Study
Spring Programs
Continuing Studies
Monthly Sundays 10a-12.30p (Pacific)
Apr 21, May 19, Jun 9
Build your own practice “fund of experience.”
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 to support your own theory and practice exploration prior to each session. Please register at least one week prior to the session, sooner when possible. The assignment is included with your registration confirmation email.
Recommended: a curiosity to learn and three years of study with a Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher (CIYT).
Yoga Sutra Study Group
Monthly Fridays 5-6p (Pacific)
Apr 19, May 17, Jun 7
Community donation optional — 100% of donations go to a fund to support financially challenged students continue learning of Iyengar Yoga. Register for free to receive the meeting link.
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. Community donation optional — 100% of donations go to a fund to support financially challenged students continue learning of Iyengar Yoga.
For April, we will settle in to a single sutra – YS 2.46 – and B.K.S. Iyengar’s insightful commentary from Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Read first the commentary. Then read two sections from B.K.S. Iyengar’s Light on Life - “Awareness: Every Pore of the Skin Has to Become an Eye” and Dynamic Extension: From the Core of Your Being” in Chapter 2. Reflecting on the reading and your practice, are there one or two insights that inspire exploration? Was there a passage from Light on Life that provided a deeper understanding of the sutra commentary?
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.