Study
Autumn Programs
Continuing Studies
Monthly Sundays 10a-12.30p (Pacific)
Oct 18, Nov 15, Dec 6
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 November, our focus will be on transformation of consciousness towards restraint (nirodha pariņāmah). All of the reading for the Yoga Sutra Study Group for November is relevant. Dwell on Yoga Sutra 3.9 in Light on Yoga Sutras.
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)
Oct 16, Nov 13, Dec 4
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 November, our focus will be on the objective and subjective fluctuations (vrtti-s) of consciousness (citta). The aim is to fortify our understanding of the obstacles (antarāyas) we looked at in October. If you wish to prepare, read B.K.S. Iyengar’s text Light on Aștāńga Yoga p.59-76, the sections Citta - Consciousness, Vrttis - Objective and Subjective, Kleśa-s - The Afflictions. Also, read the commentary in Light on Yoga Sutras for Yoga Sutras 2.27, 3.9, 4.5, and the Epilogue (paragraph beginning with Consciousness).
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.