Happy Friday & Happy President’s Day Weekend my Friends!
Wowee! What a week it has been! We hope that you have had a fabulous week wherever you may be, and that you are ready for an even better weekend, maybe even a long weekend for some of you lucky ducks. There is no better way to relax and renew than yoga, community, and good times. We have some truly phenomenal events going down this weekend – check ‘em out below, and get out there and have some fun!
Don’t see events listed in your city? Want to submit an event of your own? Email us at Submissions@yoganonymous.org and let us know the deal!
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Houston, TX
Friday, February 17th – Sunday, February 19th
This year’s Texas Yoga Conference is going down this weekend in Houston, TX!
Want to learn more about the many different styles and lineages of yoga? Want to practice, a lot? Come to UH University Recreation and Wellness Center in Houston, TX on Feb 17-19, 2012 to enjoy and learn about the art of yoga at the 2012 Texas Yoga Conference. With over 40 presentations, you can take yoga classes with some of the top instructors in the world, including Jennifer Buergermeister, Les Leventhal, Leeann Carey, Kurt Johnsen, and Sean Johnson!
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Lancaster, PA
Saturday, February 18th
108 For Africa: Join Evolution Power Yoga and Karma Warrior Clothing for an amazing benefit for the Africa Yoga Project!
From 1-4pm, EPY teachers will join AYP instructors in Kenya (via Skype) in leading a yoga practice of 108 sun salutations. Participants must raise at least $108 to join the practice. Efforts will continue into the evening during the first ever Global Celebration Party from 7:30-10pm. The public is invited to return to EPY for entertainment, refreshments, raffles, and a silent and live auction.
All proceeds raised from 108 for Africa go to supporting AYP, which provides teacher training, financial aid, and mentor support to Kenyans so that they can lead their communities in finding personal power in their lives through the yogic principles of unity, possibility, and non-violence. “108 for Africa gives our community the opportunity make an impact that can be felt around the globe,” says EPY founder Lisa Taylor.
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Tampa Bay, FL
Friday, February 17th – Saturday, February 18th
Join Micheline Berry at Yogani in Tampa Bay, FL for master classes on Friday and Saturday!
Dynamic, yet deeply nurturing, Micheline Berry’s Prana Flow Master Class will teach you how to embody flow with on a deeper level within your own yoga practice. You will activate dynamic asana sequences with creative fluid movement, core stability, and breath as you explore the healing aspect of the “flow state” – Cultivate a deeply nourished and empowered state of being through the purifying heat of vinyasa kramas (flowing yoga sequences) leading to peak poses and states of embodiment.
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Cedarburg, WI
Friday, February 17th – Sunday, February 19th
Join Simon Park for Energetic Alignment and Hands-On Assists at Yoga One in Cedarburg, WI this weekend!
Each asana has its own energetic alignment based upon the movement of prana, energy lines, and the relationship of opposites in the body. An integrated understanding of this movement will allow you to open and strengthen the core structures of embodiment from head to toe, and from skin to subtle body.
In this workshop, you will learn to:Teach five primary alignment actions in every pose including foot patterns, spiral actions of the legs, position of the pelvis, spinal alignment, and support of the neck; Sequence vinyasa combinations with skill, effectiveness, fluency, and creativity; Apply Shiva Rea’s three-part vinyasa methodology to standing poses, backbends, arm balances, core abdominals, forward bends, hip openers, twists, and inversions as a base for more complex sequencing.
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Boulder, CO
Saturday, February 18th
Join Gina Caputo at Om Time Yoga on Saturday afternoon for a workshop on the Great Teachers: Asymmetry & Symmetry.
The Great Teachers: Symmetry and Asymmetry help us leverage seemingly opposite families to express intelligent, evolutionary and UNFOLDING sequences in Yoga Asana. Use the wisdom of core integration in arm balances to teach sustainable and expansive backbends. Utilize the energetic aspect of drawing into the core, samana vayu, to authentically offer outward, vyana vayu. Approachable and AMAZING for all levels of healthy practitioners.
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Sacramento, CA
Saturday, February 18th – Sunday, February 19th
Join MC Yogi at Zuda Yoga (Midtown location) for a weekend of workshops!
Ganesh: Remover of Obstacles | 2/18 | 6pm – 8pm: Ganesh is the elephant-headed diety of India, known for his ability to remove obstacles and bring success to new endeavors. This will be a strong Vinyasa Yoga Practice embedded with the stories and sacred symbolic teachings of Ganesh. Be prepared to let powerful energy of Ganesh clear the path to bright new possibilities in your life.
Mythic Yoga Lounge | 2/19 | 1pm – 3:30pm: Join us for a delicious cup of Chai and an afternoon of mythology & yoga philosophy. During this talkshop, MC Yogi and Amanda will guide us on a journey into the world of the Gods and Goddesses of India. By sharing the myths, art, mantras and mudras of the deities we will delve deeper into their symbolism and how they can relate, empower and inspire our Yoga practice and our lives.
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Chicago, IL
Friday, February 17th – Sunday, February 19th
Join Sara Ivahoe for a weekend of Vinyasa Flow workshops at Moksha Yoga!
Green Yoga | 2/17 | 2pm – 4pm: This introduction to Green Yoga will cover some philosophy including Samkhya Karika and the Vedas, specifically the Prithivi Sutka or “Earth Versus.” We will also learn the beginnings of Tattva Shuddhi or Elemental Purification as a practice of remembering that all of the elements that make up our planet exist within ourselves- that we are a microcosm of the Planet as macrocosm.
Bhakti Vinyasa Part 1: Gunas/Quality of Life | 2/17 | 6:30pm – 9pm: Through the structure of a vinyasa flow class, we will learn how these aspects manifest themselves into the asana we practice. We will learn how to identify the quality with which we are resonating and how to use asana, dristi and pranayama to bring ourselves into the sattvic or balanced state. Learn how to master the gunas as step into a greater “quality” of life!
Bhakti Vinyasa Part 2: Dristi | 2/18 | 10am – 12:30pm: In this workshop we will address how to use the dristi to help bring us into balance and how the direction of the eyes either consciously or unconsciously is always informing our yoga practice and our lives. Through the structure of a vinyasa flow sequence, we will learn how to access the third eye, the eye of intuitive wisdom and to learn how to direct our gaze and our attention inward.
Yoga Nidra: Peace is Practice | 2/18 | 3pm – 5pm: In this workshop we will do gentle vinyasas that slow the body down, hip openers to release deeply held tension and restorative postures that allow the fresh prana to flow into the body. We will practice pranayama as a way of slowing the body down and meditation as a way to practice peace
Yin/Yang Yoga | 2/19 | 10am – 12:30pm: Most of us are looking for balance in our lives, but we don’t know how to get it, or why we fell out of balance in the first place. The Taoists teach us about two opposing energies called “yin” or in-flowing energy and “yang” out-flowing energy. The “yang” energy is how we are out in the world, our power, how we get things done. The “yin” energy is our internal world, our relationship to ourselves, our ability to get quiet and receive.
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Wishing You a Fun & Fabulous Weekend!
With LOVE,
YOGANONYMOUS
