We are SO thrilled to welcome back OG Ashtangi Kathy Cooper to our shala!! Kathy was one of the very first American women to practice Ashtanga with Pattabhi Jois and my teacher’s teacher David Williams, the first American to learn all 6 series. In this special weekend, Kathy will share her wealth of knowledge about practice for a lifetime, including her experience with other healing modalities.

Friday, September 27

5:30-7:00 pm: Guided Half Primary + Pranayama

Saturday, September 28

10:00-11:30 am: Guided Full Primary

1:00-3:00 pm: Asana Clinic-Breath, Bandha and Alignment

Sunday, September 29

10:00-11:30 am: Guided Standing Poses/Mysore

1:00-3:00 pm: Asana Clinic-Technique + Applied Philosophy

If you would like to learn the mechanics to stand on your head and hands safely, plus the strength drills to help make that happen, this series of four workshops, focusing on different postures and skillsets, is for you! Kelsie specializes in inversions and strength training, and is passionate about guiding students to the next level in their own practice.

Sunday, May 19, 2024, 1-3 pm: Pincha Mayurasana the Forearmstand; you will build the foundation to balance on your forearms in this classic Second Series inversion.

Sunday, June 30, 2024, 1-3 pm: Handstand; Kelsey will guide you through the skillset needed to go up on your hands.

Sunday, July 28, 2024, 1-3 pm: Tough Transitions; Learn to navigate the tough vinyasa transitions like the elusive jump through and jumpback!

Sunday, August 25, 2024, 1-3 pm: Pressing; Surf gravity to press up into inversions through the energy of apana.

Single Workshop: $40

Entire Series: $120

Attention Ashtangis of ALL Levels!! Tim Feldmann is back with us here in the Mitten in May! This weekend of practice and workshops is for everyone looking to deepen their practice in a fun and accessible way. Tim is an authorized Ashtanga teacher that began as a dancer/choreographer and a vinyasa practitioner, so he infuses his teaching with a unique blend of tradition and creativity, plus his infectious sense of humor. Not to be missed!!

Friday, May 3, 2024, 5:30: Guided Half Primary Series with Q&A

Saturday, May 4, 2024, 10a-12:30p: Guided Primary Emphasizing the Second Half

Saturday, May 4, 2024, 2-4:30p: Demystifying the Gateway Postures of the Primary Series (Bhujapidasana, Kurmasana, Supta Kurmasana) Sometimes we get stuck; our leg, shoulders or knees won’t go where we want them to and we feel more achy than happy when attempting the “higher notes” of our practice, also called the Gateway Postures, as they serve as indicators that our body has grown ready for the next level. This workshop addresses that issue! Focusing on technique, proper alignment and anatomical insights will help you understand how your body moves and how to progress to the next level of your aptitude. We set up for a detailed experience of the difficult gateway postures, slowly peeling off the layers that obstruct our view and motion required to find true freedom and power within.

Sunday, May 5, 2024, 9:00 -11:00 am: Guided Full Primary Series

Sunday, May 5, 2024, 11:30am-1:30 pm: Inversions, Headstands & Arm Balances In this workshop you will learn practical tools to turn upside down with stability, tranquility and grace. You will gain a thorough understanding of the anatomical patterns at play in your body while inverted. Detailing the shoulder mechanics helps you integrate your arms, spine, ribcage and hips to create a solid platform for accessible and pleasurable inversions whether on your head, hands, or elbows. We will play with simple to advanced asanas. ALL LEVELS WELCOME

Entire Weekend: $225

Single Class: $55

In this 20-hour online module, students will develop a robust understanding of the history, philosophy and practice as presented in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras. Emphasis will be on understanding of the text, both within its historical context, and as a contemporary text that informs your own yoga practice and teaching goals. Students will receive a Zoom link to all live sessions, which will also be recorded to view at at later date.

Judith Pinn Carlisle began practicing yoga with her grandmother when she was a young child. After a 20-year career as professor of information systems and computer science, Judith has shifted her focus to Yoga studies. Her work now centers on how enlightenment and the Dharmic traditions inform the creation of a just world for all beings. Judith brings this inquiry to classes she teaches at Yoga Studies programs at Loyola Marymount University and Naropa University as well as instruction in classical Yoga texts such as the Yoga Sutras. Her education includes: PhD-University of Arizona, Tucson; MA-Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles; MS-University of Arizona, Tucson; AB-Occidental College, Los Angeles.

Program Schedule: February 4 & 5, 11 & 12, 25 & 26, and March 4 & 5, 2023 at 1:00-3:30 pm.

Cost: $175

Kathy Cooper began practicing Ashtanga Yoga in 1976, studying with David William, Nancy Gilgoff and Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. Her deep roots in Ashtanga and several other healing modalities inform her compassionate understanding of how to support and maintain a practice for a lifetime.

Saturday, Nov. 11, 2023:

10am-12pm Led Primary Series for Everybody

1:00-3:30pm Alignment Principles: Kathy with demonstrate and instruct students in these principles to support their practices and to avoid common injuries.

Sunday, Nov. 12, 2023:

10am-12pm Led Primary Series for Everybody

1:00-3:30pm Insights into Backbending and Inversions for All: Working with insights into backbending and inversions to open and deepen safely. Also, conversation about longevity of practice and Q&A.

Entire Weekend: $175; Single Workshop: $55

Friday, Oct. 13, 5:30-7:30 pm

Yoga Talk - What is Yoga? Practice for a Lifetime

In this talk Tim will address what it is you are supposed to be doing when you are doing yoga on your mat according to Sri Patanjali. The ancient, yogic goals of health & liberation to our bodies, minds and hearts sometimes get lost in our modern attempts of mastering yoga postures. Did you ever wonder how bending your back and jumping back-forth is possibly going to elevate your mind, release deep psychological patterns and lead you to a freer, happier state of living? Come learn what classic yogic texts says about practice and how to apply it to your own yoga practice for long term benefits.

Saturday, October 14, 9-11:30 am

Primary Series Led Class + 30 min Q&A

"Just as music without proper pitch and rhythm will not give happiness, yogasana without the observance of vinyasa will not give health.” - Srivatsa Ramaswama

Join Tim for a fun 2 hours and learn how this challenging sequence can heal and help you in your body and your life. Pattabhi Jois artfully crafted the Primary Series to cleanse our body, purify our nervous system and burn away the delusions of the conditioned mind. The original Vinyasa method (also called ‘placing in a special way’), this thread of unbroken movements, mindful breathing and a defined gazing points, opens us up to experience the meditative mind while building a healthy, flexible and strong body. Discover how many lessons of hope, empowerment and surrender is at our fingertips. All levels welcome.

Saturday, Oct. 14, 2-4 pm

Sthira Sukham & Backbending

Develop your ‘sthirasukha’, your disciplin and delight, for aptitude and health in your yoga. The practice starts with directing your mind towards the essential. We will look at what it takes to bend backwards without fear and pain. The key to deep backbends are available to you through the integration of sound anatomical principles, healthy alignment&technique and accurate knowledge of your inner body. The movement mechanics of bending your spine are the key to an enhanced flow of energy and in this class you will begin to explore you natural potential for deep backbends with simplicity, safety, support and enthusiasm. The workshop aims at developing tools to a personal and balanced practice. All Levels Welcome.

Sunday, Oct. 15, 9-11:30 am

Intro to 2nd Series - Demystifying Nadi Shodana

In this workshop Tim takes you through a detailed, fun and a bit intense exploration of the Intermediate Series of Ashtanga Yoga. Explore how this series unlocks the spine, hips and upper body, creates strength and develops a deeper sense of meditation-in-action. Taking root in healthy anatomical patterns, you will identify energetic patterns that lead to pain-free deep backbends, safe hip opening and a step-by-step method to master the arm balances. It is advised that students have a regular practice of the Primary Series in order to attend.

Sunday, Oct. 15, 1-3 pm

Hips and Hamstrings – The Flexibility to Unlock Mooladhara

In this class we will look at how passive stretching and the meditative mind can function as key tools to understanding your body in yoga practice. Finding your hips and legs are the first step towards entering your pelvic cave and to a deeper ease in so many postures. Learn how to open your hip joints and hamstrings to maintain healthy knees and deeper levels of comfort, self-knowledge and asana ability.

Entire Weekend: $299
Single Workshop: $65

About Tim Feldmann

Tim is the co-founder of the world-wide recognized Miami Life Center and of the newly opened Miami Yoga Garage - a new ambitious Shala and cultural house in Miami's fun Wynwood district. He has practiced yoga since 1994 and Ashtanga Since 1999. Authorized to teach by Pattabhi Jois and Sharath Jois he explores core concepts and modern boundaries of Patanjali’s yoga teachings alike. A practitioner of Ashtanga Yoga’s Advanced A Series Tim finds Ashtanga’s traditional method an exceptional path towards healing, wisdom and self-realisation. Drawing upon his past as an internationally successful dancer and acclaimed choreographer, anatomy, alignment and technique is his second nature. Tim has been pursuing in-depth studies of Patanjali, Sankhya and Vedanta over the past 10 years with Vidwan Nagaraja Rao, Jayashree & Narasimha and other exceptional scholars in South India. Cherished worldwide for his fun, disciplined and detailed pursuit of authentic yoga and his compassionately effective touch, Tim travels to yoga shalas around the globe with the inclusive message of how study, steadiness and devotion is the means to powerful transformation both inside and outside of us.

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In this 20-hour online module, students will develop a robust understanding of the history, philosophy and practice as presented in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras. Emphasis will be on understanding of the text, both within its historical context, and as a contemporary text that informs your own yoga practice and teaching goals. Students will receive a Zoom link to all live sessions, which will also be recorded to view at at later date.

Judith brings over 20 years of teaching experience to all of her instructional endeavors. As a yoga practitioner and teacher, her own relationship with yoga began as a child practicing with her grandmother. She revived her practice as an adult in Flint, MI, where she studied with Jennifer Whipple. Most recently, she is a graduate of the Yoga Studies M.A. program at Loyola Marymount University. Her current work emphasizes exploration of how the contemplative traditions contribute to the creation of a good life for all beings. She teaches in the Yoga Studies programs at both Loyola Marymount University’s Center for Religion and Spirituality and Naropa University in Boulder, CO. Her education includes: PhD: Univ of Arizona, MA: Loyola Marymount, MS: Univ of Arizona, AB: Occidental College.

Program Schedule: February 4 & 5, 11 & 12, 25 & 26, and March 4 & 5, 2023 at 1:00-3:30 pm.

Cost: $125