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Teaching Yoga to Pregnant Women
Jane Austin - Course ID: AFAUST

Friday, January 13 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Friday All-Day Intensives
Continue Your Education

Learn how yoga can support women through the transformation of pregnancy and birth. This class includes information on pregnancy's physiological changes, posture modifications, therapeutics, and contraindications. We'll also explore yoga as a preparation for birth, focusing on the physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of becoming a mother.

What to bring: A blanket, a notebook, and pen.
Lecture, discussion, and asana. Yoga teachers, practitioners, and pregnant women welcome.

Being of Power
Baron Baptiste - Course ID: AFBAPT

Friday, January 13 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Friday All-Day Intensives
Mixed Levels

Explore being of power on and off the mat in this uplifting and invigorating workshop consisting of powerful asana practice and lively group discussion. Power on the mat comes from integration, precision, alignment and flow, resulting in freedom, full expression, and new possibilities. These same principles apply to being of power in our lives. Learn how to land your intentions into reality and experience the freedom and effectiveness that emerges from this inspired and embodied practice of Baptiste Yoga.

The room will be heated. Mostly asana with some discussion.

The Art of Living
Elena Brower - Course ID: AFBROW

Friday, January 13 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Friday All-Day Intensives
Mixed Levels

In this delicious intensive, we'll define and refine what it means to live artfully. As our yoga informs every aspect of our lives, including our daily ways of relating, we'll explore practical ways to live and work more artfully with those who are closest to us, thereby cultivating healing for ourselves and our world.

Asana, some discussion, some meditation.

Detox Flow Yoga: How Nutrition, the Environment, and Emotions Determine Your Vitality
Seane Corn - Course ID: AFCORN

Friday, January 13 — 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 the ailments and diseases today--including fatigue, weight gain, high blood pressure, and depression--can be attributed to poor diet, environmental stressors, lack of exercise, and repressed emotions. Come explore how we can improve our physical health, increase our vitality, decrease our susceptibility to illness and disease, balance our emotions, and develop practical tools for managing stress. We'll practice creative yoga sequences using three internal components for cleansing: abdominal compression, decompression, and twists. The practice will include Sun Salutations A and B, detox standing sequences, inverted poses, breathing exercises, and restoratives. As you examine your habits and become proactive about your health, you'll more easily choose what is best for your physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.

Asana practice and discussion. Experience with Sun Salutations A and B is necessary.

Finding Ease at Your Edge
Jason Crandell - Course ID: AFCRAN

Friday, January 13 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Friday All-Day Intensives
Mixed Levels

When you're in the midst of a life challenge, do you tense up? Get aggressive? Turn away in fear? One of the greatest benefits of yoga practice is that it trains you to stay calm in the eye of any storm. In this intelligent, vinyasa-based practice, you'll explore your edge with greater poise, awareness, and attention to detail. In the morning, we'll deepen our experience of backbends, inversions, and arm balances. In the afternoon, we'll practice a deep, soothing combination of forward bends, hip openers, twists, and sidebends.

What to bring: Any props you use in your regular practice.
Mostly asana with some discussion.

Struggle-Free Yoga
Ana Forrest - Course ID: AFFORR

Friday, January 13 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Friday All-Day Intensives
Mixed Levels

Deepen your practice and ride the power of breath. Learn how to relax your core and safely change fear into excitement. Free yourself from breathlessness, struggle, and panic. Deepen your poses by relating in a fresh, intelligent way to your challenging edges. Be prepared to sweat and work in a whole new way.

What to bring: Water, a strap (at least 6 feet long)
The room will be heated. Mostly asana.

Experiential Anatomy: The Vertebral Column and Asana
Judith Hanson Lasater - Course ID: AFLASA

Friday, January 13 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Friday All-Day Intensives
Therapeutic / Continue Your Education / Mixed Levels

Deeply understanding anatomy and movement principles is an invaluable tool for yoga teachers and serious students. It not only helps your teaching but also enriches your own practice. We'll integrate asana practice with learning about anatomy, an essential part of working therapeutically with yourself and others. Recommended reading: Yogabody: Anatomy, Kinesiology, and Asana, by Judith Hanson Lasater, PhD, PT.

Lecture and asana.

Extreme Hatha Raja: An All-in-One Shortcut to Bliss
Dharma Mittra - Course ID: AFMITT

Friday, January 13 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Friday All-Day Intensives
Mixed Levels

Come experience the best of Sri Dharma Mittra's 50 years of yoga practice. He'll be teaching an all-day workshop in which the most efficient Ashtanga Yoga (the eight limbs of classical yoga) techniques will be revealed for swiftly acquiring physical, mental, and spiritual powers. Discover divine knowledge combined with esoteric secrets that will instantly clear the psychic channels (nadis), allowing the mind to experience spiritual bliss and, as a result, develop more enthusiasm for practice. With constant practice comes success in concentration. This is followed by enlightenment of the mind. Afterward there is almost nothing else left to be known. What a relief!
Especially recommended for those seeking answers and success.

Asana, pranayama, concentration techniques, meditation, and spiritual discourse.

The Heart of the Yogini: Embodying the Sacred Feminine
Shiva Rea - Course ID: AFSREA

Friday, January 13 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Friday All-Day Intensives
Mixed Levels

In this daylong immersion, we will discover teachings, meditations, and practices to awaken the heart of the yogini based in Shakta traditions. This enlightening class includes movement meditations dedicated to the divine feminine or Shakti Namaskars, specific mudras, meditation, asanas, mantras, and prayers for awakening shakti.

Asana practice with some discussion and meditation.

Tantra Yoga Alchemy: Ayurveda and the Vital Essences
Rod Stryker - Course ID: AFSTRY

Friday, January 13 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Friday All-Day Intensives
Mixed Levels

Learn the key Tantric teachings on Ayurveda that illumine the practice of yoga as alchemy. Our focus is on the subtle essences/forces of prana (expansion), tejas (luminosity), and ojas (vitality). We'll explore the principles of how to build them as well as how they empower asana, how we can tailor these practices to our individual needs, and how to use them to awaken our highest potential.

Two practices and theory.

Ashtanga Yoga--Inside and Out: A One-Day Immersion into the Practice and Flow
David Swenson - Course ID: AFSWEN

Friday, January 13 — 9:00am - 4:30pm
Friday All-Day Intensives
Mixed Levels

An in-depth immersion and fun-filled exploration of the dynamic system of Ashtanga Yoga, covering as much ground as is possible in one day. In a step-by-step manner, the minute details of the practice will be covered beginning with the Sun Salutations and traveling all of the way through to Savasana. Even if you don't practice Ashtanga, you'll find a multitude of powerful and useful information to be applied within your personal journey of yoga. Come join us for a fun-filled and energetic class that weaves in partner work, information, and laugher.

For beginners as well as those already familiar with the practice. Asana practice with some partner work.

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