Yoga is the embodiment of wholeness. Yoga practice must establish pathways of wholeness from the body to Consciousness. Then the power and wisdom of Consciousness can flow along these pathways into your daily life (Ishvarapranidanah). These pathways are established by movement and deepened in stillness. They must activate and integrate all the muscles of the body: motor, structural and respiratory.
Because of the binary nature of the peripheral nervous system recalibrating your muscles refines your perception. As you become able to perceive the subtle within the obvious, wholeness within separateness, the obvious loses its seductive power and separateness loses its false authority. You become a conscious embodiment of wholeness, living a life of peace, joy and love as a gift to the world given freely.
Yoga practice is more than sequencing shapes. Pathways of wholeness depend upon what you are doing within those shapes. Each part of your body must be supporting every part of your body, from your hands and feet to your core. Engaging all your motor muscles, while structural and respiratory muscles respond spontaneously, allows you to refine not only the relationships between all the parts of your body (asana) but also to refine the effort (prayatna saithilya) each muscle is making. Then you experience the bandhas in the whole of your body: each part supporting and embodying wholeness as deep stillness within action (sthiram sukham).
The core bandhas (mulabandha, uddyanabandha and jalandharabandha) being supported by the peripheral bandhas (hastabandha, padabandha) allows the core of your body (sushumna) to open into the presence and power of Consciousness. This is the heart of yoga within which its richest fruits ripen.
For the heart of yoga to open fully your body must be free from tension and restriction. This does not require extremes of flexibility or strength. It only requires mobilisation of each facet of every joint. This takes training. A training in sensitivity to sensation. This Heart of Yoga training will show you how to use movement to sensitise all of your joints, and stillness to integrate all of your muscles. The Teaching Skills Module will show you how to do this for others. The Pranayama modules will provide you with the tools to activate and strengthen the core muscles of your spine, abdomen and throat so that the Heart of Yoga opens effortlessly within the flow of your practice.
No matter what style of yoga you practice, what shapes or sequences you use, this training will give you the tools to refine and deepen your practice so that it becomes the irrevocable fulcrum of a life lived as a gift of peace to the world.
The Training is modular, the last of which can be attended in person in Istanbul, or online. (Central European Times)
Module 1: Embodying the Bandhas
December 7,8,14,15 10.30-13.00 & 17.00-19.00
December 9,13 18.00-20.30
This module will present the three core bandhas, and the two peripheral bandhas as the key to yoga posture practice.
Module 2: Pranayama for the Bandhas Part One
January 19, 25 10.30-13.00 & 17.00-19.00
January 20,24 18.00-20.30
This module will present Pranayama practices for developing the core muscles upon which the core bandhas depend.
Module 3: Pranayama for the Bandhas Part Two
February 16, 22 10.30-13.00 & 17.00-19.00
February 17, 21 18.00-20.30
This module will present additional Pranayama practices for developing the core muscles upon which the core bandhas depend.
Module 4: Asana, Pranayama and Patanjali
March 9, 15 10.30-13.00 & 17.00-19.00
March 10, 14 18.00-20.30
This module will present posture and pranayama practice in the light of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.
Module 5: Patanjali in Practice (Online or In-person in Istanbul)
May 10,11 10.30-13.30 & 15.30-18.00
This module will present an integrated practice of pranayama, meditation and postures, grounded in the wisdom of Patanjali.
This Training will not only enrich your practice but, thereby, also your life. It is suitable for anyone able to walk upstairs unaided. It does not require flexibility, strength, agility, nor book knowledge, not even of the Yoga Sutras. All modules will be recorded and available to stream for 60 days after the module ends. All modules will be recorded and available to stream for 60 days after the module ends. Notes will be provided at the end of the Course.
Instalment payments is an option, contact us at: [email protected]
Because of the binary nature of the peripheral nervous system recalibrating your muscles refines your perception. As you become able to perceive the subtle within the obvious, wholeness within separateness, the obvious loses its seductive power and separateness loses its false authority. You become a conscious embodiment of wholeness, living a life of peace, joy and love as a gift to the world given freely.
Yoga practice is more than sequencing shapes. Pathways of wholeness depend upon what you are doing within those shapes. Each part of your body must be supporting every part of your body, from your hands and feet to your core. Engaging all your motor muscles, while structural and respiratory muscles respond spontaneously, allows you to refine not only the relationships between all the parts of your body (asana) but also to refine the effort (prayatna saithilya) each muscle is making. Then you experience the bandhas in the whole of your body: each part supporting and embodying wholeness as deep stillness within action (sthiram sukham).
The core bandhas (mulabandha, uddyanabandha and jalandharabandha) being supported by the peripheral bandhas (hastabandha, padabandha) allows the core of your body (sushumna) to open into the presence and power of Consciousness. This is the heart of yoga within which its richest fruits ripen.
For the heart of yoga to open fully your body must be free from tension and restriction. This does not require extremes of flexibility or strength. It only requires mobilisation of each facet of every joint. This takes training. A training in sensitivity to sensation. This Heart of Yoga training will show you how to use movement to sensitise all of your joints, and stillness to integrate all of your muscles. The Teaching Skills Module will show you how to do this for others. The Pranayama modules will provide you with the tools to activate and strengthen the core muscles of your spine, abdomen and throat so that the Heart of Yoga opens effortlessly within the flow of your practice.
No matter what style of yoga you practice, what shapes or sequences you use, this training will give you the tools to refine and deepen your practice so that it becomes the irrevocable fulcrum of a life lived as a gift of peace to the world.
The Training is modular, the last of which can be attended in person in Istanbul, or online. (Central European Times)
Module 1: Embodying the Bandhas
December 7,8,14,15 10.30-13.00 & 17.00-19.00
December 9,13 18.00-20.30
This module will present the three core bandhas, and the two peripheral bandhas as the key to yoga posture practice.
Module 2: Pranayama for the Bandhas Part One
January 19, 25 10.30-13.00 & 17.00-19.00
January 20,24 18.00-20.30
This module will present Pranayama practices for developing the core muscles upon which the core bandhas depend.
Module 3: Pranayama for the Bandhas Part Two
February 16, 22 10.30-13.00 & 17.00-19.00
February 17, 21 18.00-20.30
This module will present additional Pranayama practices for developing the core muscles upon which the core bandhas depend.
Module 4: Asana, Pranayama and Patanjali
March 9, 15 10.30-13.00 & 17.00-19.00
March 10, 14 18.00-20.30
This module will present posture and pranayama practice in the light of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.
Module 5: Patanjali in Practice (Online or In-person in Istanbul)
May 10,11 10.30-13.30 & 15.30-18.00
This module will present an integrated practice of pranayama, meditation and postures, grounded in the wisdom of Patanjali.
This Training will not only enrich your practice but, thereby, also your life. It is suitable for anyone able to walk upstairs unaided. It does not require flexibility, strength, agility, nor book knowledge, not even of the Yoga Sutras. All modules will be recorded and available to stream for 60 days after the module ends. All modules will be recorded and available to stream for 60 days after the module ends. Notes will be provided at the end of the Course.
Instalment payments is an option, contact us at: [email protected]