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With Roger Cole
Teacher, Author, Scientist
Saturday – Sunday, April 10-11, 2010
Let your backbends blossom, your forward bends and twists deepen and your breath flow with celebrated teacher and Yoga Journal writer Roger Cole. This series of workshops is so much more than a dry anatomy lesson. Under Roger's clear and friendly guidance, you will manually locate many of the relevant muscles and bones on your own body, feel how they work, and use them in new and sometimes surprising ways to deepen your experience of yoga in four expertly conceived asana practices, each one focusing on a distinct class of poses: backbends, forward bends, twists and the breath. Fascinating and fun!
Schedule of workshops:
Backbends: Anatomy AND PRACTICE •
SATURDAY, APRIL 10 • 10:00AM – 1:00PM
Improve and deepen your backbends by understanding the anatomy of the hips, spine, trunk and shoulders, and applying it to a thorough backbends practice.
Forward Bends: Anatomy AND PRACTICE •
SATURDAY, APRIL 10 • 3:00 – 5:00PM
Improve and deepen your forward bends and twists by understanding the anatomy of the hips, knees, spine, and trunk, and applying it to a thorough forward bends/twists practice.
Twists: Anatomy AND PRACTICE•
SUNDAY, APRIL 11 • 10:00AM – 1:00PM
Improve and deepen your twists by learning the anatomy of the spine and trunk, then applying it to a thorough twists practice.
Breathing: Anatomy AND PRACTICE•
SUNDAY, APRIL 11 • 3:00 – 5:00PM
Yoga and other disciplines teach a lot of different breathing techniques, but they all rely on the same anatomical structures to move air in an out of the body. This class will help you get the most out of any breathing system by teaching you how these structures work and how to use them to get the effects you want. It will give you a firm foundation in the mechanics of breathing, including the dynamics of the lungs, airways, diaphragm, ribcage, the many muscles that move the ribcage, abdominal movements, and related topics. This is much more than just a step-by-step anatomy lesson: you will manually locate many of the relevant muscles, bones, cartilages, etc. on your own body, feel how they work, and use them in new and sometimes surprising ways to modify your breath. The class will include instructions on how to keep your practice safe and comfortable, how to deepen your existing practice, and how to intelligently explore the broad and powerful world of breath-based techniques.
About Roger Cole
ROGER COLE, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized Iyengar Yoga teacher and an accomplished biomedical research scientist. He has authored dozens of articles on many aspects of yoga, and currently writes Yoga Journal’s Anatomy column. He teaches at Yoga Del Mar in Del Mar, California, and conducts workshops and teacher training throughout the U.S. and abroad.
Tuition: Individual workshops...$55 until 4/3/09; $65 thereafter
Series of four workshops...$195 until 4/3/09; $220 thereafter
Space is limited! Pre-registration required. Call (626) 403-3961 for more information or to pre-register.
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