Study
Autumn Programs
Continuing Studies
Monthly Sundays 10a-12.30p (Pacific)
Oct 12, Nov 16, Dec 14
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.
For October - We will continue our study of “Successive, Sequential Ascension in Sādhanā” by finishing the AstaDala Yoga Mala article we began in September. In our last session, our focal area was on realising the connection between body and mind, “soma and psyche”. For October, our focus will be on speech as an “inner dialog” between body and mind. On the theoretical side, we will hone in on the section of the article illuminating the progressive stages of practice – sādhanā – and the practitioner – sādhaka – and the significance of understanding the union of perception and action.
Preparation - Upon request, reading and study assignments will be provided upon registration to support your own theory and practice exploration prior to each session.
Recommended: a curiosity to learn and three years of study with a Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher (CIYT).
Yoga Sutra Study Group
Monthly Fridays 3-4pm (Pacific)
Oct 10, Nov 14, Dec 12
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 October - We will begin with recitation and chanting of the 2nd pada, then examine some of the threads connecting the three aspects of kriya yoga with the three stages of practice/practitioner, gunas, and sutras on āsana. If you wish to prepare, please read/review Light on Yoga Sutras YS 2.1, 1.22, 1.21, 2.18, 2.46-48, and 3.49. Inspired by the article we will complete our study of for Continuing Studies this month, we will keep our practice-eyes wide open.
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.