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A One-Day Workshop with Chrissy Graham Saturday, August 7 For even experienced yogis,
mastering even the simplest of handstands sometimes offers surprising
challenges.
In this specialized one-day Workshop, Chrissy Graham, a long-time Avalon teacher, new Avalon Teacher's Training faculty member, and prominent Certified Anusara Yoga Instructor, takes a novel approach to this problem by breaking the handstand into its component parts, demystifying the methods needed to strengthen each part of the body involved in mastering this beautiful asana in its many different variations. Price: $50 in advance or $60 the day of the event, in case there are any last-minute cancellations. To preregister for Demystifying
the Handstand,
drop by Avalon or call
or email us with payment information:
Tel: 650.324.2517 or email: info@avalonyoga.com |
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The Knowledge of the Body: Yoga Kaya A Workshop on Yoga and Anatomy with Katrin Kuttner & Dr. Shawn Bek Saturday, July 31 & Sunday, August 1 Katrin Kuttner is a favorite Avalon yoga instructor who
has studied yoga extensively in Germany, China, and the United States. Dr. Shawn Bek,
a prominent member of the Avalon community, is one of the Bay Area's
best-known chiropractors, with offices just up the street from our
Studio. Shawn is also a certified
yoga instructor.)
On Saturday and Sunday, July 31 - August 1, Katrin and Shawn will team up to give a novel two-day Workshop to help students explore their bodies and expand their flexibility, uniting Shawn’s deep anatomical knowledge with Katrin’s yoga expertise. Day one will take a hands-on look at human anatomy and the principles of alignment, analyzing what happens to you physiologically when you assume familiar yoga poses. Day two aims to help students build on their new knowledge of the body (Kaya) to heal and strengthen themselves. Price: $90 for both sessions in Advance or $100 the day of the first day of the event. (Precedence in enrollment will be given to those who register for both days.) Single
sessions are $50 in advance or $60 the day of the event, if any
openings remain. To preregister for The
Knowledge of the Body: Yoga Kaya, drop by Avalon or
call
or email us with payment information:
Tel: 650.324.2517 or email: info@avalonyoga.com |
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Anirudh
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The
Eighty-Four Asanas: Traditional Yoga Training in India A Two-Day Workshop with Anirudh
Shastri (assisted by Louis Jackson, Peter Kasson, and Annika Williams)
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A Major (Free!) Saturday Night Event Slides and Talk with Mark Singleton, Author of Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice (Oxford University Press, 2010) Saturday, 12
June 2010
8:00
pm
This lecture and slide show by one of the world's leading yoga historians is free and a must for anyone in the Bay Area who teaches (or practices) yoga seriously. In the few months since its publication, Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice, has radically overturned popular assumptions about the history of yoga. In the book, based on his doctoral research at Cambridge University, Mark Singleton traces the complex interactions between ancient Indian meditative practices, 19th century British gymnastics, and Indian wrestling traditions that gave rise in the 20th century to what is known today as modern Yoga. If you've heard
that Yoga asanas (postures)
are thousands of years old, you're likely to be startled by the
evidence in Mark's book (and talk).
Despite its revolutionary claims,
the
high quality of Singleton's research has brought his book rave
reviews not only from academic historians, but from mainstream yoga
sources (including Yoga Journal)
and a long list of
influential figures in the yoga world as well, including John Friend,
Founder of Anusara Yoga. Mark's lecture is complemented by
a special two-day
Workshop taught by Anirudh Shastri
we have planned for the following weekend (19-20 June) on his
traditional
yoga training as a teenager in India. The Workshop is described in the
next section. Price: We feel
that Mark Singleton's lecture is so important to the yoga community
that we're
making it free to everyone. Bring
along:
Nothing needed but your curiosity and questions. We expect an active
give-and-take discussion. A few
snippets from reviews of Mark's book are given below: "Mark
Singleton's Yoga Body: The Origins
of Modern Posture
Practice
is an outstanding scholarly work which brings so much insight and
clarity to the historic and cultural background of modern hatha yoga. I
highly recommend this book... for all sincere students of yoga."
John
Friend, Founder
of Anusara Yoga
"Singleton's radical, meticulously documented, sensitive analysis makes perfectly clear that what has come to be regarded as a veritable icon of Indic Civilization – postural yoga – is, in fact, unambiguously the hybrid product of colonial and post-colonial globalization. Professor
Joseph S. Alter, University of Pittsburgh. Author of Yoga in Modern India: The Body Between
Science and Philosophy
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