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All Day Intensives | Eight Limbs of Yoga



Friday Morning Special Event

{8:00am-8:45am}
Morning Meditation with Kripalu teacher Susan Maier-Moul.
Open to all.


Detox Flow Intensive
Instructor: Seane Corn
Friday, May 15
9:00am-4:30pm: Friday All-Day Intensive
Code: AICORN
All Levels


Cleanse the vital organs through a special vinyasa sequence that stimulates the purification process within the body through Sun Salutations A and B, a detox standing-pose sequence, breathing exercises, and meditation. Explore how making conscious and responsible choices can help purify the body-mind, supporting optimal health. Discussion and asana.



Shoulders, Hips, and Breath
Instructor: Jason Crandell
Friday, May 15
9:00am-4:30pm: Friday All-Day Intensive
Code: AICRAN
All Levels


Refining the movements of your hips and shoulders will help cultivate greater strength, flexibility, and depth in your practice. By combining intelligent sequencing, instructive detail, and a wide-ranging asana practice, you can help shift the pieces of your body's puzzle toward greater balance and health. Mostly asana.



Opening Your Heart
Instructor: Ana Forrest
Friday, May 15
9:00am-4:30pm: Friday All-Day Intensive
Code: AIFORR
All Levels


Opening your core gives your heart support and counsel of your other primary chakras. Heart-opening asanas help your heart and spirit become more resilient, flexible, and adept at surfing emotional waves. Learn to remove obstructive shielding from your heart so it can truly and honestly feel each new experience afresh. The room will be heated. Pranayama and asana.



The Hot, Hip, and Holy
Instructor: Sharon Gannon and David Life
Friday, May 15
9:00am-4:30pm: Friday All-Day Intensive
Code: AISGDL
All Levels


This is classic Jivamukti: original, sequential, inspirational, and a little wild. We'll focus on an asana practice that will enable you to become an activist on and off the mat. Expect the full Jivamukti package of tradition, music, meditation, bhakti, and challenging asana—with a taste of outrageousness. Spiritual activist/rapper, MC Yogi, will be rapping live as well as teaching alongside David and Sharon during the all-day Jivamukti Intensive Hot, Hip, and Holy. Bring a blanket. Discussion and asana.



Diving for the Blue Pearl: Experience Transformation
Instructor: Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa
Friday, May 15
9:00am-4:30pm: Friday All-Day Intensive
Code: AIKHAL
All Levels


Kundalini Yoga unveils our world from the other worlds. It is our time to be joyful, give thanks, and honor our ancient path. Join us as we open to our subtle essence through asana, meditation, kriya, chanting, dancing, and absorbing the healing sounds of the sacred gong. Active yoga, meditation, chanting, and Savasana.



Moving from the Organs
Instructor: Judith Hanson Lasater
Friday, May 15
9:00am-4:30pm: Friday All-Day Intensive
Code: AILASA
All Levels, Therapeutic


We often focus on practicing our poses from the spine, arms, and legs. But the ancient teachings of yoga also deal with opening and quieting the body's organs, such as the heart, kidneys, and liver. This class includes active and restorative practices. Bring a bolster, three blankets, and a block.



Yoga Body, Buddha Mind
Instructor: Cyndi Lee and David Nichtern
Friday, May 15
9:00am-4:30pm: Friday All-Day Intensive
Code: AICLDN
All Levels


Integrate yoga practice with Buddhist mindfulness and compassion training. Develop strength, clarity, and stability of mind and body, and an openhearted and sympathetic attitude toward yourself and others. Includes vinyasa, sitting and walking meditation, talks, and discussion.



A Divine Journey
Instructor: Dharma Mittra
Friday, May 15
9:00am-4:30pm: Friday All-Day Intensive
Code: AIMITT
All Levels


This daylong intensive will cover all aspects of the spiritual practice of yoga. Students will learn pranayama, meditation, and asana techniques to energize and stimulate the flow of prana. We'll also practice Yoga Nidra and discuss the essential techniques you need for ultimate success in your practice. Mostly lecture with some asana, pranayama, and meditation.



The Architecture of Yoga Postures
Instructor: Sarah Powers
Friday, May 15
9:00am-4:30pm: Friday All-Day Intensive
Code: AIPOWE
Continue Your Education


Discover how to use hands-on adjustments to bring a greater awareness to the stable parts of poses. We'll focus on the combination of inner (breath and energy channels) and outer (cohesion within the bones and muscles) alignment, along with the use of touch, to assist yoga practitioners in finding an integral aliveness within yoga postures. Morning session: standing poses; afternoon session: backbends. Bring a notebook and pen.



Sukha Shakti: The Yoga of Radical Happiness in a Changing World
Instructor: Shiva Rea
Friday, May 15
9:00am-4:30pm: Friday All-Day Intensive
Code: AISREA
All Levels


Dive into the wisdom teachings of yoga. We'll delve into the truth that our inherent happiness is not based on material circumstance, but rather on claiming our inherent radiant light of love and consciousness that transforms all experience. Celebration includes enlivening Prana Flow vinyasa practice, joyous meditation, yogic text, community interaction, and courageous gratitude.



Through the Eyes of a Teacher: Learning About Ourselves Through Assisting Others
Instructor: David Swenson
Friday, May 15
9:00am-4:30pm: Friday All-Day Intensive
Code: AISWEN
All Levels, Continue Your Education


Through partner work, we'll develop an eye for alignment and energy flow in the asanas through observation and hands-on adjusting techniques. We'll start with Downward Dog and move through a sampling of asanas from the standing, seated, and closing sequences. Mostly asana with partner work.



Backbending to Pranayama
Instructor: Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman
Friday, May 15
9:00am-4:30pm: Friday All-Day Intensive
Code: AIRYCS
All Levels


How do you sequence into backbending—without overstimulating the body? As we open without aggression or fear, we set a foundation for receiving prana in a sweet and beneficial way. Join us for a day of opening to absorption and integration. Mostly asana.




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