The Bandhas are the deep heart of yoga posture practice. They have their place in any approach to yoga posture practice, as its key and its power. At the heart of their power is the subtle dynamic of effortless effort in the whole body.
Course details:
This 6 day, 23hr, online immersion will teach you how to activate the bandhas in the whole of your body (sarvangabandha). To not only recalibrate the body towards its inherent integrity, but also to release the subtle power of the breath (ujjayisvara). You will learn to activate the bandhas from the periphery (hastabandha, padabandha) to the core (mulabandha, uddyanabandha, jalandharabandha, merubandha).
This learning will take place in (movement) practice and will establish the necessary neuromuscular pathways to integrate your whole body in action. This does not depend on strength, flexibility nor agility. It only depends on sensitivity to the sensations being generated by the intelligence of your body. As you learn to respond to the intelligence of your body it will naturally establish the neuromuscular pathways that underlie and express the bandhas.
Dates/Times:DECEMBER 2024
Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th 10.30-13.00 & 17.00-19.00 Monday 9th 18.00-20.30 Friday 13th 18.00-20.30 Saturday 14th & Sunday 15th 10.30-13.00 & 17.00-19.00 All Central European Times |
Live & Recorded:No problem if you can't attend live, as all the sessions will be recorded and available to stream (after each session ends) for 60 days.
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This Immersion will not only enrich your practice but, thereby, also your life. By completing this you'll experience and have the following:
- A somatic, experiential understanding of the core bandhas (mulabandha, uddyanabandha, jalandharabandha, merubandha)
- A somatic, experiential understanding of the peripheral bandhas (hastabandha, padabandha)
- A somatic, experiential understanding of Ujjayi Breathing
- A somatic, experiential understanding of the spirallic nature of action and movement
- A somatic, experiential understanding of the Dynamic of Integrity (upon which the bandhas in the whole body depends)
- A somatic, experiential understanding of Soft Core (the deep heart of the core bandhas)
- A somatic, experiential understanding of Minimum Muscular Effort (“prayatna saithilya”)
- Neuromuscular pathways that facilitate the bandhas in your core
- Neuromuscular pathways that facilitate the bandhas in your limbs
- Neuromuscular pathways that integrate the bandhas in your limbs with your core bandhas
- Neuromuscular pathways of wholeness interconnecting every part of your body
- Recorded practices to deepen and activate the bandhas in your whole body
- Notes to clarify and deepen your understanding of the bandhas and their anatomical, physiological, energetic and spiritual implications.
Who this course is for:
Yoga, movement, dance, somatic, meditation practitioners and teachers. Also for anyone able to walk upstairs unaided. It does not require flexibility, strength, agility, nor book knowledge.
More training:
This module can be done alone or as the first part of a series of modules, have a look here for details on the Heart of Yoga Personal Training.
If wanting to complete the modules as part of a teacher training, have a look at the Heart of Yoga professional Training.
If wanting to complete the modules as part of a teacher training, have a look at the Heart of Yoga professional Training.
Taught by Godfrey Devereux:
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Godfrey is one of the initiators of the Yoga Renaissance that began in the 1990s. The yoga program he created at the Life Centre in London, and his ground breaking book ‘Dynamic Yoga’ steered yoga from the cultural margins towards the irresistible phenomenon it is today. Author of many more books, not only on yoga, his influence within and beyond the world of yoga is incalculable.
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His potent and accessible methodologies of somatic transformation, including 'The Dynamic Yoga Training Method', ’Slow Tantra’, ’Somatic Meditation’, and 'Somatic Resilience Training', have enriched the lives of thousands of practitioners and hundreds of teachers. As a master teacher his effectiveness depends directly on his ability to share his embodied experience of body, mind and Consciousness.