Friday Special Events

8:00am - 8:45am - Morning Meditation with Virna Lisa - Open to all.

Virna Lisa, an initiate of Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, will lead a class that includes limbering asanas, pranayama, and an introduction to mantra meditation in the Himalayan Institute Tradition. Please bring your own props to ensure comfort during sitting practice.

Detox Flow: A Workshop to Purify Body, Mind, and Spirit
Seane Corn - Course ID: AFCORN

Friday, April 9 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Friday All-Day Intensives
Mixed Levels

Each day we are exposed to toxins that affect our energy, health, and vitality. Many of our ailments and diseases such as fatigue, weight gain, high blood pressure, and depression can be attributed to a poor diet, environmental stressors, lack of exercise, and repressed emotions. We'll practice two sequences to encourage toxic release using the three internal components for cleansing: abdominal compression, decompression, and twists. Explore how to improve physical heath, increase vitality, decrease susceptibility to illness and disease, balance emotions, and develop practical tools for managing stress.

Experience with Sun Salutations A and B necessary.

- Course ID: AFFORR

Friday, April 9 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Friday All-Day Intensives
Mixed Levels

What if you were able to track the process of transformation? This means becoming aware of all the things that are happening to you during a transformative moment or time. Learn to create a heightened sense of awareness through breath and asanas. Tracking what is happening in your yoga poses can be applied to tracking and guiding transformation in other parts of your life.

What to bring: Bring a strap, a block, and two mats (or one mat and one blanket to roll up).
The room will be heated.

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The Transformative Power of Tantra
Gary Kraftsow & Rod Stryker & Pandit Rajmani Tigunait - Course ID: AFTANT

Friday, April 9 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Friday All-Day Intensives
Mixed Levels

An experiential workshop designed to explore the vast wisdom of kundalini, Tantra, yoga, and Sri Vidya traditions. We'll cover how to integrate Tantric traditions such as pranayama, mudras, bandhas, visualization, mantras, and herbs into your current yoga practice. We'll also explore how to master the forces of the first two chakras (muladhara and svadhisthana) that govern the forces of hunger, sleep, sex, and self-preservation-and how to reconnect with our own vast inner potential, atma shakti, also known as kundalini shakti.

Lecture and practice.

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Twisting Poses and Sidebends for the Sacrum and Low Back
Tias Little - Course ID: AFLITT

Friday, April 9 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Friday All-Day Intensives
Therapeutic, Continue Your Education, Mixed Levels

Twists and sidebends bring tremendous energy to the body and reduce asymmetry in the sacrum and lower back. We'll emphasize supine, standing, and seated spinal twists that have a wringing effect on the internal organs and promote abundant circulation of blood through all the spinal nerves. The sequence includes gliding, rocking, and stretching movements.

What to bring: Bring a strap, a block, and a blanket.
Discussion and asana.

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Body Yantra
Shiva Rea - Course ID: AFSREA

Friday, April 9 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Friday All-Day Intensives
Mixed Levels

A "yantra" is a sacred pattern, a universal mandala, a divine design for conscious awakening. In this intensive for yoga practitioners and teachers, we'll explore "body yantras" as underlying patterns of sacred alignment within our body, and we'll look at their significance and practical applications for transforming your yoga practice, embodiment, and life flow.

Includes two full practices, meditation, and chanting.

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Anusara Yoga: The Alchemy of Transformation
Desiree Rumbaugh - Course ID: AFRUMB

Friday, April 9 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Friday All-Day Intensives
Mixed Levels

Experience the everyday healing magic and miracles of Anusara Yoga. Learn how working deeply in the basic poses can make challenging postures more accessible. Together we will create supportive space to ignite the core of our practice with the fire of love. Come experience a harmonious blend of backbends, arm balances, hip openers, twists, and inversions offered in a creative and uplifting way.

Mostly asana.

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Opening Yoga to Everyone
Matthew Sanford - Course ID: AFSANF

Friday, April 9 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Friday All-Day Intensives
Continue Your Education, Mixed Levels

We all live on a continuum of ability and disability. There are many potential yoga students who feel they are not physically fit enough to experience the benefits of yoga. This all-day intensive will not be a therapeutic workshop. Instead, participants will explore some universal principles inherent to asana that can be shared with people regardless of their level of ability, including people living with neurological conditions, PTSD, and the elderly.

Asana and discussion.

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Through the Eyes of a Teacher
David Swenson - Course ID: AFSWEN

Friday, April 9 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Friday All-Day Intensives
Continue Your Education, Mixed Levels

There is much to learn about our own practice through assisting and observing others. Learn to view your practice from a teacher's perspective as we explore the oppositional forces at play in each asana. Through partner work and observation, we'll look at methods of creating a balance between these directions of energy flow in order to facilitate alignment from the inside out. Open to all levels of practitioners from the full spectrum of yoga styles; one need not be a teacher to attend.

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Sequencing for Home Practice
Rodney Yee & Colleen Saidman Yee - Course ID: AFYEES

Friday, April 9 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Friday All-Day Intensives
Mixed Levels

So many of our students say they are stumped when they sit on their mats trying to decide what to practice. Learn some wonderful guidelines to help you learn how to sequence safely and creatively at home and how to sequence some of the more challenging poses to encourage the body to open up easily and intelligently.

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