09/06/2026
Common site at teacher training weekends...
Our 300 hour trainees are building and refining their skills for preparing thoughtful and intelligent sequences for hatha based classes, with the added spice of directed pranayama and dharma talks/themes.
Today's focus on twists and the change in perspective that twists can represent brought forth some inspiring passages from the Bhagavad Gita and Patanjali's Yoga Sutras:
By cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the suffering, delight in the virtuous, and equanimity toward the unwholesome, the mind becomes serene and clear., sutra 1.33
When a person responds to the joys
and sorrows of others as if they were his own,
he has attained the highest state of spiritual union.
The Bhagavad Gita - 6:32
Tomorrow closes out our Hatha focused weekend with Bird of Paradise and we are very excited to see what full scope classes they develop and share with us. Darcy is teaching a public version at 9 am in Coralville! Come on out for a Labor Day practice. Breath, asana, and theory will all be beautifully threaded, no doubt. π§΅ππ