Yoga Workshops

Cultivating the Light:
Practices for Winter's Dark Days

Special Workshop: Saturday, January 9th, 2-5pm; $50
6-Week Series: Fridays, 5:30-7pm; January 15, 22, 29, February 5, 12, 19; $90
Both Workhshop & Class Series: $125.

Both the external world around us and the internal world within us are comprised of the gunas, or qualities of nature (prakriti): rajas (energy, activity), tamas (intertia, dullness) and sattva (clarity, harmony). The practice of Yoga helps us to bring the gunas into a state of equilibrium: to "balance rajas and tamas and maximize sattva", as, Patricia Walden says. When sattva guna dominates, we can see our true nature, the light of the soul (purusha).

Winter is a season that invites tamas to dominate: the days are darker, we eat heavier foods, and we aren't able to be as active as we are at other times of year. This class will teach you how to break through the tamas of winter with asana and pranayama practices that are warming, energizing and uplifting and bring light to the body, mind and spirit.

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The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
with Renowed Author & Commentator
Dr. Edwin Bryant

Friday April 2nd:  5:30-8pm &
Saturday, April 3rd:  11am-1pm & 2:30pm-5pm

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We're welcoming back Spring &
Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher Greg Anton!

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BACK TO "BACK BASICS"
Friday, April 30
5:30pm-8pm; $40 (if paid prior to March 15th: $50 thereafter)
Basic yoga poses can relieve back pain and prevent future discomfort.
Learn how to strengthen, lengthen, and elongate the back and spinal muscles in various asanas in order to increase both mobility and mindfullness of postural alignment.

YOGA FOR THE NECK AND SHOULDERS
Saturday, May 1
11am-2pm; $50 (if paid prior to March 15th: $60 thereafter)
Are your neck and shoulders shouldering the burden of tension and tightness in your thoracic region? Learn how to strengthen and stabilize the neck and shoulders in order to create openness and improve flexibility especially for the practice of inversions.

HIP OPENERS:  THE LATERAL ROTATORS
Sunday, May 2
11:30am-2pm; $40 (if paid prior to March 15th: $50 thereafter)
Learn how to strengthen, lengthen, and elongate the back and spinal muscles in various asanas in order to increase both mobility and mindfullness of postural alignment.

There are more than 15 muscles which cause movement in the hip joints.  They are often divided into four groups:  the gluteal group, the adductor group, the iliopsoas group, and the lateral rotator group.  Many basic seated poses require flexibility in the lateral rotators.  Explore some sequences focusing on the lateral rotators which will help create space and freedom not only in the hips but also in the lower back.

Greg Anton, a certified Iyengar yoga teacher, graduated from Harvard Law School and worked for many years as a public-interest lawyer before devoting himself to the study of  yoga.  His keen memory, precise instruction, and intelligent adjustments coalesce into an extremely methodical and clear way to present asana.  Greg has studied extensively with Ramanand Patel and has studied with the Iyengars in India and the U.S.  He continues to study with Patricia Walden, his primary teacher, and to assist her at workshops throughout New England.  He is the President of the newly-formed Iyengar Yoga Association of New England. Greg lives and teaches year-round in Provincetown, Massachusetts.