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Here are some of the fantastic workshops we've hosted
Anatomy & Therapeutics Workshop with Martin Kirk
March 16 - 18, 2012
Master Anusara Anatomical Principles and learn how to apply them to the body therapeutically!
This weekend is perfect for Yoga Teachers, Yoga Practitioners, Massage and Bodywork Therapists! All sessions count toward CE hours - approved by the NCBTMB
Friday, March 16: Yoga Therapeutic Asana - How to make your practice therapy: 5:30 - 8:30pm
Saturday, March 17: Anatomy of the Spine : 9:00am -12pm
Therapeutics for Upper Back & Neck: 2 - 5pm
Sunday, March 18: Anatomy of the Pelvis : 9:00am -12pm
Therapeutics for Low Back: 2 - 5pm
Martin Kirk is a Certified Anusara® yoga Instructor who has gained a reputation for excellent and inspiring workshops and teacher trainings. He discovered his love for yoga in 1993 while earning a Masters Degree in Biomedical Engineering. He met John Friend the next year and became a devoted student of Anusara yoga. Martin’s understanding of the body is extensive and he has a special gift of taking complex subject matter and making it accessible, clear and applicable for the modern day yogi. His anatomy and therapy trainings are now legendary and in great demand worldwide. He has transitioned from a successful 20-year career as an engineer in the space industry to sharing his passion for yoga full-time. He is the author of the successful book, Hatha Yoga Illustrated and is co-writing (along with Ellen Saltonstall and Jordan Kirk) Yoga Anatomy: The Biomechanics of Anusara Yoga.
FEES: Full Workshop: $275 / $247.50 members;
Early Price by March 1: $245 / $220.50 members
Friday Session: $60 / $54 members
Saturday or Sunday Session: $120/$108 members
New Year's Yoga Intensive with Noah Mazé:
Make Promises Worth Keeping
"Be the change you wish to see in the world" - Mahatma Gandhi
January 6 - 8, 2012
Friday, January 6: 6-8pm - mixed level:
Into the Current
Merge breath and movement and feeling in this vinyasa based class. Step into the current of graceful movement with creative and challenging vinyasa sequencing. This class will move more and talk less. Bring a towel.
Saturday, January 7: 11am - 1pm - mixed level:
What Do You Stand For?
This energetic class features strong work and refinements in standing poses and progressive sequencing into hanumanasana (splits). Come and stand for the highest in yourself. "If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything."-Malcolm X
Saturday, January 7: 3pm - 6pm - intermediate/advanced*
Flight Lessons
This energetic will feature a variety of hand balancings (and hip openers, twists, forward bends and core work to prepare). We will explore transitions from/to tripod headstand and create new approaches to these powerful poses. Expect a sustained practice, strong work, refinements and a passionate call to be your best.
Sunday, January 8: 10am - 12pm mixed level
Take Your Seat
This class will unfold and enfold you in hip openers, forward bends, twists and meditation. Come prepared to work deeply into your legs and hips and back, and seat your awareness in your heart.
Sunday, January 8: 2pm - 5pm - intermediate/advanced*
Power and Grace
This class will build upon previous sessions, and add backbend transitions into hand balancing sequences from headstand. Expect a sustained practice, strong work, refinements and a passionate call to be your best.
Monday January 9: 9:30am - 12:30pm; 3 hour intermediate/advanced led practice*
The Practice
Noah will systematically lead a playful and strong practice of poses from every category of asana. This will be a led practice, not a class or workshops, so knowledge of the poses is necessary.
*Pre-requisistes for the intermediate/advance classes: Students should be comfortable in a 3 minute headstand and a 3 minute shoulderstand, level 1 and 2 syllabus hand balancings and backbends. You should be able to work at your edge with intelligence, and honor your limitations while maintaining positive self regard.
Pricing:
Individual sessions
- 2 hour workshop: $40; YS members $36
- 3 hour workshop: $60; YS members $54
- Monday practice: $55; YS members $49.50
Package Pricing:
- Mixed-Level Track (includes Friday night, Saturday AM and Sunday AM): $125; YS members $112.50
- Intermediate/Advanced Track (includes Friday night, Saturday PM and
Sunday PM): $155; YS members $139.50
- All Workshop Sessions: (Friday - Sunday) $245; YS members $202.50
- All Workshop Sessions plus Monday Practice: (Friday - Monday) $285; YS members $256.50
Save 10% off package prices if you sign up by December 30th
Desiree Rumbaugh & Andrew Rivin
What the World Needs Now
October 14 - 16, 2011
Friday: 2-4:30 pm
Intermediate and Advanced Practice
Friday: 6-8:30 pm Hip Openers - All Levels
Saturday: 2:30-5 Backbends - All Levels
Sunday: 10-12:30
Therapy for Back, Neck, Shoulders and Hips
With the ability to demonstrate some of the most difficult postures and--even more amazingly--getting students to experience the same sequences, Desirée has a well-earned reputation for deepening even the most advanced practices. She does it with a sense of humor balanced with a quest for authenticity. What is most surprising is her ability to tap into a soft heart and vulnerable spaces to access these wonderful poses. Her unique ability to draw out that bright and shining light from within every student, no matter what level of yoga experience, is her gift to the world.
Andrew Rivin blends a traditional athletic and business background with a great love of yoga, philosophy and psychology. His 21 years of practice, his MBA from Yale, and his experiences initiating micro-enterprises in Africa, Asia and Latin America have given him a unique and well-rounded life perspective. You are sure to be uplifted and inspired by this joyful, spirited and
FEES:
Full Workshop: $200 / $185 members
Early Price: $165 / $150 members - by October 5th
Individual Session: $50 / $45 members
Join Desirée and Andrew for an Enneagran, Energy & Essence Workshop
The Enneagram Experience with Dr. Andy Hahn
Sunday October 16, 2011 - 2:00 - 4:00pm
Each of us has a personality type through which we perceive the world. The Enneagram, a simple, powerful framework, describes these 9 types. In this workshop, you will gain a sense of your own type and the relationship between types. Spiritually, you will discover the fears about yourself which the personality obscures/masks, and experience a simple process for becoming aware of/accepting these fears. You are invited to the realization that these fears are a doorway and expression of our Essential Self.
Cost: $30, $25 for YS members
$20 for those doing Desirée and Andrew's Workshop
Grace in the Embrace of the Shadow:
Meditations on the Tantric Goddess Saubhagya Sundari
with Douglas Brooks
NEW DATES!! SEPTEMBER 16-18 2011
Within the Tantric tradition of Auspicious Wisdom there are aspects of the Goddess that invite us to enter more deeply into our human nature and to contemplate more richly the experience of honest happiness in a world that relentlessly challenges that very possibility.
Nature never fails to create unexpected and often difficult circumstances; we know there is real turmoil and pain in life, we wonder how we might find the deeper value in experiences that accost our sense of justice. Yet this very Nature that challenges us provides all we need to reach our happiness, to create a sustainable prosperity, to savor the experience of life's blessing.
Saubhagya Sundari creates an opportunity for these contemplations in imagery and mythology, in mantra and meditation, and especially in poetry and the power of the poetic imagination to re-imagine and penetrate the depths of our conscious and unconscious feelings.
We will create an experience of reflection and refractive awareness through the contemplations of the Goddess that draws us closer to an essential human truth: the more deeply we receive the experience of our vulnerability, the more empowered we become to address the fullness of human experience as a gift, as a blessing, as an offering of Consciousness to experience the wonder of life.
No previous experience in yoga philosophy or Tantric practice is expected or required.
Bring an open mind, a willing heart, and a desire to experience more deeply the wisdom within.
Friday, Sept 16: 6 - 8pm
Saturday, Sept 17: 11am - 1pm; 2:30 - 5:30pm
Sunday, Sep 18: 11am - 2pm
Fees:
Full Workshop $185/$170 members
Early-bird by Sept 5th $160/$145 members
2 hr lecture $40; 3 hr lecture $60
Asana Classes: Saturday & Sunday 9 - 10:30am $15 each with purchase of any lecture or free for members!
Douglas Brooks, Ph.D. is among the world's leading scholars of Hindu
Tantrism and the esoteric traditions of the Goddess. He received his
Masters and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University’s Center for the Study
of World Religions where he studied with several of the world’s leading
scholars of Sanskrit and Indian studies. Dr. Brooks is the author of several
scholarly books on Hinduism and Tantra, and is currently Professor of
Religion at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. For more
info visit www.rajanaka.com
Noah Mazé
May 13 -15, 2011
Anusara Yoga Workshops Inspired by Myths of Hanuman Come and engage align your body, open your mind, and engage your heart in a weekend of yoga. Noah will weave mythic allegory of Hanuman, mostly from the epic Ramayana, throughout each session to create a powerful opportunity for transformation. All levels welcome. Come prepared to work and play hard!
Teacher's Session - Fri 5/13/2011 from 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Yoga of Krama: a workshop on sequencing, for teachers and dedicated students. In this practical and engaging "talkshop," we will explore a variety of methods of sequencing, both in teaching classes, and in your own practice. It is all too easy to default to a standard sequence, and limit the growth and creativity. This session will give you many usable tools and ideas to progress as a teacher and as a student on the path of asana. Bring a notebook and your questions from teaching and practice perspectives.
Leap for the Mango - Fri 5/13/2011 from 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Hip Openers and Forward Bends Hanuman's origin story, and first leap (mistaking the sun for a mango) inspires this class of deep forward bends and hip openers. Hanumanasana...Lotus...we'll see.
Courage and Compassion - Sat 5/14/2011 from 10:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Backbends Part I Vira (courage) and Karuna (compassion), qualities of the Yogin/Yogini, inspires this class of progressive sequencing to align and open legs/hips and shoulders/upper back for deep backbends.
Leap of Consciousness - Sat 5/14/2011 from 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Handbalancings Hanuman's second leap, from India to Lanka, inspires this class of deep core work, hip opening, forward bends, twists that culminate in the grace and power of flight.
Recognition - Sun 5/15/2011 from 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Backbends Part 2 - Backbends. Need I say more? Come and stoke the fire of your transformation.
Lower Body Therapeutics - Sun 5/15/2011 from 2:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Anusara Yoga Therapeutics combines an uplifting attitude with precise bio-mechanical alignment in yoga poses to heal and transform. The human body/mind is remarkably resilient, intelligent, and great things happen when we align! This day long workshop will focus on therapeutic applications of yoga to provide students and teachers with tools to actively relieve pain and repair injuries. We will address a variety of musculo-skeletal injuries and misalignments related to the lower back, pelvis, hips, knees, ankles and feet. We will incorporate basic anatomy and kinesiology and apply these principles in practical therapeutic yoga routines. And, we will examine specific poses if and when students experience discomfort. This is a great opportunity to learn the Universal Principles of Alignment of Anusara Yoga, and how they work through practices that address and relieve pain and discomfort. All levels of practitioners and teachers encouraged, no previous knowledge and experience required.
Noah Mazé is recognized in the yoga community as one of the most advanced and proficient practitioners and teachers of Anusara Yoga®, and is widely sought out as a teachers’ teacher. Noah was born into a household of yogis, was raised with the practices and traditions of yoga, and his teaching style is expressive of the depth of his knowledge and lifelong experience in the principles and practices.
Wah! Workshop
Sunday, March 6, 2011
5 - 7pm
Anatomy & Therapeutics Workshop with Martin Kirk
January 21 - 23, 2011
Master Anusara Anatomical Principles and learn how to apply them to the body therapeutically!
Friday, Jan. 21:
Therapeutics for Common Injuries: 5:30 - 8:30pm
regular fee: $60, before January 5 - $54
Saturday, Jan. 22:
Anatomy of the Legs and Knees : 9-12pm
Therapeutics for Legs and Knees: 2-5pm
regular fee: $120, before January 5 - $108
Sunday, Jan. 23:
Anatomy of the Shoulders and Arms : 9-12pm
Therapeutics for Shoulders and Arms: 2-5pm
regular fee: $120, before January 5 - $108
FULL WEEKEND discount: $265, before January 5 - $240
Sianna Sherman's Harmony Tour Workshop
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October 15 - 16, 2010
Anusara Yoga Jam – Arm Balances and Deeper Backbends - Intermediate/Advanced
Jump in and explore the edge in this lively and up-tempo practice of arm balances and deeper backbends. Together as community we will raise the vibration of love and lift each other to new heights. Be ready to alchemize!
Friday October 15: 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Rasa Mandalam – Circle of Belonging - All Levels
Let’s initiate our weekend together as a living prayer wheel, experiencing our community with vision and peace prayers. This will be a full spectrum experience of standing poses, basic backbends, hip openers, meditation and circle movement to increase the overall harmony in our lives.
Saturday, October 16: 11:00 - 1:30 pm
Connect with Love– Backbends - All Levels
Come play in the field of Love and revel in the power of the heart through backbends. Bring your enthusiasm, willingness to move, sweat, transform and laugh.
Saturday, October 16: 3:00 - 5:30 pm
Be the Dream– Hip Openers - All Levels
Following the rhythm of the day, this afternoon session will turn inside with a more introspective practice of hip openers, twists and forward folds. These poses help us to cultivate self-acceptance, appreciation and allowance for the flow of light to bring our highest dreams into reality.
Harvesting the Fruits of Freedom Workshop
with Andrew Rivin
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Join Andrew Rivin for a day of focused practice. 
Skill in Action Workshop
Saturday, July 31Price: $30 For both sessions: $50
Eye of the Kitten & Tiger Workshop
Saturday, July 3
Fees: $50 for both sessions; Eye of Kitten - $25; Eye of the Tiger - $35.
Amy Ippoliti
