 SATURDAY MARCH 13 9am-12pm & 2-5pm SUNDAY MARCH 14 9:30am-12:30pm & 2-5pm pre-registration essential: 212 532 1512e: yogaunion@nyc.rr.com Yoga Union Backcare 32 W 28th Street, 4th FlNew York, NY 10001  | ALISON WEST WORKING WITH WALL-ROPES LEVEL I Open to all levels. For certification, 200-hour TT required Saturday, March 13 9am-12pm & 2-5pm Sunday, March 14 9:30am-12:30pm & 2-5pm $275 for the Weekend $75 for Saturday AM or Saturday PM This WEEKEND PROGRAM is open to students and teachers alike. More and more centers with rope-walls, one of the greatest Yoga props developed by BKS Iyengar, are opening all over the country. This workshop provides you with the tools to develop a meaningful Yoga practice incorporating these techniques and prepares you to teach the basic forms on the ropes. If you've been taking classes and are still confused about how to set up for Rope Sirsasana (Headstand), or want to expand your understanding of how to work with the ropes in general, this will be a great opportunity to learn. You'll also learn how to do some of these things at home even without a rope-wall. You'll certainly get the hang of things! Working with wall ropes is one of the surest ways to enjoy effortless inversion, release the back, increase range of motion and develop strength. But working safely and knowledgeably requires training and practice The four sessions will develop the fundamental concepts of release, range of motion and strength, beginning with Adho Mukha Svanasana (Down Dog) and its variations, rope standing poses and backbends, and encompassing variations of Rope Sirsasana (Headstand). The possibilities are extensive. Yoga Karunta, as working with the ropes is called, was developed by BKS Iyengar, with influence from the ropes used in English-inspired gyms in India. Karunta means "puppet," suggesting that we're like puppets on a string, except that, as Geeta Iyengar writes, "Here the puppeteer and the puppet are one, performing their own puppet show."* And part of that puppet show is hard work, part deliciously passive. Participants: Please tell us in advance if you have any injuries, so that we may determine if this workshop is appropriate. Working with the ropes can help with injuries, but this workshop may not be the right time. It is possible to take only the Saturdays morning, or Saturday morning and afternoon. (Sunday cannot be taken independently.) In other words, you can build up to the whole weekend. Certification is dependent on completing the whole weekend. Pre-registration
is essential: 212-532-1512 or yogaunion@nyc.rr.com This workshop will provide you with 12 hours of Continuing Education Credits Alison West is Co-Director of the Yoga Union Center for Backcare and Scoliosis |
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WolkA Mini-Workshop Series Saturdays January 23, February 20, March 20, April 10 9am–12pm Maximum 4 students per session $150 per session, All 4 for $500 Registration essential: 212 532 1512e: yogaunion@nyc.rr.com Yoga Union Backcare 32 W 28th Street, 4th FlNew York, NY 10001 | Deborah Wolk USING THE TRESSLER A Mini-Workshop Series Saturdays January 23, February 20, March 20, April 10 9am-12pm Maximum 4 students per session $150 per session The tressler is considered the premiere piece of therapeutic equipment by Iyengar teachers and the Iyengars themselves. 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 as a teacher work with students who do. In this series you will explore many of the classic asana that are part of regular practice and experience how they a can be practiced with more precision and intelligence using the tressler. Each session will explore a different category of pose. 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. PART III March 20 Chest openers, spinal extension and backbends. Backbending and chest opening present special issues to the student with asymmetry or back problems. The tressler offers more support and feeback to the spine than other props in backbending. It can also replace smaller props for a tall or larger student. In this workshop we will safely explore chest openers such as Virabhadrasana I (Warrior I) and move onto variations of Uhrdva Mukha Svanasana (Upward Facing Dog), and the tressler specific-poses that prepare the spine, symmetry and connection to the legs needed to practice uhrdva danurasana and the intermediate level backbends. DEBORAH WOLK is Co-Director of Yoga Union Center. The tressler is her favorite prop. |
 KARIN STEPHAN YOGA, ASYMMETRY & THE INJURED BODY Saturday, March 27th, 9am - Noon & 2pm - 5pm Sunday, March 28th, 10am - 1pm Cost: $60 per session, $110 for Saturday only, $150 for the weekend Registration essential: 212 532 1512e: yogaunion@nyc.rr.com Yoga Union Backcare 32 W 28th Street, 4th FlNew York, NY 10001 | KARIN STEPHAN YOGA, ASYMMETRY & THE INJURED BODY Saturday, March 27th, 9am - Noon & 2pm - 5pm Sunday, March 28th, 10am - 1pm Cost: $60 per session, $110 for Saturday only, $150 for the weekend In this workshop we will focus on how to observe, map and understand our injuries in relationship to our own asymmetries. We will try and analyze these relationships and show the cause and effect which can occur between The Asymmetric Body and a particular kind of injury or a particular area of injury in the body. This workshop will also be about problem solving using props, metaphor, intelligent awareness of the relationship between parts as well as the formalistic aspects of the pose and how form equals function. We will also discuss the seven stages of healing as well as the ten principles to keep in mind while working with our injuries. In addition, we will look at the feet as our foundation for stability and how to use even and equal distribution of energy throughout the body to bring about balance and equilibrium for healing. If time permits, we will focus on how to individuate a practice for oneself in the context of the rest of our lives, keeping in mind that "You are not your injury!" Karin Stephan is an Intermediate Junior III Iyengar Yoga teacher with a career that has spanned more than 30 years. She credits her understanding and appreciation of the human body to the teachings of BKS Iyengar who she first met in 1969. As a student of Mr. Iyengar’s since 1972, Karin incorporates his insights and acute sense of observation into her Yoga practice and teaching on a daily basis. Karin is known for her keen, intuitive sense of the body which, filtered through her compassionate nature, has built an original and coherent philosophy and practice of Yoga therapeutics. Karin teaches in Cambridge Mass at her studio THE LOFT where she teaches group classes and gives private Yoga therapy sessions. |