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

or be totally modern about it and…

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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.

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!

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

Back in good ‘ol Woodstock, but very jet lagged. Sleeping is off and on, but the brain cells are barely turned on. What to do? Go upside down again I think. I WILL teach something tomorrow, but don’t expect genius…. still processing Pune. Class is at 10. See you then.

Joe will be teaching Friday’s Class for me. I got back late late on Tuesday night and I’m a little sick. I need another day or so to recover and get into this time zone. All of me hasn’t arrived yet. See you soon. I’m not sure who will be teaching Sunday: might be Ina, might be Joe, might be me. I’ll post on Saturday.

I’m looking forward to seeing you all and getting back to teaching.

OM!

who came to Mountain View Studio last week. Julie became horribly under the weather at the last minute. If you drove all the way to class and missed her, she’ll give you a free class THIS Monday. Apologies from all!