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 
to GBY, 9628 Deereco Rd, Timonium, MD, 21093
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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
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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.
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Yoga Nidra
Judy Schaeffer
September 9, October 7, November 11, December 9, 2010

$17
Can be used as a make-up

Hatha Yoga as Physical Therapy:
Therapeutic Exercise
Stan Andrzejewski, PT

September 25 - December 22, 2010

$425 - 20 contact hours - 2 CEUs
This course meets basic criteria of the Maryland Board of Physical Therapy Examiners for 2.0 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.

Class #1:  [7:30 – 9:15 pm]
o       History of Yoga Introduction
o       Ground through Heel
o       Gunas [dull vs. tense vs. balanced],
         Combined Inner Actions: grounding, centering, lifting

Class #2:
o       Grounding Lower Extremities
o       Ground through Ball of Big Toe
o       Gripping toes, hyper extending knees

Class #3:
o       Grounding Lower Extremities
o       Ground through Inner / Outer Heel [lift outer / inner arch of feet]
o       4 corners of feet [foot flat], moving on exhalation

Class #4:
o       Grounding Lower Extremities
o       Ground through Inner / Outer Spirals of Lower Extremities
o       Hip rotation and groin movements,
o       Concave /convex relationships of femur in acetabulem

Class #5:  
o       Neutral Pelvis
o       Lift Hip Bones [ASIS], Top Thighs Back
o       Tuck pelvis to neutral as spine lifts

Class #6: October 26, 2009
o       Neutral Pelvis
o       Sacrum Down, Tailbone Forward, Groins Back
o       From belly/pelvis grounding through legs as from belly/pelvis, lengthening  spine upward.  

Class #7:   
o        Plum Line Stance
o        Root through Crown, Crown through Root
o       Tamasic Grounding, Rajasic lifts, Sattvic space

Class #8: 
o       Arching Upper Thoracic Spine to Neutral
o       Clavicle Lifts as Sacrum Descends
o       Stabilizing pelvis when lengthening spine

Class #9: 
o       Stabilizing Scapula
o       Scapula Widen and Descend
o       Inner edges and bottom tips of scapula, arching upper thoracic spine

Class #10:
o       Grounding Upper Extremities
o       Ball of Index Finger Pushes, Heel of Hand Pulls
o       Stabilizing scapula, arching upper back to ground arms

Class #11:
o       Upper Extremity Elevation
o       Clavicle Up, Scapula Down, Elevate Arm with Humerus Gliding Inferiorly
o       Whole body moves arm in open chain activities

Class #12:
o       Inner Body moves Outer Body
o       Navel to Spine, Perineum Forward
o       Pranamayakosa, Annamayakosa

Class #13:  [7:45 - 9:30 pm]
c       Hatha Yoga as Physical Therapy
o       Review

This course meets basic criteria of the Maryland Board of Physical Therapy Examiners 
for 20 contact hours or 2.0 CEUs.

Victor van Kooten Workshop
2012?

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.