Welcome to TYS!
Traditional Yoga Studies (TYS) is dedicated to promoting authentic yogic teachings based on scriptural and oral transmission and to bringing out their relevance at the present time of severe environmental and social crisis.
Please scroll down to see our main offerings (philosophy/history training manual, distance-learning courses, and our book Green Yoga and also our book Green Dharma, which is available as a free PDF download). You can see all our offerings along with prices listed in our STORE.
TYS's activist objectives are pursued through Green Yoga Initiative (GYI).
To make it possible for more students to participate in our courses, we have lowered the prices of our distance-learning programs.
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»»»Philosophy/History Training Manual«««
Check out our beautifully designed spiral-bound Manual for teaching the philosophy/history segment of 200- to 500-hour Yoga teacher training programs, which makes it easy for teachers to teach this aspect of Yoga. This manual sets a new standard!
Offered for the first time in 2007, our manual has thus far been acquired by Yoga teachers in seven countries: Canada, the U.S., Australia, Great Britain ( Scotland), Sweden, Norway, and Holland. This manual is only available as a hard copy through the mail.
For Mahamandaleshvara Swami Veda Bharati's endorsement of our philosophy/history training manual, please click here.
Katherine Labonte of Dharma Spirit in Fort McMurray, Alberta, wrote to us enthusiastically: "The manual is grand. My students really love it—and I plan to use a lot of the quotes in my classes. Great work!"
The above comments sum up the sentiments expressed by other teachers who are using the manual in their trainings.
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»»»Distance Learning Courses«««
At present, TYS is offering the following two distance-learning courses, written and designed by Georg Feuerstein, who has authored over thirty books, including The Shambhala Encyclopedia of Yoga, The Yoga Tradition, Yoga Morality, and Holy Madness.
• an 800-hour course on the history, philosophy, and literature of Yoga
• a 250-hour course on Patanjali's system of Classical Yoga
Other distance-learning courses are in preparation. We have reduced all our prices to enable more students to participate in our courses.
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»»»Green Yoga Book and Green Dharma Book«««
The present serious threat to the biosphere and the future of humanity is discussed in our new book Green Yoga. This work also spells out what we all must do now in order to avoid the worst consequences of environmental devastation. The response has been overwhelming (thank you!).
“I pray that everyone will read this book and start to serve Mother Earth, so that she may survive. I hope that at least Yoga practitioners, who have faith in the evolution of humankind, make it their mission to bring about the necessary transformation.”—B. K. S. IYENGAR
"Green Yoga is one of the most important yoga books in print today."—SUZA FRANCINA, author of The New Yoga for People Over 50 and other books; former mayor of OjaiFor other endorsements of Green Yoga, please click here.
For our articles on Green Yoga and activism, please click here.
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Owing to the present environmental emergency, we have decided to make our latest book entitled Green Dharma available as a PDF document free of charge. It was written especially (but not exclusively) for Buddhist Yoga practitioners. Please also see our free PDF downloads of Greening Your Life (a chapter excerpted from Green Dharma, which is full of practical suggestions) and of Georg Feuerstein's latest book Connecting the Dots, which is trying to make sense out of modern life.
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For a detailed discussion of Yoga's ethics, you might want to check out Georg Feuerstein's printed book Yoga Morality about which David Frawley (Vamadeva Shastri) said: "Yogic spirituality, reflecting the wisdom of the greater conscious universe, can provide lasting solutions to our current seemingly intractable global problems. In Yoga Morality, Georg Feuerstein brings this deeper vision of Yoga into focus to show us how to create the values and life-style necessary to reshape our world and ourselves in the light of a higher awareness."
Finally, we recommend Swami Jnaneshvara's content-rich site at SWAMIJ.COM.
Namaste
Director
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