Ashtanga Yoga Inside Out with Adam Keen
Schedule
Thu Apr 18 2024 at 07:00 am to Sun Apr 21 2024 at 11:00 am
Location
YogaŞala Bağdat Caddesi | Istanbul, IB
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Istanbul, April 18th – 21st, 2024YogaŞala Bağdat Cadessi
Ashtanga Yoga Inside Out
This workshop aims to give you renewed inspiration and enthusiasm for the Ashtanga practice by returning to the original spirit of fun, inclusiveness, and individual-oriented yoga. This doesn’t have to mean not practising ‘traditional’ Mysore-style ashtanga. It simply means fitting the method, which works for all different bodies and abilities.
Adam gives clear ideas about what's happening (or should be) behind simply making shapes. Indeed, when you know what you’re meant to be doing and feeling, things always go better. This has to do with using the Ashtanga tristana method (posture, bandha, drishti) for the sake of unlocking and harnessing the power of diaphragmatic breathing.
Everyone is welcome to this no matter what their experience of Ashtanga. Adam teaches with humour and kindness and with 25 years of experience.
THURSDAY APRIL 18th & FRIDAY APRIL 19th
7.00 am – 9.00 am: Mysore
Adam gives yoga assistance in a safe and non-intrusive way. He does not believe in forcing people into postures, rather, he uses verbal and light physical touch to open up new directions for the individual to follow as they wish. This practice is based on individual exploration, kindness, and fun. It is not an exam or military exercise. All are welcome to the Mysore class. Adam is happy if you need practice sheets, or he or Theresa will show you the postures
SATURDAY APRIL 20th
7.00 am to 9.00 am: Led Class
This is a unique led class as it features both the vinyasa count as well as fundamental pointers for each posture. Everyone will be made to feel welcome and safe in participating in this class as options are given so everyone can do the whole series in a way that suits their bodies. Adam doesn’t believe in stopping people, the ‘perfect’ posture, or, dictating exactly how something should look.
9.30 am – 11.00 am: Fundamental Openings
There are a relatively small number of fundamental movements that yoga asana requires we grasp to progress. However, these openings are subtle; and not necessarily straightforward to understand at the body level. From the basic standing postures where they’re first presented in their most simple form, they get increasingly complicated. We will look at these postures, consider them in detail, and find they translate into a deeper understanding of what’s going on in various problem postures further on down the line.
12.00 pm – 13.00 pm: Yoga Chat & Q+A
We will discuss the roots of modern asana and then how this relates and intertwines with the roots of Ashtanga yoga. Then, how the tradition of Ashtanga yoga has evolved to get to where it is today.
SUNDAY APRIL 21st
7.00 am – 9.00 am: Mysore
Adam gives yoga assistance in a safe and non-intrusive way. He does not believe in forcing people into postures, rather, he uses verbal and light physical touch to open up new directions for the individual to follow as they wish. This practice is based on individual exploration, kindness, and fun. It is not an exam or military exercise. All are welcome to the Mysore class. Adam is happy if you need practice sheets, or he or Theresa will show you the postures.
9.30 am – 11.00 am: Mobilizing the Shoulder Girdle & The Jump Back Jump Through
A look at how we can generate more mobility in the scapula area. For, despite the claims that we need more core strength, or the (most unhelpful cliché) more bandha, it’s scapula mobility that results in how well we achieve this most elusive linking movement.
And everyone can get this movement in varying degrees according to our bodies’ capacity. We all have all the muscles we need; we simply must use them all more effectively in combination. This is something that, whatever level we’re at, we all can work on more, so this workshop aims at giving some effective pointers to unlock our, often hidden, floating potential.
VENUE: YogaŞala Bağdat Caddesi
DATE: April 18th – 21st, 2024
FEES:
Mysore Session Fee : 600 TL
Led Session Fee: 600 TL
3 Mysore and Led Class Package Fee: 1800TL
Single Workshop Fee: 1000 TL
Translation will not be provided, sessions will be conducted in English
No refunds
ABOUT ADAM
Adam made his first trip to Mysore in 2007, received level 2 authorisation in 2012 and completed the Advanced A sequence of Ashtanga yoga in 2013 with Sharathji. He has been a yoga practitioner since 1999. Having taught internationally and spent over ten years running a Mysore program in his native London, Adam’s style is open, non-dogmatic and eclectic while remaining rooted in an appreciation of the tradition as taught in Mysore. He has a unique way of making everyone welcome and meeting students where they are with humour and kindness.
He is a co-founder of Keen on Yoga, an online yoga platform hosting workshops and events, and the host of the Keen on Yoga Podcast and YouTube channels. Adam has interviewed and learned from most of the top Ashtanga teachers and philosophy academics in this capacity, leading to a unique overview of the modern yoga world and teaching approaches.
Still a philosophy student at heart, Adam shares his thoughts and experience daily on social media, where you can find him discussing many of the questions that come to our minds, but we’re often afraid or unsure how to ask. Find him on Instagram @adam_keen_ashtanga
When not practising yoga, Adam likes to cook – in his earlier years, he was a chef, supporting himself in this profession by cooking in Buddhist and yoga centres whilst studying yoga. This took him to Purple Valley in Goa, where he was employed as the chef by his future wife, Theresa who was Director of the centre at the time.
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Where is it happening?
YogaŞala Bağdat Caddesi, Bağdat Caddesi 132A, 34726, Fenerbahçe, Kadıköy/İstanbul, Türkiye,Istanbul, TurkeyEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
