Thursday on Pranayama and Meditation

While asana practice helps us to prepare for pranayama, pranayama practice can deepen our meditation experience. Here we apply the concept of vinyasa krama – gradual progression – to exploring several classic breathing techniques and how the\y affect our meditation. In four sessions (Thursday/Friday morning/afternoon), we will gradually move from broad questions of theory, 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 several pranayama techniques.
• Deepen (or begin!) your experience of ujjayi, sama/visama vritti, viloma, and kumbhaka along 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 meditativepractices, tapping into insights from traditional yoga, Tantra, Buddhism, and New Age innovations.

Breath, Pranayama & Meditation mit Mark Stephens

• 9.00-12.00 Workshop Breath, Pranayama & Meditation Intensiv Part 1
• 14.00-16.00 Workshop Breath, Pranayama & Meditation Intensiv Part 2
• 18.00-20.00 Open practice : Asana, pranayama, meditation and acoustical practices have been the primary pillars of yoga since the rise of hatha yoga in India about 500 years ago. Yet today, asana is usually King, Queen, and Court, with the other practices consigned to lesser prominence in the palace. In these two 2-hour classes, we will experience it all in waves, from sound to mind to breath to posture to deeper breath to greater mindfulness to sublime sound to perhaps something like bliss. Come experience of the whole of the practice to more fully feel the whole of you. 

Preis: 145,00€