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Yoga In Action Group with Dawn Reid and Shiya Mangel
Dates: Wed 9/15/2010 – 10/27/2010
Time: 6:30 PM – 8:45 PM
Cost: $325; SAVE $50 if you register by 9/6. Cost includes course work, course materials, asana practice and FREE Saturday classes with Shiya for the 7 weeks.
Yoga in Action is OTM’s grassroots movement that brings the Off the Mat experience to your local area. These 7-week groups are an opportunity to build community around yoga and service, develop relationships with other yogis and activists in your area and collaborate on creating real change.
Yoga in Action small groups allow participants to embark on a journey of self-inquiry with the support of a small group of peers that leads to action within our community and outside world. OTM’s vision is to seed these small groups of change in communities to inspire collaboration and connection among our community of yoga activists.
Off the Mat, Into the World® (OTM), a program of the nonprofit, The Engage Network, is dedicated to bridging yoga and activism. Founded in 2007, OTM’s mission is to use the power of yoga to inspire conscious, sustainable activism and ignite grassroots social change.
Yoga is a powerful path of personal transformation. At its root, the word means ‘union’ – of mind, body and spirit. Yoga opens our hearts and expands our awareness of self creating space for balance and deep change in our lives.
OTM helps individuals take the path of yoga “off the mat and into the world,” expanding the sphere of change outward to local and global communities. We do this by facilitating personal empowerment through leadership trainings, fostering community collaboration, and initiating local and global service projects. Our work focuses on three core areas of development:
- OTM guides you to discover your purpose through leadership training and Yoga in Action Groups so you can take action in your world in an engaged and intentional way.
- OTM cultivates community and encourages collaboration by building a network of OTM leaders around the globe.
- OTM initiates local and international service projects and trips known as Seva Challenges. These experiences offer you the chance to contribute to the well being of others while transforming your own life.
The Yoga of Regeneration with Mark Whitwell
Dates / Times: Monday September 27th & Tuesday September 28th; 6-9pm
Cost: $50 for one day, $80 for both days, $70 for both days if you register by 9/13.
When you make a promise to practice yoga, yoga will meet you at every level, offering healing solutions to your unique needs. During this workshop you will learn an authentic yoga practice that takes you into account. It is a real yoga for real people. By the end of the workshop you will have a practical yoga designed personally for you, with your health, age, and lifestyle fully considered. The gifts of this yoga can benefit all aspects of your daily life — health, intimacy, well-being,
and joy.
It is not enlightenment we want, but intimacy with life in every aspect. This intimacy and unity with life is freely available to everyone, even amidst our difficulties. A promise to yoga is an interwoven, mutual promise. You promise to practice yoga seven minutes each day, naturally, not obsessively. You open yourself to the gifts that yoga can give back.
This course of two workshops is designed to provide advanced yoga understanding and practice for those new to yoga. The program will also be helpful for yoga students of any level who wish to understand the principles of Krishnamacharya, “the teacher of our teachers.” Participants will study how to apply these principles to the yoga they already know and love in order to make it efficient, powerful, and safe. Emphasis will be given to developing a personalized practice, which you can take away from Pula and continue to effectively practice for, in Krishnamacharya’s words, “peace and power in your daily life.”
These workshops are suitable for everyone: longtime or beginning students of
yoga.
Mark Whitwell has enjoyed a lifelong relationship with the teachings of Krishnamacharya through his students T.K.V. Desikachar and Srivatsa Ramaswami. He travels the world teaching yoga and is the author of Yoga of Heart: The Healing Power of Intimate Connection.
www.hearthofyoga.com
Three-part “Stability Over Flexibility” Alignment workshop with Shiya November 3rd, November 17th and December 1st.
Within the Vinyasa practice what tends to get compromised is the foundation, the alignment… because the practice moves so quickly there really is not enough time to indulge the pose and see what it is really be connected to. In the body part, the physical part of our practice, we become aware of how our bodies feel out of alignment, of how we are sometimes stronger and more flexible in some areas of the body than in others. This three part series will help you to stabilize your asana practice by learning the safest possible alignment and variations in the most common poses of a Vinyasa class.
When you isolate each individual asana there are about 300 instructions in each pose if you really break it down. In the Vinyasa practice, because it moves quickly you often don’t have the time to be concerned with all those instructions. You want to focus on 3 or 4 instructions that support the most vulnerable parts of your body, which are the joints, the ankle, knee, hip and shoulders. In these 3 classes we will explore the some of these 300 instructions and learn the most concise way to determine which 3-4 instructions are most valuable to help you stay properly aligned in the poses so as to stay safe and strong in our practice and our bodies.
It is my hope that everyone who practices in our yoga community will eventually attend this or a similar workshop to help us all maintain “stability over flexibility” keeping us strong and safe in our practice whatever level we are practicing at. Suitable for all levels from beginner yogis to yoga teachers.
Wednesday November 5th, 6:30-8:30pm – Alignment of the Sun Salutes and Standing Poses
Wednesday November 17th, 6:30-8:30pm – Alignment of Twists and Backbends
Wednesday December 1st, 6:30-8:30pm Alignment of Seated Poses and Inversions
Each class is $20 or attend all three for $48.00.