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Yoga Matters - Samādhi Pādaḥ 39-46
Continue your Yoga Studies journey right here, studying the first Chapter of the defining text of Yoga, Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra-s. We’ll meet every other Thursday, leaving time for digestion and reflection, covering one sūtra each week. This journey will continue to eventually encompass all four chapters, as each time we finish, we’ll pick up with another eight week endeavor.
Every other Thursday, live online and recorded.
Sādhana Pādaḥ Three Part Chanting Review
Have you learned to chant the whole second chapter in Teacher Training or Chanting Class? That took copious amounts of time, concentration, review, refinement. Don't lose it. This three part series is your opportunity to ensure it doesn't slip out of your memory. Through ādhyāyanam, the teacher chanting and students repeating, we’ll ensure you leave with a firmer grasp on the material.
November Meditation
The season of gratitude is upon us, and it’s time to count our blessings. We acknowledge that which nourishes, holds, helps, supports and heals us this month, with follow-up practices included so you can make it a habit. No class November 12th.
Children's Yoga 5-10 with Sidetuunsa
Classical, challenging, engaging Yoga for Children
Using the Vinyasa Krama technique, we’ll cultivate sustained focus, flexibility, strength, resilience, confidence and self-regulation in a safe and fun environment. Taught by a Krishnamacharya-trained Mom of young children.
Foundations of Yoga Series
This four-week course starts brand new, healthy and relatively active students off to a great yoga start or restart, debunking many myths about yoga while acquainting you with sustainable, life-enhancing yoga principles and practices that build a healthy body, mind and morale.
The pre-requisite is that you are pain-free and not sedentary.
Laghunyasa Mantra - Winter Vedic Chant
A new Vedic chanting group begins in December. A main cause of illness, according to Yoga and Ayurveda, is a disconnection from nature and from our own nature. The two go hand-in-hand, and Laghunyāsa is one of the most relatable, powerful Vedic mantras to fortify our bond. Chanting it is a powerful remedy for our disconnect.
October Meditation
Fluidly transitioning from one season to the next requires intelligent effort. This month’s powerful meditation will call upon a wise Goddess, invoking her company, her warm and steady presence and her grace meanwhile the trees begin to shed their leaves, the warmth dissipates and the nights get longer.
Samādhi Pādaḥ Sutra-s 1-12
The first 12 Sūtra-s of the first chapte will be thoroughly heard, held and repeated, in traditional ādhyāyanam style. Chanting Yoga's quintessential teachings deepens their degree of potency in our mind's eye, and in our daily lives..
Sādhana Pādaḥ Chanting Review
Have you learned to chant the whole first chapter in Teacher Training or Chanting Class? That took copious amounts of time, concentration, review, refinement. Don't lose it. Here's your chance to ensure it doesn't slip out of your memory. This will be simple ādhyāyanam, teacher chants and student repeats. No corrections, just chanting in succession.
September Meditation
We’ll squeeze some more solar blessings from summer and complete our Gayatri-based meditation this month, using the sapta vyahrti-s, Gayatri and siras. If staying grounded, dislodging obstacles to your personal growth and staying connected to nature and the sacred lights your lamp, magnify that in this month’s powerful meditation.
Sādhana Pādaḥ Chanting Review
Have you learned to chant the whole first chapter in Teacher Training or Chanting Class? That took copious amounts of time, concentration, review, refinement. Don't lose it. Here's your chance to ensure it doesn't slip out of your memory. This will be simple ādhyāyanam, teacher chants and student repeats. No corrections, just chanting in succession.
August Meditation
Through our Gayatri-based meditation this month, we’ll use the sapta vyahrti-s as a means to stay grounded while dislodging obstacles to our personal growth.
Samādhi Pādaḥ Chanting Review
Have you learned to chant the whole first chapter in Teacher Training or Chanting Class? That took copious amounts of time, concentration, review, refinement. Don't lose it. Here's your chance to ensure it doesn't slip out of your memory. This will be simple ādhyāyanam, teacher chants and student repeats. No corrections, just chanting in succession.
July Breathing (Prāṇāyāma) Class
Take 15 and intelligently breathe your way into a balanced mind, body and nervous system.
July Meditation
Embody the inherent power of a Sun Goddess through our Gayatri-based meditation this month.
June Breathing (Prāṇāyāma) Class
Take 15 and intelligently breathe your way into a balanced mind, body and nervous system.
June Meditation
The breath will be here as long as we are. This month, we’ll explore the power within it through mantra, nyasa and visualization, nourishing our prana so it can heal and protect us.
July Meditation
Embody the inherent power of a Sun Goddess through our Gayatri-based meditation this month.
Breathing (Prāṇāyāma) Class
Take 15 and intelligently breathe your way into a balanced mind, body and nervous system.
Yoga Matters - Samādhi Pādaḥ 31-38
Continue your Yoga Studies journey right here, with the first Chapter of the defining text of Yoga, Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra-s. We’ll meet every other Thursday, leaving time for digestion and reflection, covering one sūtra each week. This journey will continue to eventually encompass all four chapters, as each time we finish, we’ll pick up with another eight week endeavor.
Every other Thursday, live online and recorded.
May Meditation
During a month when Ny-ers start visiting the beach, we’ll take a meditative journey into the connection between water and the moon.
April Meditation (Online)
MEDITATION IS MEDICINE
We’ve made it through winter’s wilderness; now, we’ll welcome in the sun’s light to nourish holistic wellbeing in this upcoming April meditation session.
There is inherent power in Yoga for the purpose of intentional creation of new patterns, samskara-s. Together, with auspicious intentions, we will empower as a group to strengthen our minds and bodies and fortify our hearts and souls.
Foundations of Yoga Beginner Series - January Start
This four-week course starts brand new, healthy and relatively active students off to a great yoga start, debunking many myths about yoga while acquainting you with sustainable, life-enhancing yoga principles and practices that build a healthy body, mind and morale.
The pre-requisite is that you are pain-free and healthy, and not sedentary.