Yoga For Living Productions

Rod Stryker
www.pureyoga.com

“Life is a rich and sublime place where eternal love, beauty, and matter all meet. The role of practice is to empower us to see, feel, and express it fearlessly.” --Rod Stryker

Rod Stryker is widely considered to be one of the preeminent Yoga and meditation teachers in the United States. For more than 20 years of teaching, Rod has literally inspired thousands. He has produced three award winning, best selling Yoga videos, written articles for the country's leading Yoga publications, been featured in many magazine articles, as well as been interviewed on various television and news programs. Rod is known as a teacher's teacher, leading Teacher Training and Advanced Programs, intensives, retreats and workshops around the country for teachers, as well as students of all levels interested in deepening their Yoga. He lectures to a wide variety of groups, has been a consultant to corporations on the benefits of Yoga, taught Yoga and meditation alongside Deepak Chopra and most recently developed a best-selling meditation CD titled, "Three Meditations to Live By."

6-DAY AFTERNOON INTENSIVE

Celebrating the Science of Spirit

Teaching the Spirit of Yoga means knowing how to reach a student’s body, mind, and soul. It means being able to connect and take them to infinite seen and unseen treasures. In practical terms, it is the skill of using body and breath in combination with the principles of Yogic science to unfold the magic and sublime nature of all that it means to be human.

The expertise of conveying Spirit in Yoga requires a teacher possess a rich and meaningful field of both knowledge and experience. Through the six-day intensive, we focus on both. Our study revolves around Karma and undoing its specific effects on the body. Thus, we examine the impact of sequencing on body and mind, the energetics of Asana, the subtle impact of particular Asanas on mind, and the energetic principles of practice that systematically lead to the deeper experiences of Yoga.

To ensure that we know where the ultimate terrain of spirit is sourced, and so that we (intensive participants) share a common language and vision, the intensive will include daily Pranayama and meditation practices.

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MORNING ASANA CLASSES

Track 1 (Gentle Focus)

Ease through Yoga into Soul
The goals of practice – clear mind, a profound sense of well being, inspiration, and stillness – can be realized without straining physically. In this class, we emphasize the ease and effortless connection to Spirit that we naturally possess and expand upon it via the use of breath and accessible postures, in both fluid and static combinations. By linking breath with gentle movement and Pranayama naturally evolves. Finally, we explore the role of rest to soak in the inner wealth of healing and strength that are the most vital allies in the journey of life and aspiration.

Track 2 (Challenging)

Tantric Hatha Yoga: Body and Breath - Catalysts to Boundlessnes

The ancients taught that there was a precise energetic alchemy that could dissolve the covering to man’s infinite nature. The promise that the teachings hold is that through the right combinations and sequences we can be a Deva – a bight, shining being. In this class, we use posture and breath as tools to melt physical, energetic, and mental blocks. With an eye on the principles of alignment, class emphasizes the energetics and science of transformation through the use of: vigorous Asana, Vinyasa, holdings, and internal concentration techniques. We play at the edge of the body to deliver us to the gateway of the Infinite.

Track 3 (Advanced)

Asana, Bandha & Mudra: Stoking the Fire of Spirit

Mudra is the culmination of the physical practices of Hatha Yoga. A Mudra may simultaneously combine Asana, Pranayama, and Bandha practices. These practices are more accessible, but much more internally challenging than even very physically advanced Asanas. Practice of Mudras is a unique boon to the practitioner because they loosen our ties to the deepest roots of unconsciousness. Thus, perfection of Mudra serves to open the doorway to otherwise dormant powers, liberation, and the majestic terrain of the sublime. Class will be a steady build, integrating Vinyasa, Asana, Pranayama, and Bandhas. Culmination in Mudra and breath retention leads us to exalt body, mind, and soul. Class will include some introductory theory, as well as, meditation. Minimum two years Pranayama practice recommended

KEYNOTE

In Teaching Greatness Equals Courage

Teaching is meant to inform, inspire, strengthen, and heal. The best teachers change and thereby improve how others relate to themselves and to their life. They confer more than desirable experiences onto their students. They ennoble them to greatness, by moving them past their limitations. This caliber of teacher teaches by example. They themselves have learned to walk through their own limitation – “both on and off the mat”. They shine as living embodiments - in their personal and professional lives – of the highest aspirations of the teachings. This journey to greatness begins by expecting more from yourself than you do from your students. From this commitment, together you and your students bring new glory to both creation and creator.

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