3/6 – Yoga for Athletes with Marie Siegfried and Josh Rothman (Chandler)

Saturday, March 6,    1-3pm
Chandler Studio

Experience the magic of cross training with Yoga to create balance & increased performance.

Cross Training with Yoga and any sport you’re involved in helps improves balance, flexibility, strength, endurance, range of motion, and agility which can result in improved performance, injury reduction and faster recovery for all levels.

One of the primary focuses in yoga and stretching is the constant focus on the breath. This development of breath awareness reinforces the contact between mind and body and gives one greater body control which supports activities of daily life, work, sports, play, etc. This translates into quicker response times to unexpected situations encountered in all life’s activities, which in turn reduces the risk of injury. Awareness also increases coordination which can improve performance, focus, decrease levels of stress, helps with anxiety, depression and much more!

Josh and Marie are senior Master-level teachers and teacher trainers at Inner Vision yoga with extensive athletic training experience.  For more info please click here.

PRICING: $25 by March 1,  $35 after   Click here to pay online

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3/14: Yoga for Labor and Birth Workshop (Chandler)

Pricing:
Early $45,  at door-  $60  Click  here to register online
Sign up early, space is limited

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3/19-21/2010- Rama Jyoti Vernon (Chandler Studio)

“Love is the greatest power in the Universe, its the greatest healer and it transcends all the boundaries and all borders we have created with our own self-limitations.” – Rama Vernon

Join us as we host one of the most influential yoga teachers on the planet – Rama Jyoti Vernon.  Her visionary and accessible teachings will inspire and delight you.  These workshops are not to be missed.

Friday, March 19 – 6-9pm: Transforming our Lives and Our World Through the Yoga Sutras

Through her work in citizen diplomacy and conflict resolution around the world, Rama Jyoti has developed a system for healing the individual as well as nations, based on Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras. Rama weaves the philosophical system of Yoga into everyday life through Asana and self-observation demonstrating how indvidual and international conflicts can be overcome through our own inner transformation.

Saturday, March 20-

12:30-3:30pm – Awakening the Endocrine System
The powerhouse of our physical condition, the endocrine system, is endlessly taxed by the world around us. At an early age Rama Jyoti was exposed to mystics, great spiritual leaders, and natural healers whose experience was simultaneously traditional and ahead of its time. Through her personal experiences and the teachings of her parents and other great healers, Rama Jyoti has found ways to stimulate and renew this complex system that governs much of our physical being. She will share stories from her vast background, and apply her knowledge to asana for rejuvenating the endocrine glands.

5-8pm – A Breath-based Practice
While breathing is fundamental to yogic practices and life functions, daily stress, chronic breathing maladies and environmental pollutants affect our ability to fully receive the benefits of the breath. How we breathe can deepen our yoga practice, alleviate problems and provide a more vital lifestyle. Rama Jyoti will introduce her signature approach to using the breath as a way to open the body to enhance asana, deepen spiritual practices and enliven day-to-day activities.

Sunday, March 21 –

12:30-3:30pm: Meditation Within Asana: Integration and Practice based on Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras
Meditation is an essential practice for clarity of mind and maintaining one’s balance admist the multitude of life’s challenges. Rama Jyoti offers a unique integration of finding the Meditation “seat” in the midst of all Asanas The emphasis is upon finding the stillness within the physical practice which can be carried into life’s actions and interactions Her approach to Asana, pranayama, and concentration is for those wishing to develop a meditation practice or to augment an existing one.

Rama Jyoti Vernon began her interest in metaphysics and mysticism as a child, with parents who were pioneers in holistic health.  Ultimately, she became one of America’s first Yoga teachers, and was instrumental in bringing many great teachers from India to the U.S., co-founding the Yoga Journal and developing organizations such as Unity in Yoga, to unite all lineages of Yoga.   As a housewife, mother and Yoga teacher, Rama found herself applying Yoga philosophy in a whole new arena, international peacemaking. During the 1980s she made dozens of trips to the U.S.S.R, and founded the Center for International Dialogue, based on the idea that people can join together to initiate solutions for political, economic, ecological, humanitarian and cultural conflicts.  In 1995, Rama Jyoti was an NGO delegate to the Fourth UN Conference on Women held in Beijing, China, where her focus was on future work with the Women of Africa. Educated at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Rama Jyoti, is a writer, educator, lecturer in Asian philosophy and East-West Psychologywhich has inspired her unique approach to Conflict Resolution. She has co-designed a two-year Conflict Resolution and Peace Team training program.Rama Jyoti is a mother of five and grandmother. Her warm manner and the way she shares personal anecdotes about her life, make students feel they know and like her as a friend. Her legacy of Asana training, combined with deep integration of the Yoga Sutras, is carried on by her longtime students.

“The longing for the oneness. The longing to know that which we have never forgotten.
We know at a deeper level. When that longing comes, it means that we’re open to a
new layer or new level of our internal practice.” - Rama Vernon

Registration: Early Registration Ends March 12th, 2010.
Single Class- $59 early/$74 regular Click here to register online
Full Weekend- (12 hour weekend) $199 early/249 regular Click here to register online

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4/9-11/2010- Sanskrit and the Eight Limbs of Yoga with Nicolai Bachman (Chandler studio)

Get a deeper understanding of yoga philosophy, how to embody the whole practice of yoga, including but not limited to the physical practice.  Join Nicolai, a renowned yoga scholar for an engaging weekend of lecture and experience that will feed your soul and practice.

Friday, April 9 – 6-9pm
Sanskrit Basics For Yogis: Fundamentals of Pronunciation
The science of yoga is filled with Sanskrit vocabulary. Teachers and practitioners of yoga, Ayurveda, or meditation can benefit from learning how to pronounce Sanskrit with correct breath, resonance, rhythm and tongue position. The class will read transliterated text (English letters with diacritical markings) of the alphabet, asana names and yoga terms.

Saturday, April 10 – 12:30-3:30pm
Outer Limbs of Yoga: Yamas and Niyamas
How we interact with others affects our heart-mind and those around us. Cultivating ethical behavior is essential for a civil society to flourish. Part and parcel with healthy social relationships is taking care of oneself.

Saturday, April 10 – 5:30-8:30pm
Kriya-Yoga, Asana and Pranayama: Personal Practices
The last three niyama-s (personal practices) make up a synergistic triad of tools that support the other limbs of yoga, and are necessary for bringing about real, lasting change and cultivating an inner orientation. Refining and unblocking the body and breath prepare us for our journey inward.

Sunday, April 11 – 12:30-3:30pm
Pratyahara and Samyama: Turning Inward
Focusing our attention in a single place centers our heart-mind, ending outer sensory distractions and moving us deep into our inner light of awareness. The final four limbs cultivate a sattvic heart-mind and a higher state of consciousness.

Nicolai  Bachman has been teaching Sanskrit, chanting, yoga philosophy, Ayurveda, and other related topics since 1994. He has a knack for synthesizing and organizing complex topics into simple and understandable presentations. His education combines informal, traditional study with the academic rigor of university classes. Nicolai studied extensively at the American Sanskrit Institute, the Ayurvedic Institute, the American Institute of Vedic Studies and the Vedic Chant Center. He holds an M.A. in Eastern Philosophy, an M.S. in Nutrition, and is RYT500 certified. His ongoing studies expand upon and inform all future classes.  Nicolai has authored several Sanskrit book/CD learning tools including 108 Sanskrit Flash Cards, The Language of Yoga, The Language of Ayurveda, and Vedic Astrological Terminology, as well as The Yoga Sutras: An Essential Guide to the Heart of Yoga Philosophy (Sounds True, March 2010).

Registration- Early Registration ends April 2nd
Single Session- Early $39 , Regular $49  Click here  to register online
Full Weekend (All 4 sessions)- Early $129, Regular $169  Click here to register online

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4/10: Letting Go of Stress and Trauma: Psoas Release and Freedom with David Berceli (Tempe Studio)

Sat., April 10 (12:15PM-3:15PM)- Stress & Trauma and it’s Effects- Nervous System

This is an amazingly effective and very popular workshop on the bio-mechanics of stress release with experiential exercises designed to facilitate the surrender of deeply held stress patterns in the body. This workshop always fills up and early registration is recommended. This class is appropriate for all persons.

David Berceli is an international expert in the areas of trauma intervention and conflict resolution. He is also the energetic and creative founder and CEO of Trauma Recovery Assessment & Prevention Services (TRAPS 1998). The goal of TRAPS is to provide specialized trauma recovery assistance to international and local organizations whose employees are living and working in trauma inducing environments. David is an international expert in the areas of trauma intervention and conflict resolution. For the past 23 years he has lived and worked in seven countries providing trauma relief workshops and designing recovery programs for international organizations around the world. Dave has lived and worked extensively in Israel/Palestine, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Yemen, Egypt, China and Lebanon. More recently, David has been addressing the psychological and cultural trauma of the present day financial conditions and it’s effect . This type of psychological disaster is producing severe stress and overwhelming anxiety among millions of people and is affecting the world as much as terrorism or any major natural disaster.

Join David as he teaches how to address trauma utilizing core somatic releasing techniques integrating the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system. The relationship between mind and body will be explored experientially to clear chronic stress patterns in the body, facilitate the release of fear and negative impressions stored in the psoas muscle and create a greater awareness of spirit. We will also explore the effects of stress on a mental, emotional and physical level and how this impacts our perception of spiritual identity.

Topics covered will include:

• Abdominal pelvic connection to the cranial brain.
• Body structures and their different reactions to stress and trauma.
• Seven physical restrictions in the body. (Belts of armoring)
• Specific muscular holding patterns generated during trauma.
• Physical exercises to release the chronic holding patterns in the pelvis.

Registration

$35 Early on or before March 29, $45 Regular thereafter Click here to register online

Please check back often for new workshops and events. Namaste.

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