SATURDAY: SESSION OPTIONS
MYSORE 6:00 - 7:30AM
MEDITATION 7:00 - 7:30AM
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SATURDAY JULY 14TH 8am-10am
B201 PACE- ALL LEVELS
“Embracing the Obstacles – Therapeutic Techniques for Special Conditions”
Ever wonder how to establish a practice when physically challenged? Or how to continue an established practice in the face of trauma? When recovering from accident or injury? Or when we're simply not twenty anymore?? Learn to work intelligently, gently, and safely in special situations WITHOUT sacrificing the essene of the practice! Principles will be introduced, explored, and applied to specific needs.
B202 WONG- ADVANCED
Power Press Flow: Handstands and Arm Balances
This workshop will be an opportunity for those of us interested in mastering our ability to jump with control into and out of any position, awakening our natural ability to balance on our arms in hand stands and arm balancing poses. We can develop a steady happy connection that in yoga is called Sthirah Sukham Asanam. You can expect to learn valuable techniques and asana sequencing that will strengthen and awaken your practice with a graceful form.Workshop Mantra: Empty Mind - Open Heart - Free SpiritTeaching: Repetition Invokes the Highest
B203 STRAUB- ALL LEVELS
Water Dragon Flow.
2012 is the year of the Water Dragon, symbol of effortless power and wisdom in the Chinese and Mongolian Zodiac, and in writings of Dōgen Zenji. With compassionate intention we will offer up an energizing vinyasa flow, an inspirational asana practice for your whole body, set to great music, integrated with breath, free of aggression, but full of awareness and limitless potential. "The Truth appears, there being no delusion. If you understand this, you are completely free, like a dragon that has obtained water or a tiger that reclines on a mountain.” -Master Dōgen. You'll get a great workout without getting wiped out. Then lie down and allow it all to assimilate with deep relaxation, and healing visualization. A sacred inner journey. (Mostly asana.).
B204 ROSENBERG-ALL LEVELS
Recharge and Shine! Standing Poses and Backbends
Backbends are the perfect tonic to help open and strengthen the back, chest, and shoulders. Anusara’s Universal Principles of Alignment provide the key to accessing deep backbends. Learn to build a solid foundation with standing poses and new ways to access your shoulders and spine, and then delight in the experience of deepening your backbend practice from wherever you are. You can expect to increase the range of motion in your hips, shoulders, and neck while energizing your entire system.
B205 A. JOHNSON- ADVANCED
Happy Hanuman
In this practice, we will take a journey into opening and stretching the entire body paying special attention to the lower limbs. Bring your sense of adventure and be ready to explore all kinds of postures containing the splits!
B206 PORTER- ALL LEVELS
What’s the Deal? What’s REAL?
We may not know it, but we can move from one day to the next while stuck in a mental hypnosis. We drive the same routes to work, eat the same foods, feel the same worries, have the same reactions etc.. This class is designed to emPOWER you to awaken, observe and energize. We will revive areas of curiosity and excitement that have been stagnant and re-build the confidence required to take that next step in life!This class has an emphasis on the breath throughout the flowing asana. Without it we’re constantly in our heads and it's time we drop in to FEEL what’s REAL!
B207-
SATURDAY JULY 14TH 11am-1pm
B210 BENDER BIRCH- ALL LEVELS
Keeping Your Heart Open
Join us for a joyful workshop with best selling author and long time teacher and yoga practitioner, Beryl Bender Birch. Through asana (detox combination of 1st and 2nd astanga series – all levels welcome) and mindful awareness, we will see that the key to keeping your heart open no matter what is going on - rain or shine, dark or light, pain or pleasure – is to simply pay attention, breathe and relax, and walk the Middle Path of non-resistance – over and over and over. Then, what we practice in community with like minded souls in our shalas and studios becomes – we hope – less challenging out there on the streets with friends and family, those real “teachers” who see and think differently from us.
B211 WONG- ADVANCED
Dynamic blend of martial arts and vinyasa yoga. Come ready to move and open.
B212 IVANHOE-ALL LEVELS
Yin Yang Yoga
Most of us are looking for balance in our lives, but we don’t know how to get it, or why we fell out of balance in the first place. The Taoists teach us about two opposing energies called “yin” or in-flowing energy and “yang” out-flowing energy. In this two- hour practice, we will divide our time evenly between these two forces. The first hour will be the “yang” practice in which we will heat the body through sun salutations and standing postures gracefully put together into a vinyasa flow sequence. This time is designed to burn off impurities, to literally melt away the tension and stress that resides in the pockets of the body. The second half of the practice will take the open cleansed body through long hip openers, restorative postures, pranayama and meditation. This process will rejuvenate the body leaving you feeling peaceful, passionate and playful!
B213 SEAN JOHNSON-ALL LEVELS
Bhakti On The Mat
Deepen your connection to the spirit of life by merging the heart-opening qualities of bhakti yoga with the sensuality and vitality of asana in this playful workshop which includes storytelling, poetry, kirtan chanting, graceful vinyasa sequences, and the funky live grooves of The Wild Lotus Band- Alvin Young and Gwendolyn Colman. Some experience with vinyasa yoga is recommended.
B214 CUMMINGS- BEGINNER
Adaptation in Asana: lower body
Imagine a world where the most important thing about each yoga posture is not how it looks, but the real benefits it offers. A world where each asana practiced is carefully selected and finely honed to make the maximum contribution to you as a unique individual. This was the world of T. Krishnamacharya, “the father of modern yoga”.
Grounded in the tradition of Krishnamacharya and his son, T.K.V. Desikachar, this practice session explores asana variations, with an emphasis on creative adaptations for the lower body. Moving slowly in harmony with the breath you will experience the effects of each adaptation and discover a vivid new landscape of sensation in basic postures. Holding this sensation in the light of openness, curiosity and kindness will allow the profound wisdom of your body to be received and the pulse of the sacred within you to be touched.
Please bring a notebook and pen to record your experience.
B215 STECHERT- ALL LEVELS
INVERSIONS, A WORLD UPSIDE DOWN
Sirsasana and Sarvangasana are the King and Queen of Yoga postures and they bring the most benefit to the organic body. We will explore the benefits of these poses and how to practice all inversions safely. 3 blankets and belt required.
B216-
SATURDAY JULY 14TH 3-5pm
B220 JAYASHREE & NARASIMHAN-ALL LEVELS
Yoga in the Bhagavad Gita
Enjoy chanting and yogic philosophy with two of the most respected voices on earth. All the way from India, get direct transmission from these wonderful teachers. Question and answer is part of this class and is highly encouraged of the students. Bring something comfortable to sit on. No asana, all seated.
B221 WHITWELL- ALL LEVELS
The Four Principles of Successful Yoga 'and Life'.
"Yoga must be adapted to individual needs. Adapt Yoga to the individual, not the individual to the yoga. There is a perfect yoga for every person. If you can breath you can do yoga" -- Krishnamacharya.
How do we make sure our asana is actually hatha yoga?
B222 KAIVALYA- ALL LEVELS
Kali & Durga: Winning the War
Kali and Durga are goddesses that help us to wage the internal battle and overcome our ego and fear. This is very helpful in the process of yoga as we try and deconstruct who we think we are in favor of loving what is. Through chanting and live music, yoga philosophy and yoga sutra, we work through a vigorous vinyasa practice to embody what these teachings offer us - freedom and happiness.
B223 ENGLISH-ALL LEVELS
Stalking Your Spirit Fire
The wisdom of Forrest Yoga guides you into tracking the path of your Spirit and welcoming it home. Seeking the warrior’s journey into the heart, let intelligently constructed backbending sequences open you to the Fire of your own transformation. Delight in the power that unfolds when you courageously uncover and feed your Spirit. This practice is suitable for all levels and you will need 2 mats, a block and strap
B224 IVANHOE-ALL LEVELS
Yoga Nidra
You deserve a break! So much of the yoga we do heats the body as a method of melting away tension. This is so important, but it is only half of the practice. We need to take time to rest and rejuvenate, to allow the new energy, “prana” to flow into the body. In this workshop we will do gentle vinyasas that slow the body down, hip openers to release deeply held tension and restorative postures that allow the fresh prana to flow into the body. We will practice pranayama as a way of slowing the body down and meditation as a way to practice peace . Finally we will practice yoga nidra, or yogic sleep, a guided relaxation that allows the practitioner to enjoy an altered sense of reality, a relaxation that is deeper than sleep, more replenishing than the REM state, a state of bliss. We all deserve a rest, we all deserve peace. The more we practiee, the more we can access that peace with ease and spread it to others. Gentle restorative class for all levels.
B225 VINCENT-ALL LEVELS
Freedom in Backbends: Breaking the habits that cause pain.
Take an in depth look at the mechanics of Backbending, and the habitual patterns of movement which inhibit our ability to find freedom and enjoyment in backbends. The asana work will be grounded in a discussion of the cycle of suffering (Samsara) as presented by Patanjali in his codification of the Kleshas in the Yoga Sutras.
B226 FLEMING- ALL LEVELS
YIN YOGA
A deep and soothing alternative to more active styles of yoga, perfect for “people-who-do-too-much.” The emphasis in Yin Yoga is on releasing muscles rather than contracting them. Each unique class is taught exclusively on the floor, holding passive poses for 3-5 minutes each. Yin Yoga poses target the tighter connective tissues in the hips, hamstrings, and lower spine and is practiced in a meditative environment. As a pure flexibility practice, this is an excellent tool for meditators, aging baby-boomers, injured/active athletes, and those new to yoga. It helps release accumulated tension in the body and simultaneously find a peaceful place for the mind.
