Ramanand Patel has been a leading Iyengar Yoga Instructor around the world since 1968. He trained many of the teachers who conducted the teacher training program at the Iyengar Institute of San Francisco. Some of these teacher have gone on to become internationally well known teachers.
His deep knowledge regarding challenging physical issues, technical knowledge of asana and pranayma, and a grasp of the fundamental questions of philosophy and psychology are mixed with a keen sense of humor, to make his classes thought provoking and challenging in all aspects of yoga. He regards his father, yogacharya Shri Iyengarji, Swami Dayanandaji and J. Krishnamurtiji to be his source of guiding light.
Visit his website at www.yogirama.com for more information.
Hart Lazer is co-owner of United Yoga Montreal and internationally recognized as a teacher of yoga teachers. Systematic, profound, thorough, sensitive and challenging, he is a master at teaching the mechanics of asana, having studied closely with Iyengar teacher Ramanand Patel for many years and undertaken a serious study of Ashtanga yoga. Hart Lazer offers his students the experience gained from his unique life story, from boyhood in a Jewish rabbinical school through a career in counseling and over 25 years as a yoga teacher and practitioner. In recent years Hart has explored the effects of Buddhism, yoga and trauma on the body and has developed a multi-dimensional approach to working with human difficulties.
Art of Sitting
Description
In this workshop the Art of Sitting in yoga postures will be explained in detail. We will look into the methods of using belts, blocks, blankets, mats and such props to help the student to work with different challenges in establishing correct seated postures for asana, pranayama and meditation. Relationship of such postures with other more dynamic postures will be examined. Every sitting posture has a physical stillness; within the stillness there are still organic and pranic dynamic actions. We will learn to work with these actions in stillness and to examine the psychological implications of such actions. We will also explore some ways of tuning into spiritual value of such effort.
Suitable for
teachers and students who have been practicing yoga for at least one year. .
Daily Schedule
Morning Session: 10:00-13:30
Afternoon Session: 14:30-16:30
CE Credit
11 hours of CEU credits for Yoga Alliance.
Working from the Bones
Description
This 3-day Immersion will focus mainly on working with the structural layers of the body in order to hold postures for longer periods of time with much less muscular effort. Working from the bones facilitates the ability to work with the deeper subtleties of the body to deepen your practice of Asana in relationship to Annamaya Kosha (Physical Body), Pranayama Kosha (Breath Body) and the art of Mula Bandha.
*** The program is suitable for those who are very familiar with basic alignment of yoga postures and have the stamina to hold the poses for a longer time to allow the mind to penetrate deeper. The workshop is not suitable for those with therapeutic needs, need of special attention or for pregnant women. ***
Suitable for
Practitioners who have been practicing yoga for at least one year and who are very familiar with basic alignment of yoga posture and have the stamina to hold the poses for a longer time to allow the mind to penetrate deeper.
This course is not suitable for practitioners who have special healing needs and therefore need special care in the course.
Daily Schedule
Morning Session : 10:00-13:30
Afternoon Session : 14:30-16:30
CE Credit
16.5 hours of CEU credits for Yoga Alliance.
