EVENTS ARCHIVE

Dave will be drawing on Ayurvedic principles interpreted in a contemporary way, as well as nutrition, psychology, and communication ethics to help workshop participants understand how to achieve personal balance and improve the quality of their lives and relationships.

YogaJaya Tokyo Teacher Training Modules:
Introduction to Yoga Philosophy

Morning Pranayama/Meditation
October 30 - November 2
06:30-08:00

Yoga Philosophy Evening Workshop
October 29-31
18:45-21:15

In this series of workshops we will look from an integrated perspective at posture, yoga asana, movements and myofascial connections. We will examine their component muscle action, bone, joint, nerve and ligament positions and fascia directions. We also explore how the different ways of utilizing these components affect other functions of the body, such as digestive, neurological and general health.

Celebrating the 10th Aniversary of YogaWorks, Satoko will be introducing the Baseworks experience.

September 23rd 14:00-14:45 -
Experiencing YogaJaya Baseworks

In his 7th year at Japan's YogaFest Yoga Conference In Yokohama, Patrick will introduce the following workshops:

September 21st 11:00-12:30 -
YogaJaya Baseworks
Revolution: Hips, Pelvis and Lower Spine

September 21st 15:00-16:30 -
YogaJaya Baseworks
Healthy Spine, Healthy Life: Backbends and Twists

Satoko Horie will be introducing YogaJaya Baseworks and sharing Body Movement sessions at Burning Man this summer.

In this five-part class series, we will approach this concept of generating wholeness from several different vantage points.
Pranayama will be taught in each session. Each session will end with a cool down sequence of twists and forward bends. All levels of ability are welcome!

In this four-part series, you will learn how to use the hatha yoga practice as a tool for healing the body. When a part of our body is suffering, the pain or discomfort we feel is the body’s way of indicating there has been a disconnection created. That part of us that is suffering wants to be brought back into harmony with the rest of the body.

Structural Stability Freedom and Focus

Firm but calm … 'Sthira Sukham Asanam"

Internal Relaxation Power

Reflex Body… Reflex Mind

Overview of human body systems and organ function
Skeletal system

Muscle tissue physiology

Muscular system

Circulatory (cardiovascular) system

Respiratory system

Nervous system and relationship to the subtle energy system

Digestive system

Lymphatic system

Endocrine system

Reproductive health

Module 1: Hand Balances and Other Inversions
Module 2: Back Bends and Kick Overs

There are two aspects to inversions and back bends – the thrill of the spectacularly acrobatic and the peace of nearly effortless balancing. Both require skill and physical intelligence. They also require a degree of courage and a willingness to experiment. There are many methods used to attain inverted postures as well as back bends and a fantastic number of variations are possible. We will look at a number of these in this workshop. We will, however, be confining our explorations to what we see as having a distinctly yogic approach. The postures will be attempted using the yogic methods concerning breathing and focus. This means that they are – comparatively – safe to attempt. A deeper practice isn’t just about achieving harder postures. Rather, it is also about the grace with which you perform them.

Module 1: Principles and Assists In Vinyasa Practice
Module 2: Teaching Inversions

This Teacher Immersion will endeavor to articulate the philosophical stance and rationale for Vinyasa Yoga. Briefly put, it will examine why evenness of breath and evenness of movement are used to bring about evenness of mind.

Each evening - 18:30-21:00

Module 1: Philosophy of Vinyasa
Module 2: Pain - The Mind as Virtual Reality

Tripsichore founder, Edward Clark and Tripsichore star Nikki Durrant will lead students through the Simple and Regular practice (with possible excursions into the Plus). These 1.5 hour sessions will be devoted firstly to doing the practice and then to breaking down the sequences. Expect unusual inversions and back bends.

Revolution: Hips, Pelvis and Lower Spine
May 29 & 31
Each evening - 18:30-20:30

Healthy Spine, Healthy Life: Backbends and Twists
June 9 - 08:30-10:30
June 10 - 18:30-20:30

The Yoga Fundamentals Collection are a series of ongoing immersions that break down the yoga practice so as to simplify the understanding of how the body works.

YogaJaya Baseworks
June 9, 18:00-20:30

Yogajaya The Deeper Dimensions
June 10, 09:00-12:00

Yoga practice is an essential part of living a positive life. Over this 4 session course, YogaJaya Director, Patrick Oancia will work together with the students to build the foundations of a regular yoga routine. Emphasis will be placed on introductory explanations on how to utilize yoga for complete wellbeing.

Pranayama/Meditation
Each morning - 06:30-08:00

Hatha Yoga All Level Practice & Relaxation
Each morning - 08:00-09:30

A deeper understanding of the benefits of yoga comes from a regular daily practice. The particular quality of morning practice can tone and prepare our bodies and mind for the course of each and everyday.

This course is an introduction to ways to raise our awareness of the body, and of what lies within and beyond the body, through a range of movements inspired by yoga, expressive arts and contact improvisation. This course is presented over a 4-week period during which participants are led through stages running from an exploration of the self, connections with others, expressing one’s self and exploring extensions beyond the self.

This course explores the modern concepts of vinyasa yoga. The sessions will include dynamic and energetic sequencing with increased focus on linking breath with movement to generate heat in the body and grace in movement.

This course explores the yang quality of more dynamic practice whereby the opposing muscle groups are actively stimulated with more the yin, restorative qualities of passively holding postures for longer periods without muscular activation to release through the connective tissues of the joints. The different posture work holistically stimulates the nervous systems on a physical level and the different aspects of meridian system in a more subtle, energetic way to promote total well being. Each session will include a steady balance of different pose groups, combining restorative and dynamic practice with and without props.

This immersion offers different perspectives on deepening yoga practice by using the physics of wall work. Students explore variations on standing and seated poses, inversions, backbends, forward bends and twists using a wall.

This VE1.0 immersion is a continuation of a series of fixed asana sequences which eventually navigates students to creative and random, dynamic freestyle asana practice.

Although some alignment will be emphasized according to Patricks’ teaching style, this is immersion is open to all experienced dynamic yoga asana practitioners. Pranayama will be integrated into the sequencing.

The YogaJaya Baseworks immersion is a review of the key hatha yoga postures and variations from the YogaJaya Teacher Training course curriculum. The immersion includes enhanced perspectives on each of the anatomical pose groups, upgrading the understanding of how the tone the physiology of the body and mind in a complete and holistic way.