Full Weekend Workshop: $250
(Per session pricing will open September 1.)
All levels welcome! This workshop is suitable for anyone interested in Ashtanga!
Full Weekend Workshop: $225 by July 1, 2018; $250 after.
Per session pricing will open after July 1.
There will be a 20% administration fee on refunds for cancellations made at least one week in advance. There are no refunds for cancellations made less than one week prior to the workshop.
Full Weekend Workshop: $225 by July 1, 2018; $250 after.
Per session pricing will open after July 1.
There will be a 20% administration fee on refunds for cancellations made at least one week in advance. There are no refunds for cancellations made less than one week prior to the workshop.
Workshop Schedule
Friday, October 5
6:30pm-8:30pm: Ashtanga Foundations I: The Five Allies in Surya Namaskara
Saturday, October 6
10:00am-12:30pm: Ashtanga Foundations II: Standing sequence, Seated Postures and Dynamic Transitions of the Primary Series
1:30pm-3:00pm: Ashtanga Foundations III: Precision, Purification and Pranayama
Sunday, October 7
9:30am-11:30am: Mysore
12:00pm-1:00pm: Question and Answer
6:30pm-8:30pm: Ashtanga Foundations I: The Five Allies in Surya Namaskara
Saturday, October 6
10:00am-12:30pm: Ashtanga Foundations II: Standing sequence, Seated Postures and Dynamic Transitions of the Primary Series
1:30pm-3:00pm: Ashtanga Foundations III: Precision, Purification and Pranayama
Sunday, October 7
9:30am-11:30am: Mysore
12:00pm-1:00pm: Question and Answer
David skillfully provides explanations of elusive, often unspoken aspects of the practice. He offers a combination of both traditional counted vinyasa led classes and clinic-style led classes that investigate specific aspects of the practice in varying levels of detail.
During his clinic-style led classes, students investigate specific aspects of the practice, and arrive at new perspectives on how to practice more intelligently, safely, and joyfully. These classes feature more verbal instruction, and they give students a chance to slow things down, see new ways to orient during practice, and understand the Ashtanga method in greater, more subtle detail.
Mysore, chanting and kirtan classes are also frequently included, and David also weaves together study of asana, pranayama, bandhas, vinyasa, chanting, Bhakti yoga, the Yoga Sutras, and other elements to help develop Ashtanga Vidya (knowledge)
During his clinic-style led classes, students investigate specific aspects of the practice, and arrive at new perspectives on how to practice more intelligently, safely, and joyfully. These classes feature more verbal instruction, and they give students a chance to slow things down, see new ways to orient during practice, and understand the Ashtanga method in greater, more subtle detail.
Mysore, chanting and kirtan classes are also frequently included, and David also weaves together study of asana, pranayama, bandhas, vinyasa, chanting, Bhakti yoga, the Yoga Sutras, and other elements to help develop Ashtanga Vidya (knowledge)
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS
ASHTANGA FOUNDATIONS I: The Allies in Surya Namaskara
FRIDAY, 5:30pm-7:30pm
In this class we’ll look at the root techniques that form the internal practice of Ashtanga Yoga by carefully studying their application to the nine positions of Surya Namaskara. The root techniques, or allies, include pranayama (conscious breathing), vinyasa (positioning), bandhas (locks), dristi (gazing), and dhyana (meditation).
The positions of Surya Namaskara provide the perfect foundation to explore the important role that each of the allies plays in creating a mature, sustainable yoga practice. We’ll also explore how to internally connect the allies, and see how the creative interaction between them can help you to awaken the entire inner ‘field’ (ksetra) of consciousness. Awakening the inner field gives you a special kind of intuitive intelligence that pervades the body and helps you better use limbs 3 and 4 (asana and pranayama) to move towards mastery of all eight limbs in the system.
ASHTANGA FOUNDATIONS II: Using the Allies in Standing and Seated Postures of Primary Series
PART 1: STANDING POSTURES 10am-11:15am
In this class we’ll explore how to cultivate a combination of dynamism and stability in the standing postures to provide you a perfect means of entrance into the internal practice of Ashtanga Yoga. We’ll explore the importance of using the feet, legs, and hips to create strength, stamina, and concentration. You’ll better understand how the standing postures are an essential key to building a strong asana foundation. You’ll learn to better access mula and uddhiyana bandhas (locks), and you’ll see how the grounded support of the lower body can awaken the breath and the spine and lead the way to steady gazing (dristi) and dynamic meditation (dhyana).
PART 2: SEATED POSTURES 11:15am-12:30pm
Structuring each seated asana in the Primary Series around understanding the allies (vinyasa, breathing, bandhas, etc) will help you better extract the strengthening, restorative, and healing benefits of this important series. We’ll also study the dynamic transitions between the asanas. Emphasizing transitions teaches you to cultivate rhythm, breath, dynamism, and vitality within the stillness of each asana.
ASHTANGA FOUNDATIONS III: Precision, Purification and Pranayama
SATURDAY, 1:30pm-3:00pm
This class is devoted to the central role breathing plays in attaining success in practice. This class will utilize breathing exercises, retention, and discussion to help you better understand how and why you want to centralize your awareness on breath during practice.
We’ll study how to use breathing to build powerful strength in your asanas and to effect nadi shodana, purification of the pranic channels. Prana Vidya, knowledge of prana, helps you to progress towards subtlety as you concentrate your mind and better direct the power of the internalized prana. We’ll discuss how cleansing is not limited to the tapas that you create during practice, but rather how purification is a central theme that encompasses all aspects of your life. We’ll explore how to access awareness of your more subtle energy channels through breathing and how to better direct this energy both on and off the mat.
MYSORE
SUNDAY, 9:30am-11:30am
Mysore class provides the student with a concentrated and heightened learning experience that will help he/she develop practical and technical yoga skills and be immersed in the inspirational magic and poetic soul of the practice. Each student will receive valuable one-to-one guidance from David on developing his/her personal practice. The student will develop skill in applying the practice techniques in ways that are logical, challenging, intelligent, and fun. David focuses on learning how to follow the Ashtanga system, and at the same time helps each student create a practice that honors individuality, versatility, and creativity.
QUESTION AND ANSWER
SUNDAY, 12:00pm-1:00pm
Come ask any and every question, from philosophy and anatomy to mythology and meditation. David will bring to bear more than 25 years of yoga practice and teaching.
FRIDAY, 5:30pm-7:30pm
In this class we’ll look at the root techniques that form the internal practice of Ashtanga Yoga by carefully studying their application to the nine positions of Surya Namaskara. The root techniques, or allies, include pranayama (conscious breathing), vinyasa (positioning), bandhas (locks), dristi (gazing), and dhyana (meditation).
The positions of Surya Namaskara provide the perfect foundation to explore the important role that each of the allies plays in creating a mature, sustainable yoga practice. We’ll also explore how to internally connect the allies, and see how the creative interaction between them can help you to awaken the entire inner ‘field’ (ksetra) of consciousness. Awakening the inner field gives you a special kind of intuitive intelligence that pervades the body and helps you better use limbs 3 and 4 (asana and pranayama) to move towards mastery of all eight limbs in the system.
ASHTANGA FOUNDATIONS II: Using the Allies in Standing and Seated Postures of Primary Series
PART 1: STANDING POSTURES 10am-11:15am
In this class we’ll explore how to cultivate a combination of dynamism and stability in the standing postures to provide you a perfect means of entrance into the internal practice of Ashtanga Yoga. We’ll explore the importance of using the feet, legs, and hips to create strength, stamina, and concentration. You’ll better understand how the standing postures are an essential key to building a strong asana foundation. You’ll learn to better access mula and uddhiyana bandhas (locks), and you’ll see how the grounded support of the lower body can awaken the breath and the spine and lead the way to steady gazing (dristi) and dynamic meditation (dhyana).
PART 2: SEATED POSTURES 11:15am-12:30pm
Structuring each seated asana in the Primary Series around understanding the allies (vinyasa, breathing, bandhas, etc) will help you better extract the strengthening, restorative, and healing benefits of this important series. We’ll also study the dynamic transitions between the asanas. Emphasizing transitions teaches you to cultivate rhythm, breath, dynamism, and vitality within the stillness of each asana.
ASHTANGA FOUNDATIONS III: Precision, Purification and Pranayama
SATURDAY, 1:30pm-3:00pm
This class is devoted to the central role breathing plays in attaining success in practice. This class will utilize breathing exercises, retention, and discussion to help you better understand how and why you want to centralize your awareness on breath during practice.
We’ll study how to use breathing to build powerful strength in your asanas and to effect nadi shodana, purification of the pranic channels. Prana Vidya, knowledge of prana, helps you to progress towards subtlety as you concentrate your mind and better direct the power of the internalized prana. We’ll discuss how cleansing is not limited to the tapas that you create during practice, but rather how purification is a central theme that encompasses all aspects of your life. We’ll explore how to access awareness of your more subtle energy channels through breathing and how to better direct this energy both on and off the mat.
MYSORE
SUNDAY, 9:30am-11:30am
Mysore class provides the student with a concentrated and heightened learning experience that will help he/she develop practical and technical yoga skills and be immersed in the inspirational magic and poetic soul of the practice. Each student will receive valuable one-to-one guidance from David on developing his/her personal practice. The student will develop skill in applying the practice techniques in ways that are logical, challenging, intelligent, and fun. David focuses on learning how to follow the Ashtanga system, and at the same time helps each student create a practice that honors individuality, versatility, and creativity.
QUESTION AND ANSWER
SUNDAY, 12:00pm-1:00pm
Come ask any and every question, from philosophy and anatomy to mythology and meditation. David will bring to bear more than 25 years of yoga practice and teaching.
About David
David is among a small group of Ashtanga yoga teachers who received a teaching certificate directly from the late founding master of Ashtanga yoga Sri K Pattabhi Jois. David met Pattabhi Jois in 1993 and over the next 16 years he traveled to Mysore India to study with the great yoga master. In 1996 Pattabhi Jois granted David a teaching certificate. David returned to Seattle and opened the first ever Ashtanga yoga studio in Seattle. In 2002 David hosted Sri K Pattabhi Jois (along with his daughter Saraswathi and his grandson Sharath) in Seattle.
David was introduced to yoga at the age of 16 when a friend taught him the classic set of postures known as Surya Namaskara (Sun Salutations). David maintained a self-taught practice for more than a decade before everything changed when he met Marie Svoboda, Seattle’s “grand dame of yoga” in 1991. Attending her classes lit an everlasting fire for yoga in him and he immersed himself in a serious yoga study. During this time David also had the great fortune to study intensely with senior BKS Iyengar teacher Aadil Palkhivala attending weekly classes and participating in many intensives and teacher trainings. However, in 1993 he discovered a vhs tape of Sri K Pattabhis Jois teaching senior Ashtanga teachers Tim Miller, Richard Freeman, and Chuck Miller and this was when he knew he had discovered his teacher.
David Garrigues is an internationally recognized yoga teacher and creator of the Asana Kitchen video instruction series, an online video tutorial learning resource for students. He is the founder/director of Ashtanga Yoga School (AYS) of Philadelphia and also travels extensively throughout the US, Europe, and India offering workshops, in depth studies and retreats.
For the last 25 years David has maintained an enthusiastic personal practice that is dedicated to asana and pranayama study in the Ashtanga tradition. His intense dedication to practice and teaching, inspire his students who form a diverse, soulful, open hearted, and serious global learning community. David's mission is to help students of yoga flourish within the living, contemporary lineage of Ashtanga Yoga. He aims to be part of the circle of hatha yoga lovers who are devoted to applying the teachings of ashtanga yoga in ways that promote physical, psychological, and spiritual growth in themselves and others.
David was introduced to yoga at the age of 16 when a friend taught him the classic set of postures known as Surya Namaskara (Sun Salutations). David maintained a self-taught practice for more than a decade before everything changed when he met Marie Svoboda, Seattle’s “grand dame of yoga” in 1991. Attending her classes lit an everlasting fire for yoga in him and he immersed himself in a serious yoga study. During this time David also had the great fortune to study intensely with senior BKS Iyengar teacher Aadil Palkhivala attending weekly classes and participating in many intensives and teacher trainings. However, in 1993 he discovered a vhs tape of Sri K Pattabhis Jois teaching senior Ashtanga teachers Tim Miller, Richard Freeman, and Chuck Miller and this was when he knew he had discovered his teacher.
David Garrigues is an internationally recognized yoga teacher and creator of the Asana Kitchen video instruction series, an online video tutorial learning resource for students. He is the founder/director of Ashtanga Yoga School (AYS) of Philadelphia and also travels extensively throughout the US, Europe, and India offering workshops, in depth studies and retreats.
For the last 25 years David has maintained an enthusiastic personal practice that is dedicated to asana and pranayama study in the Ashtanga tradition. His intense dedication to practice and teaching, inspire his students who form a diverse, soulful, open hearted, and serious global learning community. David's mission is to help students of yoga flourish within the living, contemporary lineage of Ashtanga Yoga. He aims to be part of the circle of hatha yoga lovers who are devoted to applying the teachings of ashtanga yoga in ways that promote physical, psychological, and spiritual growth in themselves and others.
Location
The workshop will be held at:
Upstairs Room
Yoga on Yamhill
124 SW Yamhill St
Portland, OR 97204
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Upstairs Room
Yoga on Yamhill
124 SW Yamhill St
Portland, OR 97204
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Parking
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There are several SmartPark garages throughout the downtown area.
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