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Rod Stryker, the
founder of ParaYoga, is
widely considered one of
the country's leading yoga
and meditation teachers.
He has taught for nearly 30
years and leads retreats,
workshops, and trainings
worldwide. Rod is one of
the few American teachers
today transmitting an
ancient tradition, one that
has been handed from
teacher to student for
literally thousands of years.
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Instructor: Rod Stryker
Tuesday, September 22
9:00am - 12:00pm: Healing Through Yoga: Session 3a
Code: T3ASTR
The three vital essences ( prana, tejas, and ojas) provide principles that allow us to approach yoga as alchemy. These subtle forces are a basis for transforming body and mind. We'll review these key yogic teachings of Ayurveda and the yoga practices that increase and balance each of the vital essences. Practice and lecture.
Instructor: Rod Stryker
Tuesday, September 22
2:30pm - 5:30pm: Healing Through Yoga: Session 3b
Code: T3BSTR
Meditation has the potential to be the most powerful of all yogic healing arts. We'll explore three key practices: kriya, Tantric visualization, and the core healing mantra of the Vedas, while highlighting the specific effects of each. Through lecture and practice, we'll explore how these key meditative practices affect healing and transformation.
Instructor: Rod Stryker
Wednesday, September 23
9:00am - 12:00pm: Healing Through Yoga: Session 5
Code: T5STRY
The breath is our most tangible link to prana. Pranayama, when combined with bhavana (cultivation of thought) provides access to the hidden healing power that integrates mind, body, and psyche. When activated, the intelligent use of prana dissolves mental and physical limitation and restriction. Lecture and practice.
Instructor: Rod Stryker
Thursday, September 24
9:00am - 4:30pm: Thursday All-Day Intensive
Code: ALSTRY
continue your education
By integrating the wisdom of yoga, physiology, Ayurveda, and Tantra, sequencing is the science that informs us how to fulfill the potentials of practice and reach our highest capabilities as teachers. Explore the ancient principles of sequencing to achieve desired energetic effects and transform body, mind, and beyond. Lecture and two asana practices.
Instructor: Rod Stryker
Friday, September 25
11:00am - 1:00pm: Main Conference: Session 2b
Code: M2STRY
continue your education
Bandha is the gateway to mastering the energetics of yoga. Perfection of bandha heals and balances, steadies the mind, builds creative power, and ultimately leads us to experience the culmination of practice: resting in the soul. Explore the what and why of bandha and experience its effects on heightening practice. Lecture and practice.
Instructor: Rod Stryker
Friday, September 25
3:30pm - 5:30pm: Main Conference: Session 3
Code: M3STRY
mixed levels
Through theory and practice, we'll explore the science of Tantra as the most comprehensive and complete approach to yoga. We'll highlight the journey of this ancient tradition's approach to asana and beyond, while exploring Tantra's vision of where and how the worlds of mind, body, and spirit meet. Discussion, asana, pranayama, bandha, and meditation.
Instructor: Rod Stryker
Saturday, September 26
8:00am - 10:00am: Main Conference: Session 4
Code: M4STRY
mixed levels
Fire practice, from the view of the ancient tradition, has little to do with external heat or sweat. Instead, it means activating the dormant forces in the spine. This inner fire, or shakti, is the force behind all spiritual experience. Learn the principles and techniques that ancient wisdom prescribes to accessing the sacred fire. Lecture and asana.
Instructor: Rod Stryker
Saturday, September 26
3:30pm - 5:30pm: Main Conference: Session 6
Code: M6STRY
mixed levels, contemplative
The whole range and sacred power of yoga practice is laid out in this 14th-century text. Detailing the sacred journey of yoga through body, breath, mind, and spirit, its teachings shed light on every meaningful step in yoga. We'll highlight its key teachings and the path of yoga described by the ancients. Lecture.
Instructor: Rod Stryker
Sunday, September 27
7:00am - 8:30 AM: Beginners Conference
beginner
Meditation is the heart of yoga. Through practice, theory, and discussion, we'll explore the richness and diversity of yoga's meditation tradition. Learn how all meditation techniques are not alike, which ones may be the most relevant for you, and why. Discussion and meditation practice.
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