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Summer Programs

Continuing Studies

Monthly Sundays 10a-12.30p (Pacific)

Sep 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 September - With inspiration from B.K.S. Iyengar’s insights in AstaDala YogaMala, we will explore the relationship of kriya yoga, and the principles of yama and niyama.

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 Saturdays 8-9am (Pacific)

Aug 8, Sep 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 August, to prepare, please read the sections, The Yogic Disciplines, Yama, Effects of Yama, Niyama in the Introduction to Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. And read and study the commentary to Yoga Sutra 2.33.

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.