Instructors: Rodney Yee, Colleen Saidman,
Richard Freeman, Richard Rosen, and special guest teachers
Friday, January 16
8:00am-5:00pm: All-Day Collaborative Intensives
Code: AIUZEN
The UZ Foundation is dedicated to creating a new category of health care practitioner, the Urban Zen Integrative Therapist (www.urbanzen.org ). Urban Zen Integrative Therapists will integrate invaluable yoga techniques and teach complementary health care practices that aid in caring for patients in multiple clinical and health care settings. During this day-long intensive, we will explore specific techniques in asana, pranayama, and meditation that address common symptoms of pain, anxiety, nausea, insomnia, confusion, constipation (PANIC), and fatigue. The day will also include special presentations by aromatherapy experts on how aromatherapy can help to reduce symptoms and enhance patients’ healing. While these techniques are ideal for patients in the medical setting, they are also completely appropriate in the yoga classroom and in everyday life. Presenters include Rodney Yee, Colleen Saidman, Richard Freeman, Richard Rosen, Aromatherapy experts from Young Living Oils, and Urban Zen faculty Jamie Naughright and Ed Dailey. The day will include meditation, pranayama, asana, lecture, discussion, clinical practice, and take home techniques.
Instructor: Richard Freeman
Friday, January 16
9:00am-12:00pm: Half-Day Intensive
Code: HIFREE
All Levels
Prana governs the inhalations, and apana governs exhalations. Linking prana and apana together is the heart of the Ashtanga vinyasa system, creating the core postures, bandhas, drishtis, and breathing rhythms. These core techniques are so simple and yet so subtle that most practitioners overlook them. By exploring them, we'll find new freedom and ease in our practice.
Instructor: Nicki Doane Richard Freeman Eddie Modestini and David Swenson
Saturday, January 17
8:00am-10:00am: Session 1
Code: M1MYSO
Ashtanga
A Mysore-style class is the ideal format for the committed Ashtanga practitioner. It allows students of all degrees of experience to practice together in a supportive environment at their own level of ability. All four instructors will be present in the room and will offer corrections, adjustments, and individualized instruction based on the specific needs of each student. Mostly asana.
Instructor: Richard Freeman
Saturday, January 17
10:30am-12:30pm: Session 2
Code: M2FREE
All Levels, Ashtanga
Learn to use drishti, bandha, and the continuous refinement of technique to awaken the core of the body. We'll play with the paradoxes of breathing to draw though the central axis of the body a kind of metaphorical milk; this allows us to turn our postures into mudras of feeling and expression. Mostly asana.
Instructor: Nicki Doane Richard Freeman Eddie Modestini and David Swenson
Saturday, January 17
8:00am-10:00am: Session 4
Code: M4MYSO
Ashtanga
A Mysore-style class is the ideal format for the committed Ashtanga practitioner. It allows students of all degrees of experience to practice together in a supportive environment at their own level of ability. All four instructors will be present in the room and will offer corrections, adjustments, and individualized instruction based on the specific needs of each student. Mostly asana.
Instructor: Richard Freeman
Sunday, January 18
10:30am-12:30pm: Session 5
Code: M5FREE
Intermediate, Ashtanga
Learn a gradual and intelligent way to develop the core strength needed for arm balances. We'll then apply the resulting strength and sensation patterns to the internal practices of mudras and bandha. Mostly asana.
Instructor: Richard Freeman
Sunday, January 18
3:30pm-5:30pm: Session 6
Code: M6FREE
All Levels, Ashtanga
How does the Mula Bandha really work in relation to alignment, breath, thought, and meditation? What exactly is it? We'll explore the subtleties of yoga practice to release the deeper threads of our feelings and thought processes into the present. Mostly asana.
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