The Starseed Center for Yoga & Wellness was founded by Jyoti Chrystal, ERYT in Montclair, New Jersey in 1991, and is one of the northern New Jersey/New York City area's premier yoga studios, with satellite studios in Bloomfield and Rutherford, New Jersey. With a professionally qualified teaching staff and superlative facilities, Starseed has a world to offer the student in search of quality and authenticity in instruction.

In addition to yoga instruction and yoga teacher training (Yoga Aliance-approved 200 hour and 500 hour RYT programs), Starseed offers a host of wellness services and instruction in meditation and shamanism. Starseed is also the home of the New Jersey Institute of Ayurveda, offering distance education around the world to apsiring practitioners of Ayurveda (www.ayurveda.mirrorz.com), India's ancient science of natural healing.

Starseed is an educational center for yoga and wellness dedicated to providing a space of unconditional love, support and acceptance in which people may explore pathways to fulfillment of their highest potential as human beings.

Starseed offers a diverse selection of skilfully crafted techniques of ancient and modern transpersonal therapy for the body, mind and spirit, designed to facilitate self-expression, self-knowledge and self-empowerment.

Starseed seeks to awaken within individuals their latent ability to heal themselves so that they may lead more productive lives in balance and harmony as conscious caretakers of the planet.

Starseed's studios in Montclair, Bloomfield and Rutherford are open seven days weekly, with classes, training courses, workshops and special events mornings, afternoons and evenings.

For a detailed schedule of our regular yoga, meditation and Pilates classes, please visit the webpage at www.starseedyoga.com.

For detailed information on our ayurveda training courses and special events, please visit the webpage at www.ayurveda.mirrorz.com

The New Jersey Institute of Ayurveda (NJIA) at the Starseed Center for Yoga & Wellness is a professional-level training program, delivered via distance learning format to students around the globe, for aspiring practitioners of Ayurvedic medicine, the 6,000 year old healing tradition of the Indian subcontinent. The program comprises a series of self-study modules in the basic and clinical sciences designed to afford the highest quality of education and training.

Areas of instruction in the program include anatomy and physiology; history and traditions of Ayurveda; pathology; theory and practice; manipulative therapies; botanical medicine; physical diagnosis; constitutional analysis; nutrition and food theory; preventive medicine, psychology and counselling, and ayurvedic esthetic care, inter alia.

The NJIA curriculum is structured to educate a well-trained and well-rounded practitioner of this ancient healing art, knowledgable in both its theoretical and applied facets and proficient in adapting its time-tested modalities to meet the needs of contemporary health care consumers.

Within the NJIA program, the first course (and a prerequisite for the other courses in the program) is the Ayurvedic Foundation-Level Certification Course, an intensive, broad and deeply detailed initiation into the fundamental principles of Ayurveda and their application. The Foundation-Level Certification Course is intended to serve two functions: firstly, to provide prospective Ayurvedic practitioners with a sound basis for further study of the basic and clinical sciences. Secondly, it is intended for the general public who, while not planning to continue training, nonetheless desire to take a larger measure of responsibility in caring for their own health and that of their families. Upon completion and the successful passage of a comprehensive final examination, the student is awarded the Certificate in Ayurvedic Self-Care & Health Maintenance.

The distinction awarded graduates of the 16- to 24-month professional program is the Diploma in Ayurvedic Studies. Specialized certificate programs in Ayurvedic Nutrition, Ayurvedic Herbalism and Ayuvedic Esthetics (Certified Ayurvedic Esthetician) are also available.

For further information on our practitioner program, please visit the webpage at www.ayurveda.mirrorz.com

The Starseed Yoga Teacher Training Program is approved by the Yoga alliance to offer both 200-hour and 500-hour RYT preparation courses. Both are intense programs offered to yoga practitioners with a minimum of two years experience. These programs aim to assist the student in achieving his/her highest potential; not just as a student of yoga but also as an individual and professional. We believe that a committed yoga teacher lives a balanced, well-rounded lifestyle that recognizes the importance of self-care and personal/family/community life.

The program will focus on perfecting the student's personal practice and overall knowledge of yoga to further their development as a competent and inspiring yoga teacher. Emphasis will be placed on: asana practice, principles of asana instruction, assisting (hands-on adjustments), teacher ethics, teaching methods, meditation techniques, the philosophy of yoga according to the Yoga Sutras, and shamanism.

The program includes monthly tutorials (see 2005-6 dates below) which focus on the student's personal study of the Yoga Sutras and other core yoga texts. These tutorials are designed to help the student discover his/her authentic nature. Starseed also encourages students to attend the variety of workshops taught by guest presenters throughout the year (Workshops are not included in the program package).

This training represents a commitment to personal growth and will further the student's yoga education, deepen his/her yoga practice and empower his/her life in a way that cannot be imagined at this time. Upon completion of the program, the graduate will be fully prepared to teach Yoga with confidence and dedication. If a prosepctive trainee would value a graduate's perspective on the program, Starseed will be happy to put him/her in contact with recent graduates.

It's our experience that a good teacher of yoga lives a balanced, well-rounded life, in which honoring the need for self-care and a personal, family and community life is very important. This program is personal, designed to bring out the best of students in order to become not just an instructor of asana, but a competent and inspiring teacher of yoga.

For detailed information on our yoga teacher training program, please visit the webpage at www.starseedyoga.com/training.htm

Starseed's yoga teacher training program has been approved by the Yoga Alliance for the award of the R.Y.T. (Registered Yoga Teacher) at the 500-hour level. A 200-hour program is planned for the future.

Shamanism is a world view based on the belief that everything in the universe is connected and interdependant. It therefore involves a deep respect for the natural world and its ecosystem. It considers spiritual development to be the most important work we can accomplish and that the world of the spirit is all around us and can be readily and directly accessed by anyone, especially through shamanic rituals and ceremonies. Regularly scheduled events include the Shamanic Journey, Fire Ceremonies, Past Life Recall groups, Shamanic Healing circles and Shamanic Drumming, as well as our semiannual DreamBody event.

Starseed has developed a series of programs that explore this rich, powerful and transformative tradition. For more information, please review our offerings and feel free to call Jyoti Chrystal, Starseed's founder and director, at (973-783-1036, ext. 4) to discuss any of your needs or interests in these areas.

For detailed information on our shamanic program, please visit the webpage at www.starseedyoga.com/shamanism.htm