Yoga of Relationship
Understand the multidimensional nature of the human system, and the corresponding multidimensional practices as taught by the Ancients. The Ancients explored the mysteries of Reality: especially the nature of the Divine, of human consciousness, of the material world, and the complex inter-relationships between these three aspects of Reality. They understood our true nature to be […]
Yoga and the Autonomic Nervous System: Managing your Energy
The stresses and strains of changing circumstances have a direct impact on our physical and mental condition. While much of the focus in contemporary yoga is on how to manage our structure, in this series, we will focus on how to manage the impact of the stress and strains of daily life upon our energy. […]
Yoga for Life
The Relationship with your Spine – June 3, 2021 Are you living for your yoga practice, or using your yoga practice to help you live your life? Focusing on the spine, we’ll consider what is essential for creating and maintaining a healthy and integrated structure. Then we’ll explore how to use breath-centric āsana as a […]
Meditation Unlocked: Understanding and Practice
Meditation is an ancient practice, found in all world religious traditions, linking the hearts and minds of practitioners to sources of guidance, inspiration, and/or the Divine. Dysfunctional patterns at the level of thought, feeling, and behavior create attachment, identification, conflict, and distraction, and are obstacles to finding the peace of that deep connection. The Ancient […]
Meditation Unlocked: Understanding and Practice
Meditation is an ancient practice, found in all world religious traditions, linking the hearts and minds of practitioners to sources of guidance, inspiration, and/or the Divine. Dysfunctional patterns at the level of thought, feeling, and behavior create attachment, identification, conflict, and distraction, and are obstacles to finding the peace of that deep connection. The Ancient […]
Pranayama Unlocked: Understanding and Practice
“Breath-centered āsana practice and prāṇāyāma are among the greatest gifts from the yoga tradition to help us maintain our physiological and metabolic health and well being, balance our emotions, and clarify our minds.” –Gary Kraftsow Prāṇāyāma is considered one of the most powerful practices of yoga. Studies from Harvard, the National Center for Biotechnology […]
Pranayama Unlocked: Understanding and Practice
“Breath-centered āsana practice and prāṇāyāma are among the greatest gifts from the yoga tradition to help us maintain our physiological and metabolic health and well being, balance our emotions, and clarify our minds.” –Gary Kraftsow Prāṇāyāma is considered one of the most powerful practices of yoga. Studies from Harvard, the National Center for Biotechnology […]
Tantric Laya Yoga
According to the Ancients, human beings are caught in a perpetual cycle of tension and suffering that is characterized by unfulfilled desires, frustrated emotions, attachment & aversion, distorted self-perception and misidentification. The root cause of this cycle is our ignorance about our true nature, the world around us, and of Ultimate Reality. Because of that […]
Yoga Therapy for Pain Management
The Viniyoga methodology for working with people who deal with chronic pain utilizes strategies that address the whole person. Movement and breathing are the most well-known yoga strategies for chronic pain, yet it is often the inner dimensions of yoga that are fundamental to optimal life functioning. We will focus on three categories of chronic […]