Yoga Retreat with Subhash, Thursday, April 30 - Sunday, May 3, 2020
Daily Schedule
Thursday
- 6:00-7:00 PM Registration and check-in
- 7:00 - 7:45 PM Dinner
- 7:45-9:00 PM Welcome, introductions, and a brief talk, "What is Yoga?"
Friday
- 6:00-8:00 AM Yoga
- 8:30-9:00 AM Breakfast
- 9:15-11:15 Yoga Philosophy (Yoga Sutras of Patanjali)
- 12:15-1:15 PM Lunch and relax
- 1:15-3:15 Pranayama: concepts and techniques
- 3:15-3:45 PM Tea
- 3:45 - 5:45 PM Yoga
- 6:45-7:30 PM Dinner
- 7:30-9:00 PM Satsang/nature walk
Saturday
- 6:00-8:00 AM Yoga
- 8:30-9:00 AM Breakfast
- 9:15-11:15 Yoga Philosophy (Yoga Sutras of Patanjali)
- 12:15-1:15 PM Lunch and relax
- 1:15-3:15 Meditation: concepts and techniques
- 3:15-3:45 PM Tea
- 3:45 - 5:45 PM Yoga (by guest teacher, Jyoti Shah - see below for details)
- 6:45-7:30 PM Dinner
- 7:30-9:00 PM Satsang/nature walk
Sunday
- 6:00-8:00 AM Yoga
- 8:30-9:00 AM Breakfast
- 9:00-10:30 Yoga Philosophy, six cleansing techniques
- 10:30 - 11:30 AM Experience sharing and wrap-up
- 12:30-1:15 PM Lunch and departure
Breath Awareness For Inner Balance (with Jyoti Shah)
Do you feel yourself breathing too fast or shallow, sighing or taking big and heavy breaths? Do you ever feel you are putting effort in your breathing and not feeling the satisfaction in your breath?
Science has shown that there is a relationship between our breathing patterns & the state of our mind. Depending on our environment and the activities going around us, we may breathe faster, louder, gasp, sigh, or even stop breathing, which in turn triggers the sympathetic nervous system resulting into stress, chronic pain and other emotions. By bringing awareness to the breath and by voluntarily changing the way we breathe, we can calm highly agitated and difficult emotions during periods of distress.
Breathing into resistance and breathing synergistically with the abdominal core, we can alleviate chronic pain, stress, panic attacks, anxiety, and many other difficult emotions!
This class is designed to help regain the control of your breath and to cultivate relaxed and deep diaphragmatic breathing into the asana practice!
In this class you will experience -
- Deep and relaxed diaphragmatic breathing which is the foundation of all pranayama techniques
- How the various postures of the body change our breath
- How to stay connected with the breath in strenuous asana movements
- Breath focused mindfulness asana practice to bring your focus inward which helps to bring inner balance
- Systematic relaxation leading into Dharana, a path towards meditation
