Yoga Therapy and Mental Health – Understanding & Managing Anxiety
Thursday, June 11, 2-5pm

In this three-hour workshop, we will:

• Learn the theory and practice of Yoga Therapy for working with conditions that impact mental health.
• Understanding anxiety and how adapt and calibrate the tools of Yoga Therapy to manage conditions of anxiety.
• Do a full practice focused on managing anxiety.

Living Symbols and Inner Practices: three sessions

We all have the recurring experience of frustration and suffering from different causes and at different levels of intensity. In response to this recurring experience, we seek to release suffering and find fulfillment outwardly and, as a result, become entangled in what the Ancients called the “world of name and form.” This misguided seeking perpetuates the recurrence of unresolved frustrations and suffering that we experience throughout our lives.

Deep methods of Inner Practice evolved in the tradition of Tantric Laya Yoga through which we can break this recurring cycle to become free. These methods of practice relied on complex symbol systems.

In this series of three classes, we will explore two of the most important symbol systems and how to integrate them into our personal practice.

Session 1: Bhūta Śuddhi & Cakra Sādhana –Anāhata Cakra 
Friday, June 12, 10-11:30am                              

In this 90-minute session, we will:

• explore the cakra symbol system as a map that reveals both our dysfunctional patterns and our innate untapped potentials, 
• introduce the methods of Bhūta Śuddhi & Cakra Sādhana, and
• work with these methods in a practice focused on the Anāhata Cakra.

Session 2: Devatā Yoga –Lakṣmī 
Saturday, June 13, 2-3:30pm                                                                         

In this 90-minute session, we will:

• explore the symbolism of the Vedic Gods and Goddesses as a map that reveals what the Ancients called our Divine Human Potentials, 
• introduce the methods of Devatā Yoga, and
• work with these methods in a practice focused on the Mahā Lakṣmī .

These two 90-minute sessions will begin with a brief presentation followed by an integrated practice that will include āsana, prāṇāyāma, mantra japa, svādhyāya, andmanasa pūjā.

Session 3: Living Symbols and Personal Practice
Sunday, June 14, 10-11am

In this 60-minute session we will explore thorough lecture, discussion, and Q&A how to authentically integrate these symbols and methods into personal practice and daily life.