Archive for the ‘Yoga yarns’ Category
Yoga Yarns - Sunday 25th October
October 26th, 2009 | Author: admin
THE PROGRESSIVE STAGES OF PRANAYAMA ~ THE GROUNDWORK
Breath awareness in Asana (with a practical session in the morning)
· Breath release and breathing meditation
· The theory and outline of Pranayama
· Purification (Klesha and Kriya)
· Breath extension and the principles of Kumbhaka
Maarten Vermaase is a Hatha Yogi and Buddhist scholar with 30 years of teaching experience. He developed the Mahasiddha Yoga Group in 1999 at the suggestion of his teacher, Kenchen Thrangu Rinpoche. He is a Diploma Course Teacher for the British Wheel of Yoga (BWY), and teaches primarily in Oxford and London. He runs a post-graduate Meditation Module for the Wheel, based on the Tibetan Buddhist tradition of Mahamudra.
Posted in 
Yoga Yarns - Sunday 14th, Saturday 27th & 28th June
July 1st, 2009 | Author: admin
Days ten, eleven and twelve - Our journey continued but the end was in sight as the final days of our course unfolded and these six intrepid adventurers were transfromed in to warriors to assist with deepening our practise of yoga. Instead of Patanjeli we learned of Arjuna and Lord Krishna and some of the symbolic story of the Bhagavad Gita. An incredible warrior vinyasa, asked for us to go deep within and inderpinned the nature of what it is to be a spiritual warrior in these modern times. Over the final weekend we learned about the meridians of the body and how to balance the flow of energy via these meridian points, through the use of yoga postures. We were allowed time to ourselves for reflective awareness and to journal our insights before parting.
Postures - Virabhadra Namaskar Vinyasa What I uncovered - The potential, with one pointed focus, to transcend the body. Quote of the month - Let that breath be a slow breath, a flow breath, a letting go breath.
Courtesy of Arjuna Marchant
Yoga Yarns - Sunday 3rd,17th and 31st May 2009
June 2nd, 2009 | Author: admin
Tales from the yoga mat and the Traditional Yoga Foundation Course.
Days seven, eight and nine – We continued to journey this month in to a deeper experience of our practice of yoga through further exploration in to Patanjali’s teachings. We worked with postures that allowed to us to have a new experience of our hearts combined with mudras that strengthened and supported our sense of heart.
To focus our meditation we sounded the Pranava Mantra “OM”
We prepared for and practiced balancing postures that not only have an effect on the physical but also the mental and emotional bodies.
Postures – Setu Pati Asana, Viparit Karani Mudra, Sarvangasana (shoulder stand)
What I uncovered –A shard and a guard in my heart - see personally yours
Quote of the month- Wait and see; breathe and be.
Courtesy of Arjuna Marchant