OmYoga

Yin/Yang Yoga and Mindfulness Meditation
A Workshop with Sarah Powers

Date: 16-17 june 2012
Preliminary hours: Saturday 10.30 - 13, 14.30 - 17, Sunday 9.30 - 12, 13.30 - 16
Cost: 2200 SEK. Early bird! Register and pay before march 15 and pay 1900 SEK. (No refunds.)

Incorporating a daily Yoga and meditation practice into our life keeps us attuned to the importance of living ordinary moments with awareness. Nevertheless, even the most dedicated practitioners hit plateaus and need opportunities to become re-inspired. In this workshop, Sarah will provide an atmosphere for balancing the body, heart and mind through active and receptive yoga poses, as well as offering teachings on Mindfulness meditation so that we can deepen or develop a skillful and committed meditation practice.

Yin Yoga is an essential compliment to our more active styles and offers a vehicle to develop our contemplative nature. The Yin style also keeps the body supple at its core while encouraging stagnate chi (prana) to flow throughout the joints, engendering a quality of steady ease. The active practice helps rejuvenate our natural vitality while developing a core stability coupled with meditative, body-centered presence. This workshop will focus on the integration of our Yin and Yang aspects of being, creating a practice that values both vitality and insight. Mindfulness meditation and Loving-kindness practice will be emphasized in both the beginning and ending sections of each session.

The morning practice will focus on a dynamic standing pose sequence intended to balance our energetic center of earth stability (called the Hara or Dantien in Taoism) in the belly, while the afternoon practices will focus on floor poses.

This workshop is suitable for anyone who has been doing Yoga for at least one year and has a strong interest in meditation. We recommend you come with a basic understanding of these practices by reading Sarah’s book, Insight Yoga, and/or viewing her dvds Yin and Vinyasa and Insight Yoga, Mingling Heaven and Earth.

About Sarah Powers:
She began teaching in 1987. She is the founder and author of Insight Yoga, which interweaves the insights and practices of Yoga, Buddhism, Chinese medicine, and Transpersonal Psychology into an integral practice to enliven the body, heart and mind. Her Yoga style blends both a Yin sequence of floor poses to enhance the meridian and organ systems, combined with an alignment-based slow flow or Yang practice, influenced by Vini Yoga, Ashtanga, and Iyengar teachings.

Sarah feels that enlivening the physical and pranic bodies, as well as learning to open to our emotional difficulties is paramount for preparing one to deepen and nourish insights into one's essential nature - a natural state of awareness. She draws from her studies in Transpersonal Psychology, as well as her in-depth training in the Vipassana, Tantric and Dzogchen practices of Buddhism. Her main teachers are Tsoknyi Rinpoche, Jennifer Welwood, Lama Tsultrim Allione, and Lama Pema Dorje.

Sarah and her husband Ty Powers live in the San Francisco bay area and have created the Insight Yoga Institute which offers 720 hour trainings with other renowned teachers blending Yoga, buddhism and psychology. She is also co-founder of Metta Journeys a service oriented organization that offers yoga retreats internationally to help women and children in developing countries. Sarah is the author of the book Insight Yoga (Shambhala Publications).

To learn more about Sarah please visit www.sarahpowers.com