BARBARA BORIS Yoga

Friday, Level II-III Class, 10:45-12:45
Half Restorative, Half Standing Poses.
Last and First week of the month!

Sunday, General Level Class, 9:30-11:00

Monday, Labor Day, Level I-II Class, 10-11:30
Options given for Level I students.

and….

SIGN UP NOW FOR THE
“RAW BEGINNER’S INTRO TO YOGA SERIES”

I am also offering an INTRO TO YOGA SERIES in September. This series is appropriate for RAW beginners. The Intro to Yoga Series teaches the fundamentals of yoga and will prepare you to attend the regular Monday Level I class.

INTRO TO YOGA SERIES
Sept. 24 – Oct. 15 (4 weeks) on Fridays
Sept. 24, Oct. 1, Oct. 8, Oct. 15
4:30-5:30
Mountain View Studio
$50 for the entire series
(no make-up dates if you miss a class)

Sign up now to reserve your spot.
I expect it to fill up fast and I will take only sixteen students.

Send your $50 check, made out to me:
Barbara Boris
21 Witchtree Road
Woodstock, NY 12498

or be totally modern about it and…

it’s safe easy and FAST!
I will send you a confirmation email as soon as you are registered.

This is the class for me to hone my teaching skills prior to my Iyengar National Association of U.S. Teaching Assessment. I need 6-8 people per class, beginners, especially RAW BEGINNERS are ENCOURAGED to come! But please, have no major injuries and pre-register first!

Intro to Iyengar Yoga Class
Fridays, 4:30-5:30
Beginning July 30 – Sept 10
Mountain View Studio
20 Mountain View Avenue, Woodstock
FREE

Send me an email if you want to attend. First 8 people will be accepted. Class will run until September, so sign up now for other classes!

my email: bxboris@yahoo.com

The class will be very basic and different from a normal class:

- one hour exactly (or shorter!)
- only 6 asanas (poses)
- different asanas each class
- salamba sarvangasana (shoulder stand) will be taught in every class
- student doesn’t need to know how to do sarvangasana,
but must be willing to try (NO NECK or SERIOUS BACK INJURIES!)
- instruction will be on defining the shape of each asana and a few basic actions
- each asana will be taught for just 6 minutes
- I will be timing my teaching of each asana
- class will be video taped for my assessment of teaching skills
- I will not move the camera around, students will only be seen from behind
- the video is for me to see how I teach, not about you or how you do the asana
- no yoga philosophy
- long final relaxation

Tonight’s class at Satya Yoga will be HEAT SENSITIVE!

Meaning, if it’s still hot in there after I turn the Air Conditioning on, we will do appropriate HIP OPENING and lying around things to sweat in our space.
No worries. I will adjust the tone of the class per the day. But DO COME, next week I will be away.

We will be doing standing poses to the theme of AHIMSA, non-violence.
The text will be from Tree of Yoga, by B.K.S. Iyengar, p. 50, “The Roots.” It will be available for purchase at class.

I’ll be teaching the class, but I have to leave at 10:10. Ina Becker will take over then. I have to run to Zen Mountain Monastery to witness and to celebrate the Full Monastic Ordination of Angela Senjin Caponigro. This has been both 10 years (of Zen Practice) and lifetimes (of Dharma practice) in the making. Please keep her in your heart as you practice today. This is a big big deal. Thanks!

Monday, Level I Class is ON, 10-11:30

Even though the calendar says it’s July 2nd, it’s still the “Last Week of the Month” in my book. Tomorrow’s (Friday’s) Level II-III Class will be restorative. We WILL have inversions, supported back bends, pranayama and a lot of lying around.

I will be focusing on bringing awareness from the:

Anamaya kosha to the
Pranamaya kosha to the
Manomaya kosha

(through the Vijyanamaya kosha)

and ultimately the
ANANDAMAYA kosha.

KEVIN GARDINER
Senior Level 1 Iyengar Instructor

Saturday & Sunday,
July 10 and 11, 2010

2 classes each day: 10am -1pm and 3pm -5pm

KG Workshop

Full Weekend $250.00 Single Day $150.00

Kevin just this past winter received his SENIOR LEVEL IYENGAR CERTIFICATION directly from B.K.S. Iyengar himself. He was at the Iyengar Institute in Pune for all of October and November 2009. This is a rare opportunity to catch 10 hours of teaching, freshly digested from Pune while Kevin is here in the states from his adopted home in Budapest Hungary. This will be the only 2 day workshop he will be teaching in New York. So if you have taken any of his amazing workshops here in the past, or are a regular New York student of Kevin’s, or just heard of him through the Institute this is your chance. SIGN UP AND SAVE YOUR PLACE NOW. It will be sure to sell out. Only 50 students will be allowed in. (more…)

Dear Barbara Boris – IYNAUS ID# 1103, (Iyengar Yoga National Association of the United States)

We are happy to inform you that your application for the
2010 IYNAUS Assessment has been accepted.

Your recommending teachers have expressed confidence that you are ready for Assessment at this level. As you continue with your preparations, remember the words of B.K.S. Iyengar, “Teaching is a difficult art, but it is the best service you can do to humanity.”

We wish you a pleasant and successful Assessment experience.

Your venue assignment is as follows:
Assessment Level: Teacher in Training
Date: 9/17/2010
Venue: Austin, TX

Dear Woodstock (Iyengar) Yoga Students,
Please stay posted about upcoming practice classes
that I will offer to prepare for my first Assessment.
Thank you for all your support!

p.s. (Iyengar) is in parenthesis, because I am not officially allowed to use it until the Assesment process is complete. But now I am officially on my way!

Just in case you got one in this week’s classes, here is the latest “science” from the New York Times.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/09/phys-ed-can-pickle-juice-stop-muscle-cramps/

“…Dr. Miller suspects that that mechanism is exhaustion, either directly or through biochemical processes that accompany fatigue. Certain mechanisms within muscles have been found, in animal and limited human studies, he says, to start misfiring when a muscle is extremely tired. Small nerves that should keep the muscle from overcontracting malfunction, and the muscle bunches when it should relax. Pickle juice may work…”

Saturday Market in Goa

Sunday Class is ON, General Level, 9:30-11

Monday Class is ON, General Level, 10-11:30

After both classes: TRUNK SALE – ITEMS FROM INDIA!
Cash, checks, PayPal accepted (I’ll have my computer so you can pay me)
Clothing, Shawls (light wool, raw silk, Rajasthani Tie Dye Cotton),
Cloth, CDs, Misc., All reasonably recession priced!

I don’t know what it means, but twice now there were more MEN than WOMEN in Tuesday Night’s Yoga Class at Satya Yoga. And I’m not even wearing low cut tops! Kudos to the: Writer, Orthopedic Surgeon, Sanskrit Professor, Teacher Trainee, Super Yogi, Zen Arborist and the High School Student who attend regularly. You are much appreciated. Go Dutchess County!

Kudos also to the Woodstock Men, you were remembered as well: Furniture Designer, Therapist, Photographer, Buddhist Psychiatrist, Scientist, Architect (x3), Carpenters. YAY MEN!

The “Feminization of Yoga” is an interesting phenomenon. Yogis were traditionally men. What is happening to the science of yoga with all of us women teaching? Shakti yes, but what else? I don’t have a full answer. Are we women ‘teaching like men’ or has the whole idea of ‘what yoga is’ changed? Totally open for comment.