Chip Hartranft Workshop-Embodying Patañjali: Asana-Pranayama in the Yoga-Sutra
Saturday, June 9, 2-5pm
Join yoga and dharma teacher Chip Hartranft for an experiential traversal of the yoga underlying both yogic and Buddhist meditation - practices that cultivate energy, tranquility, and insight.
Assessing and Assisting Postures: A Workshop for Yoga TeachersLed by Judy McClain.
Friday, April 20, 7-9pm, Saturday, April 21, 1-4pm
The art of teaching yoga requires a refined knowledge of the classical postures and the ability to see the potential for movement within a student’s body. What is the measure of a “correct” posture? A “perfected” posture? What is the standard to which we hold ourselves and our students where body shapes are concerned? And how does this standard meet in real time a real body, with its own peculiarities, stories,
and physical and mental obstructions?
Monthly Meditation Class
First Sunday of every month. 5-6:15. $8 drop-in fee; cards do not apply.
Led by Staff
Kirtan
TBD
Ecstatic chant is an essential Bhakti practice; in singing the Name, we come closer to God. We must cultivate a devotional heart; chanting is a method for liberating the heart.
Maha Sadhana: The Great and Divine Practice
Held monthly on the third Saturday at 5:30-8:30. The next maha sadhana is November 19, 2011.
Bring vegetarian food to share afterward or just enjoy the bounty. Just Come!
Yoga and Movement for Children (ages 7-11) is an hour-long class that will allow children to build fine and gross motor skills, balance, eye-hand coordination, bilateral integration, confidence, and relaxation skills. Guided imagery will be woven throughout the class to link movement and imagination.
New! Community Classes Beginning October, $5
Community Classes resume in October. These one-hour classes allow our teacher trainees the opportunity to hone their skills in a safe and supervised environment. In return, the Grace community
has more options for classes during the week at less than half price. Just Come! Greet and support
our budding teachers!
Chip Hartranft Workshop--Embodying Patañjali: Asana-Pranayama in the Yoga-Sutra
Saturday, June 9, 2-5pm
Located at the heart of yoga is the ancient tradition described by Patañjali in the seminal text, the Yoga-Sutra. Unlike later dynamic Tantric practices, Patañjala-yoga's focus is on awakening to the self-liberating nature of the body, its 'aliveness' (prana), and the consciousness (citta) in which they are at play. Thus, asana and pranayama primarily involve dropping free of confining and afflictive psychosomatic patterning (samskaras) and feature far more undoing than doing.
Join yoga and dharma teacher Chip Hartranft for an experiential traversal of the yoga underlying both yogic and Buddhist meditation - practices that cultivate energy, tranquility, and insight.
Come prepared to breathe and move and sit.
Chip Hartranft is the author of The Yoga-Sutra of Patañjali: a new translation with commentary (Shambhala) and the forthcoming How The Buddha Taught Meditation. He has taught a blend of yoga movement & meditation in the Boston area since 1978 and is the founding director of The Arlington Center, dedicated to the integration of yoga and dharma practice.
Pregistration: $40
Assessing and Assisting Postures: A Workshop for Yoga Teachers Led by Judy McClain
Friday, April 20, 7-9pm, Saturday, April 21, 1-4pm
The wise Dona Holleman says the question to ask is not how to do a posture but what is preventing the posture from emerging through a particular body. The yoga teacher’s gift and directive is to see the obstructions or obfuscations within a student’s complex of koshas: body, energy, mind, wisdom, and bliss.
This five-hour workshop will investigate classes of postures and their execution, using the Dharma Yoga model. We will then work in groups to practice general assisting techniques for each class of posture: forward folds, back bends, standing postures, and balancing postures. If we have time, we will cover inversions.
You will learn several techniques: physical, verbal, and psychic. You will learn how to begin to see. You will learn how to distinguish between the correction of a posture and the deepening of a posture. Underlying this work is the investigation of your responsibilities as a Teacher-Friend. You will learn how to offer students the gifts of your voice, your eyes, and your Presence.
Preregistration required: $60 cash, check, or PayPal
Ecstatic chant is an essential Bhakti practice; in singing the Name, we come closer to God. We must cultivate a devotional heart; chanting is a method for liberating the heart. We host several kirtans per year, and in the beautiful space at Grace, our voices resonate and purify all who come. Come find your voice! Sing in a beautiful community!
"Narayani is lovable, engaging and her voice is brilliant and strong. She is humble and unassuming. I felt challenged and inspired to rise to new places because of the strength of her voice and insight, and the warmth of the group that came together under her skilled facilitation. I have so many voices, and this one - the authentic one we studied - is the one that deserves most of my attention. Please don't miss her if she travels nearby to you. Her workshop is a rare and beautiful experience."
D.C.
“Narayani was amazing. She was so skilled at creating a safe environment for us to explore our voices. I found the inquiry amazing. I felt at different times throughout the day deeply touched, full of vitality, balanced, empowered, and expressed. I thought it might be scary but she gave us so much permission to do what we wanted, that I did not feel frightened. I would highly recommend the experience.”
S.M.
“The workshop was much more than I had expected. Narayani put me in touch with much more than my voiceI was exhilarated when I left. The energy in the room was remarkable and so very open. Narayani made it fun, freeing, embracing, and very, very moving. It was a sweet group of “chosen people” and I appreciated the support and love that was so present.”
B.G.
Maha Sadhana: The Great and Divine Practice
The next Maha Sadhana is Saturday, November 19, 2011. 5:30-8:30
Held monthly on the fourth Saturday at 5:30-8:30.
Vegetarian pot luck dinner afterward. $25 Please preregister for this event.
Once a month at his NYC yoga center, Dharma Mittra leads a wondrous event called Maha Sadhana, which includes chanting, pranayama, psychic development exercises, deep vinyasa yoga, and Yoga Nidra. Grace Yoga holds a Maha Sadhana in the tradition of Sri Dharma Mittra each month. The pranayama and chanting clean the mind and nervous system of impurities and bring radiance to the entire body. The deep practice of Shiva Namaskara Vinyasa tones and purifies the physical body. Psychic Development exercises put us in touch with all our resources and sharpen our powers of discernment. Maha Sadhana cements a community like no other practice. Just come!
Bring vegetarian food to share afterward or just enjoy the bounty.
The workshops at Grace are deep and powerful, often led by internationally known or published writers and artists. Workshops have included Chip Hartrant’s brilliant presentation of the Yoga Sutra; Sat Kartar Kaur Khalsa’s profound kundalini workshop to eradicate fear; the Warrior Heart workshop; Metta for Women; kirtan and voice workshops; and a 12-hour marathon Bandhas Workshop. Upcoming in April: Assessing and Assisting Postures, for Yoga Teachers.
Yoga and Movement for Children (ages 7-11)
is an hour-long class that will allow children to build fine and gross motor skills, balance, eye-hand coordination, bilateral integration, confidence, and relaxation skills. Guided imagery will be woven throughout the class to link movement and imagination.
Why Yoga for Children? Yoga is non-competitive. Yoga requires staying present. Yoga is a low-cost preventive medicine. Yoga creates balance and body integration. Yoga increases flexibility and is grounding. Yoga creates a learning space in which joy flourishes.
Session II-(6 classes)-Wednesdays 4:15 pm, Nov 2 thru December 14
Pre-registration only Session II: $60. Call to register: 401-667-2800 or register at the desk.
Nicole Zaloumis-O’Reilly, M.Ed., Special Education teacher, children’s yoga teacher, and Orton Gillingham tutor, has been practicing yoga for over 13 years. She completed the Radiant Child Teacher Training and has trained in the Integrative Movement Therapy for children and teens.
Questions: Nicole Zaloumis-O’Reilly at nicolezoreilly@yahoo.com