Insight Yoga: a Workshop with Sarah Powers
Insight Yoga is a body/mind yogic path of awareness that creates a regular vehicle for insights to occur. It draws from the wisdom of Yoga, Buddhism, Chinese medicine and Transpersonal psychology. Insight Yoga involves 4 main quadrants of development that are each interdependent: the body, the heart, the mind, and relationships.
For the body we engage in a regular active and receptive (or Yin/Yang) asana practice that is designed to develop and maintain pliancy in the muscles as well as the joints, to increase strength and vitality in all the systems of the body, and to cultivate a sensitivity to, and a re-balancing and refinement of the energy body- the gateway to the experience of an ease of being.
Sarah will give a brief talk describing how to integrate the body, heart, mind, and relational awareness into our regular practice and then following a slow flow sequence, we will drop into a nourishing Yin practice, where Sarah will focus on mindfulness methods for cultivating insight, ending with a meditation practice.
This workshop is suitable for anyone interested in going deeper into the contemplative, meditative aspects of yoga.
The workshop will be held at Club Lite in Amsterdam.
Teacher Biography:
Sarah Powers
Sarah Powers 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 Viniyoga, 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.
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 (www.insightyogainstitute.com). She is also co-founder of Metta Journeys (www.mettajourneys.com), 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 her see her dvds Insight Yoga or Yin and Vinyasa and go to www.sarahpowers.com.
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