EVENTS ARCHIVE

Fuji Rock Festival is an annual rock festival, featuring more than 200 Japanese and international musicians, making it the largest outdoor music event in Japan. This year, the BASEWORKS.LIFE booth will be appearing in the chill-out “Pyramid Garden” area produced by Candle JUNE.

Satoko Horie will be sharing BASEWORKS Practice at Priceless 2015 annual camp-out, a music, art, creative community festival event surrounded by the majestic Sierra mountains.

BASEWORKS founder, Patrick Oancia, will be teaching the next Baseworks Pop-Up Studio at in Munich, Germany at Yoga Am Engel. 

BASEWORKS is a lifestyle approach inspired by hatha yoga, movement physiology, and self-actualization aimed at enhancing health, and life in general. Baseworks practice combines corrective movement and refined breathing techniques to promote a balance of strength, flexibility, and introspection.

This weekend program will introduce detailed methods of BASEWORKS Practice.

Optimal health is promoted by regular daily practice. Morning practice tones and prepares our bodies and minds for the course of each and every day. This immersion is open to all levels of students and is especially recommended for total beginners.

In this series of pop-up classes at athayoga, students can get a taste of the benefits of the BASEWORKS practice!

May 24, 15:00-16:30 - BASEWORKS: Core Foundation - 2.0 Sequence

It is said that when the body and mind achieve equanimity that the feet, legs, pelvis, torso, arms, hands, neck, throat andhead are perfectly balanced. As an extension to Patrick Oancia’s 2 introductory sessions, Satoko Horie will first outline the approach to building core stability utilizing muscles that stabilize the spine, abdominal region and pelvis so as to enhance an understanding of body mechanics. This will be followed by a “BASEWORKS” 2.0 Sequence.

May 23, 14:00-15:30 - Introduction: BASEWORKS

May 24, 13:00-14:30 - BASEWORKS TECH

“BASEWORKS” combines refined breathing with asana practice that ranges from working on the details in structural alignment, to promoting fluidity and grace through awareness in movement. This practice safely builds from beginner to more experienced dynamics in a complete and holistic way.

May 24, 08:00-09:00 - Morning Practice: Pranayama & Meditation

The particular quality of morning practice can tone and prepare our bodies and mind for the course of each and everyday.This session is open to all levels of students! It will introduce systematic progressions of pranayama (breathing methods) and guided meditation utilizing effective techniques in and easy-to-understand way.

May 10, 14:30-16:00 - Introduction: BASEWORKS: Asana Practice, Lecture and Theory

The first stages of “BASEWORKS” focus on developing natural breathing in coordination with functional movement. Students will learn how to to used refined breathing and move the body consciously so to establish solid foundations to progress from.

May 10, 16:30-18:00 - BASEWORKS TECH: Functional movement training, Asana Practice, Lecture and Theory

This session will explore functional movement in relation to building the foundation that is needed to practice safely and effectively. Students will experience different types of very fun exercises that can be used as tools to prime different aspects the BASEWORKS practice.

BASEWORKS is a product of a practice philosophy and corresponding set of resources based on the ancient ideas of yoga philosophy, sound science, years of innovation, and current research.

BASEWORKS readily identifies beneficial corrective movement through posture in combination with subtle breathing techniques while steadily building a holistic balance between strength, flexibility and introspective awareness in each individual.

This session will look at the key concepts of movement and breathing corresponding to BASEWORKS and is open to all levels of practitioners.