In this Clinic, we will apply a therapeutic approach to the asanas of the Ashtanga Vinyasa Primary Series as a platform to learn how to support yoga practitioners during their practice. This Clinic is available to all levels of yoga practitioners and will be conducted in-person only.
The Clinic will be offered over five 3-hour sessions, totaling 15 hours. There will be partner work involved in all sessions.
Session 1. Fundamentals
Saturday, October 19 1-4pm
During this session through a series of Dyadic Exercises, we will learn grounding techniques, space holding, observation, and preliminary pattern recognition.
Session 2. Fundamental Adjustments Part 1
Saturday, October 26 1-4pm
We will use the Surya Namaskar A and B sequences as a gateway to review basic alignment principles that apply to all the standing postures and how to support people in those postures.
Session 3. Fundamental Adjustments Part 2
Sunday, October 27 1-4pm
In this session we will learn how to support people during the seated postures of Primary Series. We will look at the pelvis, its role and function and how it supports the spine.
Session 4. Fundamental Adjustments Part 3
Saturday, November 9 1-4pm
In this session we will investigate twists, backbends as well as inversions and the many ways we can support students in these postures. The emphasis will be on the safety of shoulders.
Session 5. Integration
Sunday, November 10 1-4pm
In this session we will bring it all together, review some of the more advanced postures of the series and address any remaining topics from the last four sessions.
We encourage you to register for the entire course though you may register for each session individually.
This clinic is eligible for CEUs from the instructor.
Mojdeh, B.S., M.S., C-IAYT, ERYT, CHTP, Reiki Master, Transpersonal Life Coach, has been a student and practitioner of healing arts for more than four decades and has been teaching meditation and yoga in the Bay Area for many years. She has had the honor to study with the late Ashtanga Vinyasa Master, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, his daughter Saraswati, and his grandson Sharath as well as many senior teachers of the Ashtanga Vinyasa lineage (Richard Freeman & Mary Taylor, Chuck Miller, the late Maty Ezraty, and Tim Miller to name a few). She has had the honor to participate in the 200-hr, 500-hr, and 800-hr Life of a Yogi teacher training with Sri Dharma Mittra and had done teacher training with Manouso Manos at the Abode of Iyengar Yoga.
all 5 sessions
pricing per individual session
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This workshop will be conducted in-studio.