Winter Classes
1 Feb - 22 Mar
Welcome. All times Pacific.
Learning
Monday
9-10.45
Intermediate +
Hosted by Brian
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Tuesday
7-8am
Led Practice
Hosted by Brian
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10-11.30am
Intermediate
Mt Pleasant In-Person
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6.30-7.30pm
Fundamentals
Wesbrook In-Person
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Wednesday
8-9.30am
Intermediate
Hosted by Brian
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10-11.30am
Intermediate
Wesbrook In-Person
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Thursday
7-8am
Led Practice
Hosted by Brian
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10-11.30am
Intermediate
Mt Pleasant In-Person
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1:30-3:30pm
Int/Adv
Mt Pleasant In-Person
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Friday
Saturday
10-11.30am
Intermediate +
Hosted by Brian
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Sunday
Monthly
Yoga Sutras
Feb 8, Mar 8
Continuing Studies
Mar 23
Individual Instruction
Need help with a specific need, a particular limitation, a challenge, or goal; to learn adaptive approaches, specific actions, and use of props to help bring relief from common ailments or injury; to energize or evolve your home practice. Contact me.
Winter Series
Continuing Studies
Mar 23
Online Sundays
10am-12:30pm (Pacific)
Learn, study, explore, and expand your inner practice horizons with confidence. Share your experience among friends in yoga. This monthly class is a launch and sustaining platform for continuous practice and study of the eight “petals” of astanga yoga in the Iyengar tradition. Sessions include asana themes, threads, and approaches to more complex asana; preparatory and primary pranayama; and yoga philosophy discussion with practical application to your life and practice.
Optional preparation - Themed, optional reading and study assignments will be provided upon registration to support your own theory and practice exploration prior to each session.
Recommendations: a curiosity to learn and three years of study with a Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher (CIYT).
These informal gatherings to explore the Yoga Sutras will look to the gems of practical wisdom in B.K.S. Iyengar's translation and commentary, Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Other publications by the Iyengars and translations are sometimes woven in. Each gathering will offer a mix of lecture, inquiry, basic pronunciation, chanting, perplexity, and clarity.
For March, we will chant YS 2.1-18 and continue our look into the logical grouping of sutras from the 2nd chapter, Sadhana Pada. If you wish to prepare, read the relevant sections from the Introduction to Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.
Or, just come and enjoy the community of others. Learn and simply “be" without worrying about being prepared or having done anything at all special besides living your life and showing up.
Community donation optional — Register for free to receive the meeting link. Email me for donation options.
Yoga Sutra Study Group
Feb 8, Mar 8
Online Saturdays
8-9am (Pacific)
Community donation optional — 100% of donations go to a fund to support financially challenged students continue learning of Iyengar Yoga.
Pranayama I Series
Mar 3-31
Online Mondays
6-7pm (Pacific)
A 5-class series to explore breath observation in asana, coordination of breath and body in asana, asana conducive for pranayama, the layers of Savasana, the not-so-subtle and subtle aspects of supine Ujjayi and Viloma, Jalandhara Bandha, and steadiness and suppleness in seated positions.
Recommended that students have minimum one year of study with a Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher (CIYT), and stability in Salamba Sirsasana and Salamba Sarvangasana.
“Our sadhana consists of a process of dynamic and progressive efforts, through the various aspects of asthanga yoga, until we reach samadhi, the effortless state which is the mark of a stable intelligence (sthitaprajna)."
- Geeta S. Iyengar
Intensives
Annual Iyengar Yoga Intensive
TBD
Learn in community with yoga friends. We begin Thursday afternoon and finish Sunday morning. Full days include asana, pranayama, yoga sutras, discussion, and ample time for questions, sharing and discussion.
Thursday (Pacific Time)
4-6pm Philosophy / Asana / Pranayama
Friday - Saturday
7-7:30am Led Pranayama
9-11:30am Asana
4-6pm Philosophy / Asana / Pranayama
Sunday
7-7:30am Led Pranayama
9-11:30am Asana
Minimum THREE years of CONSISTENT experience in the Iyengar method recommended.
Workshops
SAVE THE DATE
Iyengar Yoga Association Upper Midwest
In-Person
Minneapolis-Saint Paul, MN
Oct TBD
YOGA FOR THE NEW YEAR
Weekday morning General classes and afternoon Intermediate topics, culminating with a 4-session weekend worksop “Awaken, Culture, and Transcend.”
Yoga Tree
Daikanyama
In-Person
Tokyo, Japan
22-26 January
CONSOLIDATION & MATURITY
-explorations in establishing and maintaining a coordinated asana
Friday
Practice, Theory, Teaching - a session for CIYTs and aspiring CIYTs
2-4:30pm Practice and Teaching Topics
5-6pm Asana/Pranayama and Teaching Topics
Saturday
9-11:30am Asana
2-3pm Special Topic
3:30-5:30pm Asana/Pranayama
Sunday
9-11:30am Asana
Iyengar Yoga Association Southwest
In-Person
Scottsdale, AZ
Feb 28 - Mar 2
Iyengar Yoga South Bay
In-Person
Campbell, CA
May 1-4
PETALS OF YOGA
In response to a question, “Why practice difficult asanas?”, Geeta S. Iyengar responded, in part, “When you are doing different asanas or varieties of asana, they are shaping, moulding and transforming your consciousness to take you to a higher level… These asanas are not meant for the body but for the consciousness to penetrate within.”
With the advantage of 4-days together, we will explore different approaches to plumb the depth of simple asanas. And how to slowly go further with that depth in complicated asana. With particular body, breath, and mind coordinations we will consider asana in context of Patanjali’s astanga yoga.
The schedule is designed for plenty of time for sharing insights, clarifying doubts, and enjoying the community of yoga friends.
Morning general classes will seed afternoon Intermediate topics and exploraitions.
Registration opening soon.