Level 2 is a three course modular Yoga Training with an authentic & effective yoga tradition.
R O A D M A P :
1. Foundation Course: Triumph of the Winds
2. Master Course: Emotional Alchemy
3. Teacher Training: Coming Soon
*350+ hours of authentic training
EXPLORE INNER & OUTER WORLDS
Is there more to my human experience than just my physical body?
Learn to achieve a deep, peaceful sense of love that pervades your daily life.
FEEL AMAZING AND HELP OTHERS
Why do bad things happen to good people?
Level 1 is specifically designed to reduce negative emotions and help us create a new world.
REDUCE STRESS
Why do things work sometimes and other times they don’t?
Gain mental clarity on the nature of reality; create the world you believe is possible.
Who is Lady Niguma?
Yogini
Lady Niguma is considered one of the most important and influential yoginis of 10-11th century India.
Physician
The woodblock prints of her asana system were recently rediscovered, and are now considered to be the oldest known recorded yoga asana sequences.
Lineage Holder
This tradition has descended through an unbroken line from Lady Niguma herself over 1,000 years - but this is the first time her wisdom has been made available this way.
Teacher
By pouring over decades of study and practice, with years and years of silent retreat, our team has poured their experience and wisdom into these courses for you.
WHY STUDY HER SYSTEM?
Mastery of Lady Niguma’s yoga has the ability to radically transform a practitioner’s experience of the world in a very short period of time.
By combining the outer methods of the physical elements of yoga with the inner practices of the traditional and ancient systems, results manifest more quickly.
This is how we get answers to life's biggest questions.
It's like walking around in a dark room searching for a light switch. YSI is here to show you where the switch is and how to flip it—so the mysteries of the subtle body become manifest.
COURSE DATES:
CHINESE SPEAKING:
May 4-5 + 11-12 [Online]
ALL OTHER LANGUAGES:
April 19-22 [Online]
July 28 - August 1 [In-person Turkey]
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Lady Niguma II, Triumph of the Winds, is a profound experiential journey through the five major winds or vayus in the body. These inner winds, or inner energies, are connected to five main negative states of mind, and by understanding the winds and states of mind, by understanding the practices of Lady Niguma’s yoga, we can transform these negative states of mind into five aspects of her perfect wisdom.
Five winds and five negative emotions transformed into five wisdoms. This is the essence of Lady Niguma’s Triumph of the Winds series.
Foundation Course Details
What you'll get:
+ Philosophy Classes: in-depth virtual training, live & pre-recorded
+ Question & Answer Sessions
+ Small Group Discussions
+ Element Meditations: Contemplating the nature of reality
+ Story Time: Connie O’Brien tells the story of the Mahasiddhas
+ Asana Series 2: physical yoga series to work at the level of the 5 inner winds.
+ Posture Chart & Manual for the entire series
+ Posture Clinic: pose-by-pose breakdown of the Asana Series
+ 30 Day Wisdom in Action Challenge: Integrate the teachings with challenges designed to help you live the teachings.
+ Level 2 Foundation Certification: Earn a certificate by completing the homework, quizzes, final exam, and the 30-day Wisdom in Action challenge.
Foundation 2 Promo Video
COURSE DATES:
CHINESE SPEAKING:
N/A
OTHER LANGUAGES:
August 2-5 [In-person Turkey]
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In the Emotional Alchemy course, we will go deeper and add a further connection to our existing paradigm of the 5 winds, negative emotions, and wisdoms. Here, we introduce and connect the “heaps”, or the things that make up “me” in the sense of my body and my mind.
There are five heaps and each is connected to an individual wind and therefore to one of the five aspects of Lady Niguma’s wisdom. So, we are not only purifying our negative emotions, but we are also purifying our body and our mind via the purification of the five heaps.
Master Course Details
What you'll get:
+ Philosophy Classes: in-depth virtual training, live & pre-recorded
+ Question & Answer Sessions
+ Small group discussions
+ Manual: Learn to master yourself
+ Review the essence of the Triumph of the Winds
+ Alchemical Breaks: use the Asana Series 2 to break the cycles of negative emotion
+ Emotional Alchemy: Lady Niguma’s connection to the most classic yogic text
+ Heaps: Deeper explanation of the 5 heaps of "me"
+ Level 2 Master Certification: Earn a certificate by completing the homework, quizzes, a final exam, and the 30-Day Wisdom in Action challenge.
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MEET YOUR INSTRUCTORS
Earle Birney
New York, USA
Earle has studied with the Yoga Studies Institute (YSI) since 2006; he completed the five-year curriculum covering the essential texts of yoga philosophy including the Yoga Sutra and the Bhagavad Gita as well as the Lady Niguma and Heart Yoga systems. He has studied with many great teachers in the Ashtanga, Bikram, Anusara, and Sivananda systems and is a 500-hour E-RYT. He has produced and taught at international retreats as well as completed a three-year, three-month and three-day silent meditation retreat.
Constance O'Brien
Arizona, USA
Constance O’Brien’s love for yoga started in the late 1970’s when the first Sivananda Yoga studio appeared in her local town. Thirty years later, she encountered Heart Yoga and fell in love with the practice all over again. She studied the deeper knowledge of yoga’s inner practice from 2003 through 2010 with Geshe Michael Roach in Tucson, Arizona. Following a three-year meditation retreat in 2014, she became a certified 200-hour Yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance in the Hatha Yoga Anusara style. Since 2014, she has travelled throughout Asia as a teacher for the Diamond Cutter Institute, teaching yoga, meditation and Diamond Cutter principles for business. In 2019, she revived the Yoga Studies Institute and serves as its current director.
Bob Cirino
Pennsylvania, USA
Bob Cirino has spent most of his life playing music, gardening, studying science, and starting businesses designed to harmonize man with nature. His drive for business success led him to Michael Roach's book, The Diamond Cutter. It was here that he was empowered to pursue his passion for philosophy and yoga in greater depth.
Since then, he has developed a yoga and meditation practice that help him bring joyful focus into his daily activities.
He now serves the Yoga Studies Institute and resides in the rolling hills of Pennsylvania, USA, with his wife and two cats.
Teresa Pirosanto
Madrid, Spain
Teresa currently teaches Ashtanga, Yoga Flow, Vinyasa and Niguma yoga. She studied the Iyengar method at the age of 25 in Argentina and Chile with Ramanand Pattel. She also studied many different methods while in Miami, even through three pregnancies. In 2007, she discovered the Ashtanga method and trained with Manju Jois in Chile. Back in Miami, in 2008, she trained with Tim Miller and practiced with Kino Mac Gregor. In 2009, she received her Ashtanga Yoga certificate from Ashtangabaires Argentina and also traveled to Chicago to do teacher training with Richard Freeman. In 2010, she began studying philosophy and meditation with Michael Roach during many courses and retreats. She also studied Transcendental Meditation, Pranic Healing and Yoga for Children.
Lydia Gallagher
Arizona, USA
Lydia was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. She developed a dedicated asana practice at Punto Yoga with Angie Flores, an Authorized Level 1 Ashtanga Yoga teacher. In line with the Ashtanga lineage, she visited Mysore, India, where she studied at the K. Pattabhi Jois Ashtanga Yoga Institute.
In 2017, she met Michael Roach, who shared the foundations of Tibetan lineage philosophy and since then has developed a solid meditation practice as well as successfully completed an Applied Meditation Teacher Training in ancient Asian philosophy.
As she transformed her life using the teachings, her practice evolved as well. In 2020, she completed the Life of a Yogi Teacher Training with Sri Dharma Mittra and teaches Dharma yoga at the Yoga Studies Institute to a worldwide audience.
Paola Pimentel
Guadalajara, Mexico
Paola discovered yoga at an early age, but took her first Ashtanga yoga class at Punto Yoga studio in Guadalajara where she kept practicing and learning from Angie Flores Saiffe (L2 Authorized ) from 2007 to 2012. She certified as a Hatha an Vinyasa Yoga Instructor in 2014.
Under April Kuramoto’s (Bliss Yoga, Vancouver, Canada) wing, she studied both her Prenatal and Postnatal Yoga certifications in 2016; for the next three years, they both worked on different collaborations, teaching workshops and certifications to different students from all the country.
In late 2016, she opened her own Prenatal Yoga Studio, “Yoga Prenatal GDL,” and focuses mainly on holding space for mothers during pregnancy and postpartum.
She loves to spend time with her two girls, teaching workshops, supporting her patients and serving others.
Alfonso Arzapalo
Montreal, Canada
Alfonso was born and raised in Guadalajara, Mexico. In 2000, his interest in meditation led him to yoga which he started formally practicing and studying in 2001. Starting a journey of learning and discovery which took him to study yoga with many different teachers and traditions, including Kundalini, Sivananda, Ashtanga, Dharma Mittra and Iyengar. This journey included travel, learning and practicing Kundalini in New Mexico and France, Sivananda in Canada, Dharma Mittra in New York and then to the Hymalayan Iyengar centre in Dharamkot, Dharamshala, India. In the meantime, he continued to study and practice meditation mainly in the Vippassana tradition thought by S.N. Goenka.
Benji Bridges
North Carolina, USA
I have worked with YSI for 3 years, maturing alongside the organization - enjoying all of the courses with the community of practitioners and teachers. Before YSI, I studied many other traditions before making a commitment to practice these teachings to their highest conclusion.
In 2016, I traded a life of business for a new life as a farmer. With all of the physical exercise and spiritual work I was doing, Lady Niguma’s yoga came into my life. I practiced it for years without ever meeting YSI. Little did they (and I) know, I was planting the seeds that would force them to hire me and to teach me!
With a Yogic Lifestyle and my love of creating a new world, I have created farms, medicinal gardens, developed an intentional community and a homestead with my family. Now, I am working to build a school that teaches yoga and stewardship. Years of yoga practice and adhering to codes of conduct are the only ways I could have made these dreams a reality!
Alex Rivas
Guadalajara, Mexico
Entrepreneur, yoga teacher, and translator: Alex also works as a volunteer doing voice-overs, subtitling, and translating for online and live events, helping spread the yoga teachings to the world. He loves to teach Lady Niguma Yoga & Heart Yoga, now working with the Yoga Studies Institute. He has worked with the Green Stretch Pen program to bring emptiness and seeds teachings, yoga, and healthy lifestyle to kids in Mexico.
In his entrepreneurial life, he took all these teachings to start a successful vegetarian and health store in Mexico, called “O-Mart Ecomarket,” working alongside his wife to protect life, bringing these stores all around Mexico.
In his personal life, he has two kids, 10 and 6 years old. They are already practicing Yoga! He loves to spend time with family and friends, singing and going out.
Shalamar Brown
USA
Shalamar Brown is a small town girl with a global vision and a huge heart. Originally from Ohio, now settled in Florida, Shalamar loves all things tech with experience as a Software Developer and in her current role as a Technical Analyst.
Shalamar loves to serve others. From volunteering at nursing homes since childhood, to opening her own affordable daycare center after the birth of her son, Shalamar demonstrates
her love for all and genuinely wants to see everyone live their best lives.
After attending classes at Three Jewels in NYC, she knew that meditation was the key to helping her help others. It wasn’t long before she completed her 200-hr Meditation Teaching
Certification. Her capacity to care for others increases everyday!
