Overview
The practices of yoga and meditation provide the potential for living with gentleness and insight. In our yoga sessions, we can clear the body and mind of extraneous, depleting elements while enhancing our awareness and vital energy or Qi. Studying and practicing the Buddha Dharma, we can both enhance a recognition of our basic goodness, as well as adopting skillful ways of being with the obstacles to simple presence.
In this 3-day intensive Sarah will offer balanced yoga sequences each day while also focusing on the classic hindrances that visit us in our meditation practice and beyond. Sarah’s guidance will help us forge a more conscious relationship with our deeper values and the patterns that block their expression. When focused on regularly, these practices can help us to relax more into a natural state of openness and clarity, on and off the mat.
Compassionate Presence - Yin/Yang yoga and Buddhist meditation
On Friday Sarah will focus on sequences to support our digestive health as well as our restlessness and lethargy in meditative practices. On Saturday, in the morning session she will focus on our liver health and aversion, while in the afternoon the poses will be geared toward heart health and how doubt obstructs us. On Sunday the poses will focus on the kidneys with the theme of how desire plays out in our lives.
This weekend is appropriate for anyone with at least 2 years of a committed yoga practices, those already familiar with the Yin style of holding poses, and those who are strongly interested in meditative and psychological awareness.
If you are not very familiar with the Yin practice and Mindfulness meditation please read Sarah’s books Insight Yoga and/or Lit From Within.
Dates & Timing
10.-12. May 2024
Friday 16:00-18:00
Saturday: 13:00-15:00 | 16:00-18:00
Sunday: 13:00-15:00
Pricing
275.- CHF for 3 Days
About Sarah Powers
Sarah Powers is the co-founder of the Insight Yoga Institute as well as the author of Insight Yoga, which interweaves yoga, Buddhism, Taoism, and Transpersonal psychology into an integral practice to discover and enliven the body, heart, and mind. Her yoga style blends both a Yin sequence of floor poses to enhance the meridian and organ systems with an alignment-based slow flow, or yang practice, influenced by Viniyoga, Ashtanga, Iyengar, and Qigong. Sarah has completed all levels of the Internal Family Systems Therapy training and has been a student of Transpersonal psychology for over 30 years. She also draws from her in-depth training in the Vipashyana, Tantric and Dzogchen practices of Buddhism. Sarah and her husband Ty Powers co-direct the Insight Yoga Institute, which offers 500+ hour trainings blending yoga, buddhism and psychology. For more information, please visit: