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Class Sequences

Prototypes Women’s Center: Prana. 5. 14. 12

May 14, 2012

We talked about Prana as vital life force and what contributes to increasing prana as well as how important it is to conserve our prana, especially with attention to our thoughts. We concluded with a discussion of sutra 1.2 using Ravi Ravindra’s translation of nirodahah as ‘mastery’, and together considered how the word ‘Yoga’ could [...]

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Prototypes Women’s Center: A view of Support: 4.16.12

April 17, 2012

What does it feel like to rest into the couch? Used sitting to ask what support feels like to connect to the feeling tone of support. Words like, relaxed, safe, smooth, easy…, and noting these are feelings that rose up from within (not that the teacher tells them how support should feel) what are other [...]

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Prototypes Women’s Center: Freedom. 3.26.12

March 26, 2012

Our first hour together we picked up on our discussion of Freedom. Since the word gets kicked around recovery circles, we found it useful to ask the question, ‘freedom from what?’. Some of the answers were guilt, fear, the past, drugs, low self esteem. One woman also said ‘ourself’. Which was precisely the point. As [...]

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Prototypes Women’s Center: Subtle Anatomy: 3.19.12

March 20, 2012

This is a new attempt to share the chakras. Instead of a ‘lecture’ with handouts, we pulled way back at first to talk about western and eastern maps, and tried to point of similarities and differences along with way with real world examples (many coming from the women themselves). It was lively and interesting, and [...]

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Prototypes Women’s Center: Can the Thoughts affect our Feelings? 3.5.12

March 6, 2012

This is a combined blog of two hour long back to back classes at Prototypes. We had many new women at the center and I taught again about the Central Nervous System and Recovery. It was exiting to hear some of the women who have been there for a while say and answer some often-posed [...]

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Prototypes Women’s Center: gentle and kind to ourselves: 1.23.12

January 23, 2012

Some of the talking points were about prana, svadisthana (had a request for low back mischief), kidneys and fear, taoist cycle of creativity,muladhara and grounding. windshield wiper eye of the needle sukasana side bending x2 tadasana at wall lengthen side waist and breath uttansana at wall Malasana at wall tadasana lunge low crescent tadasana other [...]

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Yoga Blue: Connection and Ease: 1.21.12

January 21, 2012

sutra 1.12 inspires a two fold view of connection. That of diligent, ceaseless practice and effort, and also of surrender and ease. We playing tonight in the invitation of connection with ease. If we let go, we can perhaps see we are already there. sutra 1.14? right alignment and joy windshield wiper eye of the [...]

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Yoga Blue: Silencing the Small Self: 1.14.12

January 14, 2012

One of the reasons I love the practice of yoga is because it helps to cue me when I’m playing small. I’ve been drawn to the mantra Aham Brahma, as translated by Ravi Ravindra as ‘I am vastness’ as it assists me in establishing a feeling tone of spaciousness. Tonight we used asana, and pranayama [...]

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Prototypes Women’s Center: Prana: 1.9.12

January 9, 2012

We played with the concept of Prana as vital life force, noticing what it feels like and noticing we can play with the movement of it and how it relates to our thoughts in (active) addiction and addiction recovery. The breath in the palms exercise from the preceding hour (Brain, addiction, and recovery) brought the [...]

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Prototypes Women’s Center: Freedom and Faith: 11.28.11

November 28, 2011

Many women today were struggling. One reason is the triggering effect of a group of women who left treatment over the weekend and in this morning. Those who choose to remain the course can’t help but to wonder what it would be like to give into the craving and get back to the streets. They [...]

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