Nicki Forman - Aruna Yoga Teacher Training Manual

ARUNA YOGA

Teacher Training Manual

Nicki Forman

Copyright 2020 Nicki Forman. All rights reserved.

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KDP ISBN - 9781660408788

Independently published

First printing, 2020.

www.aruna.yoga

Editor: Susan Hopkinson

Illustrator: Maya Krasnik Rawlings

Photographers:

Roosmarijn Everts

Tia Rose Levitan

About Nicki Forman

With a background as a both a lawyer and a university academic, Nickis discovery of yoga twenty years ago was epiphanic. She moved from South Africa, where she was born and raised, to Antwerp, Belgium, at a moment where the local practice of yoga was in its infancy.

Her lifes path shifted profoundly as Nicki began to explore yoga through intense practice and theoretical study with yoga masters worldwide. Her passion for the practice of yoga grew exponentially and took her on an international journey of learning and teaching, leading to the creation of Yoga Form (now Radiant Light Yoga, Antwerp and Brussels), a yoga centre and community that encompassed various forms of yoga. Yoga Form was instrumental in developing and bringing eclectic forms of yoga to Antwerp and was the first to offer Kundalini Yoga and Meditation there. Nicki now lives in Israel where she teaches Aruna Yoga and offers Aruna Processes and healing to the growing local community.

Nicki draws her inspiration from diverse yogic schools and traditions including Kabbalah, theology, and philosophy. Nicki is a Yoga Alliance registered yoga teacher (RYT), a Kundalini Yoga and Meditation Teacher certified through the Kundalini Research Institute (KRI), as well as a prenatal yoga teacher trained in the Khalsa Way. Nicki is also a recognized and accredited practitioner of the Journey work of Brandon Bays. Nicki uses diverse healing systems to access the infinite healing capacity that is available to all.

Dedication

In blessed memory of

Sid Forman

(1935-2019)

who truly embodied consciousness

in his every breath.

I dedicate this book to my parents,

my first gurus,

Sid and Lorraine Forman

who taught through living example,

and whose unconditional love,

created the space and possibility

to realize all that I am.

Gratitude

Thank you to Dax Levitan and my blessed children Tia, Jay, and Aidan Levitan. Thank you for the opportunity to experience the bliss of unconditional love. I bow in gratitude to you and the blessing of this Divine family.

To Lisa Forman, my sister and split-apart. This life would not be whole without you in it. You show me that there are no limits to the capacity of both the intellect and the heart. I pray for us to continue to live out the fullest expression of both.

To Peta Anne Cohen, Yossi Hanoch, and Marley, without whom there would be no Aruna Yoga. You are truly best friends, partner lovers of truth and the very best yogis I know. It truly is a satsang - a meeting of the guru within - to be with you.

My deepest gratitude to Cino Colajanni, who truly lives these teachings of embodied consciousness.

I wish to acknowledge Rene Kaplan, Mary Manamela-Ramphiri, Tina Catedral, Swami Kamalavidya Saraswati, and Diana Claes.

Thanks to Maya Rawlings Krasnik for the beautiful illustrations done with such grace and ease. To Roosmarijn Everts and Tia Levitan for their inspired photography and powerful presence. Thank you to my editor, Susan Hopkinson, for her scalpel like precision in extracting the essential impeccability of the word.

I honour all my teachers and the sages, saints, gurus, and grace itself that has made this expression of Aruna Yoga possible. To Charlie Chang, Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa, Brandon Bays, Papaji and Ramana Maharshi, and to the many other gurus under whom I was blessed to be shisya, thank you for the gift of your darshan.

I honour Nature, in particular in the form of the holy mountain Arunachala ( Arucala ), the satguru of truth who took from me all that I am not to reveal the Jnani, the truth of who I really am, and that I am Aruna.

May this book act as an inspiration to open the heart of all who receive it.

May it bring healing, transformation and Self-realization.

ARUNA

Nicki Forman

Legal Disclaimer

Aruna is intended to complement and support the healing path chosen by an individual in collaboration with their health care provider. Aruna training and information from any source, in this book and online, should not be relied on as an alternative to medical advice from your doctor or other professional healthcare provider, nor as a reason to delay, disregard, or discontinue medical treatment.

If you have any questions about a medical matter, please consult your doctor or other professional healthcare provider. If you think you have a medical condition, please seek immediate medical attention.

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