Yoga as FUNctional Dynamic Embodiment
Three sessions include breathwork, restorative, hip openers, balance, and inversions
Two sessions dedicated to philosophy and discussion
Friday, Sept 6 – Sunday, Sept 8, 2024*
*please note our workshop cancellation policy below
International yoga teacher, musician, and author Bhavani Maki is returning to Swell for an immersive weekend of yoga asana (posture), prāṇāyāma (breathwork), and Sūtra (philosophy).
Yoga has become synonymous with making shapes with our bodies in which the project is a static ideal. As we pull from the aboriginal wisdom of Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra, we are reminded that authentic Yoga is designed to increase our FUNctionality, curiosity, confidence, and creativity.
This unique workshop will explore somatic experiencing to awaken the ancient wisdom of our structural, psychological, and spiritual bodies as integrated and open new pathways into greater freedom.
- Friday Evening | Practice: Restorative yoga, philosophy, & breathwork
- Saturday Morning | Practice: Stability, hip openers, & balance
- Saturday Afternoon | Philosophy and discussion: The Mind Waves
- Sunday Morning | Practice: FUNctional movement, spinal extensions, & inversions
- Sunday Afternoon | Philosophy and discussion: The Five Klesha
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5 Sessions | Friday, Sept 6 – Sunday, Sept 8
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Friday, Sept 6 @6pm | Practice: Restorative, breathwork, philosophy (2.5 hours )
Restorative Yoga, Patañjali Yoga Sutra, and Prānāyāma
Some doors only open from the inside. Yogic posture is the seat in which Yoga begins and opens the door to metaphysical realities. Enjoy restorative postures, the Yoga Sūtra’s sage wisdom, and Prānāyāma practices.
Saturday, Sept 7 @9am | Practice: stability, hip openers, balance (3hrs)
Stability: The Vinyasa of Sthira & Sukham
We are often confused by misuse of terminology. Stability implies our ability to reestablish center via adaptability and resilience. Explore strength through range of motion via a variety of Asana. Hip openers and balancing postures.
Saturday, Sept 7 @2pm | Philosophy & Discussion (2.25hrs)
The Mind Waves
Patañjali describes the five types of thought processes to empower the practitioner with an objective perspective of their subjective experience. With a clear understanding of the Vṛtti Aklishtāḥ, what spins our minds, we can unravel patterns of maladaptive conditioning. Revealing the deeper underlying nature of our being as naturally radiant, Patañjali inspires us to proceed with confidence, clarity, and ultimately, effectiveness.
Sunday, Sept 8 @9am | Practice: functional movement, inversions (3hrs)
Spinal Extensions & Inversions
Most people hold themselves up through sheer will. There are two ways a disordered system manages to balance structure: tension or compression. An investigation of new choices and possibilities for functional movement in which we explore intelligent and dynamic functional movement.
Sunday, Sept 8 @2pm | Sutra + Discourse (2.25hrs)
The Five Klesha, or Colors Of The Mind
According to Sage Patañjali, our greatest challenge is our addiction to problems and a tendency to miss the point. Once we understand that all unnecessary suffering has roots in the five root afflictions or Klesha, we appreciate them as opportunities for growth.
Bhavani is Swell teacher Natalie Hanson’s beloved mentor and the author of The Yogīs Roadmap: The Patañjali Yoga Sūtra as a Journey to Self Realization
*T+C for workshops and special events: Cancellations more than one week in advance will be transferred to credit at Swell Yoga Studio. Cancellations made less than one week in advance later are not available for credit but can be transferred to another student.