$250 Entire Weekend (no individual sessions)
ALL LEVELS WELCOME
This workshop is suitable for anyone interested in Ashtanga with motivation to learn.
David is skillful in providing explanations of elusive, often unspoken aspects of the practice. In weekend workshop’s, he offers clinic style led classes that investigate specific aspects of the practice that help students come to new perspectives on how to practice more intelligently, safely and joyfully.
In his workshops David offers a combination both traditional counted vinyasa led classes and clinic style led classes that investigate specific aspects of the practice in varying levels of detail. These important classes feature more verbal instruction; they give students a chance to slow things down, see new ways to orient during practice, get explanations of elusive, often unspoken aspects of the practice, and understand the Ashtanga method in greater, more subtle detail. Mysore, chanting and kirtan classes are also frequently included in a workshop. During the weekend David weaves together studies of asana, pranayama, bandhas, vinyasa, chanting, bhakti yoga, yoga sutra’s and other elements to help develop Ashtanga Vidya (knowledge).
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Friday: Ashtanga Foundations I – The Five Allies in Surya Namaskara
Saturday: Ashtanga Foundations II & III – Standing Sequence, Seated Postures & Dynamic Transitions of Primary Series
Saturday: Precision, Purification and Pranayama
Sunday: Mysore
Sunday: Question and Answer session
ALL LEVELS WELCOME
This workshop is suitable for anyone interested in Ashtanga with motivation to learn.
David is skillful in providing explanations of elusive, often unspoken aspects of the practice. In weekend workshop’s, he offers clinic style led classes that investigate specific aspects of the practice that help students come to new perspectives on how to practice more intelligently, safely and joyfully.
In his workshops David offers a combination both traditional counted vinyasa led classes and clinic style led classes that investigate specific aspects of the practice in varying levels of detail. These important classes feature more verbal instruction; they give students a chance to slow things down, see new ways to orient during practice, get explanations of elusive, often unspoken aspects of the practice, and understand the Ashtanga method in greater, more subtle detail. Mysore, chanting and kirtan classes are also frequently included in a workshop. During the weekend David weaves together studies of asana, pranayama, bandhas, vinyasa, chanting, bhakti yoga, yoga sutra’s and other elements to help develop Ashtanga Vidya (knowledge).
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FRIDAY 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Ashtanga Foundations I – The Five Allies in Surya Namaskara
In this session we’ll look at the 5 root techniques that form the internal practice of Ashtanga Yoga by carefully studying their application to the nine positions of Surya Namaskara. The root techniques, or allies include pranayama (conscious breathing), vinyasa (positioning), bandha’s (locks), dristi (gazing), and dhyana (meditation).
The positions of Surya Namaskara provide the perfect foundational basis for exploring the important role that each of the allies plays in creating a mature, sustainable yoga practice.
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SATURDAY 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
Ashtanga Foundations II & III – Standing Sequence, Seated Postures & Dynamic Transitions of Primary Series
In this session we’ll explore how cultivating a combination of dynamism and stability in the standing postures provides you a perfect means of entrance into the internal practice of Ashtanga Yoga. Structuring each seated asana in the primary around understanding the allies (vinyasa, breathing, bandha’s etc) will help you better extract the strengthening, restorative, and heali§ng benefits of this important series.
We’ll also study the dynamic transitions between the asanas, carefully looking at how to create a better a jump back and jump through. And emphasizing the transitions also teaches you to cultivate rhythm, breath, dynamism and vitality within the stillness of each asana.
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SATURDAY 1:30 pm –3:00 pm
Precision, Purification and Pranayama
This session will utilize breathing exercises, retention, and discussion to help you better centralize your awareness on breath during practice. We’ll study how to use breathing to build powerful strength in your asana’s and to effect nadi shodana, purification of the pranic channels. Prana Vidya, knowledge of prana, helps you to progress towards subtlety as you concentrate your mind and better direct the power of the internalized prana.
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SUNDAY 9:30am-11:30am
Mysore
Mysore class provides the student with a concentrated and heightened learning experience that will help he/she develop practical and technical yoga skills and be immersed in the inspirational magic and poetic soul of the practice. Each student will receive valuable one to one guidance from David on developing his/her personal practice. The student will develop skill in applying the practice techniques in ways that are logical, challenging, intelligent and fun. David focuses on learning how to follow the Ashtanga system and at the same time creating a practice that honors individuality, versatility and creativity.
SUNDAY 12:00pm-1:00pm
Question and Answer session
FRIDAY 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Ashtanga Foundations I – The Five Allies in Surya Namaskara
In this session we’ll look at the 5 root techniques that form the internal practice of Ashtanga Yoga by carefully studying their application to the nine positions of Surya Namaskara. The root techniques, or allies include pranayama (conscious breathing), vinyasa (positioning), bandha’s (locks), dristi (gazing), and dhyana (meditation).
The positions of Surya Namaskara provide the perfect foundational basis for exploring the important role that each of the allies plays in creating a mature, sustainable yoga practice.
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SATURDAY 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
Ashtanga Foundations II & III – Standing Sequence, Seated Postures & Dynamic Transitions of Primary Series
In this session we’ll explore how cultivating a combination of dynamism and stability in the standing postures provides you a perfect means of entrance into the internal practice of Ashtanga Yoga. Structuring each seated asana in the primary around understanding the allies (vinyasa, breathing, bandha’s etc) will help you better extract the strengthening, restorative, and heali§ng benefits of this important series.
We’ll also study the dynamic transitions between the asanas, carefully looking at how to create a better a jump back and jump through. And emphasizing the transitions also teaches you to cultivate rhythm, breath, dynamism and vitality within the stillness of each asana.
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SATURDAY 1:30 pm –3:00 pm
Precision, Purification and Pranayama
This session will utilize breathing exercises, retention, and discussion to help you better centralize your awareness on breath during practice. We’ll study how to use breathing to build powerful strength in your asana’s and to effect nadi shodana, purification of the pranic channels. Prana Vidya, knowledge of prana, helps you to progress towards subtlety as you concentrate your mind and better direct the power of the internalized prana.
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SUNDAY 9:30am-11:30am
Mysore
Mysore class provides the student with a concentrated and heightened learning experience that will help he/she develop practical and technical yoga skills and be immersed in the inspirational magic and poetic soul of the practice. Each student will receive valuable one to one guidance from David on developing his/her personal practice. The student will develop skill in applying the practice techniques in ways that are logical, challenging, intelligent and fun. David focuses on learning how to follow the Ashtanga system and at the same time creating a practice that honors individuality, versatility and creativity.
SUNDAY 12:00pm-1:00pm
Question and Answer session
David Garrigues is an internationally recognized yoga teacher and creator of the Asana Kitchen video instruction series that is one of leading online yoga learning resources. David is the founder/director of Ashtanga Yoga School (AYS) of Philadelphia and also travels extensively throughout the US, Europe, and India offering workshops, in depth studies and retreats.
David also writes passionately and eloquently on the subject of yoga. He has maintained a consistent blog for more than 6 years and is the author of numerous books on yoga that offer expert technical instruction and poetic inspiration.
For more than 20 years David has maintained an enthusiastic personal practice that is dedicated to asana and pranayama study in the Ashtanga tradition. His intense dedication to practice and to teaching, inspire his students who form a diverse soulful, open hearted, and serious global learning community.
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The Asana Kitchen and Instructional Courses
David’s partner filmmaker Joy Marzec is also a devoted student of ashtanga yoga. Joy is David’s video producer and over the last 7 years they have created David’s renowned Asana Kitchen (AK) video instruction series as well as several exceptional instructional courses on Ashtanga yoga and pranayama. David’s AK You tube channel has an extensive library of more than 100 videos that serve as a generous learning resource for his global Ashtanga yoga learning community.
Music and Chanting
Also during his many trips to India David studied classical Indian vocal music and subsequently recorded two high-energy Kirtan CDs. David also has studied Sanskrit chanting with Vyas Houston of the American Sanskrit Institute. David weaves Sanskrit chanting and singing into his teachings classes.
Early study history
David was introduced to yoga at the age of 16 when a friend taught him the classic set of postures known as Surya Namaskara (Sun Salutations). David maintained a self-taught practice for more than a decade before everything changed when he met Marie Svoboda, Seattle’s “grand dame of yoga” in 1991. Attending her classes lit an everlasting fire for yoga in him and he immersed himself in a serious yoga study. During this time David also had the great fortune to study intensively with senior BKS Iyengar teacher Aadil Palkhivala attending weekly classes and participating in many intensives and teacher trainings.
Mission
David's mission is to help students of yoga flourish within the living, contemporary lineage of Ashtanga Yoga. He aims to be part of the circle of hatha yoga lovers who are devoted to applying the teachings of ashtanga yoga in ways that promotes physical, psychological, and spiritual growth in themselves and others.
Please visit https://davidgarrigues.com
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