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Instructor: Gillian Kapteyn Comstock with Green Yoga Assoc. Teachers
Monday, January 19
9:00am-4:30pm: All-Day Intensive
Code: AMGREE
All Levels
Supercharge your intentions for local and global activism on Martin
Luther King Day, one day before the inauguration of President Obama.
The astounding surge of hope around the world generated by this huge political shift is an opportunity for yogis around the world to commit to grassroots leadership in planetary healing. On this auspicious day transform your yoga practice with a full immersion in
Green Yoga. And with a lexicon of innovative green yoga practices,
complete the day by celebrating the power of our yoga community with a participatory eco-yoga-art event, "Quantum Communty". Yes, we can!
A portion of the proceeds from this intensive will be donated to the Green Yoga Association to support contemplatively based, ecological activism in communities around the planet.
Green Yoga Association Teachers include:
Gillian Kapteyn Comstock, MA, Co-Director of Metta Earth Institute ~ Center for Contemplative Ecology, is a holistic psychotherapist, human ecologist, and yoga guide certified in Kripalu, Jivamukti, and Advanced Interdisciplinary Yoga. She has led yoga retreats, quests, and trainings in wilderness sanctuaries around the world. As a mother of three grown sons, Gillian has practiced yoga and meditation for over 35 years weaving together family, community, and ecological sustainability with the contemplative path. As a founding member of the Green Yoga Association, she is an active catalyst for leadership innovation.
Chris Chapple serves as Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, where he oversees a series of Yoga Studies Certificate Programs. He trained in classical Yoga for more than twelve years at Yoga Anand Ashram in Amityville and has helped pioneer the emerging field of religion and ecology. He has published several books, including Nonviolence to Animals, Earth, and Self in Asian Traditions; Hinduism and Ecology; and Yoga and the Luminous: Patanjali's Spiritual Path to Freedom. As a founding member of the Green Yoga Association and continuing Council member, Chris is coordinating the 2009 Yoga & Ecology Certificate Program and the 3rd Green Yoga Conference, "Yoga, Animals, & Ecology".
Russell Comstock, Co-Director of Metta Earth Institute, holds an MA in Contemplative and Ecological Leadership, a BA in Human Ecology, and is certified in Interdisciplinary and Jivamukti Yoga. Russell has extensive experience teaching yoga and directing programs in wilderness, adventure, and experiential education. He is a founding member of the Green Yoga Association and continues on the Green Yoga Council. He has recently completed a handbook called: Metta Earth Yoga - Contemplative Ecological Practices for a Sustainable Future.
Paige Wyatt lives and breathes in Santa Cruz, CA. She's dreaming of big things and taking small steps towards those dreams. She spends a lot of time upside down or wondering when the next time is that she'll be upside down. Teaching Vinyasa Flow Yoga, Slackline Yoga, and AcroYoga keep her laughing and constantly creating, connecting, and playing. A butterfly whisperer, she likes to hang out in meadows and talk to the tall green grass. She has been involved with the Green Yoga Association since attending the first conference in 2005 and falling in love with the concept, where she could fuse her passion for the environment with her love of yoga. She is now active in the Green Yoga Council.
David Lurey is a San Francisco based Global Yogi who has served on the Founding Advisory Board of the Green Yoga Association since 2004. He was one of the main creators and coordinators of ‘The Green Studios Program' designed to bring eco-friendly business practices to yoga studios. David weaves an ecological awareness into asana classes and sees the link between Yoga and ecology as an important step towards shifting consciousness. With his current position on the Green Yoga Council and as a traveling teacher, he works to build and foster intersecting communities united with the vision of health and healing to ourselves and the planet.
Hasita Nadai is a professional-level Kripalu Yoga teacher, Reiki Master and Energy Medicine Healer. She is a deep ecologist, biologist, and geologist. Hasita has been roaming the natural world as a mountaineer, canoer, skier and geologist. She is journing the inner world through yoga and meditation. She created Yogagaia, the Yoga of Earth and Kosmic Consciousness. As a Green Yoga Council member and founding visionary for the Green Yoga Association, Hasita provides a strong voice for yoga as a path of reconnection to earth and all beings.
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