Maharishi Yoga Asana Instructor Training, Phase 1

Phase One overview

Phase One provides a delightful and transformative balance of both knowledge and experience, combining a series of online webinars with a two-week in-residence section. Fundamentally, participants will be learning to establish and maintain within themselves the state of Yoga, ‘living unified wholeness in the field of diversity.’ This is cultivated through long programme morning and evening and extensive time spent on Maharishi Yoga Asanas.

Additionally, participants will develop a deep understanding of the first set of Maharishi Yoga Asanas and will begin to learn how to teach them to others in the proper, safe, and most beneficial way. Refined practice, professional guidance and support, the enlightening group dynamics of practice together in-residence are all rich parts of the experience.

After completing Phase One, participants will have an excellent and solid foundation for subsequent training in Phase Two and Three of the Maharishi Yoga Asana Instructor Training, for a total of 300 hours of training.

Before the in-residence section begins, participants are expected to have completed 40 hours’ worth of webinars and corresponding coursework. These webinars will be available to you as soon as your payment has been processed. Following the completion of the webinars (the first two modules), participants will be eligible to take the third module in the form of an 8-10 day in-residence course.   

Also note that participation for the in-residence course will be arranged on a first-come, first-served basis. As there is already a lot of interest, we encourage you to apply and confirm your participation as soon as possible.

The Maharishi Yoga Asanas are a means of living the true meaning of Yoga, unity, or as Maharishi explained, ‘living unified wholeness in the field of diversity.’ 

The course includes … 

Learning to establish and maintain the state of Yoga 

The Maharishi Yoga Asanas are a means of living the true meaning of Yoga, unity, or as Maharishi explained, ‘living unified wholeness in the field of diversity.’ A fundamental part of this instructor training, therefore, is the development of consciousness cultivated most profoundly in the in-residence section through long programme morning and evening, and extensive time spent studying, practising and refining the Maharishi Yoga Asanas. This self-referral aspect of the course, and the resulting alignment of the individual physiology with cosmic physiology, is for many participants an utmost powerful and transformative part of the training.

Professional guidance

On a professional level, participants will develop a deep understanding of the first set of Maharishi Yoga Asanas and will begin to learn how to teach them to others in the proper, safe and most beneficial way.

Phase One also includes an introduction to personalisation and teaching methodologies – including observation, assisting and adjusting, instruction, teaching styles, lesson planning, corrections, and giving feedback in a group.

Finally, participants will receive guidance on the logistical points of starting a business, such as finance planning and marketing. On completion of Phase One, they will be a part of a community of Maharishi Yoga Asana graduates dedicated to sharing this beautiful aspect of Maharishi’s Vedic Science.

Maharishi videos released just for this course

Another one of the delightful benefits of this training is the illuminating lectures from Maharishi, which are currently only available in this instructor training. 

This knowledge, presented beautifully by Maharishi, will allow for deeper understandings for participants – even those who may already be very educated in the field of yoga.

Faculty

Gudrun Buchzik
is a recertified Governor and a certified Yoga teacher on advanced 1,500-hour level, and is qualified to train and certify yoga teachers worldwide. She is head of the Yoga Department of the Maharishi College of Perfect Health International and has taught all Maharishi Yoga Asana Teacher Training Courses in Europe, Asia, and the USA. She is also a certified Face Yoga Teacher and is working fulltime as Deputy Director of Maharishi Ayurveda Europe.

Dr. Paul Morehead
is Associate Dean of the College of Integrative Medicine at Maharishi International University and Director of the online MS in Maharishi AyurVeda and Integrative Medicine. He holds a Ph.D. in physiology and health and is Certified Teacher of Transcendental Meditation. He has taught Maharishi AyurVeda and Maharishi Yoga Asanas at MIU for the last 32 years and was co-trainer of two Maharishi Yoga Asana TTCs in 2017 and 2018.

Assistant Trainer

Barbara Maria Gibiser
is a recertified governor, certified yoga teacher, Maharishi Yoga Asana TTC graduate, and has been an assistant trainer of Gudrun Buchzik since 2017. Barbara has been studying and practising Maharishi’s Vedic Science since 1997. She is a Maharishi Panchakarma Technician and has been active in several countries in this role. Barbara has also gained profound expertise in Vedic organic cooking, aromas, and sounds and is certified in Maharishi Aroma Therapy and Maharishi Light Therapy with Gems. In 2018 and 2019, she guided the Maharishi Yoga Asana sessions during the International Young Meditators Courses in Romania and Spain.

‘I have much more energy’

‘For the first time in 45 years, I’m practising asanas correctly. Now I really enjoy them, and during practice, I feel very pleasant healing going on throughout my body. P.S. Since learning to do Maharishi’s yoga asanas correctly, I’ve lost 28 pounds and am on track to a normal weight! My diabetes and kidney lab results are now within normal ranges. My arthritis has diminished; my sciatica is gone. I have much more energy.’

‘The transformation is huge’

‘The Maharishi Yoga Asana TTC was one of the best courses I have ever taken. I have been a Governor for almost 40 years, but only now, while attending this course, have I fully realised the greatness of this Vedic technology. The transformation is huge in my health, energy, and posture. I feel lighter, more blissful, and above all an expansion of the heart with so much Universal love and gratitude.’

‘I learned things that I never knew’

‘I’ve practised asanas for many years and got good results. But during this course, I learned things that I never knew. The results have been striking for my inner experience. I never expected to get results similar to what I previously only experienced in meditation. I am so happy I took this course.’

‘The success was instantaneous’

‘Gudrun taught us in a few hours what I had never known about Asanas. The success was instantaneous: relief from pain in lower back and knees which I had suffered from for years. I am 100% happy and will continue after having neglected Yoga Asanas for 35 years. Thank you!’