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Prana! - The Pawanmuktasana Flow

Friday March 19th 5:30pm-7:30pm

Emeryville Health & Wellness

Liberate your joints and increase your life force!  This ancient flow of movements moves every joint in the body in every direction.  You'll feel cleansed, enlivened and even ethereal by the end of this fun class.  The movements clear blockages at the physical and subtle level - a perfect start to a light and happy Spring.  This class is open to students of any level.
Fee: $45

Deeper Inside: Home Practice Workshop 2
Saturday April 24 from 4-7pm
Sacramento Yoga Center with Kryananda Devi & Kaya
For students who have a home practice in Svaroopa yoga and want to explore new poses and deeper understanding of the essential poses & practices.  For a more extended experience consider Foundations.

  • Begin with a new yoga practice to add to your home practice tool box
  • Get insight into some new, more complex & advanced poses for releasing the spine including: the purpose of each pose, how to prop and align yourself, & how to sequence the poses for the most effective home practice.
  • Learn the underlying purpose of Shavāsana
  • Explore the power of Ujjayi Pranāyama
  • Ask questions of the most experienced Svaroopa yoga teachers in the Greater Sacramento and Bay area.
  • Complete the evening with another yoga practice and Shavāsana to open your body againfrom tail-to-top, & leave feeling open & inspired!
Fee $50. 
Space is limited, preregistration required.
Contact Kaya at yogawithkaya@gmail.com or 415-847-7084


FOUNDATIONS OF SVAROOPAŽ YOGA

May 26-30, 2010 - Sacramento, CA

October 8-12, 2010 - Oahu, Hawaii

Click here for more info!

Dive in for 5 full days of SvaroopaŽ yoga's most essential tools & teachings.


Yoga Walking Lessons

Date TBA

Learn to walk, SvaroopaŽ style!  Back by popular demand, this fun and dynamic workshop focuses on spinal release as well as learning to use your  leg and abdominal muscles for staying open while you move.  You don't spend your life on blankets.... but you can learn to be open and tall when you get up.

Home Practice Workshop
Date TBA

  • Begin with a yoga practice for opening the whole spine - a practice you can do at home!
  • Get insight into the essential poses of Svaroopa yoga - including: understand the purpose of each pose, how to prop and align yourself, & how to sequence the poses for the most effective home practice.
  • Ask questions of the most experienced Svaroopa yoga teachers in the Greater Sacramento and Bay area.
  • Learn how to sustain & deepen the openings you get in yoga class.
  • Gain several reliable sequences that open your body from tail to top!
  • Learn to customize your home practice according to your needs, goals, and schedule.
  • Learn how to fit yoga into your busy schedule.
  • Learn how to get the most benefit in the shortest time!
  • Complete the evening with another yoga practice, opening your body once more from tail-to-top, so you leave feeling open & inspired!


Deep & Dynamic - Reverse your Perspective
Date TBA

Same title... new poses!  Experience another perspective - upside down!  Amaze yourself with poses that turn your body and your mind around, and give you a new outlook on yourself, your life and your body all at the same time.  You'll learn inversion poses, deep heart openers and  a powerful full-body mudra.  The class is imbued with passages from Patanjali Sutras - the ancient text that describes the path, purpose & experience of yoga. This workshop is for students with at least 6 months previous experience of SvaroopaŽ yoga.


Pose & Adjustment Clinic

For Foundations Grads & Teachers

Date TBA

"Just want to tell you how lovely the clinic was. The time flew by and it was so nice to re-visit the adjustments. I feel much more confident in my teaching techniques. Thanks again!" - Jennifer H.

Partner pair & practice propping and hands on adjustments in key poses for spinal release.  Get feedback, fine-tuning, reminders and instruction from a Teacher Trainer (Kaya).  You'll get lots of tailbone release from such adjustments as the Dual Knee-Cap Press, 1/2 Frog Sacrum Press and Spinal Twist with all the props!  This clinic is for Foundations grads & teachers.


The Other Direction

Date TBA

Get moving in the "other" direction - backwards!  You spend so much time in a forward bend... sitting in the car, at the computer, on the couch...you start to feel hunched over, crunched over, and shortened!  Come get lengthened out with the most important direction of movement in yoga - backbends.  We'll explore moving the areas of your body that are stuck and blocked.  Melting the inner tensions and getting you opened up like never before.