Inversion Workshop with Anne this Saturday

Hi Everyone,

I'm teaching "Upside Down the Right Way" this Saturday afternoon from 2-4 at Clear Spring Studio .

We'll explore variations of Adho Mukha Vrksasana and Pincha Maruyasana, sirsasana I and II, Sarvangasana I and II and look at how to use chairs to support an inversion practice.

Workshop participants can purchase regular size chairs for a reduced price of 30 dollars. (The regular local pick up price for chairs is 40 dollars).

The workshop itself is $25.00.

Come join in the fun.

November is Iyengar Month at Lululemon

Hi Everyone, Here's a note from Gillian .... about the Free Iyengar Classes at Lululemon this month. Saturday mornings 8:30 to 9:30. Here's the schedule of teachers.

Nov 7 - Connie Hausman
Nov 14 - Leah Pozder
Nov 21 - Anne Bowery
Nov 28 - Yves Oberlin

Please come support one another and spread the word in your classes, web-sites, amongst friends & colleagues.

Many thanks to Gillian for organizing this event.

Sequence for Friday October 30

Hi Everyone, Here's a sequence we'll be working from this Friday and maybe the next couple Friday's as well. The numerals refer to which level syllabus the pose is on.

No. 1 Jr. I-II–III sequence, from Devon’s mind, forward bends and twists emphasis

Utthita trikonasana

Utthita parsvakonasana

Utthita hasta padangusthasana I (holding toe or belt)

Utthita parsva hasta padangusthasana with and without support (I)

Utthita hasta padangusthasana classic pose, head to shin (II)

Virabhadrasana III (I)

Urdhva prasarita ekapadasana (I)

Parasarita padottanasana II (I)

Gomukhasana classic (I)

Malasana I : head to floor, hands on heels (II)

(Malasana I, arms around legs and back (III))

Upavistha konasana (II)

Parsva upavistha konasana (III)

Ardha baddha padma paschimottanasana holding front foot (I)

Ardha baddha padma paschimottanasana, clasping from behind belt or fingers(II, III)

Parvatasana in Padmasana (II)

Marichyasana I, classic pose

Marichyasana II (III)

Ardha matsyendrasana I (arm straight, holding foot in matsyendra shape, other arm

on the back (I)

Marichyasana III classic (II)

Janu Sirsasana

Parivrtta janu sirsasana (III)

Jathara parivartanasana (legs bent) (I)

Jathara parivartanasana, legs straight, as far down as possible) (III)

Eka hasta bhujasana (I)

Bhujapidasana (III)

Adho mukha vrksasana (Palms turned outward, against wall) (I)

Adho mukha vrksasana (Palms turned forward, against wall) (II)

Adho mukha vrksasana (Palms turned back as Mayurasana, but 1.5 ft. away from wall) (III)

Pincha mayurasana (against wall)(I)

Pincha mayurasana (palms turned up) (III)

Salamba sirsasana I (I)

Parsva sirsasana (II)

Parivrttaikapada sirsasana (III)

Urdhva Dhanurasana (supported on chair, hands and feet on floor or blocks, if

needed. Candidates at this level should be able to push up into the full asana.)(I)

Dwi Pada Viparita Dandasana (supported on chair; feet on floor, with bent elbows

holding the front legs of the chair; legs bent or straight) (II)

Urdhva Dhanurasana I (straight from ground) (III)

Salamba Sarvangasana I (I)

Salamba Sarvangasana II (I)

Eka Pada Sarvangasana (top leg perpendicular to floor and Hala leg straight; left and

right sides of spine parallel) (I)

Halasana (arm position as in LoY pl. 241) (I)

Urdhva padmasana in sarvangasana (insofar as possible) (III)

Setu bandha Sarvangasana (classic asana, dropping from Sarvangasana) (I)

Setu Bandha Sarvangasana (coming up to Sarvangasana) (III)

Bharadvajasana, mild twisting-resting type pose

Paschimottanasana

Savasana

Practice this Friday

Hi Everyone,

Our new practice format starts this week. Devon, Gillian, and Anne will each be teaching various poses from the Junior I, II, and III Iyengar Syllabi. The poses on these syllabi include arm balances, backward bends, padmasana work, advanced twists, and lots and lots of inversions and various.

Hope to see you there.

Clear Spring Fridays at 3:30 $10.00.

Practice schedule for October

Hi Everyone,

No practice this Friday the 9th. Devon, Gillian, and I are all out of town.

Gillian will lead practice Friday the 16th. She will do the Cathy Rogers Evans sequence posted a couple weeks back.


Starting Friday the 25th, we are going to change the format of practice a good bit. Devon is going up for her Junior III assessment next year and I am going up for Junior I assessment the following year and Gillian will be at some point in the future as well. So with that in mind, we are going to start practicing sequences that work with the Junior I, II, and III syllabi. Each week, we will each teach a couple or three or four poses that are on our respective syllabi. You'll still get a great practice, but there will be more instruction than has generally been the case. We'll probably do significantly fewer poses and repeat them as that helps us practice observation, a crucial part of the Iyengar teaching practice. Also, we will be giving each other feedback about each other's teaching, so you'll learn a lot about teaching as well. Other local Iyengar teachers may drop in and teach from time to time as well.

In the next couple months, Devon will have to make a tape to send in to her mentors and then go up for assessment about a year from now. Some of the practices will be recorded. Anyway, come help us out. The better we get at teaching, the better you get as students. The better you get as students, the better we'll get at teaching.

Cost of the practice is still $10.00, that's the best yoga deal in town.

Practice This Friday is On

Hi Everyone, Practice is on this week. Not sure about next week, will let you know. Gillian will do the Cathy Rodgers Evan's sequence from last week, on the 16th instead.


I'm starting to study in earnest for the Junior I assessment, so this sequence is one I made a while back that has a lot of the Junior I backbends on it. Timings in the columns are where we need to be to get done in two hours, not the timings for a particular pose.

Anne’s Sequence For Tuesday Any thing with an asterik is on my syllabus, so any special insight ya’ll have on those poses please share)


Supta I-IV at Wall
Ardha Supta Virasana at Wall
Supta Virasana (15 minutes- )
Gomukasana
AMS
*AMV
PM
Sirsasana ( 30 minutes)
Dwi Pada on chair
*Dwi Pada on Chair with with fingers interlocked behind head) ( 40 minutes)
Ustrasana
Virasana
Parvatasana in Virasana
Supta Virasana
*Paryanakasana
*Bhekasana
Dhanurasana
*Parsva Dharanurasana
Dhanurasana
*Urdhva Dhanurasana (supported on chair pushing up with hands and feet on floor)
Urdh Dhanurasana ( 60 minuites)

Other fancy back bends as ya’ll desire. ( 90 minutes)

AMS heels at wall
Parsva Uttansana
Prasarita padottansana (modified) these there are a mary and eddy quick backbend recovery sequence (95 minutes)

Halsana
SS I and II*
Halasana
Supta konasana
*Parsva halsana feet to floor (110 minutes)



* Jatara parvatanasana (legs bent)

Jatara parvatanasana

*Urdhva Prasarita Padasana (115 minutes)

Savanasana (5 minutes )

Savasana

Practice Sequence for Friday September 25

Hi Everyone, Gillian will lead us through a Cathy Rogers Evans Sequence 11/16/07

As alwasy, 3:30 Clear Spring Studio - Cost $10.00 best yoga deal in town.

Swatikasana, lift pillars, side body.
Supta Padangusthasana (1,2,3,4) keeping sides of waist long.
Dandasana
Gomukhasana, blocks for hands.
Dandasana
Lolasana, swing.
Dandasana
1/2 Padmasana, walk hands forward.
Padmasana, interlace fingers overhead.
Tolasana, knees higher.
Sirsasana II, transitioning to Bakasana (crane)
Marichyasana III sit on lift.
Dandasana, bend knees close to chest, arms forward, lift buttocks, heels down.
Utkatasana, bend knees fully into squat with heels down.
Dwi Hasta Bhujasana, feet together, push out heels.
Bhujapidasana, cross ankles.
Eka Hasta Bhujasana, leg over shoulder.
Astavakrasana, striaght legs crossed to side arm balance.
Dandasana
Sarvangasana, variations, twist, drop back.
Setubandha with bent legs, block at sacrum, several lift offs.
Savasana.