A vinyasa flow practice is defined as "to place in a special way". To construct a yoga practice means to consciously organize postures in a sequential matter that yokes the mind to the body through the vehicle of our breath. Join Joan Hyman, a senior yoga teacher and creator of The School of Yoga, for a weekend of asana practice that integrates our subtle body and can teach you the foundations of creating a sustainable yoga practice.
Whether you are new to your practice or well-seasoned, this weekend is perfect for teachers and student yogis alike. Join one or more sessions! Join for the whole weekend and enjoy an Early Bird discount through 31. August 2024.
Program & Timing
From Standing to Seated
Friday | 18:00-20:30
Standing and seated postures can help us access our roots and feel grounded. When we connect to our legs and understand how to center our pelvis, we connect to our root lock, which creates a strong and stable base.This workshop will begin with a brief discussion on standing and seated postures and the importance of centering our pelvis in these postures. As we move into this workshop style practice, we will look at these poses from the bottom up starting with our feet and understanding how the feet affect everything else above. We will explore standing postures, which are the foundations of our yoga practice before moving into seated postures to help to soothe the nervous system and prepare for deep relaxation. This workshop is open to all levels.
Understanding Our Shoulders
Saturday | 11:00-13:30
Healthy shoulders make for better inversions and add more longevity to our practice. With the multiple downward dogs and chaturangas of your daily vinyasa practice, your shoulders can be vulnerable to injury over time. Learn how to use props and alignment cues to better understand how to stabilize your shoulders, helping you access weight bearing postures on the arms and prevent impingement.
This workshop will start with a lecture pointing out the bones and muscles that make up the shoulder girdle and teach you how to move safely from your shoulder blades while protecting the vulnerable muscles like your rotator cuffs. We'll then move into a shoulder-focused asana practice, which will include inversions, working at the wall and with assists, to help you feel confident to get up and hopefully stay up! We will explore external rotation and why it is important to understand how to externally rotate our shoulders in yoga practice and understand how to do it. See how specific alignment cues can help you access other postures like backbends and inversions safely by looking at bodies and seeing the movement of the shoulder blades. Practice and learn at the same time while creating a sustainable safe yoga practice!
Unraveling Our Hips
Saturday | 15:30-18:00
Our hips are the fulcrum point of our bodies where all movement happens from. If you are an athlete, sit at a desk, or would like to sit in meditation longer, this workshop will guide you on an exploration towards freeing up tension in your hips. There are four quadrants of our hips, the front, back, and two sides known as our outer hips. We will begin with a deep dive into externally rotated standing postures before moving into a variety of seated postures to help you move through resistance and surrender to a peaceful seat for meditation. You will leave with a program of hip openers and a deeper understanding of how your hips work! All levels welcome!
Reading Bodies & Hands-On Assists
Sunday | 13:00-16:00
This is an asana oriented clinic for teachers and practitioners who want to increase their knowledge of asana by understanding correct alignment and how to use props to support postures and prevent injury. This workshop is specifically designed for yogis looking to understand and refine postures and for yoga teachers looking to improve their knowledge on how to read bodies and make adjustments that meet student’s individual needs. We will learn how to increase longevity in your practice by studying the anatomy in poses and learn how to stack the bones so muscles can work in an optimal way. This workshop will help to improve your confidence as a teacher by refining your touch, understanding the use of props, and learning to adjust to your individual needs and others.
We will slowly climb up each platform of the body and refine each section to create stability and support in vulnerable places like the knees, lower back, and neck. Joan will open with a brief discussion of the anatomy of the bones and muscles that support each section before moving into a workshop style practice using wall space and props to help to align the bones and teach how to engage deeper muscles needed to support the joints. Joan will look at different bodies and point out areas that are dull (tamasic) or overworked (ragasic) and teach how to find balance (sattvic) in these areas. Gain an understanding on how to work with props and wall space to align from the inside out and light up the postures helping your practice to feel buoyant and leave your body feeling transformed.
Pricing
Full Weekend • 375.-** / 340.-*
Single Session • 110.- / 99.-*
**Early Bird Discount • 325.-
*Pricing for B.Yoga Members
About Joan
Joan Hyman’s grounded teaching style seamlessly supports her students as they emerge from their practice with the rich and bright energy that yoga has to offer. Joan’s teachings come from an organic and intuitive place, as she draws upon the combined studies of Ashtanga and Iyengar yoga as well as Ayurveda and meditation. An authentic modern-day yogi, Joan's love and devotion show up in her practice and throughout her teaching. You will leave her class feeling transformed and deeply aligned.
Joan spent fifteen years as a distinguished YogaWorks Senior Teacher before bringing her expertise to Wanderlust as the Director of Teacher Trainings in 2016. Now, with over twenty years experience leading retreats, trainings, and international workshops, Joan continues to travel the globe leading her own signature trainings. Joan created The School of Yoga, which is a professional program that offers continuing education, including a team of teachers who are experts in their field of study. Joan continues to partner with yoga schools world wide to help develop high quality teacher training programs and make the practice of yoga accessible to everyone!
As a leader in the yoga and wellness community, Joan also contributes to popular blogs such as International Yoga, Yoga Journal, and Wanderlust. She has been featured in conferences and festivals around the world, and offers her teaching online and live in person helping to accommodate an international community of yogis. Joan’s open-hearted approach to teaching yoga keeps both her inner spirit and her students continuously evolving.