Brahmani Yoga Weekend Workshops

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November

Awakening The Spine

Helen Noakes Sunday 18 November, 2007 9:00-12:00

Helen Noakes In this workshop you are invited to work with the inspirations of VANDA SCARAVELLI. We will discover and explore the softness and lightness in our practice of asana with the guidance of adjustments and partner work... more


Simple Arm Balances and Inversions

Eileen Gauthier Saturday 24 November, 2007 2:00-5:00

Eileen Gauthier Suitable for beginners and more advanced students, this workshop will explore the principles of arm balances and inversions including preparations and/or variations for shoulderstands, headstands, bakasanas, handstands... more


Integral Yoga

with Ada Bilu Sunday 25 November, 2007 2:00-5:00

Ada Bilu Workshop focusing on body-mind integration will include Relaxation, Meditation, Pranayama and Asana... more


December

Women's Yoga 1 - Honouring Shakti

Viriam Kaur Saturday 1 December, 2007 2:00-5:00

Viriam Kaur "A Woman should trust her own insticts, her own psyche, her own intuition more than anything else." Yogi Bhajan

This workshop will work with yoga and reveal secret meditations for women from the tradition of Kundalini Yoga... more


Intro to 2nd Series

Julie Martin Saturday 1 December, 2007 3:00-6:00

Julie Martin Whether you do second series or not this workshop will be a great exploration into the way the 2nd series works on the muscles, nervous and cardiovascular systems... more


Introduction to Reflexology

Ashley Bond Sunday 9 December, 2007 2:00-5:00

Ashley BondThis is a one day workshop designed to give you an insight into this fascinating form of holistic therapy. Ashley will give you guidance through working hands-on with some of the major pressure points and areas of the feet... Read more


Lead Primary 7:30-9:30

Opening of the Shoulders & Upper Back 2:00-5:00

with Rolf and Marci Naujokat Sunday 16 December, 2007

Rolf and Marci Naujokat Lead Primary:
Rolf will guide students through the entire Primary series of the Ashtanga system, pose by pose, breath by breath, according to the teaching of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois.

Opening of the Shoulders & Upper Back:
This workshop will focus on isolating and opening the areas of the upper back and shoulders... more


Beyond the Mind - Rediscovering the Body-Instinct

with Viriam Kaur Saturday 22 December, 2007 2:00-5:00

Beyond the Mind - Rediscovering the Body-Instinct "Knowledge only becomes real wisdom when you experience it with your heart and being."
Yogi Bhajan

The third chakra is all about our instinctual self - our gut instinct. Sizing up somebody's intentions towards you can happen in a split-second from the gut, but we usually defer to the 'rational' mind... Read more


Partner Yoga Workshop

Anna Smallwood & Nathan Gray Sunday 23 December, 2007 2:00-5:00

This workshop with Anna Smallwood & Nathan Gray will take you through a flowing sequence of Yoga Postures where you will discover how effectively you can incorporate someone else into your practice... Read more


Breakdown of Surya Namaskar

Ashley Bond Saturday 29 December, 2007 2:00-5:00

Breaking down and working on alignment and perfecting the saluts to the sun of Ashtanga Yoga... Read more


Marketing for Yogis

Nathan Gray Sunday 30 December, 2007 2:00-5:00

This workshop will give you a wealth of promotional and marketing ideas to help you create a successful business from your Yoga Teaching... Read more


January

Awakening The Spine

Helen Noakes Sunday 6 January, 2008 9:00-12:00

Awakening The Spine In this workshop you are invited to work with the inspirations of VANDA SCARAVELLI. We will discover and explore the softness and lightness in our practice of asana with the guidance of adjustments and partner work... Read more


Introduction to the Second Series

Melanie Cooper Sunday 13 January, 2008 9:00-12:00

Viriam KaurThe Astanga Vinyasa Primary Series is known as yoga chikitsa or yoga therapy and it cleanses and tones the body... And it lays the foundation for the second series... Read more


Vinyasa Flow sequencing

Julie Martin Saturday 19 January, 2008 2:00-5:00

Vinyasa Flow sequencingA workshop for teachers and practitioners looking to develop flowing sequences for classes or private practise. We will be playing around with discovering how to link postures, natural direction changes and finding your own ability to create sequences. Read more


Kundalini Yoga for Women - Radiating Grace

Viriam Kaur Friday 25 January, 2008 2:00-5:00

Viriam Kaur Through Kundalini Yoga and Meditations, we will learn to rise above all situations that trigger reactions in us, that make us act out of habit rather than awareness and work to create a flow of Grace within us... Read more


Yoga Dance Jam

with Julie Martin Saturday 26 January, 2008 2:00-5:00

Yoga Dance Jam with Julie Martin This workshop will take you through a self exploration of the body and how it moves. We will start with a basis of yoga asanas and then start to experiment with ranges of motion... Read more


February

The Anatomy of Yoga

Helen Noakes Sunday 3 February, 2008 9:00-12:00

Helen NoakesIn this workshop we will be discovering through self enquiry and exploration how we can deepen our own practice. You will be encouraged to listen to your own body and its rhythms and translate those experiences into physical awareness and explore them on the mat... Read more


Adjustment Workshop

Julie Martin and Nathan Gray Monday 4 February to Friday 8 February, 2008 3:00-5:30

Julie Martin and Nathan Gray Adjustment Workshop Enhance your current adjustment skills and learn more advance adjustments in this 5 day workshop. You will learn how to use the basic foundations of adjusting and take it further into all postures, how to follow lines of movement and breath to encourage bodies to get a new depth without force... Read more


Beyond the Mind - Waking up your Inner Vibration with Mantra

Viriam Kaur Saturday 9 February, 2008 2:00-5:00

Viriam Kaur

"Love is the door. Chanting is the key."
Bhagavan Das

To create change within ourselves, we have to go beyond the mind and detoxify ourselves on all levels - physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually... Read more


Partner Yoga Workshop

Flying Monkey Yoga Saturday 16 February, 2008 2:00-5:00

Flying Monkey Yoga The Flying Monkey Yoga Company invites you to a fun packed Partner Yoga workshop. Flying Monkey Partner Yoga combines traditional disciplines of Hatha Yoga, breath work, some balances and very basic acrobatics and massage techniques... Read more


The Soul's Body

Jo Cobbett Saturday 16 - Wednesday 20 February, 2008 TBA

The Soul's Body Utilizing dance, shamanic process and profound intentionality with individual as well as group exercises and witnessings, we invite change in our lives. The workshop is a participation of depth and connection, creating a stronger awareness of self and a deeper relationship with community. Read more


Navasana and Beyond

Melanie Cooper Sunday 17 February, 2008 2:00-5:00

Melanie Cooper This workshop is designed for improvers who have had some experience of the primary series but would like to work on "the difficult bits". We will look at the more challenging aspects of the primary series and focus on ways of working towards postures and how to cope with the postures within a led primary class... Read more


Back Bending

Julie Martin Saturday 23 February, 2008 2:00-5:00

In this workshop we will discover what limits us in our back bends, whether it be shoulders, hips, breath or even just fear, and how to move beyond these obstacles to create free flowing movement in our backs... Read more


March

Intensive Pranayama

Emil Wendel Sunday 2 March, 2008 8:00-11:00

Our resident Pranayama, Meditation and Philosophy teacher, Emil Wendel, will be teaching a (3 hour workshop) that will take us deeper into our practice and ourselves. The first half of the class will be pranayama exercises that will be taken further than in the usual drop in classes. The second half will be a lecture on the pranayama and meditation tools that Emil regularly uses... Read more


Mantras in our Yogic Practice

Emil Wendel Sunday 9 March, 2008 4:00-7:00

What precisely is a Mantra, and how do they work? When to apply them in our Yogic Practice? This is the second in a series of longer discourses by our resident Pranayama, Meditation and Philosophy teacher, Emil Wendel. These 3 hour workshops are designed to take us deeper into our practice and ourselves... Read more


Embodied Yoga Anatomy

with Ken the Rolfer Sunday 9 March - Thursday 13 March, 2008 Noon - 2 pm

This workshop will present western Anatomy, Kinesiology and Physiology of the musculoskeletal, respiratory and nervous systems as they relate to the eastern practices of Ashtanga Yoga.Read more


Murdras in our Yogic Practice

Emil Wendel Saturday 15 March, 2008 4:00-7:00

This is the third in a series of longer discourses by our resident Pranayama, Meditation and Philosophy teacher, Emil Wendel. These 3 hour workshops are designed to take us deeper into our practice and ourselves... Read more


Scaravelli Yoga

Liz Warrington Sunday 16 March, 2008 9:00-12:00 2:00-5:00

A day of yoga giving us time to go deeper into ourselves and experience the potential for quietness and stillness we all have... Read more


Scaravelli Yoga

Liz Warrington Saturday 22 March, 2008 2:00-5:00

Scaravelli Yoga This 3 hour workshop is an introduction to the work of Vanda Scaravelli or an opportunity to go a little deeper for students already familiar with it... Read more


Scaravelli Yoga

Liz Warrington Sunday 23 March, 2008 9:00-12:00 2:00-5:00

A day of yoga dedicated to deepening the experience of rest within the postures and thus within ourselves.
It is this quality that opens us to the possibility of the stillness and quietness necessary for a sitting practice - be it sitting for pranayama or meditation... Read more


Scaravelli Yoga

Liz Warrington Saturday 29 March, 2008 2:00-5:00

Helen Noakes In this 3 hour workshop; and the last of the month with Liz in which we will go deeper into the exploration of talking tension out of the body, expectation and judgment out the mind while continuing to develop a light attention on the breath... Read more


Advanced Chavutti Thirumal Workshop

Helen Noakes Sunday 30 March, 2008

Helen Noakes This short course is designed for those who have already completed a Chavutti course with Helen and wish to refine and refresh on their technique... Read more