Living Your Practice: Ashtanga Foundation Workshop in NYC

[Guest guest]

Living Your Practice: Ashtanga Yoga Foundation Workshop

with Lori Brungard, Christopher Hildebrandt, and Lisa Schrempp

 

January 17-25, 2009, reg by Dec 18, 2008. 9am-6pm daily.

 

{ashtanga} Yoga Sangha at The Shala, 815 Broadway, 2nd fl (btwn 11-12th

Sts), NYC

for more info: lori 212.529.9434

 

Ashtanga Yoga practice both creates changes and asks us to make them.

It's useful to have some guidance about how to make lifestyle choices

which are sustainable, worthwhile, and supportive of our ultimate goals.

This workshop will help us establish a firm foundation to experience the

powerful and ever deeper aspects of yoga practice. We will learn

Ayurvedic principles to balance ourselves, define our asana practice,

and refine our speech through study of Sanskrit.

 

Patanjali, whom we thank at the beginning of each practice, wrote

extensively on each of these subjects, and this workshop seeks to

integrate them into life and practice.

 

The workshop will include an individual ayurvedic consultation to

determine your constitution and help you make appropriate health and

dietary choices, daily mysore practice, a full breakdown of the primary

series vinyasas, and correct pronunciation and meaning of the ashtanga

mantras and asana names.

 

(This workshop contains the same material as module one of the previous

200 hr Intensive.)

 

$1100 by December 18, $1250 thereafter

 

Lori Brungard, Christopher Hildebrandt, and Lisa Schrempp are all

dedicated practioners and teachers of Ashtanga Yoga. As long-time

students of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and Sharath Rangaswamy, they are all

authorized to teach Ashtanga by KPJAYI, and have each spent more than a

year studying in Mysore. They are all also 800 hr certified Jivamukti

Yoga teachers. In addition, each one has studied his or her area of

specialty for ten or more years with senior teachers in that field.

 

Lori Brungard (Asana instruction) was a professional modern dancer for

more than ten years. During this time she explored many avenues of

physical and psychological expression in movement and learned a deep

awareness of human anatomy. Her skills as a teacher lie both in her

ability as a body worker (she is also a certified Thai Yoga Therapist)

and in her analytical insight into breaking down the postures into their

component and complimentary parts.

 

Christopher Hildebrandt (Sanskrit) pursued doctoral studies at Brown

University in classical philology and Sanskrit. He has taught at Brown

University, Franklin and Marshall College, and New York University. He

trained teachers at Jivamukti Yoga, taught at Karma Yoga, Yoga Sutra,

and currently teaches at New York Yoga. His teaching is engaging, and

sparked with brilliant insights into the classical texts.

 

Lisa Schrempp (Ayurveda) is a 1999 graduate of the Ayurvedic Studies

Program directed by Dr. Vasant Lad, with whom she studied sacred texts,

herbs, disease pathology, and Pancha Karma treatments. She apprenticed

with Dr. Lad in a clinic in Pune, India. She served as a mentor and

educator for teacher trainees at Jivamukti Yoga, and currently teaches

at Yoga Flow in Tucson, AZ. Lisa brings a depth of knowledge of the

whole scope of yoga to apply Ayurveda through lifestyle choices to

enhance our progress on the path.