Onsite workshops and classes are available in yoga or mindfulness based stress reduction. We offer regular classes in Kingwood, Buckhannon, and Elkins, West Virginia in additon to classes at our studio in Morgantown.
Private sessions are available to those whose schedules prevent them from attending regular classes, or who prefer individual attention with either regular practice or yoga therapy.
Please follow this link for a class schedule & fees or email Siegfried Bleher at sbleher@msn.com for more information.
WORKSHOPS IN 2008 WITH GUEST TEACHERS:
February 7-10, 2008 Marlene Mawhinney, senior Iyengar teacher from Toronto, Ontario.
June 20 - 22, 2008, Lois Steinberg, senior Iyengar Yoga teacher from Champaigne-Urbana, IL. Here is an information/registration form.
September 12-13, 2008 Dean Lerner, General Yoga. Here is an information/registration form.
We will have a detailed flyer for each workshop as its time approaches, so if you are interested in receiving a flyer, please email Siegfried Bleher at sbleher@msn.com.
3 HOUR FRIDAY WORKSHOPS: (5:30 - 8:30 pm, $30, Please call 304.296.1744 for information)
January 25 How to sequence your poses and actions to
deepen your practice In
this workshop we explore how the order in which we practice poses and the
actions we choose to practice in each pose helps us progress into deeper
poses, and into states of greater connection with the core of our energy and
awareness.
February 22 Patanjali’s
Eight Limbs as Integral Practice . Patanjali’s
Eight Limbs (ethical principles, self disciplines, postures, regulation of
breath, discipline of the senses, concentration, meditation and absorption)
together constitutes an integral practice that can help us navigate through
(and grow from) limitations in flexibility, strength, balance.
In this workshop we begin with asana, and explore an intuitive way to
practice all eight limbs.
March 28 Bending
Forward to Help your Backbends When
and how to incorporate forward bending poses into a backbend practice.
Standing poses and inversions are very effective ways to prepare for
backbends.
But it is also useful to practice forward bends in preparation for
backbends, provided that we practice the forward bends with that particular
intention in mind.
April 18 Couples/Partner Yoga Yoga
means 'union' or 'to yoke', which implies relationship. We quickly
realize what relationship means in the context of asana practice, that is,
how the body responds (or doesn't) to our volition. The longer
we practice, the more we refine the links between our body and our mind.
Over time we may come to sense how an urging toward inner peace arises out
of the refinement of the links between our body and mind, but we may not
recognize that refining the inner links between our mind and body requires a
corresponding refinement of our relationships with other people and with our
external lives in general. What happens on the outside reflects and
reinforces who we are on the inside. As we do poses with help from a
partner, we may come to know an aspect of the pose (and ourselves) that is
difficult to know otherwise. As the helper, we become sensitive to our
partner's needs and we come to know more clearly how our actions and
adjustments affect them.
May 23 Home
Practice Workshop: Here
we will look at how to structure a home practice if you are just starting
out, and how to move out of plateaus if you are experienced.
The discussion will focus on a) general guidelines for practicing, b)
stages of practice, c) dimensions of practice,
d) how to develop an intuitive sense for guiding your practice, e)
feedback on your practice
PAST WORKSHOPS:
- March 31-April 2, 2006 John
Schumacher, General Yoga. Here is an information/
registration form.
- June 2-4, 2006 Lois Steinberg, General Yoga.
Here is an information/ registration form.
- September 8-10, 2006 Dean Lerner, General Yoga
Here is an information / registration form..
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