– WORKSHOPS –
Zoom links for online classes will be sent to you close to the Workshop date.
Deep Art Play - An Embodied Creative Experience
with Luisa Cheong
Saturday, May 31 | 1:00 - 4:00 pm
$60
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This workshop will invite you to feel inside yourself and enter into a space of known and unknown thoughts, feelings and imaginations. Using a variety of art supplies, a few artistic techniques and an attitude of play, you will learn how to express yourself through present moment interaction with what is emerging. The workshop will include short warm up skill building exercises, followed by a bigger project at the end. This workshop is focused on self expression, not perfection. Therefore it is suitable for total beginners and seasoned artists alike. Life is tough, let’s play!
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Luisa, also known as Gloria Cheong, is a self taught artist. Her passion in art is the ability to let go of mental planning and instead, tap into a creative process of surrender and self-expression, often revealing something inside of oneself that may not have been fully known.
INTERIM ADVANCED STUDIES CLASS
Anatomy II with Kinesiology
with Mary Ann Furda, D.C.
Mondays, June 2 to June 30 | 5:45 - 7:45 pm
$150 / (in-person and online)
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We will study the major muscles of the spine, shoulders arms and hands, pelvis, legs and feet.
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Mary Ann Furda, D.C. is honored to be on the faculty of The Yoga Room to teach Anatomy II. She traveled to Pune to study at the Iyengar Institute together with Gay White decades ago. She’s been teaching yoga ever since. Her knowledge of anatomy was initially gleaned from study at Palmer Chiropractic University, and subsequently teaching both clinical anatomy and in the cadaver lab there. Having been a massage therapist since the early ‘80’s, she’s taught anatomy for bodyworkers for over 30 years.
Asana, Mindfulness, and Meditation
with Christiane Parry
Saturday, June 14 | 2:00 - 4:00 pm
$45
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In this workshop we will explore yoga asanas as a moving meditation, as well as a practice that prepares the body and mind for seated meditation. With periods of asana practice, breath work, and guided meditation, we will cultivate breath and body awareness and learn to be present with our experience both on and off the cushion (or chair). The workshop will help people think about developing an asana practice to prepare for meditation. We'll work slowly and gently, no prior experience necessary, everyone is welcome.
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Christiane Parry discovered both yoga and Zen Buddhism in the 1990s and continues to be devoted to both practices. She is a graduate of the Yoga Room Advanced Studies Program, and received Zen lay ordination with Tenshin Reb Anderson in 2004.
Celebrating Summer Solstice in Yogic Practice
with Kalima Rose
Sunday, June 22 | 12:00 - 3:00 pm
$50 (in-person)
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Aligning yoga practice with the rhythms of the season can prepare us for the upcoming season, allow us to shed what no longer serves us, set intentions for the coming months, consciously center ourselves in our breath and asana practice and celebrate the beauty of earth and celestial movements. Summer solstice is a time of maximal light, tremendous solar energy, biological expansiveness and increased oxygen in the atmosphere. It marks the season of growth, fruition and abundance. This workshop will bring a ritual sense of focus on expansive breath, an asana practice built around salutations to the cresting daylight, and time for written reflection and intention setting.
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Kalima Rose, a student and teacher in the BKS Iyengar and The Yoga Room lineage, will lead the workshop–bringing an orientation to the rhythms of seasons, the beauty of nature and the wisdom of poetic expression.
Yoga Movement
with Gay White
Saturday, June 28 | 2:00 - 4:00 pm
$60 (in-person)
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This movement based workshop invites an experience of unbroken awareness for extended periods of time through focus and concentration. We will look at connections among the asanas as we sway and spin our way through extended movement phrases, mostly slow motion. It feels like yoga, massage and dance. Together they allow for easy modification for individual needs or expression.
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Gay White has worked with movement arts including modern dance, contact improvisation, tai chi, qigong, yoga and pranayama.
She loves teaching yoga to everyone and finds joy in beginners of all levels.
– INTENSIVES –
Memorial Day Intensive
with Gay White
Saturday, May 24 and Sunday, May 25
mornings 10:00 a.m-12:00 p.m. / afternoons 2:00-4:00 p.m.
$240 (in-person and on Zoom)
Join me for two days of practice as we move into the summer months. The more active morning sessions will open the body and establish a sense of stillness, balance and groundedness through standing poses, supported backbends and twisting postures. The quieter afternoon sessions will encourage turning inward with gentle inversions, reclining work, restorative poses and pranayama. Intensives allow us to go into a deeper kind of practice with four connected classes.
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Gay White, Director of The Yoga Room and Co-Director of The Yoga Room's Advanced Studies Program, has taught yoga in the Bay Area since 1991. Gay's classes and workshops are dedicated to alignment and awareness in a safe and joyful mixed-level learning community.
