Hips and the Subtle Body

with Michael Lucey

Saturday, Aug. 15 | 2:00 - 4:00 pm

$60

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How does the physical work we do in our asana practice relate to other parts of our being?  We are always working on our hips in our asana practice, trying to make sure they are compact, strong, and solid, but also trying to make sure we have the hip mobility we need, or trying to balance right and left, learning how our hips relate to our knees and to our lower back.  Perhaps we also learn to begin paying attention to the relationship between our hips and our abdomen and all that goes on there. Could we go deeper still? What relation do our hips have to our emotional or our psychological being? If we’ve studied the chakra system, we know that the hips are connected to the muladhara and svadhisthana chakras, but what might this connection mean? How could we explore it, and how might it influence our practice? This workshop is not about therapeutics (how to work with hip problems), but about connecting our physical practice with deeper explorations of who we are. We will visit all categories of poses, with the goal of building new kinds of knowledge and sensitivity about our hips and how they are part of us.

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Michael Lucey is a certified Iyengar yoga teacher at the Senior Intermediate 1 level. Michael stumbled into an Iyengar yoga class in England in 1982, while he was a student at Oxford University. From his very first class he has been fascinated by the many ways yoga can transform your relation to your body, mind, and breath. He has also made 11 trips to India to study directly with the Iyengar family at the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute, most recently in December 2018. Michael is also a professor of Comparative Literature and French at the University of California, Berkeley, and served as President of the Iyengar Yoga National Association of the United States from 2014-2017.