In this class we investigate simple back-bending warm-ups and awareness building excercises which will lead to more challenging asanas. Backbends challenge us to fearlessly face the unkown and move into the future gracefully. This vigorous Jivamukti yoga class will focus on backward bends while giving a balanced and complete experience of asana, meditation, chanting and breath awareness. Recorded at the Midwest Yoga Conference.
Let's twist all night! Starting with some simple rules for twisting, we will move through a series of asanas that will have you twisting in many variations - standing, sitting, reclining and inverting. Enjoy the dynamic and rejuvenating effect this class will have on the internal organs and spinal health. This vigorous Jivamukti class will focus on twists while giving a balanced and complete experience of asana, meditation, chanting and breath awareness. Recorded at the Midwest Yoga Conference.
In this workshop, you will learn how to regulate your breath, movement, and intention with the exactness of a metronome. Learn how to go beyond a habituated approach to asana with the help of a musician's best friend. This class will use a Surynamaskar format that will be accessible and interesting to all levels of practitioners. Recorded at the Midwest Yoga Conference.
Recorded live at the Jivamukti Yoga School in NYC. This class begins with an invocation and meditation, working
with the heart chakra, while "connecting to your feelings. Bring up an
intense feeling, watch the affect on the physical body." Asana with feeling
beginning with kalabati breathing. "Work from a feeling and not a thought.
Moving from "excited gratitude to yearning connection to grounded awareness
to attenuated expectation to courageous generosity ." "Lovingly open" updog
to "humble devotion" in downdog..." Asana including warriors, prayer twist,
trikonasana, seated spinal twist, ankle to knee, pincha mayurasana,
or "precision lightness" to headstand or "upsetting challenge" to a
"valient surrender" in split. Bow pose to rabbit, leading to closing
sequence and savasana.
