PROGRAM
Everyday
Session 1: Mysore, Pranayama & Mindfulness
- Guided mindfulness practice to ground awareness in the present moment
- Breath work and pranayama techniques to develop steadiness and focus.
- Mysore-style practice with individual guidance from Scott, refining alignment, breath, and movement.
Friday
Session 2 (Philosophy): Patanjali on Asana: How Do We Find Balance In The Body?
This session will look at the yoga sutra and asana. We will see that the way that Patanjali asks us to notice the body is with a steady awareness
Session 3: Where Philosophy meets the Body
With an emphasis on how philosophy and movement relate the afternoons will be a mix of yoga philosophy, movement technique and anatomy. Each session will have a presentation and discussion on philosophy for the first hour, the second will look at practice techniques throughput the system.
Scott will help you to see how the practice of Ashtanga yoga can meet you wherever you are…
- How do we individually approach yoga in relationship to our own lives?
- Can we see deeper into how our yoga practice can help us nurture the breath and movement awareness that we hold so dear?
- How does philosophy integrate with how we see our practice and ultimately, act in the world?
Saturday
Session 2: (Philosophy) Patanjali on Mindfulness: What brings you back to you?
This session will look at the yoga sutra and mindful awareness. We will see that a new way of looking is how we can achieve more in our yoga asana practice
Session 3: Finding a Strong & Spacious Spine
The second half of the Primary Series offer us a profound opportunity to explore the subtleties of spinal movement. With sensitivity, insight, and awareness, we can observe how the energy of the spine evolves as we fluidly move.
Building on the work from the first workshop, this session will focus on cultivating a deeper awareness of the spine’s role in the second part of the primary series. Beginning with a short mindfulness and breathing practice we will explore how spinal movement develops in relation to the breath, connecting postures from the first and second half of the Primary Series. We will reveal the continuity and intelligence of the practice.
This workshop is open to all yoga practitioners curious about deepening their understanding of the Ashtanga Vinyasa system.
Sunday
Session 2: (Philosophy) Patanjali on Prana: Four ways of noticing breathing
This session will look at the yoga sutra and how it focuses on the breath and importantly, prana. It will help you begin to make you mare aware of the nature of how you practice.
Session 3: Inversions (or learning to be upside down)
Inversions are key to understanding how to understand the body in a new way. Whenever the head goes below the heart we become open to a new way of seeing things. And,, whenever we move our weight onto our forearms, head or hands we are learning to feel and hold our bodies in new, profound ways.
This workshop will be an invitation to explore your own way of navigating these exhilarating postures. We will look at techniques that support headstand, forearm balance and handstand (that are available to everyone) and then invite practitioners to explore these themselves, supporting each person in how they can navigate these postures in new and meaningful ways.
