asana

september 20 - november 22
saturdays 12 - 115p

Join Jennifer for a thorough exploration of yoga asana through the teachings of living yoga master B.K.S. Iyengar.

In this structured 10-week course, you will get:

Through this course you will learn to:

The course provides the structure and consistency needed to deeply learn and apply the system of yoga asana in a comprehensive way.

recommended for people with 6 months to 1 year, or more of regular yoga practice. if unsure, please contact jennifer at jenkarius(at)gmail.com

We are extremely lucky to have Jennifer with us. She has been studying yoga within the Iyengar tradition for 19 years and has studied personally with Master Iyengar and his son and daughter. She has taught extensively in the netherlands and in San Francisco, including several years at the Iyengar Institute in Amsterdam. Read more about Jennifer.

sunday september 21
12-6 p

boundless yoga is one of the sponsoring studios for this beautiful event that brings yogis of every tradition together for a day of inner and outer transformation.

This year the DC-GMP will be held at THEARC, a spacious, state-of-the-art cultural center in Southeast Washington, DC. The day will include:

“How to Salute the Sun” workshop for newcomers to yoga
AcroYoga, dance, and capoeira demonstrations
Food marketplace sponsored by DC’s Java Green
A full-fledged Healing Arts marketplace
Performers and presenters from DC and beyond to offer live music and entertainment throughout the day
Dharma talk by renowned Jivamukti teacher Alanna Kaivalya
Collective practice of 108 Sun Salutations
Live kirtan by Wynne Paris and As Kindred Spirits

For more info visit http://www.dcglobalmala.com/

$40 donation ($45 at the door)
$20 donation, students with ID

To pay online, click here.

A 3 day Intensive
Friday night 6-8 p
Saturday and Sunday 9-4:30 p

Integrating the body, heart and mind
through Yoga, Mindfulness Meditation,
Interpersonal Communication,
and Emotional Work

Skillful yoga and Mindfulness meditation practices orient our center of gravity in the center of our being, aligning our attention with our inner life, helping us relate to others and the world around us with more care and aliveness.

This workshop is intended to strengthen our capacity for clear and sustained body/mind integration within ourselves regardless of what is arising, as a means to deepen our integral connection with others.

Friday night is for those who are new to the Yin style as Sarah will focus on how to do this practice in a meditative, safe and appropriate way.

In the mornings, we will practice a 2 and 1/2 hour yin and yang (alignment based flow) asana practice, followed by a half hour meditation, conducted mainly in silence (Sarah will practice with us), to allow ourselves to fully inhabit our personal experience in our body and mind. (Please come with a basic understanding of these practices already and know that each person will be able to practice in a way that is appropriate for them).
After lunch, our afternoon will begin with exploring the foundations of mindfulness meditation through instruction and practice, followed by interpersonal dialogue, interspersed with moments of reconnecting back into meditation. These practices will often trigger insights into emotional patterns, and we will work with these issues using visualization toward the end of each day.

You can think of this weekend as a nonresidential retreat, allowing you to realign with an invigorated, compassionate and wise attitude toward yourself so that you can authentically carry your connectedness and insights off the mat into a meaningful and intimate attitude toward daily living.

Schedule Saturday and Sunday:
9-12 Asana and Meditation
12-1 Lunch (please bring some food with you so you can
stay close by and in silence. Note: it is
fine to bring one of the recommended books
with you to read during the lunch break).
1-1:30 Savasana
1:30-4:30 Meditation/Interpersonal Communication/
emotional work using visualization

Highly Recommended materials:
Insight Yoga book by Sarah Powers
Insight Yoga Dvd by Sarah Powers (www.pranamaya.com)
Yin Yoga book by Paul Grilley
Yin Yoga Dvd by Paul Grilley (www.pranamaya.com)
Journal for taking notes and writing down your experiences

Also Recommended:
Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante Gunaratana
Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach
Feeding Your Demons by Tsultrim Allione

Sarah’s Bio:
Sarah has been teaching Yoga since in 1987. She leads workshops, trainings and silent retreats internationally that interweave the insights and practices of Yoga and Buddhism into an integral practice to enliven the body, heart and mind. Her yoga style blends both a meditative Yin sequence of long held poses to enhance the meridian and organ systems, combined with a flow or Yang practice, influenced by Viniyoga, Ashtanga, and Iyengar yoga. She draws from her studies in Transpersonal Psychology, as well as her in-depth training in the Vipassana, Tantric and Dzogchen practices of Buddhism. In 2007 she co-founded Metta Journeys, a service oriented organization that offers yoga retreats internationally to help women and children in developing countries. She is author of Insight Yoga: An Innovative synthesis of Yoga, Meditation and Eastern Approaches to healing and well being. She lives with her husband Ty in Marin, California. To learn more about her see her Dvds Insight Yoga or Yin and Vinyasa and go to www.sarahpowers.com.

$50 for Friday night only
$275 for the whole weekend
$225 for both Saturday and Sunday
$130 for Saturday or Sunday

TYKE Itsy Bitsy Yoga

Appropriate for tykes from 21 months to 4 years old to attend with one parent or caregiver.

When: Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008
Time: 10-10:45 am

To Register: Send an email to andrea(at)itsybitsyyoga.com with city/date, your name and child’s age in months

saturday - wednesday
August 9 - 13
9 -5 p

and

saturday - sunday
september 6 -7
9 - 5 p

Itsy Bitsy Yoga® introduces your baby, tot or tyke and you to the many benefits of yoga in the first years of life. Helen Garabedian, an Infant Developmental Movement Educator and Registered Yoga Teacher, created this program which includes more than 125 yoga poses and techniques for babies from birth to 4 years old that are developmentally enriched and deepen the parent/child bond.

You may register for the following workshops separately or combine them all for a full five days of comprehensive hands-on training.

Baby & Tot IBY Facilitator Trainings
Yoga for Newborns - 24 month olds w/ adult

Tot & Tyke IBY Facilitator Training
Yoga for 10 month - 4 year olds w/ adult

Baby IBY Facilitator Trainings
Yoga for Newborns - 9 month olds or almost crawling w/ adult

click here for costs and application form

saturday august 16
130 - 4 p

From First Principles to incorporating Chi Kung into Your Self Practise, Chi Kung can be used to enhance the practice of yoga by providing a physical framework with which to explore the bodies subtle energetic systems. By developing a self practice that incorporates aspects of both Yoga and Chi Kung, practitioners can actively take responsibility for finding health and balance in their own lives on a daily basis. Regardless of whether the requirement is for greater physical, mental, emotional or spiritual harmony.

In addition to extensive practice, this workshop will look at the requirements and components of a self practice, helping to augment the work of those with an established self practice or provide tools with which to start one.

The approach will be light hearted, involving a combination of Yoga, movement, Chi Kung and relaxation, tapping into levels of awareness and perception, beyond the ordinary and into the realms of the magical.

There will be extensive time for questions.

James has been practising yoga, meditation, shamanic practices and martial arts for more than 10 years. Since graduating from the Natural Bodies Yoga Teacher Training course in Brighton, England, James has teaching in the United States.

$35 online pre-register/$40 day of

saturday july 26
130 - 4 p

Learn to unleash the three C’s! Whether you’re a long-hold hatha person, a faster-flow vinyasa yogi, or somewhere in between. You’ll learn to unlock pivotal asanas to your practice. This asana based workshop will work with the ever-present “core” as well as what the core isn’t. Then moving on to how using the core applies to Crow pose and Chaturanga. Then we’ll move from proper alignment to investigating how your core, crow pose, and chaturanga all contribute to a “body knowledge” of other poses as well.

$30 online pre-register/$35 day of

saturday july 12
130 - 4p

all levels

energy worker and boundless founder kim weeks teaches specific techniques you can do at home for cooling the body.

$35 online pre-register/$40 day of

friday june 20
8 - 930p

celebrate the solstice with us! energy worker and boundless founder kim weeks leads a practice designed to help us connect to the divine feminine power within.

all levels and genders welcome!

saturday june 7
130 - 4 p

Using meditation, imagery, and physical asana
taken from ancient texts on the Machine of the body
and the Kalachakra Tantra, Mira will lead us through a
practice that harnesses the power of the inner winds
and helps us relate to our body on a level beneath the
gross physical plane.

Series 4 is a beautiful, vigorous flowing asana sequence that
includes meditating on the five vayus: prana vayu,
udana vayu, samana vayu, apana vayu, and viyana vayu.
The five vayus run through the inner body, underlying
not only our health and well-being but also our
experience of the outer world. Be prepared to
transform your physical practice by re-imaging your
perception of the body and to explore your
understanding of the inner body’s relationship to the
outer world.

friday june 6, 7 - 930p (kirtan concert and philosophy), $20
saturday june 7, 10 - 12p, $30
sunday june 8, 10-12p, $30

Tibetan Heart Yoga is a practice where one works from
the inside and the outside. One works from the inside
with meditation and from the outside with pranayama,
asana, and ethical practices.

The Tibetan Heart Yoga lineage traces its roots back through Tibet to ancient India. It is a compassion and wisdom based practice that weaves philosophy, meditation, and breath work with the physical postures. If you are looking to set your practice on fire with authentic teachings taken directly from the ancient texts and masters, please join us for the first ever Tibetan Heart Yoga workshop in Washington, DC! All levels encouraged.

Mira Shani is a founding member, North American Regional Executive Director and Senior Staff teacher of the Yoga Studies Institute. She’s been studying and teaching yoga, philosophy and Buddhist Dharma for over 10 years. She is a close student of Geshe Michael Roach and Lama Christie McNally, who she came in contact with while studying at Kopan Monastery in Nepal. She also studies closely with Anusara Founder, John Friend and travels around the country and world to teach. Mira lives in Arizona where she studies with her heart Teachers and teaches at Yoga Oasis. Mira also hosts a local radio show called the Chill Side on 92.9, The Mountain.

Pay online for the full workshop or to register for one or two of the sessions, please call or stop by the studio (202-234-9642)

august 25 - november 3
mondays 630 - 745 p

enjoy the benefits of private sessions without the cost! this series is a small class (max.10 participants) in which kim works with each practitioner to identify energetic and physical challenges in the poses. the community aspect of the class is a big plus, and your practice will deepen through personal attention. call or stop by the studio to enroll, as the class will fill quickly.

for advanced beginners to intermediate students

sunday may 4
130 - 4 p

are we in control of our own happiness? why do depression and anxiety arise? What does yoga, a tradition thousands of years old, have to say about these conditions that affect a growing proportion of the u.s. population each year?

This practical hands-on workshop will arm you with the following tools for your quest in understanding and combatting depression and anxiety in the short and long term:

– physical postures for working on the level of the physical body
– breathing techniques for working on the level of the breath
– meditations for working on the level of the mind/heart
– yogic philosophy to put these tools into context

$30 pre-register online/ $35 same day in-person

september 14 - october 19
Sundays 530-630 p

think “downward dog” is a command for your labrador? can’t tell your asana from your elbow? this six-week session teaches the basic poses, breath patterns, and orientations encountered in a standard yoga class. it’s an essential building block for those interested in starting or re-learning the fundamentals of yoga.

april 6-may 11
Sundays, 530-630

think “downward dog” is a command for your labrador? can’t tell your asana from your elbow? this six-week session teaches the basic poses, breath patterns, and orientations encountered in a standard yoga class. it’s an essential building block for those interested in starting or re-learning the fundamentals of yoga.

saturday, april 5, 2-6 pm

Join area master yogi Doug Keller for a strong asana class directed toward developing more awareness of the bandhas in your body as you move from pose to pose. The focus of the workshop is to develop the use of the bandhas as keys to strength and alignment as you move from pose to pose.

Doug will first describe the actions and effects of each of the bandhas physically and energetically. The bandhas are simple yet powerful muscular actions in the area of the pelvic floor (mula), lower abdominals (uddiyana), head, neck and shoulders (jalandhara) — which align these key areas, providing optimal strength, support, protection to the joints, as well as freedom in both the supple physical movement of vinyasa and the subtleties of the breath. In the case of pranayama and meditation, the bandhas support greater and more extended periods of stillness and concentration. Some simple exercises will be introduced to support your practice of the bandhas as part of this introduction.

Then he’ll lead a vinyasa-based asana class that will incorporate the bandhas into the weave of breath and movement. The basic exercises for the bandhas will be incorporated into the flow. The original texts of hatha yoga cite the bandhas as being crucial to having a fruitful asana practice.

This workshop will help you examine the powerfully supportive qualities of these bandhas in your own body. The extended length of the workshop will allow time to end with a period of guided (seated) pranayama techniques and meditation which incorporate the actions of the bandhas. advanced beginners to intermediate students.

spring cleaning: detoxing with twists! with kristen krash
130-4 p

while practicing yoga can be viewed as exercise and something to get you “in shape,” yoga differs from other exercise in its ability to strengthen, tone, and cleanse internal organs. join kristen as she highlights the use of twisting postures to detoxify organs that get clogged during winter. tone the liver, kidneys, and spleen, and stretch and enliven the spine. this intensive workshop is appropriate for advanced beginner to intermediate students. pre-requisites: strong head- and shoulder-stand, familiarity with variations, firm understanding of standing poses.

wring out the old, ring in the new!
12-2 pm
a new year’s day workshop, with liana brooks-rubin
$25

set your intentions — and your asana practice — out on the right foot for 2008! a boundless tradition (one that comes to us from one of our favorite studios, sun and moon studio in virginia), this workshop will help you **wring** out the toxins accumulated from 2007 (and maybe just from the night before!), and ring in the new year, yoga style!

teacher series, pt. 4: intermediate and advanced poses/classes
with kim weeks, boundless yoga founder
4-6 p

teacher series, pt. 3: intermediate and advanced poses/classes
with kim weeks, boundless yoga founder
5-7 p