Study
Spring Programs
Continuing Studies
Monthly Sundays 10a-12.30p (Pacific)
Apr 20, May 18, Jun 15
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.
For April, we will look into ways to transition our practice from doing asana actively with muscular efforts to studying the asana with reflection action. B.K.S. Iyengar writes in AstaDala Yoga Mala, "If we adjust and readjust with discernment, it is kriyā yoga.” Our studies will be mindful of Guruji’s description of kriyā yoga, “Tapas means passion in the art. We have two immerse ourselves in each āsana and in each breath. Svādhyāya is to study the movements that happen in the practices of āsana, and to reflect on them and then to remove those disintegrations that happen, and bring integration. Where the “I” (asmitā) is sanctified and purified, it is Īśvarapraņidhāna.”
Preparation - Upon request, reading and study assignments will be provided upon registration to support your own theory and practice exploration prior to each session.
Recommended: a curiosity to learn and three years of study with a Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher (CIYT).
Yoga Sutra Study Group
Monthly Saturdays 8-9am (Pacific)
Apr 12, May 10, 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 chant YS 2.1-28 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.