The purpose of this workshop is to provide the students a step-by-step guide to learn Ashtanga Vinyasa Primary Series. The asana in the primary series of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga are curative in nature. They are also referred to as Yoga Chikitsa (purification). When we practice Ashtanga Vinyasa we start a purification process. We purify the body by practicing the physical asana. We purify the nervous system by the mechanism of the Breath. We purify the mind by disciplining the mind to be focused on one thing at the time as we focus on the gazing point or the Drishti in each posture. The students are given instructions through the various aspects of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga including posture, breathing, and meditation.
At first, the students will learn the elements of Surya Namaskar (Sun Salutation) forms A and B, which are the foundation of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga and establish the basic form and flow of the greater series of postures. From there, the students will be introduced to standing, seated, inverted, as well as finishing postures. The students will learn the dynamics of Vinyasa. Vinyasa is the synchronization of the breath and the movement. The breath initiates the movement and then the breath and movement flow as one. Through this conscious synchronization, one enters a meditative state while practicing Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga.
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.
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This workshop will be conducted in-studio.