Weekend (sometimes Weekday) Specials are mini-workshops taught by Triangle Yoga teachers

and are usually held on Saturday or Sunday afternoons. Specials are approximately 2-3

hours long and pre-payment is recommended; the drop in fee is $5 more.

You can sign up on the clipboard outside the Sun Room and pre-pay

in the office, or call 919-933-9642 to register.

MAY 2008

Saturday, May 10th, from 2:30pm-4:30pm

FREE

Introductory Teacher Training

MASTER CLASS

with Jodie Rufty

Jodie will introduce prospective students to the dynamic and conscious practice of asana in the cornerstone to the Yoga Works approach to teaching. To deepen their education, students in the Yoga Works teacher training will also study anatomy and physiology, explore yoga’s philosophical underpinnings, practice meditation and pranayama as well as investigate the subtle body and the science of Ayurveda. This foundational training will emphasize deepening a student’s personal practice, as this is the source for their creative teaching.
It will also include a comprehensive study of the techniques and mechanics of fundamental yoga postures,

while providing the tools necessary to teach yoga to others. To facilitate a more scientific understanding of the body, the training includes the study of functional anatomy-including units devoted to the feet, legs, pelvis,

spine and shoulder girdle as well as the physiology of inversions, breathing and the nervous system.

In addition, to give developing teachers a balanced understanding of yoga, the Yoga Works training

moves beyond the physical with the study of meditation, pranayama, Ayurveda and the chakra system.

Saturday, May 17th, from 1-3pm, $20 prepay, $25 at the door

AYURVEDA and YOGA

with Nisha Padia

This workshop is designed to introduce students to the relationship between yoga and Ayurveda.

Ayurveda is a powerful system of healing oriented around the five elements of space, air, fire, water

and earth. These elements express themselves in our bodies, emotions and the spiritual practices

we choose. Yoga asanas also incorporate and embody the five elements and their corresponding

qualities. Each individual is composed of different proportions of the elements that determine their

constitution, described in the language of the doshas as vata, pitta and kapha. Deepening our

understanding of how our individual constitutions interact with the asanas to pacify or enervate

certain energies in the body- mind leads to a profound intuitive ability to work with asana as a

healing tool in our lives. An Ayurvedic understanding of yoga practice provides an embodied

logic for creating sequences that are balanced in their energetic effects and it demystifies

the process of creating a home practice

Sunday, May 18th, from 1-3pm, $20 prepay, $25 at the door

PRANAYAMA, THE ART OF BREATHING

with David Beadle

Breathing is life. It is one of our most vital functions. One of the Five Principles

of Yoga is Pranayama (breathing exercise which promote the proper use of breath).

In a Yogic point of view, proper breathing is to bring more oxygen to the blood and to

the brain, and to control Prana or the vital life energy. Pranayama also goes hand in

hand with the Asanas. The union of these two Yogic Principles is considered as the

highest form of purification and self-discipline, covering both mind and body.

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