Yoga Workshop
with Gary Kraftsow
@ Kripalu
800.741.7353
Viniyoga is an approach to yoga that adapts the various techniques and methods of practice to the unique condition, needs, and interests of each individual. It aims to give practitioners the tools needed to individualize and actualize the process of self-discovery and personal transformation. Gary Kraftsow evolved this approach from the teachings of T. Krishnamacharya and T.K.V. Desikachar. These three workshops explore the outer and inner goals of asana, pranayama, and meditation from the Viniyoga perspective. Join Gary for all three programs, or take the one that most interests you.
Asana: Optimizing Structure, August 16–19
In
this foundational workshop, Gary focuses on the means and methods of achieving both
the outer and the inner goals of asana. The outer goals include alignment,
stability, appropriate range of motion, resilience, symmetry, and functional
movement patterns. Inner goals include cultivating awareness of the central
channel, increasing and directing the flow of prana in the nadis, and
strengthening agni, the inner fire. Learn how to adapt and individualize
asana practice to help you achieve these goals.
Pranayama:
Optimizing Physiology, August 19–21
Dive into the realm of pranayama, where your emphasis is on
the outer goals of increasing vitality, improving sleep, enhancing
energy, and managing stress, stimulating immune response, and influencing
sympathetic and parasympathetic regulation to optimize physiological processes.
Gary also pays appropriate attention to the inner goals of building prana
shakti, directing agni for purification, balancing the emotions, and clarifying
the mind. Explore how to adapt and individualize pranayama to help you
achieve these goals and go even deeper with Gary’s teachings on and practice of
bandhas.
Meditation:
Optimizing Cognitive Capacity, August 21–23
What
is possible with meditation? This workshop focuses on the means and
methods for achieving both the outer and inner goals of
meditation. Beginning with the outer goals of overcoming distraction and
increasing the capacity to sustain focused attention, you move on to deepening
your capacity for self-reflection, identifying how memory and conditioning
influence perception, and cultivating non-attachment. Gary also gives careful
consideration to the inner goals of recognizing the true nature of Self and
cultivating insight and wisdom, or buddhi shakti.
