Often we travel to return home with a new perspective. These travels fill our lives with stories. Similarly the yoga sutra is filled with a story about returning.  As we go from here to there and back, our perceptions, character, understanding and well being slowly and positively transform along with the ups and downs of life. For a discussion on this journey in the context of The Yoga Sutra of Maharishi Patanjali please join Ruth Lauer Manenti. Open to all levels- no previous knowledge of the Yoga Sutras is necessary.

Ruth Lauer Manenti has been a student and practitioner of yoga since 1988. She started as a form of physical therapy after breaking her neck in a car crash. Soon after she became interested in the philosophy and a spiritual way of life; one that would support and integrate the yoga.

She has been blessed to be a student of Sharon Gannon and David Life since 1990 and of Sri K Patabhi Jois sincs 1991 and later with his daughter Saraswati Jois. She has also studied Sanskrit with Dr. Jaya Shree and Professor H.V. Rao.

She is an advanced certified Jivamukti Yoga Teacher, travels around the world teaching  and facilitates their teacher’s training course. She also has written permission from Sri K Pattabhi Jois to teach the primary and intermediate series of Astanga Yoga. She is the author of 3 books all published by Lantern Books, An Offering of Leaves, Sweeping the Dust, and her latest book Fell in Her Hands.

She is also an artist and recently received a NYFA grant for outstanding achievement in the field of photography. She regularly exhibits her work. She lives in a cabin in the woods in the Catskill Mountains with her husband.

*no refunds

upper limbs with amy matthews

what’s the best way to organize my arms for weight-bearing?

is there a safe way to position my shoulders?

can i find more ways to feel comfortable

wrapping and binding my hands?

in these sessions amy will share the basic structures and movement possibilities of the arms and shoulder girdle, and explore the implications of this information for the upper limbs (from hands to collar bones) in asana. please bring your questions and injuries, and see what amy might offer!

visit amy’s website at www.embodiedasana.com

As autumn days get darker and colder, there’s an energetic shift during this season. Schedules shift, responsibilities change, and it’s easy to feel scattered, anxious and like you’ve lost your footing. There are tools, though, that can help you get grounded and reclaim your balance. Join dietitian, wellness consultant, cookbook author and Shala yoga teacher Julie Peacock as she guides you through a deep, grounding asana practice followed by a practical and inspiring discussion about how nutrition and other self care practices can help bring you greater ease and vitality throughout autumn and winter.

Retreat Includes:

• Morning Ashtanga/Vinyasa Practice
• Daily meditation practice
• Evening Vinyasa/Restorative Yoga
• 2 group breakfasts and 2 group dinners

Create your own package: The cost of this retreat includes yoga, meditation, and 4 shared meals (2 breakfasts, 2 dinners). All other expenses and arrangements can be made at your discretion! See below for more information.

Places to Stay:
Choose your own hotel and book it separately depending on budget and preference.
Here are some places we recommend:
lacasasurfandyoga.com, spondyluslodge.com, latortuga.com, surflabuenavida.com, ayampeguesthouse.com, fincapuntaayampe.com

Yoga Room: We will meet each morning and afternoon at the yoga deck at Otra Ola. otraola.com/yoga-class-ecuador

A Few Things to Do:
• Community Outreach: Shala students and teachers can volunteer-teaching yoga and English to local kids, as well as working in the garden at Casa Jaguar.
• Surfing and Surf Lessons
• Spanish Lessons
• Cooking Lessons
• Hang on the Beach
• Watch the Sunset
• Massages and spa treatments
• Excursions

Travel:
Book your own flight to Guayaquil
We can help arrange airport pickup and drop-off to and from Ayampe

Cost:
• Daily yoga/meditation and 4 group meals = $620

For more information or to reserve your spot, contact:
Barbara at bverrochi@gmail.com
or maria at holixtic@outlook.com

sign up online: loveyogaspace.com

This Fall’s Metta project will take place in Montauk at Love Yoga Space. We will practice together raising money and awareness for Operation Shanti an orphanage in Mysore, India. Take a trip to the beach for a good cause and if you can’t make it please consider donating directly to www.operation-shanti.org

For more information contact: ashleydorr@hotmail.com.

Metta is the pali word for lovingkindness: a practice where we offer kind wishes of peace and well being to others. We believe that by building awareness, dedicating our practice and making small offerings, we can work to make a difference in the lives of others, ourselves and the world around us.

Prana is a Sanskrit word meaning: breath, vital energy, life force. It is also a five voice a cappella group who uses their breath to make sound to relax the body, still the mind and open the heart. Their sound is a unique blend of western folk, jazz, and choral music influenced by the music of India, Tibet, Tuva, and Mongolia, with a strong emphasis on vocal harmonics.

Prana will perform music from all 5 of their CDs including their new album “Chiaroscuro” (released 9/9/16). In addition they will be singing 6 new pieces. http://www.pranasound.com/music.shtml

All of the most basic and ancient spiritual practices revolved around honoring the elements that make up our reality. In these intimate workshops we will learn how to access the wisdom and power of each element in order to drop back into alignment with the universe. Expect a deep vinyasa class accompanied by live music, restorative poses, sound healing and guided meditation.

The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali is a foundational text on Yoga mind, and Yoga practices. This text has been especially important to the seminal Yoga master T. Krishnamacharya and his influential students B. K. S. Iyengar and Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. Over my seventeen-year study with Pattabhi Jois he probably shared from this text more than any other, and often answered students’ questions in Sanskrit, quoting the Yoga Sutra, and then translating and further expounding. We will discover how this body of thought is applicable to our daily practice, as well as our teaching. In chanting the Yoga Sutras, we will experience an exhilaration and clarity that allow for an enhanced understanding of the Sutras.

I began my Yoga studies in 1982 and in 1993 I began my practice with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois in his groundbreaking classes in New York City. I traveled to Mysore, India a dozen times to study with him over a seventeen-year period. 15 years ago, he sent me off to learn Sanskrit chanting, and since that time I have also been a student of Dr. M.A. Jayashree. My main focus of study with Dr. Jayashree has been the chanting and discussion of the Yoga Sutra. I produced two CDs for her, one a recitation of the Yoga Sutra, along with other Stotram and chants. The other, a call and response CD of the entire Yoga Sutra that exceeds five hours that she and I recorded over two long Bangalore weekends.

Today I teach workshops and trainings around the world, with a focus on the Yoga Sutra as well as Ashtanga Yoga. I host a popular podcast on the Yoga Sutra on SoundCloud. I create Yoga programming for Spinal Cord Injury and MS, and I share natural lifestyle and Yoga as a blogger on YouTube as Kiki Says.

I am happy to be returning to the Shala for this unique opportunity to share the entire Yoga Sutra.

www.kikiflynn.com

www.cdbaby.com/Artist/DrMAJayashree1

Fri eve
Detailing The Primary Series, Part I (Suryas – Navasana)
6:30-9:00pm
Sat morn
Detailing The Primary Series, Part II (Navasana – Utplutih)
10:00-12:30pm
Sat afternoon
Integrating Breath and Bandhas in Your Asana Practice
1:30-3:30
Sun Noon
Intro to Nadi Shodana – Demystifying the Intermediate Series
12:00-2:00

Sun afternoon 
Yoga Asana Play Book – The Body Mechanics
3-5:30

Your body is an integrated organism which functions as a whole. you change a bit, you change the whole. This workshop takes a broad look at essential body mechanics – how we balance better, how you can ease peripheral muscles and target core muscles, how to economize your energy while in full motion, how to feel energy versus muscle use, how to extract maximum benefit from your body in practice, what to think of pain, the difference between content and form, how to navigate yoga dogma versus personal experience as well as detailed alignment pointers & optimal weight distribution and many more aspects to keep our yoga practice delicious every day. You will leave this workshop renewed and with a more successful view on working your body on your yoga mat. All levels Welcome.