Overview
In this workshop Sarah Powers will encourage us to develop and/or deepen our commitment to a balanced daily practice that nourishes not only our body and breath, but our hearts and minds as well. Each class will give us the opportunity to highlight these four themes individually, so that we might braid them together inside us as a holistic Mandala (or sanctuary of practice) that we can enter daily for renewed inspiration and insight. The first hour of each class Sarah will focus on salient features of Mindfulness meditation with both lecture and practice. Through clarifying and highlighting the basic tenets of a skillful practice, Sarah will help make meditation a joyous endeavor, reminding us of its essential place in our lives.
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Each day, the meditation practice will be followed by various Yin/Yang asana sequences that encourage stability and mobility, grounded-ness and ease, enabling us to merge what Taoists call heaven and earth within our own bodies and minds, while cultivating the sensitive energy body simultaneously.
The last hour will be given to compassion practices, often called the 4 Immeasurables in Buddhism, as the qualities of loving kindness, compassion, empathetic joy and equanimity having boundless possibilities within each of us. To initiate the proliferation of these values in our personal experience, we simply need to passionately lean our hearts and minds in these directions on a regular basis.
Each class will be a complete experience, but these practices also build on each other. For this reason, Sarah suggests that you attend both days in order to develop a self-practice with a clear understanding of these diverse yet interrelated disciplines.
Sarah will be drawing from her book Insight Yoga as well as her videos, Insight Yoga: Heaven and Insight Yoga: Earth (both available for purchase - streaming, on-demand access here:https://pranamaya.com/teachers/sarah-powers-3/). We recommend that you have read her book and viewed the videos before attending.
About Sarah Powers
Sarah Powers is the co-founder of the Insight Yoga Institute as well as the author of Insight Yoga, which interweaves yoga, Buddhism, Taoism, and Transpersonal psychology into an integral practice to discover and enliven the body, heart, and mind. Her yoga style blends both a Yin sequence of floor poses to enhance the meridian and organ systems with an alignment-based slow flow, or yang practice, influenced by Viniyoga, Ashtanga, Iyengar, and Qigong. Sarah has completed all levels of the Internal Family Systems Therapy training and has been a student of Transpersonal psychology for over 30 years. She also draws from her in-depth training in the Vipashyana, Tantric and Dzogchen practices of Buddhism. Sarah and her husband Ty Powers co-direct the Insight Yoga Institute, which offers 500+ hour trainings blending yoga, buddhism and psychology. For more information, please visit:
Date:
11.- 12. June, 2022 10:00 – 14:00
Cost:
CHF 239.- Early Bird (until January 2022) / CHF 275.- thereafter