Who remembers this place? :)
Hello Folks!
I hope this email finds you well. Please find below the schedule for October, including Zoom and in-person classes. The in-person classes will be held at The Well, at 2 East 15th St., two days per week. We have tentatively scheduled a Tuesday evening Intro to Yoga class, and on Wednesday, a self-paced practice. **
Times and start dates will be confirmed in the next few days, so if you are interested in a Tuesday 6pm Intro class, or a 7am and 9am Wednesday self-paced practice, please reply back to this email so I can gauge the interest. The Zoom classes will continue to be by donation, and the in-person classes will be $35.
October 25th until the 29th we will do our second of the Pranayama Weeks, and you can register for that here.
The pranayama classes will be recorded for people in different time zones.
October Schedule: I've incorporated all the requests the best I could. For the folks who requested One Hour Asana classes again, those will be held during the pranayama week. Chanting class will be added in during the middle of the month.
Last month we had a glitch in the WITH newsletter sign-up. It's fixed now, and if you'd like to receive the WITH interviews, you can sign up here.
That's all for now, and thanks!
Eddie
Wednesday ➝
TBA IN PERSON TENTATIVE 7AM/9AM
ALL CLASS TIMES IN EDT
* The Intro to Ashtanga Yoga class is taught by two, excellent teachers located in Pune, India, Sonal and Sandeep Sharma. The classes are limited to 15 people, and held on Zoom. The class meets twice per week for one month, and is a one hour class with lots of detail and individual
attention.
**What's a self-paced practice? The self-paced class is basically a Mysore class, but without the emphasis on adjustments. If you have a practice, you can come to this class and get feedback and help on how to progress, but without physical help. The cues will either be verbal or by demonstration. If you do not
have a yoga practice, you can come to this class and I'll get you started on an individualized practice. For many years I relied on adjustments as a teaching tool, I came to the conclusion just before the pandemic that while adjustments are useful, they may not be so useful when it comes to a spiritual practice. I've seen in myself and others that adjustments can actually be a great impediment, and create a reliance on a teacher to get things done for you, create an unhealthy relationship
to extremism, and actually slow the process of opening pathways inwardly (among other things). Through simply paying attention to your own body, you can learn a lot. A teacher should help a student learn how to pay attention to their process in different ways - one of those is adjustments, but there are many other ways as well. So while I am not anti-adjustments, I do not want them to be the focus of how I try to communicate yogic practices with people anymore. I look forward to this
change, and I hope you are down for joining me in this experiment!
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