This workshop seeks to reorient the practice of Asana towards the goal of Yoga. Something which is more than somatics or Yoga as something that is beyond deep somatics.
Yoga is more than embodied self-reflexivity. The word somatics was coined by Thomas Hanna to describe practices that involve an awareness of the interior of the soma, body. Western somatic practices can be seen as a "digestion" of Yoga. It is the West’s approach to understanding its own interiority, without an epistemological means to understanding the relationship of the body/mind/sense complex to consciousness itself.
This workshop will be mainly practice based including Kriyas, cleansing actions, Asana, postures, Pranayama, regulation of breath, Dhyanam, meditation, Bhakti, prayer and finally Vidya, knowledge. Using Kena Upanisad to help answer the question, who or what is the ear of the ear, the eye of the eye, i.e. who is the one behind the sense organ of sight, who is aware of the process and function of seeing?
This workshop is about relinquishing tone, really dropping into the parasympathetic nervous system and using this deep state as a place of self-inquiry.
All levels and bodies are welcome!
