Two Yoga Workshop with Peter Roussel. 23 – 24th October 2010.
Workshop 1 – Managing Body Mechanics
Workshop 2 – Feeling Limits and Understanding Priorities
———————————————— Workshop 1 – Managing Body Mechanics
Workshop 1 – Managing Body Mechanics is an experiential workshop on self management. This workshop will show ways to deal with injuries and limitations in the practice of asana.
Self control is more than speaking and behaving in the ‘right way’. Often control systems fall down when the ideology they are based on are flawed or incomplete. In asana we find a good reflection of this premise when we learn to use the body’s feed-back signals to correct the action of the pose. Pain tells us something is not right and we learn how to interpret those signals to inform us.
Each individual body mind system has strengths and weaknesses. To make the yoga work for an individual we need these skills:
Alertness
Sensitivity
Wisdom
Humbleness
(notice it is not about how flexible you are)
Practice is about an expansion of conscious awareness into a state of perception that encompasses every aspect of the experience of being what we are.
This workshop will give some very valuable tools to make the yoga practice your own. Even if you only have one leg! We can look at little challenges you face and generally make the practice better.
————————————————- Workshop 2
Feeling Limits and Understanding Priorities -
(How to use Alignment and Props)
Everything is give and take – constantly. One thing gives way to another.
Which thing is placed on top of another? What effect does the placement and order of events have?
Props are very helpful tool in asana and meditation practice. Used well they offer us a taste of where the pose ‘is going’. This means it gives us an aspect of more ‘fullness’ in the experience of the asana so we gain the energetic benefit but avoid injury.
There is what it looks like an the outside, and there is what is really going on on the inside. We spend plenty of of time (and money) to make sure things looks nice. In this workshop we will start noticing “What it feels like”.
This is moving the focus from the outside to the inside – a step towards authenticity.
The results are surprising:- when we do asana from the the point of view of of our inner experience. The positions are less extravagant, more composed and meditative.
This is a workshop to understand the performance of asana so that the mind is working with the body (not forcing and injuring the body). If you have preexisting imbalance that manifests as pain this workshop will be informative on how to rise above these limitations and enjoy your practice.
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NB: Note of the suitability of students.
Both these workshop are involving concentration and meditation. Practitioners are expected to have some experience (and the more you have the more you will learn). There is no competition in these practices and any level of physical practice with restriction / limitation is welcome, only the desire to learn and the ability to concentrate are needed.
Workshop Osaka
Workshops at Spirit Yoga, Osaka, Japan
Two Yoga Workshop with Peter Roussel. 23 – 24th October 2010.
Workshop 1 – Managing Body Mechanics
Workshop 2 – Feeling Limits and Understanding Priorities
————————————————
Workshop 1 – Managing Body Mechanics
Workshop 1 – Managing Body Mechanics is an experiential workshop on self management. This workshop will show ways to deal with injuries and limitations in the practice of asana.
Self control is more than speaking and behaving in the ‘right way’. Often control systems fall down when the ideology they are based on are flawed or incomplete. In asana we find a good reflection of this premise when we learn to use the body’s feed-back signals to correct the action of the pose. Pain tells us something is not right and we learn how to interpret those signals to inform us.
Each individual body mind system has strengths and weaknesses. To make the yoga work for an individual we need these skills:
Alertness
Sensitivity
Wisdom
Humbleness
(notice it is not about how flexible you are)
Practice is about an expansion of conscious awareness into a state of perception that encompasses every aspect of the experience of being what we are.
This workshop will give some very valuable tools to make the yoga practice your own. Even if you only have one leg! We can look at little challenges you face and generally make the practice better.
————————————————-
Workshop 2
Feeling Limits and Understanding Priorities -
(How to use Alignment and Props)
Everything is give and take – constantly. One thing gives way to another.
Which thing is placed on top of another? What effect does the placement and order of events have?
Props are very helpful tool in asana and meditation practice. Used well they offer us a taste of where the pose ‘is going’. This means it gives us an aspect of more ‘fullness’ in the experience of the asana so we gain the energetic benefit but avoid injury.
There is what it looks like an the outside, and there is what is really going on on the inside. We spend plenty of of time (and money) to make sure things looks nice. In this workshop we will start noticing “What it feels like”.
This is moving the focus from the outside to the inside – a step towards authenticity.
The results are surprising:- when we do asana from the the point of view of of our inner experience. The positions are less extravagant, more composed and meditative.
This is a workshop to understand the performance of asana so that the mind is working with the body (not forcing and injuring the body). If you have preexisting imbalance that manifests as pain this workshop will be informative on how to rise above these limitations and enjoy your practice.
————————————————
NB: Note of the suitability of students.
Both these workshop are involving concentration and meditation. Practitioners are expected to have some experience (and the more you have the more you will learn). There is no competition in these practices and any level of physical practice with restriction / limitation is welcome, only the desire to learn and the ability to concentrate are needed.