To Understand, Practice & Experience

A Six Part Series on Sundays 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

with

Brian Hogencamp

Each class in this six-part series focuses on a particular category of asana.  Emphasis will be upon asana that provide a firm foundation and give a fundamental or "base intelligence" which threads through the category to intermediate level asana.  Each class will build upon the previous class and highlight philosophy as illumined in B.K.S. Iyengar's translation and commentary of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.

Students should have at least six months of consistent Iyengar Yoga experience, a comfort and familiarity with the basic asana, and an intention to deepen their understanding, practice and experience..

Brian Hogencamp, is a full-time student, practitioner, and certified instructor of Iyengar yoga.  He lives in San Francisco and is a student of Manouso Manos.  He returns regularly to Pune, India to study with the Iyengar family.  As yoga is an experiential subject, he believes that the distance between what one is taught and what is learned can only be illumined by practice.  Drawing from his practice, evolving experience, and a deep gratitude for the teachings received, he is eager to share the light yoga can bring.  www.iybrian.com

Cost:  $45 if preregistered by ,September 4, 2011; $55 thereafter.  Cancellations prior to August 1, 2011 will be refunded minus a $25 administration fee; no refunds after August 1,  2011 unless a replacement can be found.

Balancing Practice

with

Sandy Blaine

Saturday, October 8, 2011

1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Improved balance can be a benefit of yoga practice on a number of levels.  We can practice to increase our sense of equilibrium in our lives, to balance our natural temperament, to create more balance in our bodies between our strengths and weaknesses, and even to just improve our technical skill with physical balance

Although we often associate an impaired sense of balance with aging.  In fact, for most people that is a completely preventable phenomenon; we lose our sense of balance not because we are getting older, but simply because we are not using it.  Physical coordination is one of the four key elements of musculoskeletal health (along with flexibility, strength and endurance), and balance is a practical coordination skill that is maintained and improved with practice.

A good sense of balance also offers multiple:  A stronger core, a more symmetrical musculoskeletal system (reducing the aches and pains that result from imbalances), reduced risk of injury, greater physical ease and confidence, and improved ability to focus on what is essential in the moment.

In this class, we will work with key elements of balance through a variety of different types of postures, from simple standing poses to inversions (or preparations for inversions appropriate to the individual practitioner) to the more complicated forms of balance found in basic arm balances.

Sandy Blaine, is the director of the Alameda Yoga Station. Sandy has a playful devotion to her daily yoga practice, and seeks to bring these qualities to her classes, which combine her experience and training in the Iyengar, Ashtanga Vinyasa and Kripalu methods.  Her writing has been published in Yoga Journal, Yoga International and Ascent magazines, and she is the author of two books, Yoga for Healthy Knees and Yoga for Computer Users.  Sandy is the long time resident yoga instructor for Pixar Animation Studios and as a wellness consultant, she has spoken at Kaiser and Google.  Previously, she taught yoga at UC Berkeley for many years and she is a faculty member of the Berkeley Yoga Room's Advanced Studies Program, from which she graduated herself in 1995.  Sandy is currently at work on a new book about establishing a personal yoga practice.

Cost:  $45 if preregistered by ,September 24, 2011; $55 thereafter.  Cancellations prior to September 24,, 2011 will be refunded minus a $25 administration fee; no refunds after September 24,  2011 unless a replacement can be found.

December 10 & 11, 2011
12:00 - 5:30 p.m.

January 28, 2012
11:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

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Donald Moyer - founder and director of The Yoga Room in Berkeley, California, has practiced Iyengar yoga since 1971, and has been teaching since 1974. He studied with B.K.S. Iyengar in India from 1976–1988 and continues to be inspired by his work. Donald wrote the Asana column for Yoga Journal in 1987, 1989, and 1992, and is the author of Yoga: Awakening the Inner Body (Rodmell Press, 2006).

Cost:  $ if preregistered by ; $ thereafter.  Cancellations prior to the  date will receive a refund minus a $25 admin fee.  No refunds after J\

Gary Kraftsow
 

June 2 & 3, 2012