BARBARA BORIS Yoga

After all this crazy practice for Assessment I realized I have a lot to teach to Beginners! So as an outcome of that practice I am 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 p.m.
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

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TADASANA (Mountain Pose): As a Blueprint for Yoga and Life
or…. How to Improve Your Posture

FRANCIOS IS RETURNING TO WOODSTOCK!

OCTOBER 2 & 3, 2010
Saturday and Sunday
9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. both days with a light lunch break

Held at
Mountain View Studio
20 Mountain View Avenue
Woodstock, NY 12498

$220 for all 10 hours of teaching
$125 for single day (Saturday preferred)

In the Fall of 2008, I attended an Iyengar Intensive with FRANCOIS RAOULT in Rochester, New York. I was so inspired and excited by his teaching that I immediately invited him to come to Woodstock to present to you his knowledge of Iyengar Yoga. Last Fall’s workshop on Pranayama and Ayurveda was well attended. Here’s your chance to see him again… or for the first time.

I realized then that many Woodstock students have a limited view of yoga. We are a small town. But the power of following a strong system like Iyengar Yoga is that the lineage is CLEAR. The beauty of the teaching comes though as you study with different teachers. François is a master teacher:  in Yoga and the related Indian arts and sciences.

For those of you who were “scared off” by previous weekend intensives, this seminar is for you! The majority of the work will be on Tadasana (Mountain Pose) “just standing around!” In this yoga seminar we will practice postural awareness and alignment in daily life postures as well as in standing and sitting yoga asanas. The yoga and the asana will be presented clearly. It will not be a difficult class asana-wise. But I assure you that you will come away from the weekend inspired for your fall practice season of yoga. NON-IYENGAR STUDENTS are WELCOME TO COME. This will be a very inclusive workshop.

We will also look at François’s internationally acclaimed slide show on Posture. (more…)

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

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

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…)

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!

It is becoming known among musicians from India that there is a core group of devoted and artistic listeners here. Some artists who are accustomed to large halls and large concert fees are now coming to perform in the intimate confines of Woodstock because of the people who come out to hear them and the reputation that Woodstock has as a music town.  Tejendra Majumdar is one such artist.  A concert by him is a special event anywhere in the world. (more…)

There is a bet out on how many students will show up at 10 instead of the new class time 9:30. Come on time and make one saavy better (and me as teacher) happy…

SUNDAY CLASS STARTS AT 9:30

Oms of India, © Martin Brading

Sunday, April 4, 2010
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT
Mountain View Studio
20 Mountain View Avenue, Woodstock
It’s FREE!

It’s a simple idea:  Gather people together and sing a continuous OM as a meditation for peace. On Easter Sunday April 4, 2010 at 6:00 PM EDT, people, all over the world, who want to give expression to their wish for peace will gather in groups to join in the sound of many voices singing as one in an extended OM. Each person, as a meditation on peace, sings their own note at their own rate guided by their breath. Within the group this builds an exquisitely beautiful, rising and falling, subtly changing, continuous chord. Many voices resonating together in one sound.

People of all faiths and beliefs are welcome. No musical experience is necessary only the willingness to add your voice for peace to the sound of OM.

This is the eighth year of this Event, organized by Baird Hersey. Last year he heard from people all over the country who had participated. Please forward this to anyone who might be interested or your mailing list. And PLEASE let us know how it goes.

Boo hoo, but it’s time to get out of “Dodge.” See you this evening:

LEVEL I-II CLASS, 4:30-6
Mountain View Studio

I’m tired, so half the class will be restorative. I always restore myself teaching YOU restorative! See you then, or in March.
OM