(aa) 24-25 May 2008: Beautiful - Ashtanga with Michael Gannon (Individual Sessions)

NOTE THAT THE MEMBER PRICE IS FOR CUSTOMERS WITH CURRENT BLOCK/MEMBERSHIP AT THE UNION YOGA CENTRE OR FOR CURRENT PAYING MEMBERS OF YAUK

• Venue: Union Yoga Centre, Edinburgh
• Session 1: Sat Morning - 24th May
  
• Session 2: Sat Afternoon - 24th May
  
• Session 3: Sun Mornning - 25th May
  
• Session 4: Sun Afternoon - 25th May
  
• Individual session Cost: £25 (£20 for Union Yoga Members)
• max places: 50
• Level: All Levels

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Get all the yogic tips and tricks to create more magic in your Asana Practice (on the mat). And understand how they can be used to enhance your Life Practice (off the mat). Michael dissects the classical Ashtanga Vinyasa System to show you how to apply Eastern Magic to our Western Minds.

• Saturday AM - Full Vinyasa Class: 11:15 - 13:15
  The original practice of “full form” of the vinyasa system had each and every asana start and finish in samastitihi (or tadasana). In this class we will move together through the original Full-Form Vinyasa of Primary Series, following the correct vinyasa count in Sanskrit. Few practitioners and teachers understand this ‘full form” and even fewer teach it. A rare opportunity. Open to all levels with experience in Ashtanga

• Saturday PM - AWAKEN YOUR LIFE FORCE and QUIET YOUR MIND : 15:00 - 17:00
  Expanding the breath: A Yogic breathing and pranayama workshop
  This workshop will support the idea that the Breath is the most powerful aspect of Ashtanga yoga. We will enhance our breath awareness to deepen our asana practice and develop a basic seated pranayama practice. By incorporating this practice -- slowly, slowly you will be able to utilize the control of breath and bandhas to harness energy (prana) and flow with synchronicity from asana to asana, taking your practice experience to another level
  

• Sunday AM - The Magic of Bandhas: 9:30 - 11:30
  How do I jump thru and jump back?! How do I do handstands?! When will I float?! The seemingly magic of bandhas that allows us to fly is a gradual process that is developed over time with steady practice. But, if we can’t understand the basic physics of activating our core, we can remain stuck to the earth indefinitely. In this workshop we will break down individual elements that allow us to experience weightlessness in all elements in our practice.
  All levels, all styles of practicioners.

• Sunday PM - Asana Playground: 14:15 -16:15
  An opportunity to work o­n whatever is currently up for you in your practice. How to get in or out of a particular asana? How to deepen your experience in a posture that has been challenging you? Ask for special tricks for any part of the practice that frustrates you. We will choose a bunch of individual issues from the group and go through them all, interactively. As the name implies....very fun stuff!!!

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About Michael
Yoga found Michael after 10 years of chaotic deal making in the American advertising and music business.Through his yoga practice he was awakened to incredible balancing benefits that would gradually change his life path. After studying in India with Sri. K. Pattabhi Jois, learning the 1st, 2nd and 3rd series of the traditional ashtanga system, he was authorized directly by Jois in 2001 to teach. Since then, Michael has had no home... He has o­nly a journey. He spends the year traveling and teaching workshops, trainings and retreats in The Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia, and continues his studies every year in India with his Guru and assistant grandson Sharath Rangaswamy.

Michael’s rare understanding and unique teaching style of the original vinyasa system supports the idea that yoga’s transformational powers - physical, mental and spiritual - are available to all, slowly, slowly, through a daily ashtanga practice.For Michael's DVDs, CDs and posters click here