This 3 day workshop will focus on long held, passive Yin postures that prepare the body for sitting meditation.
Yin Yoga is an essential complement to the more active styles of yoga. The Yin style also keeps the body supple at its core, while encouraging stagnant chi (prana) to flow throughout the joints and meridians, restoring and revitalizing the organ system. Sarah will present an explanation of this practice while we are in the poses.
Drawing from Buddhist themes, Sarah will also describe ways to encourage emotional maturity and meditative awareness in our yoga practices, as well as in our life.
A Yang (flow) style asana practice will follow, geared toward strengthening the core while encouraging ease and grace in movement. We will finish the practice period with Mindfulness meditation.
Sarah Powers began teaching in 1987. She interweaves the insights and practices of Yoga and Buddhism into an integral practice to enliven the body, heart and mind. Her yoga style blends both a Yin sequence of long held poses to enhance the meridian and organ systems, combined with a flow or Yang practice, influenced by Viniyoga, Ashtanga, and Iyengar teachings. She also teaches trainings and silent retreats with her husband Ty. They live with their teen-age daughter Imani-Jade in Marin, California. She is author of the upcoming book Insight Yoga.
For more information on her please see her DVDs: Yoga, Yin and Vinyasa and Insight Yoga, and go to www.sarahpowers.com. |
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