Filtering by: Yoga Philosophy
![Perspectives on Troubling Times: Where Yoga and History Meet - Community Discussion with Annie Moyer, MDiv, and Bill McAllister, PhD]()
Yoga Arose Amid Societal Turbulence: What It Can Teach Us Today. Around 2500 years ago, people living in societal stress and governmental disarray developed some of the foundational assumptions that underlie yoga practice. This workshop will explain how those precepts can assist us today in determining how to respond to the challenges of our time and place. Our discussion will be informed by the historical themes described in Timothy Snyder’s short book On Tyranny, and animated by corresponding yoga concepts and practices to support appropriate civic engagement and action.
![Finding Resilience By Welcoming Opposites: A Mind-Body Exploration with Asya Haikin]()
Explore the concepts of attachment and aversion as two of the five causes of suffering, and practice emotional resilience by learning to welcome opposites of sensation and emotions with a sense of equanimity, all while staying grounded and embodied. Experience an accessible movement practice, a philosophical explanation and discussion, and guided meditation and yoga nidra.
![Illuminating Our True Nature: A Weekend with Michelle C. Johnson, hosted by Circle Yoga]()
Given our turbulent times, Michelle Cassandra Johnson offers a balm for our suffering, insight into how yoga philosophy and practices can support compassionate understanding of ourselves and others, and tools for healing on a collective level. Our friends at Circle Yoga will host this book event and special weekend immersion, and we are thrilled to partner with them for this important work.
![Wild Asana Book Release Celebration with Author Alison Zak]()
Come celebrate the publication of Sun & Moon teacher Alison Zak’s new book Wild Asana: Animals, Yoga, and Connecting Our Practice to the Natural World . This book is a 'nature memoir through a yoga lens.' It explores how we can connect with and become animals on our yoga mats, taking inspiration from common critter pose names, Hindu mythology, wildlife research, and more.
![Purification, Refinement, and Surrender: Yoga's Pandemic Insights - An Intergenerational Dialogue with Annie Moyer & Anais Ortiz on Zoom]()
Join Annie and Anais for this FREE, intergenerational conversation to explore the yogic view – through our current coronavirus window – on the crisis that's facing us right now, and how we can face it with the wisdom of the ages.
![Yogis Among Us: Yoga Practices Inspired by Famous People w/Annie (Arlington)]()
SO SORRY: THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN POSTPONED. Annie leads yoga practices inspired by famous people whose lives embody yogic ideals in the real world. We’ll hear stories and attune movement, awareness, and breath to the legacies of people like Prince, Muhammad Ali, Jane Goodall, Maria Montessori, and more. Photo courtesy YogaAnytime.com
![The Stories of Meditation: From Myth to Medicine: A Weekend with Kira Sloane (Arlington)]()
Welcoming back senior master teacher and President of Yoga Anytime Kira Sloane. Meditation has long been understood as the cure to all our ails. Together, we'll dive into some of the ancient stories, catch up on the discoveries of modern science, and most importantly practice.
![12 Embodiments of Yoga: Free Dharma Talk w/Annie Moyer (Arlington)]()
A lecture and discussion with Annie Moyer, to consider twelve simple attitudes and qualities that can help you embody the spirit and beauty of yoga.
![Timeless Truths and Sacred Storytelling: The Ramayana w/Anne Jablonski (Arlington)]()
Grab a cozy blanket or three and cozy up on a winter's day enthralled by Ram and Sita’s mesmerizing love story. No registration necessary. Donations-only to support the Feathered Pipe Foundation.
