EVENTS ARCHIVE

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.

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.

This all-level immersion focuses on holding postures for longer periods to raise sensitivity in body awareness. Each session will include a steady balance of different pose groups, combining restorative and dynamic practice with and without props. Students will be encouraged to work with subtle abdominal breathing to draw more from the “relaxed internal power” potential to release any unnecessary tension in the practice.

The deeper understanding of the benefits of yoga comes from 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 immersion will focus on pranayama (breathing practices) and guided meditation with additional emphasis on bandha, mudra, kriya and mantra.

With our lives becoming increasingly busy and complicated, it is easy for our minds and bodies to get out of balance, creating disturbances on all levels of life. To be able to live healthy and rewarding lives, we therefore need to recognize our personal needs on all levels: physical, mental, emotional, relational and spiritual.

By understanding ourselves better, who we are and how life works, we can find personal balance and take a path of constructive development by making the appropriate choices, saying the appropriate things, and responding to life’s challenges in ways that result in positive outcomes.

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.

Tripsichore's Artistic Director, Edward Clark will share some of the secrets of their technique at this Tokyo workshop. Sequestered in their studio in London, the company has worked daily for the past 15 years to devise and refine yoga techniques of asana, pranayama, pratayahara, dharana, and dhyana making excursions out to perform their creations to audiences worldwide. Until now, their techniques have only been taught to a very few.

This all level Immersion focuses a flowing yoga practice observing sensations in the body and mind with new perspectives each session. Students will explore the subtle breath in relation to the economy of movement to develop a deep relaxing and meditative effect without clinging or pushing. Different sequencing will be introduced each session with some basic breathing exercises to promote mental clarity and well being.

YogaJaya is thrilled to announce that it will be again hosting one of the world’s unique adventurists and rock climbers, Steph Davis. Steph’s personal-empowerment talks are aimed at describing her life experiences to people who seek to discover within themselves their own power to be free and to pursue their dreams in all fields of endeavor.

Telling her story in words accompanied by videos and still images of her exploits, Steph describes her experiences free climbing and base-jumping desert towers in the Utah desert. She presents all of these amazing feats as nothing but new ways by which she learned how to understand and overcome her deepest fears...

In his 6th year at Japan's YogaFest Yoga Conference In Yokohama, Patrick will introduce the following workshops:

September 23rd 17:00-18:30 -
Entry Point:
The Fundamentals

September 24th 15:00-16:30 -
Igniting the Flame:
Unlocking our Intuitive Potential

September 25th 11:00-12:30 -
Altitude:
Challenging the Way We Sense our Practice