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Greater Baltimore Yoga Workshops Refunds are not allowed 2 weeks before each workshop. You may register for any workshop by: 1. Mailing in the
printable registration form [click here]
with check or credit card 2. Calling Jean at [410-560-2980] with credit card 3. Coming in to the Timonium office in person with cash, credit card, or check 4. Paying online through our PayPal service 5. Directions:
Greater Baltimore Yoga is located in Timonium Commerce Park at 9628 Deereco Rd.
This is 2 blocks south of Padonia Road. The intersection of Padonia and Deereco
Roads is the first right just off exit 17 of 83 north [Harrisburg Expressway.]
Exit 17 of 83N is 2 miles north of the Baltimore Beltway at exit 24.
Hatha Yoga as Physical Therapy: January 3 - March 31,
2010
$425 - 20 contact hours - 2 CEUs This 13-week seminar [20 contact hours] will meet weekly for 90 minutes. This includes an evolving lecture series intertwined within the hatha yoga classes. There would be an additional 30-minute introduction on the first night. This seminar will introduce the ancient art and science of Hatha Yoga as therapeutic exercise and neuromuscular re-education. Hatha Yoga can be defined as skillful conscious movement. Hatha Yoga will be presented as movement therapy for those working towards more optimal posture and movement skills. This seminar will present inefficient posture and faulty movement as the cause of many musculo-skeletal problems. We will look at cervical spondylosis, lumbar disk disease, lumbar facet and sacro-ilial joint compression, knee derangement, ankle sprains, plantar fasciitis, rotator cuff impingement. Hatha Yoga will be shown as a physical therapy modality, developing gross motor skill from sound biomechanical principles.
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This course meets basic criteria of the Maryland Board of Physical Therapy
Examiners
Kofi Busia Workshop
Kofi Busia has been teaching for over 33 years. He has held one of the few Senior Advanced Certificates in the Iyengar tradition for over 30 years. Born in Ghana, he came to yoga as a student at Oxford University and has taught professionally ever since. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, he studied with BKS Iyengar at the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute in Pune, South India. Author of The Gift, the Prayer, the Offering, Kofi now enjoys family life in California during a sabbatical, writing two more books. He’s known for his storytelling, challenging sequencing, and sensitive adjustments.
Victor van Kooten Workshop GBY welcomes Victor back for his eleventh annual visit. Victor has been recognized as one of the first few senior advanced Iyengar certified yoga teachers in the world. He is a true visionary of modern day yoga teaching asana as a vehicle to channel and express energy within the poses. He encourages every student to explore their own inner pose as a way to manifest the outer forms. Victor is a source of inspiration for many of the teachers at GBY. Following is a piece first written by Victor,
then later edited by Mary Frankos. Victor van Kooten was born in Holland in
1940. His determination to become a
painter was supplanted by his passion for yoga once he began his study in 1966
with Dona Holloman, a renowned yoga teacher. Victor then studied with B.K.S.
Iyengar of Poona, India where he became one of Mr. Iyengar’s most senior
teachers, and was entrusted with assisting students who had serious physical
challenges. He became known as a gifted
teacher with a particular skill in giving both imaginative and profoundly
insightful adjustments to students. While in Poona, Victor became partially
paralyzed, and over the time of his recuperation he discovered the power and
healing quality of gravity (tamas). Out of his recovery grew his fascination and
passion for understanding the energy body, and its ability to expand outwards
and take flight like wings, as well as to descend deep into the earth, as do
roots. Since 1984, Victor has traveled the world and taught with his partner, Angela Farmer. Together they have developed a unique style of teaching, avoiding formulaic instructions, and instead sharing their unique visions of how energy naturally flows through the body. They see yoga as a kinetic process, beyond systematizing, one involving every living cell. By articulating their own vision, they inspire confidence in their students to look inside and move according to their own unique way of moving. Through this process there develops a personal language and vocabulary with which the student can dialogue with his/her body. Out of this dynamic dialogue there develops a sense of profound vitality, empowerment and ease. Through his own experiences and his teaching
with Angela, Victor has created From Inside Out, a series of four volumes
of yoga “notebooks”, the most recent of which is subtitled Living Breath.
In each book of the series, Victor uses his artist’s eye and deep understanding
of yoga to illustrate his visionary images of elemental energy patterns. The
drawings are complemented by his evocative text, written in his own incomparable
linguistic style. In addition to his
“notebooks”, the essence of his teachings can also be found in Angela’s
critically acclaimed videos, “The Feminine Unfolding” and “A Flow Class with
Angela”. Victor explores breath as being the connective tissue between body and soul. Through an awakening of deeper levels of perception, it will be possible to have a sensory experience of our own lungs, arteries, and nerves, which like rivers, collect the waters from myriad small streams and send them on to the oceanic realm. Though breath may be the central theme, we will be moving through postures and sitting in quiet meditation as well. These practices will focus on creating lines of awareness from one part to another, immobilizing certain areas and wriggling free the adjacent area. By gaining an ability to move every body part independently of the other and see their connection to the whole, a new level of freedom may be experienced.
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