Songbird Healing Community

In this style of yoga, we integrate the alignments of Balance/Original Alignment (based on studying the posture of less industrialized cultures) with Iyengar style yoga to reduce injuries, increase length in the spine, and relieve back pain. Other benefits include increased strength and flexibility, improved posture, and stress reduction. We’ll also be integrating some of Dr. Loren Fishman’s guidelines for bone strengthening. Beginners welcome!

Taught by Dana Davis, Certified Original Alignment posture teacher, Certified Yoga Teacher (500 hour program), certified to teach Yoga for Osteoporosis by Dr. Loren Fishman

Tuition: $25 drop-in, $85 for series of 4, $160 for 8 (cash & checks only at the door).

RSVP: suggested. Your spot is reserved once you have paid for the class.

What To Bring: There are some yoga props there, but if you don’t want to use shared props, you can bring your own mat, strap, blocks and blankets.

Yoga Vinyasa Krama - Thursdays 9-10:30am
Songbird Community Healing Center Cotati
RSVP ONLY

Experience physical health & fitness, pranic flow, vital energy & stillness - through intelligent architecture with the metaphysics of deep conscious breathing & slow motion, yogic breathwork, mantra/sound/vibration, mudra, subtle & contemplative practices.

Yoga Vinyasa Krama is a comprehensive hatha-raja yogic system for purification, developing concentration, neuromuscular fitness and conditioning, refining & mastering the breath, awakening subtle energy and stilling the mind. Based on deep breathing & the subtle movement of prana directed into the cartilage tissue, sinuous musculature, internal organs, nerve pathways and nadis. It has over 700 intelligently sequenced slow, conscious breath powered with precision movement variations with pause (vinyasas), exploring many aesthetic variations of each posture to correctly establish the main asanas while the mind merges with the breath.

Includes the energetics of drishti, pratikriyas, bandha, vaseth, mudra, mantra, surya & ding namaskar with breath & mantra, cleansing kriyas, Himalayan pranayama including including ujjayi variations, heating & cooling breaths, solar, lunar & soli-lunar nadi shuddhi practices, pranava & samantraka pranayama, pratyahara, subtle & contemplative practices in 12 kramas (sequences).

The whole process gradually transforms the body and mind, releasing old patterns of physical and mental tension and dysfunctional patterns of movement, providing tonic, energetic and psychophysiological effects.

This system is presented from the teachings Srivatsa Ramaswami learned through his over 33 years of one on one study with Sri Krishnamacharya and teachings from a similar Himalayan method.

This ongoing class will explore the entire system of 12 Kramas with each class focusing on a particular krama (sequence) & pranayama & contemplative practices.
Please practice on an empty stomach. Morning beverage ok but please take it 30min or more before class.