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Jan 9 & 10

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BANDHA: ESSENTIAL INGREDIENT OF YOGA PRACTICE
with Paul Cabanis

YOGA AT THE VILLAGE
1306 Sonora Ave, Glendale, CA 91201
818-265-9833

Sunday, August 9, 2009
1:00-4:00pm

Patañjali states that after physical conditions have been stabilized,
disturbing pains removed, effort transcended and dualities overcome by
the process of asana (position), emotional stability is gained by the further practices
of pranayama (control of the life-force).

For this practice, it is essential to apply bandha (closing) to prevent the dissipation of energy and to direct it through the right channels, into the right areas without causing damage elsewhere.
Prana can turn lethal when misdirected and the improper performance of bandha will carry numerous adverse effects in its wake. Bandha can only be learned through asana and pranayama is not possible without it. This is practical confirmation of Patañjali’s postulation of a distinct progression
from asana to pranayama.

In this class we will explore the three main bandhas through asana and apply them to pranayama.

Workshop Fee: $45 per person

*TEACHERS: Earn 3 continuing education units toward your Yoga Alliance renewal.

PUNE STYLE
self practice course

at YogaWorks Westwood

This class will provide an opportunity for students to develop a personal practice with the guidance of a teacher. In the Iyengar system, practice is not static, but changes based on an individual’s physical and psychological state, environment, general health, and age. You will learn how to adapt your practice in accordance with your daily needs and develop a rhythm that will help you to firmly establish the yoga practice in your life.
It is recommended that students have at least 6 months of Iyengar yoga experience. Limited to 20 students

Schedule Information
Fridays, June 19 – July 24
7:30-9:00am

THE AYURVEDA OF YOGA

at YogaWorks Westwood

Ayurveda and yoga are considered “sister sciences” that have been united for thousands of years for the sake of healing body, mind, and consciousness. Generally speaking, Ayurveda deals more with the health of the body, while yoga deals with purifying the mind and consciousness, but these two purposes complement and embrace each other. Besides sharing a philosophical foundation, both systems have many similarities in relation to attitude, nutrition, diet, hygiene, exercise and spiritual practices. Yoga practitioners can benefit from a basic knowledge of Ayurveda to help establish a healthy daily routine and adjust their practice according to their constitution, dosha imbalance and environmental/seasonal influences to prevent disease and promote longevity. In this workshop we will learn some of the basic concepts of Ayurveda and how they relate to our practice of yoga.

Schedule Information
Sunday, June 28 2009
1-4pm

Off to study with Geeta and teach in Athens. See you in a few weeks!

Hope to see you all there! It’s from 1:30 – 3:30pm.

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January 13-February 24
Intro to Yoga Course, 4-Week Series
Mondays, 9-10:30am
IYILA

February 8
Yoga for Depression
2-5pm
Yoga Works on Montana in Santa Monica

February 27-March 1
Iyengar Yoga Retreat
Casa Barranca
Ojai, California

March 20-22
Weekend Workshop
Shizen Yoga
Tokyo, Japan

March 27-29
Weekend Workshop
mYoga, Hong Kong

May 22-24
Weekend Workshop
Athens, Greece

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Work on your own practice!

Location: Westwood
Dates: 9/12 – 10/24
Contact Information: Westwood Studio
310.234.1200
Schedule Information
Fridays, 7:30-9:00amPricing Information

Prerequisites
It is recommended that students have at least 6 months prior Iyengar experience.

May 21 – July 9

We will spend an extended period of time examining what is involved in the practice of this most vitally important asana and study its many permutations.

Location: Center for Yoga

Dates: 3/22-3/23
1:30-4:30pm
Contact Information: Center for Yoga
323.464.1276

$100 per weekend

All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.

Thomas Aquinas

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Twelve o’clock.
Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.

Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
“Regard that woman
Who hesitates toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
You see the border of her dress
Is torn and stained with sand,
And you see the corner of her eye
Twists like a crooked pin.”

The memory throws up high and dry
A crowd of twisted things;
A twisted branch upon the beach
Eaten smooth, and polished
As if the world gave up
The secret of its skeleton,
Stiff and white.
A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the strength has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
“Remark the cat which flattens itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.”
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and pocketed a toy that was running along
the quay.
I could see nothing behind that child’s eye.
I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp muttered in the dark.
The lamp hummed:
“Regard the moon,
La lune ne garde aucune rancune,
She winks a feeble eye,
She smiles into corners.
She smooths the hair of the grass.
The moon has lost her memory.
A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.”
The lamp said,
“Four o’clock,
Here is the number on the door.
Memory!
You have the key,
The little lamp spreads a ring on the stair,
Mount.
The bed is open; the tooth-brush hangs on the wall,
Put your shoes at the door, sleep, prepare for life.”
The last twist of the knife.

T.S. Eliot

The One, perfect in seeking nothing, possessing nothing and needing nothing, overflows and creates a new reality by its superabundance.

The process is like the unfolding of a seed, moving from simple origin to termination in the world of sense, the prior always remaining in its place, while begetting its successor from a store of indescribable power – power that must not halt within the higher realm . . but continue to expand until the universe of things reaches the limit of its possibility, lavishing its vast resources on all its creatures, intolerant that any one should have no share in it. Nothing is debarred from participation in the Good, to the extent of its receptivity.