Bhavas (Houses): The Domains of Planetary Action
• 27 Nakshatras (Asterisms or Lunar Mansions)
Birth Chart Formats and Interpretation (How to Analyze and Synthesis a Chart):
• Interpreting the North and South Indian Birth Chart
• Introducing the 2 Divisional Charts: Navamsha and Dashamsha
• Planetary Strengths, Auspiciousness, Aspects, Relationships, Rulerships, Combinations, Yogas.
• Analysis of the Conditions of All Areas of Our Lives: For Example: Wealth, Health, Finances, Careers, Relationships, Spirituality, Home, Education, Children, Interests, Marriage, Skills, etc.
Predictive Guidelines:
• Determining planetary influences on our lives through time – From Birth to Present and into the Future:
• Dashas (Planetary Periods)
• Gochara (Planetary Transits)
Remedial Measures:
• Chanting of planetary mantras to modify planetary influences: to neutralize negative karma and enhance positive effects resulting in greater success, health and happiness in any area of life.
Main Projects Assigned to Participants:
• Analyze your birth chart to discover the ‘Blueprint of your Life’s Mission’ – Why are you here?
• Write your own “Autobiography of a Seeker” – follow the progression of your life from birth to present time and into the future. See how nature has influenced and guided us from birth to awaken to our life’s purpose.
This course also included instruction and participation in the practice of Samadhi Meditation and a Weekend Residence Course. The purpose of the meditation practice and the weekend course is to deepen one’s experience of his/her Higher Self, to rise above the influence of karma (as read in the birth chart), to accelerate healing and the awakening to his/her Divine Purpose / Life's Mission.
Note: This Part 1 course is a prerequisite to the Part 2: “Certified Vedic Astrologer” course.
Location, Dates: Depends on response and what we can work out as a class - considering everyone's situation. 4 hours per week is required.
“ENLIGHTENMENT” Part 1: Paths, Stages, Descriptions - 200 Diploma Credit Hours
• A must for graduate yoga teachers and all seekers of enlightenment
• A must for anyone involved in some way in the ‘Human Potential’ movement.
The sole purpose of human birth is to awaken to our infinite potential (Infinite Power, Wisdom and Love). With awakening comes the realization of who we are and why we are here. With proper guidance, awakening is not difficult. Enlightenment, “a felt oneness with Being”, requires satisfying the needs of both the heart (chitta) and intellect (buddhi) - to live this Higher Reality in the midst of our daily earthly living, requires that one firstly and consciously experiences Spirit Self, (the Transcendent, the Ascendent) and also understands and comprehends what that experience is. Therefore to gain maximum awakening, (progress towards living Buddha Consciousness, Perpetual Consciousness and beyond) in this course requires the seeker of enlightenment to be as regular as possible in his/her home practice of Samadhi Meditation (also referred to as Buddhi Yoga in the scriptures) – or a similar Path of Deep Meditation or Ascension (which inlcudes innocence, surrender, non-resistance). Although, at first glance this course may appear complicated – it is not. Once we get beyond the complications that the mind has created, we will discover that understanding and living life to its fullest is simple. “When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky”…..Buddha. Bring ALL your yearnings and questions.
Some Topics Include:
• In-depth yogic experience and yoga philosophy – The science and philosophy of Divine Union.
• Bringing Heaven on Earth: A Comparative study of the varied ‘Paths to Enlightenment’ (Eastern and Western) - Physiological, Meditative (Contemplating, Concentrating, Ascending, Transcending), Selfless Service, Devotional, Intellectual, Chanting, Decreeing, Prayer, Renunciation, Fasting, Penance, True Control, Desperation, etc.
• The New Humanity: Stages and Descriptions of Higher States of Consciousness: The nature of the individual mind (ego) and its termination - this will make most present day studies of the mind (psychology, personality studies, etc.) obsolete. The ascent to Being, Nirvana, Samadhi, Satori, Presence, Kingdom of Heaven within, etc. and its Nature. Descriptions and Characteristics of different states of consciousness: Self-Realization, Buddha Consciousness, Perpetual Consciousness, Cosmic Consciouness, Christ Consciousness (I and the Creator are One), God Consciousness, Exalted Consciousness, Unity (Unified) Consciousness (I and the Impersonal God are One), etc.
• Study of: Shankara’s Advaitism, Bhagavad Gita, ‘Path of the Masters’, Jesus the Christ, Paramahansa Yogananda, Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras by MSI of the Ishayas, Rudolf Steiner, Eckhart Tolle and the ‘Eternal Now’, Meher Baba (Sufism Reoriented), and many others. Note that all True Masters speak from the same source and therefore share the same message of Truth, but clothed in different words to suit the people of the time.
• The beginning, evolution and dissolution of Creation: The Force of Evolution as the ‘will-to-be-conscious’ throughout the five Kingdoms of Nature (Mineral, Plant, Animal, Human and Angelic Kingdoms).
• Reincarnation and the Force of Karma: The significance of death, hell, heaven.
Prerequisite:
• 400 Diploma Credit hours.
• OR interview and special permission by course teachers and Academy Directors - Gary & Holly Huffman
Includes:
• 1 weekend residence course.
NOTE: This course is a prerequisite to the 200 hour “Meditation Therapist” Course and "Enlightenment" Part 2: Alchemy - the Technology of Higher Consciousness - the Awakening of Supernormal Abilities.
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