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Autumn Programs

Continuing Studies

Monthly Sundays 10a-12.30p (Pacific)

Oct 13, Nov 17, Dec 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. 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.

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.

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)

Oct 5, Nov 9, Dec 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 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.