Ashtanga Yoga
Dena has been studying and practicing traditional Ashtanga yoga for over 35 years. She remains committed, deeply inspired and continuously amazed by the vast healing potential of this life changing practice. Her holistic approach looks beyond external form to inspire a passion for self-discovery and reflection.
The Week starts on Sunday with an afternoon workshop. The workshop is split into three parts. It starts with ‘Breath and Intension’, which is a revision of the essential basics that are required to practice effectively. Afterwards Dena will lead you through a led primary series exploring principals of movement to enhance freedom and longevity. Finishing with an Active Philosophy session where she will teach you the integration of seated practices, followed by Breath – Sound Vibration – Chanting and contemplation with an introduction to the vast landscape of perception through Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras.
The Ashtanga (Self Practice) Mysore classes are Monday 12th – 15th June all start with quiet reflection and development of the breath.
The week will conclude on Friday 16th with a conducted (led) class.
Ashtanga yoga offers a therapeutic methodology designed to promote healing on many levels.
It is a curriculum that involves freeing and strengthening the body, breath, and mind, through repetition and gradual augmentation of specific practices.
Each person moves through a prescribed series of breath synchronized movements in the form of classical asana at an individual pace.
The practitioner and their practice evolve symbiotically.
The practices progress from the cultivation of physical mobility and stability in asana to the enhancement of the breath capacity through pranayama. Continued concentration evolves into meditative states establishing a settled, more open, connected sense of self.
What begins with great effort over time finds ease, like a song well practiced will reveal and express the union of musician and instrument.
Even simple practice can produce moments of internal harmony.
Yoga does not promise a life without hardship, sorrow, or pain.
But it gives us tools to keep the mind steady through success and failure.
The continuing mornings following the Sunday workshop will begin with quiet reflection and development of the breath. followed by Mysore style classes Monday – Thursday and a conducted class to conclude on Friday
Can be attended individually or bought as part of the 6 days
PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS
The morning will begin with quiet reflection and development of the breath. followed by a Mysore style class.
Please note the slightly later start time on Friday of 7am.
Friday morning will begin with quiet reflection and development of the breath followed by a conducted class to conclude the week.
Dena has been studying and practicing traditional Ashtanga yoga for over 35 years.
She is a devoted long term student of the late Pattabhi Jois.
She remains committed, deeply inspired and continuously amazed by the vast healing potential of this life changing practice.
Dena has a disciplined, yet lyrical style of teaching. Her holistic approach looks beyond external form to inspire a passion for self-discovery and reflection.
Life is full and sweet.
Jack was introduced to yoga by his older sister when he was in his early twenties. He took classes and workshops at various Satyananda Ashrams around Australia before returning to the north coast in 1991 where he began the practice of Ashtanga Yoga and met his future wife Dena.
Jack first went to Mysore in 1995 and recalls spending three months in daily fear of Baddha Konasana. That first trip coincided with the celebration of Pattabhi Jois’s 80th birthday. He has since returned a dozen times.
Jack teaches classes in Byron Bay, Australia and supports his wife Dena both inside and outside of the yoga room. Together they have built their handcrafted home and co-parent their children Zoli and Izac.
Many years of carpentry and farm work contributed to a stiff body. Jack believes that his personal experience of working through his structural restrictions have given him the understanding and ability to be patient and helpful when working with others.
Yoga also allows Jack to indulge in his penchant for wearing loud yoga shorts, many of them carrying the label, “made with love by grandma “
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