Practicing and Teaching Freedom Style Yoga

Freedom Style Yoga is the art of channeling your own Yoga. Practicing in this way connects us more closely to living in this way. Daring to teach in this way will spread the message of following our magnificent internal guidance. Our time together will be a combination of discussion, meditation, and practice. Bring whatever props you usually like to have for sitting and asana. Read More About Erich.

Awakened Heart - Sacred Living in Powerful Times

Come together as ONE for this special pre-crib immersion. A full day of deep heart centered yoga, kirtan, meditation, ceremony and the overflowing wisdom of the heart ... Ancient Yogi's, mystics and seers experienced the Heart as the true center of our being. The Awakening of the Heart is at the very center of the Yogic path; modern science and medicine are understanding this profound truth more every year. The heart is the infinite quantum, space within where all polarities dissolve and we experience our connection to source as Oneness.

The power of the heart is ultimate, the electro magnetic field of the heart is about 5000 times more powerful than the brain and at all levels the heart regulates our life force. We live in a powerful time of transformation, which is accelerating rapidly each moment as we move towards a great shift in consciousness. A shift from a mind based world that has lost its balance to a more heart centered way of being that is connected to all of life.

The shift is NOW and we are the ones that we have been waiting for. Join Saul and special guests for this powerful day of deep heart centered Atma Yoga, sacred music, chanting, meditation, ceremony and inspiring teachings from the heart of Yoga, Tantra, Bhakti and sacred wisdom traditions. Saul will share many teaching and practices to work for teachers, students and all those interested in cultivating a deeper heart centered Yoga experience.

Saul's teaching is profoundly deep and healing and allows people to connect with their own inner wisdom and spirit. He has influenced many teachers over the years and shared these teachings with thousands of beings around the world. Atma in Sanskrit means the inner Self, Soul or Spirit. It is the essence of who we truly are and the source of our energy, light and power. Yoga means union, it is the natural state and condition of our being: body, mind and Spirit are One. Atma Yoga recognizes each of us as sacred channels of living, breathing Cosmic Energy. This style of yoga draws on the teachings of Bhakti, Tantra, Yoga, Ayurveda and all forms of universal Love, Light and Wisdom to reveal the inner Self. It is an evolutionary approach to practice that honors each being's unique Self, creativity and Spirit. It is a practice not based on performance, competition, or achieving, but on accepting, experiencing and connecting with the Universal Spirit, which flows through all things. During these class sessions students will experience a creative, healing and intuitive approach to the body and mind that weaves together asana, breathwork, energywork, chanting, meditation, kriyas and a variety of techniques to experience the overflowing energy at the center of our being.

All levels are welcome and students are invited to honor their own personal evolution and go at their own pace. You are invited to co-participate in a group energy that creates the space for us all to go deeper into healing and transformation. blessings...

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Necking: Making out with the Cervical Spine

Laura Tyree, E-RYT500, 700CYT, is on the tail end of healing a reversed cervical curve in her own neck. She has been on an incredible journey of healing, learning, crying and coming back again and she wants to share her knowledge with you. It’s a big journey of healing when the neck is weakened by injury or illness. This immersion’s focus defines the factors that both stabilize, and destabilize, the neck and shoulders in our postures and everyday life.

Modalities include chakra therapy, alignment principles, and neurological re-patterning through breath and movement. These interweave to create a deep restructuring of the system and refining of present moment awareness. Practicing students must be comfortable in beginning level asana. Observing students are welcome to attend as a lecture participant. This day will include practice, simple pranayama, meditation, and discussion.

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Yoga Tune Up® Therapy Ball Workshop: Strategies for Self-Care

This workshop empowers students of any level of health to adopt a simple and effective self-care regimen. The Yoga Tune Up® Therapy Balls can be used as an adjunct to Yoga, Pilates, recovery from injury or day-to day maintenance. Put the power of self-massage into your own hands!

• Learn step-by step proven whole body series, approved by Physical Therapists, orthopedists, chiropractors and massage therapists to affect profound change in the rotator cuff, upper back, neck, jaw, hips, lower back, IT Band, calves and feet.

• You will learn to identify bony landmarks, muscular attachments, fascia geography, and specialized ball rolling techniques that penetrate into common high-tension areas.

• Students at every level of fitness or disability are ushered into the awareness of your own anatomy tissue-by-tissue.

• Forge new relationships with all parts of yourself, and live better in your body, PAIN FREE!

• For instructors, the YTU Therapy Ball Sequences expand your teaching tool-kit and are a great way to introduce embodied anatomy concepts to your student base and to have fun while educating others.

• Tuition includes: pair of YTU Therapy Balls with mesh tote
• Open to practitioners of any level, or to anyone who LOVES a great massage!
• No yoga or massage experience necessary
• For more info on the YTU Therapy Ball, go here, and click on the "Learn More" button.
• Read more about Jill Miller

A day of Inquiry, Pranayama, Asana and the Meditation that is Your Life

Spend your day immersed in the richness of yoga. A morning meditation based on vicharya moves you into the breath awareness of pranayama that becomes your meditation in motion with vinyasa. Expore the keys, tools and nuances to free and awaken your practice. Inquiry into every aspect of living is a yoga that keeps your yoga alive.

Ganga White and Tracey Rich are innovating pioneers in the practice of yoga in the West and are loved by many for their candid humor, sincerity and their teaching outside the box. Directors of the White Lotus Foundation retreat in Santa Barbara, CA they share eight decades of combined practice and wisdom, stories and mythology of the yogic life. Read more about Ganga and Tracey.

Integral Anatomy

Gil Hedley's immersion will encompass an intensive tour of the whole body from an integral perspective. Through slide presentations from the dissection laboratory, our environment and culture at large, as well as lively interactions, we will explore the whole-body textural layers which comprise the human form. We will heighten our awareness and appreciation of ourselves from the inside out, and invite a deeper sense of relationship to the riches within us.

Participants can expect to:

• See and explore deeply within the human body
• Have their understanding of anatomy and themselves both elevated and transformed
• Have their touch skills bumped up to a whole new level based on this revolutionary approach to the human form
• Avenues for ongoing research and exploration will be opened

The uncommon perspectives we will explore make the course appropriate for all who have a desire to understand their body and to experience themselves more fully, with special consideration for the issues central to the practice of body-centered professionals, including:

• Massage therapists and structural bodyworkers
• Practitioners of pilates, yoga and fitness professionals of all varieties
• Physical and occupational therapists
• Physicians

Insights will also be afforded those having academic interests relating to human anatomy and gross morphology.

Some of the images which will be shared are intense. If you are prepared to look deeply within the human body, you've come to the right place!