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WORKSHOPS
SPRING WORKSHOP (and potluck)
BUILDING STRENGTH & STABILITY INTO HIPS AND KNEES
March 2025
10 am to 1 pm
(Pot luck afterwards)
In order to build sustainable strength in your body you need to ccreate stability and strength in specific areas. During this workshop you will learn specific actions to help both strengthen and stabilize your hips and knees. This work will help to strengthen your balancing poses, standing poses and even inversions. Stabilizing and strenthening your hips will help prevent SI joint pain, lower back pain and will improve the muscle strength of your abdomen. With the help of a few props your hips and knees will feel energized and ready to cope with the demands of daily life from a place of strength.
Cost $60 (Includes GST)
There will be a pot luck for those able to stay afterwards.
To register contact lynnebowsher@aplaceforyoga.com
Recorded online workshops available for purchase
Reset and Reconnect
Recording available for purchase
6 months Iyengar Yoga experience required
Come and join me in this restorative workshop where you can begin the New Year with intentions of resetting your body and mind after the holiday season and reconnecting to your practice once again.
We will begin by awakening and connecting to your body through various asana in preparation for directing your mind inward. Then we will use the restorative postures to gain access to the different areas of the trunk where we can explore the breath helping to quieten the mind. The practice should help to let go of the recent busyness and craziness of life and to reconnect to source within.
Cost is $31.50 (includes GST)
Balancing Mobility & Stability in Your Shoulders
Recording available for purchase
6 months Iyengar Yoga experience required
A healthy shoulder joint requires a combination of mobility AND stability in order for the joint to move freely and easily. Our scapula need to stabilize the shoulder girdle enough to allow for freedom of movement of the shoulder. The scapula should be able to go through upward rotation, downward rotation, protraction, retraction, abduction, and posterior tilting. The mobility and stability of the shoulder joint also depends on the rotator cuff muscles which surround the joint.
During this workshop we will be exploring several poses that will help to open the tight muscles and to strengthen the week muscles of the shoulders, helping to bring about a healthy balance between mobility and stability.
Balancing Mobility & Stability In Your Hips
Recording Available For Purchase
6 months of Iyengar experience required
Did you know that the various activities and stressors of your daily life can cause your hips to lose their mobility and functionality? This can actually lead to problems throughout your entire body.
Did you know that your emotional state also depends on the health of your nervous systems ability to send signals from your brain to your hips and through your spine.
When you take regular care of your hips you not only maintain physical benefits but maintain emotional stability as well.
Come join us for this workshop which will leave you feeling stronger, healthier, more balanced in your hips. With the added benefit of allowing your physical & mental health to flourish!
Cost is $47.25 (includes GST)
Nourish Your Mind, Body and Spirit
A practice to relax the body, quieten the mind and lift your spirit
Recording Available For Purchase
Suitable for all levels
Through Pranayama (breath awareness) we are taken into the inner space of the body and are allowed to witness the various movements of breath that can be explored and experienced inside our awakened body.This practice helps to further quieten our mind and connect us to spirit.
When our mind, body, and spirit have all been nourished and purified through the various practices of yoga, we can then experience an increase in the flow of prana or energy throughout the whole body. This helps to improve our capacity to work, think, digest, taste, feel, and experience life to the fullest. In other words, through the practice of yoga we become more present to everything we do in in every given moment!
Cost is $47.25 (includes GST)
NOTE: Props required include; a bolster, two blocks, 3 blankets and/or thick towels, a belt and a chair.
Openers and Strengtheners
Recording Available For Purchase
Suitable for all levels
This workshop focus is on some of the work that I learned through Faeq Biria when I studied with him in France during the summer of 2007.
We would do most of these postures each morning building upon the work each day as we went through weeks one to four.
The asanas focus on areas of the body that are assisted to either open or strengthen, helping us as we advance through the stages of practice.
Cost is $47.25 (includes GST)
NOTE: Props required include; a bolster, two blocks, 3 blankets and/or thick towels, a belt and a chair.
Nourish Your Soul in the Sacred Valley of Peru
This was cancelled during Covid but I am still hoping to offer this in the fall of 2025
Stay tuned!
Are you ready to disconnect from the busyness and stress of everyday life and immerse yourself in a 7-day spiritual adventure where you can renew your mind, body, and spirit?
Peru is one of the 7 wonders of the world and contains some of the world’s purest energy. Peru is known as a bio-energetic center of great magnetic power which possesses a powerful healing effect and provides visitors with the strength of mind. Ancient Peruvians, just like ancient yogi’s, cherished divine respect towards nature. Peru and its indigenous cultures are rooted in spirituality.
Our time together will be spent in the Sacred Valley just outside of Cusco which has been attributed to “the center or navel of the world”. In yoga practice, we work to connect to our center. Our week will begin with a traditional Peruvian Despacho ceremony which will help connect us to nature, all beings, elements, and spirits. This ceremony helps to return you to the essential unity with all that exists, the living energy of the universe. Similarly, through our yoga practice, we practice asanas to connect to that same higher power that exists within us all.
Reconnect and nourish your soul with morning asana and pranayama and an evening restorative class to further help nourish, rest and heal your body, mind, and spirit at the end of each day. There will be time for some reflection on yoga philosophy too. Of course, there will be delicious food and a beautiful setting to also help Nourish Your Soul!
Come join us for a once in a lifetime experience where you can allow yourself to tap into the powerful spiritual energy of the Andean mountains, deepen your practice and connect to nature and those around you.
“Yoga is the golden key which unlocks the door to peace, tranquility, and joy.”
– BKS Iyengar
Are You Ready to Change?
Come take a class and bring Iyengar Yoga into your life. Be ready for the practice to change you on many levels. For the better of course!
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