Sarah Powers
January 26-27
Moving Into Meditation
Yin/Yang Yoga And
Mindfulness Meditation
Yin & Meditative Flow Teacher Training
Open to All Students & Teachers
Saturday, January 26, 1pm-4:30pm
Movement Meditation Master Class
Open to In-Depth Studies Students and Teachers
Sunday, January 27, 9am-12pm
Prices:
Jan. 26 - $35 by 1/15, $45 thereafter
Jan. 25 - $25 by 1/15, $35 thereafter
Both dates: $55 by 1/15, $75 thereafter
Practicing with Sarah Powers
This two day workshop will focus on long
held, passive Yin postures that prepare the
body for sitting meditation. The Yin style
also keeps the body supple at its core while
encouraging stagnate chi (prana) to flow
throughout the joints, making it a wonderful
precursor to meditation. During the Yin
session, Sarah will share how the YIn
practice can develop our meditative
awareness, helping us understand and practice
Buddhist Mindfulness more skillfuly. A seated
meditation session will follow the yoga
practice.
This workshop is suitable for anyone
interested in taking their practice to an
increased level of awareness and stillness,
both inside and out.
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. Sarah feels that
enlivening the physical and pranic bodies, as
well as learning to open to our emotional
difficulties is paramount for preparing one
to deepen and nourish insights into one's
essential nature--a natural state of
awareness. She draws from her studies in
Transpersonal Psychology, as well as her
in-depth training in the Vipassana, Tantric
and Dzogchen practices of Buddhism. Sarah is
author of the upcoming book Insight Yoga. She
is also co-founder of Metta Journeys, a
service oriented organization that offers
yoga retreats internationally while also
helping to empower women and children in
developing countries. She teaches trainings
and silent retreats with her husband Ty. They
live with their home schooled teen-age
daughter Imani-Jade in Marin, California.
ONE YOGA CENTER
846 Front Street
Downtown, Santa Cruz
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March 2008 Workshops
Free Intro to Yoga
Basics of Vinyasa Flow Yoga
Friday, March 7
6:o0-8:30pm
This class will get you started with Vinyasa Flow Yoga, a balanced and complete mind-body-spirit practice that develops strength, flexibility, focused awareness and overall wellbeing. You will learn a variety of poses, breathing techniques and hatha yoga principles, enabling you to get the most out of ongoing classes. Come prepared to move and breathe, sweat and laugh!
This is the ideal way to get your partner, friends and family into the practice!
Healthy Back, Open Heart
Saturday, March 15, 1:30-4:30pm
Our ability to move with confidence, ease and grace depends upon the strength, integrity and mobility of the spine. With a healthy spine and back, we also can begin to fully open our subtle or spiritual heart center.
This workshop will explore a variety of techniques, including core integration movements, hip and shoulder openers and spinal twists, to help you move safely and joyfully into a deeper backbending, heart opening practice. Open to all levels of students.
$25 by 3/1, $35 thereafter
ONE YOGA CENTER
846 Front Street
Downtown, Santa Cruz
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Pranayama Intensive
Sunday, March 16, 2008
1:00-6:00 pm
ONE YOGA CENTER
846 Front Street
Downtown, Santa Cruz
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Balanced Core
March 30, 2008
Om Oasis, Monterey
April 2008 Workshops
Hands-On Adjustments Intensive
April 5-6
12:30 - 5:30pm both days
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 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 10-12 hours toward Yoga Alliance RYT 200, RYT 500, or Continuing Education Units. Applicable to Yoga Teacher Certification.
Price: $75
ONE YOGA CENTER
846 Front Street
Downtown, Santa Cruz
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Hip Liberation
April 26
1:30-4:30pm
If you climb, run, surf, cycle, play volleyball, board, ski or just like to play frisbee at the beach, strong yet flexible hips are a key part of balancing power and freedom of movement. Yet playing sports (or even sitting around in chairs) creates tightness throughout the hip joint (in the flexors, extensors and rotators) that can limit your freedom and lead to sidelining injuries.
In this yoga clinic, we will look closely at how the hip joint optimally functions in work, play and sport alike. We will identify sources of weakness, instability, imbalance and tightness, then explore a variety of yoga pose sequences designed to help you develop the optimal balance of strength and flexibility for your lifestyle.
Price: $25
ONE YOGA CENTER
846 Front Street
Downtown, Santa Cruz
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