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WORKSHOP REPERTOIRE:
A DAY OF RETREAT - YOGA AND THE BEATITUDES
Hatha YOGA postures will be alternated with soul nourishing SACRED
DANCES focused on the BEATITUDES (sayings of Jesus about how to
find blessing) chanted in Aramaic, the language Jesus spoke. The
hauntingly beautiful melodies, in Middle Eastern style, for these
"be-attitudes" will be accompanied with very simple meditative
body movements. Bring your journal.
ARM BALANCES
Learn some of yoga's most exhilirating poses! This workshop
teaches the fundamentals of arm balances as well as transitions
from one balancing asana to another.
BACK CARE YOGA
Come discover how effectively yoga can relieve common back pain.
Carefully selected and modified hatha yoga postures will be used
in this workshop as both diagnostic and therapeutic tools. Regular
practice of key postures that address your specific needs can keep
you permanently pain free.
BODY READING/STRUCTURAL ASSESSMENT AND INDIVIDUALIZED
YOGA THERAPY
Co-led by Michael Morrison, Certified Rolfer and Elaine G. McGillicuddy,
Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor. As a participant, you will get
individual attention to help you understand your underlyng body
pattern (which could be a source of pain, potential injury, or difficulty
in practicing certain yoga postures), and how to use yoga postures
to meet your specific needs. A revealing, always interesting, sometimes
challenging or potentially enlightening experience that could give
you valuable clues for self-understanding. Especially helpful for
body-workers of all kinds.
COUPLES' YOGA
Make a date to do yoga together. Partner assisted poses, breathing
and relaxation to introduce your loved one to yoga.
DEVELOPING A PERSONAL YOGA PRACTICE
Individual practice is the only way to derive the full benefits
of yoga. This is a popular workshop that students continue to claim
has helped them make the breakthrough. Presentation and discussion
of how to fashion an ongoing home yoga practice and how to modify
it to meet different needs, followed by a short instructive practice
of a suggested daily sequence.
DEVELOPING CONFIDENCE AND STABILITY IN INVERSIONS
We will explore a variety of techniques for working in handstand,
forearm balance, headstand and shoulder stand.
EASING INTO BACKBENDS
Mr. Iyengar wrote in Light On Yoga: "Backbends are rejuvenating.
They give energy and courage and combat depression. They open the
chest and make the spine flexible. The arms and shoulders become
strong. The mind and body become alert." Indeed exhilarating
backbends can even be curative for many back problems when done
properly, but they can be dangerous when practiced improperly. This
workhsop will ease yoga students into backbends by focussing first
on key areas which work to creat the backbend.
FORWARD BENDS
Grounding and extension allow freedom to surrender into these challenging
yet deeply restful poses.
INTRODUCTION TO BALANCINGS
All poses involve balance, but when our hands become our feet, the
intelligence has to shift. Opening hips and shoulders, utilizing
arm strength and mula bandha, we'll develop a greater sense of ease
and lightness in these poses
INTRODUCTION TO MEDITATION
An overview of various approaches to meditation (also called contemplation,lectio
divina, centering prayer, and sitting practice, to name a few),
will be followed by brief periods of meditation using different
approaches. Students may arrive at 1 PM to do a half hour of their
own hatha yoga practice if they wish.
LIBERATE YOUR NECK AND SHOULDERS
Do your tight shoulders give you a stiff neck and sap your energy?
Yoga postures can help reeducate and awaken your shoulder region.
Come learn basic principles of posture and shoulder movement and
experience them in carefully selected yoga postures. Learn how to
prevent the creation of tension in the first place. An experiential
workshop for all levels.
MANAGING STRESS WITH YOGA
A series of easy yoga poses and relaxation techniques specifically
designed to reduce stress.
MOVING TOWARD HANUMANASANA
Come learn the nuts and bolts of Hanumanasana. (The mythic Hanuman
jumped the ocean in a single stride.) Whether or not you can do
this advanced pose, we'll break it down and make the preparation
fun and accessible.
PADMASANA
By following the thorough hip opening sequence, you will watch your
lotus pose unfold and blossom.
PARIVRTTAS - THE REVOLVED
POSES
Techniques, poses and sequences designed to open and prepare
the body for the revolved poses.
RELEASING HAMSTRINGS
Called "the screamers" in Runners' World Yoga Book, hamstrings
are so commonly tight that they have become a verb. Since tight
hamstrings can cause back pain or injury, or at least impede progress
in many sports, and especially in yoga, it is important to learn
how to release them safely. This workshop will offer participants
both technical and personal information and a variety of ways to
work in selected postures that we will practice to release hamstrings.
RELEASING HIP JOINTS
Tightness in hip joints restricts full range of motion, leads to
arthritis and possible hip degeneration. For yoga students, movement
in this joint, which allows a separation of the torso and legs,
is paramount for the ease of poses. The yoga postures in this workshop
will explore the different range of movements the hip joint allows.
RESTORATIVE YOGA
Feel drained of energy? It's exactly when you think you don't have
time for yoga that you need it the most. Come experience how powerful
these restorative yoga postures are in creating a sense of well
being. You would never have believed how profoundly relaxed you
can be.
SEEING AND UNDERSTANDING OUR BODIES
A lively mix of instruction, poses and hands-on adjusting primarily
for teachers and students who seek a deeper understanding of their
own and others' bodies.
SEQUENCING
An interesting mix of poses in various sequencing possibilities
for teachers and students who want to broaden their knowledge of
Level I & II sequencing.
TEEN YOGA
If teens could only discover yoga during the challenging puberty
years, their transition into adulthood would be eased! This workshop
will offer teens precise active poses to correct posture, balance
hormones, strengthen and stretch muscles and gain body confidence
and mental clarity.
THERAPEUTIC YOGA
Individualized, basic yoga poses/principles to structural, physical
and organic problems and limitations.
YOGA FOR DEPRESSION
Both didactic and experiential, this workshop will explain the physiology
of depression and various types of depression. We will focus on
specific yoga asanas to help alleviate depressive symptoms.
YOGA IN MENOPAUSE
Discover how specific sequencing and ways of working postures can
help to calm the mind, cool the heart and balance hormonal chaos.
YOGA OVER 50
It's never too late to start reaping the benefits of yoga. Focus
and rejuvenate mind and body; increase your stamina, flexibility
and endurance.
YOGA FOR SCOLIOSIS
We aim, not to "straighten" your back, but to help you
understand and relate to it. Yoga postures and certain habits of
daily movement can help prevent the scoliotic curve from deepening
over time and can give you relief from its tense muscular overlay.
Come learn practical things that you can do to keep you back healthy.
YOGA FOR MS AND FOR CHRONIC AND OTHER DEBILITATING
CONDITIONS
Basic and adapted poses and sequences for debilitating and/or chronic
disease processes and limitations. Ambulatory only (for this workshop).
YOGIC BREATHING AND PRANAYAMA
Breathing well is not only the key to athletic success, deep relaxation,
prepared childbirth and yoga postures, it is one of the most important
components of physiological and psychological health. Breath awareness
also creates the stillness which brings the mind home, -- the state
of meditation where we glimpse and return to our deep inner nature,
letting our self merge with our Source. Though including basics
on the mechanics of breathing, this workshop will focus on giving
participants an experience of breathing and pranayama (yogic breathing.)
YOGIC TWISTS
Gain direction and depth in your twists by freeing the spine and
orbiting from the ribs and arms. We'll explore standing and seated
twists with a few partner assists.
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