I am no longer teaching at the 500 North Main St. location.
Yoga Vinyasa Krama Foundations Intro 4 Class Series
Songbird Community Healing Center - Cotati
Saturdays Dec 13th, 20th, 27th, January 3rd
RSVP Required - $90/Series
sunyogadance@gmail.com, 707-235-1413
This series will introduce important practices that set a good foundation for understanding the energetics and traditional approach of this comprehensive system. Long time yoga practitioners as well as new students will benefit. This system is very distinct from well known practices and very in-depth and the terms beginner and advanced are relative - as this system embodies, not just physical practices, but a meditative mind, precise conscious breath regulation, understanding stillness and very subtle practices. Learn the nature of the system, the philosophical backdrop, the sutras and Sanskrit concepts it embodies and how to apply it as a movement & meditative art form, therapy, guiding philosophy & spiritual practice. Includes Opening Mantras, specific Morning Cleansing Kriyas, Ding Namaskar (Salutation to the Directional Spheres with Breath & Mantra) & Tāĺāsana Krama (Foundational Sequence), Specific Mudra (Energetic Bodily Gestures), Seated Prānāyāma (Yogic Breathing) including Mantra Prānāyāma, Subtle & Contemplative Practices
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Soft Medicine Sanctuary
186 North Main St. Sebastopol
Wednesdays 8:30-9:30 Morning Prānāyāma - Anahata Downstairs
Thursdays 9-10:30am Yoga Vinyāsa/Prānāyāma Foundations - Loft Upstairs
You can sign up for classes on the schedule here or please come a few minutes early to sign up before class.
$25/Drop-in, Class Pass & Membership Options
Soft Medicine offers your first class from the ongoing schedule free
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Free New Years Eve Prānāyāma & Yoga Nidra 7-9pm
Location TBD
All Classes RSVP at least 24hr Prior to Class
Please Bring a Yoga Mat
Practice on an Empty Stomach
Please Avoid Perfumes & Heavily Scented Products - (natural & essential oil products are fine)
Foundations - Tāĺāsana Krama/Morning Prānāyāma
Focuses on the fundamental of the system. Establishing the first krama & other important practices & techniques including purification, mudra, prānāyāma & pratyahara practices and ding namaskar (salutations to the guardians of the directional spheres with movement, mantra & breath ). Slowly introduces other variations within the kramas.
*Yoga Vinyāsa/Prānāyāma
Various Purification, Movement, Prānāyāma, Mudra & Contemplative practices & variations within the 12 kramas - classes may focus on a particular krama and are appropriate for the time of day.
Morning Prānāyāma
Morning Purification Practices, Himalayan Prānāyāma & Contemplation
Evening Prānāyāma & Meditation
Breathing & contemplative practices appropriate for the evening
Yoga Nidra
Yoga Nidra is an experience of expanded awareness in a state of deep relaxation, promoting parasympathetic dominance. Practiced lying down in savasana with guided verbal instructions that occupy the mind as the body relaxes, we shift into pratyahara (sense withdrawal) – remaining a witness, awake and aware, we move into a subtle state of deep conscious sleep (the state between wakefulness and sleep). We work through levels of the unconscious and subconscious, removing energetic blockages. A Sankalpa (Resolve, Resolution, Force of Will) is established during yoga nidra - when our mind is calm and quiet during the experience, it is more receptive and sensitive to our intentions as they are impressed on the subconscious mind.