Welcome to the Anusara Yoga Immersion Cycle. If you have studied Anusara yoga (30 hours of Anusara study recommended) and wish to go deeper in your understanding of this comprehensive and inspiring hatha yoga system, entering the Immersion Cycle opens you to new insights into your own practice. The Immersion is a basic and introductory course in the fundamental principles of Anusara yoga's Shiva-Shakti Tantric philosophy, asana alignment and practice.

The Immersion is a unique opportunity to deepen your yoga practice without having to enter a teacher training. At the same time, this exploration of Anusara Yoga is further broken down into three complete parts so that you can choose to go one step at a time.

If you decide you wish to become a teacher, the Immersion Cycle (at least 100 Immersion hours) gives you the depth of understanding to enter the Anusara Teacher Training. The Immersion Cycle will thoroughly prepare you for this.

In addition to classroom hours towards fulfilling Teacher Training requirements, you receive ongoing mentorship as your understanding evolves. You practice in a supportive, safe and transformative environment.

In Immersion 1, Getting Your Feet Wet (36 hours), we cover the following topics:

• Overview of Anusara’s Life-Affirming Tantric Philosophy
• Dancing with the Shakti: Learning to receive the life breath
• Rediscovering the asana practice: Attitude, Alignment and Action are Divine
• Principles we can access in the here and now
• Sowing the seeds, waiting for the Sun and the Rain: Self-effort meets Grace in the Universal Principles of Alignment
• Nature is supremely organized in her freedom: Joyful functional anatomy
• Meditation: moving into the inner subtle asana
• Putting it into perspective: Anusara and Tantra in the big scope of yoga
• Exploring the level 1 asana syllabus

In addition to classroom hours, we will assign homework and empowerment reviews.

Required Texts
• Master Immersion PDF Booklet, John Friend (you will be provided with a link to purchase and download from Anusara.com)
• Anusara Teacher Training Manual, John Friend (Anusara.com)
• Anatomy of Movement, Blandine Calais-Germain (Anusara/Kinokuniya/Amazon)