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The Therapeutic Wisdom of Yoga for the 21st Century with Doug Keller
The following description was submitted by the event organizer.
The Big Picture of the Practices, and How to Make Them Work for You
The original inspiration for hatha yoga was to combine asana, mudra, and bandha with breath in a practical system that stimulates all of the vital systems that maintain health throughout the lifelong process of aging. Enter an age of understanding these vital systems all the more deeply, providing new foundations for sharpening your yoga practice making it all the more effective, and renewing your focus and dedication.
In this workshop, explore the ‘maps’ of the myofascial matrix in a way that makes the asana practice more purposeful, focused, and effective, with special attention to the anti-inflammatory/anti-aging properties of our work with muscles and joints. Beyond asana, experience breath, mudra, and drishthi as connecting with the built-in circuitry of the ‘nadis’ that govern the physical, cognitive, and emotional health and renew the ability to be restored in the face of stress and age.
The learning component of every session will include illustrated notes presented as slides, which participants can download as PDFs, to help them remember and review what was covered in the workshop.
- Friday — Entering the Matrix: Foundations, Joint Health, and Healthy Aging
- Saturday: Self and Vitality — The Circuitry of the Torso
- Sunday: Ajna, the ‘Command Center’ — the Shoulders, Neck, and the Power of Drishthi
Mudra and the hands can be the key to deeper realms of awareness; and to this is added drishthi — the gaze and focus of the eyes — and its subtle influence on our experience of the breath, which will become all the more concrete from the understanding of the myofascial matrix of the shoulders and neck. The theme for the meditations connected with breath, mudra, and drishthi, will be the chakras — their role as tools for meditation and transformation. This will include an appreciation of the Vagus nerve, its role as motherboard for all of the health systems of the body, and how to stimulate it effectively through practices of pranayama as well as chakra meditations.