Visions
Hatha Yoga Axxess acknowledges the organizers of Yoga Alliance, SOYA, YABC and
all those who earnestly work, worldwide endorsing safe yoga practices and spreading
the yoga word. Some of these organizations work to standardize Yoga teaching
programs and practices and charge high annual fees for membership and training
course appraisals.
At Vision Hatha Yoga we endorse safe yoga practices and spreading the yoga message but beyond that we embrace a very different vision; one in which every yoga student and every yoga teacher is encouraged to follow their own heart and internal ethics, to be personally responsible for their own choices and to trust their inner wisdom over the guidelines of extraneous organizations. The heart is a place where structured organizations and regulatory bodies, no matter how well intended, have no place and no suzerainty. The more we rely upon organizations to do our thinking for us, the more we give our power away and the less we live an authentic yoga lifestyle.
Yoga is a 5,000 year old tradition. It has stood the test of time outside of standardizing bodies and governing organizations. It has flourished without them. The diversity of yoga schools attests to the fact that yoga grows and changes in its own course and in its own way. Like language, social customs and culture, yoga simply cannot be governed, controlled or standardized. We concur with the writings of Daniel Quinn that there is “no one right way to live”; just as surely there is “no one right way to yoga”.
Yoga teachers and Swamis who have taught and/or written elucidating and clear-thinking material up to and including the 21st century have been sound models and contributors to our work at Visions Hatha Yoga Axxess. It is upon their examples that we build our courses, programs and training protocols. These model teachers and traditions pre-date current regulatory associations.
We encourage our students and our student teachers to develop a healthy, intelligent independence of thought and action and to be character-based not just technique-based in their lives and in their yoga practice. It is by relying upon our own instincts, inner wisdom, the guidance of our private hearts and our own independent thinking that each of us truly selects the teachers and programs best suited to our needs. There is no place for regulation in this highly personal and deeply Self-directed choice. When we truly live a life based on yoga’s Eight Fold Path, the wisdom that guides our every step and choice springs from within; not from without.
Our teacher training courses are valued as follows:
The Heart Mandala Infinity spins at the very centre of the heart mandala. |