Aloha and welcome to Yoga Awareness, the International School of yoga and Ayurveda, located on the tropical Hawaiian island of Maui. We have been fortunate to receive the yoga teachings of Patanjali and the ways in which these teachings have been transmitted through the Krishnamacharya lineage. It is now our opportunity to share these gifts with you.
Yoga Awareness offers the following teachings:
- Yoga classes
- Yoga privates
- Yoga workshops
- Yoga retreats
- Yoga trainings
- Yoga teacher programs
- Ayurveda privates
- Ayurveda programs
- Ayurveda trainings
- Ayurveda practitioner programs
Yoga: Yoga has become one of the greatest gifts to the Western world, with over 20 million people practicing in the US today. A regular practice of yoga gives us stability of the mind, with an inner happiness and contentment shining from within. Often, we see people radiating this lightness and happiness. It happens when a person is well-balanced physically, emotionally, and mentally. It is not something that you can buy; it is only achieved by a continuous daily practice of yoga.
Ted Surman helps you to develop a self-practice, which is personalized and designed to meet your individual needs. The daily practice needs to be achievable and to compliment your existing lifestyle. There are many reasons why a student may wish to have a personal practice.
Benefits:
- Physical flexibility and strength
- Injuries and surgery recovery
- Low back pain
- Neck and shoulder pain
- Scoliosis
- Muscular and fatigue syndrome
- Weight reduction
- Respiratory and life force vitality
- Insomnia relief and improved sleep
- Anti-aging
- Stress and high blood pressure
- Depression and anxiety
- Health and well-being
Ayurveda: The Yoga Awareness Ayurveda programs are designed for health-conscious people to achieve positive and total health using the methods of Yoga and Ayurveda. This is a holistic program tailor-made to increase every individual's quality of life. The goal for Yoga and Ayurveda is to reveal our natural state of happiness and contentment by reducing our suffering. These ancient teachings come from the Vedas (5,000 years B.C.E), and, like brother and sister, are inseparable.
Ted Surman is a certified Yoga and Ayurveda teacher. Ted is from New Zealand and is the founder of Yoga Awareness. Since 1997, he has studied with Gary Kraftsow at the American Viniyoga Institute and at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram.
Ted travels each year to Chennai, India for ongoing studies with his teachers at Yoga Raksanam. He also studies and practices with a doctor of Ayurveda at Pathway Health Center.
