Let the Questions Guide You
During this Online series, we make friends with the questions and use the tools of Yoga to live these questions. We reflect on why we practice—whether it’s to repair ourselves or to liberate our true essence, much like Michelangelo freeing the angel from the stone. The approach to asana and pranayama is through an intersectional lens, acknowledging that our bodies and breath are shaped by both inherited and learned experiences. Recognizing that our nervous system is a mix of hardwiring and learned patterns, we reflect on the influence of our ancestors and the power we hold to rewrite the programming that no longer serves us. In our practice of Pratyahara, we turn inward, use rest and conscious reflection to short-circuit outdated patterns and reconnect with our deeper selves.
International times:
7:00 AM in Hawaii
9:00 – 10:30 PST,
10:00 – 11:30 Mountain time,
12:00 – 1:30 PM EST
Pricing Details:
- Included in the Special Topics Annual Pass
- Full series (6 classes): 90 €
- Comes with access to Recordings – include Lectures and Integrated Practices
- 10-Card holders can drop in any time (does not include recordings)
- Pay as you go – 18 € (does not include recordings)
- ALL PRICING is flexible and situations are available to support those with financial needs
Inquiry Based Yoga Exploration:
Inquiry-based learning in Yoga allows practitioners to align their practice with their personal intention, priorities, and, fundamentally, with their Dharma (Life’s purpose). This approach to practice is ancient and fundamental to personal transformation and healing.
A spiritual practice should support one’s ideals, but the way that Yoga is often transmitted today, one is left with the impression that the practice determines one’s ideals. This confusion has been a source of conflict and perpetual disappointment in some yoga communities. It is time to free ourselves from such confusion and return to the answers that are only found within us.
As this is a profoundly personal way to practice, each practitioner will be building a unique practice. Because this is a group exploration, we will be learning from one another, and each person, in that way, becomes a teacher of their own wisdom.
In this group experience, I am not the ‘teacher’ but rather a guide to supporting your own self discovery. My focus will be more on asking the questions rather than providing the answers….. I trust that you have the answers but may just need some help finding them.
We will used themes explored in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali as a framework for the conversations and personal explorations, but we will not be confined to any single commentary or interpretation of these ideas.
Why does modern Yoga in the West look so different from this idea?
Today’s globalized Yoga industry and traditions have been significantly influenced by the modern incarnation of Yoga that evolved out of the impacts of colonialism on India and its many spiritual traditions. Two of the many impacts of Victorian era ideals imposed upon Yoga were the elevation of written texts and the subservience to a patriarchal authority figure to override the personal wisdom/insights of the individual practitioner. In the context of this history, the emphasis on personal inquiry and somatic experience can seem almost like a revolutionary act….. let’s start a revolution.