Donnerstag, 1. December 2016: 

9:00-12:00 Uhr: Refined Teaching & Hands-On Adjustments: The Foundations

After a brief overview of the principles of refined guidance and hands-on adjustments, we will do a series of practical introductory observational exercises for learning how to most effectively and clearly look at, see, and understand what is happening with different students in natural postural forms. This is the foundational work for developing more refined knowledge and skill in most effectively guiding unique students in their asana practice, with a primary emphasis on how to blend our verbal cues, physical demonstrations, and hands-on adjustments.

13:30 – 17:30 Uhr: Refined Teaching & Hands-On Adjustments: Standing Asanas I

Stepping into the Asana Lab, we will look in close detail at the alignment principles, energetic actions, risk issues, and modifications for standing asanas with externally rotated hips, including standing balancing asanas, with a primary focus on seeing, understanding, and giving effective hands-on adjustments.

Freitag, 2. December 2016:

9:00 – 12:00 Uhr: (Masterclass) Connecting the Hips and Heart

Deeply held tension in the hips are a primary source of limitation in all asanas and in life. This two-hour Masterclass offers a dynamic hip safari in which we gradually move and warm to awaken energy and create spaciousness from the pelvis to the heart, little by little opening to more gloriously open and self-expressive heart-openers. Includes a 15-minute guided heart-centering meditation.

1:30 – 17:30 Uhr:  Refined Teaching & Hands-On Adjustments: Standing Asanas II

Returning to the Asana Lab, we will look in close detail at the alignment principles, energetic actions, risk issues, and modifications for standing asanas with neautrallly and internally rotated hips, including standing balancing asanas, with a primary focus on seeing, understanding, and giving effective hands-on adjustments.

Samstag, 3. December 2016:

8:00 –   10:00 Uhr: (Masterclass) Waking Up on Top of the Day with Early Morning Flight

Learn and practice an integrated sequence of meditation, pranayama, and movement kriyas designed to get your day started with the most fully awakened and balanced energy, mental clarity, and spiritual centering. Exploring from this awakened state, we’ll further warm our inner engines with breath and movements designed to prepare the arms, shoulder girdle, spine and hips for greater stability and ease. Then we’ll begin to fly, playfully exploring levitation in a variety of arm balances such as Bakasana, Galavasana, Eka Pada Koundinyasana, Astavakrasana, Utthita Prasithasana. In exploring various flight paths, this Masterclass will offer an introduction to the art of flight to the novice yoga aviator and more advanced aeronautics to the more experienced self-pilots. Come playfully fly!

14:00 -  18:00 Uhr:   Refined Teaching & Hands-On Adjustments: Backbends

We return to the Asana Lab to consider a variety of Backbends that involve different muscular and energetic actions, starting with contraction backbends in which the spinal erector and hip extensor muscles are the prime movers (such as Salabhasana) before exploring eccentric contraction backbends (such as Ustrasana, Kapotasana, and drop-backs into Urdvha Dhanurasana) and leveraged backends (such as Setu Bandha Sarvanghasana, Urdvha Dhanurasana, and Viparita Dandasana. With each will cover several different hands-on adjustment techniques.

Sonntag, 4. December 2016:

8:30 – 10:30 Uhr: Refined Teaching & Hands-On Adjustments: Forward Bends & Hips Openers

Moving to the floor for seated and supine asanas, we will consider asanas that invite even more patience in releasing deeply held tension in the back body and hips, exploring a variety of forward bends and hip openers.

13:30 – 17:30 Uhr: Refined Teaching & Hands-On Adjustments: Twists & Inversions

Our final session of this intensive explores the delight of twists and the re-orienting perspective of inversion. We will refine how we guide students to twist in ways an unravel tension along the spine and to go upside down in safe and sustainable ways, giving close attention to the functional anatomy and biomechanics of the cervical spine when upside down.

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