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Spring Programs

Continuing Studies

Monthly Sundays 10a-12.30p (Pacific)

Apr 19, May 17, Jun 14

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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.

June - Pranayama
If you wish to prepare, please read, “Iyengar on Pranayama” in AstaDala YogaMala Volume 4. During our session together, we will share and insights and impressions from the reading. We will focus the remaining time on pranayama, supine and seated. Contact me if you don’t yet have this volume of AstaDala YogaMala.

Recommended: a curiosity to learn and three years of study with a Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher (CIYT).

Yoga Sutra Study Group

Monthly Fridays 1-2pm (Pacific)

Apr 17, May 15, Jun 12

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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.

June - Pranayama and Effects
If you wish to prepare, please read, “Iyengar on Pranayama” in AstaDala YogaMala Volume 4. During our session, we will share initial impressions from the reading and refer to Light on Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, YS 2.49-51, 4.25, and Core of Yoga Sutras sections, “Pranayama” and “Effects of Pranayama , p 1.55-158.

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.