Senior Yoga Teacher

Six Senses Yoga College developed through Cilica’s personal journey to embrace nature and the senses into the context of classical yoga. When yoga comes alive; our mind awakens, we hear and feel our bodies in our ever changing surroundings. It is in the development of our senses that human nature blossoms.

Cilica believes it important that Six Senses Yoga function on a linear rather than hierarchical foundation maintaining closely to Traditional and Modern Indian Yoga, creating a profound link to the original 6,000 years old tradition.

Knowing instinctively to meditate and be in the moment, spirituality is a way of life. It is through continued exploration of yoga asanas, meditation and pranayama that her physical presence becomes inspiring and empowering.

An intuitive instructor, Cilica encourages personal interpretations of postures meditations, and philosophies, while preserving asanas’ alignment and integrity. Her approach is mischievous, encouraging individual body shapes, abilities, and mindsets to simply be. Cilica challenges each participant to see themselves anew, while conscious that each is already perfect.

Cilica’s recent yoga studies took her to Aranmula, Kerala in Southern India for 4 months in 2007, where she increased her knowledge of Classical Yoga, received daily instruction in Kathakali, Carnatic Chants and Song, Ayurveda Medicine and Southern Indian Cooking and Culture.

She holds a Traditional Hatha Yoga and Chakra Yoga certificates from Grace Broughton, British School of Yoga, in the lineages of Krishnamacharya and his son, teacher Desikachar. Though Cilica’s initial yoga studies began in Vancouver, B.C. she studies in the U.K., Europe and Asia.

In addition to valuing the knowledge of mentors, apprenticing, and self-study, she learns by doing, observing and absorbing what she needs. Her mentors include Buddhist Monk, Reverend Koten Benson, Lions Gate Buddhist Priory and Swami in Aranmula, Kerala India.

She holds an advanced degree in music composition/voice, and extensively studies cultural vocal forms and communications. Cilica specializes in experimental and new music/voice techniques. She amalgamates her knowledge and studies into her facilitating and mentoring.

Facilitates: Pregnancy Yoga/Asana, Healing Yoga and Classical Yoga Training, 500 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Programing,

Bet you can jump from one cloud to the other without falling!

London, UK Oct 5-10 ~ Halifax, Nova Scotia, Nov 9 – 14

presented by Six Senses Yoga

R e g i s t e r

Lunch and Tea included Daily

Expand your Yoga Teaching with Classical Yoga for to teach or further understand Pregnancy Yoga. This Intensive explores Classical Healing and Experimental Yoga asanas, meditations, vocal toning & yoga nada, yoga nidra and pregnancy anatomy enabling participants to aid expectant mums in having the most natural, comfortable pregnancy and child birth. Some partner yoga will also be introduced.

In this Intensive understand the effects of how creating life effects the female body, emotions, and hormones. Work with pranayama, asana and meditation to ease, release and correct common and more specific discomforts of pain and postural changes.

Specifically we’ll work on sciatica, shortness of breath, back pain, pelvis alignment & pain, along with the general discomfort as the baby grows. Learn how to ease childbirth with specialized techniques for delivery and post-delivery recovery. Dispel the myths about the physical and the emotional woman during pregnancy and childbirth.

SSYS’s Pregnancy Yoga Intensive integrates nature and the senses into the practice of pregnancy yoga classes and one to one sessions.

Vegetarian Lunch and Tea included each day.

Open Hearts ~ Open Minds ~ Open Living

Facilitator
Cilica is a well versed, warm and giving Yoga Instructor who began teaching Pregnancy Yoga to accompany her regular yoga classes as awareness grew of the benefits of Pregnancy Yoga.

After receiving her yoga certification in Hatha Yoga, Yoga Therapy and Pregnancy Yoga Cilica began to study with a *Canadian midwife learning more about general pregnancy and birthing. She continues to educate herself on the new techniques in birthing, regulations and myths of pregnancy, baby and mum still prevalent in Western Society.

Her teaching is open, honest, warm and intuitive, while giving you the necessary tools to learn you are able to adopt the teaching to your own perspectives, style and knowledge.

Cilica also teaches and instructs yoga teachers on ‘mum’s and babies yoga’, ‘baby yoga massage’, ‘pregnancy couples yoga’, pranayama yoga, and variety of hatha and ashtanga yoga. She is the director and senior yoga instructor of Six Senses Yoga Society. You may reach Cilica through her E-mail, Full Bio

*Canadian Midwives have the same authority as doctors to care for pregnant women, their delivery and babies; except their training and registration is fully concentrated on the natural process of childbirth (being it is not a medical procedure) as well as knowing medical aspects.

Participants
This intensive is open to Yoga Teachers, Yoga Enthusiasts with a parctive of 2 years and those in the Healing Fields: midwives, nurses, massage therapist and more.

Certificate
Certified Training Intensive with intensive manual for each participant. When all aspects of the Intensive are completed, the participants earn 100 Yoga Hours applicable to the yoga alliance and international standards of yoga organisations.

Registration
Registration is Open for all Intensives
Early Registration ends August 15, 2010
. . . and All Registration Closes One month before Intensive

Fees: Register before August 15 £719 – afterwards £799

Six Day Yoga Training for Yoga Teachers and Enthusiasts

London UK, Oct 19-24 ~ St. John’s, NFL, Nov 23 – 28

presented by Six Senses Yoga

R E G I S T R A T I O N

Yoga by the mere practice is to balance and heal the body, mind and our spirits. In this 6 day intensive encapsulate the balance between a practice of yoga, with the intent to heal the body, yourself and your students. Tap into your own intuition to discern what and where you need to heal, bringing stillness to the moment; emotional and intellectual as well as spiritual connections with your inner balance.

Just as Patanjali says in his Yoga Sutra there are as many Asanas as there are living creatures on earth, so are there as many subtle differences, and layers, complexities to each person. Develop the integration between knowing yourself and knowing how your students can heal themselves through the mindfulness of Yoga; asana; classical and experimental with nidra, nada, vocal toning and more.

Through the Intensive learn, understand and feel how subtle adjustments and simple asanas to more complex asanas aid in healing and maintaining your own health and/or issues giving you personal insights as a teacher for your students either in class or one-to-one. Two days are spent on the spine exclusively as the spine affects the whole body, wellbeing, moods, and mobility: such as back and neck weakness, pain, disc alignment, posture, injury, and scoliosis.

During the Intensive learn how to use pranayama to ignite the healing mechanisms of the body/mind to elevate individual and common health issues as anxiety, asthma, low blood pressure, holding the jaw (tight muscle holding) to more complex issues as spinal challenges, chronic pain, and organ function. We also work on the importance of organ, joint and sciatica health through asana, pranayama and touch.

SSY’s Healing Insights Yoga Intensive integrates nature and the senses into each intensive enabling participants a richer, more enlightened yoga practice.

Open Hearts ~ Open Minds ~ Open Living

Participants
Certified Training Intensive including manual for each participant. When all aspects of the Intensive are completed, the participants earn 90 Yoga Hours.

Certificate
This intensive is open to Yoga Teachers, Yoga Practitioners of a minimum of a year’s practice and those in the Healing Fields: midwives, nurses, massage therapist and more.

This course may also be known as ‘Yoga Therapy’

Facilitator: Cilica, BA, BYS

Registration
Registration is Open for all Intensives
Early Registration ends August 15, 2010

Fees: Register before August 15 £719 – afterwards £799

Lunch and Tea included Daily