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Beginner/Intermediate Yoga
Thursday, March 11, 2010
5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Everyone Welcome! Beginner-Intermediate Yoga Class in the Cultural Building, 3655 Snoddy Road, Bloomington IN 47401 $10 donation requested
Below is information about her Yoga Practice
Body and Mind as Allies
Classical Hatha Yoga
Introduction and Practice of Asanas postures
and Pranayama breathing exercises
The Practice:
Each session begins with a thorough warm up session: moving and becoming aware of all joints and muscles, as well as awareness of the bodys relationship to the elements and energy centers within the body.
Practice is gentle, but vigorous. All sessions emphasize mindfulness of body movement and posture and breath. Awareness and mindfulness are an integral part of this practice. Our view is that yoga practice is to deepen our physical and energetic experience and to prepare our bodies and minds to act together as allies. We observe body, breath, and mind, deepening our awareness as we examine how they all affect each other.
The class sessions consist of the following in gently varying order and quantities:
- Warm-ups
- Standing postures
- Reclining postures: mostly belly down
- Seated and Squatting postures
- Pranayama session
- Shamatha-type breath awareness resting meditation
- Returning to standing: shamatha-yoga series two or three repetitions
- Balance postures
- Reclining postures: mostly belly up
- Inverted postures and counter postures
- Relaxation
The class may or may not be concluded with a session of Yoga Nidra yogic sleep or a reclining relaxation period.
Students of all levels of practice are welcome.
Please check with your doctor before planning to attend if you have any health issues which might affect your ability to practice yoga.
Please wear comfortable clothing and bring a yoga mat or a towel for practice.
Water will be available, but food will not. Please try not to have eaten for at least two hours before the beginning of class. Drinking water is traditionally discouraged during practice, but you may well want to drink water or even nibble on a cracker before the session is finished. Please follow your own bodys signals in all matters.
The Instructors:
While Winnie is away during the months of Februaray and March, the class will be taught by Sally Sando and senior students
The class will be led by Winnie Edgerton, initiated as AnaShakti. Winnie is of the classical hatha-kriya lineage of Swami Sivananada and Swami Satyananda of the Bihar School of Yoga in Munger , India .
Winnie began practicing hatha yoga in 1968.
From 1983 to 1985 she taught yoga for preschool and elementary children at Kestral Manor in Nairobi , Kenya .
In 1985 Swami Brahmavidyananda of the Institute of Holistic Yoga of Satyananda Yoga in Santo Domingo, initiated and formally began training Winnie to teach hatha and kriya yoga.
Winnie trained and co-taught with Swami Brahmavidyananda in Santo Domingo from 1985 to 1986. Certified as a hatha and kriya teacher of the Satyananda tradition, she continued to teach in Tegucigalpa , Honduras , Guatemala City , Guatemala , and Managua , Nicaragua from 1987 through 2003, when she returned to Bloomington . She now co-teaches yoga with her daughter Hannah and practices yoga privately with small groups of students.
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