Carrie Owerko – Iyengar Yoga 201
$75.00$300.00 (-75%)
If you teach yoga, you’ll learn how to make even some of the most challenging poses more accessible to a wider variety of students. As Carrie says, “In Iyengar Yoga, there is a way!”
Carrie Owerko – Iyengar Yoga 201
Check it out: Carrie Owerko – Iyengar Yoga 201
Building on the wild success of our Iyengar 101 course with senior Iyengar Yoga teacher Carrie Owerko, Yoga Journal is happy to announce the creation of Iyengar 201. This six-week experience will move into more advanced adaptations of poses, emphasize their therapeutic applications, and of course highlight Carrie’s playful take on the alignment-oriented lineage that B.K.S. Iyengar brought to the West.
In this six-week online course, you will explore how a playful approach to practice develops a sense of possibility, increasing your capacity for variability and, most importantly, resilience. To advance your practice and poses, Carrie will help you learn different pose modifications that are designed to help you work with physical and mental challenges, even injury. You will also explore how varying the focus, or how you approach an asana, can greatly impact your experience of that asana, and yourself in that asana. If you teach yoga, you’ll learn how to make even some of the most challenging poses more accessible to a wider variety of students. As Carrie says, “In Iyengar Yoga, there is a way!”
But advanced yoga is not only about the physical practice. While this course will improve your asana, it will help you step off the mat with a greater capacity to adapt and adjust to whatever life throws at you. You’ll learn something unexpected every day and grow as a person and a practitioner.
Curriculum:
Week 1: Introduction + the River and its Banks
Review the spine and median line
Lubricate the hips and shoulders
Illuminate the side body
Practice supine hip work, and side-bending standing and seated poses
Week 2: Parikrama (the Path Surrounding Something)
Explore the concept of taking root to fly Review stability vs. mobility
Find your center of gravity and sense of direction
Learn how to put things together after taking them apart (the
Practice Chaturanga alignment, revolved supine and standing poses and arm balances
Week 3: KramaYoga + Rythmical Stretching of the Spine
Learn more about krama
Shift your focus
Start to see relationships between movements and poses
Practice backbends and Halasana (Plow Pose)
Week 4: Phala—The Fruit of Possibility (and Practice)
Practice seated hip-opening poses and more arm balances
Week 5: Rasa—Savor the Present
Explore the power of imagery in practice
Open the shoulders
Week 6: Pranidhana (surrender) into Possibility
Practice winding down with more restorative poses
