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 NARELLE CARTER-QUINLAN THE KEYSTONE—ENGAGING SACROILIAC & LUMBAR STABILITY IN ASANA The Embodied Figure 8 and Core Balance Saturday May 19 2-5pm $55 Sunday May 20 2:30-5:30pm $55 $100 for both sessions | NARELLE CARTER-QUINLAN In this workshop you will learn: ABOUT NARELLE CARTER-QUINLAN | |
 DEBORAH WOLK FINESSING THE PROPS Learn the ins and outs of using props for different poses and therapeutic applications. For all levels but no new beginners. Sunday June 3rd 9:30-12:30 $70 & 2-4 $50 FULL DAY $100 | DEBORAH WOLK FINESSING THE PROPS Learn the ins and outs of using props for different poses and therapeutic applications. For all levels but no new beginners. Sunday June 3rd 9:30-12:30 $70 & 2-4 $50 FULL DAY $100 There are hundreds (some say hundreds of thousands) of yoga poses. In the beginning, we learn a few and then slowly add new ones on. As one becomes more proficient in the poses, one learns faster and faster the actions in the poses, their names and their relationships. There is a similar learning curve with the props. At first the blocks just bring the floor closer to your hand in utthita trikonasana, or a belt helps you reach your foot in supta padangustasana, but over time the props are no longer just arm extensions...they begin to teach. They teach us where we are working, where we are not, and where to move the body in better alignment. The props also give us feedback to the muscles, the skin and the bones, depending on which prop we use, or how we use the prop so we can gain more sensory awareness. Learning these prop adjustments takes time and practice. In this workshop, Deborah will guide you in learning the principles involved in using the props to find specific actions and sensations in the asanas. This could be as simple as whether you should use a wood or a foam block in a specific pose or a more complex multi-prop adjustment for a specific type of injury or condition. The fine points of props often used at Yoga Union Center for Backcare & Scoliosis will be covered: blocks, belts, chairs, sandbags, blankets & blanket-folding, bolsters and wall ropes. We may also approach some of the more unusual props such as the quarter rounds, play bricks, setu bandha bench, viparita karani boxes if we have time. We will also work with some examples of props in use for specific therapeutic issues from those in attendance. Deborah Wolk is Co-Director of Yoga Union Center for Backcare & Scoliosis | |
 DEBORAH WOLK PRACTICING STANDING POSES ON THE TRESSLER Saturday June 23 9-11:30am $150 (4 students maximum) Learn the best ways to use the tressler to get the most out of your standing poses. Class size limited to 4 students to optimize learning and practice. Pre-registration is Essential | DEBORAH WOLK PRACTICING STANDING POSES ON THE TRESSLER Saturday June 23 9-11:30am $150 The tressler is considered the premiere piece of therapeutic equipment by Iyengar teachers and the Iyengars themselves. In India, Geeta Iyengar exhorts to students work on the tressler during practice and class if they have therapeutic problems and it is used extensively for musculoskeletal injuries, scoliosis, joint issues and back and joint pain in medical classes. Yet here in NYC the tressler often sits unused in class except occasionally to lean on. Like the wall ropes, the tressler can offer support, traction, proprioceptive information and engagement of the limbs like no other prop can. And its use can be combined with wall ropes, the wall and every other prop in the studio! With knowledge of its use, you can take care of yourself in class when you have an injury or work with students who do. This session will focus on the standing poses. The tressler gives more feedback to the hip sockets and the position of the legs than any other props. For those of us with uneven leg use (that’s everybody!) the tressler will show us where we are compensating in the pose. For spinal asymmetry, kyphosis and lordosis the tressler can show you the shape of the back, where you need to move, where you don’t and how to open the chest. And of course the tressler will give you balance and support where there is difficulty. In addition, learning to set up the tressler properly and use that set up will be a major component of the session. Because of the nature of the tressler, there will also be plenty of time to observe and assist your classmates as well as work on the tressler by yourself with highly individualized adjustments and modifications. Open to students of all levels and teachers who wish to learn how to work with the principles of a tressler, the "Cadillac of props". Please, no new beginners.Class size limited to 4 students to optimize learning and practice. | |
 KEVIN GARDINER Structure, Space & Spaciousness Saturday & Sunday July 7 & 8 SCHEDULE Saturday July 7, 9am-12pm: standing poses/inversions. $75 Saturday July 7, 2-4pm: forward bends /inversions. $60 Sunday July 8, 9:30am-12:30pm: backbends/inversions. $75 Cost: $195 for the weekend Register early to save your spot for this workshop!! 37 W 28th Street 4th Floor New York, NY 10001 info@yogaunionbackcare.com | YOGA UNION CENTER FOR BACKCARE & SCOLIOSIS IS PLEASED TO WELCOME BACK KEVIN GARDINER Structure, Space and Spaciousness Saturday & Sunday July 7 & 8 SCHEDULE Saturday July 7, 9am-12pm: standing poses/inversions. $75Saturday July 7, 2-4pm: forward bends /inversions. $60Sunday July 8, 9:30am-12:30pm: backbends/inversions. $75 Cost: $195 for the weekend  We urge you to sign up for the whole weekend but each session may be taken independently.
This is an Intermediate and Advanced level workshop
In this workshop, with his usual brilliance and eloquence, Senior Iyengar Yoga teacher Kevin Gardiner, will explore how one can move from the fundamentals of structure in asana to exploring the question of identity and the nature of consciousness. Nisargadatta Maharaj has written that everything in consciousness is in space, even mind. And when you are in space, refined subtle space, this begins disidentification with the body, which brings you to the source, prior to consciousness--source being presence, beingness, I am. This asana practice will reveal how the centered and spacious body and mind foster inner illumination. Kevin compares the movement from structure to space, to building and living in a house: first one builds the structure (supporting beams, roof and so on), then one must inhabit the space and maintain the house, and finally become aware of the essential, fundamental space inside and outside the house. Similarly, one must develop awareness of the space within the body one has aligned and, from there, reach into mental, emotional and finally spiritual spaciousness, or the witnessing state. The state of 'no seeker, only seer’, comes by itself.  Kevin Gardiner, a native New Yorker, began studying yoga in 1970 and has been teaching Iyengar Yoga since 1982. He has had the great good fortune to have studied three times in India with the Iyengar family for extended periods each time. He was a co-founder of the Iyengar Institute of Greater New York He has held a Junior Intermediate III Teaching Certificate since 1988. Until December 2006 Kevin had his own yoga studio in Manhattan. He then married Erika Répássy, also a certified Iyengar teacher, and relocated to Erika’s home town of Budapest where they have a new home and are now teaching at their own studio Amrita Jóga.
“When you are the space you are no more the body, But whatever is contained in the space you are. You are now manifest.” Nisargadatta maharaj, from Prior to Consciousness "Where is the infinite? When are you touching the infinite? We practice in order to dissolve the finite, the physical body, the mental body, the intellectual body, the conscious body, and allow the finite to merge into the Infinite Soul.... The aim and the meaning is this merging. The Infinite guides the finite body to maintain that infinity in its finite field. That is the effect of the Asana." --BKS IYENGAR | |
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Yoga & Scoliosis Workshop $200 for the weekend ALL LEVELS. BEGINNERS WELCOME. 1 PARENT CAN ACCOMPANY THEIR TEEN FREE OF CHARGE. |
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