Immersion Description
8:00am Mysore: The practice of meditating while moving.
(For the practitioners with a longer practice; you may start at 7:45am )
The beginning of any Ashtanga Vinyasa Immersion is to step into the Mysore room. It is simply how Ashtanga is taught correctly. The room is quiet. The opportunity is there to delve deeply into your sensation and measure your own response. Emotion is like water on the clay of our bodies. It moves and stretches the model. A pair of hands on the pottery wheel guiding the clay upwards is how we like to teach a Mysore class. This class will be a special opportunity to work individually with Russell and Sally on your personal Mysore practice. Numbers of students attending the immersion is limited.
9:30am Guided Meditation: Movement while sitting.
When we are left to sit on our own finally we sit with our own vibrating consciousness. Our minds are in flux like the ripple on water. It churns the mud and silt of the basin floor and rolls up on the surface of our mind and the shore of our ocean. In this typhoon we sit and wait patiently.
10:30am Break
11:00am Understanding the Yoga Sutras: Meditating and moving while chanting.
Sitting and methodically repeating the correct pronunciation of Sanskrit texts is a practice towards enlightenment in itself. Though we will be diligent in the exact understanding of each syllable of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, in India it is understood that the meaning is gleaned through the repetition of the sound. We will chant Patanjali's explication of the eight limbs of yoga and then we will deconstruct them. Without an understanding of the entire eight limbs of Ashtanga Yoga understanding of Yoga is impossible.
1:00pm Lunch break
2:30pm The Context of Yoga
We will utilize a sequence of images to discuss the role yoga has taken in shaping our culture. Students will learn who the players are and who has said what to whom. We will examine the role conflict and conquest has taken in spreading the right knowledge, the buddhi mind, to the world. This we will show is the inherent contradiction of the dharma kshetra (the field of work).
3:30pm Sounding Boards: the art of adjustment in the context of Ayurveda and study of Anatomy.
In the afternoon we will start to use our hands on our neighbors. Be neighborly and kind, please. To be kind it is necessary to listen and our hands are magnificent instruments for listening. They are like the gigantic ears of elephants. They are in fact the sounding boards we use to listen to Pranic flow in a student's body. The variant streams of the five elements are present in the vibration on our skin. So we start to understand immediately the value of Ayurveda- Indian Science of Life - when teaching. And we learn how not to break our neighbors bones. This is also kind.
4:30pm break
5:00pm Anatomy in the context of practice... the use of "Ah..."
The last session of the day will focus on the tremendous sophistication of our own bodies. This is learned effectively as we unravel the straps holding our bones together. To begin we work within the context of the primary series to learn how our hips are held together by a network of fascia holding muscle bodies in place. We will learn what froze those muscles in the position they are in now. Intelligently we pull those fear straps apart. Like when Hanuman the monkey General pulled open his own chest to God to demonstrate his devotion and discovered Rama and Sita sitting there in his heart.
6:00pm Finish
＊ The Mysore session will be a special opportunity to work individually with Russell and Sally on your personal Mysore practice. Due to the individualized nature, numbers of students attending the immersion is limited.
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