Larkspur

This 30-hour course is intended for those who wish to teach Yin Yoga, as well as for anyone who wishes to be immersed in the profound benefits of this meditative, therapeutic and philosophically-rich practice. This course includes a 10-hour, supervised, personal project (in accordance with Yoga Alliance specifications). 

Combining Indian Yogic, Chinese Taoist, and Indian/Tibetan Buddhist philosophical lineages, Yin Yoga encompasses a vast, holistic approach to health and well-being of body, mind, and spirit.

Topics:

• Modern & ancient roots of Yin Yoga
• Yin Yoga practice & sequencing
• Meditation & Pranayama
• Anatomy (including Paul Grilley's Anatomy DVD series)
• Yogic, Taoist & Buddhist philosophy
• Meridian & Chakra theories from ancient Chinese medicine
• Nadis, Chakras, and Koshas of the Ayurvedic Indian system
• Therapeutic applications
• Injuries & Special Needs modifications
• Teaching practice
• The Business of Yin Yoga

 

"I have complete confidence in Christy's sensitive and skillful ability to teach teachers the nourishing practice of Yin Yoga."
—Sarah Powers, internationally-renowned yoga teacher and author of Insight Yoga
 

 

 

Give yourself an afternoon of yogic well-being for SPRING RENEWAL!

In this workshop:

o Learn the basics of Ayurveda, the 5000-year old sister science of yoga that helps yogis glow from the inside out
o Sweat it out with gut busting sequencing and detoxifying movement
o Experience a DIY Ayurvedic facial
o Learn the essential oils that are key for spring
o Enjoy Christine’s tri-doshic, cleansing kitchari (and take the recipe home)

Please bring with you a large mixing bowl, a hand towel you don’t mind getting dirty, and your yoga mat.

 

 

Healing through sound, has been instrumental in ritual, celebration, medicine, and trauma release for centuries, in every culture across the globe. During deep sound

bath meditation, theta brainwaves are stimulated, connecting us to our subtle bodies, and harmonizing our nervous and immune systems.

In this workshop, Lucia will offer a long sound bath journey in shavasana to allow for deep relaxation and restoration. Afterwards she will guide participants into chanting to create a collective sound bath. Voice is our first instrument, and it frees us, transforms us and lifts us up. There’s no wrong way of singing, for it’s our primal language and our soul's instrument. It’s Lucia’s belief that when we use our voice and reclaim our first instrument, alchemy happens.

Lucia uses her voice (mantras, chants, channeled music), Tibetan and crystal singing bowls, her medicine drum, koshi bells, percussion, kalimba, uke, guitar, looping pedal and other instruments gathered in her travels to create an experience conducive for inner journeying. Her devotion and work with music spans most of her life.

“Lucia is a ‘new Pagan’ (from the Pagan Love Orchestra) and a wonderful addition to the gang.
I’m always stunned by the beauty and translucent quality of her voice.” ~Jai Uttal

Benefits of sound bathing include:
• Deep relaxation
• Anxiety and stress reduction
• Increase in creativity and "the flow state"
• Memory, concentration, and clarity
• Balance, well-being, and heightened awareness
• Decrease of physical and emotional pain

Many students are intimidated by the inversions, or even afraid of injuring themselves when first learning them. Tony’s approach to teaching the inversions is careful and methodical, progressing step-by-step with safety always first in mind.

Focus and patience are the keys to safely mastering the inversions. In this workshop, Tony will help you first establish a firm base of experience by practicing downward-dog pose, elbow balance and handstand before moving on to headstand and shoulder-stand.

Students will come away with increased confidence to incorporate these poses into their regular practice, including variations to make the poses more accessible, and to reveal their power and liveliness.

This workshop is ideal for yoga students of any level with an interest in learning inversions. No prior inversions experience is required.

Inversions
Tony Briggs
April 13
Saturday | 2-5 pm
Mill Valley
$60

 

Looking for a breakthrough or "aha" moment for a tricky pose? Headstand has you stumped? Wheel Pose? Then this workshop is for you. 

Based on a brilliant format pioneered by Jivamukti Yoga Co-Founder (and Jill's primary teacher) David Life, Asana Lab is a unique and invaluable opportunity to work on a specific asana with support and encouragement from the entire group. After a brisk warm-up, each participant will have the chance to troubleshoot their most challenging pose in a round robin format. Together, we find solutions through creative problem-solving, subtle adjustments and modifications, use of props, partner work and spontaneous fun.

All levels + styles welcome.

~Due to the individualized nature of Asana Lab, space is limited to 15 participants.~

 

 

 

 

Deepen into the path of becoming an instrument of light, love and service! Join Nubia and her group of "Reikinis" for this next level of empowerment.

In the second level, you will:
o Receive Reiki Symbol II or the "emotional healing activator"
o Learn a new hands-on healing sequence of self-healing + seva
o Learn a purification practice
o Learn a mantra for Healing the Inner + Outer Elements
o Review mantras

"Become the light and the love that you want to see shining in this world"

 

Reiki Level 2
Self-Healing + Seva for Women*
Nubia Teixeira
April 28
Sunday | 2-6pm
$140** | $160 after March 28

YogaWorks Larkspur, 2207 Larkspur Landing Circle
(415) 925-2440 

 

The key to living a healthy, balanced life is remembering your innermost self and the freedom that lives within you. The ancient yogic text, Taittiriya Upanishad, describes the koshas as the gateway to the soul—the place of deep inner satisfaction and wholeness.

In this intensive, workshop we will explore yogic philosophy, transformational asana flow and meditation. Come discover how the five layers of perception can transform your life and enhance your inner well-being

 

 

Edwina Ferro has over 5000 teaching hours and is educated in the lineages of Hatha Yoga and Viniyoga with an emphasis in Tantric studies and Sri Para Yoga. Her artistic, playful and articulate delivery of conscious movement and breath encourages students to lean into the grace of their body, heart and spirit while they move beyond their perceived limitations and mental blocks. Edwina teaches at Yoga Works in Palo Alto on Fridays at 12:15..

edwinaferro.com

Workshop Return Policy
Full payment is required to reserve a space in workshops. All workshops are non-refundable. Cancellations made two weeks or more prior to workshop start date will be issued store credit. No store credit will be given for cancellations made less than two weeks prior to workshop start date. YogaWorks is not responsible for any costs incurred for travel arrangements or accommodations related to this event.

 

 

Refine and deepen your yoga practice with 4 mini workshops covering hips, abdominals, shoulders, inversions and restorative postures. Each session will include an anatomy/movement lecture, breathing techniques and asana practice. By understanding how the body moves we can integrate healthy alignment and breath into all of our poses, creating more strength, freedom and vibrancy in our practice. 

Core: When we think core, we think abdominal muscles. This is true but in yoga the core is so much more. This session will cover the muscles of the core and what it means to be strong and balanced. We will also cover the energetic core which is the secret key to hatha yoga and the path of transformation for the practitioner. Asana practice will be designed to help us both strengthen and access the center of the body. 

 

Saturday Session 1 | 1:30-3:30 pm | $50*  

Shoulders: The shoulders are the most mobile joint in the body, and in vinyasa yoga we use them a lot! Understanding how the shoulders move and keeping them strong, flexible and well aligned is essential to a sustainable, long-term vinyasa yoga practice. We will cover the movements of the shoulders as well as optimal alignment in key postures like downward facing dog, plank, chaturanga and more. Asana practice will help us uncover where we need more awareness in the shoulders. 

 

Saturday Session 2 |  4:30-6:30 pm | $50*  

Hips: The hips are like the shoulders in that they are a ball and socket joint, but way less mobile. After exploring the movements of the hip joint we will put our understanding into an asana practice that moves the hips in all directions creating mobility and strength.

 

Inversions: Getting upside down can be exhilarating and scary at the same time. It is extremely important we prepare the body and the mind before reversing the weight onto the hands, head or shoulders. This session will cover two inversions and include assessing student capability to invert, contraindications, preparations for inverting and variations or alternative poses. No inversion experience is necessary to attend this practice. 

In this workshop Nubia will share her love and passion for the practice of mudras, or sacred hand gestures. Her mastery and expertise on combining mudras with asana expresses the inspired storytelling from Bhakti, the devotional tradition of yoga.

 

You will:
o Experience and embody the mudras in your life and your yoga practice
o Connect with ancient wisdom traditions
o Delve into symbology and sacred geometry
o Evoke the energy of the Gods and Goddesses

 

This will be a summer solstice evening of enchantment and deep self-healing in honor, celebration and gratitude of the longest day of the year, the cycles of life, and the fiery energy of the sun that energizes, enlightens, and invites us to reconnect with ourselves, the earth and nature.

Interweaving Yin Yoga with the poetry of Rumi, Christy will guide you on an inward journey toward open body, open heart, open mind and the stillness and contentment at the center of it all.

An unsurpassed master player of antique Tibetan bowls and bells and other rare instruments of the Far East, Karma Moffett is renowned for creating musical magic through harmonic sacred sound vibrations.