Study
Winter Programs
Continuing Studies
Monthly Sundays 10a-12.30p (Pacific)
Feb 1, Mar 1, Mar 29
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.
February - “When the action is done properly, this ‘done’ action will imprint in the brain. Otherwise, only the memory of the verbal instructions will leave an imprint; for example, we remember only: ‘Geeta has said the leg has to be turned.’ The imprint we want is for the leg region itself to send the message: ‘ I have done it’.” –Geeta S. Iyengar. With Geetaji’s words above as inspiration, we will explore actions and responses from different perspectives to transform the postural shape into an asana that lives.
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)
Jan 30, Feb 27, Mar 27
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.
February - Patanjali organizes modifications of consciousness into five general categories. Studying the modifications in combination with yoga practices is a means to know ourselves, in relationship to what is and what could be, and to other beings in the world. “Consciousness sees objects in relation to its own idiosyncrasies, creating fluctuations and modifications in one’s thoughts. These modifications, of which there are five… may be visible or hidden, painful or not, distressing or pleasing, cognizable or non-cognizable.” - B.K.S. Iyengar. If you wish to prepare, read Light on Yoga Sutras 1.5-1.11.
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.