Yantra Yoga: 2nd Series and the Pranayama of the Four Profound Applications (Rhythmic Breathing) with Naomi Zeitz
2nd Series and the Pranayama of the Four Profound Applications (Rhythmic Breathing) with Naomi Zeitz
HOURS:
Saturday and Sunday,
9:00 am " 12 noon, 3 pm to 6 pm
COST:
$120/$60 (with membership discount) or $30 per session
Yantra Yoga or the Tibetan Yoga of Movement, is one of the oldest recorded systems of Yoga that exists in the world, coming to us through Tibet.
"In the practice of Yantra Yoga we use our body, our voice or our breath and our mind. With the body we do positions and movements, with the voice/breath there are many techniques of pranayamas or breathing practices and with the mind there are many ways to concentrate and visualize. The aim is to go beyond judging and thinking with our mind. We call this contemplation. When we apply all these three aspects together, we have the possibility to arrive at our real knowledge or the understanding of our primordial state, our original condition. That is the real meaning of yoga in Yantra Yoga."
Choegyal Namkhai Norbu
This course will go more deeply into the second series of Yantras and the very valuable pranayama associated with that series to train in kumbhaka.
We will review the preliminaries of Yantra Yoga but focus much more on understanding the yantras of the series, their application and the trainings in the 5 holdings of open, directed, closed, contracted and empty, used in the application of the pranayama of the four profound applications. This pranayama is an invaluable training in the deepening of the understanding of kumbhaka, in the expansion of the capacity of breathing and the eventual mastery of kumbhaka.
We will also use other methods to explore and train in the understanding of complete breathing that will help us to work with the prana (vital energy) in the application of movement and kumbhaka.
These courses will offer some modifications for people of all body types and capacities.
A basic knowledge of the prelimaries of Yantra Yoga and transmission from Choegyal Namkhai Norbu are required.
