Energetic Alignment

What does it mean to align?

In one sense, alignment is an expression of the greatest vitality and most amount of ease in our being. This makes space to experience the most amount of integration and connection in our own body and clears a pathway for a mind–heart harmony.

In this virtual course, we'll explore an approach to alignment that goes beyond muscle and bone, and connects us with the movement of energy in the subtle body.

Whether you are exploring alignment in your personal practice or also guiding others in their practice, this course is chock full of conceptual approaches and practical applications and exercises so you can experience alignment from the inside out.

You'll learn to:

• Create a steady foundation for both simple and complex postures.
• Explore how internal experiences shape outer alignment.
• Align the physical body with emotions, experience and history
• Bring sankalpa/intention into each pose and the transitions between poses
• Integrate a sense of spanda (expansion and contraction) into practice
• Explore the five directions of prana as a foundation to physical and emotional integration and alignment
• Understand the key anatomical foundations for alignment, via guest teacher, Harvey Deutch

Alignment from the inside means:

• Finding the physical alignment that works for your body.
• Supporting your students as they explore their body's internal wisdom.
• Exploring asana and flow from a place of stability and ease
• Allowing prana to move through the body and through the pose.
• Finding a sense of wholeness in the body.

Who This Is For:

• Dedicated yoga practitioners who feel the calling to go deeper, to experience a sense of wholeness in asana and beyond
• Yoga teachers who wish to better understand alignment, and share it in their own teaching
• Those who have gone through yoga teacher training, but want to gain a more complete grasp of alignment and sequencing before beginning to teach
• Anyone who wishes to experience more inner peace, strength and certainty on their path

Course Details:

Over five weeks, we will explore alignment through:

• SPANDA and STABILITY
• PRANA VAYU: The sense of drawing in
• APANA VAYU: The sense of rooting down
• SAMANA VAYU: The sense of circulating inward
• UDANA VAYU: The sense of expanding upward
• VYANA VAYU: The sense of emanating outward
• INTEGRATION

Each weekly practice set includes:

• An Introduction to the Week
• Meditation
• Pranayama
• Mantra/Chanting
• Mudra
• Practical Applications of key concepts
• Anatomy lesson + discussion with guest teacher, Harvey Deutch
• Practical application for the anatomy with Harvey
• Questions for Contemplation

Enrollment

Enrollment is closed for the 2022 offering. The course is bundled with Intuitive Sequencing.