Standing and balancing postures linked with Vinyasa cultivate a stable foundation to get grounded and tap into our inner wellspring of joy. The unpredictability of Surya Namaskara C keeps the experience fun, and helps us connect to a feeling of lightness in our heart's center.

Restorative postures teach us the art of letting go of long held tensions and the embodiment of tranquility. Unlocking the pelvis liberates the stem of the spine, the flower of the brain and ultimately the nectar of clear consciousness.

A somatic investigation of the Patanjali Yoga Sutra’s teachings on living life from the inside out in order to find sufficient inner freedom to enjoy and experience life to its fullest. This sequence will explore shoulder openers such as inversions and arm balances to integrate the least stable joint of the body and access the seat of wisdom in our heart’s center.

Core work practiced with intelligence creates strength through length. Within each of us, is a second brain located at the navel center, in which we produce over 90% of our serotonin. An integration of Patanjali’s metaphysical teachings along with functional anatomy in exploring how to move from one’s deep center.

This class is more of a detailed technique workshop, than just a full physical practice. You'll get to practice postures as well as spend extra time learning and examining the details of them.

The benefits of Yoga are well appreciated in modern times. If we were to ask someone what Yoga is, we each would have an answer that is unique and equally true. In the first 3 Yoga Sutra, Patanjali provides the scientific definition of Yoga elucidating the why, what and wherefore of its necessity. Comprehension of the full science and art of Yoga deepens it benefits, empowering the practitioner to proceed with confidence and confidence.

In order to develop an objective perspective of our subjective experience, the five types of thought processes are described. With a sharp and clear understanding of what spins in our minds, we can get off the roller coaster of the "monkey mind", and begin to unravel ourselves from unconscious conditioning.

Of the 196 Yoga Sutras, only 3 address yogic posture. According to the dictionary, posture is an attitude. In this Yoga Sutra talk and FREE class Patanjali elucidates the technology of conscious practice and how to develop skill in developing inner strength and tranquility.

The Patanjali Yoga Sutra: The 5 Klesha, or Self-defeating Attitudes

According to Sage Patanjali, our greatest challenge is our addiction to problems and that we constantly miss the point. Once we understand the nature of the five root afflictions we can learn to appreciate them as opportunities for growth.

We are born aquatic and have to work our whole lives to find our legs, and to work with gravity to embody the experience of ascension. Standing postures actively develop strength and suppleness of the legs, as well as stability in consciousness. Abhyasa, or practice, literally means to “check the downward pull”. An integration of Patanjali Yoga Sutra, functional anatomy and asana offer pragmatic development of Yoga as the art and science of self-actualization through embodiment.

Classically, the Yoga practitioner in the East is well equipped with the definitive guide to the Yogic process, the Yoga Sutra. In the West, Yoga is most often approached as a recreation, and we are left to negotiate and navigate our way with little or no advice. The Yoga Sutra are considered to be the definitive text for Yoga and a map of the Yogic experience. Revealing the deeper underlying nature of our being, the indescribable is well described, and indispensable in helping us to proceed with confidence, clarity, and efficacy.

Patanjali advises us to go forth on the yogic path with the two wings of freedom, abhyasa and vairagya, effort and release. We will explore how to create traction and release in a clear and systematic approach that is compression-free.

Sarvangasana and Sirsasana are known as the royal postures in that they offer the most profound physical and physiological benefits to the master glands of the endocrine system. A detailed and methodical investigation of how to approach these postures to access the nectar of Amrita, to reverse the aging process and awaken higher brain centers of intution.