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Course Criteria
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0.50 - 3.00 Credits
Each weekend seminar provides students with teachings and trainings with world class teachers and opportunities to train with advanced students from around the country. Topics and faculty vary from year to year.
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3.00 Credits
Yoga V is designed to provide the foundation and training needed for students who aspire to teach yoga. This class examines the various topics essential to being a skilled yoga teacher, including how to safely and effectively teach asana and pranayama; the principles of effective speech; ethics; alignment; how to make adjustments; the sequencing of postures; knowledge of the yoga tradition; and the cultivation of one's authentic self-expression. Students also gain regular practice and experience in teaching. This class culminates in the student teaching a full yoga class for the other students and chosen guests. Prerequisite: Yoga I-III (Yoga IV can be taken simultaneously).
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3.00 Credits
Yoga is one of the six classical "outlooks on the nature of being" ( Shat Darshana) of Hinduism. Yoga has a five-thousand-year history, its teachings passed from one generation to the next through a written and oral tradition. All of yoga aims at one thing: realization of the one's true self. This class surveys the fascinating history of yoga and explores the theories and philosophies underlying yoga's practices, from asana ( poses) to dhyana ( meditation), from tapas ( discipline) to santosha ( contentment). This class examines the main schools of yogic thought and reviews some of its most important texts, including the Vedas, Upanishads, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, the Bhagavad Gita and the Hatha Yoga Pradipika.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
The t'ai-chi ch'uan sword is a practice that further extends the principles of integrated movement, relaxation, balance and ch'i while relating to an external object. This could be a brush, as in the realm of calligraphy and painting, or in this case, a sword. The sword is not wielded by using muscle and physical strength, but by using the body's natural structural and dynamic characteristics and the forces that operate in the environment. By permission of the instructor, for students who have previous experience studying t'ai-chi ch'uan form and push-hands. Students may be asked to do a combination of solo form, push-hands and sword form, depending on their lev
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3.00 Credits
Meditation, though often neglected in modern-day yoga, has always been a central practice in the yogic traditions. Asana, pranayama and concentration are stepping stones, which provide a foundation from which meditation can effortlessly arise. We embark on a journey into the meditative traditions and practices of yoga. This includes the study and practice of concentration techniques ( dharana), formless meditation ( dhyana), dream and sleep yoga ( yoga nidra) and the philosophical premises behind these practices.
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1.00 Credits
This required course is a process class and includes writing a journal that addresses how the student connects practice of discipline to experience in life and how the student is learning to embody the contemplative way of life. The main focus is the preparation and the presentation of the senior project. Traditional Eastern Arts students only.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Students further their understanding of t'ai-chi ch'uan principles and integrate them deeper into their practice of forms and applications (push-hands o r tui sho u and sword). There are readings of the t'ai-chi ch'uan classics and other related literature, discussions and reflective writing during informal community gatherings. Students are asked to keep a journal to track their progress
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Taught by the instructor of the core awareness discipline, this class focuses on the history, culture and philosophy of the major awareness discipline. The student and teacher meet in the beginning, middle and end of the semester. Traditional Eastern Arts students only.
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3.00 Credits
To expand the practice of imaginative writing, we play with different poetic and narrative forms and invent our own while engaging texts that challenge and catapult our investigations. In an atmosphere of curiosity and support, students create a body of work that is developed and refined throughout the semester. Only open to students outside the W&L major.
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3.00 Credits
We read ancient literary works from around the world from oral and literary lineages. We look for threads of similarity and aspects of difference, gaining some cultural and cross-cultural understanding of particular human themes and motifs. Readings from various cultures include among others the Epic of Gilgamesh; the Iliad; Greek, Latin, Indian, Chinese and Japanese lyric poetry; selections from the Bible and Gnostic literatures; tragedies of Sophocles and Aeschylus; the Aeneid; the Upanishads and the Mahabharata and the Tao Te Ching. Response papers and a final research paper are required.
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