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This retreat is now full. If you would like to be on the wait list, please follow this link>>
Urban Retreat: Cultivating Balance and Integration April 15, 2023 (SAT), 1:00 - 4:30PM At a private home in the Oakmore Neighborhood of Oakland, CA Take time out and join me for an afternoon of yoga in a beautiful and relaxing setting surrounded by the redwoods. The theme of the afternoon is a topic I am deeply interested and invested in: cultivating balance and integration in our yoga practice and ultimately in life. I am so grateful to this generous student for providing me and others a place and opportunity to go outside of the studio (or your living room!) and explore this topic in depth, together in community. The afternoon is designed to include different facets of yoga practice (asana, pranayama, philosophy) and will be interactive and interpersonal. The registration is limited to 10 students who have been practicing yoga in the tradition of B.K.S. Iyengar for a minimum of 1 year. Practicing with an intimate group of like-minded practitioners is aways inspiring and nourishing. Speaking of nourishing, there will be tea and refreshments offered at the break! Schedule (approximately) 1 - 3pm Asana Practice 3 - 3:45pm Tea Break & Discussion on Yoga Philosophy and Practice 3:45 - 4:30 pm Restorative & Pranayama Fee: $75 Wait List>> *Sliding Scale Available - please contact me. |
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Make it a weekend-long immersion
Combine the urban retreat with two online classes: Self-Care on 4/14/23 (FRI, 5-6:15pm) & All Level on 4/16/23 (SUN, 9-10:30am or 5-6:30pm). The theme will be explored in all of these classes.
Fee: $95
Wait List>>
*Sliding Scale Available - please contact me.
Please Note the following:
Combine the urban retreat with two online classes: Self-Care on 4/14/23 (FRI, 5-6:15pm) & All Level on 4/16/23 (SUN, 9-10:30am or 5-6:30pm). The theme will be explored in all of these classes.
Fee: $95
Wait List>>
*Sliding Scale Available - please contact me.
Please Note the following:
- You will need to bring -
- 1 Sticky Mat
- 3-5 blankets
- 1 block
- 1 strap
- Space limited to 10.
- Payment methods will be sent with the registration confirmation email (it will not be instant. Thank you for your patience!)
- The location address will be sent to those registered and paid.
- Carpooling is strongly recommended.
- Cancellation Policy: Full refund before 4/12/23; 50% refund thereafter.
"While practising the āsana, the [practitioner] must carefully and minutely observe and adjust the position of the muscles, muscle fibres and cells, measuring lightness or heaviness, pakṣa or pratipakṣa, as required for the performance of a healthy and well balanced āsana. … The internal measuring and balancing process which we call pakṣa pratipakṣa is in some respects the key to why yoga practice actually works, why it has mechanical power to revolutionize our whole being. It is why āsana is not gymnastics, why prāṇāyāma is not deep breathing, why dhyāna is not self-induced trance.” --B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on the Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali, commentary on II.33
तदर्थ एव दृश्यस्यात्मा॥२१॥