Friday 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 Yoga for better sleep: 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.

Preis: 145,00€