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March 24th and March 25th
Phillip Askew Poignant is poetic & playful and his classes are a rhythmic and meditative flow of classic forms and techniques. Emphasizing awareness through precision, meditation in motion, and the art of conscious embodiment, they are a forum for the collective psychic experience and a pranic exchange. Imbued with meaning and metaphor, at an intersection of ideas from eastern philosophy and western science, they challenge the body, engage the mind, and quicken the spirit.
$40 per workshop before March 1st, $50 after
$135 for whole weekend before March 1st, $160 after
PAYMENTS ARE NON-TRANSFERABLE AND NON-REFUNDABLE(except in the case of workshop cancelation
Come to individual workshops or the whole weekend: Center Ring: Occupy your Sphere, Let's Get Open, Perennial Practice, and Partner Play
Sat. March 24th, 10am-12pm Center Ring: Occupy your Sphere
Orienting in time and space through asana, pranayama and Taoist micro-cosmic orbit- a highly effective visualization exercise designed to move you forward in life. Reconciling grace with effort, potential with memory, goals with will power, vision with patience, and understanding how to access each within your sphere of influence will bring you deep into a truer center, the axis of your wheel, the calm of your storm.
Sat. March 24th, 2-4pm Let's Open Up!
Let's drop all the pretense and get right down to it. Let's open up and let it go. Let it out! Let it loose! Don't hold yourself so tight! Get down, get dirty and move it through in this workshop specially crafted to help you get past what is holding you back. What keeps you as big as you really are? Reconnect to the you you were before you were born: to the Self for who all your struggles and conflicts are all as simple as child's play. Shake off the inauthentic persona which has encrusted itself around you! Open up as the love shines through your unguarded heart.
Sun. March 25th, 10am-12pm Perennial Practice: Spring Detox Flush and Twist
A perennial practice changes with the seasons. In Winter, when there is scarcity of sun energy, we learn to gather up the energy of the Earth through the roots of the body and how to go inside. A Summer practice is a heart practice, wherein we'll draw down the energy of the sum through leaves and branches, and we practice coming out to participate in the community. Spring brings the rains and the cleanse followed by blooming and blossoming. A Fall practice is a lung practice, a time for reflection and memory. Just as there is a spring of summer and a fall of winter, each season is contained within the others, though there is a different emphasis within each practice. A Spring practice has its emphasis on detoxing through twists and humidity- which is to say sweating. The blooming and blossoming that follows is achieved through backbending- a preparation for the full bloom of summer.
Sun. March 25th, 2-4pm Partner Play: Giving and Receiving Yoga through Partnering and Assisting
With a focus on skillful, energetic touch, the art and the science of hands on assistance, we'll explore the practice of conscious interaction known as partner yoga in our attempt to yoke together as One. Encouraging trust-building, inner stillness, and applied strength, we will practice listening with the entirety of the body until we are able to hear and feel the most minute fluctuations in the bodies of others. Poised between two worlds, in the balance and freedom that arises from a deeper understanding of our relationships to gravity, to our bodies, and to each other, we will access depths of trust and connection in a veritable still point between activity and receptivity. This practice is not only fun, but highly conducive to insights-both physical and emotional-safely supported, suspended between Heaven and Earth.
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