Autumn Classes
22 Sep - 21 Dec
All times Pacific. For Hosted by Brian class information see Iyengar Yoga with Brian.
Learning
Monday
9-10.45
Intermediate + Series
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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Wednesday
8-9.30am
Intermediate
Hosted by Brian
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10-11.30pm
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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6.25-7.40pm
Intermediate
Wesbrook In-Person
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Friday
1:30-3:30pm
Int/Adv
Mt Pleasant In-Person
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Saturday
10-11.30am
Intermediate +
Hosted by Brian
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Sunday
Monthly
Yoga Sutras
Oct 5, Nov 9, Dec 7
Continuing Studies
Oct 13, Nov 17, Dec 15
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.
Autumn Series
Continuing Studies
Oct 13, Nov 17, Dec 15
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.
For November, we will explore the relationship amongst different asana families through body, breath, and mind coordinations to approach more challenging asana. Beginning with standings, we will thread our way through twists and supines and see what new possibilities open. Intermediate stages and alternatives will be offered to enable everyone to remain engaged throughout and expand from the known to the unknown safely and progressively.
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 December, we will chant all of the sutras from the first pada, Samadhi Pada – On Consciousness – and complete our thematic overview of the pada as the Winter session comes to a close. If you wish to prepare, review 1.1-31 and 1.32-39. Read the first page before the first sutra in Samadhi Pada and the first page before the first sutra in Sadhana Pada in Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. More? Read the Samadhi Pada section from the Introduction.
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
Oct 5, Nov 9, Dec 7
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 II
Nov 12 - Dec 10 Series
Online Tuesdays
6-7pm (Pacific)
Explore asana conducive for pranayama, the deeper layers of Savasana, breath observation and awareness, steadiness and suppleness in seated Ujjayi and Viloma, Jalandhara Bandha, Bhramari, the art of placing the fingers on the nose for digital pranayama, and Anuloma I.
Recommended students have minimum 3 years of study with a Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher (CIYT), attended Pranayama I Series or have equivalent experience, and stability and comfort with Salamba Sirsasana and Salamba Sarvangasana.
Inversions
Led Practice
Oct 21-24 Series
Monday-Thursday
4-5pm (Pacific)
Afternoon Inversions. A time to consolidate your inversions practice, develop stamina and progressively evolve your practice with intermediate leg and arm variations in Sirsasana and Sarvangasana. Other inversions and asana families will be included to reveal further self-practice projects and possibilities.
Recommended students have minimum 2 years of study with a Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher (CIYT) and stability and comfort with Salamba Sirsasana I and Salamba Sarvangasana and foundational variations. Though each series will carry some threads, you are welcome to attend any individual session.
“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
PROGRESSION IN PRACTICE
- explorations in stability, comfort, effort, and glimpses beyond
Thursday
3-6pm Practice, Theory, Teaching - a session for CIYTs and aspiring CIYTs to explore the interrelated and interwoven nature of practice, theory, and teaching.
Friday
9-11:30am Asana
2-3pm Teacher Gathering (Optional)
3:30-6pm Philosophy, Asana/Pranayama
Saturday
9-11:30am Asana
2-3pm Community Gathering (Optional)
3:30-6pm Philosophy, Asana/Pranayama
Sunday
9-11:30am Asana
Iyengar Yoga Association Upper Midwest
In-Person
Minneapolis-Saint Paul, MN
Oct 17-20
A Pause. A day to gather as students of the subject of yoga. To learn, share, reflect, and exchange experiences along this path shown to us by B.K.S. Iyengar and family. Register now to pause later. Partial attendance is available. Email me for details.
Schedule (Pacific)
9-11:30am - Asana
3pm - Special Topic (Optional)
3:30-5:30pm - Philosophy / Asana and Pranayama
Winter Solstice One-Day
Online
Dec 21 Saturday
CLASSES, INTERMEDIATE TOPICS, WORKSHOP
In-Person Classes, Intermediate Topics and Workshop
Hosted by Yoga Tree’s Daikanyama studio, Tokyo, Japan
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Yoga Tree
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
AWAKEN, CULTURE, TRANCEND
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