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Description:
28h Intensive – The Whole of Yoga with Mark Stephens
The fabric of yoga is woven from the threads of asana, pranayama and meditation. Thisintensive will empower you to consciously and sensitively weave these threads into the whole of your personal practice or teaching.
- 2 days on breathing and meditation
- 2 days on refining asana
- 3 guided practices – including Friday night on Yoga for Better Sleep
Thursday-Friday on Pranayama and Meditation
While asana practice helps us to prepare for pranayama, pranayama practice can deepen ourmeditation experience. Here we apply the concept of vinyasa krama – gradual progression – toexploring several classic breathing techniques and how the\y affect our meditation. In foursessions (Thursday/Friday morning/afternoon), we will gradually move from broad questions oftheory, philosophy and science to more and more personal experience of pranayama andmeditation in practice.
- Learn more about the ancient-to-modern theories of breath and consciousness.
- Experience gradual progression from natural to cultivate breathing using each of severalpranayama techniques.
- Deepen (or begin!) your experience of ujjayi, sama/visama vritti, viloma, and kumbhakaalong with techniques that stimulate either greater awakening or deeper calming.
- Develop your understanding and practice of bandhas (mula, uddiyana, jalandhara).
- Explore several different approaches to mindful, contemplative, and meditative practices, tapping into insights from traditional yoga, Tantra, Buddhism, and New Age innovations.
Friday Night Yoga for Better Sleep Practice
Sleeping well is the primary source of living well and fully awakening. Yet most people do not sleep well. With insights from ancient-to-modern yoga and contemporary psychology and neuroscience, we will do a 2-hour practice for all levels of students to create the conditions for better sleep.
- Starts with a 15-minute lecture on the nature and sleep and the science of why it’s vitalin our wellbeing (especially brain health).
- Easy-going asana, pranayama and meditation practice designed for inducing andmaintaining healthy sleep.
Saturday-Sunday on Refining Asana
Postural yoga can make our lives better. It can also be unnecessarily difficult and even cause injuries. Here we look in close detail at the nuances of foundational asanas, learning where to place our attention, what to look and feel for, how to modify based on different conditions and intentions of unique students, and the better communicate using the tools of verbal cues, visual demonstration, and tactile cues (hands-on adjustments).
- Learn or refine your knowledge of the fundamentals of asanas.
- Separate sessions on Standing Asanas, Backbends/Forward Bends, Twists, and Inversions/Arm Balances.
- Discussion and application of insights from functional anatomy and kinesiology.
- Practice and individual “tune-ups” with each asana.
Teacher
Mark Stephens passionately practices, teaches and writes about yoga. He’s the author of Teaching Yoga, Yoga Sequencing, Yoga Adjustments, Yoga Therapy and Yoga for Better Sleep (all are available in German) and for 2 years wrote the “For Teachers” column for Yoga Journal Deutschland. Mark lives in California and teaches globally.
Teacher :
California-based yoga teacher Mark Stephens is the author of Teaching Yoga, Yoga Sequencing (unfortunately titled Yoga Workouts Gestalten in German), Yoga Adjustments, Yoga Therapy, and Yoga for Better Sleep. Practicing yoga consistently since 1991 and teaching since 1996, Mark has explored deeply in multiple styles yoga. His teaching embodies an integration of ancient to modern yoga wisdom with the insights of modern science. Learn more at www.markstephensyoga.com
Dates:
Date | Time | City | Teacher | |
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1. | 25/05/2023 | 09:00 - 20:00 | Rostocker Straße 4, 20099 Hamburg | Mark Stephens |
2. | 26/05/2023 | 09:00 - 20:00 | Rostocker Straße 4, 20099 Hamburg | Mark Stephens |
3. | 27/05/2023 | 09:30 - 20:00 | Rostocker Straße 4, 20099 Hamburg | Mark Stephens |
4. | 28/05/2023 | 09:00 - 17:00 | Rostocker Straße 4, 20099 Hamburg | Mark Stephens |
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