*Refining Your Sun Salutes*
Sunday, May 7th 2006
1:00-3:30pm
The entire foundation of Vinyasa Flow Yoga is rooted in the dynamic flow of Surya Namaskara, the greeting of the sun and the divine within each of us. It is here that we set the rhythm and mood for all that follows, connecting breath and movement in the gradual opening and refinement of the bodymind. In this workshop we will go deeply into each element of the Sun Salutations, exploring basic principles of ujjayi pranayama, alignment, movement, bandhas and dristi within and between the poses.
Call 831-454-0478 for more information.
Price: $25 for current series holders, $30 drop-in
*Arm Balances: Integrating Body, Mind & Spirit*
Saturday, June 3rd, 2006
1-3:30pm
Arm balances simultaneously require and help us to develop strength, flexibility, focus and openness. These qualities are heigthened when movement into the pose involves hip rotation or flexion - poses like Bakasana (Crane Pose) or Astavakrasana (Eight Crooks Pose). Practicing these asanas safely and consciously leads to equanimity, confidence and personal freedom well beyond the mat.
In this workshop we will explore how to approach hip-intensive arm balances with patience, intelligence and compassion. We will look closely at the basic elements of each pose and work on cultivating the integrity of these elements as we integrate them into the fuller poses. Along the way we will practice being present to the whole experience of this practice as Vinyasa Yoga, consciously connecting the breath and bodymind moment by conscious moment.
Call 831-454-0478 for more information.
Price: $15 w/ Series, $25 Drop-In.
*Sally Kempton on The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali*
Friday, July 21st, 2006
7-9pm
Join Sally Kempton for a special evening program on /The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali/. The Yoga Sutras provide much of the philosophical basis of yoga. Sally (formerly Swami Durgananda) is known for her ability to transmit transformative meditation and insight to students at all levels of experience. For 20 years as a swami in the Siddha Yoga tradition, she was personally trained by Swami Muktananda and Gurumayi in all aspects of spiritual philosophy and culture. Her teaching is both innovative and rooted in the traditional texts, informed by the insight of 30 years of practice and teaching. The author of the groundbreaking meditation book, /The Heart of Meditation: Pathways to a Deeper Experience/, Sally writes the "Wisdom" column for Yoga Journal and leads workshops around the country.
Call 831-454-0478 for more information.
*Asana: A Workshop with Joal Kramer*
Saturday, August 12th, 2006
2:30-5:30 p.m.
What happens inside your practice? What is the practical of going inside for guidance in doing asana?
These are the questions Joel Kramer illuminated in the yoga community over twenty-five years ago, profoundly influencing many of today's yoga luminaries.
In this workshop, Joel will discuss his mind/body approach to asanas which has evolved over 38 years.
The 2-hour asana session following his talk is for those either with a personal practice at any level, or willing to try things on their own. Instead of leading the group through a set of asanas, Joel will show people individually how to understand and experience from the inside “how a posture works.” He can help deepen any posture by using such techniques as breath, interpreting feedback, playing different edges, creating and channeling internal “lines of energy,” and using the body’s own leverages.
In Joel’s words: “Everyone’s mind and body are unique instruments that can be honed and tuned through yoga to touch into the body’s deep wisdom and reservoirs. For me, the essence of yoga involves getting in touch with one's own feedback systems, breath, edges, and rhythm.”
Joel Kramer is an internationally influential author, innovator, and adept of physical and mental yoga whose teaching, books and articles aim at freeing spirituality and yoga from its authoritarian roots. His unique combination of mental and physical yoga and his widely used principles, such as “playing the edge,” “yoga as self-exploration,” “using internal feedback as one’s teacher,” and “creating lines of energy,” are a foundational basis of modern yoga.
Price: $45 To register for for more information, please email:
mark@markstephensyoga.com
Please Note: This workshop is offered as part of One Yoga Center's Yoga Teacher Training and Advanced Studies Course. A very limited number of spaces are available to additional participants. Joel will return in the Fall for a weekend intensive open to all.
*Joel Kramer and Diana Alstad*
Yoga of Relationships
Saturday, August 12th, 2006
7:00-9:30 p.m.
In many traditions getting to “know thyself” is presented as a totally inward activity that often involves separating from others. Joel and Diana extend the concept of yoga to include relationships because people cannot get to know themselves fully in isolation. We humans are social beings, whereby much conditioning occurs as a person relates to others and to the environment.
Approaching relationships as a yoga practice explores those conditionings that can only be discovered in relationship. Relational conditioning involves the networks and patterns built by habit, continued by mutual needs, and reinforced by worldviews that define roles and rules for how people are to interact. We view yoga in general as an adjunct to opening one’s awareness and consciousness. Becoming more aware of how relational patterns work and how one works within them expands consciousness, and consequently can eliminate many of the binds that occur in relationships.
Diana Alstad is an author, teacher, activist and linguist who began teaching with Joel Kramer in 1974. Through her vision and instigation, they developed the Yoga of Relationship and began including talks on it in their yoga seminars. Diana had long been concerned with transforming power and gender patterns, both intimate and social. She and Joel created new ways of resolving conflicts, tensions, and resentments that hinder keeping passion alive over time. Their seminars have been offered at Omega and Esalen.
A Woodrow Wilson Fellow, Diana received a Ph.D. from Yale in 1971, and was on the Duke faculty in the humanities until 1973. She co-founded New Haven Women’s Liberation in 1968, initiated and taught the first Women's Studies courses at Yale and Duke, and was on the board of the Veteran Feminists of America from 1998-2004. Diana has trained in several psychological and body-based therapies, and is currentlly training in Focusing, Reichian breathwork and Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing (trauma healing).
Price: $35 To register, please call 831-454-0478 or email mark@markstephensyoga.com.
*Yoga at the Equinox*
Cultivating Balance
In Your Body, Mind & Breath
With
Mark Stephens
September 15th – 17th, 2006
With the coming of the Autumnal Equinox, nature’s energy systems – including our own natural energy – begin to shift. Ancient cultures honored this season as a time to prepare for an inner journey, gathering wisdom and integrating one’s strengths. In cultivating a sense of equanimity and overall wellbeing through deeper awareness of changes in your body and mind, these workshops offer guidance in navigating your path through coming season.
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Friday September 14th, 2006
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Pranayama & Meditation: Balancing Breath, Energy & Consciousness
Ancient yogis discovered ways of cultivating the breath to balance energy in the body and bring about a calm, clear mind. In today’s world, where we often feel out of balance, this age-old wisdom can serve us well in navigating the course of our lives across the changing seasons. In this workshop, we will first practice two deeply balancing forms of conscious breathing, Viloma Pranayama and Nadi Sodhana Pranayama. Tapping more deeply into an inner sense of balance, we will then follow the breath with guided meditation to tap into a deeper sense of inner balance that is at once grounding and uplifting. Price: $15 with Active Series, $20 Without Series.
Saturday, September 15th, 2206
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Handstands & Forearm Balance: Cultivating Equanimity and Confidence
In yoga we’re constantly opening ourselves to an energetic balance at the core of our being. We’re learning to cultivate poise, ease and softness amidst even the most physically, mentally and emotionally challenging poses – and amidst life itself. It is here that yoga powerfully transforms us, building quiet confidence that enhances the joy of life moment by infinite moment. In this workshop, we will explore handstands and forearm balance poses as tools for seeing ourselves more clearly and coming into a deeper sense of inner balance and confidence. It is designed for beginning and intermediate level students and teachers. Price: $20 with Active Series, $25 Without Series.
Sunday, September 16th, 2006
1:00-4:00 p.m.
A Balanced Master Practice of Vinyasa Flow Yoga
This intermediate-to-advanced level Master Class will focus on the cultivation of balance in a heart-centered movement meditation approach to vigorous Vinyasa Flow Yoga. Offering an intensive focus on moving from the core for stability and ease in standing poses, arm balances, backbends, the practice will be balanced with deeply integrating pranayama techniques and a sequence of restorative twists, hip openers and forward bends designed to bring you into your bliss. Price: $20 with Active Series, $25 Without Series.
With Active Series, Take All 3 Workshops for $45, Any 2 for $30; Without Series, Any 3 for $55, 2 for $40.
Hands-On Adjustments II:
The Art of Seeing & Touching in Hatha Yoga
Teacher Training Intensive
October 8th, 12:00-6:00pm
Skillful, sensitive, appropriate touch and verbal cues have the potential power to transport your students to a more conscious awareness and self-refinement in their yoga practice. But before we touch and speak we must first see, lVinyasa Yoga Posesisten and understand the unique qualities present in an individual student’s practice.
In this workshop, you will further develop your observation skills; learn and practice effective hands-on adjustments that both address common misalignments and encourage inner guidance in a variety of poses; enhance your skill in linking clear verbal cues with adjustments; and build confidence in the practice of giving and receiving as you learn to better help your students find joy and ease amidst the challenge of their practice.
Open to Students & Teachers. With satisfactory completion of an outside written assignment, this workshop qualifies for 8 hours toward Yoga Alliance RYT 200, RYT 500, or Continuing Education Units. Also applicable to One Yoga Center Yoga Teacher Certification.
Price: $60 by 9/22, $75 thereafter.
The Heart of Meditation
with Sally Kempton
Opening the Heart in Meditation
October 14-15
12:30-5:30 p.m.
Sally's essential two day meditation workshop for teachers and students takes you into the heart energy as a doorway to deep meditation. Based on the wisdom of the tantras as well as experiential insights drawn from Sally's years of practice, this workshop can literally revolutionize your practice. Includes basic instruction in posture, explorations of visualization, kinaesthetic meditation, and the use of sound, as well as an important process for transforming emotions in meditation.
Price: $135 by 9/21, $150 thereafter.
Qualifies for 12 Hours of Teacher Training credit.
Vinyasa YogaMore About Sally:
Sally Kempton, also known as Durgananda, is recognized as a powerful meditation guide, as a down-to-earth spiritual teacher who integrates yogic philosophy with daily life, and as an inner explorer who for more than 20 years has inspired students to make breakthroughs in their own practice.
Sally teaches workshops, trainings and retreats in meditation and spiritual wisdom, and writes a column for Yoga Journal that helps readers apply spiritual principles to real-life challenges. A specialist in working with subtle energies, she is known for creating a joyful and supportive atmosphere in which students feel safe in moving to deeper levels of mind and heart. Sally has also appeared as a guest on Ken Wilber's Integral Naked website.
Her liberating approach to meditation practice is evident in her book, The Heart of Meditation: Pathways to a Deeper Experience, an on-the-mat guide to deepening meditation. The book presents principles and practices for opening gateways to the inner world. It offers detailed guidance through the subtle terrain of meditation, and practical methods for living from the heart while integrating spiritual insight with daily life.
"Sally Kempton is a powerfully insightful and eloquent teacher who fully embodies the spiritual wisdom she teaches," says Anusara Yoga founder John Friend. "Along with her deep knowledge of eastern philosophy, based on 30 years of study and practice, she has the rare capacity to guide students into the very heart of meditation. Just being in Sally's presence can be a life-changing, transformative experience."
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Living Yoga & Ayurveda
with James Bailey
A Weekend Training for Teachers
and Serious Students of Yoga
November 10 7:00-9:00 p.m.
November 11 12:30-5:30 p.m.
November 12 12:30-5:30 p.m.
Based upon nature, yoga and ayurveda are shared systems of balance and well-being that can be universally applied. However, they are more effectively instrumented once the practitioner’s unique constitutional "nature" is more clearly revealed.
This in-depth ayurveda training module is designed for yoga teachers and serious yoga students. We will look specifically at the feedback loop between one’s yoga practice and lifestyle patterns to identify what may be hindering or regressing one’s transformation and evolution both as a teacher and as a practitioner. In this course, yoga teachers will learn to integrate and apply practical tools from Ayurveda that support both the teaching of yoga as well as their own personal living of yoga in a way that is accessible and applicable to one's individual life rhythm.
Qualifies for 15 Hours of Teacher Training credit.
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More About James:
Vinyasa Yoga
James is a third generation physician and health educator who has been living yoga and ayurveda for 20 years with his wife, yoga teacher Shiva Rea. He practices Ayurveda, Oriental Medicine, and Yoga Tantra, aiding patients via clinical Ayurvedic techniques. His training includes 5 years (3000+ hours) of clinical studies in Oriental Medicine (Yo San University) and training in Ayurveda under such luminary teachers as Dr. Vaijayanti Apte, Dr. Subash Ranade, Dr. Avinash Lele, Dr. Vasant Lad, Dr. Robert Svoboda, and many Ayurvedic doctors and therapists in Kerala, south India where he spends time teaching and studying each year. He is a contributing editor and former columnist for Yoga Journal, Light on Ayurveda, LA Yoga magazine and other wellness magazines. He is a Board member of the California Association of Ayurvedic Medicine (CAAM) and founder of Sevanti Ayurveda in Santa Monica.
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Core Integration Teacher's Workshop
with Jill Miller
December 8-10, 2006
Core Integration is a unique Yoga based system specifically addressing issues lodged deep inside the core, not only physical, but emotional and spiritual. This series of extraordinarily deep abdominal exercises strengthens you from inside out and is designed to penetrate weak muscle tissue, awaken sluggish organs, stretch scar tissue and cultivate vibrancy throughout your nervous system.
This workshop will present a vast array of abdominopelvic exercises designed to help your students reconnect to their belly in a thoroughly conscious way. With Core Integration, your students will noticeably sharpen the quality of their inversions, backbends and all-around. It is safe and transformational work for those dealing with specific core injuries and is can be offered in appropriate ways for all leves of students.
Early Bird Price $135 by 11/15, $150 thereafter
Qualifies for 15 Hours of Teacher Training credit.
More About Jill:
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Embodying 20 years of expertise, Jill Miller's yoga classes synthesize a vast repertoire of movement arts including; Modern Dance, Pilates, Breathwork, Shiatsu, and Butoh. Jill choreographs a total experience for each individual's body, mind, and spirit. Her yoga strengthens you from the inside out – removing tension from the body, releasing the entrapments of the mind and reconnecting you to your core in a thoroughly conscious way. Her insatiable curiosity for authentic movement and healing infuses every moment with surprising clarity.
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Haramara Yoga Retreat
with Mark Stephens
5 days ~ 4 nights
December 26-30, 2006
Sayulita, Mexico
Vinyasa Yoga
The week before New Years is the perfect time to pause, reflect and recommit to our personal journey while deepening our yoga practice. Just 30 miles north of Puerto Vallarta, Haramara is one of the most beautiful, tranquil yoga retreat centers in the Western Hemisphere. Surrounded by lush jungle, this area of Mexico’s Central Pacific Coast receives 345 days of sunshine per year. On the same latitude as the Hawaiian Islands, Haramara’s sub-tropical climate is perfect for the natural flow of your yoga practice.
There will be yoga classes twice daily (Vinyasa Flow and Restoratives, plus mini-workshops in between, all optional), evening activities, delicious gourmet vegetarian meals and seafood, massage services and optional excursions for surfing, snorkling, exploring Marietes Islands Wildlife Preserve, horseback riding or exploring the quaint but lively nearby town of Sayulita. With plenty of time to play, hike, meditate, explore, swim or simply relax, this retreat will bring you into the New Year refreshed and reawakened.
TO LEARN MORE OR TO REGISTER PLEASE CALL 831.331.3955 or
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Early Registration $645-$1,325 per person
(Before November 15, depending on your cabana - small group,
double or single accommodations)
Price includes Lodging for 5 days and 4 nights, all meals, all
yoga and yoga-related activities.
All lodging is first come first served and space is limited!
Reserve the cabana of your choice with a $200 deposit
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