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RussaYog, a holistic lifestyle for the global citizen
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The 5,000-year old practice of yoga and meditation offers a unique and universal solution. RussaYog lifestyle builds upon this tradition and offers a universal style of achieving life balance through joyful play, dance, and strength building. It is a style that leaves no residue of injury, environmental damage, hurt, or defeat. In the RussaYog lifestyle my happiness depends upon your success.

What is the RussaYog lifestyle?
Physical level
Highly fit physique. Where one can stay strong, flexible, and balanced throughout your life. It provides the thrill of coming to one’s limit, but without injury.
Social level
A style that allows you to engage and make friends across all social boundaries. Who does not like to share play and dance?
Mental level
Sharpen your mental focus and achieve joy through yogabhyas (discipline of yoga exercise) and mental discipline, without the need of mind-altering drugs. Simple things provide joy.
Spiritual level
An empirical lifestyle where you enjoy others well being, as well as your own.

Join the family of holistic beings who want to bring greater happiness in this world!

Additional FAQ

Why be a RussaYog instructor?

What does the certification process involve?

The training requires 200 hours of study. Of this, 100 hours is independent study, based on the following:     

1. Required reading, understanding practice:

2. Viewing and studying 4 DVDs:      

3. Self-practice combined with taking classes as available   

Instructors will also be provided a CD of a motivational slide show, which instructors may use to recruit potential clients.

Am I suited to be a RussaYog instructor?
To become a RussaYog instructor you must have a certain level of fitness: physical, emotional, social, and spiritual.
Physical Fitness
You need to be able to perform the demanding asans and even though you may not be doing the full session with your clients, you should be able to perform 90 minutes of RussaYog per day.
Emotional fitness
You will be motivating others to participate in a wonderful lifestyle. If you yourself suffer from anxieties, fears, victimization syndrome, it will be hard to work with others. Do you consider yourself calm and emotionally balanced?
Social Fitness
You need to have a love for helping people in a healthy way. Be able to enjoy other people’s development and success. Have patience.
Spiritual Fitness
In the RussaYog lifestyle spiritual fitness does not mean belief in dogmatic religions or discourses on God’s plans. Spiritual fitness means enjoying other people’s happiness and helping them achieve happiness and enjoy life. It means having no (or very minimal) prejudice against any human being, and believe in the intrinsic equal worth of each person.

What is your potential client pool?
Anyone interested in holistic mind-body fitness is a potential student. Candidates could include athletes, sports teams, schools, dancers, dance studios, martial artists (dojos), traditional yoga students, and office workers. You may also offer classes in business office settings, church groups, at book clubs.

If you have a regular (1.5 times per week average attendance) client pool of 12 individual personal training clients and 40 group clients (average 1.5 times per week), it should support an income of about $75,000 per year (in U.S).

Through the use of the RussaYog Primal Shakti Yoga Tree, you can perform the workout in a client’s space, or outdoors. If you are affiliated with a studio/gym, you must consider the added expense of rent, etc., but your own studio can afford you greater possibilities.

As a trained instructor, can I train other instructors?
No. RussaYog workouts are the intellectual property of RussaYog LLC. Just as you cannot legally print copies of “Harry Potter” books and sell them, or make copies of the latest Hollywood blockbuster movie and sell them, you cannot train others in RussaYog. However, we can provide additional certification for you to partially train someone, and then the final certification will be completed through RussaYog LLC. Contact RussaYog LLC for details.

I am a personal trainer. I just want to add the strength and stamina part of RussaYog (bal-lila) to my practice. How will I do that?
We offer a 10-hour training session where you would use the strength/stamina part (bal-lila) to incorporate into a personal training program. You would use the Primal Shakti Yoga Tree. The rights to use the RussaYog workout is $500 (including training and certification) and the cost of the Tree itself is $250, so for $750 you would have the capability to use the RussaYog Tree and lead the Bal-lila portion of the workout in your personal training sessions.

How much will it cost me to become a fully certified RussaYog instructor and start my own business?
Our first introductory training session will be in Feb. 2008. The cost for this 8-day residential training period is $1,000. An additional cost of $500 will cover the accommodations and food at our Santa Barbara Vishram Beach Aashram in California. Next Teacher Training to be announced...
The cost of the Yoga Tree is $250.
If you free-lance, you don’t necessarily need a yoga space, so the cost of starting your business could be as low as $2,000. If you want to expand your business and add more Trees, the cost will increase.

I already own a studio/fitness center. How do I get started in this business?
We can certify you and /or your instructors and also certify your studio for use of either the RussaYog Trees®, or permanently anchored structure. Contact us.

What are the options for setting up ropes in my facility?
Several alternatives exist. An easy-to-set-up structure could be used in an existing yoga/fitness room. Contact us for details and see photos of a sample structure here. Or, one could purchase yoga trees for quick assembly and store them when not in use. They can be disassembled for easy storage. One could also have ropes fitted from anchors in an existing room. Contact us for details.

Child's Play/
Bal-Lila

Playful, vigorous movements with the rope, designed to strengthen muscles, improve flexibility, quickness, and balance, in preparation for the yoga practice is the "drama" of child's play.