Yoga Training with Mark Stephens

Postural yoga practices give us infinite possibilities for insight into our lives and relationships. If we’re open to it, each asana can become a unique mirror, reflecting our innermost selves, revealing our strengths, weaknesses, and emotions. Add conscious breathing and practices of visualization and self-reflective meditation, and yoga becomes a beautiful path to more sublime experience in everything.

But our mirrors can be easily distorted by forms and forces that make the asanas unnecessarily difficult, confusing, or even injurious. Qualities of alignment (what goes where) and energetics (our actions within those forms) matter. Here the insights of direct experience in connection with knowledge derived from functional anatomy and kinesiology empower us to optimize our postural practices. As yoga teachers, this is a key to guiding our students in the asanas.

This series of workshops and master classes with Mark Stephens focus on developing and refining the knowledge and skills for the optimal guidance of our students as well as deeper insight into ourselves. Open to both teachers and students, the workshops are primarily oriented to teaching while the master classes – open to all students and teachers – offer guided practices in which insights from the workshops are applied.

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Workshop: Dharma Discovery - Making Yoga & Life more meaningful A basic question at the heart of most philosophies, is, “Who am I?” It’s a central theme in much of ancient to modern yoga and a primary focus of the Bhagavad Gita. It’s also implied in the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali’s practice of svadyaya, “self-study.” But how to we study ourselves? And as we find ways to do self-study, how do we connect that self-study to living our lives with clearer intentions?

Thursday, 19.09.24, 17.30 - 21.00

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Weekend Trainings: The Anatomy & Energetics of Asana (2

These sessions look in close detail at the intricate elements of asanas. We will explore from the ground up, looking at, discussing, and refining how we bring each asana into its fullest expression. With no prior knowledge of anatomy required, we will draw from anatomy to consider how best to transition into each posture, what to do once in it, and how best to transition out of it, whether to a neutral form or into another asana. In doing so, we will ask what the body is asking of us to do it with steadiness and ease. Applying the insights of direct personal experience, anatomy, and kinesiology, we will look at how different people experience the asanas in different ways, generating insights into how best to guide unique students with clear individualized cues as well as more general cues for whole classes. Stability, ease, healthy range of motion, and balance are our consistent themes, with a primary focus on teaching.

Friday, 20.09., 09.00 - 17.00Saturday, 21.09., 09.00 - 17.00Sunday, 22.09., 09.00 - 13.00

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The Master Classes

These classes are designed and taught for all levels of students, offering alternative options for beginners to seriously advanced students and teachers. They model how to teach, including how to teach multi-level classes, while focusing on guiding the practice in accessible, sustainable, and meaningful ways.

20.09.24, 18.30 - 21.00 | Topic: Hips & Armbalances

21.09.24, 18.30 - 21.00 | Topic: Heart Opening Backbends & their Integration

22.09.24, 14.00 - 18.00 | Topic: Healthy Back, Open Heart

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More Details can be found via: www.redwoodyoga.de/markstephens

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INVESTMENT:

All 4 Days-Package: 600€, Early Bird (until 1.6.): 560€ (includes all workshops & masterclasses)
Only: Dharma Discovery Workshop: 49€, Early Bird (until 1.6.): 44€
Only: Anatomy & Energetics of Asana (incl. masterclasses): 560€, Early Bird (until 1.6.): 530€

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