Everything flows, nothing stands still.” – Heraclitus

 

How do we make our yoga practice and our approach to teaching yoga more meaningful?

Many yoga teachers and students are interested in the deeper aspects of yoga practice. What are we doing in doing yoga? While for some it’s largely about physical wellbeing, many of us start with or eventually come to discover in yoga a deeper questions about the nature and conditions of our lives. We feel what we’re feeling, we reflect, pose questions, and keep breathing and exploring rather than going with pre-formed ideas and answers, opening to the mystery of it all in this magnificent experience of becoming.

This workshop will flow as follows, with a 15 minute break between each of the three parts:

1. I will give a ninety-minute talk offering a variety of perspectives that can be tapped in exploring one’s philosophy of yoga. The lecture will first highlight the main currents of ancient yogic thought found in the Vedas, Upanishads, Bhagavad-Gita, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and non-dual tantra, then consider contemporary approaching to human understanding found in mythological approaches, somatics, and other approaches to reflective consciousness and awakening.

2. We will form three groups to discuss several questions for ninety minutes: What makes yoga meaningful to you? What meanings do you bring, find or clarify in doing yoga? How does (or might) the yoga that you’re doing or guiding bring you closer to a path in keeping with your personal intention on whatever paths you’re choosing in your life? If you’re a yoga teacher, how might you bring a clearer class philosophy to your teaching while holding a space in which students feel open in their various intentions?

3. We will gather as a whole to first listen to insights from each group for about fifteen minutes each, then we will have a larger open group conversation about making yoga meaningful.

Open to All. Ten hours of Yoga Teacher Training credit or Yoga Alliance CEUs.

Pre-Register Now: $45

 

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Saturday, May 17, 12:30-5:30pm
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