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the bandhas in asana, with doug keller, $85

kim on 1:40 pm March 3rd, 2008 / Be the first to comment! »

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.

semi-private yoga with stu turkleson, $160

kim on 12:32 pm March 3rd, 2008 / Be the first to comment! »

all levels

june 29 – august 17
sundays, 4-530 p

our newest member of the semi-private teaching team, stu is taking all levels of practitioners into this 10-week series! in this class with stu, you’ll take a different, longer look at the breath and how it affects your postures, and you’ll be taking on a variety of poses, “easy” to “challenging.” get deeper into your practice no matter what your level!

spring cleaning: detoxing with twists! with kristen, $35

kim on 2:43 pm December 24th, 2007 / 4 Comments »

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

kim on 2:30 pm December 24th, 2007 / Be the first to comment! »

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, $25

kim on 2:20 pm December 24th, 2007 / Be the first to comment! »

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

teacher series, pt. 3: intermediate poses/classes, $25

kim on 2:15 pm December 24th, 2007 / Be the first to comment! »

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

teacher series, pt. 2: beginning and advanced beginning poses/classes, $25

kim on 2:12 pm December 24th, 2007 / Be the first to comment! »

teacher series, pt 2: beginning poses and classes
with kim weeks, boundless founder
4-6 p

for teachers and teacher trainees. spend time building community with teachers and trainees both in and outside the boundless community. learn the boundless approach to teaching beginning-level students. as with teaching the basics of discipline, beginning-level teachers often struggle with many aspects of the beginner yoga class: how much or how little information to convey, how to teach the fundamentals of intermediate poses (to keep advanced-beginners challenged) without losing the total newbies, and how to keep students engaged in the process of the yoga, an orientation of the mind rather than a goal to accomplish.

in 2008, boundless will teach four two-hour workshops, required for boundless yoga teachers, that explore the mechanics of teaching a good yoga class. you must either be a yoga teacher, or in training to become one, to take this workshop.

teacher series, pt. 1: beginning poses and classes, $25

kim on 2:03 pm December 24th, 2007 / Be the first to comment! »

teacher series, pt 1: beginning poses and classes
with kim weeks, boundless founder
4-6 p, $25

for teachers and teacher trainees. spend time building community with teachers and trainees both in and outside the boundless community. learn the boundless approach to teaching beginning-level students. as with teaching the basics of discipline, beginning-level teachers often struggle with many aspects of the beginner yoga class: how much or how little information to convey, how to teach the fundamentals of intermediate poses (to keep advanced-beginners challenged) without losing the total newbies, and how to keep students engaged in the process of the yoga, an orientation of the mind rather than a goal to accomplish.

in 2008, boundless will teach four two-hour workshops, required for boundless yoga teachers, that explore the mechanics of teaching a good yoga class. you must either be a yoga teacher, or in training to become one, to take this workshop.

yoga: from the gross to the subtle, with kim, $10

kim on 9:33 am September 21st, 2007 / Be the first to comment! »

yoga is the practice of moving from the gross to the subtle. we first learn asana, and how the breath fills the physical structure that we change, pose to pose, moment to moment. once we arrive at the subtler aspects of the practice, what, then, does the practice become?

learn tonight from kim about a brief history of yoga, its basic philosophic tenets, and how the details of the inner world unfold the quieter we become. kim will discuss the value of asana, contemplation, breath, and meditation as part of the yoga ashtanga system, and she welcomes questions about the myriad ways we deepen a yoga practice, both on the yoga mat and out in the world.

yoga philosophy with annie moyer

susan on 9:25 pm October 26th, 2006 / 1 Comment »

11.11 (saturday) from 1-4 p

join this discussion forum to understand the philisophical basis of the 4,000 year old system of yoga. whether you approach classic yoga scriptures like the bhagavad gita and patanjali’s yoga sutras as a spiritual or intellectual pursuit (or both!), having a foundation for discussion on subjects like letting go of selfish attachments and changes in the seasons will give you more information on the yogic system. join the discussion as a first step of inquiry into the ancient literatures and how they inform us about our modern world and our own lives.